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Investment advisor Don Harrold encourages Americans to get out of debt, while the Obama administration creates future problems in the American housing market with unsound FHA loans.[1][2] Previously, Mr. Harrold exposed the folly of the investment advice at the liberal television cable channel CNBC.[3]
The web tracking firm Quantcast reports that Conservapedia's web traffic is significantly up.[4] According to Quantcast, Conservapedia attracts a "more educated, fairly wealthy" audience.[5] In addition, Quantcast's data indicates that Conservapedia visitors tend to be more educated and wealthier than the individuals who visit Wikipedia.[6][7] Looks like its time for the atheist Jimmy Wales to tell the Wikipedia mob to pick up a few more books! Maybe there would be fewer village atheists at Wikipedia if he encouraged the Wikipedia mob to renew their library cards!
Researcher claims to confirm Crucifixion from Greek/Latin/Hebrew symbols on the Shroud of Turin: "In the year 16 of the reign of the Emperor Tiberius Jesus the Nazarene [circa A.D. 30], taken down in the early evening after having been condemned to death by a Roman judge because he was found guilty by a Hebrew authority, is hereby sent for burial with the obligation of being consigned to his family only after one full year."[8] But Jesus's body was not there a year later!
Atheist Richard Dawkins has egg on his face again! Atheist advertisement initiated by Richard Dawkins and the British Humanist Society inadvertently features children who are members of one of Britain's most devout Christian families and the children radiate happiness.[9] Brad Mason, the father of the children, said that the children's Christianity shone through. Mr. Mason declared, "Obviously there is something in their faces which is different. So they judged that they were happy and free without knowing that they are Christians. That is quite a compliment. I reckon it shows we have brought up our children in a good way and that they are happy."[10] The atheist community has a higher rate of suicide compared to the theist community.
Despite President Obama's assurance his "stimulus" would limit unemployment to only 7.8%, millions more now are sufferring without hope of finding any job any time soon. [11]
The Film Liar Al Gore Would Rather Ignore: 'An Inconvenient Truth' is facing more criticism with release of a new documentary, Not Evil, Just Wrong, rebutting most of Gore's claims. [12]
Today's liberals embrace a politically correct mindset. By doing so, they are willing to degrade the rights of women or treat them as sub-human to please diverse cultures. The 50th anniversary of Mattel's Barbie is now complete with the traditional Islamic dress, the burka. [13] [14]
Senate votes tonight on pro-abortion health care bill: "Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) needs the last two holdouts - Sens. Mary Landrieu (La.) and Blanche Lincoln (Ark.) - to reach the 60-vote threshold to move forward with the debate. No Republican senator is expected to vote for this initial step."[15]
Happy Birthday Conservapedia! 
More and more Americans continue to oppose the ObamaCare legislation than support it, according to a Fox News / Opinion Dynamics poll released Friday. In addition, half favor banning the use of federal funds for abortions. While a majority of Democrats favor the reforms (65%), some 17% are opposed and another 18% are unsure. Most Republicans (82%) and a majority of independents (61 percent) oppose the legislation. Seniors aged 65 and over, regardless of party, oppose to the legislation by 56%-30%. [16]
Video: Bernie Goldberg explains why the liberal Jon Stewart is afraid of conservative women. [17]
Students seize buildings "on campuses of the University of California system in protest of a 32 percent tuition hike. Students took over portions of buildings on campuses in Los Angeles, Berkeley, Santa Cruz and Davis late Thursday, and two remain occupied Friday morning."[18]
Haven't the students learned that professor values are expensive?
Terrorist Hasan E-Mail to Radical Imam: 'I Can't Wait to Join You' in the Afterlife
Fort Hood rampage suspect Major Nidal Hasan asked radical Muslim Terrorist Imam Anwar al-Awlaki in e-mails if it's acceptable for innocent people to die in suicide attacks and said he looked forward to their meeting in the afterlife. Still the Obama Administration cannot bring itself to admit Hasan was indeed a Muslim terrorist...[19]
Breaking News! The Hadley Climatic Research Unit has been hacked, and over 1000 e-mails and 72 documents were released and are about to go viral. Included: clear evidence that Global Warming activists are guilty of dry-labbing, attempting to destroy evidence subject to FOIA requests, and engaging in propaganda while pretending to be doing science. [20] [21] [22]
The Cloward/Piven Strategy of Economic Recovery The Democrat stimulus plan is a mechanism whose goal is the destruction of the traditional American way of life. [23]
Janet Napolitano declares the U.S. borders are secure now and it's time to talk amnesty. Newly released figures show the Obama administration to be weak on illegal immigration. Between 2008 and 2009, arrests for violators of immigration laws are down 68%, criminal arrests down 60%, criminal indictments down 58% and convictions fell 63%. [24]
Sarah Palin gets a much higher positive rating (47%) than Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (28%), and most think she's been treated unfairly by the press. Palin is nearly even in approval with President Obama among the critical segment of independent voters, with Obama at 50 percent & Palin at 49 percent. [25]
ONE SENATOR’S CHOICE: OBAMACARE OR REELECTION:
A Zogby Poll this week illustrates the stark choice facing Senate Democrats as they have to decide whether or not to vote for ObamaCare. The poll shows that Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln, high up on the list of vulnerable Senate Democrats seeking reelection in 2010, literally faces a choice between being reelected and voting for the bill, with 64% in the state opposed to Obama's scheme.
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An overwhelming number of American voters (53%) say they disapprove of most of President Obama's policies, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday. "Millions of voters who sided with him last November because they thought he would bring change to Washington aren't crazy about the kind of change he is trying to bring." said the Polling Institute. A new Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, also released today (Thursday) showed Obama's approval rating has hit a new low of just 46 percent. [27] [28]
On November 19th, 1863 Republican President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. [29]
With Hurricanes At Thirty Year Low, Al Gore Turns To Photoshop. [30]
Foreclosures Jump
U.S. mortgage delinquency rates and the percentage of loans that entered the foreclosure process jumped in the third quarter, with both reaching record highs, the Mortgage Bankers Association said on Thursday. The percentage of loans on which foreclosure actions were started rose to 1.42 percent in the third quarter, an all-time high and up from 1.36 percent in the second quarter. [31]
Harry Reid introduces the Senate bill without the Stupak protection against abortion funding, and Reid seeks a vote within days. "On page 118 of the bill, the Senate authorizes the health secretary 'to require coverage of any and all abortions throughout the public option program.'"
National Right to Life said, “This would be federal government funding of abortion, no matter how hard they try to disguise it”; this bill “creates new tax-supported subsidies to purchase private health plans that will cover abortion on demand.”[32]
Federal research dollars go overwhelmingly to Democratic states: California, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington receive as much funding as virtually all of the more conservative states COMBINED.[33]
The American College of Physicians -- the second-largest doctors' group in the country -- confirms that "the supply of doctors just won't be there" for the 30 million new patients President Barack Obama wants to cover. Noting that the doctor shortage is "already a catastrophic crisis," underserved areas in the U.S. currently need almost 17,000 new primary care physicians even before Obama's proposals are enacted! [34]
Barack Obama's nominee for undersecretary of the Treasury, Lael Brainard has tax payment issues. The fifth Obama nominee to have tax problems. It's hard for Obama to find honest people when he only associates with scofflaw leftists. [35]
New study, same results; the Center for Media and Public Affairs declares Fox News is the most fair and balanced network. Obama fails at liberal manipulation of a free market news medium. [36]
Liberals strike out in their distortion of science in order to control energy: "Senate to Put Off Climate Bill Until Spring."[37] The gig is up for liberal lying about science to pull people away from conservative values and the Bible.
The star running back for the Kansas City Chiefs has been forced to sign at the lowest possible status and pay with the Cincinnati Bengals, with the press reporting humiliating statements by the coach: "he would be last on the depth chart ... [and] essentially will be an insurance policy in case" another running back is injured. What sparked this abrupt demotion? The star "posted a gay slur on his Twitter account."[38]
"China questions costs of U.S. healthcare reform: Guess what? It turns out the Chinese are kind of curious about how President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform plans would impact America’s huge fiscal deficit. Government officials are using his Asian trip as an opportunity to ask the White House questions. Detailed questions."[39]
A Conservapedian will take on the liberals in a college debate over health care this Wednesday evening at this Rutgers event.
Sarah Palin's book becomes available today, and liberals are going bananas about it. "Going berserk over 'Going Rogue;' Democrats' reaction to Sarah Palin book and publicity."[40] Is the "problem" that Palin upstages Obama?
Democratic Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota said Sunday: "what is clear is, to have legislation passed -- it was clear in the House; it will be clear in the Senate -- there cannot be taxpayer funding of abortion."[41]
Nation's Largest Gay Newspaper Publisher Closes [42] When just a fraction of your American audience embraces the gay lifestyle, it's hard to make money. PepsiCo take notice, the boycott by the American Family Association has been successful with other gay promoting companies. [43]
An academic who specializes in Japanese culture said that Obama's bow to the Japanese emperor was too low of a bow.[44] Obama tried to pass himself off as a sophisticated, cosmopolitan citizen of the world with his overly deep bow to the Japanese emperor, but instead merely engaged in buffoonery that embarrassed the United States. What is Obama going to do next at a state function? Limbo dancing?
Banning of star running back from the NFL proves there's no free speech for comments that criticize homosexuality.[45] Liberals support a ban, but the Cincinnati Bengals may play him ... if the Bengals are not targeted to drop him.
Watch the Obama "bowfest" to the Japanese emperor contrasted with other heads of state greeting the Japanese Emperor HERE. Watch Obama bob his head like a pigeon HERE.
Liberal media and the Obama Administration lied to us again: "Second Cop -- Not Kimberly Munley -- Brought Down Fort Hood Killer."[46] Liberals just don't like male heroes. Kimberly Munley was also a hero, but there was no legitimate reason to lie about the facts.
Government report says that Democrats' health care bill "would reduce senior care: A plan to slash more than $500 billion from future Medicare spending ... would sharply reduce benefits for some senior citizens and could jeopardize access to care for millions of others, according to a government evaluation released Saturday." Washington Post
Creation Ministries International recently published an article on how recent findings concerning genetic redundancy bring down more than one pillar of contemporary evolutionary thinking.[47]
Conservative trends, Twitter is trending #youmightbealiberal in their top lists Sunday. Interesting conversation follows, outing liberalism for what it stands for. America is decidedly more conservative. [48]
Liberal global warming hucksters strike out at the 2011 Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meetings.[49]
Canadian court rejects demand to include women in the ski jumping events at the upcoming winter Olympics in Vancouver in February.[50] But London will include women's boxing in 2012!
Europe bans crucifixes![51] This atheistic censorship in European classrooms will lead to less charity and more social problems.
Conservapedia recently experienced a big jump in recent web traffic according to the web traffic measuring firm Compete.[52] Conservapedia may be unveiling some exciting news in the near future which may cause Conservapedia's web traffic to see further increases in web traffic. Please stay tuned for further developments!
Leading trend forecaster Gerald Celente declares the Obama administration policies are going to cause the US dollar to further plummet and a great depression is coming to the United States.[53][54][55]
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Basic instructions
A template is simply a page (usually a very brief one) that is inserted into another page.
For example, the two separate boxes on the Main Page ("Mainpageleft" and "Mainpageright") are each actually separate pages that are "included" on the Main Page. In fact, they can be included on any page: The "Mainpageright" page has been included to the right just to demonstrate that point[1]:
Templates are included on a page by typing the page name in double curly brackets. So to include this page on another page, you could type {{help:Using templates}}. If, however, the template is in "template" namespace (i.e. the page name starts with "template:"), then you don't need to include that bit. So to include the "Mainpageright" page, you would just type {{Mainpageright}}.
For simple templates, that's all there is to it.
Parameters
However, many templates allow you to add to the information in the template, or to change it's appearance, by supplying parameters.
For example, the Welcome template that someone might have put on your user talk page has two parameters. One is the name of the user, and the other is the name of the person placing the welcome message. See the example below welcoming The Joker, placed by Batman:
Welcome!
Hello, Joker, and welcome to Conservapedia!
We're glad you are here to edit. We ask that you read our Editor's Guide as soon as you can.
At the right are some useful links for you. You can include these links on your user page by putting "{{Useful links}}" on the page.
Thanks for reading, Joker!
- from Batman
(This was included on this page by typing {{welcome|Joker|sig=from Batman}}.[1])
"Pipe" characters (|) separate each parameter.
Parameters can be optional or required, and they can be named or not named. In the example above, the first parameter ("Joker") was not named, but the second ("from Batman") was named sig. Two points need to be kept in mind with parameters:
- Named parameters can be supplied in any order.
- Un-named parameters must be supplied in the correct order.
See below for how parameters are provided to templates.
Each template has (or will have) a list of parameters, looking something like this (this one is from the {{welcome}} template):
| Template Parameters (See using templates). | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Name | Purpose | Required? | Comment |
| 1 | The user name | no (see note) | Defaults to the page name |
| sig | The signature of the editor posting the welcome ("~~~~" will do) | no | |
This tells us the following:
- Neither parameter is required.
- The first parameter (shown as "1") is not named (hence the number, the order in which it must be supplied).
- The second parameter is named ("sig").
- If the first parameter is not supplied, then the page name is used instead.
You can assume that if no default is shown for a parameter that is not required, the result will be blank (i.e. in this case, the welcome message would not show who it was from).
To supply a value to a named parameter, put the parameter name followed by an equals sign (=) followed by whatever you want that to be. In the example above, this is sig=~~~~.
Parameters shown with numbers are the un-named parameters. You can treat them as named parameters, by typing 1=your text, but this is not necessary, except in the case that you want your text to include an equals sign (=). Normally you just supply the value, such as YourUserName.
Each parameter is separated from each other, and from the template name, by a 'pipe' character: |.
So supplying both parameters in the {{welcome}} template would look like this: {{welcome|YourUserName|sig=~~~~}}.
What do you pass to parameters?
Obviously, you give a parameter the text that it expects, such as "from Batman" in the example above. But in most cases, you can give a parameter any text that you like. You could, for example, put "But break any laws and I'll bring the full weight of the law down on you, (signed) Batman"!
In some cases, however, specific text must be supplied. The {{Bible ref}} template, for example, expects a book of the Bible for the "book" parameter, and giving it something that is not a book of the Bible will break the link to BibleGateway that the template creates.
In many cases you can supply a blank value to the parameter. You can set a parameter to be blank by typing nothing after the pipe character for an unnamed parameter, or nothing after the equals sign for a named parameter. For example, if you wanted the welcome template to not show "Joker" or "from Batman", you could type {{welcome||sig=}}.
However, a well-written template will allow you to simply omit the parameter altogether, as the {{welcome}} template does with the sig parameter.
