Dawn of the Dead

How bad has society gotten when you have to have a law against necrophilia? Shouldn't that be instant death penalty just for the gross factor?

Christians and Vengeance

A Hard Look at Vengeance

In the aftermath of the World Trade Center bombing, there was one question raised that no one really stopped to answer. Is it wrong for the United States to seek vengeance for the murder of the 5000 innocent people who died on September 11? Should we, as a country, turn the other cheek? There were those who thought the criminals who did this act should be brought to justice, but that it was wrong to merely seek revenge on Osama Bin Laden and the Al Qaeda organization.

When I thought about this, it seemed obvious that there were some fundamental misunderstandings about both vengeance and the responsibilities of governments. So here we will try to clarify the issues and deal with some misunderstandings relative to vengeance-especially as it relates to Christian people.

First, a definition. Vengeance denotes: "The infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like in return for an injury or other offense received; revenge." Related to vengeance are the ideas of retribution, punishment and justice.

Eats Hummers For Breakfast

International 7300 CXT

Fill 'er up!

Service Pack 2

I ordered Windows XP service pack 2 on CD thinking it would take 4 to 6 weeks for delivery. Well, it came in a matter of days - for free. I installed it and everything is OK. In fact, it improved a few things I was having a small problem with. If you don't have high speed internet, order the CD.

What's your AQ?

Your AQ Result: Inward Inspirational Seeker

While your adventures take you to amazing heights, your mind always remains grounded. Our initial calculations reveal that you are the inward inspirational seeker.

Your idea of adventure is not instant gratification or quick-fix thrills. You stay focused on your greater goals and never allow your thoughts to stray far from the purpose of self-improvement and fulfillment. Your adventures are genuine - you're not one for pretense or trying to impress others.

Find Your AQ

Depression and violence

Following up on a previous post, here are two 1/2 hour programs to download that go into this subject in a clear, intelligent and different way. I highly recommend them.

Age of Depression

Without a Cause

And because I neglected to check a link and it didn't work (I hate that) I will repost that one here as well: The Anger of God.

They will not stay up forever. Download them now.

Register to vote

Click here to register to vote.

You will find the deadline for your state here.

A Sacred Duty: Why Christians Must Vote

This is a nation of the people and by the people and we are all responsible for the direction this country takes. God takes personal responsibility very seriously.

A Rose By Any Other Name ...

Catholic hospitals commit - and U.S. bishops condone - live-birth abortion

The news was a real bummer. A reporter named Tom Szyszkiewicz, who writes for the Catholic publications, Our Sunday Visitor and the National Catholic Register, was calling to tell me he had discovered two Catholic hospital systems were committing the induced-labor abortion procedure - live-birth abortion - on handicapped babies.

The bad news warped to bizarre when Szyszkiewicz said these hospitals were waiting until babies were 23 to 26 weeks gestation before aborting them - i.e., until they were of viable age - so they could say these weren't abortions at all, but simply labor inductions and, thus, sanctioned by the Catholic Church

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We're against abortion so let's wait till the baby is viable, induce labor, and cast it aside to die in hospital soiled utility rooms, or drowned in buckets of water, or sealed to suffocate in biohazard bags. I'd like to have been a fly on the wall when they were reasoning that out!

They have become fat, they shine. Yes, they go past the deeds of the wicked; they do not judge the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may get rich; and they do not judge the right of the needy.

Shall I not visit for these things, declares Jehovah? Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

An astounding and horrible thing has happened in the land.

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so, and what will you do at the end of it?

Jerimiah 5:28-31

New mp3: Should you be worried about the anger of God? Just what does He have to be angry about anyway? You haven't done anything wrong, why should you be worried? The link works now.

Last Chance

These are intelligent, well thought out discussions that every thinking person needs to hear. 100% guaranteed - if you're not 100% satisfied just delete them and you owe nothing! If you like what you hear you still owe nothing - what a deal!

Thinking About War

The New Jihad

I'll be replacing these two programs in the next couple of days. Get them while they're hot, they're lovely.

Unruly and Depressed

How the pressure to succeed is creating a generation of unruly, depressed teenagers

Is it pressure to succeed? Or is it because they are not allowed to fail? The prevailing thoughts the past 30 years have been toward not allowing children to succeed or fail. No winners, no losers. Self esteem absent accomplishment. Children who are not allowed to fail never learn how to overcome failure, they never learn how to win. That makes life tough in the real world where success is built on failure.

I'm going to post something here that goes into this deeper in the next few days. Watch for it.

Only An Idiot

Only an idiot would want the government more involved in their healthcare: like this.

"This grim portrait is the legacy of a medical system offering low expectations cloaked in lofty rhetoric," the study said, criticizing the fact that governments and not doctors are responsible for allocating resources.

You want to improve healthcare and brings costs down? Get the government and the insurance companies out of it.

How Cheap Has Life Become?

Now They Want to Euthanize Children

FIRST, Dutch euthanasia advocates said that patient killing will be limited to the competent, terminally ill who ask for it. Then, when doctors began euthanizing patients who clearly were not terminally ill, sweat not, they soothed: medicalized killing will be limited to competent people with incurable illnesses or disabilities. Then, when doctors began killing patients who were depressed but not physically ill, not to worry, they told us: only competent depressed people whose desire to commit suicide is "rational" will have their deaths facilitated. Then, when doctors began killing incompetent people, such as those with Alzheimer's, it's all under control, they crooned: non-voluntary killing will be limited to patients who would have asked for it if they were competent.

And now they want to euthanize children.

In the Netherlands, Groningen University Hospital has decided its doctors will euthanize children under the age of 12, if doctors believe their suffering is intolerable or if they have an incurable illness. But what does that mean? In many cases, as occurs now with adults, it will become an excuse not to provide proper pain control for children who are dying of potentially agonizing maladies such as cancer, and doing away with them instead. As for those deemed "incurable"--this term is merely a euphemism for killing babies and children who are seriously disabled.

We haven't gone this far yet but there are those who want it. Killing babies - that we do. What is the difference between child sacrifice and abortion? Is it any less evil if it is done in the name of a god or for no god? A temple or a doctor's office? By a doctor or a priest? America needs to wake up to this evil as well. It's not enough to just leave it to the choice of the mother and wash your hands of it. The consequences of these actions fall on the heads of all of us.

So you shall not pollute the land where you are; for blood defiles the land, and no atonement can be made for the land, for the blood that is shed on it, except by the blood of him who shed it.
Numbers 35:33

Mr. Judgement

Kerry vs. Kerry

JOHN KERRY said yesterday that Iraq was "the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time." Translation: We would be better off if Saddam Hussein were still in power.

Not an unheard of point of view. Indeed, as President Bush pointed out today, it was Howard Dean's position during the primary season. On December 15, 2003, in a speech at the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles, Dean said that "the capture of Saddam Hussein has not made America safer." Dean also said, "The difficulties and tragedies we have faced in Iraq show the administration launched the war in the wrong way, at the wrong time, with inadequate planning, insufficient help, and at the extraordinary cost, so far, of $166 billion."

But who challenged Dean immediately? John Kerry. On December 16, at Drake University in Iowa, Kerry asserted that "those who doubted whether Iraq or the world would be better off without Saddam Hussein, and those who believe today that we are not safer with his capture, don't have the judgment to be president or the credibility to be elected president."

Kerry was right then.

This is Not Bush's War, it is the Jihadist's War

Here's an mp3 America needs to hear. We need to pull together to defend ourselves against the jihadists.

The New Jihad

Download it now, I won't leave it too long.

No Morals, No Shame

Kerry Hints GOP May Suppress Black Votes

Don't be confused by the lies. What they accuse others of doing, they do themselves. This is a double hideous lie - not only is it wrong on it's surface but it divides and causes further distrust among Americans. Divide and conquer. They want to tear down America and rebuild it in their image. If there is anything I have learned in the last three years it is you must make a stand against evil or it will engulf you. See through the hatred.

Letter to Mankind

Last night I ran into a couple of websites I hadn't known about before. One of them is Jihad Watch. On that site I read a "letter to Mankind" from another site I didn't know existed. It's a site dedicated to telling the truth about Islam from the inside by people who really know what it's all about. Here's the letter and afterward the link.

Dear fellow human,

Today humanity is being challenged. Unthinkable atrocities take place on daily basis. There is an evil force at work that aims to destroy us. The agents of this evil respect nothing; not even the lives of children. Every day there are bombings, every day innocent people are targeted and murdered. It seems as if we are helpless. But we are not!

The ancient Chinese sage Sun Zi said, "Know your enemy and you won't be defeated". Do we know our enemy? If we don’t, then we are doomed.

Terrorism is not an ideology, it is a tool; but the terrorists kill for an ideology. They call that ideology Islam.

The entire world, both Muslims and non-Muslims claim that the terrorists have hijacked "the religion of peace" and Islam does not advocate violence and terror.

Who is right? Do the terrorists understand Islam better, or do those who decry them? The answer to this question is the key to our victory, and failure to find that key will result in our loss and death will be upon us. The key is in the Quran and the history of Islam.

Those of us who know Islam, know that the understanding of the terrorists of Islam is correct. They are doing nothing that their prophet did not do and did not encourage his followers to do. Murders, assassinations, beheadings, massacres and sacrilege of the dead "to delight the hearts of the believers" were all practiced by Muhammad, were taught by him and were observed by Muslims throughout the history.

If ever truth has mattered, it is now! This is the time that we have to call a spade a spade. This is the time that we have to find the root of the problem and eradicate it. The root of Islamic terrorism is Islam. The proof of that is the Quran.

We are a group of ex-Muslims who have seen the face the of evil and have risen to warn the world. No matter how painful the truth may be, only truth can set us free. Why this much denial? Why so much obstinacy? How many more innocent lives should be lost before YOU open your eyes? A nuclear disaster is upon us. This will happen. It is not a question of "if" but "when". Oblivious of that, the world is digging its head deeper in the sand.

We urge the Muslims to leave Islam. Stop with excuses, justifications and rationalizations. Stop dividing mankind in "us" vs. "them" and Muslims vs. Kafirs. We are One people, One mankind! Muhammad was not a messenger of God. It is time that we end this insanity and face the truth. The terrorists take their moral support and the validation for their actions from you. Your very adherence to their cult of death is a nod of approval for their crimes against humanity.

We also urge the non-Muslims to stop being politically correct lest they hurt the Muslims' sensitivity. To Hell with their sensibilities! Let us save their lives, and the lives of millions of innocent people.

Millions, if not billions of lives will be lost if we do nothing. Time is running out! "All it takes for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing." Do something! Send this message to everyone in your address book and ask them to do the same. Defeat Islam and stop terrorism. This is your world, save it.

The ex-Muslim Movement

www.faithfreedom.org


This is all very interesting considering what I have been writing on this blog. There is another article I saw I would like to point out: Ex-Muslims fear for their lives – in America

Because in traditional Islamic law, for a Muslim to convert to another faith brings a death sentence. This is not, mind you, "extremist" Islam. It is the Islamic mainstream, based on a statement of Muhammad: "Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him." It's also based on a statement of the Quran: "But whoever of you recants and dies an unbeliever, his works shall come to nothing in this world and the next, and they are the companions of the fire forever" (Sura 2:217). This has been widely interpreted by traditional Muslim commentators as giving sanction to the death penalty for apostates - which they derive from the verse's assertion that the apostate's work will "come to nothing in this world" as well as the next.

If they are not killed they will be disowned by their families. That puts an awful lot of pressure on someone to stay the course - these families and the Muslim community are very close knit. It will require alot of support to safely get people out of that hell. It is something we must do. If you are a Muslim then you should be considering leaving Islam and you should visit www.faithfreedom.org.

The bitter truth about Islam.

CSS

I played with the CSS settings on this page and was able to clear up the problems I was having with the sidebar in Internet Explorer. Finally.

September 11

I wrote my 9/11 rant on the 8th but I feel I have to say something today as well. 9/11 is not something I've forgotten most of the time and just remember once a year. To me, that day was the alarm that really woke me up. Sadly, it seems, too many of us have just hit the snooze bar. We in this country have not taken this warning as seriously as we should have. We are so busy arguing about what to do that we aren't doing everything neccessary to protect ourselves. Those not in the argument have their fingers in their ears and just want to forget it completly.

9/11 was not just a one time attack. The people that perpetrated this act have declared, loud and clear, their intention of destroying this country and our way of life. They have also shown the ability to do so, not by direct assault, but by slipping in unaware, attacking our rear and our women and children. Nothing is off limits to them. They use our good will, our good intentions, our generosity, and our laws against us. And we let them. The worst thing anyone can do in this country these days is even giving the appearance of offending someone. We don't recognize evil when we see it, even when it rears it's ugly head and bites us. No, it's just an abberation, that's the religion of peace, it's just a few nuts doing that jihad stuff, that's not what they're all about. The only Muslims not speaking out against us are those in this country and those in this country are quiet as a mouse. You are not welcome in their places of worship. While I have no doubt that many, if not most, have no evil intentions beyond spreading their religion in a peaceful way to all Americans, taken as a whole, worldwide, Islam is the incarnation of evil in our times.

I'm not advocating violence against Muslims in America - no - not at all. I am advocating searching for and recognizing the truth - by all Americans. If you live in America and you love America and you want to continue living here in peace, as most of us do, then perhaps it would be beneficial if you were not a member of, unarguably, the most violent, intolerant, hate-filled religion ever seen in modern times. Perhaps not as practised in America but do you really want to be associated with that image, with that god? You are, whether you like it or not. And when the world has finally had enough of seeing our children slaughtered by yet another muslim, and it is not going to stop as you know, do you really want to be standing under that banner? The good will go with the bad. Not everyone in the Nazi party was a hate filled, evil killing machine but when the world finally woke up and had enough the last thing on earth you wanted to be was a Nazi. Germany was destroyed, along with most of Europe, not because they were all evil but because that was where the evil was.

I don't think I will leave this mp3 here for very long so download it now if you want to hear it. It brings some sanity and clear thinking to a subject people don't like to hear. Thinking About War

Socialist Legal System

Yellow Tomato Causes Legal Dilemma

The mushy remains of a tomato thrown at a prominent member of Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats has posed a legal dilemma for authorities trying to assess how to punish the thrower.

Had it been a soft red one, the man would have faced a lesser charge of causing malicious damage. A harder, green tomato could carry the tougher charge of bodily harm.

A yellow one is somewhere in between. "In these types of cases it has to do with the consistency (of the fruit)," said Caecilia Cramer-Krahforst, spokeswoman for the court in the eastern city of Cottbus.

No decision on the charge has yet been reached.

If it wasn't so sad it would be funny. Well, no ... it is funny.


Thanks to Ravenwood for the link.

Pulling My Hair Out

I made some changes to the site code to try to get the blog to work better in Internet Explorer. The main thing I wanted to fix was the page would end at the end of the archives, sometimes right in the middle of a post. That is fixed. The blogroll is not spacing properly and that seems to be a problem with the Blogrolling code. I'm not sure, I could be wrong (Imagine that). Actually, I change my mind, I believe it is the fault of the person who coded the site because I went to the sample site and it has the same problem. I can get the links and blogroll looking good but the blog will end at the end of the archives, so it's one or the other. I chose messed up links. It's as good as it's gonna get right now. I don't use Explorer but I know many people do. Too bad, because it's really not near state of the art in browsers. Not even close. That's a good reason to dump AOL.

The site works great in Safari, Firefox and Opera. I guess it's just not IE friendly - not my fault.

I think it's time for a vacation.

Hurricane Magnet

New weather patterns turn Florida into a hurricane magnet

A left jab, a right hook, and now it looks like we'll be getting an upper cut. Florida is getting beat up. I don't drive all over the place so at first it looked like there was not alot of damage but as news stories get out it is apparent that many areas of Florida have been hit very hard. Many people have lost everything. Sometimes whole neighborhoods. And flooding in some areas is very bad.

I would have to say that in some cases it seems as if it is the builder who didn't build up to proper standards (my unprofessional opinion), houses in certain neighborhoods have just basically fallen apart. Many houses are built where they shouldn't be. I saw one particular house that seemed to be in the middle of a lake. Well, lake levels vary and just because it is dry for so many years does not mean it does not reach higher levels, especially in places like Florida. But I think for the most part these storms are just so powerful and the winds so relentless that one weakness and you are pretty much toast. One thing breaks and it leads to another and another.

I'm really not in the mood for another one at all and that feeling is shared by everyone else around here. Enough already.

Puppy Revenge

A man was trying to shoot seven puppies when one of the puppies shot him.

There's always one isn't there?

Sit Back and Read

Here's a great essay from Mrs. du Toit: Stewardship

She has a terrific site as well.

I'm not Always Serious ...

I like to laugh, too. This is funny. Nice one, Dave.

The Time is Now

The time is now Daniel, the time is now

So, the question is, why hasn't any Arab “lion-ruler” or, for that matter, any Arab civic groups spoken out against this horror, forcefully, clearly and bluntly? Should not those Arab leaders or at least their Mickey Mouse parliaments here and there come out and be counted?

The only outrage you ever here from Muslims is outrage at Israel or the United States. People need to get a clue! The answer can't be any more clear.

Remember Pearl Harbor

The United States was not the least bit interested in going to war with anyone through the beginning of WWII. When the Japanese hit us at Pearl Harbor the nation pulled together as one, knew what it had to do, and set about ridding the world of evil at any cost.

September 11, 2001 has been compared to Pearl Harbor but it was no Pearl Harbor. The nation came together for a little while but now, on the 3rd anniversary, the country just doesn't have the heart to do the dirty work. We have the means, but not the will. We have a president ready and willing to make the tough decisions but the whole country is not behind him. Many are, but not with the same fervor of WW II.

We have a habit of letting evil get away from us. We just can't allow ourselves to believe anyone can be so cruel, let alone millions of people. Yet, if Hitler was stopped the first time he broke the treaties of WW I he most likely would never have amounted to much. But the world just let him have an inch here and an inch there, negotiating and trying to spare themselves the dirty work of putting a stop to it until it was too late. If Hitler was stopped at the beginning it would have been a small thing compared to what WW II became.

It is the same now. We do what needs to be done now, and it's already late in the game, or we are going to be in for the fight of our lives. WW III has already begun, history will back that up. How bad will we let it get? The nations of islam need to be crushed. Get that through your head. There is no other option - it is us or them - those are their rules. They will not back down. China is watching and preparing to take advantage of our weaknesses. They have a presence in the western hemisphere (major presence in the Caribbean and Panama Canal) and now they are even putting troops here- in Haiti. It's a foot in the door. Things will not be getting better soon.

Americans seem to have a problem with cause and effect. We are not very good at looking at things a few steps ahead, but many other countries are operating that way. They are perfectly willing to take a small step and wait. Take another small step and wait some more. Like a predator stalking it's prey, they become invisable to our sense of danger. Time is on their side.

You may deny it but the further we move from our Christian roots the further we sink into this quagmire. We were still a Christian nation during WWII. We were not ashamed of God. We hadn't yet kicked God out of our schools, out of our courtrooms, out of our constitution. Not that we were perfect, just that we were much more likely to acknowledge God as our source of blessings and protection. The acknowledgement of God did not embarrass us. During WWII, our enemies came at us one way and fled before us seven ways. We won battle after incredible battle and many times when the battle could have gone either way somehow something turned in our favor. The history is there for all to see.

Now, the very idea of God is laughable to most of us. Sure, some pay lip service to God but for the most part evolution is king, God is a quaint, old fashioned idea people made up to explain what they didn't understand. We know better now. We don't need no stinkin' God. The Bible is chock full of mere fairy tales and Jewish beddy-by stories. This is taught by default in our schools. Our children have been growing up with situational ethics - no pillar of truth, no Rock to stand on - just mud and muck and quicksand. The abortion business in this country, in the world, dwarfs even the Holocost of WWII. And they offer up the still moving body parts of freshly aborted children, at a very good profit mind you, to the science-god and the earth-god. Soon too, the elderly.

God is withdrawing His protection and His blessings - which we never really deserved anyway - from this country. It is not too late, the country can repent - turn back - from the way it is headed. God would look favorably on that. Stiff-necked Israel never did repent at Gods warnings but Ninevah (a gentile nation)did when God sent Jonah to tell them they had 40 days to exist. They changed their ways - albeit temporarily - but God did not destroy them because of their repentance. I hope we can learn that lesson.

What's Wrong Now, Blogger?

I've been trying to publish this blog all day and it wouldn't publish. I tried it first on the Mac this morning - no luck. When I got home I tried it over and over - nothing. I use the FireFox web browser but I have never had any problem like this before. Eventually I tried Internet Explorer just to see if it would work and, yes, it worked. Why? I did just upgrade to FireFox 0.9.3, but that doesn't explain not working with Safari on the Mac. Whatever, I just hope it's temporary.

No Lysol Here

Michelle Malkin has got it right and pulls no punches in Remember 9-11: Stop sanitizing the killers

Dennis Prager walks a tightrope trying not to offend in They shoot children, don't they? - one of the few times he's not quite up to par. Close though.

It's time to help those who have been duped by islam to recognize it and get out, if they wish, and let the rats go down with the ship.

Beware the State-god

Judges try to snatch homeschoolers

Germans who choose to homeschool their children are coming under increasing pressure from the state with some families escaping the European Union nation to keep from having their children taken from them.

Another German homeschool family lost a recent court case when the judge ruled that the parents had no rights to have input into the manner and method of education in government schools.

This is where they want to take this country. Will you let them?

The Embodiment of Evil

An End to Terror by Ronald L. Dart

I must confess I find the whole thing hard to grasp. How can men do such a thing? How can they sit in their bunkers and deliberately plan the destruction of a great city? Do they care that children and old women will die horrible deaths in the fires they start? Does it even matter that the economy of a people can be destroyed – that people will starve because of what they have done?

Maybe they are just insane – at least that is what they said about Hitler. But if that is true, is society to bring in a verdict of “not guilty by reason of insanity”? World War II, then, was a cruel accident of nature. One man lost his mind, and the whole world went up in flames.

If only it were true. But for that verdict to be true, there had to be hundreds, even thousands, who went insane at the same time. No one man, however mad, could have accomplished such evil in the midst of a nation or a world of good people.

The truth is that Hitler and his minions were worse than insane. They were evil. They had bought into the source of evil–had become the malignant offspring of the architect of all evil.

If Hitler had merely been insane, we could hope never to see his like again. But he was not merely insane. He was the embodiment of a spiteful, evil spirit, and it is only a matter of time until we see it again in another form, another system, another beast of a man.

Islam has been and is buying into that source of evil now - the embodiment of a spiteful, evil spirit. A spiteful, jealous spirit - can you hit the nail any more squarely?

The State

God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son to die for His people. Expect no such sacrifice from the state-god. The government is that god, and its prime directive is to increase in power, and to defend itself against all assaults. The state, in spite of its protestations of caring, cannot love its people. The state has no heart, no soul. When someone in government speaks of compassion, keep one thing in mind. The government has only two tools to work with-law and force.

The state cannot or will not teach that some acts are intrinsically right and some are clearly wrong. Rather, acts are right or wrong as prescribed by government. And the public seems willing enough to follow the lead. The government says that abortion is not against the law, so it can't be wrong. The citizens of our beloved country are bowing down before an idol, and they don't even know it.

Don't misunderstand. Neither the president, congress, nor the courts are that idol. The government, the state-god, is our own creation. When Pilate brought Jesus before the multitude, he shouted, "Behold your king." The people cried out, "We have no king but Caesar." Yes, and no god but the state.

Excerpt from The Aborted Generation by Ronald L. Dart

He continues ...

The meetings in Cairo in September dealt once again with the idea that there are too many people on the earth and that "people spoil the environment." The earth goddess is a worthy consort to the state-god, and must be served whatever the cost to human life. The United States representatives went to that conference as missionaries for the abortion movement.

Earth First, right?

And again ...

Truth can come from surprising quarters from time to time. Not long ago, Mother Teresa warned in a speech:

"America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men. It has sown violence and discord at the heart of the most intimate of human relationships. It has aggravated the derogation of the father's role in an increasingly fatherless society. It has portrayed the greatest gift-a child-as a competitor, and intrusion, and an inconvenience. IT has nominally accorded mothers unfettered dominion over the independent lives of their physically dependent sons and daughters. And, in granting this unconscionable power, it has exposed many women to unjust and selfish demands from their husbands or other sexual partners."

It is hard to understand at this point how "deformed" this nation has become, and even harder to imagine where it will all lead. Think of all the things the coming generation will be able to do-things that were denied to us. The coming generation, unhampered by any moral code except that of the state may be able to dispose of all the feeble, the old, the sick, the infirm, the mentally ill. Abortion will get rid of all the unwanted children, especially the crippled, the retarded, the blind. They will even be able to get rid of hyper-active children before they are born.

Think of all the savings in health care. Cost control will finally be in the grasp of government. Universal health care will be simple, because the "universe" to be covered will have been shrunk to manageable size. Perhaps the first generation to be disposed of in old age will be the generation that aborted their own children.

Will America look in the mirror and see the dirt, mud and blood on it's face and wash it clean and move on? Or continue to deny anything is wrong? I have a feeling I already know.

What Hurricane?

The power came on this morning around 4:45am and I pulled all the plants out of the garage. I haven't been anywhere but I know there has been damage in other neighborhoods. I took the boards off the front windows but I will wait on the rear windows until we see where hurricane Ivan is going. I had to pick up two branches from the lawn and I saw a dead lizard. I think he came down with one of the branches. Right now they are going crazy on the news chasing down funnel clouds and possible tornados all over central Florida. I think I'll go lay down for a little while.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth

"Matter is not intrinsically informative. To say that a human cell was built by its chemicals is like saying a book was written by its paper and ink, or that a typewriter was constructed by the iron in its frame." -- James Perloff

The First Cell - Evolved or Created?

The Material World, Non-Matter, and Information

What do Clocks and Counting Time have to do with Creation?

Logically, we are either:

1. The result of mindless, accidental evolution, or


2. The result of some kind of a creator God.

On the one hand is Evolution that says a speck of dead matter sprang into life, grew, divided, and after innumerable years evolved through a series of unguided accidents to result in the millions of species, including humans, that exist today. Evolution is now taught as proven fact and has itself taken on many aspects of being a dominant religion.

As the direct opposite to evolution is a Being writing in the Bible who claims He created not only humans but all things. This Being further claims He is the giver of life. Strong claims indeed! Unfortunately humans are not able to see this Being. What are we to do then?

There is an answer. This Being assures us that the invisible things of Him are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made (Romans 1:20). So looking in depth into some of the things around us is what the following articles will do.

Proving this Creator is fundamental for Christians. Notice Paul used creation when introducing God to the pagan philosophers at Athens. He did it again at Lycaonia. Moreover in the near future an angel is scheduled to preach the creation message to all nations and peoples . One of the major differences between Christianity and other religions is this important aspect of the creator communicating with his human creatures.

The goal of these articles is to offer some creation evidence to believers in evolution, but who are open minded enough to investigate the alternative. A secondary goal is to help reinforce the faith of those who are already Christian believers.

Perhaps the best way to add credibility to one's arguments, and to persuade others, is to use material outside of one's own persuasion. That is why about 95% of the information that follows is from the "other sides" material, from evolution supporting sources.

The more I study and look into this subject the more evidence I find against evolution - the big lie. The answer is in the creation, it's in nature, it's there for you to see - in a spider's web, a bird's nest, a bee's hive - it's in the life of every creature, in the interdependency of all life and in the building blocks that make up matter. The closer you look, the more you break it down, the more you see ... nothing. The life is in the programming, the knowledge controlling the matter. I don't take this lightly and I will not be taken in. Don't think for yourself and don't question - life spontaneously began by lightning strike in a chemical soup. Science is all the god you need. That's what they teach you. Public schools and universities are their churches. They are tearing the fabric of society. Only islam is a more destructive and insidious religion than evolution. But only because the results are more obvious. Both ideas come from the god of this world, the one who said, "I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will also sit on the mount of the congregation On the farthest sides of the north; I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High." (Isaiah 14:13,14) - the imposter, the liar, the loser.

How you are fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! How you are cut down to the ground, You who weakened the nations! (Isaiah14:12)

Woe to the inhabitants of the earth and the sea! For the devil has come down to you, having great wrath, because he knows that he has a short time. (Rev 12:12)

Seek the truth. Seek it like diamonds or gold.

For the hearts of this people have grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, And their eyes they have closed, Lest they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, Lest they should understand with their hearts and turn, So that I should heal them. (Matthew 13:15)

Why are people afraid of the truth? They avoid it like the plague. Give them lies that feel good and they love you!

Whatever Happened To ...

Looters will be shot? Eleven Arrests For Looting, Prowling In Counties Hit By Frances

It Weakened But It Won't Go Away

The wind and rain came and went again and again. The power went off around 1am Sunday and I went to bed. It was windy and raining but not scary. I woke up to the same thing. I opened the front door and saw no major damage. There is a branch on the ground. One branch. It's not over though and although it hasn't gotten worse it is steady bad. I can hear some metal slamming around somewhere across the street but I can't see anything. Power is still off, of course, but I have an invertor connected to a spare car battery and it is running a radio, light and fan, plus charging the cell phone and flashlight. If I can find an antenna I will hook up the TV. The cable is out. The battery is lasting an amazingly long time.

I am keeping the front door open to let some cool air and light in here. The turkeys were out in the rain looking for food. They looked pathetic all wet but didn't seem to be bothered too much. The horses and cows look like nothing is going on, they're just going about their business. I haven't seen any people and I don't see any damage to my neighbors houses.

I talked to Irma and they lost power this morning after everyone showered. How convenient. They have a grill to cook on and I asked if they delivered. Not yet. James is doing fine but she said he wants to go home and he keeps asking where Daddy is. I wish they had just stayed here.

This storm wasn't as bad as Charlie was, at least not in this area. I hope they are able to restore power much faster this time. If it weren't for the power outage everything would be fine.

Find a New Religion

I have to say I agree with Daniel (language alert):

Religion of peace my aching ass. Any religion that can even remotely see in it's heart to kidnap and kill children deserves, no, needs to be wiped from the face of the earth at any cost.

If you truly are the peaceful type and are appalled at what the "sword of Islam" does (has always done, is doing, will continue to do - until they are all dead) - change your religion. Find something else. If you say your religion was hijacked or what ever, fine, let them have it and find a new one. GOD IS NOT THERE!!! HE just isn't. So it doesn't matter, you might as well draw a face on a log and pray to it because you will get the same effect. And as nice as you are, as friendly and peace loving as you may be - if you call yourself a muslim - I have to look at you like I would a guy kneeling in front of that log. I'll treat you with respect, you have your right, and I'll be nice and friendly to you, but I will - in the back of my mind - forever wonder about your sanity. God is not there.

Look at creation. Look at the world around you. Look at the heavens, the stars, the universe. How great is it? How beautiful? How wonderfully designed? Look at a tree, the leaves, the animals that live there. Look at it's place in the environment. How does it fit in, what does it do? Look at the laws of the universe - the laws of physics. There is unending beauty in all of creation, from the grandest star down to the unseen smallest parts that make up the elements. Look at a beautiful, little child. You couldn't dream up something so beautiful.

Do you really think the God that created the universe, that created human beings and the process of procreation and the human family, would want you to scare, torture, maim, or kill as many as possible in order to spread His Word. Are you kidding! God is not there! There is no god in islam! That religion is completely opposite of everything created. It is the religion in opposition to the God and Creator of the universe. I'm not saying He is a part of every other religion in the world - just that He is definitely not in islam. No way, no how. You want to kill me because I say that - you make my point.

God wants you to be free. Free to think about what you are doing and why. Free to choose His way, the way He has revealed would benefit us and allow us to live life to the fullest, or to choose our own way. He has revealed the consequences of those choices. He doesn't make us do anything. If we bring misery on ourselves and others because of our choices, so be it - it is still our choice. There is alot of that going on. Islam grabs you and forces you into a way of life. You can't think for yourself. You can't choose anything but what they say.

Two things further. Read The New Islamic Empire and read A Tale of Two Trees

Think about what you are doing and why.

This Thing is Slow

Thursday morning I went to Home Depot to get some plywood. The line was from one end of the store to the other. I waited in that line from 8:30am - in the hot sun, no shade - until 2:30pm when I finally was able to buy 10 sheets. They closed most of the store and were only selling hurricane supplies. When I got back I started installing them and worked until 7:30, getting most of it done. I had to go to work Thursday night so I took a shower and went to bed. I worked all night catching up on the audits from Aug 29 and brought them up to date. The manager came in to take care of guests or I would never have finished. The next morning I was almost unable to keep my eyes open. I fell asleep for an hour and went back out to finish the job. I got all the boards up and used a hole saw to drill some holes so I can see out and to let a little light in. very little.

I have been making spelling mistakes lately on this computer and I thought it was just because I am so tired but I just noticed in that last sentance that I am unable to type an upper case v. It won't do it. I guess I need a new keyboard. Some of the other keys are less sensitive too, I have to deliberately press them.

I went up on the roof to check it out and fixed one problem I had. It's too late for anything else now anyway. I put all the loose plants in the garage - yes, the orchid too. If I put it in the house all the bugs will come out of the pot and get in here with me. I had already cut branches from all the trees but there are a couple that I hope I am not sorry I didn't just cut them down. We'll see. The guy across the street really butchered one of his trees - it's mostly a trunk now.

I am as ready as I will ever be for this hurricane and now we are just waiting as it slows to a crawl. Irma took the kids to her sisters house (I've been abandoned!) and I'm doing this and that before I lose power. The power has gone off six or eight times already this morning for a few seconds or minutes. I cooked up some honey-barbecue chicken last night, made some whole-wheat pancakes this morning (my new favorite breakfast), boiled most of the eggs so I can eat them if the power is off, washed some clothes, washed the dishes and now I am waiting.

I'm supposed to go to work tonight but I already told them I would not drive to work in the middle of a hurricane. Now they keep pushing landfall back further and further and I hope it's not calm when it's time to go to work and impossible to get home. They want everyone off the road after 12 noon and it is getting windy now so I'm pretty sure I won't be going in anyway. I just heard them say (on Tv) not to drink too much because you will need to keep you're wits about you and I remembered when I went food shopping yesterday the guy ahead of me in line had his cart filled with cases of beer. Who needs food, right?

If anything happens I will let you know. If I can.

As I was working to board up the windows and clean up the yard for Hurricane Frances I noticed the orchid bloom had just opened. A little beauty before the chaos.

Waiting for the Inevitable

Hurricane Frances is forcast to pass right over this area. People are going nuts buying supplies and traffic is horrendous. I saw a truck pull out of Home Depot yesterday with 12 generators. Everyone is sold out of generators and the line for plywood goes across the entire store. The memories of Charlie are still fresh. You can't even call them memories yet because we still haven't recovered from that storm yet. I don't want to see this place after another major hurricane. Everybody has a huge pile of branches, logs, and uprooted trees in their front yard. Where will they end up?

We have a serious thunderstorm happening right now. I have to turn off the computer. The power is off and the UPS is operating on battery power.

Here Comes Trouble

I really, really hope they're wrong about this.

I just got all my dead branches into a nice, huge pile at the curb. I don't want to do that again.

More importantly, so many people lost so much because of Charlie. I would really hate to see it happen again.

Mission Accomplished

I went out a got some work done after all. It's amazing how much I can get done when I don't have to watch James. I like him to help me though.

Am I Still Here?

I haven't been posting much lately because I usually post at night while I am at work but I have been so busy working I haven't had time to turn on the computer. Our register is still not working, all auditing is being done manually and we are just not set up for that. It's a mess. It's under control but if it's too long before we get this thing fixed it will be a nightmare trying to catch up with all this work. I'll have to go back and do the audit for every night we missed and probably redo some paperwork as well.

Now I see we have another hurricane headed in this direction. We don't need another one in this area anytime soon and it will most likely change direction but who knows. Maybe it will take the hotel down completely this time and I will be forced to change jobs - it's probably what I need. I'll get a job helping to rebuild in the construction industry.

I just finished mowing the lawn. Irma went to her mother's house with the kids. I was taking a break and getting ready to go out and cut some more branches down (yes, I have a lot more to go) but now I hear thunder getting closer and closer. Abner (a friend) lent me his ladder and a couple of long extension cords to use the chain saw so I can reach the front of the property. I really appreciate it because otherwise I would be out there cutting them by hand and that is really slow going and with the heat it is exhausting. I also have to repair some shingles, I can't forget about that. I'm not sure when I can do that because if James is there he will want to come up the ladder and on the roof with me. I don't think he could resist it.

Now it sounds like the thunder is right on top of me. I should just go to bed but I really wanted to get this stuff done. So much to do, so little time.

The Late Post

I neglected to say the power came on at work Tuesday at 3:30 pm. I just made plans to start helping out in a house renovation Wednesday morning and an hour later I got the call to come back to work. If it had not been for the temporary nature of the work I would have told the hotel I wouldn't be coming back. I really am getting tired of working nights. Our cash register/computer isn't working and all the paperwork is being done manually and they did not keep up with it while I was gone. I spent the entire night just trying to straighten that out and get caught up but it has to be done again when the computer is working again. Oh, and I'm fixing that too. I would rather do that than all the paperwork but I get to do both.

There are still some people in Kissimmee who don't have power. They say by midnight tonight. I noticed a few more shingles on the roof got damaged and I will have to replace some of them. Still, I was blessed. So many houses have tarps over them, including my neighbor across the street. I pass a house everyday that has a huge oak tree on top of it. I wonder if they are snow birds or what because nothing seems to get cleaned up at all there. They were building an apartment complex in Saint Cloud, it was erected but not finished and it is laying on the ground - it just fell over. I really need to get a picture of that.

Today I put James up a tree to keep him out of trouble. He didn't want to come down.

James is making friends with a cow, as usual. He was taking a break from helping me clean up the yard. I'm making good progress but there is alot to do. I wish I were harvesting vegeatables instead of just broken and overgrown branches from the oak trees. The trees grow like weeds.

It's Still Not Over

It's been 10 days and so many people here still do not have power. I am effectively out of a job until the hotel gets power back. If power doesn't come on today it will be my fourth day off. And there is alot more to clean up in the yard than it first looked. I borrowed a tall ladder to fix my siding and cut some higher branches off. Now that the leaves on the broken branches are dying I can see some very large branches that broke off a tree and got lodged high up in the branches of another. I tried to cut one out with little success. It is really stuck. It will take alot of cutting in a very precarious position. There is one I cannot reach at all.

This situation here is worse than they are letting on and I believe there has been a good deal of incompetance and unpreparedness at the bottom of it.

Heart of Darkness

While most everything is back to normal at home, the hotel I work at is still without power and will be until Saturday. The maintenance man has a generator but we had a lot of problems getting it started. It was gummed up from sitting for years. After 3 days we got it going. I caught up on all my work but the computer is having problems and pretty much quit working last night after I finished. This is frustrating but I keep hearing there are alot of homes without power. This hurricane really caused alot more of a mess than most of us thought it would. If you can help it, don't get caught in the path of a major hurricane. And if you can't help it, at least be prepared. Be as uncool as you possibly can and have all the things on hand that they say you should.

What Does It Mean?

What does it mean when you come home from work and find a half eaten mole on your front porch. I mean, it is something like finding a horses head in your bed? Does it mean a cat has it in for you? I better watch my back.

Did you see the picture I posted of the building with the roof blown off, the one where you can see the rafters? Well, today they folded it back down into place. Weird. It's a metal roof and I guess it just rolled up and over the other side. So they just rolled it back.

Power is back on along the main roads and alot of people have power now. The 24hr Walmart closed around 6 pm today, I don't know why. I thought, now that there is power, that the gas stations would start pumping gas again. Guess not. I waited in line for 40 minutes to get gas this morning. Only a few gas stations are pumping and they are running out of gas fast. This evening it was the same.

There is still no power at work. It isn't fun. The generator we have is having problems still. We can't find a gasket to fit that doesn't get ruined by the gas. Hopefully today they were able to get one. You can't just buy one anywhere. More and more damage is becoming apparent too. It rained yesterday and we discovered the roof leaks. Bad.

Last night I was able to use a power invertor hooked up to my car to run a light, a radio, and a fan. It really helped alot. At 5:30am I just turned everything off and sat in the dark watching all the cars go by. Where are they all going? Looking for gas I bet.

Hurricane Update

Friday night I said it looked like the Orlando area did not sustain major damage. Boy, was I wrong. The damage is severe. I drove down 192 through Kissimmee last night on my way to work and it was bad. 90% of Kissimmee has no power. Only 1 or 2 traffic lights were working. Many of the traffic lights were laying in the median or on the side of the road. Billboards were bent down into buildings or just twisted. I don't remember seeing a single business sign that was not damaged, if not completely destroyed. Trees were down everywhere. There is no power at most, if not all, of the hotels east of Interstate 4. The hotel I work at had no power, the sign and marqee were destroyed, most of the trees were mangled, branches and chunks of trees were everywhere and a tree was leaning against some power lines and looks like it may fall at any time. During the storm a tree fell on 3 cars and destroyed them.

The maintenance man and I tried to get a generator working but the carburator had a bad gasket and kept leaking. We managed to get it working for a few hours and I caught up on some work in the computer but it started leaking again and shut down. None of the rooms have any power at all and I was amazed that people were still coming in wanting to rent rooms. I tried hard to discourage them but I guess they were out of options.

The lobby had no A/C of course. It was unbearable and I was wearing a tank top and shorts. I didn't expect anyone to come in. I guess it was because we had a light in the lobby people kept pulling up. The entire road was dark. The only lights were from a police car at the intersection. I would hear him say "Go straight or make a u-turn" on the loudspeaker at regular intervals. They were not letting anyone make a left. The maintenance man is a friend of mine and he sat with me in the lobby. We had to keep the doors open and plugged in a fan to be able to stand it. There were police cars going up and down the street with their lights on and they would shine a spotlight into the parking lots on occasion. We were a little nervous when we had to siphon gas out of his motor home for the generator and we had a good laugh but no police came by. The gas stations that can pump gas are few and far between and the lines are long, long, long. Personally, I decided not to wait. I have some gas for the lawn mower I can put in my car if I have to, but I think power is finally coming back on. At least in Saint Cloud. They are saying it could be 5 to 7 days for Kissimmee.

Our house was without power from Friday at about 4 pm until Sunday at 12:10 pm. I know exactly what time because I couldn't have been happier about it. It is absolutely miserable in Florida with no A/C (and no fans). At least for me it is, and with no power I had no water to take a shower. I went to work early and took a shower in a room just so I could stand myself. At least for 5 minutes. I took another shower before I left. Irma and the kids went to her mother's house because she had power there but it is too far from work for me.

I will try to get pictures of the damage to some hotels. I work at night so it's not too easy.

Uh oh, power just went out again. Better shut down. I hope this isn't long.

This streamlined caterpillar made it through the storm OK.

James is sweeping up the leaves.

This is pretty much the damage at my house. A couple of trees broke off at the upper part of the trunk but none uprooted. There are leaves everywhere, this picture doesn't show it. I usually park my car under some trees for shade but today I noticed there is no more shade.

This is 2 blocks from my house. It was a carport and it blew up and over the top of the building. This is the other side.

This is not my house. This is 2 blocks from my house.

"When a well-packaged web of lies
has been sold gradually to the masses over
generations, the truth will seem
utterly preposterous and its
speaker a raving lunatic."

Dresden James

It's Over, Goodbye Charley

Before the hurricane reached us we had a couple of feeder bands that really kicked out some lightning. The first one was about the 2pm hour and woke me up, mostly because it suddenly got windy and knocked down something from the window sill. Later, it rained hard and the wind roared, lasting about 3 hours. The trees were being whipped to a frenzy and there are 3 or 4 branches down. We didn't lose any trees. The side of the car is plastered with leaves. I tried to take some pictures but it is too dark.

The eye passed just west of us. We lost power early, just as I was about to put some chicken in the oven. Oh well. I hope the power comes back on soon but power seems to have been lost all over the Orlando area so it might be a while. On the news they said 2 or 3 days. I hope they are exaggerating. It's hot. There doesn't seem to have been any major damage in the Orlando area but of course it will have to wait until the sun comes up to really be able to tell.

Our house seemed to be in a bubble and we were not buffeted by the wind the way I thought we would be. I never for a moment felt as though the wind even hit the house directly. No shaking, no noise from the house. We had the front window open and it was relatively calm at the window. Go out about 5 feet and the wind was scary. There was no driving rain hitting any of our windows but it was very bad beyond our house. The yard is a mess.

We kept hearing the cows complaining about the storm. It was hard to hear them over the roar of the storm. Irma thought maybe one got hit by a tree. I took a powerful flashlight out and they were all just laying near the fence behind our neighbors house and next to ours. They looked like nothing was happening, just chewing the cud. I tried for a picture but you can't tell what it is. I will take some pictures in the morning. I can hear the cows now. Moooo. The wind has died down to virtually nothing. If only the power would come back on it would be like nothing happened.

The kids were fine through the storm. Joshua played his Game Boy the whole time and James mostly watched. James was a little nervous, he really didn't understand what was happening, and Joshua kept telling him the house was going to fly away. I reassured him and he was amazed at the wind and the fallen branches. I told him he could help me clean them up. He likes that. He wants to ride his bike at wake up time.

That's it, it's over.

Vengeance

A Hard Look at Vengeance

What does not seem to be clearly understood in many quarters is the relationship between vengeance and justice. Justice involves "a recompense for evil, an infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like in return for an injury or other offense received," the very definition of vengeance.

Looks Like a Hurricane

Charley has changed course and is headed more directly towards the Orlando area and it's up to a cat 4 storm. Not good. I cleared the yard of anything that might blow away. We should be fine unless a tree falls on the house. I'm not too worried about that. Then again I wasn't worried we would be hit so directly either. See you on the other side (of the storm).

Swift Boat

The thing that gets me is the claim by Democrats that if the military gave the medals, it all has to be true. You mean everything in the military is on the up & up and beyond question? There aren't people in the military who use others to get ahead or who claim resonsibility for something they didn't do or deny responsiblity for something they did do? Everyone who got a medal deserved one and if someone didn't get a medal it's because they didn't deserve it?

Well, they might believe that (while they are trying to get rid of President Bush, not before and not after), but I wouldn't buy that with your money. I was in the Air force, I saw what goes on. The same things that go on in your office. The same things that go on in corporate America. There's a lot of good people in the military, there are some bad.

Most who got medals deserved them. Some who didn't get a medal should have. And some who got them had no business getting one. I know that is true. I don't know who is who and I won't go there except to say that many of those who deserved them the most, wanted them the least.

It would do America well to pay attention to what those men are saying and not ignore it. At least give it an honest listen. Are you afraid it might be true? Better to know now. My gut tells me that the Swift Boat men are closer to the truth than Kerry is. It's usually right.

Brothers band together against Kerry

I Wonder If Bin Laden Is In There?

Explorers find world's deepest hole

How Did He Figure It Out?

Did aliens save planet in 1908?

One scientist said based on his calculations, the mass of the space object headed for Earth in 1908 was nearly 1 billion tons. He believes the meteorite was blasted by the spaceship at an altitude of 10 kilometers to prevent the destruction of all humanity on the planet.

"I am fully confident and I can make an official statement that we were saved by some forces of a superior civilization," Yuri Lavbin said. "They exploded this enormous meteorite that headed towards us with enormous speed," he said. Now this great object that caused the meteorite to explode is found at last. We will continue our research, he said.

He will continue his research. You go scientist!

Pitfalls of the Couch Potato

480-Pound Woman Dies After Six Years On Couch

The headline is just the beginning.

Gayle Laverne Grinds, 40, died Wednesday, after a failed six-hour effort to dislodge her from the couch in her home. Workers say the home was filthy, and Grinds was too large to get up from the couch to even use the bathroom.

Everyone going inside the home had to wear protective gear. The stench was so powerful they had to blast in fresh air.

She was only 4'10" and 480 pounds!

Emergency workers had to remove some sliding glass doors and lift the couch, with Grinds still on it, to a trailer behind a pickup truck. Removing her from the couch would be too painful, since her body was grafted to the fabric. After years of staying put, her skin had literally become one with the sofa and had to be surgically removed.

She died at Martin Memorial Hospital South, still attached to the couch.

Who was feeding her? How could he stand it? There were kids around this? Why did this go on for so long?

I wonder what prompted the emergency call?

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

—  by Johann von Goethe, 1742-1832

Movie News

Rare German speaking Laurel and Hardy film discovered

I'd like to see that. I saw one they did in spanish.

Sony's Columbia TriStar home-video unit is releasing two Three Stooges DVDs that allow viewers to watch the original black-and-white or digitally colorized versions.

I'd like to see them too. Colorization doesn't bother me as long as the original is not lost in the process (it isn't). If they had color at the time they would have used it.

Let the Side Show Begin

A dispute over a pushcart escalated into a bloody battle when two men engaged in a "sword fight" using two-by-fours inside Home Depot, police said.

A South African boy has died more than a week after assailants hacked off his hand, ear and penis in a savage attack police suspect may be linked to the "muti" trade in body parts for witchcraft.

Twice, Glenn Rasmussen, pastor and head of the Skjærgårdsskolen at Fevik outside Grimstad, has tried to free his employees from evil spirits.

He kept on for about 10 minutes, while I didn’t know what to do, so I just stood there. I didn’t feel possessed by evil spirits, and thought there are no limits to what you are going to experience in life.

Irresponsible

Cryptic Comedy "I'm Gonna Kill the President!" to Play Somewhere in NYC, Aug. 17-Sept. 4

At the very least it's irresponsible and in poor taste, but to put up playbills all over the city that say "I'm Gonna Kill the President," leading up to and during the Republican convention, which is in the same city, and perhaps with the hope some lunatic takes it as a message from God to actually do it, is closer to criminal. It should be shut down. Don't be fooled, this is not just a coincidence or innocent prank. The left has more than it's share of deranged minds.

You've heard the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results. Communism and socialism have been tried and tried and fail miserably every time. Except of course, Cuba. That's why Floridians risk life and limb daily, desperately trying to reach her shores by any means possible to claim that wonderful paradise that is communist Cuba.

Freedom is where it's at. Freedom. Freedom to succeed and freedom to fail. Freedom. And just because you have the freedom to do something doesn't mean you should, just as the freedom to not do something doesn't mean you shouldn't. When the government makes all your decisions for you it takes away your freedom to do the right thing. When people are taxed to death they become selfish with the little money they have left. They may not even have enough to do as they want. They are less willing to give freely to charitable causes so if you are not in the good graces of the government you get next to nothing. Crumbs.

Our present tax law was not part of the constitution, is way out of control, is flawed at it's foundation and is strangling our economy.

I think I turned a corner in that post somewhere. I have a friend who became disabled and is really unable to work and earn a living (and desperately wants to!) yet social security is denying him, everyone he has gone to has denied him and he has X-rays and an MRI that prove beyond doubt the reason for his disability. A lawyer is his next move. And they raised the resort tax in my county another penny and they want to raise impact fees and property taxes and more school taxes so they can indoctinate our kids with socialist dogma and when does it end?

I'll tell you, the end is not gonna be pretty and it's coming sooner rather than later.

Eenie, Meenie, Minie, Moe

He once said, "Imagine how much we don't know because we don't want to know."

I've come to understand and see that at work in so many people, including myself. It causes discomfort, we're afraid it may force us to rethink our lives, to admit we're wrong or just wake up from the trance of our comfortable lives and take action. No, just leave me alone, everything is OK. But not making a choice is still a choice.

This is about a choice, one you're familiar with, but there is so much more you didn't know.

The Choice by Ronald L. Dart

Incredible. Well done.

Congratulations!

We're one step closer to being a third world nation.

We should be ashamed that it has come to this. And on who's side do you think international observers will fall if there is a problem. Of course Democrats want them.

Can't Argue With That

It's the War on Terrorism, Stupid!

The very important reason the war on terrorism and not the economy must have the highest priority is that if the U.S. is attacked, and attacked seriously, the economy of the United States will be in shambles. It is far more important for President Bush to protect the economy from being ruined by a terrorist attack than to nitpick over whether the economy is doing as well as it could.

The issue of the economy is unimportant if the economy is nearly destroyed by a terrorist attack. In addition to protecting you from a terrorist attack, Bush must be given credit for successfully protecting the American economy from a terrorist attack.

President Bush has successfully handled the war on terrorism and protected this country from further terrorist attack. If Kerry’s delaying policy of working through the United Nations had been followed, the terrorists would have had time to regroup and most likely would have again struck, killing many of you. Therefore, the re-election of President Bush is critical in this age of terrorism.

China, China, China

What do people in China call their good plates?

I don't know, but China is rapidly modernizing for a war with the U.S.

The Peoples Liberation Army has been following its “three-way policy” of advanced weapons acquisition.

This three-pronged strategy calls for China to gain technologically advanced weaponry through (1) imports, (2) joint (Chinese-foreign) weapons R&D, and (3) independent weapons R&D within China.

Don't read it though, if we ignore them maybe they will go away and leave us alone. And anyway, the U.N. will protect us. Right Senator Kerry?

China will have 800 missiles aimed at Taiwan by 2005

A message for China in US naval deployment

Amid a flurry of increasingly strident warnings from China over the fate of Taiwan, the commander of US military forces in Asia and the Pacific has quietly cautioned the Chinese not to miscalculate American capabilities and intentions.

Slight Return

Apparently, pouring hotsauce down your pants is an indication, nay, absolute proof, that you are possessed. Thanks Rob, I did not know that.

I can honestly say, as of the time of this posting, that I am not possessed.

Oh, the Humanity!

Environmentalists kill 30 dolphins in a fit of rage!

Oh, sorry, they weren't Republican. Nevermind.

Move over Mary

I'm mean mooove over, here comes Buddha

Shhh, don't wake him up.

Scary Monsters

Yes, it's a Chupacabra, the blood sucking animal of popular Mexican folklore, now get over it.

My Olympic Post

If you sponsor the olympics chances are pretty high I won't be buying your product because of attitudes like this.

Fans will be allowed into the Olympic complex if they are drinking Avra, a Greek mineral water owned by Coca-Cola, which paid $60 million US for the privilege of being one of the main sponsors. Officials are under orders not to let in rival brands' bottles unless the labels are removed.

Staff will also be on the lookout for T-shirts, hats and bags displaying the unwelcome logos of non-sponsors. Stewards have been trained to detect people who may be wearing merchandise from the sponsors' rivals in the hope of catching the eyes of television audiences. Those arousing suspicion will be required to wear their T-shirts inside out.

I'm all for free enterprise but give me a break.

Over Medicating

Stay calm everyone, there's Prozac in the drinking water

That's just unbelievable. The medical profession is not the answer to all your problems people. They don't know everything, even in their own narrow field of expertise. Some medications seem to do as much damage as good, they solve one problem and create two others. And what will you do when the economy collapses and you can't get the pills anymore? Can you imagine the spread of diseases that will result.

Oh yeah, that can't happen in America. We're not really at war, in fact, we're in more danger from giant tsunamis, super volcanoes and earthquakes than from silly terrorists. I'm so paranoid.

Changing Perspective

Guilty or Grateful?

I think all this comes back to the difference between guilt and gratitude. There is a segment of our society who are white and privileged and they feel guilty about it. This is one thing for a 12 year old girl, and another thing altogether for a mature adult. This segment of our society is extremely influential. The reason this is a problem is that these people don’t know God, and therefore they can’t be grateful for who they are and what they have. They blame themselves for the intractable social problems they see because they are unable to blame sin.

None of this would be such a big deal if they didn’t project their own guilt feelings onto the rest of us. They see us as a guilty society and then they set out to solve man’s problems without any help from God. And they want to drag the rest of us along with them.

They are the secular privileged class in America, the class that some people mistakenly call liberal. They aren’t really liberal. They are merely guilt ridden. They are guilt ridden because they are unable to feel grateful.

Enemies of Truth

The following was taken from an essay by Lenny Cacchio called The Truth Will Set You Free

Jesus warned us to "take heed that no one deceive you" (Matt 24:5), and surely the whole purpose of propaganda is to do just that. We must not be ignorant of the Great Deceiver's devices (II Cor. 2:11). The waste being spread today as food for thought was just as deep in Jesus' time, and Jesus saw it for what it was (John 2:23-24). He warned us not to judge by appearances, but to judge righteous judgement (John 7:24).

The enemies of Jesus knew their craft well. If the evidence witnessed against them, they would try to destroy the evidence (John 12:10).

They would combat the evidence with rumor and innuendo (Matt. 28:11-15).

They claimed their credentials trumped the facts (John 7:45-48, 9:34).

They would smear the reputation of the righteous (Matt. 12:24, John 8:41), and when all else failed, they resorted to name-calling (John 7:52).

They were masters of timing, carrying out their plots by night when the light of day could not shine on their sordid deeds (Matt 26:3-5).

If there was no evidence to support their case, they would spin the truth until right and wrong were indistinguishable (Mark 14:58-59, Matt. 26:59-62, Isaiah 5:20-23).

They refused to answer relevant questions and demanded that their accusations be accepted at face value (John 18:30).

They assembled a malleable mob, taught them a simple-minded slogan, and drove them into a frenzy (Mark 15:6-15, Acts 19:28-34).

They applied the rule of law only when it suited their purposes. And of course the ends always justify the means (John 11:49-50, 19:7).

It seems nothing has changed. Although neither party has a exclusive rights on using these tactics, it seems they were pulled directly from the Democratic Party playbook.

How Do You Get Your Mind To This Point?

When the words "Choose Life" are offensive.

They sell t-shirts that say "I had an abortion" as if it is something to be proud of.

Despite the enthusiastic support of politicians, rock musicians and movie stars, abortion still has powerful negative associations in the public mind.

Because human beings intuitively know abortion is wrong. Because the guilt and shame that come afterward is natural and they try to force people to suppress it with psychobabble and doubletalk.

Don't let them fool you.

Staple News

I took James to the doctor to get his staples removed. He was fine through the whole thing. No pain, no fear. He didn't want to lie down though. The doctor told him to lie down and he said he didn't want to. She said she couldn't reach his head if he didn't. He bowed his head down and said, "How's this?" That'll work!

Roots

Pope again stresses Europe's Christian roots

They've tried so hard to cut them up, dig them out and burn them. Will they return to them once again? Eventually, yes. At least for a while. As long as they get something out of it.

The Flying Shark

James got a stuffed shark the other day. It's about a foot and a half long and you can stick your hand under the chin like a puppet and move the mouth. It even has a scream sound effect. He's been carrying it around everywhere - it's his new favorite toy.

How does it fly? Well, we were coming home from Palm Bay the other day and James was playing quietly in the back seat. I'm driving on Hwy 192 about halfway home, 65 MPH, two cars behind me. Suddenly James is crying and screaming, "My shark is gone, my shark is gone!" I looked at him and scanned the car trying to figure out what he was talking about. He was so upset. I noticed the open window and asked if he put the shark there. " Yes."

I pulled over and let the cars pass, made a u-turn and looked desperately for the shark. Just when I thought we passed it I saw it in the middle of the road, about a foot from the center line. I pulled over again and got out. There was a semi heading straight for the shark and I didn't have time to grab it before it reached it. "Please go around it." He heard me and I picked up the shark - almost unscathed - it had a scratch on the eye. Both cars and the truck missed it. James was so happy to get it back and I was a hero.

Sharks don't fly.

Be Careful What You Ask For

The coming ‘Palestinian’ civil war?

After decades of struggle, the displaced Arabs of Gaza and the West Bank finally got their 'Palestinian self-rule'. Now there are regrets

Oh, but I thought Israel was the problem.

A Palestinian journalist told me, ''I'm not justifying the occupation, but in many ways, it was better. If I had a complaint, the Israelis would resolve it. Now, our security forces — 50,000 of 150,000 government employees — break into homes; extort money; rape wives and daughters. A revolution has been brewing for some time. If [now-Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon had not stormed onto Temple Mount (which ignited the current conflict in September 2000), there'd be a Palestinian-Palestinian intifada, not one with Israel.''

Guess not.

Sign of the Times

New book teaches you how to beat the &#%^ out of a suspected terrorist

Self-defense classes will become popular again soon.

Children Are Their Oppressors

Why the Democrats use 12-year-olds

To understand modern liberalism and its political party, it is vital to understand Democrats' desire to blur any distinctions between child and adult. Ever since the 1960s, liberalism has been largely a movement dominated by children (of every age). I enjoyed meeting Democrats last week. Many are people I would be happy to have as neighbors. But compared to Republicans, liberals and Democrats are often adults who do not wish to grow up. When George W. Bush was elected, I felt as if adults would now run the country after the adolescent-like President Clinton.

Universal Decay

Is the speed of light slower now than at the creation of the universe?

Fascinating. It wouldn't surprise me at all, scientists are always so sure of their pet theories until they learn differently. They only know what they see, there is always much more they don't know and they deny it exists until they can measure it. Throw in flawed human reasoning (is there any other kind?) and you get modern science.

Light is a physical property of this physical universe and it makes sense that it might be decaying right along with the rest of the universe. Someday we'll know.

If true, virtually all aspects of traditional physics are affected, including the presumed steady state of radioactive decay used to measure geologic time.

Extermination?

Kerry's abortion doubletalk

That's an eye opening commentary. What stands out most to me is what the founder of Planned Parenthood wrote in a letter:

We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social service backgrounds and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.

The things that a liberal can get away with are quite amazing.

What does Kerry say?

John Kerry proclaimed to ABC News and its viewers that he believes life begins at conception.

He "clarified" his statements by distinguishing human life from personhood. His position is that the unborn child is not a person according to the law. Though human, the unborn child is not protectable human life. (That's the argument the Supreme Court used in 1857 to justify slavery)

By the way, in October 1972, Kerry told the Lowell Sun, "I'm opposed to abortion."