Now go, write it before them in a tablet, and note it in a book, so that it may be for the time to come forever and ever,

that this is a rebellious people, lying sons. They are sons who will not hear the Law of Jehovah;

who say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Do not prophesy to us right things, speak to us smooth things, prophesy falsehood;

go out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

Therefore so says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rest on them;

therefore this iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a high wall, whose breaking comes suddenly, in an instant.

And He shall break it as the breaking of the potters' vessel that is broken in pieces. He shall have no pity, so that there shall not be found in the breaking of it a shard to take fire from the hearth, or to take water out of the pit.

For so says the Lord Jehovah, the Holy One of Israel, In returning and rest you shall be saved; and in quietness and hope shall be your strength. And you were not willing.

But you said, No; for we will flee on a horse. Therefore you shall flee. And you said, We will ride on the swift; therefore those who pursue you shall be swift.

One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five you shall flee, until you are left as a pole on the top of a mountain, and as a sign on a hill.

And so Jehovah waits to be gracious to you. And therefore He is exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For Jehovah is a God of judgment; blessed are all those who wait for Him.


Isaiah 30:8-18

And Jehovah said, Because this people draw near Me with their mouth, and with their lips honor Me, but have removed their heart far from Me, and their fear toward Me is taught by the command of men;

therefore, behold, I will go on doing among this people, a wonder, even a wonder. For the wisdom of their wise ones shall perish, and the understanding of their intelligent ones shall be hidden.

Woe to those who go deep to hide their purpose from Jehovah! And their works are in the dark, and they say, Who sees us? And who knows us?

O your perversity! Shall the former be counted as the potter's clay; for shall the work say of him who made it, He did not make me? Or shall the thing formed say to him who formed it, He had no understanding?


Isaiah 29:13-16

In the Power of Their Hand

Neal Boortz is one of the few who regularly rail against the powers of government taking private property from citizens, so that they will get more profit through higher taxes from another use of the land. Friday's Nealz Nuze was no different:

"I ask you today to consider a time in America when there will be no such thing as the private ownership of real estate; where the American dream of home ownership will belong to a past era. Instead of title to a parcel of real property, you'll get a license to occupy that property for a determined period of time. That license will be issued by the government, and subject to renewal on a periodic basis. Renewal will be considered based on several factors, including how you are using that land, and whether or not the license fees you pay for that usage is adequate.

Some areas of this country are closer to this reality than others. Take Connecticut, for instance. The Connecticut Supreme Court recently ruled that private ownership of land was subject to the needs of local jurisdictions for more tax revenue or a wider jobs base. If your friendly local politicians in Connecticut think that someone else could redevelop your property in such a way that it would support higher property taxes, or provide more jobs for the community, then the politicians can simply step in, seize the property, pay the current "owner" some stipend, and hand the property over to a new owner. That includes private residences.

As this attack on private property evolves in America you'll hear politicians start to talk about "public ownership of all real estate." That's the argument they use today for denying to broadcasters their private property rights in and to broadcast frequencies. Scarcity in the broadcast spectrum is used as an excuse. Scarcity? Technology is expanding available broadcast frequencies at a rapid rate. Not so for real estate. They really aren't making any more of that stuff. If you want to use scarcity as an excuse for government control, what better place than real estate?

Attacks on the private ownership of real estate are spreading. Enjoy your home while you can. Somewhere out there is a sharp developer who has his eye on your property .. and a case to make before your local politicians that he can do a better job of owning your property than you can. "

It is a despicable practice and is just another sign among many that this once great country is nearing it's end. God has something to say about it too.

Woe to those who plot wickedness and prepare evil on their beds! When the morning is light they practice it, because it is in the power of their hand.

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

So Jehovah says this: Behold, against this family I am plotting an evil from which you shall not remove your necks; nor shall you go proudly, but it is an evil time. Micah 2:1-3

Is This the Making of a New Movie?

Sea Lion Grabs Fisherman Off Boat

"The sea lion was just swimming around the boat like they do always when the boats are delivering fish,'' Ray Sr. said. And just like that, the creature - estimated about 12 feet long and between 1,200 and 1,500 pounds - leaped a half dozen or more feet out of the water and grabbed his son.

"He went over like a rag doll,'' the father told the Anchorage Daily News. "The only thing I was thinking is, that sea lion was taking off with my boy, and I'll never see him again.''

The ending is happier then you might imagine. And no, it doesn't end with the sea lion exploding.




OK, so it's not a sea lion, and the guy's not on a boat, but you can just imagine.

Finished the Car

NAPA (actually Henry's Machine Shop) did a great job on the rotors. I picked up some Bendix Ceramic brake pads and the installation went fast. They are high quality break pads and the car never stopped so well. Irma noticed the difference immediately. Now I'm beat, it's been a long day. I get to sleep tonight.

I've been watching and listening to various talk show and news programs talking about John Kerry refusing to apologize to President Bush and, in fact, reinforcing what he said. All I can say is the division of this country is only going to get worse. How anyone can actually want him to be President is completely beyond me. I can't see it. It's as if those people are on a totally different planet. Pluto, or something.

We Had A Good Morning

I had to take Irma to work today so I could change the front brake pads on her car. On the way back James and I stopped at the park at Lake Toho. They are doing a drawdown and the water level is very low. We walked around the shore a bit until James noticed the playground, then he took off at high speed straight for it. He played for about an hour or so with some other, smaller kids and had lots of fun. He didn't want to go home. Unfortunately, we had to. Driving along the shore I noticed an alligator swimming close to shore. We stopped and looked for a few minutes. It wasn't too close, we were in no danger, but it's highly unusual to see them in this area during the day. We got back in the car and at the north end I saw another, larger gator. We stopped again and watched it for a while. It looked to be around 10 feet long and people were fishing on the pier very close to it. It must be because of the low water that the gators are so visable now. They usually shy away from any human activity.

We got home and I took her brakes apart. I took the rotors to Advance Discount Auto Parts only to find out they no longer turn rotors. Hmmm. That means I didn't buy the other parts I needed from them either. Their loss. I took them to NAPA instead. NAPA is good but the machine shop at this location is incredibly messy. They have car parts laying all over the place and you can hardly move in there. They would have them done in an hour and a half. I'm waiting now.

Say It Isn't So

'Scary John Kerry' lying to Americans?

Canada - a Socialists Paradise

Canadian Official: Human Remains May Be in Meat

"Human remains may have been in meat processed for human consumption at a pig farm that has been the site of an extensive investigation into Canada's worst serial killing case, British Columbia's provincial health officer said Wednesday."

Wait a minute. A serial killer? In Canada? That can't be true, Canada has outlawed guns. How did he kill them, with a knife? How barbaric!

"Many of the victims vanished from Vancouver's drug-infested downtown eastside. In all, 31 women have been confirmed dead in the case."

What are you talking about? Vancouver has a drug-infested section? How could that be? Everyone in Canada should be naturally high from the good fortune of living under a wonderful socialist government that takes care of their every need. Who would want to escape that?

"When asked if cross-contamination meant human remains found their way into meat processed at the farm, Kendall said: "It's very disturbing to think about, but (there is) the possibility of some cross-contamination. But the degree of it or when or how much we really don't know."

Now that's just disgusting.

Speaking of Knives

After banning guns didn't have quite the effect they thought it would (people are so inventive), the all-knowing psychotic socialist government in Victoria is now banning swords, knives, and other weapons.

"From July 1, swords will be made prohibited weapons, making it illegal to use, possess or carry a sword."

Also, in the Autumn 2000 session of Parliament, new legislation was passed to restrict the sale and possession of knives and other weapons.

The next step is banning rocks and prohibiting clenched fists, or perhaps banning hands altogether as they could be used to strangle someone. If you cut the hands off when the baby tissue is still in the womb ...

They Want RU-486 Available Over-the-Counter

Swedish Woman Dies of Abortion Drug RU-486

"The woman, over seven weeks pregnant, reportedly chose to have an RU 486 abortion. One week after meeting with the gynecologist, she returned to the hospital to take three 200 mg Mifegyne pills. Two days later she returned and received two 0,2 mg pills of Cytotec (Misoprostol).

The government report indicates she was administered the drugs at 8:25 am. She was reported to have been very tired, felt sick and slept most of the time. Bleeding started in the afternoon at 3 pm and the patient received pain medication. At 4:30 pm the patient was able to return home after a "big blob" had "come out". A follow-up visit for one month later was scheduled as she left the hospital.

Two days later a nurse tried to contact the woman by phone, but failed. Six days later, the woman was found dead in her home. The country coroner's report concluded that she had died as a result of blood loss following a chemically induced abortion. The government report said, "A young woman bled to death as a direct consequence of the treatment."

The abortion pill has been the cause of numerous deaths around the world. Legalized in the United States in September 2000 the pill has been responsible for the deaths of at least four women in North America, most recently 18-year-old Holly Patterson. In 5-8 percent of cases, RU-486 causes severe complications. Danco, the drug's manufacturer, has reported at least 400 adverse events since RU-486 was approved in the U.S."

But it would be so convenient, that's an acceptable loss. Just think of all the babies fetal tissue we could kill save from having to live a miserable life under President election stealing liar Bush.

What Was She Thinking?

Gator Goes for Ride on Fla. School Bus

The alligator was spotted as it crossed the road in front of the bus, said passenger Wilfredo Santiago, 14, who asked the driver to stop.

At first she refused, but a group of boys talked her into letting them off about 40 miles northeast of Tampa. Four boys ran off the bus, found the alligator hiding in a hole and used sticks to prod the animal out. A fifth student gave them a roll of electrical tape from the bus to bind the alligator's jaws.

The gator was hauled onto the bus and off again at the home of two boys. Their father Jimmy Scroggins came home to find a crowd of kids around the calm alligator.

Why would she let kids get off a school bus, catch an alligator and bring it on board? Especially considering it's illegal to mess with gators.

I'm a Servant

James spilled a little orange juice on the kitchen floor and started walking off. I told him, "Get over here and clean that up, what do I look like?" His response? "A servant." A servant? Where did he learn that from? We had a good laugh - then he cleaned the mess. I'm not his servant.

Welcome to the Jungle

Birdwatchers from all over Britain who gathered in Grimsby to catch sight of a rare American robin were horrified to see her eaten by a passing sparrowhawk.

This is Your Brain on Drugs

This woman tried to buy $1671.55 in merchandise at Walmart with a One Million Dollar bill.

Martha, Martha, Martha

I'm not a big Martha Stewart fan and I've wished The Food Network would stop running her program before any of this ever happened because it doesn't quite fit in. But I have to agree with Joseph Farah on this one: Free Martha Stewart. There are far worse white collar criminals out there (and in the government) - free, fat and happy - get them first.

Outside the courtroom, U.S. Attorney David Kelley said all Americans were victims of Stewart because lies to investigators weaken the nation's law enforcement system.

I hope he was joking. We have judges in this country making up laws. We have judges enforcing unconstitutional orders. We have government officials breaking the law with impunity. Chaos is reigning in the streets of America because of government law-breaking, lies and deceit. So, to set an example, a government prosecutor pursues – at a cost of over $10 million to the taxpayers – this nothing case against Martha Stewart to plaudits of those who relish class warfare.

"When we first indicted this case, we said it was about lies, all about lies," Kelley said. "As you saw in the evidence, that's what it was."

Yes, that's all it was.

Now, I don't like liars, but let's face it: Nobody lies nearly as much as government officials. They lie. They steal. They defraud the American public on a daily basis. Lying to them shouldn't be a crime, it should be a constitutional requirement.

Dennis Prager

Dennis Prager wrote San Francisco and the Islamists: Fighting the same enemy, in which he states that America is under attack from within (secular extremism) and from without (Islamic extremism). Very true. Different enemies, different tactics and different aims, ultimately, but both want to overthrow the Judeo-Christian culture.

He had to defend his position in a second column: Who supports same-sex marriage?. Both are worth a read.

"So, for the record, I consider the great majority of supporters of same-sex marriage to be thoroughly decent people, and the great majority of supporters of Islamic terror to be loathsome.

But the fact that most supporters of same-sex marriage are thoroughly decent people with loving intentions, as opposed to supporters of Islamic terror who are filled with hate and love death, in no way denies my premise that both are waging war against Judeo-Christian civilization. And that was the subject of my article.

Any further insinuation that I morally equate the people who support same-sex marriage with those who engage in or support Muslim terror is either deliberate distortion or an indication of an inability to think critically."

Fruitcakes

Here's a must-read article by Mark Steyn: Beware of the fruitcakes in government.

"Well, I'm a conservative, and I don't need any qualifying adjectives. My objection isn't to the deficit, it's to the big wasteful government programmes that lead to the deficit. If the Dems wanted to balance the budget by cutting the spending, I'd be the first to dance up and down shaking my pom-poms. But they don't. They want to balance the budget by raising taxes, which is no help either way. I think deficits are morally neutral. If I go to the bank and ask them for a loan to buy a house, they'll look kindly on me. If I ask for a loan because I fancy a three-in-a-bed sex romp with two high-class hookers, they'll suggest I wait till I get my Christmas bonus. The portion of the deficit caused by Iraqi reconstruction is analogous to the house loan. Most of the rest - Bush's prescription drug plan for pampered seniors, the mohair subsidy, funding for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland - is analogous to the hooker blow-out. This spending has no plausible claim on the Federal Treasury: it would be objectionable even if Bill Gates personally wrote a cheque to cover the entire deficit. It's the expansion of the state that's wrong. The funding of it is secondary.

Which brings us to foreign policy. This last week has offered studies in two approaches to nation building. In Iraq, an interim constitution was signed yesterday. It's not perfect, though it's a good deal less imperfect than the European constitution and for the Middle East it's a remarkable document. But it's amazing to me the way the western media interpret disagreements as a bad sign. Wouldn't it be a worse sign if there were no disagreements? If Bush just faxed over the final draft and everyone signed it? The haggling and the stalemates and the trade-offs are the healthy sign.

By comparison, consider Haiti. John Kerry, in quite the most stupid observation of his campaign, insisted that Bush should have sent in the troops to Haiti to prop up President Aristide - or "Father Aristide", as Kerry likes to call him, defrocking notwithstanding - because the Holy Father was "democratically elected". After a fashion. But so what? Charles Taylor, the recently retired head wacko of Liberia, was also democratically elected. The tinpot thugs of the world have got very good at being just democratic enough to pass muster: they kill a lot of people, they hold an election for the benefit of the IMF, and then, when the international observers are gone, they pick up the machetes and resume where they left off. The problem in Haiti is that the necessary conditions for civil society don't exist. Fetishising Aristide's "election" appeals to Kerry's reflexive belief that government is the be all and end all. But it isn't."

It was a pleasant surprise to run across this article.

Give Him What He Wants

Aristide Defiant, to Sue US, France, Over Kidnapping

Fly him back to Haiti, bring him to his office, get back on the plane and leave. No problem.

Surprise, Surprise, Surprise!

Are U.S. senators real 'inside traders'? Study shows stock portfolios outperform market by 12%

"The results clearly support the notion that members of the Senate trade with a substantial informational advantage over ordinary investors," said Alan Ziobrowski of the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University, who wrote the report.

"The results suggest senators knew when to buy their common stocks and when to sell," concluded Ziobrowski.

A separate study in 2000, covering 66,465 U.S. households from 1991 to 1996 showed the average household's portfolio underperformed the market by 1.44 percent a year.

Corporate insiders (defined as senior executives) usually outperform by about 5 percent.

Thus, it would seem the real insiders are elected officials who not only have access to information that could impact companies, but also the ability to shape that information.

How do you like that? U.S. Senators outperform corporate insiders by more than double. But...

But don't try to emulate your senator's stock transactions for your own advantage. Under their own rules, they are not required to disclose their transactions until the middle of the following year. So, therefore, there's no way you can mimic what they're doing.

Take that, America.

This Is Outrageous

Women forced to have abortions?

According to RPI, William P. Egherman, who has performed more than 10,000 abortions and been addicted to alcohol and opiates, began the procedure by attempting to dilate the woman's cervix.

But the woman had a change of heart.

"My God, you're hurting me" the woman began to scream. "You're killing me, I'll never be able to have babies. ... Stop!"

But Egherman ignored the pleas and screams and called for assistance from clinic workers who held the woman down as he continued to dilate her cervix.

Then he entered the victim with a pair of forceps -- "the bear" Ehgerman called them -- and began probing and pulling. He mistakenly pulled out part of the woman's intestines.

Sapp, who represented the woman, said she described it as like being drawn and quartered.

When he realized what he had done, Egherman heavily sedated the woman then he called for an ambulance.

But he instructed the ambulance to come slowly, without lights or sirens, to give him "time to pack the woman with gauze."

Egherman said he also was worried his regular flow of business would be interrupted by "all the hoopla."

"Saturday's our big day," he explained, "and I didn't want to generate … any more confusion, any more panic than was already present at the time. She was loud, and as I said, she was shrill, and there were a lot of patients who were hearing what was going on, and the normal rhythm of the day was interrupted. The other patients must have been terrified, and I didn't want the ambulance showing up with all the lights and sirens. …"

I thought "no" meant "no."

In Conclusion

There were alot of interesting things in the news tonight. Things have been slow and boring (to me) lately. James was out playing in the dirt again Monday (don't tell Irma), it seems to be his favorite thing to do. He plays with his cars and plastic animals and stays there quietly for a long time. He left them out there and remembered when it was getting dark. I went out with him to pick them up and on the way back we heard the bulls bellowing. He went over to say good night to them with a little elephant in his hand (he also said he wanted to play with them - No cowboy, you're not playing with bulls) while I put the bag of animals in the house. I went back out to get him, he said good night and started running, but dropped the elephant in the grass. By this time it was too dark to see it, but he HAD to have that elephant tonight. I don't have any good flashlights because the kids always play with them and the batteries are dead. James has a little tiger flashlight with weak batteries so we used that and spent 5 or 10 minutes looking but with no luck. I had been telling him to wait until tomorrow so we can see but he insisted on getting it tonight. Just when I decided we would definitely wait until tomorrow, Irma came home. James told her what happened and she laughed at us (and me for not having a flashlight), but she remembered she had one in the car and two seconds later James had his elephant.

Chess is Rascist

Learning algebra through chess

"By saying that white automatically is offensive, it states that white is better than black," Ware said.

His idea is to remove color superiority in chess by focusing the game on variables. He calls his new way of chess "Algebra Chess" paralleling it to The Algebra Project by Robert Moses.

In Algebra Chess, Bill Ware plans on removing color superiority by allowing the pieces to either be the same or different colors such as red, blue, green, etc. The determining factor on who moves first depends on what square the queen sits on.

Chess is played on a grid and each square has a variable of A-H, and a number of 1-8.

According to Ware, whichever queen sits on the square D-1, that is the team that moves first. This way, nether color has priority or an inherent right to move first.

First of all, there's no rascism in chess - you have to be rascist to see and be so concerned with seeing rascism in every little little thing that has the colors black and white in it. I suppose pianos are rascist, too? Do you see the rascism in the way newspapers are printed?

Second, why all the complexity to see who goes first? Who determines, and how, who sits in front of the D-1 square? Anyway, you can solve the whole thing by flipping a coin to determine who goes first - it's no big deal.


Third, if it is supposed to be a way to teach algebra, fine, just do that and leave the rascist teaching out of it.

Hatred

Hatred seems to be the emotion of the decade and the amount and intensity seems to be growing more each day. Whatever happened to peaceful protests? Alan Dershowitz ran into a little hatred at Faneuil Hall in Boston.

"One sign carrier shouted that Jews who support Israel are worse than Nazis. Another demanded that I be tortured and killed. It wasn't only their words; it was the hatred in their eyes. If a dozen Boston police were not protecting me, I have little doubt I would have been physically attacked. Their eyes were ablaze with fanatical zeal.

Look familiar? Scroll down to see the picture.

That is what I saw: passionate hatred, ecstatic hatred, orgasmic hatred. It was beyond mere differences of opinion. When I looked into their faces, I could imagine young Nazis in the 1930s in Hitler's Germany. They had no doubt that they were right and that I was pure evil for my support of the Jewish state, despite my public disagreement with some of Israel's policies and despite my support for Palestinian statehood. There was no place for nuance here. It was black and white, good versus evil, and any Jew who supported Israel was pure evil, deserving of torture, violence, and whatever fate Hitler and Goebbels deserved."

There will be alot more to come. The hatred is not going anywhere soon. Don't get caught up in it.

And then many will be offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another Matthew 24:10

And we have a problem with our judges and other government officials ignoring the laws of our country instead of upholding them.

And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold. Matthew 24:12

Busy Night

This has been the busiest night I've had in a while here at work. No time to sit down. Hopefully I get to sleep Sunday - meaning Irma takes the kids to her Mother's house. I'm not counting on it. Saturday was a gorgeous day and I picked a few bags of grapefruit from my friends tree. I just finished 3 bags of them and they were great for juicing. I squeezed one today and got a full, large mug of juice from it. They are very sweet. I didn't know grapefruit could taste so good. I had been drinking apple cider but it is getting hard to find now and the grapefruit is healthier anyway because it is not pasturized. And you can't beat the price.

And even as they did not think fit to have God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do the things not right, being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; being full of envy, murder, quarrels, deceit, evil habits, becoming whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, insolent, proud, braggarts, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, undiscerning, perfidious, without natural affection, unforgiving, unmerciful; who, knowing the righteous order of God, that those practicing such things are worthy of death, not only do them, but have pleasure in those practicing them. Romans 1:28-32

This is a nation which does not obey the voice of the Lord their God, nor receives instruction; truth has perished, and is cut off from their mouth. Jeremiah 7:28

No, You Can't Do That

James put his feet on the bottom strand of the barbed wire fence and grabbed the top strand with his hands and was bouncing up and down as he turned to me and asked, " Dad, can I do this?" No! ... It did look like fun though.

What's So Great About A Dictator?

Democrats and dictators

"Last week is a case study in liberal support for dictators. First, it was none other than Saddam Hussein. Despite numerous reports of the Iraqi dictator's bloody atrocities, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton felt it necessary to speak up on his behalf -- commending his treatment of women!

Could Mrs. Rodham be unaware of the mass graves containing the bodies of thousands of Iraqi women and their children, documented by Fox News and others? Is she oblivious of reports showing that during Saddam's reign of terror, more than 200 women were beheaded and their families were forced to display their severed skulls on stakes in front of their homes? Hasn't the junior senator from New York heard of the thousands of women who were raped by members of Saddam's family and the Iraqi security services? How did she miss the photos and videotape of Iraqi women and girls who had been singled out for beatings and torture with hot branding?

But maybe those things don't matter to Clinton. In a speech to the Brookings Institute last week, she described Saddam as "an equal opportunity oppressor," and then went on to lament the heady days under his watch when Iraqi women "went to school, they participated in the professions, they participated in government and business." "And," this liberal champion of women's rights pointed out, "as long as (Iraqi women) stayed out of (Saddam's) way, they had considerable freedom of movement."

Mrs. Rodham went on to condemn the U.S.-lead coalition efforts to build democracy overnight in Iraq. But, she praised the United Nations' 12-year-long attempts to "nurture democratic movements" in the Balkans, something she defended as a "time-taking task." She failed to mention that the Balkan operation costs more than $1.5 billion per year. "

In Liberal-speak, dictators can do no wrong, there's always an excuse for their actions or a "but" attached to their condemnation of any violence done by dictators. George Bush is the personification of evil to them and they live a lie. Their imaginations and fantasies, their delusions, are real to them. Their minds are closed to truth, they don't see the world as it is, only as they imagine it should be.

Have I therefore become your enemy because I tell you the truth? Galations 4:16

You cannot talk sense into them, you cannot reason with them. They are on a mission and the truth does not matter to them. More and more people in the world are becoming like this. They have a goal, world government, and they believe when mankind finally creates this perfect world government - all will be well, peace will reign, just like on Star Trek. Of course, Islamists have a slightly different view of that world government but that will settle itself. There is no room in their minds for that clutter.

Not that the conservative side will bring true peace to the world or even the country. The truth is the world is caught in a vortex it cannot get itself out of and it will culminate in nuclear world war. That world war has most likely already started, slowly at first, almost imperceivable to a denying world.

For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been since the beginning of the world until this time, no, nor ever shall be. Matthew 24:21

You can believe it or not believe it, it makes absolutely no difference, short of national repentence (fat chance), it will still happen.

There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death. Proverbs 14:12

That is so very, very true. Mankind will not bring peace to the earth, no communist, no socialist, no Islamist, no dictator, no democracy, no republic, no capitalist, no king or queen, no human being, and no, not even the Pope, ever. God will have to step out of His dimension into our own, stop all human activity, and set up His government to replace all human governments, with Jesus Christ as the literal King of the earth. He qualified about 2000 years ago to take that throne from it's present occupant, who has the earth set up as he wants it - disorganized and chaotic. That present occupant is the original rebel and conspiritor and the father of lies, Satan.

Symbols

A Woman Rides The Beast Symbols In Europe

Fascinating, considering this: Who, What is the "Beast" of Revelation?

Liberal Enigma

I found this piece by Ann Coulter interesting: The Passion of the Liberal

As I understand it, the dangerous religion is the one whose messiah instructs: "If one strikes thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also" and "Love your enemies ... do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that persecute and calumniate you." The peaceful religion instructs: "Slay the enemy where you find him." (Surah 9:92).

Imitating the ostrich-like posture of certain German Jews who ignored the growing danger during Hitler's rise to power, today's liberals are deliberately blind to the real threats of violence that surround us. Their narcissistic self-image requires absolute solicitude toward angry savages plotting acts of terrorism. The only people who scare them are the ones who worship a Jew.

For the mystery of lawlessness is already working, only he is now holding back until it comes out of the midst. And then the lawless one will be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the breath of His mouth and shall destroy with the brightness of His coming, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders, and with all deceit of unrighteousness in those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, so that they might be saved. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie, so that all those who do not believe the truth, but delight in unrighteousness, might be condemned. 2 Thessalonians 2:7-12

There's alot of strong delusion going around these days.

Speaking of Strong delusion

K-12 academy hosts 'Queer State of the Union'

"One thing I'm starting to notice in the last year or two … which is really, really cool, not just at Crossroads, but other places, that it's becoming more and more OK for people who are probably largely toward the straight end of the spectrum to really think about, 'You know, maybe I'm bisexual,'" he said in an interview segment on the Queer Youth website.

Behrman said the response is "not from a, 'Oh, it's trendy to be bi,' but really thinking, like, well, 'OK, maybe I don't have to limit myself … what am I shutting myself off to?'"

Car Update

I replaced the alternator and charged the battery - that solved the problem. I'm driving again. I knew the alternator was going bad but it worked most of the time and I didn't want to spend the money so I put it off. I know better.

What is Truth?

The Omission of the Christ

"If the Arab claim is true that they have always been the historic presence in "Palestine", as the world body has readily accepted (since they are de facto forcing the creation of an Arab Palestinian state), it raises important questions about the story of Jesus, the origin of the Jews and the very foundations of Western civilization."

Some Days You Just Want to Scream

I stopped at Walmart on the way home from work and my car wouldn't start again. I thought at first it was the battery but it turned out to be the starter. AAA towed it home and I replaced the starter - it worked, but I lost any chance of sleeping because I had to take Irma to work so I could use her car. On my way to work tonight, only 1 mile from home, the car completely died. It was as if the battery was not connected. I pulled over into a parking lot and Irma came and got me so I could get to work. Now I have to sit here all night thinking about what is wrong with the car but not be able to do anything. I think I know. The battery was very hot and I believe it was caused by a bad alternator (the voltage fluctuated high and low before this happened, I should have went home). The only thing I don't know is if there is a main fuse that protects this circuit. It was so dark I couldn't see anything. Most cars have a main fuse but I don't remember ever seeing one on this car. If not, the battery is shot and maybe some wiring as well. Please let there be a fuse. I can replace the alternator in 10 minutes and be on my way. I really don't need a bigger problem right now.

Much Later

Saturday we took James to Animal Kingdom for the first time. He liked some things and didn't like others. We went on the Dinosaur ride - he didn't like that. Bugs Life - he didn't want to wear the 3D glasses and didn't really like it. He liked the train ride and the safari and he liked climbing on the rocks. During the parade I put him on the base of a lamp post so he could see. He watched the whole thing but he wasn't real excited about it. Oh, and he liked the petting zoo. That's about it. My thought during most of the day was how lame it was considering the admission price is over $50.00 per person for one day, but we got a Florida resident 4-day special, so...

We went to the Magic Kingdom about 4:30, I thought he would enjoy that more. He loved the monorail. He got to feed a friendly duck that came right up to him and took the food from his fingers. This place was more crowded than Animal Kingdom. We went on the Mississippi paddle boat cruise, which he liked. He liked the carousel - went on it twice. Snow White he hated. Peter Pan was a 65 minute wait - no way is it worth it. Haunted Mansion - hated. We went on the Teacups and he really liked them. That's about all we did, we had to go because Irma wasn't feeling good. I haven't been there in a long time because it's not worth the money or time spent. Disney has lost it's way and it's magic to the bottom line (and Eisner). Overall it was a good day though. We were exhausted when we got home.

I was up early Sunday with the kids and we had a birthday party for James so I wasn't allowed to sleep. I still haven't caught up on sleep and won't be able to until Thursday night. James does not take a nap anymore. I put him in bed for a nap but he doesn't fall asleep. If he doesn't sleep, I can't sleep.

James Is 4 Today

Today is James' birthday! Four years old, time flies! We're taking him to Animal Kingdom for the day, he's never been there before. More later.

The Love Of The Truth

The love of the truth means you love being hurt, you love being let down. You love being disappointed, because the truth will hurt you, it will let you down, it will disappoint you. Especially the truth about other human beings, the truth about human action, human activity, human deeds. It will hurt, it will cut, and the truth about yourself will hurt and cut more deeply even than the truth about other human beings. Most of us have difficulty facing the truth about others, especially others we love or others we respect, but most of find it utterly impossible to face the truth about ourselves. - Garner Ted Armstrong 1930-2003

Some people don't want to be commanded to do anything. If God commanded them to stay alive, I think they'd commit suicide just to show Him they could do it. - Garner Ted Armstrong 1930-2003

It's Free, It's Really Free!

Click here to receive your very own Windows Security update CD. It's good for Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and Windows 98 Second Edition (SE). It contains critical updates released through Oct 2003. Did I say it was FREE! It will save you alot of time if you ever reinstall your operating system and only have a dialup connection to download updates. Thank you Scobleizer for pointing the way.

Speaking of reinstalling Windows: Mom, don't forget about this. Her hard drive crashed on her Dell computer - Dell sent someone to replace it, and that's all he did. He replaced it but did not reinstall the operating system. I think Dell should have left her with a computer set up as she bought it - it was only about six months old. She's no techie. So much for Dell, I guess you grow so much and start leaving your customers in the lurch.

NY Times Reviews "The Passion"

After reading this review I just wanted to comment on a couple of points he made.

"The Passion of the Christ" is so relentlessly focused on the savagery of Jesus' final hours that this film seems to arise less from love than from wrath, and to succeed more in assaulting the spirit than in uplifting it. Mr. Gibson has constructed an unnerving and painful spectacle that is also, in the end, a depressing one. It is disheartening to see a film made with evident and abundant religious conviction that is at the same time so utterly lacking in grace.

Mel Gibson chose to focus on the final hours of the life of Jesus Christ and His death was incredibly gruesome and brutal. So if you want to be honest telling the story, why whitewash it? It also speaks of the brutality of the Romans and the desperation of the religious leaders of the day to be rid of a thorn in their side - which was actually a reflection of the brutality and desperation of Satan, who tried to cause Jesus Christ to fail in His mission. Satan never relented and took full advantage of his chance to cause Jesus to sin right up to the end, by any means he could.

"Mr. Gibson has departed radically from the tone and spirit of earlier American movies about Jesus, which have tended to be palatable (if often extremely long) Sunday school homilies designed to soothe the audience rather than to terrify or inflame it."

Jesus Christ did not come to "soothe" the world. "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword. Matthew 10:34 He drove the religious leaders to a frenzy many times (the same would happen today, whether Christian or Jew) and they often tried to kill Him - He could get lost in a crowd because He looked like any ordinary Jew of His day. His message cuts to the core of your being and causes EXTREME discomfort. Human beings don't like to admit they are wrong. Jesus Christ was NEVER politally correct. For the most part, the gospel you hear preached is a gospel about Jesus Christ, but you seldom hear the message, the Good News, Jesus brought.

For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12

Further reading:

The Real Jesus

The Real Reasons Why Christ Came To This Earth

God's Message for US, Today


Kids and Toy Guns

Ravenwood is right about that.

Yellow Leaves

James noticed the leaves were changing color today. He picked up some that were red and some yellow - he was delighted. In case you are wondering it's only just recently that the leaves have changed and have been falling - in large numbers anyway. Florida is like that. I raked some leaves into a big pile for him to play in and he loved it. He told me he lost one of his toys so I took the rake and found it for him. His friend, Cindal, came over to play for a while. He was sad when she had to go.

We went to pick up Joshua and when we came back he wanted to play outside again. I sat on the porch and read a book while he played, it was a gorgeous day. About an hour went by and I began looking at the tree he was playing under. It was almost devoid of leaves and I remembered how it used to be so green and alive. I noticed something move. A squirrel? No, too big. I looked closer but couldn't make it out. I got up and walked under the tree and saw a raccoon sitting on a branch trying, I guess, to sleep. Lately we've noticed a family of raccoons wandering around but I've never seen just one alone. I think maybe he got stuck up there when we came home and couldn't get down because James was playing under him. I don't know. I made sure James understands that raccoons are dangerous and to stay away from them.

In the morning James and I admired a big tom turkey strutting around the yard trying to impress all the girls. He impressed us. That's a beautiful bird when they're strutting around like that. It was a good day for watching the animals.

It's Not Over

Russia Says New Missile Will Beat Any U.S. Defenses

Russia has developed ballistic missile technology that can outwit any defensive system, a top Russian general said on Thursday, in a clear challenge to the United States' planned $50 billion anti-missile shield.

A Quiz

I found this through the Daily Dish. It's the Yankee or Dixie quiz. I scored 52% dixie. I guess that makes sense, I grew up in New Jersey and lived in Japan, Texas and Florida. I really hate the term yankee though, I don't hear it much here in Florida (although I've occasionally met someone obsessed with the whole yankee/southerner thing, and I do mean obsessed, like can't stop talking about it) but in Texas it was soooo annoying. It's always said in a denigrating fashion, at least that's what it sounded like to me. I guess I just really don't care where someone is from.

Here's a list of dialect maps.

Health Food

Remember when I posted about the guy who ate only McDonald's for a month and how sick he got? That's not just McDonald's, alot of the food we eat is pretty much "manufactured" and really not all that healthy, especially fast food.

On the way home from picking up Joshua he said he wanted to eat his snack, reached into his bookbag and pulled out a little container of mashed potatoes from Popeye's Chicken. I really hadn't concerned myself with Joshua's school, that's Irma's thing, but I didn't realize the lunches were all from local fast food establishments. Pizza Hut, Chick Fila (whatever), Popeye's, Subway, and some Chinese place. That's what they're feeding the kids these days. I knew the government schools were doing that but Joshua is in a private school. Last year his school wasn't doing that. You're much better off packing a lunch.

Blame It On New Jersey

A Little Secret About Bottled Water

It's rough enough that the millions of Americans who buy bottled water are paying for something that used to basically be free. But even harder to stomach is the message that comes on the bottle: Like milk and eggs, water now "expires."

But does water really spoil? Despite the labels reminding consumers to drink up, there is virtually no evidence that drinking water beyond the expiration date has any health impact at all. The Food and Drug Administration considers bottled water to have an "indefinite shelf life." Even the bottled-water industry is hard-pressed to justify the labels.

Why New Jersey?

To some degree, the fact that bottled water carries expiration dates can be blamed on New Jersey, the only state that officially requires it. That regulation dates back to 1987, though it's not completely clear what prompted it. The New Jersey Department of Health and Senior Services says only that: "The intent of the law was to protect the safety and quality of drinking water."

The Guest That Wouldn't leave

Law slanted in favor of unwelcome guests In Florida at least.

"They tell me I can't just put him out," she said. "I have no say-so about who's in my house. It's like I'm not the head of household in my own house. He is the ruler."

If it got as bad as some of the stories in this article I think I would just let the house burn.

A Glimpse of the Truth

PA leader: Israel has no right to exist

Nasser asserted Israel cannot exist "among human beings" because it was "founded on the basis of robbery, terror, killing, torture, assassination, death, stealing land and killing people," reported Palestinian Media Watch.

Apparently it doesn't exist "among human beings."

TKO?

Semicolon keeps same-sex marriages going 2nd judge delays ruling, cites punctuation error in plaintiff's petition

The Proposition 22 Legal Defense and Education Fund asked the judge to order the city to "cease and desist issuing marriage licenses to and/or solemnizing marriages of same-sex couples; to show cause before this court."

Warren said the petition should have an "or" where the semicolon is placed.

"I am not trying to be petty here, but it is a big deal," he told the group's attorneys, concluding, "I don't have the authority to issue it under these circumstances."

The United States, as founded, is broken beyond repair. This is not the government set up by our forefathers. If they were alive today they would lead another revolution. Our Judges have no respect for the rule of law, they don't really even pretend to anymore, and the congress are collaborators with them. It's all about them and what they want. The U.S. is far from the worst nation in this respect but: Luke 12:48 For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required;

Isaiah 1:4 Alas, sinful nation, A people laden with iniquity, A brood of evildoers, Children who are corrupters! They have forsaken the Lord, They have provoked to anger The Holy One of Israel, They have turned away backward. 5 Why should you be stricken again? You will revolt more and more. The whole head is sick, And the whole heart faints. 6 From the sole of the foot even to the head, There is no soundness in it, But wounds and bruises and putrefying sores; They have not been closed or bound up, Or soothed with ointment.

This is what is coming, as hard as it is to believe:

Isaiah 1:7 Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers. 8 So the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, As a hut in a garden of cucumbers, As a besieged city. 9 Unless the Lord of hosts Had left to us a very small remnant, We would have become like Sodom, We would have been made like Gomorrah.

Interestingly, Saddam thought of himself as the ressurected Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon. Ancient Babylon was in Iraq. He wanted to rebuild Babylon, take control af the Arab world and it's oil, destroy Israel and eventually control the world. But God had said the city of Babylon would never rise again and He used the U.S. to take Saddam down.

Jeremiah 51:5 For Israel is not forsaken, nor Judah, By his God, the Lord of hosts, Though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel." 6 Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this is the time of the Lord's vengeance; He shall recompense her. 7 Babylon was a golden cup in the Lord's hand, That made all the earth drunk. The nations drank her wine; Therefore the nations are deranged. 8 Babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed. Wail for her! Take balm for her pain; Perhaps she may be healed. 9 We would have healed Babylon, But she is not healed. Forsake her, and let us go everyone to his own country; For her judgment reaches to heaven and is lifted up to the skies.

The nations of the world did not want Iraq overthrown because they were "drinking in" alot of money from Saddam. They became "drunk" and wanted to keep that very sick and dangerous man in power. They were deranged. They are also not ready to forgive the U.S. for doing it, we've made enemies by doing the right thing. It says "we would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed." Could that mean our attempts at starting a democracy there will fail? I don't know. It certainly means there will not be much of anything there, it will always be a weak nation. I have alot more to study about this.

I do know that now the U.S. is having to defend itself from within and from without. Will we suffer another major terrorist attack? Will it weaken our economy further, causing repercussions around the world. Will the E.U. economy collapse, causing the rise of another stronger, more aggressive Europe, similar to WWII? Will all out war start in the middle east first? The next World War has started, how will it play out?

China

China's 'gendercide' crisis

This is the story of a huge, well armed nation in trouble. Not good.

In addition, to an aging population, China increasingly is developing a population dominated by males. This, too, is a direct offshoot of the one-child policy, which has resulted in the "disappearance" of millions of girls – most of whom are assumed to have been killed at birth or shortly afterward, while others were the victims of sex-selection abortion procedures. Many other young girls are put up for foreign adoption. Two-thirds of Chinese children put up for adoption are female.

As first reported in WorldNetDaily, in September 1997, the World Health Organization released a report at WHO's Regional Committee for the Western Pacific that said more than 50 million women were estimated to be "missing" in China because of the institutionalized killing and neglect of girls due to Beijing's population control program that limits parents to one child.

WHO documented what can only be described as the biggest single holocaust in human history – and doing it in a surprisingly clinical and low-key fashion. It was characterized in that WorldNetDaily report, for the first time, as "gendercide," a phrase that has been picked up by other organizations and activists around the globe.

Educate yourself about a dangerous country that is literally surrounding us with a huge shipping presence and control of the Panama Canal.

Yesterday

Yesterday I could not keep my eyes open, I was so tired. Poor James wanted to play outside but I didn't let him. He wouldn't take a nap either. He went to bed like I told him at naptime but he just played silently for a couple of hours on his bed until he came into my room and watched TV on my bed. I really need him to take a nap. I'll have to take him outside later today and let him run around and get tired.

Another Temple Wall Collapse

Jerusalem wall collapse sparks dispute

The collapse yesterday of an 800-year-old embankment next to where Jewish women pray at what is commonly known as the "wailing wall" sent people fleeing from falling rocks.

Israeli archaeologist Eilat Mazar said it was the fifth time in two years that parts of the walls had begun to crumble, buckle or crack as a result of what she called unsupervised construction by the Waqf – a charge the Muslim clerics deny. "What concerns me most is the Temple Mount itself is in danger of collapsing. ... The earthquake has certainly done more damage but nobody goes to check," she told Reuters.

Why Is This So Funny?

Canada Condemns 'Racist' Conan O'Brien TV Show Not Conan O'Brien - the reaction.

Canada, you take yourself WAY to seriously. Your inferiority complex is showing.

Makes Sense To Me

Rumsfeld: Israel is Against Being Thrown Into Sea

"Everyone knows that the reason Israel has nuclear weapons is to protect itself from being thrown into the sea." So said yesterday, more or less, the United States' Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. Ynet reports that Rumsfeld, speaking with reporters in Munich yesterday, was asked why the United States is silent when "Israel has more nuclear arms than any other nation in the world." Rumsfeld said, "You know the answer by yourself, and the whole world knows the answer. Israel is a small country with a small population. It is a democracy, but exists among neighbors who want to see her in the sea. Israel has made it clear that she does not want to be in the sea, and as a result, over several decades, has organized in such a manner so as not to be thrown into the sea."

This Doesn't

Hamas Warns of New Suicide Campaign

At what point do you stop calling it new? When you have so many "campaigns" that they start running together can you really consider it a new campaign or is it just a continuation of the same old one? I think we need a world court opinion on this. If the Palestinians are guilty of unwarranted use of the "new" slogan then we should throw them into the sea. Better, skip the whole thing and throw them into the sea anyway.

Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star

Astronomers spy 10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond Even DeBeers can't touch this one, it's 50 light years from Earth.

Here's the original press release and a photo. Actually, it's more of an image than an actual photo.

There is also a photo and press release of a cluster of newborn stars, these are 3300 light years away.

Just Another Day

Today at the hotel we had a guest call 911 because there was a man-ghost in her room. The police and fire department showed up and apparently were not amused. They took her away - hopefully to a psychiatric hospital.

I say hopefully because fire departments don't have a sense of humor when it comes to false alarms. When I was working at another hotel the security guard saw smoke in the hall and we called 911. She started evacuating the rooms when one of the guests (a girl from England) confessed she just set off a fire extinguisher and that was the cause of the smoke. We would have just made her pay for it but it was out of our hands and they had her arrested and sent to jail.

What Are They Teaching Your Kids?

A reading of an introductory evolutionary textbook in Realplayer stream or MP3 format.

Knock It Off Mr. Kerry

Here's a letter to the editor of The Washington Times from a guy who served with President Bush in the Texas Air National Guard. The Democrats should be ashamed of themselves. Of course, they are not. Your choice in this election will be to continue to defend America or hand America over to it's enemies.

Speaking of Earthquakes

Earthquake felt across Israel

This is extremely significant. The Temple Mount has already been collapsing and an earthquake could cause the collapse of the muslim temples on the mount - Palestinians will go crazy crazier and the Jews will take over the site and build the third temple. They are trembling with anticipation to build it.

Speaking of the Third Temple

The Temple Mount Faithful have sent a letter to the Pope demanding return of items (Temple Menorah and other treasures) pilaged by the Romans when they destroyed the Temple. No word from the Vatican yet. I don't suppose the answer will be yes.

Of No Significance Whatsoever

My car rolled over the 200,000 mile mark and I missed it. I'll have to make it a point to look at the 300,000 mile mark.

Why does God Allow Human Suffering?

If there IS a God, and if GOD IS LOVE, then WHY? Oh God, Where Were You When I Needed You?

This is not your standard church answer and is worth a read.


When God Shakes the Earth

During an earthquake, all men are equal. As the deep, awesome rumbling from beneath the earth - the thin wail of cats and howling of dogs, the dizzying feeling of disequilibrium comes to you as the sounds of thousands of roaring locomotives thunder beneath; as all the familiar things with which you surround yourself, your own home and so well-remembered environment, the very buildings, houses, streets, stones, trees and walks, your automobile, as all begin to move, swaying, groaning, giving way with splintering crashes and groaning roars; all men, rich and poor, great and small, suddenly realize their incredibly fragile humanity.

This is a fascinating article. They don't teach this in school and they don't teach it in church either. What are they trying to hide? And why?

Here, he touches on creation:

A careful study of the meaning of the words involved and the Bible itself shows the famous "creation week" of Genesis 1 and 2 was in fact a much later re-creation of an original earth which was created countless ages in the past. The Eternal God is the Creator. However, God does work oftentimes through "natural" forces, using the very physical laws which He Himself has instituted and which He sustains.

The serious student of historic and dynamic geology, biblical prophecy and geophysical sciences of today would have no quarrel whatever with claims of great age for the earth: 4 1/2 billion years or more.

Actually, the rocks themselves prove there were many emergences and burials of the land masses of our earth beneath the surface of the sea.

The important thing to realize is Almighty God is shown to have directly intervened in the forming of the continents themselves, by divine command, causing "the dry land to appear" where, previously, the whole world was viewed to be nothing but the "deep," vast expanses of endless oceans.

This reshaping of earth's surface prior to the creation of Adam could have occurred ages after earlier stages of creation, wherein the world was populated by countless billions of the creatures we find in fossil form today, such as the dinosaurs, amphibians, gigantic carrion-eating birds, winged reptiles and monstrous land mammals.

Even the casual student of paleontology is brought very quickly face to face with the incontrovertible evidence of sudden burial of these incredibly huge populations of various life forms - and the fact that each of these life forms, in its own succession, "appears" and just as suddenly "disappears" in the record of the rocks!

One of the greatest weaknesses of the evolutionary theory is the astronomical number of "intermediate species" which are plainly missing!

By analogy, it is as if someone took a motion picture of you as a baby in diapers gleefully playing with a rattle. Then, on your 40th birthday, he took a shot of you as a mature man, driving an automobile.

How many tens of millions of feet of motion picture film would have been required to have actually watched the gradual growth and development from the baby to the mature man? By way of analogy, such is the case with the "missing links" or missing intermediate species within the fossil record.

There would be overwhelmingly more creatures with partly formed scales, partly formed wings, ungainly, weird, undeveloped and unfit to survive relics of literally billions of intermediate species, than there would be the finished forms!

Suffice it to say that the fossil records in the rocks show such mammoth cataclysms in the past that they completely defy human imagination. It is doubtful that the most imaginative special effects, trick photography, graphic arts and skills of Hollywood could suffice to impress our minds with the real truth of what happened back in the distant past when all the dinosaurs died so suddenly!

When we are ushered on the scene, in creation week, we are seeing the emergence of our "lithosphere from the depths of the bathysphere," or the oceans. This meant the expanding of the tectonic plates of the earth on their floating mass of plasticlike magma, and the cascading and rushing of the waters from the continents and the continental shelves to their ocean beds. The forces at work, the building of mountains, rupturing of the earth along fault lines and explosions of volcanoes would have been absolutely tremendous.

The full article can be read here.

To Protect and To Serve Part II

Go back and read yesterday's post (and commentary) if you didn't already, then read this.

The Butlers had been the victims of Brown's harassment over the past year, Williams said, and at the time of his death Brown was wanted in Phelps County for second-degree burglary, first-degree trespassing, resisting arrest and violation of an ex-parte order.

"These charges all stem from complaints made by the Butlers," Williams said. "Officers from the Phelps County Sheriff's Department had attempted on several occasions to arrest Brown but could not locate him."

This had been going on for a year. He was breaking into their house on a regular basis and harrassing them.

The problems started "over a year ago" when the Butlers caught Brown "window-peeking," Butler said.

"And then it got progressively worse," Butler said, with Brown making threats, unwanted phone calls and home break-ins.

Butler said he believes Brown entered the couple's home many times and prowled around while they were out.

"My wife came home and caught him in the house on Christmas Eve," Butler said. Brown assaulted and injured Mrs. Butler at that time.

Butler said he was dissatisfied with the sheriff's department's handling of the harassment and frustrated with the deputies' inability to find Brown and arrest him on the warrants.

"I saw him every day for the last three days. You can't find anybody if you don't look for them," Butler said.

Butler said he feared that an incident would occur as it did Friday night. He said he had pleaded with deputies to find Brown "before something like this happened."

You know what's coming don't you?

Butler, the business representative for the Carpenter's Union Local No. 2298, said Brown kicked in the back door and entered the house with the firearms.

"I got shot in my bed," Butler said. "When a man knocks the door in and starts shooting you and your wife, you've got a right to shoot back."

What if he didn't have a loaded firearm close at hand? What if he had to go open his gun safe?

Williams said Brown had forced his way into the Butler home. He was armed with a .22 caliber rifle and a .22 caliber handgun, gloves and extra ammunition.

"Brown then began firing shots at Mr. and Mrs. Butler. James Butler retrieved a handgun and fired at David Brown striking him several times," Williams said.

That's the way to do it.

New Template

I've been wanting to change the template for a long time, I just didn't want to spend the time to do it. I thought it would be alot harder. It took all of 15 minutes to get everything moved over, not bad. This should be cleaner and easier to read. If you like it, thank Jamie for sending an email to prompt me to change it. If I had a website for Jamie I would post it. I should have known that. Thank you.

To Protect and To Serve

How kidnapper-murderer was caught

My point? Government doesn't prevent crimes. Government doesn't solve crimes. Government doesn't punish crimes. Government fosters crime. Government encourages crime. Government enables crime.

From personal experience, the police are the cleanup crew. They write up a report and too often that's it. The criminals are long gone and if they are lucky they may find them. The police will not be around when you need them - you are on your own. That's the way it is. It doesn't matter how good the cop is, he's not there when you need him, he comes afterward.

Half the Country (or more) Still Won't Take These Guys Seriously

'Al-Qaida has nukes'

Williams quotes an anonymous federal official as saying: "The question isn't whether bin Laden has nuclear weapons, it's when he will try to use them."

I hope this isn't true, but I know we aren't finished with al-qaida, we haven't heard the last of them. We will have to throw the politically correct garbage out the window first. We can do it, we just don't have the national resolve yet.

Chickens

I'm seriously considering getting some chickens. I've been checking out the different types and I would want some for eggs and perhaps some to eat. I like Buff Orpingtons for eating and eggs and Araucanas for the eggs. I like alot of the varieties I've seen but would only get one or two kinds. I think it would be a good experience for James too, he loves to look at the chicks in the feed store, he loves all kinds of animals. I don't know yet though. My main concern is what to do when I go on vacation. You can't leave chickens home alone like snakes.

Do You Like Curry?

I found an interesting curry site. It gave me a few new ideas.

Are You Kidding Me?

Painkillers for aborted babies?

"We must do everything possible to relieve the terror and suffering of children as they are aborted," said Black in a statement

Everything possible, that is, except NOT ABORT THEM.

China

Adm. Moorer's Last Warning

In his closing years, Moorer's singular worry was China. He believed that Red China was using front companies like Hutchison to set up strategic bases near key "choke points" for control over shipping lanes. He was also quite disturbed that China's Hutchison had taken control of the port in Freeport, the Bahamas - just 60 miles from Florida.

Moorer saw China's demand for Taiwan as just one reason the Chinese may go to war sometime in the future with the U.S. There was also a struggle for hegemony over Asia. And he never bought the notion that Beijing's ideological Maoists had any intention of remaking China into a democracy.

Inevitably, he argued, China would be in a conflict with the United States.

More To Come?

Terrorists building bombs in mid-flight?

Do we want to stop them as much as they want to hurt us?

Small Miracle

Humming Bird Nest

Tax Info

Remember last year when the government mailed out checks as a tax refund? Well, I was under the impression it was a refund from the previous tax filing when in fact it was an Advance Child Tax Credit and must be posted against your 2003 taxes. If that was the case I would rather they didn't mail it out in advance. Some people who thought they were due refunds will be shocked.

More Temple Mount Collapses

And what it means from the perspective of the Temple Mount Faithful: Temple Mount Wall Collapses

The collapse of walls on the Temple Mount, and all the other signs that were mentioned above, are very clear signs that the foreign pagan presence on the Temple Mount is about to be removed. G-d has started to prepare His holy hill for Israel to purify it and to build the Temple. The Hand of G-d continues to appear again and again in Jerusalem and the Temple Mount, as well as over all the land of Israel, calling the Israeli Government to do what He expects of them to do: to purify the Temple Mount and immediately rebuild the house of G-d. This will open the Eastern Gate for the coming of Mashiach ben David.

And Now A Word From The Religion Of Peace

"It was always my wish to turn my body into deadly shrapnel against the Zionists and to knock on the doors of heaven with the skulls of Zionists."

Wow Riyashi, that's really intense. Are they spiritual skulls or the real thing 'cause, well, I think you forgot them. Do spirits have skulls? Maybe you should have thought that through before it was too late.

Brought to you by this article and Worldnet Daily.

If America Is Such An Evil Empire

how come nobody is risking their lives and the lives of their children to escape it? Everyone wants to come here, hardly anyone wants to leave.

They really should let this guy come to America just based on his creativity. A '59 Buick boatmobile! How cool is that?

I remember reading story after story, Readers Digest had alot of them, about all the attempts and successes of people trying to escape East Germany over or through the Berlin Wall. How many people die trying to escape Cuba and we don't even know about them? But oh no, Castro is a wonderful leader and Cuba is paradise.

Sometimes People Mean What They Say

Islam will invade Europe and America

So says Muhammad Mahdi Othman 'Akef, who recently took over the Egyptian-based movement after the death of leader Mamoun Al-Hudhaybi.

Just Say No

I just want to point out something in this commentary about the U.N.

The setup:

The United Nations Commission on Human Rights plans to debate a new resolution next month called the "Resolution on Sexual Orientation and Human Rights" that will give homosexuals protected minority status.

The resolution has the support of a number of Western nations, including Canada and the European Union. Interestingly, the principle opponent to the resolution is the Organization of the Islamic Conference. The OIC has become the de facto power at the United Nations, since it generally votes as a single bloc. That gives the OIC a 57-vote advantage. That is enough to explain why Israel is the recipient of more U.N. condemnatory resolutions than any other state in history. But it may not be enough to kill the U.N.'s resolution affirming homosexual minority status.

That's interesting but not my point. Here's the important part:

The U.N. Declaration of Human Rights guarantees "freedom of religion" - but that freedom evidently really is only when such religious freedom "doesn't conflict with the aims and intentions of the United Nations" (as the UNDHR clearly states). This effectively demonstrates that such "guarantees" aren't worth the paper they are printed on. This sets up a precedent for the United Nations to forbid a religion from teaching an exclusive way of salvation, i.e., faith in Jesus Christ is the only way to God.

In this case "the aim and intention of the United Nations" is to persecute those whom it deems are persecutors of homosexuals.

It wouldn't be so scary if so many in this country (democrats) weren't so eager to give American sovereignty over to the U.N. Of course, it wouldn't stop there - what beliefs do you hold that the U.N. may not agree with? How close are we to losing the "American way?" Where is Superman when you need him?

Democrats

Why do they hate us?

Never Question Modern Medicine

Michelle Malkin has a new baby and tells of some of her experiences with the gods of medicine.

Beware of vaccine bullies

Good Commentary on the Superbowl Sideshow

Exposing Viacom's Indecency

Doctors Harrassed by Government?

Oh My! I'm shocked! Federal Harassment of Doctors

We don't need socialized medicine, we need to completely get rid of all insurance, federal and private. Watch the healthcare costs come way down to an affordable level. If a procedure is new and too expensive, the cost will come down in time, just like VCR's, computers and everything else. What we have now and what it is becoming is going to bury us under it's shear weight. Keep it simple. Private charity and donations will take care of those who cannot afford but have a real need.

Same with taxes. Get rid of all the tax laws, start new. 10% flat tax for all. Very simple to understand and fair to all. And stop taxing every last possible thing you can think of to wring every last dime out of the citizens. Government running out of money? Slash all the pork. American people are not the only thing in this country that's overweight.

Don't worry, it will never happen - not until the aliens come down from space and take over the world.


James

Yesterday I heard a strange noise by the garage door when the kids were playing outside. I opened the door and James had a broomstick and was trying to press the button to lower the door. After a few tries he did it. Now James can officially open every door in the house without help.

Just as I wrote this I heard a popping sound like a firecracker so I got up to check the kids. They were sitting on the lawn watching our neighbor next door crack a whip in the driveway. Everytime she made it crack they would both clap.

Do You Have Tivo?

Are you aware that they monitor everything you play, pause and replay?

This marks the third year that TiVo has released details of its second-by-second review of how Super Bowl viewers used their TiVo units. Not only did users pause and replay the infamous portion of the halftime show more than any moment during the game, but they also did the same for some commercials.

I suspect the same is true for digital cable.

Quick Thinking

Woman Tells Of Wild 75-Mile Ride In Runaway Car

You're in a car accelerating out of control, 75 - 100 mph, no brakes - what do you do? How 'bout TURN IT OFF.

This story sounds a bit strange - she said "I couldn't get the clutch down. I couldn't get the brake down." There was a mechanical problem found but it wouldn't effect the clutch or brakes. Even if the brakes got too hot and faded the clutch could still be disingaged. And she could have just turned it off. I guess she panicked.

Yet Another Scam

Inmate Scam Could Cost You Hundreds In Phone Charges

They call you and try to get you to dial *72 and a phone number using any means possible (including threatening to kill you) and if you do you have just allowed them to make a bunch of long distance calls and bill it to your phone. Don't do it.

Blind Leading the Blind

244 Muslim Pilgrims Die in Hajj Stampede

"All precautions were taken to prevent such an incident, but this is God's will. Caution isn't stronger than fate," Madani said.

The god of death wanted his worshipers trampled.

The annual hajj, which began Thursday, climaxed Saturday as some 2 million Muslim pilgrims listened to Saudi Arabia's top cleric denounce terrorists, calling them an affront to Islam. However, he defended the kingdom's strict interpretation of the faith.

Sheik Abdul Aziz al-Sheik said in his sermon there were those who claim to be holy warriors, but were shedding Muslim blood and destabilizing the nation.

"Is it holy war to shed Muslim blood? Is it holy war to shed the blood of non-Muslims given sanctuary in Muslim lands? Is it holy war to destroy the possession of Muslims," he said, adding that their actions gave enemies an excuse to criticize Muslim nations.

Hell no! Brethren, muslims are only supposed to kill non-muslims who we are not already oppressing. Go, kill Americans, kill Europeans, allah is fine with that people. Remember, terrorism is bad - and it's only terrorism if you kill fellow muslims. Now go, shed the bood of the infidels. Remember - muslim = friend, non-muslim = enemy.

That is what they said. If my posting it offends you - touche.

This Just In

Pensioner told she's too old to buy a jigsaw

Iris Milne, 84, rang up to order a 1,000 piece puzzle featuring Notre Dame cathedral in Montreal.

But a phone operator told her the sale couldn't go ahead because people over the age of 80 have trouble filling out the forms.

The Daily Express reports bosses at Express Gifts, which runs the Ace catalogue, later apologised and explained the ban only applies to people over the age of 90.

You can drive a car when you are 90 but you can't buy a puzzle? And what kind of forms do you have to fill out if you are phoning in the order? No doubt this was in one of them socialist countries.

Do You Know What Day It Is?

It's Chocolate Day!

Hmm. I read somewhere else it is Dec 28. I guess two chocolate days can't hurt. According to Celebrate the Date today is Healthy Heart Day. Next Sunday is Moo Cow Day. Who makes this stuff up? And why? Ring finger Day? Flip a Pancake Day? How 'bout flip a bird day? OK, that was just dumb. They give you a joke for each day too. The joke for today is:

A class professor was giving a lecture on company slogans and was asking his students if they were familiar with them. "Joe," he asked, "which company has the slogan, 'come fly the friendly skies'?"
Joe answered the correct airline.

"Brenda, can you tell me which company has the slogan, "Don't leave home without it?"
Brenda answered the correct credit card company with no difficulty.

"Now John, Tell me which company bears the slogan, 'Just do it'?"

And John answered, "Mom...."

Can you tell I don't really have anything to say today? I never got pictures of the snow, I'm watching a "Wings" rerun, and it's raining - has been almost all night. There's not much interesting in the news (to me anyway), no exploding whales. Wow, that was a popular subject. Everyone wanted to see the exploded whale. There is a video available. And there is a definitive exploding whale website, but it's a different whale and the explosion was sort of helped along (dynamite). Here's an excerpt.

So they moved the spectators back up the beach, put a half-ton of dynamite next to the whale and set it off. I am probably not guilty of understatement when I say that what follows, on the videotape, is the most wonderful event in the history of the universe. First you see the whale carcass disappear in a huge blast of smoke and flame. Then you hear the happy spectators shouting "Yayy!" and "Whee!" Then, suddenly, the crowd's tone changes. You hear a new sound like "splud." You hear a woman's voice shouting "Here come pieces of... MY GOD!" Something smears the camera lens.

Have fun!

Been There

Here's a map of states I've visited.



create your own visited states map
or write about it on the open travel guide

Looks like I need a vacation.