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Falling Sand Game

It's not really a game, you don't win, you just waste a lot of time. But it is amusing.

Thanks Annika.

They Got Him

Yesterday in Lakeland, Florida a police officer and police dog were shot and the suspect escaped into a wooded area. They surrounded the area quickly but he was at large all night. When I got to work last night there were 4 police cars out front, I thought maybe we had been robbed, but they were there looking for that guy. One of our guests says they saw him going into a room.

No one was in the room but we watched the video of the woman checking in and driving to the room. Unconclusive. There was no sign of the guy. They wanted me to call the room and call them when someone answered but no one ever answered the phone. I went home and saw this morning that they killed the suspect in the area he was last seen. That's the way to do it.

Anti-Bush Election Cycle Commercial

Brought to you by your friendly neighborhood Democrats. No, my mistake, it's from Al-Qaida. I'm sorry, I just can't tell the difference anymore, the "talking points" are exactly the same.

Are We Already Submitting To Islam?

Watch this short clip from Jihad Watch provided by Hot Air.

Our actions, even though motivated by different reasons, are interpreted as submission by the Islamists. If we dare get out of line the hate goes into overdrive.

I wish we would all just ignore the hissy-fit they throw every other day. No twenty-four hour news coverage, no cameras. Just ignore them. We need to go about our lives as if their opinion doesn't matter - because it really doesn't. We are not doing anything that would insult a sensible human being and we cannot let the insensible define the standards of our behavior.

Monster Camaro

Don't see one of these everyday! How do you get in it? This one resides a few blocks from me.

If Anyone Thirsts ...

Please notice in the left column I have added a media player from Odeo which plays a daily book of the bible overview from Ray Stedman. Mr. Stedman's biblical exposition makes an excellent complement to the Born to Win broadcast I have linked above it.

Tellin' It Like It Is

Somebody's gotta do it. When the Pope got them all riled up everyone kinda side-stepped away, whistling and looking the other way - Pope, Pope who? I don't know any Pope. Not one leader stepped up to the plate for him.

Letter to mankind from Faith Freedom International

Sandhill Friends

I went out and sat on the front porch to read this morning and as soon as I sat down a couple of Sandhill Cranes wandered over and stood within a couple of feet from me. One was watching my flag and looking at me and the other was digging around for some food. It's amazing how little fear they have of people. Even when James (the Turkey chaser) saw them and came out they just walked quietly a few feet further.

Self Reliance

Israelis pessimistic on eve of Jewish New Year

As I read this article what stood out to me was there was no mention of God at all.

"We are buried under a mountain of problems," he says. "And unfortunately, I can't see any breakthough in the next year."

It seems as though Israel is just like any other secular nation. I know this article is just a snapshot and not necessarily how everyone is feeling but I think it does reflect the condition of the country based on what is happening to them.

They are doing exactly what they have done over and over again - forgetting God and relying on their own strength. And what is happening to them is the same thing that has happened to them before - their enemies are getting stronger and things are looking bleak. Anyone who has read through the history of Israel in the bible knows where this is leading and it's not good news.

How does it go? "He who forgets history is doomed to repeat it."

"It is a shame Sharon is no longer in power. Such things wouldn't have happened if he had been around," Elias says.

Yeah, it's a shame.

To Kill or Not to Kill?

From And the Truth Shall Set You Free on the Faith Freedom website.

Does your faith endorse violence, or does it not? If it doesn't endorse violence, then how can you react with violence? And if it does in fact endorse violence, then what exactly is your gripe, man?

Also on that website is another article, Islam was Not Spread with The Help of Sword!

This author explains how utterly peace loving the Muslims have been lo these hundreds of years but, now, they just can't take any more and they are going to kill us all. Please read this, it is vitally important that everyone understand this. You get to laugh in the next post but right now understand that millions of people actually believe this stuff. Really.

Muslims have taken thus far all the wild accusations and allegations against their Prophet and the religiion he founded by lying low. They hoped that the innuendos against their religion would stop one day, but that has not happened. Instead, the enemies of Islam have intensified their attacks on their peaceful religion. Being peace-loving followers of Islam, Muslims suffered them with smiles on their faces. They did not resort to violence even when some of the western newspapers blasphemed against their Prophet by publishing his cartoons.

Even the Pope has failed to check his temptation to malign Islam, and he joined those who are bent upon harming it.

Enough is enough. Muslims will not tolerate the excesses of the enemies of Islam any further. They have risen up and are now determined to take on the whole non-Muslim world in order to defend their religion. They have also realized that they cannot protect their religion from the attacks of its enemies until all of them are converted to Islam.

So, be aware the non-Muslims of the world! You have provoked the peace-loving Muslims into taking drastic actions against you and all those you love.

To take revenge, Muslims are coming to your door-steps. They will do what their predecessors had never done: they will now use sword, or any weapon that kills, to force you to accept Islam.

If you refuse to follow their orders, they will kill you and convert your sisters, wives and daughters into their slaves. They will ravage everything you have built and then will rebuild them on the pattern described by Islam.

Muslims will remove all the injustices from the face of the earth. They have already done that in the countries they call [Islamic States]. In their states, Muslims have been enjoying all the amenities, and bliss, of heaven. In these states, there is no crime; all the people are equal, and there is no enmity among their inhabitants, for Islam is the only religion that promotes love and affection among its followers.

Before falling on you with all their vengeance, Muslims want to give you a chance: you should listen carefully to their protest against the remarks of the Pope and cave in to their demands. You should do exactly what they want you to do. Your failure to listen to them, and in time, will spell doom for you and for all those who are around you.

If and when you, the non-Muslims of the world, face doom, you will not be able to claim that you were not warned. You have been warned adequately. But you refused to listen. So, whatever happens to you, it will be the consequence of your own misconception, failure and foolishness.

Neither will you be able to blame the Muslims for your plights and sufferings. They, too, have given you enough indications of their intentions. You elected to ignore them. So, be prepared to be killed, or to live as slaves of your Muslim masters.

Yes, we have been warned. Over and over and over. When will we take it seriously? Do we really have to lose a city or two before we get it?

Kung Fu Baby

This is cute.

Steerike One!

He's gonna feel that in the morning.

Gas Price Map

Here's a color-coded map showing gas prices around the country.

Peas in a Pod

It's interesting how the enemies of America and the left have basically the same rhetoric. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez drools over himself praising Noam Chomsky and his latest anti-American diatribe while speaking at the U.N. General Assembly today.

"Representatives of the governments of the world, good morning to all of you. First of all, I would like to invite you, very respectfully, to those who have not read this book, to read it. Noam Chomsky, one of the most prestigious American and world intellectuals, Noam Chomsky, and this is one of his most recent books, 'Hegemony or Survival: The Imperialist Strategy of the United States.'" [Holds up book, waves it in front of General Assembly.]

"It's an excellent book to help us understand what has been happening in the world throughout the 20th century, and what's happening now, and the greatest threat looming over our planet. The hegemonic pretensions of the American empire are placing at risk the very survival of the human species. We continue to warn you about this danger and we appeal to the people of the United States and the world to halt this threat, which is like a sword hanging over our heads. I had considered reading from this book, but, for the sake of time," [flips through the pages, which are numerous] "I will just leave it as a recommendation.

It reads easily, it is a very good book, I'm sure Madame [President] you are familiar with it. It appears in English, in Russian, in Arabic, in German. I think that the first people who should read this book are our brothers and sisters in the United States, because their threat is right in their own house. The devil is right at home. The devil, the devil himself, is right in the house.

"And the devil came here yesterday. Yesterday the devil came here. Right here." [crosses himself]

"And it smells of sulfur still today."

That's not sulphur and it came in with you and your buddies Hugo.

Never Heard of This Before

Panda Bites Man, Man Bites Him Back

A drunken Chinese migrant worker jumped into a panda enclosure at the Beijing Zoo, was bitten by the bear and retaliated by chomping down on the animal's back, state media said Wednesday.

I think he's lucky he isn't dead

Not Many Liberals Get It ...

But, Sam Harris does. In his article, "Head-in-the-Sand Liberals, he confesses that "liberalism has grown dangerously out of touch with the realities of our world - specifically with what devout Muslims actually believe about the West, about paradise and about the ultimate ascendance of their faith."

A cult of death is forming in the Muslim world - for reasons that are perfectly explicable in terms of the Islamic doctrines of martyrdom and jihad. The truth is that we are not fighting a "war on terror." We are fighting a pestilential theology and a longing for paradise.

He hits at the 9/11 conspiracy theorists so prevalent on the left:

Such an astonishing eruption of masochistic unreason could well mark the decline of liberalism, if not the decline of Western civilization. There are books, films and conferences organized around this phantasmagoria, and they offer an unusually clear view of the debilitating dogma that lurks at the heart of liberalism: Western power is utterly malevolent, while the powerless people of the Earth can be counted on to embrace reason and tolerance, if only given sufficient economic opportunities.

I don't know how many more engineers and architects need to blow themselves up, fly planes into buildings or saw the heads off of journalists before this fantasy will dissipate. The truth is that there is every reason to believe that a terrifying number of the world's Muslims now view all political and moral questions in terms of their affiliation with Islam. This leads them to rally to the cause of other Muslims no matter how sociopathic their behavior. This benighted religious solidarity may be the greatest problem facing civilization and yet it is regularly misconstrued, ignored or obfuscated by liberals.

In that last paragraph he brings up a very important point. You have the Muslim fanatics on one front, killing and destroying and otherwise calling the worlds attention to themselves. They are the ones we're "at war" with. But you have a lot of moderate Muslims, mostly in the West and especially in America and Canada, who don't call attention to themselves in that way. They don't kill, and they say they are peaceful, that the violent Muslims have hijacked their religion, yada, yada, yada. They present a peaceful front. But they also can't quite bring themselves to condemn those violent Muslims, some come close - kinda, sorta - but there's that point they just can't go beyond.

I'm not saying that they are just waiting to become violent, they're not. They don't like violence, they want a good life, for themselves and their children. They don't want to hurt anyone and they don't want anyone to hurt them. They're good people.

They're good people and they're Muslim. As such, they want to spread Islam throughout the world. That's what the hardcore Muslims want to do, too. Same goal, two different approaches to it. That's why the good Muslims don't come out and condemn the violence. They wouldn't do it themselves, but hey, if someone converts to Islam by the sword, well, that's another Muslim. They'll take it.

Two faces, one head. They need the two faces of Islam, that's how it works. They use each other, they need each other and it works like a charm.

Prayer Wisdom

The One Important Thing

I think prayer is difficult for a lot of people. What should I say, how long and how often should I pray, what if I just don't know how to express how I feel? Here Ron Dart shares some very helpful thoughts on prayer.

Spending some time in meditation before speaking is probably a good idea. And it seems good to distill your requests into the things that are truly important while we gather up the rest in the general manner of the Lord's Prayer, "Give us today our daily bread." After all, God already knows what we need before we ask him. Think for a moment. If you were only going to get one thing you ask for today, what would that one thing be? And why is that one thing so important? Not long ago, in making my way through 2 Kings, I came upon a prayer by Hezekiah and God's response to it. He had a letter from an invading king which he took to the Temple and spread out before God. The answer was not long in coming:

Then Isaiah the son of Amoz sent to Hezekiah, saying, "Thus says the LORD God of Israel: 'Because you have prayed to Me against Sennacherib king of Assyria, I have heard'"(2 Kings 19:20 NKJV).

And the implication is that if he hadn't asked, God would not have heard, nor would he have acted. So that one thing we really want to ask can be of paramount importance. But perhaps you are struggling with that question. It is intimidating in a way.

There's more, but if it's been a while since posting this you may have to scroll down.

See You On the Dark Side of the Moon

Another artist flaunting misguided political views, this time it's Roger Waters. Not a complete surprise, he's flirted with it before but this time it's gone too far for my tastes.

In case the Drudge Report link stops working he's written "Impeach Bush" and "Don't be led to the slaughter, vote Democrat Nov 2nd" on the huge floating pig he uses at his concerts. He also "juxtaposed pictures of the President, Karl Rove, Ronald Reagan, and Margaret Thatcher with pictures of Osama bin Laden, Mao Zedong, Stalin, and other world tyrants."

Video of the pig

I've overlooked his past political jabs because I know he lost his father in WWII but there comes a time to put that behind you and face reality. No way would I go to his concert knowing this was going on. What is he thinking? Is someone in his fan base going to vote Democrat because Roger Waters thinks he should? No, they will not go to his concerts though, just ask the Dixie Chicks.

I don't think he's even an American citizen, he's English, possible he became one I guess but I don't think so.


In honor of Eric Fletcher Waters (d. 1944 Anzio WWII): When the Tigers Broke Free

What Time Is It?

It's Time for the U.S. to Unite, but it may as well be Howdy Doody time cause I don't see any uniting happening in the near future.

Ed Koch makes a lot of sense in that commentary but I don't believe Democrats see him as one of there own any more and I don't think they hear what he is saying. Well, I know they don't. Shame.

Here's Something You Don't Hear Everyday

Woman bites dog

Woman shoots dog would have been a better ending in this case, but it could have been worse.