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Thursday, November 25, 2010
KC
Summer 1994 - November 24, 2010
KC, Kool Cat. Truly a special cat and she gave us 16 years of love, joy and happiness. She will be missed but never forgotten.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
TSA - Welcome to George Orwell's "1984"
Barbara Simpson WND
Keep your filthy mitts off of me
Posted: November 22, 2010 1:00 am Eastern © 2010
I guess I lucked out. I flew through three airports 10 days ago and was only "patted down" once. It was at Tucson International. It wasn't one of the new "let me grope you" routines the TSA requires, but it was annoying enough.
In retrospect, it was probably part of the move to accustom us to what is a gross invasion of privacy – a demeaning and insulting procedure the government clearly hopes we'll accept like sheep and just, shut up.
In a way, that's what I did, because it happened so quickly. I got through the checkpoint – shoes and jacket off, belongings in plastic bins and through the metal detector. No problem, but suddenly, the large, officious female TSA agent standing there stepped in front of me and started to check me out. She didn't say a word, didn't ask, didn't tell – just did it. She ran her hands over my arms, back, chest and stomach. I suspect my shirt was too loose and she had to check that I didn't have a bomb tucked somewhere. It happened so fast that I didn't object. Not that it would have done any good. And that's exactly what the feds want. Don't object, question or refuse.
I was searched once before, at Oakland International. The agent passed a wand over my body and limbs. There was no hand to body touching. But this was different, and all I could think of was that she was wearing plastic gloves as she touched me. She wore gloves to protect her from dirt and germs from the people and property touched during a shift. Presumably, after hours of that, the gloves get dirty and germy and then, she ran those filthy gloves all over my body! How many people and their personal items did she touch before she touched me? I didn't want to think about it. It wasn't only invasive and insulting but clearly unsanitary. I'd showered and put on clean clothes before I left for the airport and then this! Why is it OK to keep her safe from germs but for me – or any passenger – it doesn't matter? It was disgusting; as soon as I cleared security, I removed that shirt and wore a jacket.
Read entire article: http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=231365
Monday, November 22, 2010
What has happen to America
What has happen to America today? In a excerpt from Billy Graham he said, "and we Christians sit by and watch. Why are we so helpless, why do we allow our wonderful free country to be over run by unsavory libertines who prey upon and pervert the normal desires of ordinary people, why do we submit to the cultural and social domination of filth vendors, pimps, addicts, hoodlums, gamblers, barflies, homosexuals, sex maniacs and power crazed lawbreakers. And the Church today remains silent and impotent in the presence of all that is taken place today. Whats happen? Well simply stated, it can be put like this, we've lost our power and today we need to learn the secret of power again." That power is God and the Holy Spirit. We need to seek him, believe on the Son whom He sent and receive His Holy Spirit. We are powerless in this world and we need the power sent from above.
Today, people think they can make things right in this world. They say, 'I will', instead of doing 'His Will'. Evil is rampant in America today. Darkness is closing in on all side. Only with and by the power of the Holy Spirit can lives be changed. J Vernon Mcgee said, "This is the day when Gods work is being done by committee. What a day for committees. Someone has said, "a committee is made up of the incompetent, appointed by the indifference to do the unnecessary. That's the Church today. We today have complex organizations, new methods, boards, programs, plans, drives, contest, budgets, sponsors, rallies, groups, pep talks, psychological approaches and high power advertising. The Church has it all today and is going nowhere. The machine is out of gas." The Holy Spirit gives us that power. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Today, people think they can make things right in this world. They say, 'I will', instead of doing 'His Will'. Evil is rampant in America today. Darkness is closing in on all side. Only with and by the power of the Holy Spirit can lives be changed. J Vernon Mcgee said, "This is the day when Gods work is being done by committee. What a day for committees. Someone has said, "a committee is made up of the incompetent, appointed by the indifference to do the unnecessary. That's the Church today. We today have complex organizations, new methods, boards, programs, plans, drives, contest, budgets, sponsors, rallies, groups, pep talks, psychological approaches and high power advertising. The Church has it all today and is going nowhere. The machine is out of gas." The Holy Spirit gives us that power. 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.
Tuesday, November 16, 2010
The greatness that was America will never be seen again
DEMISE OF AMERICA: ONE MAN’S COGENT OBSERVATION
By Frosty Wooldridge
August 16, 2010
NewsWithViews.com
“Americans have been ‘enstupidated’. Having read John Taylor Gatto's seminal work, and several thousand other books on history and political subjects, it just appears to me that the main goals have been achieved. The communist party agenda has largely been enshrined in State and (especially) Federal laws. Rule of law is dead, as well as is obedience and fealty to our Constitution. Most people, especially so called elected officials and law enforcement, are ignorant as to what is actually written in our Constitution.
“One thing struck me recently as I was re-reading John Taylor Gatto's book. The goal of public schools is not education, but social control. It was to make revolution impossible by dumbing the populace down, and making them dependent upon their leaders. Previous generations of Americans (and other nations) often found their political leadership superfluous as they were more than capable and confident of seeing to their affairs without government direction.
Read entire article: http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty585.htm
Saturday, November 13, 2010
America - Where is the Faith, love of freedom and intelligence
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.
Douglas MacArthur
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.
Douglas MacArthur
Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.
John F. Kennedy
Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.
John F. Kennedy
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking... is freedom.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Only Americans can hurt America.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sunday, November 7, 2010
Keith Olbermann: MSNBC should reinstate him
MSNBC needs to reinstate the Olberfuher. Whats the big deal? A prominent news caster supporting the liberal socialist Democratic party financially. They support them in every other way. The entire U. S. media is government controlled. Why shouldn't they support one of their own. All of their opinions are bias. Their news channels support liberal socialism ideology in all their programs, whether it's political, social or moral viewpoints. Programs like Discovery, Nat Geo, PBS, The History Channel and Science Channel continually push Evolution as fact, lie about our Historical past and pervert the truth about Religions and Christianity. They are always showing programs about Hitler and the evils committed by the Nazis, but hardly ever a program about the evils of Communisms and Stalin's crimes against society.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
The Republicans are back
You remember those days, don't you?
Play their mid-term election theme song.
THE SECRET HAND
By Paul Proctor
December 25, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
"If you think more Republicans are the answer to our problems, read the following commentary from 2004."
“On November 2, 2004, the American electorate voted into office a Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate and a majority of Republican Governors. The Supreme Court is made up of a super-majority of Republican appointees. We have, in America, undeniable Republican Party Rule. If the Republican Party is pro-life, now is the best and only time to effectuate any real pro-life legislation.” – Covenant News Wire Service
I remember saying to my wife, after learning the election results in November, something to the effect: “Well, the republicans finally have it all; I wonder what they’ll use for an excuse now?”
Because I generally address matters of church and faith in this column, I tend to leave political commentary to others more qualified at NewsWithViews.com; however, because our president’s public persona has been overtly promoted as that of a faithful, evangelical, born again Christian, there are times I am compelled to address obvious patterns of gross inconsistency when they pose a threat to the church. This is one of those times.
As a conservative and a Christian, I have no interest in being a “Bush basher,” only a truth teller; and sometimes the truth, however unpleasant, must be told regardless of whom it might offend. If there was anything that needed bashing, it is the manipulative marketing machinery that keeps all presidential candidates, outside the elites’ two-party tent, in obscurity.
You see, Bush is not the problem; he’s merely the political pageant’s puppet of the day. If it wasn’t him, it would be another just like him; and in my estimation, no Machiavellian marionette is ever allowed on stage to perform without their strings attached. That’s why presidents and their promises change, but the overall agenda never does. Oh, it might slow down occasionally but never will it go into reverse as long as the Secret Hand holds the strings.
Because our financially fed and dialectically driven political process always presents the two dominate parties as “good versus evil,” and “the only real game in town,” the public at large is left, for all practical purposes, without any real elect-able alternatives. This thesis versus antithesis mindset, forever at work in politics, tells us that one candidate is clearly evil; therefore the other MUST be good or at least, the “lesser of two evils;” and as each new scandal breaks, smearing first, the one from party R, then the other from party D; the angst and polarity between the two spike into a frenzy forcing everyone involved to dig in their heels and feverishly defend their respective candidates at all costs, truth be damned; rendering all concerned unable to think, much less vote, outside the tent.
I will not waste your valuable reading time trying to glean any truths from the left side of the equation other than to say; liberals can be very entertaining if you can keep their clothes on, their conversations clean and their theories at bay.
Instead, because republicans are currently “in control,” what I would rather address, are some of the more popular misconceptions about the direction of today’s perceived “right.” Regardless of how many republicans were elected to office or will be appointed to the Supreme Court over the next four years; unless this nation repents and God Himself miraculously intervenes, the harsh reality is:
1. Roe vs. Wade will not be overturned
2. Human cloning and fetal stem cell research will proceed as planned
3. Euthanasia will abound
4. Homosexuality will be exalted, protected and promoted more than ever
5. The government will go right on growing itself at an alarming rate
6. Taxes will rise unabated
7. Debt and deficits will soar to unprecedented levels
8. Congress will vote themselves more and more raises
9. The dollar will decline into nothingness
10. Corruption and waste will increase dramatically
11. Public education will continue teaching theory over truth
12. Prime time TV will become porn time TV and involve younger people
13. Sex will be used to sell more products and services than ever before
14. Freedom and privacy will forever fade into memories
15. Violence, war and occult activity will become the norm and…
16. Those who persist in proclaiming the absolute truth of God’s Word will be ever more harassed, arrested, fined, incarcerated, persecuted, tortured, and/or killed, for their faithfulness.
Read entire article: http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor62.htm
Play their mid-term election theme song.
THE SECRET HAND
By Paul Proctor
December 25, 2004
NewsWithViews.com
"If you think more Republicans are the answer to our problems, read the following commentary from 2004."
“On November 2, 2004, the American electorate voted into office a Republican President, Republican House, Republican Senate and a majority of Republican Governors. The Supreme Court is made up of a super-majority of Republican appointees. We have, in America, undeniable Republican Party Rule. If the Republican Party is pro-life, now is the best and only time to effectuate any real pro-life legislation.” – Covenant News Wire Service
I remember saying to my wife, after learning the election results in November, something to the effect: “Well, the republicans finally have it all; I wonder what they’ll use for an excuse now?”
Because I generally address matters of church and faith in this column, I tend to leave political commentary to others more qualified at NewsWithViews.com; however, because our president’s public persona has been overtly promoted as that of a faithful, evangelical, born again Christian, there are times I am compelled to address obvious patterns of gross inconsistency when they pose a threat to the church. This is one of those times.
As a conservative and a Christian, I have no interest in being a “Bush basher,” only a truth teller; and sometimes the truth, however unpleasant, must be told regardless of whom it might offend. If there was anything that needed bashing, it is the manipulative marketing machinery that keeps all presidential candidates, outside the elites’ two-party tent, in obscurity.
You see, Bush is not the problem; he’s merely the political pageant’s puppet of the day. If it wasn’t him, it would be another just like him; and in my estimation, no Machiavellian marionette is ever allowed on stage to perform without their strings attached. That’s why presidents and their promises change, but the overall agenda never does. Oh, it might slow down occasionally but never will it go into reverse as long as the Secret Hand holds the strings.
Because our financially fed and dialectically driven political process always presents the two dominate parties as “good versus evil,” and “the only real game in town,” the public at large is left, for all practical purposes, without any real elect-able alternatives. This thesis versus antithesis mindset, forever at work in politics, tells us that one candidate is clearly evil; therefore the other MUST be good or at least, the “lesser of two evils;” and as each new scandal breaks, smearing first, the one from party R, then the other from party D; the angst and polarity between the two spike into a frenzy forcing everyone involved to dig in their heels and feverishly defend their respective candidates at all costs, truth be damned; rendering all concerned unable to think, much less vote, outside the tent.
I will not waste your valuable reading time trying to glean any truths from the left side of the equation other than to say; liberals can be very entertaining if you can keep their clothes on, their conversations clean and their theories at bay.
Instead, because republicans are currently “in control,” what I would rather address, are some of the more popular misconceptions about the direction of today’s perceived “right.” Regardless of how many republicans were elected to office or will be appointed to the Supreme Court over the next four years; unless this nation repents and God Himself miraculously intervenes, the harsh reality is:
1. Roe vs. Wade will not be overturned
2. Human cloning and fetal stem cell research will proceed as planned
3. Euthanasia will abound
4. Homosexuality will be exalted, protected and promoted more than ever
5. The government will go right on growing itself at an alarming rate
6. Taxes will rise unabated
7. Debt and deficits will soar to unprecedented levels
8. Congress will vote themselves more and more raises
9. The dollar will decline into nothingness
10. Corruption and waste will increase dramatically
11. Public education will continue teaching theory over truth
12. Prime time TV will become porn time TV and involve younger people
13. Sex will be used to sell more products and services than ever before
14. Freedom and privacy will forever fade into memories
15. Violence, war and occult activity will become the norm and…
16. Those who persist in proclaiming the absolute truth of God’s Word will be ever more harassed, arrested, fined, incarcerated, persecuted, tortured, and/or killed, for their faithfulness.
Read entire article: http://www.newswithviews.com/PaulProctor/proctor62.htm
Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Sheeple and Proles Day
Once again it's election day for the candidate of their choice. Once again you keep repeating the same mistakes that has been going on for 50 years, that is believing there is a difference. Just go on believing "WAR IS PEACE, FREEDOM IS SLAVERY, IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH and THE TWO PARTY SYSTEM IS A CHOICE.