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On hiatus

2004-11-29T07:14:00.000-08:00

Taking a break from the computer for holiday reasons. =)

But I will be back! See you all soon.

In honor of Thanksgiving, here are some of the things I am thankful for.

2004-11-24T13:58:00.000-08:00

Big things I am thankful for:

1. My husband - Such a man. I love you more than you will ever know.
2. My children - Amazing human beings. They are gifts from God and I count every day I get to be with them as worth more than anything my own life could be.
3. My extended family - I love each and every one of you beyond measure. Especially my in-laws... What would I do without you?
4. My friends - Could anyone have a more diversive group of people as their friends? =) I count myself fortunate to be allowed to love you all. (Even my crazy liberal hippie friend who taught me everything I know about cats, and makes me the most beautiful dresses on earth.)
5. My neighbors - What a crazy wonderful group of people!
6. And pretty much everyone I have ever met... Few things are more wonderful than meeting a new friend.
7. My own life. Thank you God for moving hell and highwater to bring me into this world.
8. My animals. Those little lives are precious to me and I am thankful for each little furry, scaley, feathery, and exoskeletony (new word!) that has crossed my path.
9. So many more, but I'm baking up a storm today and that's all I can manage right now. Plus, I need to save some for my Christmas thankful list. =)

The biggest thing I am thankful for, is that Jesus died for my sins. I am a thief, a liar, a murderer (Whosoever hateth his brother is a murderer: and ye know that no murderer hath eternal life abiding in him. 1John 3:15.) and I have broken every commandment in the Bible. I suppose this is a part of why I love people so much... I know in my heart of hearts that I am truly no better than anyone else, no matter who they are. Only through Jesus I am forgiven, not through any good works of my own.

Without His sacrifice I would be lost. Without His sacrifice, everything bad I have ever done would be too much, and everything good I have ever done would not be enough. Through Him the evil is wiped away, and the good has a purpose.

There is no amount of education, health, money or anything else that would make trading the peace I know through Jesus Christ worthwhile.

Little things I am thankful for:

1. I have a pair and a spare of my beloved Keds shoes.
2. I have an entire bag of M&M's just waiting to be eaten in my frig.
3 I found a quarter in my shoe this morning.
4. I have a cat with the worlds most powerful buzzer.
5. I can type 120 wpm.
6. I have the most comfortable bathtub on earth, and it's 60 years old.
7. I can laugh at myself.
8. I can laugh at my husband.
9. Air conditioning was invented.
10. I have purple fuzzy socks.

and the last but not least thing I am thankful for?

11. That Bumble's bounce!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING EVERYONE!!! See you all in a few days!

I'm feeling so festive! =)

Bumbles bounce

2004-11-23T22:23:00.000-08:00

I love this guy! =)

100 Things About Me

2004-11-23T16:56:00.000-08:00

1. I've been a vegetarian since 1988.
2. I wear classic white Keds tennis shoes with practically everything.
3. I can train any dog.
4. I've been to all 50 states.
5. I walked 20 miles in one day when I was 9 to raise money for charity.

6. All of my grandparents were killed during World War 2.
7. I am a first generation American.
8. I had blue hair when I was 17.
9. I collect 70's Avon perfume pins.
10. My favorite scents are my daughters hair, fresh coffee, and gardenias.

11. My favorite flowers are gardenias and snapdragons.
12. My favorite food is See's Milk Chocolate Molasses Chips.
13. My favorite book is 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
14. I was an accomplished gymnast as a child.
15. I was a band geek in junior high.

16. I am pro-immigration (but against illegal immigration)
17. I can be as stubborn as a mule. (My father's fault)
18. I am emotional and wear my heart on my sleeve. (My mother's fault)
19. I am the youngest in my family.
20. My mother died when I was 20.

21. I have lost four family members to Parkinson's Disease.
22. I do not believe having or not having money has anything to do with a persons character.
23. 23 is my favorite number.
24. God gave me the best in-laws in the world to make up for the fact that I had no extended family growing up.
25. If I had to be any animal I would be a penguin.

26. I accidentally got caught up in a Football game riot in England (Chelsea/York) and was almost trampled to death. (A policeman grabbed me, picked me up, and carried me all the way to the train... Whoever you are, thank you!)
27. The two places I have been to that I loved the most: Southern Mexico and Western England.
28. The two places I have NOT been to that I really want to visit: India and Iceland.
29. I love the colors green and orange.
30. My favorite season is autumn.

31. My favorite dog breed is the German Shepherd.
32. One of my life goals is to hand feed a Great White Shark.
33. If I could choose the way I would want to die it would be death from an animal.
34. I can tell the brand of water by taste alone.
35. I love to read and always have at least two books going at any given time.

36. I used to write for a newpaper in Southern California.
37. I love to play video games, and was an arcade geek back in the 80's.
38. I gave birth to my daughter at home on a futon.
39. I have been with my husband for over 20 years.
40. I know every line from the Star Wars OT.

41. The best concert I have ever been to was when my dad took me to see David Bowie in 1984. (It was the best because my dad went with me)
42. I went to an all girls Catholic high school.
43. I make the best bread in the world. (If you tasted it you would agree, so take my word for it.)
44. I was in the movie "Girls just want to have fun" with Helen Hunt and Sarah Jessica Parker.
45. I have been to the North Pole.

46. I love cuckoo clocks.
47. I hate Star Trek.
48. I don't like roller coasters.
49. I've seen a ghost (or something of that nature, unnature?... I'm still not sure what it really was.)
50. I spent two weeks wandering England alone when I was 15.

51. I can't sing a note.
52. I hate spell check.
53. I was a straight A student all of my life.
54. I hate eggs with a passion.
55. I have only had one bad pizza in my life and that was in a basement pub in London.

56. I went off wandering alone in Hawaii when I was 11 and my parents panicked and called in search and rescue to find me. (That was the first time I ever saw my father cry. I didn't understand then, but now that I'm a mother I understand completely.)
57. I prefer costume jewelry to expensive jewelry.
58. I hate driving with a passion.
59. I like bugs and snakes and other creepy crawlies.
60. The first thing to happen in my life that changed my life was when my friend died in 2nd grade. It was her birthday and I was invited to go dune buggying with her and her family. I was not allowed to go. The buggy flipped on the sand and landed on top of my friend, Karen, killing her. I had been at her party the day before, and the next day death entered my life for the first time. And even at age 7 I knew that I would never be the same again.

61. Time has not healed the wounds caused by the death of my mother or my brothers.
62. I hardly ever have nightmares.
63. I suffer from frequent bouts of insomnia.
64. My favorite sound is cat buzzing.
65. I plan on living to 101 years old.

66. My favorite tv shows of all time are I Love Lucy and Twilight Zone.
67. I think the most beautiful woman ever in Hollywood was Vivian Leigh.
68. I think the most handsome man ever in Hollywood was John Wayne.
69. I like Jay and Silent Bob movies and I'm not really sure why, or that I even should? =)
70. I love old-time mountain music.

71. I can play the piano.
72. I can play the clarinet.
73. I collect old ceramics.
74. My first memory is standing on the balcony of our home with my mother looking at the ocean.
75. My biggest little regret: Throwing away an entire closet full of classic toys that I thought were junk, and now all sell on Ebay for hundreds of dollars.

76. My biggest big regret: Not spending enough time with my Mom before she died.
77. My scariest moment: When I could not find my daughter for a half hour when she snuck out with her friends to go sell candy to the neighbors. (I thought I would die from the fear.)
78. My happiest moments (big): When each of my children were born.
79. My happiest moments (little): When I won a royal flush in Laughlin and it paid for my whole vacation, when I got to be a Nielsen family, and when I got to wander around on the Midway.
80. My favorite video games: Really old - Maniac Mansion (on my old C64 hehe), Classic - Super Mario 3, Modern - Zoo Tycoon.

81. My favorite fruit is pomegranate.
82. My favorite drink is a Shirley Temple.
83. I love to read murder mysteries.
84. I believe in love at first sight.
85. My favorite musical is Phantom of the Opera.

86. I don't believe in psychology.
87. I travelled all over the world before I was 16.
88. My favorite celebrities are Bill Cosby and Mel Gibson.
89. Most vegetarians think I'm odd because I'm a conservative, and most conservatives think I'm odd because I'm a vegetarian. I gotta be me...
90. I loathe being wrong, but I always admit it when I am.

91. I hate losing, but I'm always a gracious loser.
92. I genuinely like people.
93. My favorite places to vacation at in America are Palm Springs and most of Nevada. (I'm drawn to the desert and I have no idea why.)
94. I hate forests. (Yes, it's true. I'm the only animal loving, vegetarian woman on the planet who hates forests. I'm a desert, ocean, field, lightly wooded kind of girl.)
95. My most horrifying moment was when I was falsely accused of stealing a dog.

96. My proudest moment was when I passed my state boards.
97. My favorite artist is W.H. Beard.
98. My favorite movie bad guy is Darth Vader.
99. My favorite movie good guy is Rooster Cogburn.
100. My favorite moment is the one I'm in right now.

Street paintings

2004-11-23T13:53:00.000-08:00

These street paintings are almost beyond words.

Go look!

(I wish I were artistic)

If you can't say something nice, then don't say anything at all

2004-11-23T11:48:00.000-08:00

I'm going to blogexplore for awhile and I will leave a nice comment at every site I visit. I am enjoying this whole blogexplosion surfing a lot more than anticipated, and I am especially fond of the "100 things about me" lists that people are doing. Maybe I should start working on mine. =)

I had the neatest little conversation today with someone who is 99% different from me in every way. But she loves German Shepherds and we were able to talk about that and let the political stuff slide. Not only do I love people in a Christian way as my brothers and sisters, but I also generally and genuinely like people also. (Well, not the bad guys... but even people 100% different from me don't seem to like the bad guys either.)

Oh, and I'm going to make an effort to rate blogs on their writing skills, design, and informational content only... Never on whether or not I agree with their philosophy, politics, or religion.

I will however give an automatic 10 rating to anyone who posts pictures of their animals =)

What's the frequency now Kenneth?

2004-11-23T09:48:00.000-08:00

Well it's about time!

Dan Rather stepping down...

The new CBS anchor:

Baghdad Bob's got himself a new job baby! =)

Despicable acts by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo

2004-11-23T09:04:00.000-08:00

From Michelle Malkin

Reuters reports on despicable acts by United Nations peacekeepers in the Congo:

"The United Nations is investigating about 150 allegations of sexual abuse by U.N. civilian staff and soldiers in the Congo, some of them recorded on videotape, a senior U.N. official said on Monday.

The accusations include pedophilia, rape and prostitution, said Jane Holl Lute, an assistant secretary-general in the peacekeeping department.

Lute, an American, said there was photographic and video evidence for some of the allegations and most of the charges came to light since the spring...

So, expect to see the abuse photos plastered on the front page of the New York Times and the video replayed endlessly on CBS News, right?

Yeah, right."

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I have read many articles on the UN and their infestation of perverts and degenerates (Remember that lovely Scott Ritter?). So many in fact, that I am beginning to think that the UN is not a "peace keeping" organizaton at all, but rather nothing more than a cover for sex tourism.

(I wish they would leave the United States for good and go set up shop somewhere else... ~~Babylon~~ Baghdad maybe?)

Concern with health over concern with character

2004-11-23T08:47:00.000-08:00

I thought this was an interesting point.

"From the beginning of the crusade against tobacco I have argued that the war against tobacco was a sign of a morally confused, if not morally lost, generation. That this generation chose to make war on smoking (which is dangerous to one's health, but leads to no evil) rather than on alcohol (which accompanies most child abuse, spousal beatings, acquaintance rape and other violent crimes) was almost all one needed to know about the elite's changed moral priorities since the last crusade against a vice (Prohibition).

When I was a kid, people got dressed up to go to ballgames, and the worst words fans screamed were "you're a bum" or "kill the ump." But, of course, many people smoked. Today there is no smoking even at outdoor stadiums, but many fans scream obscenities and routinely act like lowlifes. This is because we have substituted preoccupation with smoking for preoccupation with cursing. We have, in short, put concern with health over concern with character."

Full article here

Does anyone else feel sort of sick

2004-11-22T19:45:00.000-08:00

Does anyone else feel sort of sick that we have thousands of brave American men fighting in a war, there are millions of fathers working themselves silly to provide for their kids and teach them how to be good human beings, millions of men around the world who work in extraordinarily dangerous occupations just to put meager amounts of food in the mouths of their dear children....

And then we have these spoiled, disgusting, pampered, and just plain pathetic excuses for men I have ever seen in my life.

Someone really needs to teach these spoiled little boys how to be men. However, since so much money is involved I doubt I will see such a transformation in my lifetime.

God bless the fathers who watch over their families, the soldiers who watch over their country, and all the real men who know how to behave like real gentlemen and do the right thing no matter the cost.

I wish we could pay all of you hardworking men out there the $14 million these idiots get for playing a silly game. (And I used to really like basketball years ago... Oh well...)

French continue murdering the African people

2004-11-22T18:32:00.000-08:00

Great post by Knight of the Mind:

"The video has a sort of Blair Witch Project quality to it and the audio is worse than what you'd get at a Whitesnake Concert. However, you can obviously see what goes on when The French Army makes nice and condescends to the poor Africans by keeping peace.

The Africans rallied against the French, and chanted slogans. The French responded with automatic weapon fire. They mowed them down like they were not even human. The videotape is heart-breaking. It makes anything Kevin Sites ever photographed look pathetic.

Maybe it's a good thing the French aren't helping us by "pacifying" Iraq in the same way they operate in The Ivory Coast. So many of the people the French shot were women. They have no dignity, no chivalry, no class. It's sad that barbarians such as The French are allowed to keep their armies."

I am stunned that no one is protesting the French slaughter of the African people on the Ivory Coast. I really thought there might be a loud uproar over this by the anti-war crowd, complete with many pictures on the news about how the French are killing innocent African civilians for chocolate... But alas the silence from the MSM, the left-leaning blogs, and the anti-war whiners has been deafening.

I guess the lefties don't care if civilians are killed as long as it is the French doing the killing and the Africans doing the dying. If innocent civilians dying does not help their agenda, then they simply do not care.
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Update: Another good commentary about this outrage at Evolution

Hardest riddle on the web

2004-11-22T15:49:00.000-08:00

ACK!!!

Can anyone do this without using cheats? It is supposedly the hardest riddle on the net and it's making my head hurt.

I'm stuck at #8. =x

RIDDLE HERE

(It's a real riddle and not one of those scare pop up things I promise. You do need to be on IE however.)

Back to the coffeecake...

And now for something a bit on the lighter side

2004-11-22T15:22:00.000-08:00

Random thoughts I'm having at the moment:

I really love the laughter and wookie noises coming from my husband and kids right now as they continue their journey through the Knights of the old republic.

I love the snow that the storm left yesterday on the hills. It is beautiful, clean and cold.

I wish my 16 year old cat was a bit less cranky.

I wonder what my mother in law is doing right now and if she knows I'm wearing the fuzzy purple socks she sent me?

I cannot believe how blessed I am to have so many wonderful people in my life.

I wonder if that cold snap is going to injure my bouganvilla again?

I wonder if I posted a nice comment at every blog I visit on Blogexplosion if that would just be silly? =) (I do have to say that I am completely enjoying reading about everyones lives. I really and truly love people, even if we are as different as different can be. God sure knew what He was doing when He made us all unique individuals instead of robots.)

I think I will go make a coffee cake and some coffee. =)

And last, but not least...
A gratuitous picture of one of my dogs:

We Are Very Happy And Want to Sacrifice More Children

2004-11-22T14:58:00.000-08:00

Mothers of Hizbullah "Martyrs":

"Allah be praised, I am very happy. On the contrary, I am crying out of happiness. This is a blessed day, the day my son gave me reason to hold my head high. When I learned of his martyrdom…"

"I am prepared to sacrifice my life. All I want is martyrdom. I'm willing for all my children to become martyrs. May my husband also become a martyr, and Allah willing, may I die as a martyr."

"Compared to others, what I sacrificed is nothing. It's true I sacrificed a son, but others have sacrificed two or three. I hope more of my sons will become martyrs."

"Allah be praised. I thank Allah for all the good He has bestowed upon us. He has blessed us with martyrdom. Allah willing, we too will be martyred, just as they did."

Full transcript

These mothers are happy that their children blow themselves to smithereens, while blowing up Israeli school buses filled with chidren just going to school. I wonder when the anti-war crowd will begin to protest these homicide bombers? Actually the answer to that is "never". It isn't "cool" to protest against islamofascists who blow up school buses. It is only "cool" to protest against American soldiers who too often get killed themselves while trying to protect the innocent. A lot of the anti-war crowd are sadly anti-Israel as well.

The god of islam demands that you and your children die for him. The God of Israel... of Abraham, Issac and Jacob, already died for all of us.

(I wonder how closely related Moloch and Allah are? They sound eerily familiar. I must look into this.)

Here we go again...

2004-11-22T13:52:00.000-08:00

Ok... for the MILLIONTH TIME ALREADY! That's it! I've had enough!

Everyone who wants to equate the accidental deaths of children in war to the HOLOCAUST of abortion, please think for just one second, and use that big blue brain you all claim to have. First of all, why would you think that just because I support our wonderful soldiers in the war in Iraq I also support the death of children over there? That is ridiculous! Do you even know what you are saying? Or do all of you anti war people just hear a slogan and then repeat it over and over until you hear it in your sleep?

The war in Iraq is an entirely DIFFERENT thing than abortion, just like the thousands of children killed by drunk drivers every year is an entirely different thing than abortion. Ok? Got it? I don't like children being killed by abortion, but does that mean I don't care that thousands are killed by people who threw back one too many glasses of Mondavi, then got behind the wheel of their electric car? Of course not! Sheesh people! Get a grip! Oh, and the whole "if you love babies so much then why don't you stop the war? Waaaah!" this is SOOOOOOOO old and tired I can't even believe anyone still says it. Can't you people even come up with an original argument once in awhile?

If you want to discuss why or why not the war in Iraq is necessary, we can discuss that (although this is not really a military blog and I could direct you to links with more educated opinions on that particular subject matter). But there is no need to CONSTANTLY degrade the deaths of people in order to push your hatred for the President, or your "anti warishness is cool", or "American soldiers are the devil", or "all war is wrong and why can't we all just send flowers to the terrorists".

We get it ok? We understand that you wish that we never fought in World War II because some poor nazi children accidentally died. We understand that the Civil War sucked and we should have just let the slave owners continue to own people so that no innocent child would have to die in a mean nasty war. We also understand that you hate violence of any kind and when a man breaks into your house, climbs up the stairs to your daughters room and kidnaps her you get to finally use your fabulous liberal negotiating skills and "talk the pervert out of it".

That said...

Here is just another comment from someone who has most likely NEVER lost anyone in a war (I lost nearly my entire family) and believes that a few thousand deaths during a war somehow justifies the murder of 40 MILLION babies due to convenience.

"If you care about saving babies, then please look at these pictures, and remember that these are innocent children we are killing. Fallujah in Pictures: November 14 Eliza"

First of all, we are NOT trying to kill children in Fallujah. Their parents had plenty of time to get them out (months!), but their parents decided to keep them in harms way. At least they all had a chance, unlike the unborn babies who try so hard to squirm away from the knives, acids, and vacuum tubes. They try so hard to escape the instruments of death, but it is their own mothers who are killing them. The victims of abortion never get a chance to even take their first breath.

Oh yes... and why do you hate our soldiers so much that you think they are all murderers? My deceased brother was a Marine and I take GREAT offense at you claiming that American soldiers like to kill children. (And I know you in particular didn't actually "say" that, but that is what you are implying.)

I care greatly for all children and all human beings throughout the world who are killed by any means. In fact, did you know that many children die every year because of the environmentalists who banned DDT and now the poor babies in Africa die of malaria? Why don't the environmentalists care about children and bring back that very good pesticide that is harmless to humans? Do YOU care about those children? And if so when was the last time you protested against the environmentalists who did this to them, in the name of saving bird eggs? Why are bird eggs more important than the children dying in Africa???

I looked at those Fallujah pictures, and I have seen worse one's elsewhere. Have you seen the pictures of the boy who was whipped to death by the islamofascists the other day because he ate food??? Ugly picture huh? How about the pictures of the murder of Van Gogh, or the men and women whose heads were sawed off by the islamists? Or the people that jumped from the buildings on September 11? Or the women who had acid poured on their faces, or were stoned to death? Did you see those pictures?

At least those children in Iraq had a chance to live. In America there have been 40 million children murdered by their mothers before even getting a chance to breathe. If you care about saving babies then please look at these pictures.

Aborted babies

Do you believe it is wrong to wage ANY war if civilians might be killed? If you are so upset by the few children killed in Iraq then why are you not upset by the MILLIONS of children slaughtered legally in America every year?

I am alive today due to a war waged by Americans and many Germans, including children, were killed. Are you saying that we should not have fought World War II because children inadvertantly died?

Strange how people like you always bring up other deaths to try to change the subject away from your pro murder of the unborn stance. I'm getting sick and tired of this whole "if you are against killing the innocent unborn then you should be against ALL war because you might accidentally kill the children of nazi's."

I DO NOT CARE IF YOU ARE AGAINST THE WAR IN IRAQ, AS THAT IS YOUR BUSINESS BASED ON YOUR PERCEPTION. BUT DO NOT USE IT AS AN EXCUSE TO CONDONE THE PURPOSEFUL KILLING OF UNBORN CHILDREN FOR THE SAKE OF CONVENIENCE.

When you anti war folks start protesting the genocide of the unborn (mostly minorites due to the racist eugenics nature of the founder of Planned Parenthood) then you just might begin to make some sense in regards to your pacifisitic non-violence whining. Until then, take your pathetic slogans, support of racist genocide, and drooling culture of death, and get the heck out of my kitchen.

Quotes from the founder of Planned Parenthood

2004-11-22T11:34:00.000-08:00

Did you know that between 1882 and 1968, 3,446 Blacks were lynched in the U.S. That number is surpassed in less than 3 days by abortion.

1,452 African-American children are killed each day by the heinous act of abortion.

3 out of 5 pregnant African-American women will abort their child.

Since 1973 there has been over 13 million Black children killed and their precious mothers victimized by the U.S. abortion industry.

It looks like Planned Parenthood is well on its way to accomplishing the racist genocide its founder so desperately wanted.

Quotes from the founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger:

"The most merciful thing that a family does to one of its infant members is to kill it."

"Birth control must lead ultimately to a cleaner race."

"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don't want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population…"

"Eugenic sterilization is an urgent need ... We must prevent multiplication of this bad stock."

"Eugenics is … the most adequate and thorough avenue to the solution of racial, political and social problems.

"The campaign for birth control is not merely of eugenic value, but is practically identical with the final aims of eugenics."

"Our failure to segregate morons who are increasing and multiplying… a dead weight of human waste… an ever-increasing, unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all."

"The undeniably feeble-minded should, indeed, not only be discouraged but prevented from propagating their kind."

"The procreation of [the diseased, the feeble-minded and paupers] should be stopped."

"The marriage bed is the most degenerative influence in the social order..."

"[Our objective is] unlimited sexual gratification without the burden of unwanted children..."

"[Mandatory] sterilization for [the insane and feeble-minded] is the answer."

"Give dysgenic groups [people with 'bad genes'] in our population their choice of segregation or [compulsory] sterilization."

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the American Baby Code that states, "No woman shall have the legal right to bear a child… without a permit for parenthood".

Margaret Sanger, Founder of Planned Parenthood, proposed the Population Congress with the aim, "...to give certain dysgenic groups in our population their choice of segregation or sterilization."

Former abortion industry workers speak out

2004-11-22T11:13:00.000-08:00

"I want the general public to know that the doctors know that this is a person, this is a baby. That this is not some kind of blob of tissue."
-Anthony Levatino, M.D. (Former abortion doctor)

"It's a lie when they tell you they're doing it to help women, because they're not. They're doing it for the money."
-Nita Whitten (Former abortion counselor)

"We were told to find the woman's weakness and work on it. The women were never given any alternatives. They were told how much trouble it was to have a baby."
-Debra Henry (Former abortion counselor)

"The picture of the baby on the ultrasound bothered me more than anything else. The staff couldn't take it. Women who were having abortions were never allowed to see the ultrasound."
-Joseph Randall, M.D. (Former abortion doctor)

"My heart got callous against the fact that I was a murderer, but that baby lying in a cold bowl educated me to what abortion really was."
-David Brewer, M.D. (Former abortion doctor)

"I am a murderer. I have taken the lives of innocent babies and I have ripped them from their mother's wombs with a powerful vacuum machine."
-McArthur Hill, M.D. (Former abortion doctor)

"We weren't helping women... we were destroying them... and their children."
-Carol Everett (Director of four abortion clinics, and owner of two)

Templates and nostalgia

2004-11-21T23:02:00.000-08:00

Ok... I'm about half done with my new look. Yes, I know it's orange, but orange is my favorite color at the moment so orange it is.

Useless factoid:
I grew up in a house that was decorated by my mother in those fabulous 70's colors of orange and green. She always had tangerine orange rugs and celery green draperies (And golden yellow and avocado green appliances!) I swore up and down that I would NEVER have those colors in my house. Well, lo and behold now that I am an old married woman I actually like orange and green. Although, I still will never have an "orange and green" livingroom.

MY livingroom is peach and forrest green. NOTHING like the tangerine and celery of my mothers house! =)

Template change

2004-11-21T14:41:00.000-08:00

It's a rainy day, the kids are playing Knights of the old republic with their dad, all the animals are curled up and asleep, and I'm a tad under the weather. So, it sounds like a perfect time to mess with my blog and try to change the template! =)

This is my first attempt, so anything can happen... Here I go......

See you on the flip flop!

Luke 23:35-43

2004-11-21T08:51:00.000-08:00

Luke 23:35-43

The rulers sneered at Jesus and said,
"He saved others, let him save himself
if he is the chosen one, the Christ of God."
Even the soldiers jeered at him.
As they approached to offer him wine they called out,
"If you are King of the Jews, save yourself."
Above him there was an inscription that read,
"This is the King of the Jews."

Now one of the criminals hanging there reviled Jesus, saying,
"Are you not the Christ?
Save yourself and us."
The other, however, rebuking him, said in reply,
"Have you no fear of God,
for you are subject to the same condemnation?
And indeed, we have been condemned justly,
for the sentence we received corresponds to our crimes,
but this man has done nothing criminal."
Then he said,
"Jesus, remember me when you come into your kingdom."
He replied to him,
"Amen, I say to you,
today you will be with me in Paradise."

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Strange how true it is that the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Cats!

2004-11-20T10:53:00.000-08:00

Play STACK THE CATS!

It's fun =)

Pancake bunny

2004-11-19T17:36:00.000-08:00

This picture just never gets old. =)

The war on war itself

2004-11-19T14:42:00.000-08:00

Great article from The Jawa Report:

"We have a huge disagreement in this country about what is and what is not acceptable in this war. Part of this is all just a proxy fight for the leftists' insistence that war itself is unacceptable under any circumstances; having lost that debate decisively, they attempt to engage in guerilla-rhetorical tactics, simply sniping at each and every event that unfolds, in hopes that the accumulation of the little wounds they inflict will ultimately win the war they really care about-- the war on war itself."

Read it all HERE.

Sign this petition

2004-11-19T08:19:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Desert Rat for this PETITION on behalf of one of our soldiers.

There are 46067 signatures as of this posting. PLEASE add yours now. Sign the petition HERE.

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To: U.S. Congress

Friday November 12 2004

U.S.Marines were fired upon by snipers and insurgents armed with rocket-propelled grenades from a mosque and an adjacent building. The Marines returned fire with tank shells and machine guns.

They eventually stormed the mosque, killing 10 insurgents and wounding five others, and showing a cache of rifles and grenades for journalists.

The Marines told the pool reporter that the wounded insurgents would be left behind for others to pick up and move to the rear for treatment. But Saturday, another squad of Marines found that the mosque had been reoccupied by insurgents and attacked it again.

Four of the insurgents appeared to have been shot again in Saturday's fighting, and one of them appeared to be dead, according to the pool report. In the video, a Marine was seen noticing that one of the insurgents appeared to be breathing.

A Marine approached one of the men in the mosque saying, "He's [expletive] faking he's dead. He's faking he's [expletive] dead."

The Marine raised his rifle and fired into the insurgents head, at which point a companion said, "Well, he's dead now."

The camera then shows two Americans pointing weapons at another Iraqi insurgent lying motionless. But one of the Marines step back as the insurgent stretches out his hand, motioning that he is alive. The other Marine stands his ground, but neither of them fires.

When told by the pool reporter that the men were among those wounded in Friday's firefight, the Marine who fired the shot said, "I didn't know, sir. I didn't know."

"You can hear the tension in those Marines' voices. One is saying, 'He's faking it. He's faking it,'" Heyman said. "In a combat infantry soldier's training, he is always taught that his enemy is at his most dangerous when he is severely wounded."

A Marine in the same unit had been killed just a day earlier when he tended to the booby-trapped dead body of an insurgent.

NBC reported that the Marine seen shooting the Iraqi insurgent had himself been shot in the face the day before, but quickly returned to duty.

About a block away, a Marine was killed and five others wounded by a booby-trapped body they found in a house after a shootout with insurgents.

Amnesty International has noted reports that insurgents have used mosques as fighting positions, and have used white flags to lure Marines into ambushes.

The Marine who shot the insurgent has been withdrawn from the battlefield pending the results of an investigation, the U.S. military said.

These terrorists do not follow the rules of war. These terrorists kill innocent women by disemboweling them, cut of the heads of innocent truck drivers, detonate car bombs in crowds full of innocent people, and fly planes into buildings filled with innocent Americans.

It is my opinion that NOTHING should happen to this American Marine. He should be returned to his unit or be given an honorable discharge. We don't need our young men and women taking an extra second to decide if its right to shoot an enemy terrorist when that could mean that one of our soldiers could lose their life. The lives of our soldiers should be the single most important factor in this war against terrorism. The rights of terrorists can come second.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned
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Now go and sign it!

Blog Explosion

2004-11-19T08:11:00.000-08:00

I joined the Blog Explosion thing yesterday and I have to say it is pretty good. My traffic is definitely up (is that a good thing? haha) and I have wandered across some interesting new blogs while using their blog surfing thing.

Famous Last Words

2004-11-18T13:25:00.000-08:00

A little humor is a good thing. =)

Famous Last Words:

These windows are ok to lean on.
Don't worry it has airbags.
Hey what’s that buzzing noise?
Don’t worry its not that deep.
I can pass this guy.
My brakes are fine.
Nice doggy.

I think it's trying to communicate...
"Homicidal Tendencies"?
"Na, I don't think we need to go to the hospital."
"It's a dud! It's a dud! It's a du...".
"Don't touch the red button."
It's fireproof.
What does this button do?

Are you sure the power is off?
Pull the pin and count to what?
Which wire was I supposed to cut?
I've seen this done on TV.
I'll hold it and you light the fuse.
This doesn't taste right.
I can make this light before it changes
I can do that with my eyes closed

Now watch this
Don't worry, I'm sure it's dead by now.
Let's split up, we'll cover more ground.
I dunno, press the button and find out.
Hello, is anyone home?
Oops.
Don't worry, it's not contagious.
Awright, let's see, how do we work this thing?

Trust me, I know what I'm doing.
He can't hear us, he's miles away
I'll be right back.
I'm sure it's just the wind.
Of course it's safe!

More from Goodquotes

Specter Wins Judiciary Panel Chairmanship

2004-11-18T13:10:00.000-08:00

Definitely not what I wanted to happen, but hopefully he learned a lesson from all the noise we made.

"I have assured the president that I would give his nominees quick committee hearings and early committee votes," Specter said.

Great. =/

More

The story of Danae

2004-11-18T11:17:00.000-08:00

True story....

The story of Danae

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the Doctor walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy from surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for the latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced Diana, only 24-weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency cesarean to deliver the couple's new daughter, Danae Lu Blessing.

At 12 inches long and weighing only one pound and nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature. Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. 'I don't think she's going to make it', he said, as kindly as he could. "There's only a 10-percent chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim chance she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one".

Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctor described the devastating problems Danae would likely face if she survived. She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind, and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions from cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.

"No! No!" was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5-year-old son Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become a family of four. Now, within a matter of hours, that dream was slipping away.

Through the dark hours of morning as Danae held onto life by the thinnest thread, Diana slipped in and out of sleep, growing more and more determined that their tiny daughter would live-and live to be a healthy, happy young girl. But David, fully awake and listening to additional dire details of their daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive, much less healthy, knew he must confront his wife with the inevitable.

David walked in and said that we needed to talk about making funeral arrangements. Diana remembers 'I felt so bad for him because he was doing everything, trying to include me in what was going on, but I just wouldn't listen, I couldn't listen.' I said, "No, that is not going to happen, no way! I don't care what the doctors say; Danae is not going to die! One day she will be just fine, and she will be coming home with us!" As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Danae clung to life hour after hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her miniature body could endure.

But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for David and Diana. Because Danae's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially 'raw,' the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so they couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer the strength of their love. All they could do, as Danae struggled alone beneath the ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God would stay close to their precious little girl. There was never a moment when Danae suddenly grew stronger. But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here and an ounce of strength there.

At last, when Danae turned two months old, her parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time. And two months later, though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life, were next to zero, Danae went home from the hospital--just as her mother had predicted.

Today, five years later, Danae is a petite but feisty young girl with glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She shows no signs, what so ever, of any mental or physical impairment. Simply, she is everything a little girl can be and more-but that happy ending is far from the end of her story.

One blistering afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Danae was sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ballpark where her brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing.

As always, Danae was chattering nonstop with her mother and several other adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms across her chest, Danae asked, "Do you smell that?"

Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm, Diana replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."

Danae closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"

Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet, it smells like rain.

Still caught in the moment, Danae shook her head, patted her thin shoulders with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."

Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Danae then happily hopped down to play with the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words confirmed what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had known, at least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of her first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for them to touch her, God was holding Danae on His chest and it is His loving scent that she remembers so well.

Jumping shark

2004-11-17T17:34:00.000-08:00

I thought this was a great picture. I love sharks and feeding sharks by hand is on my life's to-do list. I have to wait until my kidlings are grown though.

Just to clarify... I will not be feeding this particular shark. hahaha =)

He/she is a beauty though. (From a distance)

Wandering the blogosphere

2004-11-17T16:36:00.000-08:00

I've been next blogging today, just to see what else is out there and I have to say that a lot of people are amazing writers. My favorite blogs are the one's where people simply share a little bit about their lives.

Reading everyones blogs is sort of like sitting in my favorite coffee shop and being able to read the minds of everyone around me. Fascinating stuff in peoples minds.

I've been learning to speak/write in Spanish from my dear friend over the past few months. I am astounded at how well I am reading the Spanish language blogs now. My goal is to be able to read Spanish language novels without having to look up too many words. I'm doing ok, but I still have some trouble recognizing when to use the ser or estar verbs. That will come in time though I am sure. Anyway, if I start blogging in Spanish from time to time this is why.

I have an aquaintance who is studying for her American citizenship test and I keep trying to practice my Spanish with her, but she won't speak anything but English. She and her husband are both from southern Mexico and are legal immigrants. I have never met more proud to be an American people in my life. It is almost ridiculous! haha... Sweet people.

And lots of sweet people in the blogosphere... Lots of passionate people too, which can also be very interesting.

Of course, all of MY blogroll people are wonderful and the absolute best on the sphere! =)

Iraq will be remembered as...

2004-11-17T16:13:00.000-08:00

Well said...

"I'm pretty confident that, in the long run, the U.S. action in Iraq will be remembered as a daring, impetuous jump-start to the next phase of history."

More...

Phantom of the Opera

2004-11-17T15:21:00.000-08:00

The Phantom of the Opera will be out next month! I saw the musical years ago and I have to say it was one of the most enjoyable theater experiences I have ever had. It was just plain old fun, with great songs, a lovely romance, and beautiful costumes. The cinematography in the trailer looks gorgeous, and we are very much looking forward to seeing it. I am such a sucker for old fashioned lavish romances. Especially those with a little mystery thrown in. I just adore a touch of the unknown. =)

Sometimes I think we as a society have really ruined romance with all of the blantant sexuality tossed around as if it were nothing more than a sneeze. It's more sad then immoral if you ask me. We traded in mysterious, passionate, and feverish romantic nights, for cold used blips in the radar of our lives. I have no idea why people choose that way to live, but many do.

On with the show...

Trailer

And people wonder why there is a hell...

2004-11-17T11:05:00.000-08:00

"There is no sound, no cry in all the world, that can be heard unless someone is listening."

The Death of Bradley McGee

Jamaican rum and superhero sex

2004-11-17T10:13:00.000-08:00

The title got your attention, didn't it? =)

"Jamaican Rum"

Do you like to get drunk? Do you sometimes feel like drinking yourself into such a stupor that you pass out on the toilet and crack your head open on the sink, waking up the following morning in a blur of tile and vomit? Do you want to be able to drink some Nighttrain till 6am with your friends while watching Dawn of the Dead, and Night of the Living Dead (all versions!) every single weekend if you so choose? Then that is your choice as an adult.

I DO NOT want to outlaw your ability to get drunk to any extent you so choose in the comfort of your or a friends home. Go ahead and drink a gallon of "Appleton Estate" rum (if you can afford it) in one sitting. Destroy your liver for all I care, and spend all of your money on beer, wine, and fancy named cocktails. I DO NOT want to take away any of your rights to get as drunk as you choose to.

(I do not approve of drunkenness for moral reasons, and I don't like what it does to people, but from a legal standpoint I do not care what you choose to do regarding alcohol consumption. I have a tendency to lean toward libertarianism from time to time, because I believe that character is built when bad choices are available but not chosen. That is not to say that there should not be restrictions on public behavior.)

However... (And that's a big however)

As much as I support your right to privacy, if you decide that your right to get drunk also includes the right to drive a car in that condition, then you WILL hear from me. If you are intoxicated and you get behind the wheel, you are now violating my rights. I have the right, as a licensed driver, to drive down the road without fear of a drunk hitting me.

You DO NOT have the right to drink and drive. The reason being, is that by driving drunk you are very likely to cause an accident that could take someones life. You have the right to drink and you have the right to drive, but you do not have the right to combine the two. Yes, you can choose to do the wrong thing and drink and drive, but don't come crying to me when you are sitting in jail for killing an entire family on their way home from a baseball game.

If you are ever getting into your car while drunk and some crazy short woman comes running up and grabs your keys and takes off running down the street screaming "you can't catch me!"...
That would be me. =)

Getting drunk in your home = None of my business. Period.

Getting drunk and driving a car = Everyone's business and everyone should do whatever it takes to stop you from driving.

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"Superhero Sex"

As a Christian I do have moral issues with any sex outside of marriage, but that is between a person and God. I also have issues with it due to disease (words like: genital warts, herpes, cervical cancer, AIDS, keep going through my head *shiver*), but that is an issue between the person and their doctor.

If consenting adults want to slide naked down the stairs in their living room, or jump on the bed dressed as superheroes, then who am I to say anything? People have a right to privacy and if that involves consenting adults doing who knows what, then frankly it is none of my business. (Just because you CAN do something, however, doesn't mean that you SHOULD.)I do believe that sex outside of marriage is morally wrong and a sin, but I would never pass laws that went into peoples bedrooms.

If you are having tons of great sex with your spouse, then more power to you! The Bible is very clear that we Christians should be very busy in that area of life. =) If you are sleeping with strangers at bus stops, then please be careful and I hope one day you will find what you are really looking for. If you are in that crowd which causes me to think, "I can't pronounce that" and/or "what the heck is THAT?" and/or "I don't EVEN want to know", then... Well, I don't even know what to say to that, except I don't even want to know.

The point is... Whatever you do with your body sexually is YOUR BUSINESS. If you are sinning then it is between you and God. I do not want to know about what you are doing with other consenting adults. It is your business, I DO NOT want to legislate sexual morality, and if you want to spin around from the ceiling fan while wearing nothing but a stormtrooper mask, then oh well... At least you are being creative. (The morality of your private sex life is between you and God, and that is the way it should be.)

However.... (And that's a big however)

There is a line with your sexuality, just like there was a line with your drunkenness.

As much as I support your freedom to have privacy in your own home, I will not extend that freedom to being able to kill the possible consequence of sexual activity. If you want to have sex without the possibility of becoming with child, then you need to take precautions. The level of precautions you should take should directly correlate with your feelings about having a baby. If you have extreme health issues that would make a birth physically dangerous to you, then you should take top level precautionary measures. If a baby would be welcomed then take none. Or you could choose to abstain from sex if you really really don't want to become pregnant/make someone pregnant. (No one ever died from not having sex.)

Once conception takes place, then a separate and unique individual human being is growing inside you. He/she is NOT a "part of your body". He/she is NOT a "lump of tissue". He/she is NOT yours to do with as you will. And you DO NOT have any right whatsoever to murder that human being. You have no more right to murder the unborn child in your womb than you do to murder your born child.

Just like your rights regarding getting drunk end at the wheel of a car, your rights regarding what grows in your womb end at the moment of conception. Your time for "choice" on whether or not a baby would grow in your womb was when you decided to engage in sexual activity without the necessary precautions.

I will support your right to privacy to do whatever you want in your own bedroom, regardless of my moral feelings about it. However, I will NEVER support your right to kill an innocent child because you were too busy changing into your batman costume to put on a condom. Your rights end when it involves taking the life of another human being. Even if you are a liberal secular atheist you would have to agree on that, (unless you were really out there with the eugenics crowd).

Having weird bizzaroland sex in your own basement with other consenting adults = Kind of creepy, but none of my business. Period.

Having sex and deciding to kill the natural consequence of that act (a genetically, medically, and scientifically unique human baby who is loved by God and wanted by someone) = Everyone's business and everyone should do whatever it takes to stop the holocaust of the murder of the unborn from continuing.

I believe in freedom and individual rights. I do not like "big brother" in my bedroom and I don't want him in yours. But our "rights" end where another person begins. You have the right to drink how you choose, but you do not have the right to drive crazily drunk until you plow into a 6 year old on her bike, killing her. You have the right to have sex how you choose, but you do not have the right to kill a baby because he/she is inconvenient to your life.

I am a conservative Christian wife and mother. I love people, I love the unique differences each person, born and unborn has, and I love life. I don't like drunkenness at all and it is a bad place to be, but I would not legislate it in and of itself. I don't like sex outside of marriage because I do believe it is sin and I do believe it hurts people. But again, I do not want to legislate peoples private lives. God gives us the opportunity to sin by our own choice, and he gives us a way out. It is up to us to make the right decision. Hopefully that decision is made on the side of saving lives.

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-Mother Teresa

These are real human beings

2004-11-16T17:19:00.000-08:00

8 week old unborn baby:

12 week old twin unborn babies:

16 week old unborn baby:

21 week old unborn baby:

26 week old unborn baby:

30 week old unborn baby:

40 week old unborn baby:

Before and after of the same unique individual human being:

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It is legal to kill this child at every stage up until the "after" in the "before and after" picture.

Do any of the people in these pictures look like a "lump of tissue" to you? Do you really believe it should be legal to destroy these lives for any reason?

Thank you to Amazing Pregnancy for these wonderful pictures. Go here to see more.

Abortion argument unravels

2004-11-16T15:08:00.000-08:00

How the unborn child defends itself against its mother, confirming that it is a separate human being from the start.

"While the demand for abortion grows, so does the scientific case against the arguments often used to support it. Recent powerful evidence comes from immunology.

Half a century ago, when the amazing mechanism of the human immune system was first being uncovered, Nobel prize-winning biologist Sir Peter Medawar made a significant comment. He declared that the survival of the genetically different child within a mother’s womb contradicted the immunological laws that were thwarting their attempts at tissue transplantation. The immune system normally detects the presence of any “foreign” tissue in the body and it immediately sets up a defence against it (primarily what is now called the “killer T cell” mechanism).

This caused early experiments in organ transplantation to fail—the recipient’s immune system attacked and rejected the donor’s “foreign” organ tissue. So why doesn’t the mother’s womb detect the presence of the “foreign” tissue of the developing embryo and try to attack and reject it?

We now know that it does! And this is the cause of many miscarriages. Recent research has shown that the developing child puts up a very specific defence against the killer T cell attack. And as long as the defence mechanism works properly, the pregnancy will proceed to full term. However, when the defence mechanism fails, miscarriage results.

In a landmark 1998 paper, researchers at the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, USA, found that the mammalian embryo (they worked with mice) produces a special enzyme, called indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase, or “IDO,” which suppresses the mother’s T cell reaction and allows pregnancy to proceed. Follow-up work in humans revealed the same effect, and it was also demonstrated that the IDO was produced on the embryo side of the placental membrane (which separates mother from child) and not on the mother’s side. Further work in mice showed that IDO production peaked during the formation of the placenta—the most crucial time for establishing that vital link between mother and child.4 And the most recent work in humans has established beyond doubt that IDO is a specific mechanism at the mother-child interface for preventing the mother’s immune system from rejecting the child.5

But what does this have to do with abortion? Well, a common argument in favour of abortion is that a mother has the right to control what happens to her own body. However, this research shows very clearly that the baby is not part of the mother’s body. The baby has a unique genetic makeup (only half its chromosomes come from the mother, the other half come from the father, and each combination of chromosomes is unique) and that condition is sufficient to cause the mother’s immune system to identify the baby as “foreign” and it mounts an attack via the killer T cell system. In the mouse experiments, when IDO production was artificially suppressed, the mother’s womb rapidly rejected the embryos. It is only because the baby is normally well prepared for life in the womb by producing IDO and suppressing the mother’s T cell reaction, that pregnancy can be healthy and go full term.

This research also highlights the fact that the child’s individuality—its unique genetic makeup—exists from the moment of conception. At conception, the new person’s genetic instructions come together for the first time—in a single cell called the zygote. But it is not until day 6 that IDO production kicks in. Why day 6? Well day 6 is a preparation for day 7, when the new embryo first attaches itself to its mother’s womb so that it can draw nutrients from its mother’s bloodstream. This is exactly the time when the mother’s killer T cells would normally begin to attack and reject it—if not for the amazing protection already provided by IDO production on the previous day.

Psalm 139:13 tells us that God “knit me together in my mother’s womb” and in Isaiah 46:3 God says “you whom I have upheld since you were conceived” (NIV). IDO is a marvellous part of God’s system for individually “upholding” us in the womb and we should not violate it, or indeed the commandment not to take innocent human life, through the proliferation of abortion."

It is a baby, scientifically and medically, whether they choose to believe it or not.

Article here.

The insanity of "choice"

2004-11-16T10:18:00.000-08:00

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Wanted baby vs Unwanted baby

Do the liberals understand anything of war?

2004-11-16T10:03:00.000-08:00

This really makes me sick... And the liberals call ME a hypocrite because I believe that saving babies is more important than saving terrorists who chop off women's arms and legs! Ugh, what on earth is the matter with these people?

Why is the media so upset about the Marine who shot the terrorist the other day, when these same people called Kerry a "war hero" for even worse things?

The liberals supported Kerry, who admitted to shooting someone in the back who was running away. Yet the media all called Kerry a "war hero" and believed that he deserved to be President of the United States because of those shootings (oh, and his "plan" for healthcare).

Do the liberals and the MSM really believe that we are going to be upset that one of our soldiers shot a bad guy? And they call us dumb? Life is precious, yes... And that terrorist had every right to lay down his arms months ago and go live a peaceful life. It's not like he didn't KNOW we were coming... That man CHOSE to fight our soldiers and therefore he suffered the consequences of his decision. At least he had a choice.

Why isn't the media shoving down our throats the fact that a woman was recently killed by the terrorists over there. Not only was she killed, but her throat was cut nearly to her spine, her face was cut up beyond recognition, and her arms and legs were cut off. Why is the left more upset about our soldier killing one of the enemy, than the enemy killing a civilian woman and cutting her to pieces? Don't the liberals care about women?

(My guess is that the liberals are motivated more by their hate of Bush and our soldiers than any care or concern for anyone's life. If they believe in killing innocent unborn babies for the sake of convenience, then why would they care about the murdered and mutilated woman? I wonder if these liberals would defend the people who slaughtered most of my family and denied me the right to have grandparents, and nearly left me an orphan long before I was born?)

Some parallels between the two holocausts

2004-11-16T07:04:00.000-08:00

Regarding the Jewish people being murdered in the holocaust of World War II:

"If you are going to kill all these people, at least take the brains out so that the material could be utilized." (Testimony of Dr. Julius Hallervordan, 1947)

"The physician is merely an instrument as in the case of an officer who receives an order." (Dr. Karl Brandt, Doctors’ Trial, 1947)

"The Jewish-Bolshevik Commissars personify a repulsive yet characteristic subhumanity." (Dr. August Hirt, 1942)

"The victims of this Buchenwald typhus test did not suffer in vain and did not die in vain . . . people were saved by these experiments." (Dr. Gebhard Rose, Doctors’ Trial, 1947)

"Only persons of ‘German or related blood’ can be citizens; this does not include Jews." (Reich Citizenship Law, 1935)

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6 million Jewish people were killed by the nazi's during the duration of WWII.
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Regarding the unborn children being killed in the holocaust of abortion:

"In the case of abortion the fetus cannot be ‘helped’ by being experimented upon since it is doomed to death anyhow, but perhaps its death can be ennobled . . . when the research has as its objective the saving of lives (or the reduction of defects) of other wanted fetuses." (Drs. Willard Gaylin & Mark Lappe, 1975)

"What is aborted is a protoplasmic mass and not a real, live grown-up individual." (Drs. Walter Char & John McDermott, 1972)

"The physician is only the instrument of her decision." (Dr. Bernard N. Nathanson, 1974)

"With changes in the abortion laws fetuses as valuable research material is on the increase." (Dr. Leroy Jackson, 1975)

"The word ‘person’ as used in the fourteenth Amendment, does not include the unborn." ( U.S. Supreme Court, Roe vs. Wade, 1973)

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40 million unborn children have been killed by their parents during the duration of Roe v Wade.
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More information HERE

The pro "choice" crowd are so afraid of the truth

2004-11-16T06:30:00.000-08:00

The pro "choice" crowd are so afraid of the truth...

From "Technology makes start of life clear"

"Dr. Haskell went in with forceps and grabbed the baby's legs and pulled them down into the birth canal. Then he delivered the baby's body and the arms - everything but the head. The doctor kept the baby's head just inside the uterus. The baby's little fingers were clasping and unclasping, and his feet were kicking. Then the doctor stuck the scissors through the back of his head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startled reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. The doctor opened up the scissors, stuck a high-powered suction tube into the opening and sucked the baby's brains out."

After her testimony, support for abortion on demand dwindled. In a 1992 Gallup poll, 34 percent of Americans - the highest percent for any Gallup poll - favored abortion under any circumstance. In 1997, after Shafer's testimony, Gallup found only 22 percent felt that way."

I truly believe that the left, who are by and large "pro abortion on demand", (and called all of the red state people dumb, remember?), need to keep most people ignorant. Because the more people who learn the truth about what the pro abortionists are fighting for, the more people that will oppose them.

The scary thing to me is that the so called "educated" people, the "intellectuals" know the medical and scientific facts, yet still are in favor of having the right to kill an unborn child. In fact, most are violently pro-abortion (err, "pro-choice to kill" sorry). Trying to tell them not to kill an unborn baby is akin to trying to tell a nazi not to kill a Jewish person. You get the exact same arguments. "They are not really human." "They are hurting Germans/mothers chances at a better life." "They are just a lump of tissue and not fully formed human beings." "They would be better off dead than have to live a life so bad." "This is OUR country/body and we can do whatever we want to."

"Earlier this year, Dr. Stuart Campbell of London, England released his research on activities of intra-uterine babies - research conducted via 4-D ultrasounds. Campbell discovered that babies at just eight-weeks gestation move their limbs. At 11- to 12-weeks gestation they leap, turn and jump.

It's been said the results of this year's election were a mandate on moral values. Perhaps they were. More than that though, I believe they were a mandate on the issue of life.

As more and more parents and grandparents see their pre-born children and grandchildren jumping or pulling on their ear while in the womb, more and more will start saying life does begin at conception.

And with that knowledge, the argument that has fueled the abortion debate will naturally fade away."

When will the pro-abortionists admit that it is a child and what they want is simply the right to murder that child for any reason? THAT is the truth, whether they "choose" to believe it, or not.

Abortion as an infant-mortality problem

2004-11-15T09:04:00.000-08:00

From the Washington Times:

"Here's some background to your coverage of the coming clashes over abortion that puts the issue in some international perspective.

The CIA's World Factbook 2004 ranks the United States in the top 40 countries worldwide for infant mortality with 6.63 deaths per thousand live births. At the bottom of the list, Angola checks in at 192.5 deaths per thousand live births. The best country, Singapore, registers just 2.8 deaths per thousand live births.

The Factbook also notes that our birth rate is around 14.1 per thousand in the population. With a total population nearing 300 million, total live births are around 4.15 million annually. Thus our total infant mortality is about 27,000 each year.

Things change if we add lives lost to abortion to the equation. We abort around 1.3 million babies annually in the United States. Applying these deaths to the numbers above, our new infant mortality becomes around 243 deaths per thousand potential live births, which is more than 40 deaths worse than Angola.

It's sobering to think that, in our quest for reproductive convenience, a fetus has a better chance of being born in the worst Third World country than it does in the United States."

PATRICK MCGINN
California, Md.

Some things, such as spontaneous abortion (miscarriage) are not included in the statistics here, but all in all it is an interesting (and beyond tragic) eye opener regarding the slaughter of children being done in America for the sake of convenience. (95% + children are killed by abortion for the sake of "convenience" for the parents)

Woman found mutilated in Iraq

2004-11-14T19:08:00.000-08:00

Full article HERE

"The body of a blonde-haired woman with her legs and arms cut off and throat slit was found lying on the street in Fallujah, a notorious enclave for hostage-takers, marines said.

...the woman was wearing a blue dress and her face was completely disfigured.

Two foreign women have been abducted in Iraq and remain missing. One, Teresa Borcz, 54, a Pole, has blonde hair, the other, British aid worker Margaret Hassan, 59, has chestnut-coloured hair."

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"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not "insurgents" or "terrorists" or "The Enemy". They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow, and they will win." - Michael Moore 4-14-2004

Ya... Right.

It's just wrong

2004-11-13T22:29:00.000-08:00

Great post from "asmallvictory"

"Fifty year old men should not be stomping around a stage in ten inch heels and make up while exhorting the crowd to rock and roll all night and party every day. It's just wrong."

Great read! Read the whole thing HERE

For those who followed the crowd because it is "cool" to be anti-war

2004-11-13T22:14:00.000-08:00

Naysayers' dilemma
by, Kimani Jefferson

"For those who said that the war is all about oil, what do you say about your beloved French, who are pressing the United States to honor the oil contracts they closed with saddam?"

"For those who followed the crowd because it is "cool" to be anti-war, shame on you for riding this wave of idiocy bankrolled by communist and other clandestine organizations that used you like fools."

"Will the naysayers continue to protest? I have no doubt. In the end, I believe that most of this "anti-war" business was and is about nothing more than being anti-Bush."

More...

"To many, it’s like it’s cool to be against war or something."

2004-11-13T22:04:00.000-08:00

"By turns a bitter realist and an eternal optimist, avant-artist Spogga, also known as Mathew Hashway, has never been one to mince words. His opinions, like his music and performance, are often outrageous and unpredictable. This is precisely why we wanted to catch up with him (on the phone and by e-mail) on the eve of his departure in support of one of the jam scene’s biggest names."

Q: Have you been writing lately? What kind of stuff? Has your sound evolved?

A: Well, I really don’t do much writing, but my music has certainly taken on a more political edge, because I feel that, as an artist and an American, I can’t sit by and say nothing. Or worse than nothing, the wrong thing.

Those soldiers in Iraq and our president are so brave and a lot of my anger at Providence artists stems from their total inability to recognize and document that.

To many, it’s like it’s cool to be against war or something. Gimme a break. Having a guitar and saying "no more war" doesn’t make your music or your ideas good, dude.

I’ve always considered myself an open-minded Buddist. (I spell it that way on purpose because I consider myself both Buddhist and Rastafarian, and those beliefs can work hand in hand.) My studies have really shown me that the whole Islam thing can be pretty whack and sometimes you have to stand up for what’s right.

More...

Submission

2004-11-13T08:05:00.000-08:00

Watch the movie that Van Gogh was murdered for HERE. (Adult)

"Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh (yes, that van Gogh) was assassinated November 2, 2004, by a 26-year-old extremist Muslim of Dutch-Moroccan descent. The current theory is that he was taken down for his critical look at the treatment of Muslim women. It's not a documentary, but a metaphorical look at the harsh realities of their lives. (In English with Dutch subtitles.)"

I receive this type of comment a lot, so I thought I would respond.

2004-11-12T16:43:00.000-08:00

"I can't help but wonder why you are against abortion, but you think it's okay for our armed forces to kill innocent Iraqi children and pregnant Iraqi women." -Myst0nia

My response:

I do not think it is "okay" for anyone to kill innocent women and children on purpose, be that Scott Peterson, the French who are slaughtering the civilians on the Ivory Coast right now, the soldiers who killed all of my grandparents in WWII, or the muslims who put dynamite on 12 year old boys to go out and kill innocent Jews.

Now killing those who knew the consequences of their actions is an entirely different thing, and if the terrorists choose to hide behind women and children then the blood is on their hands.

Killing unborn babies for the sake of convenience (95% +) is genocide by any definition. When the anti-war crowd starts defending the weakest of the weak in our society then I will listen to them about whatever they may have to say. As long as their primary enemy is the unborn child then we have nothing to talk about.

I have a friend who is a Buddhist (sp?) and she is not only anti-war, but 100% pro-life. We are completely different (to say the least haha) in our religious belief's, and our stance on whether or not this war was necessary (some wars are, whether we like it or not) is very different. However, both of us are committed to protecting the weakest and most defenseless in our world first. This unites us in a way that surpasses our differences on religion, taxes, social programs, social issues, etc... We both have discussed quite a bit how we wish the slaughter of the unborn would cease so we could get on with the business of arguing about taxes and other such easier topics.

She is not anti-war because she hates the President for other reasons, or because it's cool to protest war, or because it makes her feel "good" or "smart" to be against the war in Iraq. She is anti-war because she loves life... ALL LIFE. Which is why she is also 100% PRO-LIFE for the dear unborn babies who just want to take their first breath, and be held in their mothers arms.

Which is all they want. They just want a chance. The women and children in Iraq are given warning in order to flee the danger areas for the most part. Sometimes they die, just like sometimes people die from car wrecks, or cancer, or drunk drivers no matter how many precautions are taken. But at least they had a chance. The unborn who are ripped limb from limb from their mother's bodies, so that that child will not interfere with her selfish personal plans, are never given a chance to flee. They cannot get away, they cannot avoid the knives that cut through their little bodies or the suction tubes that decapitate them while they scream. They do try to get away... There are films I have seen where the babies squirm away from the butchers weapons, but alas there is no where for them to go. There is no refugee camp for the 1.5 million unborn children murdered in America every year (That's a Sept 11th every day, by the way).

I am not "pro-war", but a war saved my family from extermination and I would not be here if it weren't for the bravery of American soldiers. I am here today because of the Americans deciding to go to Europe and fight against the people who killed nearly my entire family. War is complicated. People died in order to save my parents. Should I be grateful or should I be angry? What would you do? So, I wouldn't say I am "pro-war" but I am definitely "pro-gratitude" to the soldiers who sacrificed EVERYTHING to make my life possible.

My mother, who was in her late 40's when she had me was told by her doctor and family members that she was too old and it might not be healthy for her to have a child again. I am here today because my mother did not think aborting me was a good idea. Once again, I am grateful that I was not killed before I ever had a chance.

So, Americans fighting a war where many German women and children were killed, saved my parents lives and therefore mine. And my mother going against her doctors advice (and suffering somewhat for that decision) and not aborting me, also saved my life. These are complicated things, but one thing I do know is that life is precious. And the mantra of "no blood for oil" just rings so hollow when I see those same screaming women fighting so hard to have the right to spill the blood of their own babies in order to get rid of an inconvenience.

"It is a poverty to decide that a child must die so that you may live as you wish."
-Mother Teresa

"Any country that accepts abortion, is not teaching its people to love, but to use any violence to get what it wants."
-Mother Teresa

"Abortion is the ultimate exploitation of women."
-Alice Paul (author of the original Equal Rights Amendment)

I hope that answers your question.

"I can't help but wonder why you are against killing terrorists who have consciously chosen to risk their lives, but you think it's okay for women to kill their own children."

HOOAH!

2004-11-12T15:15:00.000-08:00

"To those kickin' ass in Fallujah, I thank you!" - Jennifer at A Collection of Thoughts.

I couldn't have said it better... God bless our brave soldiers!

Scott Peterson

2004-11-12T13:22:00.000-08:00

I only wish this verdict could bring back that lovely lady Laci and her baby son Conner. God rest their souls...

"Scott Peterson was convicted Friday of murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay in what prosecutors in the made-for-cable-TV case portrayed as a cold-blooded attempt to escape marriage and fatherhood for the bachelor life." More...

We can't build a just society while killing a million unborn children a year

2004-11-12T09:16:00.000-08:00

From: Francis X. Maier at Rocky Mountain News

"For my wife and her family, being a Catholic meant being a Democrat, and being a Democrat meant fighting for the little guy - literally. That included the poor, the homeless, racial and ethnic minorities, and the unemployed. It also meant defending the unborn child.

For my wife, arguing whether an unborn child was a "full human person" or a "developing human being" was irrelevant - or worse, a kind of lying. The dignity of the unborn life involved was exactly the same, whatever one called it.

In the years since the 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion on demand, my wife and I have struggled many times with the choice of voting Democratic. Our youngest son has Down syndrome, and Democratic policies often benefit the disabled in ways Republican policies don't.

But it's also true that children like our son are becoming extinct in part because the abortion lobby has a stranglehold on the Democratic Party platform, with all that it implies for legislation and judicial appointments. The easiest response to handicapped children is to kill them before they arrive. That's not a solution. That's homicide.

We can't build a just society while killing a million unborn children a year. No matter how much good we try to do, we can't outrun the effects of that most intimate form of violence against women and children."

I know a lot of people who would vote democrat 100% if they would just stop their all out assault on the unborn. How can anyone take a party seriously if they believe in fighting for the rights and lives of serial killers and terrorists, (who knew the consequences of their chosen evil and cruel actions) but fight against the rights of an innocent child who just wants to live.

Did you know that Hitler was a big socialist, and was terrific at getting people working again, getting food to the people who needed it, getting all sorts of social programs off the ground, and getting the trains running on time. If we could have just ignored that little holocaust thing then the world would have been a much more efficient place, eh?

Protect innocent life first and then we can begin to discuss your tax policies and social programs.

Abortion debate becomes clearer as ultrasound images improve

2004-11-11T13:51:00.000-08:00

And the pro-abortionists thought they had science on their side...

"Ultrasound images are already changing the perception of abortion. Once, the idea of fetal humanity was a matter of religious conviction. Now, it is an observable fact. If you don't believe me, go to Google Images on the Internet and type in: Ultrasound, 30 weeks.

The implications are both political and philosophical."

Full article here.

The pro-abortionists (or pro-choice to kill the unborn or any other such "inconvenience" if you prefer) are scared to death of these ultrasounds.

The day after tomorrow

2004-11-11T09:47:00.000-08:00

HAHAHAHAHAHA

Thanks to The Usual Suspects for this hilarious (and oddly true-ringing) diary of a defeated leftie...

The Day After Tomorrow

Nov. 3, 1:03 a.m.: Ack!! NBC just called Ohio for … BUSH! I can't believe it! This is literally the saddest moment since I started this blog at BeatBush.com. After the exit polls earlier today, I started emailing the Hitler Youth over at YoungRepublicans.org that their reign of fascist terror was over! What happened?!!!

Wait — it's only one network (other than Fox, which I don't count). Maybe NBC is wrong. I'm waiting to hear it from someone I trust: Dan Rather at CBS.

Nov. 3, 3:55 a.m.: CBS just called Ohio for Bush. It's over. Screw the upstairs neighbors — I'm cranking some Pearl Jam and swilling a bottle of Jäger.

Nov. 3, 2:25 p.m.: I was just watching Kerry's concession speech. OMG, what a loser. I was screaming at my TV, "Don't concede! Fight! Fight for every vote! What about the provisional ballots? Are you sure Karl Rove didn't steal Ohio, too?" He's such a quitter. No wonder we couldn't beat that idiot Bush. I can't believe the Chimp is going to be president for four more years.

Nov. 3, 2:27 p.m.: Holy Crap! I just realized what this means: The DRAFT! I can't be the only twenty-something progressive in the blogosphere. Why aren't we mobilizing? "Bush lies, we die," remember? What are we going to do? I'm trying to figure out if I filled out that Selective Service thingy when I was in high school. Oh, man — I'm so screwed. I'm going to stop answering my snail mail immediately.

I've got two months worth of Ramen noodles and Red Bull in my storage unit. I'm hiding out until the Dean '08 campaign starts.

Nov. 3, 3:04 p.m.: I just spent half an hour trying to find a flight to Canada, and I've already gotten a dozen postings from readers telling me to calm down. CALM DOWN? Don't you realize the Bush fascists are about to reinstate the draft? Don't you log on to Democrats.org?

I'm also a little peeved with my girlfriend (libblass@death2GOP.net) because she doesn't think we should leave for Canada, like, right NOW. I mean, the freakin' evangelical goose-steppers are about to stomp into her apartment and take away her birth control pills and she acts like it's no big deal!

LET ME BE CLEAR: This "election" was a coup by the right-wing extremists who are going to put women in prison for getting pregnant out of wedlock and ship every job to some Halliburton-run factory in China. Don't you people get it? Weren't you listening to Kerry and Edwards and everyone else?

Screw you all. I'm packing.

Nov. 4, 10:56 a.m.: The Canadian government's web site is slammed, but I finally got through this morning. They've posted a bunch of BS about how Americans have to fill out paperwork and have a stinkin' job before we can come. Apparently Canadians are just as bigoted toward us as we are toward illeg þ I mean "undocumented immigrants" from Mexico. As we all know, secure borders are the first step to a fascist state.

Meanwhile, I've asked a dozen people about going to Canada with me þ and everyone's turned me down! I swear, it's like nobody paid attention to what the Democrats said in this campaign except ME!

We're going to have a draft. Gay couples are going to be arrested. President Nazi McChimp is letting terrorists have access to deadly explosives. Hey — he knew about the last "9/11." What makes you think he doesn't know about the next one? After all, he let Osama get away!

But when I asked GWBraindead@CheneyisSatan.com about going to Toronto with me, he said he couldn't because he just got a great job offer. A JOB? George W. Bush is destroying our jobs and the middle class. Don't believe that crap in the media about 337,000 new jobs being created in October. That's more Karl Rove BS. This is the WORST ECONOMY SINCE HERBERT HOOVER! God, don't you remember anything John Kerry said?

Nov. 4, One Week After "the Coup": I don't understand. Michael Moore has all but proven that Diebold stole Ohio for Bush using corrupt software, The New York Times put the evangelical power grab on the front page, we now know that nobody voted for Bush except Bible-thumpers and illiterates — so why aren't we acting? Where are the protests? Where are the strikes?

C'MON PEOPLE — if you add in the non-voters, we are the MAJORITY! Everybody knows what a disaster Bush is. Who cares if the stock market is going up? Who cares if the economy is growing? Who cares if there hasn't been a successful terrorist attack in America since 9/11? And just because our military is taking more land and killing more "terrorists" in Iraq doesn't mean we're winning. Why should we think their so-called "election" should be any more honest than ours was?

I'm still hoping for some good news before Jan. 20 — a huge military defeat in Iraq, or a stock market crash or recession, something to keep my hopes up. Then maybe Bush could be recalled or even impeached before he takes office. MeetPresidentFokker@diechristiansdie.org says I'm a hopeless optimist. Maybe she's right.

Nov. 12, 11:34 p.m.: I GIVE UP. I was at my favorite wi-fi coffee shop and some a-hole saw my Re-Defeat Bush sticker (which I will NEVER take off my backpack) and made some snide comment about "How many times do you have to 're-defeat' him before you admit he won?" And everyone LAUGHED. Like Bush winning is a joke?

Was Hitler a joke? Was Mussolini a joke? Was Reagan a joke? I poured my heart and soul into doing something positive and hopeful for this country I love. We're the party of compassion. We're the party of reason. We're the party of inclusion and tolerance.

And if those inbred, red-state, redneck Wal-Mart Jesus Freaks don't like it, you can …

[Internet connection lost]

Nothing from Hollywood so far...

2004-11-11T08:27:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Jihad Watch...

"The mere threat to Salman Rushdie was a cause celebre. Roger Simon asks: why are his Hollywood colleagues silent on the death of Theo Van Gogh?

Do they care someone was killed for making a film which protested violent abuse against women? Are they even interested? So far nothing from Hollywood. Not a word that I've heard anyway."

I have been wondering ever since this happened why Hollywood and the lefties aren't in a huge uproar against the murder of Mr. Van Gogh, which was done by muslims because he "dared" to say anything bad about islam.

Where is the uproar? Where are the protests and demands that the islamofascists stop killing artists? Where is Babs, and Affleck and all of those other "smart cool people" who know all about international politics, world religions, and hostage negociation??!!

Help us Barbarawan Kenobi! You're our only hope!

Happy Birthday USMC! 229 years!

2004-11-10T09:12:00.000-08:00

My late brother David was a proud United States Marine. He served his country bravely and well, he loved his family with all of his heart, and he is missed beyond words. Godspeed my brother...

God bless you all and thank you from the bottom of my heart for your sacrifice, courage, and unequalled bravery. God bless the United States Marines!

Which states are more generous? The Reds or the Blues?

2004-11-10T08:19:00.000-08:00

"The Generosity Index, compiled by The Catalogue For Philanthropy"

Thanks to Michelle Malkin again!

Isn't it strange that the liberal states, with all of their money, are the most greedy in the entire nation. Some of the poorest people seem to be giving the most to charity, whereas the rich (and don't forget smart!) people in the Blue states are pretty darn tight-fisted with their giving to the needy.

This chart says A LOT!

Shame on you Massachusetts!

Liberalism is a religion of convenience

2004-11-10T08:08:00.000-08:00

"Like I previously alluded...liberalism is a religion of convenience and its practitioners are out-of-touch loony brats. "

Read the whole thing here...

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Liberalism is for people who have done/are doing things they know in their heart is wrong, and are looking for acceptance so they don't feel so guilty. When what they should be doing, is feeling some shame and guilt, find a way to make amends to those they hurt through their selfishness, and go and sin no more. But then again that takes a lot of work, a lot of selflessness, some struggle, and a strong faith. Things liberals shy away from, if not run away from.

Ich bin ein Jelly Donut

2004-11-09T09:22:00.000-08:00

"He is not forgiven. Ever."

A picture for Michael Moore, by Rodger Schultz

Photos from Fallujah

2004-11-09T08:28:00.000-08:00

Photos from Fallujah you won't see in the MSM.

Amazing photos! Please pray for our brave soldiers.

NUNS ANGER PLANNED PARENTHOOD

2004-11-09T08:25:00.000-08:00

CATHOLIC LEAGUE for Religious and Civil Rights

"Starting today, 27 counties in Illinois are allowing federal workers to select a Catholic-based insurance plan that does not cover abortion, contraceptives or fertility treatment. Run by the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis, OSF HealthPlans is being touted as an example of the faith-based initiatives favored by President Bush.

Gloria Feldt, president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, said the plan was an “inappropriate” use of federal funds, one that “is blatantly designed to foster one religion’s point of view.”

Catholic League president William Donohue responded as follows:
“The taxpayers are forced to fork over a quarter-billion dollars of federal funds each year to support Planned Parenthood’s agenda. But all of a sudden the officials at the so-called pro-choice organization feel threatened by some Catholic nuns and want to deny federal workers freedom of choice. So much for truth in advertising.

“Planned Parenthood is afraid the OSF HealthPlans initiative might catch on, which is why they’d like to kill it now. Having just lost to President Bush—Planned Parenthood Action Fund supported Senator Kerry—the abortion-friendly group fears the country is turning against them. It is. This is one ‘Sister Act’ all Catholics can savor.”"

Did you know that there are 1.5 million unborn children murdered in America every single year, most for the sake of convenience?

That is equal to a 9/11 every single day for a year. Something to think about...

Globes say no Moore

2004-11-09T07:16:00.000-08:00

"The Passion of the Christ" will be considered for Golden Globe awards, but "Fahrenheit 9/11" won't."

I know it's due to technicalities, but I can't help but smile (smirk) a little. =)

Full article here.

Iraqi Christians Face Escalating Violence: Urgent Appeal For Prayer And Action

2004-11-08T22:16:00.000-08:00

Iraqi Christians Face Escalating Violence: Urgent Appeal For Prayer And Action

The Christian community in northern Iraq is facing ever mounting intimidation and violence. Since the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan (15th October) the situation has escalated, with the apparent aim of forcing the Christians out of their homeland. Tens of thousands are fleeing.

International media reported the first incident, when explosions occurred at five churches in Baghdad just after 4.00 a.m. on Saturday 16th October (2nd Ramadan). But the other threats and attacks on Christians go largely unreported. Photographs of three senior bishops in Mosul are being circulated around, with the message that they are agents of the USA, infidels, and action must be taken against them. The church leaders serving the Christian community of Karakush, Mosul, have received two letters from the Islamic militants. The first ordered them to allow Christian women to marry Muslim men (which in Muslim eyes means the women effectively convert to Islam). This, said the letter, would enable the women to be “blessed” and “purified” by their marriages.

The second letter to church leaders, received yesterday 2nd November, announced the militants’ intention of killing one person in every Christian family, as a punishment for the women not covering their heads and not going to university. This follows up pressure and threats from Islamic extremists against all women in Mosul, requiring them to cover their head with the hijab (Islamic headscarf). A Christian woman was killed around 26th October for having her head uncovered. Two other Christian women who were seen bareheaded in a market had nitric acid squirted in their faces. Specific threats about the clothing of female students at Mosul University have so frightened the Christians that an estimated 1,500 Christian women have stopped attending their classes.

Islamic militants are knocking on the doors of Christian homes in Mosul, demanding money. They argue that since the Christians do not contribute weapons and do not fight, they must make a financial donation instead. This follows exactly the model of classical Islam, whereby Christians and Jews were excluded from fighting for the Islamic state but instead required to pay a special tax – jizya – to cover the costs of their protection.

Leaflets are being distributed with the message: “Christians go; leave Iraq.” Word is being passed around in the mosques, telling Muslims not to buy anything from the Christians. Not only are they infidels, it is said, but also they will soon be leaving, so the Muslims will be able to take their homes and property for free.

PRAY

In this grave situation, the Christians in Iraq beg for the prayers of their Christian brothers and sisters elsewhere. Ask the Lord to protect them from those who would harm them, and to fill their hearts with faith and hope.

Please also write to your MP (or other local political representative) asking them to raise the suffering of Christians in Iraq as a matter of utmost urgency with the Foreign Secretary (or equivalent in your country) and call for their immediate intervention to protect Iraqi Christians. Please also write to the US embassy in your country urging a similar course of action.

Barnabas Fund will shortly be sending out a lobbying request through its Rapid Lobbying Network with further information about writing to MPs and others.

Please contact Barnabas Fund if you would like to receive this.

Cute little birds

2004-11-08T16:14:00.000-08:00

Nothing like a bunch of seagulls to relax a troubled mind.

Revenge of the Sith trailer online

2004-11-08T14:17:00.000-08:00

Go see the trailer HERE

200 Things

2004-11-08T13:52:00.000-08:00

This is going around the net lately. I thought it would be interesting to see how many apply to my life so far, and I'm actually kind of surprised at how many I have done. I wrote comments by a few if anyone is interested.

And make sure to take the test yourself... You might be surprised at all the weird things you have actually done! =)

The ones in BOLD are the one's I HAVE DONE.

200 Things

01. Bought everyone in the pub a drink
02. Swam with wild dolphins
03. Climbed a mountain (Several all in North America)
04. Taken a Ferrari for a test drive
05. Been inside the Great Pyramid
06. Held a tarantula. (Have even owned tarantula's)
07. Taken a candlelit bath with someone
08. Said “I love you” and meant it
09. Hugged a tree (I used to have the best climbing tree in the world and yes I did hug it)
10. Done a striptease
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea (Off the coast of Westinsupermare (sp?), England)
14. Stayed up all night long, and watched the sun rise
15. Seen the Northern Lights (Alaska)
16. Gone to a huge sports game (Almost got killed at a football game in England in the 80's between Chelsea and York)
17. Walked the stairs to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa
18. Grown and eaten my own vegetables
19. Touched an iceberg (Alaska)
20. Slept under the stars
21. Changed a baby’s diaper
22. Taken a trip in a hot air balloon
23. Watched a meteor shower
24. Gotten drunk on champagne
25. Given more than you can afford to charity
26. Looked up at the night sky through a telescope
27. Had an uncontrollable giggling fit at the worst possible moment
28. Had a food fight
29. Bet on a winning horse (Santa Anita racetrack)
30. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
31. Asked out a stranger
32. Had a snowball fight
33. Photocopied your bottom on the office photocopier
34. Screamed as loudly as you possibly can
35. Held a lamb (Helped to birth a lamb)
36. Enacted a favorite fantasy
37. Taken a midnight skinny dip
38. Taken an ice cold bath
39. Had a meaningful conversation with a beggar
40. Seen a total eclipse
41. Rode on a roller coaster
42. Hit a home run
43. Fit three weeks miraculously into three days
44. Danced like a fool and not cared who was looking
45. Adopted an accent for an entire day (My friends and I were British for a day at Disneyland once haha)
46. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
47. Actually felt happy about your life, even for just a moment (I'm usually happy about my life as I am very grateful to be here.)
48. Had two hard drives for your computer
49. Visited all 50 states (This was a big deal for my parents, so I had been in all 50 states by age 12.)
50. Loved your job for all accounts
51. Taken care of someone who was drunk
52. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
53. Had amazing friends
54. Danced with a stranger in a foreign country (In 1984 I danced with one of the guys in Kajagoogoo at the Hippodrome in London. I was at the peak of my geekiness)
55. Watched wild whales
56. Stolen a sign (I took one of those orange cones from the street when I was 15 on a dare. Does that count as a "sign"?)
57. Backpacked in Europe (Not Europe, but I did backpack all over Britain)
58. Taken a road-trip (Many)
59. Rock climbing (Since I could walk practically)
60. Lied to foreign government’s official in that country to avoid notice
61. Midnight walk on the beach
62. Sky diving
63. Visited Ireland
64. Been heartbroken longer then you were actually in love
65. In a restaurant, sat at a stranger’s table and had a meal with them
66. Visited Japan
67. Benchpressed your own weight
68. Milked a cow
69. Alphabetized your records
70. Pretended to be a superhero
71. Sung karaoke
72. Lounged around in bed all day
73. Posed nude in front of strangers
74. Scuba diving
75. Got it on to Let’s Get It On by Marvin Gaye
76. Kissed in the rain
77. Played in the mud
78. Played in the rain
79. Gone to a drive-in theater
80. Done something you should regret, but don’t regret it.
81. Visited the Great Wall of China
82. Discovered that someone who’s not supposed to have known about your blog has discovered your blog (Yep! Hi there! haha)
83. Dropped Windows in favor of something better
84. Started a business
85. Fallen in love and not had your heart broken
86. Toured ancient sites (Uxmal was amazing)
87. Taken a martial arts class
88. Swordfought for the honor of a woman
89. Played D&D for more than 6 hours straight
90. Gotten married
91. Been in a movie (Worked with Helen Hunt)
92. Crashed a party
93. Loved someone you shouldn’t have
94. Kissed someone so passionately it made them dizzy
95. Gotten divorced
96. Had sex at the office
97. Gone without food for 5 days
98. Made cookies from scratch
99. Won first prize in a costume contest
100. Rode a gondola in Venice
101. Gotten a tattoo
102. Found that the texture of some materials can turn you on
103. Rafted the Snake River
104. Been on television news programs as an “expert”
105. Got flowers for no reason
106. Masturbated in a public place
107. Got so drunk you don’t remember anything
108. Been addicted to some form of illegal drug
109. Performed on stage
110. Been to Las Vegas
111. Recorded music
112. Eaten shark
113. Had a one-night stand
114. Gone to Thailand
115. Seen Siouxsie live (And X, and the Knitters, and PIL, and Fear, and Black Flag, and many others back when I had blue hair and thought I was tough. haha)
116. Bought a house
117. Been in a combat zone
118. Buried one/both of your parents (My dear mother)
119. Shaved or waxed your pubic hair off
120. Been on a cruise ship
121. Spoken more than one language fluently
122. Gotten into a fight while attempting to defend someone
123. Bounced a check
124. Performed in Rocky Horror
125. Read - and understood - your credit report
126. Raised children
127. Recently bought and played with a favorite childhood toy (Weebles!)
128. Followed your favorite band/singer on tour
129. Created and named your own constellation of stars
130. Taken an exotic bicycle tour in a foreign country
131. Found out something significant that your ancestors did (Quite the scandal!)
132. Called or written your Congress person
133. Picked up and moved to another city to just start over
134. â€¦more than once? - More than thrice?
135. Walked the Golden Gate Bridge
136. Sang loudly in the car, and didn’t stop when you knew someone was looking
137. Had an abortion or your female partner did
138. Had plastic surgery
139. Survived an accident that you shouldn’t have survived
140. Wrote articles for a large publication (Medium publication, but I still count it as a yes)
141. Lost over 100 pounds
142. Held someone while they were having a flashback
143. Piloted an airplane
144. Petted a stingray (VERY slimey!)
145. Broken someone’s heart
146. Helped an animal give birth
147. Been fired or laid off from a job
148. Won money on a T.V. game show
149. Broken a bone
150. Killed a human being
151. Gone on an African photo safari
152. Rode on a motorcycle
153. Driven any land vehicle at a speed of greater than 100 mph
154. Had a body part of yours below the neck pierced
155. Fired a rifle, shotgun, or pistol
156. Eaten mushrooms that were gathered in the wild
157. Rode a horse
158. Had major surgery
159. Had sex on a moving train
160. Had a snake as a pet
161. Hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon
162. Slept through an entire flight: takeoff, flight, and landing
163. Slept for more than 30 hours over the course of 48 hours
164. Visited more foreign countries than U.S. states
165. Visited all 7 continents
166. Taken a canoe trip that lasted more than 2 days
167. Eaten kangaroo meat
168. Fallen in love at an ancient Mayan burial ground (Whoa! I actually did that! His name was Jonathan and it was when I was in 9th grade. He and his brother were in the same tour group as my family and I had such a puppy love for that guy. And it was at a Mayan burial ground where he bought me a Coke. And yes they DO sell Cocacola at Mayan burial grounds... Well, at least they did in the 80's! So, once again... Whoa!)
169. Been a sperm or egg donor
170. Eaten sushi
171. Had your picture in the newspaper (All the time, as I used to have my own column)
172. Had 2 (or more) healthy romantic relationships for over a year in your lifetime
173. Changed someone’s mind about something you care deeply about
174. Gotten someone fired for their actions
175. Gone back to school
176. Parasailed
177. Changed your name
178. Petted a cockroach (We had a few Madagascar hissing roaches as pets. Interesting little guys)
179. Eaten fried green tomatoes
180. Read The Iliad
181. Selected one “important” author who you missed in school, and read (Doyle)
182. Dined in a restaurant and stolen silverware, plates, cups because your apartment needed them
183. …and gotten 86'ed from the restaurant because you did it so many times, they figured out it was you
184. Taught yourself an art from scratch
185. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
186. Apologized to someone years after inflicting the hurt
187. Skipped all your school reunions
188. Communicated with someone without sharing a common spoken language
189. Been elected to public office
190. Written your own computer language
191. Thought to yourself that you’re living your dream
192. Had to put someone you love into hospice care
193. Built your own PC from parts
194. Sold your own artwork to someone who didn’t know you
195. Had a booth at a street fair
196: Dyed your hair
197: Been a DJ
198: Found out someone was going to dump you via Blogger
199: Written your own role playing game
200: Been arrested

"Don’t do it . . . we can still talk about it."

2004-11-08T10:54:00.000-08:00

Thanks to the Belmont Club for this:

Theo van Gogh, the film maker who had often attacked radical Muslims, had been riding along on his bicycle when a Muslim fanatic first shot and then butchered him on a busy street with the nonchalance of an abattoir worker. ... Now other people were being targeted, too, as evidence emerged of a "brigade" of Dutch jihadists preparing to murder "the enemies of Islam" in a terror campaign that would be easier to carry out than the bombing of trains or heavily guarded government buildings.

He was not the only one to be threatened. "There will be no mercy" said a document that the killer had held over van Gogh's chest before skewering it there with a final knife blow to his heart. By then van Gogh, 47, had been shot several times and was seen by one witness on his knees, pleading with his assailant, "Don’t do it . . . we can still talk about it." The response was a knife to the throat. The killer sawed through the neck and spinal column, almost to the point of decapitating him."

The islamofascists DO NOT want to "talk". Their own holy book demands that they kill anyone who "insults islam". And of course that whole "insulting" thing is relative, so we really aren't sure whether or not we are "insulting" them or their little god.

Remember that movie a few years ago called "Independence Day" with Will Smith? Remember the part down in the Area 51 basement where the alien is choking the scientist, and the President says to the alien... "Can there be a peace between us?" And the alien replies, "No peace."

The President then asks the alien, "What do you want us to do?" To which the alien replies, "Die."

Sound familiar?

Marines turn to God ahead

2004-11-08T09:50:00.000-08:00

Marines turn to God ahead of anticipated Fallujah battle

"With US forces massing outside Fallujah, 35 marines swayed to Christian rock music and asked Jesus Christ to protect them in what could be the biggest battle since American troops invaded Iraq last year.

Men with buzzcuts and clad in their camouflage waved their hands in the air, M-16 assault rifles laying beside them, and chanted heavy metal-flavoured lyrics in praise of Christ late Friday in a yellow-brick chapel.

They counted among thousands of troops surrounding the city of Fallujah, seeking solace as they awaited Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's decision on whether or not to invade Fallujah.

"You are the sovereign. You're name is holy. You are the pure spotless lamb," a female voice cried out on the loudspeakers as the marines clapped their hands and closed their eyes, reflecting on what lay ahead for them.

The US military, with many soldiers coming from the conservative American south and midwest, has deep Christian roots.

In times that fighting looms, many soldiers draw on their evangelical or born-again heritage to help them face the battle.

"It's always comforting. Church attendance is always up before the big push," said First Sergeant Miles Thatford.

"Sometimes, all you've got is God."

Between the service's electric guitar religious tunes, marines stepped up on the chapel's small stage and recited a verse of scripture, meant to fortify them for war.

One spoke of their Old Testament hero, a shepherd who would become Israel's king, battling the Philistines some 3,000 years ago.

"Thus David prevailed over the Philistines," the marine said, reading from scripture, and the marines shouted back "Hoorah, King David," using their signature grunt of approval.

The marines drew parallels from the verse with their present situation, where they perceive themselves as warriors fighting barbaric men opposed to all that is good in the world.

"Victory belongs to the Lord," another young marine read.

Their chaplain, named Horne, told the worshippers they were stationed outside Fallujah to bring the Iraqis "freedom from oppression, rape, torture and murder ... We ask you God to bless us in that effort."

The marines then lined up and their chaplain blessed them with holy oil to protect them.

"God's people would be annointed with oil," the chaplain said, as he lightly dabbed oil on the marines' foreheads.

The crowd then followed him outside their small auditorium for a baptism of about a half-dozen marines who had just found Christ.

The young men lined up and at least three of them stripped down to their shorts.

The three laid down in a rubber dinghy filled with water and the chaplain's assistant, Navy corpsman Richard Vaughn, plunged their heads beneath the surface.

Smiling, Vaughn baptised them "in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit."

Dripping wet, Corporal Keith Arguelles beamed after his baptism.

"I just wanted to make sure I did this before I headed into the fight," he said on the military base not far from the city of Fallujah."

Godspeed my brothers... And know that you have already won through the blood of the Lamb that was slain. Death has already been conquered. You are all in my prayers and my thoughts.

Please Lord, protect our soldiers as they fight to bring freedom and Your Holy Name to Babylon. The first is last and the last was first. Your return is soon and we pray that YOUR WILL BE DONE. Please watch over our brave soldiers, wrap your arms around them, send all of your angels to fight beside them, and keep them safe beneath the shadow of your wings. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. Amen.

My late brother David was a Marine and I know just how strong you all are. God bless, Godspeed, and our prayers are with each and every one of you. God love you!

Vayo con Dios...

Of Star Wars and Sims...

2004-11-08T09:12:00.000-08:00

My dear husband bought me the Star Wars Trilogy AND Sims 2 this weekend! What a wonderful surpirse! I am so spoiled. =)

I know this will cause all classic OT Star Wars fans to fall on the floor foaming at the mouth... But I LOVED the new versions! They were clean and bright and I really enjoyed the new critters. Whatever Lucas did with the final Deathstar scene in ROTJ he did perfectly. These movies looked brand new and even the weird black line that was always on the Emperor's face in ROTJ was gone! And to see the young Anakin ghost was the icing on the cake. I cannot wait to see Ep III! And yes, I enjoy the Prequels and think they are nearly as much fun as the OT. Oh, and the DVD extras were terrific, especially the making of EP III. Although it's tough to beat the rise and fall of R2D2 that was on the AOTC extras hahaha.

Everytime I see anything Star Wars it brings me back to my childhood, where my parents would let me skip school for the day to go wait in line with them to see the movies on opening day. What a bunch of geeks we all were... But happy geeks that were together. I wouldn't trade all the "coolness" in the world for those wonderful memories. And now my own kids love the SW series, which gives me such a smile on my face. Not to mention my husband IS Han Solo, his big Shepherd IS Chewbacca, and his car definitely IS the Millenium Falcon! =)

(To tell you just how geeky I was as a kid... My friends (in jr. high school band even, haha) and I would dress as Leia every friday and would obsess over the minute details of the Star Wars universe. Ahhh, those were the days.)

I played Sims2 last night for a couple of hours with my daughter and we had a great time! It is similar enough to the original so that it is comfortable and relaxing (I play Riddick if I need a more adrenaline laced game), but there are enough new things to make it a whole new sim adventure. I particularly like the nice morph they did of Simcity (I hated simcity4!) and Sims. You have a lot more control over the towns and their structure, and commercial lots are included. And the detail you can put into each character is amazing. Even better than Tigerwoods Golf. (My TW2005 character looks so much like me it's eerie! haha) I am looking forward to seeing the expansions for this new series, especially the pets, which was my favorite Sims expansion.

The next games we are looking forward to getting are ZooTycoon2, Ghostrecon2, and Halo2,. I would like to get EQ2, but my computer just cannot handle it. I used to hate console gaming after the huge Nintendo64 disappointment, and went 100% pc. But now that the games are requiring videocards that could forge a manned landing of mars, I am appreciating the whole "put it in and it works without telling me I need some mysterious driver" thing.

Flowers and jewelry may be quite continental, but Star Wars and Sims are a girls best friend. Thanks honey! =)

Oh, and the Trilogy is in WIDESCREEN. Please everyone... Just let go of the myth that because you paid for a 27" screen you MUST use every square inch of it or you feel scammed. Full screen is actually cut up scenes that are pasted in weird ways and it is NOT the real movie. Widescreen is the movie as it was intended and it doesn't cut anything up. If you simply cannot stand the black lines you see on your tv, then go buy a widescreen tv. Of course then you will have lines on the sides when you watch regular tv, but oh well...

May the force be with you! =)

Boy, do they hate Bush here

2004-11-08T07:19:00.000-08:00

"It's a good thing Europeans don't vote in American elections. If they did, chances are President Bush would have been trounced.

The 43rd President of the United States may have won a powerful vote of confidence from his countrymen, but an awful lot of sour Europeans - not to mention a significant number of bitter Asians, Africans and Middle Easterners - still consider him an international bad guy.

It's not just the war in Iraq. It is the President's very American sense of decisive, strong leadership; of placing U.S. security (and that of the entire free world) above diplomatic niceties. In Europe's twisted thinking, Bush is nothing more than the epitome of the "Ugly American," the arrogant, gun-toting cowboy many Europeans and other non-Americans love to hate out of their own sense of inferiority, jealousy, bitterness and often downright ignorance of facts and figures..."MORE

Do the Europeans mean the "arrogant, gun-toting cowboy's" that saved their collective behinds at least twice now, and with the islamic invasion that is going on there possibly a third?

But when they come crying again (and they will... just take a look at what is happening to Sweden and The Netherlands) our brave, "arrogant", gun-toting cowboys will heed the call and go off to once again save those begging for rescue from the mean fascist invaders.

France seems to have forgotten that lovely picture of Hitler standing happily by their little tower. Like the saying goes... Why does Paris have so many trees? Answer: So that the nazi's can have shade when they come marching into town.

Poland the brave, however, remembers....

One last gloat after the election

2004-11-08T07:02:00.000-08:00

One last gloat and it's a good one =) And it's all in good fun everyone, but if you are a particularly sensitive liberal then please take a pass on this one.

"It is important to reach out to Kerry voters after the election and give them an important message..."

AFTER THE ELECTION!

Shut up and sing

2004-11-07T09:04:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Bloodletting for a good synopsis of why we cannot stand liberals.

"It's these f*******s telling us that they know what's best for us. It's the fact that adults who have been entirely capable of running their own lives are being treated like spiteful children for the simple fact that they didn't just shut up and go along with what the self-appointed "superiors" thought they should do."

Bingo!

Average every day Americans are NOT stupid, and they are getting sick and tired of "celebrities" and "intellectuals" telling them they are. We average Americans are getting completely fed up with the "elite" and "cool" people telling us how we should live our lives, how we should think, and what is best for our families.

The liberal left elite is angry at us because they think of the rest of us as being stupid children, or dumb primates, or some such insulting and degrading view, and we didn't do what "they", the "smart" "clever" and "educated" elite told us was best for us.

They think we cannot survive without their "knowledge" or handouts. They think that we are like little pets that should do their bidding and get our little cookie for a reward. Well, clicker training crap doesn't work with protection dog training and it won't work with the REAL Americans.

It is always funny to watch a clicker trainer cry when the mean German Shepherd won't "just do what she asks". And it was equally funny to watch the liberals cry when the "stupid" American people didn't do what they asked us to do. They still do not understand that we don't want their cookies, especially in exchange for our dignity.

One thing REAL Americans have in common is that they hate being told what to do by people they know are just giant windbags, but who think they are wise and clever. It is one of the reasons we kicked England out of here over 200 years ago.

All of you "celebrities" need to shut the heck up and sing/act/dance. Your opinions don't count any more than anyone elses. Your money does not make you better, your purchased looks do not make you smarter, and your education does not make you wiser. So, once again... Shut up and sing.

Jihad in Arizona

2004-11-07T08:22:00.000-08:00

"For nearly two decades, the most important nexus for international jihad outside of Pakistan and the Middle East has been Arizona"

Thanks to Jihad Watch for this.

"There are 59 references to Arizona in the 9/11 Commission Report. But it tells only a fragment of the story when it comes to terrorists in the Grand Canyon State. A joint FBI-CIA analysis titled Arizona: Long Range Nexus for Islamic Extremists remains classified. Its existence was revealed for the first time when the 9/11 Commission released its final report this summer. But the long-standing link between Islamic terrorists and the Arizona desert has been in the public record for years–and it’s centered dead on Tucson, and in particular, the Islamic Center of Tucson (ICT).

For nearly two decades, the most important nexus for international jihad outside of Pakistan and the Middle East has been Arizona.

It’s not clear quite how or why the state has attracted what seems to be more than its fair share of individuals linked to terrorist organizations over the years. Experts have posited that the familiar desert climate; the anonymity provided by life in cities outside New York, California, and D.C.; and the easy access to a wealth of flight-training schools all played a role. But the most ominous explanation came from FBI agent Kenneth Williams, the author of the now infamous “Phoenix Memo.” In his testimony to a congressional committee in 2003, he said, “These people don’t continue to come back to Arizona because they like the sunshine or they like the state. I believe that something was established there, and I think it’s been there for a long time.” "

And through peace and tolerance arrived the destruction of many...

Netherlands braces for 'jihad'

2004-11-06T07:38:00.000-08:00

It's about time someone in Europe realized that the islamofascists want THEM dead too and not just Americans. Terrible shame it had to take the jihad murder of Mr. Van Gogh in order to wake people up to the devils in their midst.

"The Dutch government yesterday vowed tough measures against what a leading politician called "the arrival of jihad in the Netherlands" after a death threat to a Dutch lawmaker was found spiked with a knife to the body of a slain filmmaker by his radical Muslim attacker."

"These people don't want to change our society, they want to destroy it," he said.

Yep! That is EXACTLY what they want to do, there, here, and everywhere.

Full article HERE.

When the man comes around

2004-11-06T07:30:00.000-08:00

When the man comes around.

Care for the Weak? Evolution versus Christianity

2004-11-06T07:12:00.000-08:00

Excellent article. Thank you to Blogorithm!

Care for the Weak? Evolution versus Christianity

"Charles Darwin is a well known humanist who is often credited with the conception of evolution. While modern evolutionists are inconsistent in their application of a man-centered philosophy Charles Darwin was not. He writes:

With savages, the weak in body and mind are soon eliminated; and those that survive commonly exhibit a vigorous state of health. We civilised men, on the other hand, do our utmost to check the process of elimination; we build asylums for the imbecile, the maimed and the sick; we institute poor laws; and our medical men exert their utmost skill to save the life of everyone to the last moment. There is reason to believe that vaccination has preserved thousands who, from a weak constitution, would formerly have succumbed to smallpox. Thus the weak members of civilised society propagate their kind. No one who has attended to the breeding of domestic animals will doubt that this must be highly injurious to the race of man. It is surprising how soon a want of care, or care wrongly directed, leads to the degeneration of a domestic race; but, excepting in the case of man himself, hardly anyone is so ignorant as to allow his worst animals to breed. The aid which we feel impelled to give to the helpless is mainly an incidental result of the instinct of sympathy, which was originally acquired as part of the social instincts, but subsequently rendered in the manner previously indicated more tender and more widely diffused. Nor can we check our sympathy, even without deterioration in the noblest part of our nature ... We must, therefore, bear the undoubtedly bad effects of the weak surviving and propagating their kind.’ – Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, Second edition, pp. 133–134, 1887.

Certainly abortion, euthanasia and other obviously reprehensible practices follow directly from Darwin's philosophy of man. One wonders why scientists (humanistic ones) are trusted for answers that motivate social engineering. Contrast Darwin's statements with Christianisty, in which the strength of God is shown through ministry to the weak and oppressed:

* Matthew 22:39 "The second is like it, ‘YOU SHALL LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF.’
* Matthew 9:12 But when Jesus heard [this,] He said, "[It is] not those who are healthy who need a physician, but those who are sick.
* Matthew 14:14 When He went ashore, He saw a large crowd, and felt compassion for them and healed their sick.
* James 1:27 Pure and undefiled religion in the sight of [our] God and Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their distress, [and] to keep oneself unstained by the world.
* Psalms 82:3 Vindicate the weak and fatherless; Do justice to the afflicted and destitute.
* Psalms 82:4 Rescue the weak and needy; Deliver [them] out of the hand of the wicked.

You are not an insignificant evolutionary building block but rather a sinner who God sent His son, Jesus Christ, to redeem through the sacrifice of His precious blood."

by blogorithm

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The farther away from the Judeo/Christian morals we move the more acts of absolute horror we will see.

If an unborn child has the same DNA as the born child, then it is a child. Human beings are human beings regardless of color, gender, ethnicity, or age. One never ceases to be a human being no matter what happens. Scientifically a human being is a human being at the moment of conception. Has anyone ever proven this to be not so?

But the pro abortionists believe that a baby (who is as human as you are) is NOT a human and is merely a lump of "tissue". Which is pretty much what the nazi's said about the Jewish people, and what some have believed about people with a different color of skin, and what some men have believed about women (what do you think they mean when they call you a piece of ***?).

If we allow the reducing of anyone (or a particular group of people, say by age) to the status of "non-human" then it can just as easily happen to each one of us. It HAS happened before, it IS happening now, and there are people working night and day to make the genocide spread to other classes of people.

If we are only animals, only lumps of tissue then we are ALL expendable and we are all basically worthless. If we can kill an unborn baby because they are "inconvenient" (95% + of abortions are done for convenience and not the health of the mother or from rape/incest) then what is stopping us from killing the seniors who are in nursing homes costing the state a lot of money? Are we really that far away from asking them to volunteer to be "put to sleep" so that their children and grandchildren won't be so "burdened" with their care?

Atheists are afraid of Christians because they are basically afraid of God and his accountability and consequences. Jesus told us they would hate us because they hated HIM first. I am afraid of atheists because if they believe I am nothing but a lump of tissue that has no value at all, then what is stopping them from killing me if I get inconvenient?

And now the culture of death wants to clone children, kill them, and use their parts in medical experiments. Hmm... An entire class of people who exist only to be used by others against their will, and killed at the whim of the doctors for the "benefit of others". Where did we hear that one before?

Oh, what a brave new world we live in...

Come quickly Lord Jesus!

Holland: "Thou Shalt Not Kill" = racism

2004-11-05T16:24:00.000-08:00

Thanks to Jihadwatch for this.

"I wrote at some length yesterday about Muslim advocacy groups crying "racism" at any hint of criticism — but this one is far beyond that. It shows that large numbers of Muslims do not share many of the values that most Westerners assume they share. It also shows that at least some are demanding that the Dutch abandon all vestiges of Christianity in their culture.

The blogspot Live From Brussels (thanks to all who alerted me to this) tells us about Dutch artist Chris Ripke, who painted a mural containing the words "Thou shalt not kill" ("Gij zult niet doden") in response to the murder of Theo van Gogh:

But because the head of the nearby mosque complained to the police that this was 'offensive' and 'racist', the cops came and sent in city workers to sandblast the mural. A local journalist, Wim Nottroth, who wanted to protest against this by standing in front of the mural was arrested. His story, in Dutch, here. Video of the event, here. It has come to this."

Europe really should clean up their own mess before they start telling us what to do. Unbelievable that they would cowtow to the islamofascists crying "racism"! Waah!

The people of Europe have been disarmed and weakened to a point almost beyond hope. They are all set up for a complete islamic invasion and the resulting "submit or be beheaded with a dull knife" consequence. I wonder who Europe will call when once again they find themselves taken over in the middle of the night by fascist bully boys?

Bloggahland Map

2004-11-05T15:50:00.000-08:00

Added the new Bloggahland Map. The Moonbats don't stand a chance.

Schadenfreude.

US is moving steadily and solidly to the right

2004-11-05T13:02:00.000-08:00

Thanks to LLama Butchers...

"Put plainly, the US is moving steadily and solidly to the right. That poses a problem for Democrats, who have to learn to speak to the people of those red states if they are ever to hold power again. But it also poses a problem for America, which has somehow to house two radically diverging cultures in one nation. And it may even pose a problem for the rest of the world’s peoples, as they watch the sole superpower, the indispensable nation, chart a course they fear — and barely understand."

Full article here.

Things are definitely going to get interesting...

It's Time to Bridge the Painful Divide and Apologize

2004-11-05T13:00:00.000-08:00

Many thanks to Cinnamon Girl over at Freerepublic!

"The country is clearly divided and being divided feels yukky to some people. A lot of rough-housing and mean-spirited campaigning went on during this election year. Name calling like 'girlie-men' and 'unpatriotic' and 'losers' may have hurt the feelings of emotionally vulnerable individuals. Those same individuals were probably the ones to get the balls spiked into their faces during high school dodgeball games. And that can hurt. Especially if you're wearing glasses and headgear.

Anyway, IT'S HIGH TIME TO APOLOGIZE AND HEAL THE WOUNDS. PRESIDENT BUSH IS A UNITER, NOT A DIVIDER, as Nancy Pelosi reiterated today. And while President Bush may not be waiting for an apology, an apology is DUE.

It's time for elected democrats to apologize for perpetuating the LIE that President Bush would reinstate the draft. I don't expect MTV or P.Dummy to know better, but elected officials like Charles Rangel of New York shouldn't LIE like a cheap rug to the American people.

Time for John Kerry and John Edwards to apologize to the entire Cheney family for bringing up the private life of one of their children in not one, but two separate debates.

Time for Tom Daschle and Barbara Boxhead to apologize for having an official screening of the propaganda piece 'Fahrenheit 911' and thereby suggesting that there is anything factual or meaningful about Michael Moore's fecal-like attack on President Bush.

Time for the NAACP to apologize to the country for being a well funded arm of the democrat party that continues to serve up total LIES about the Republican party with the tired mantra 'they're racists' while trashing Justice Clarence Thomas and National Security Advisor Condoleeza Rice.

Time for Joe Lieberman to apologize personally to President Bush for campaigning on behalf of John Kerry in Florida and not telling Jewish voters honestly and directly that President Bush is the best friend Israel has ever had in Washington.

Time for John Kerry to apologize to the elderly for LYING about social security AGAIN, and telling them Bush would flush their checks and cut them off. Once again, the Dems demostrate that they can't count on the truth to win them votes, so they need to go for the LIES.

Time for John Edwards to apologize on behalf of his party for misrepresenting the situation in Iraq and selling the efforts of the military down the river by trying to paint the situation as another 'quagmire Vietnam.' A lot of people believed you, and it was a LIE.

Time for Ted Kennedy to apologize for EVER running for office or allowing himself to be re-elected over and over. The people of Massachusetts are obviously too STUPID (not my family, of course) to know better, but it is UNCALLED FOR to subject the entire country to your drunken crap.

I could go on, but you get the point. It's time to act like civilized human beings, stop the LIES, and apologize to all Republicans, and do not DARE carry on for four years about the GIGANTIC RIFT you accuse President Bush, a decent and good man, of causing in the country.""

AMEN!!!

Liberals are SO tolerant aren't they?

2004-11-05T12:37:00.000-08:00

The unteachable ignorance of the red states.

Isn't it lovely how non-judgemental, tolerant, non-racist, and unprejudiced the liberals are?

Oh, and Miss Smiley... It was the democrats that were pro slavery before and during the Civil War. It is also the democrats that are pushing abortion in the areas where minorities live in order to bring about the mass genocide of people of color. Don't believe me? Then have a look HERE.

Just a minor detail you forgot to mention about your party of group hugs and cleverly disguised racism/sexism and hatred of God.

Wheeeeee! And I'm ignorant? =)

The lefties sure are having major meltdowns since they lost the election by practically EVERYONE.

Light overcomes the darkness

2004-11-05T10:05:00.000-08:00

Bush Victory a Resounding Public Assertion of Traditional Moral Values

"George Bush's victory is being lauded as the victory of traditional morality over the popular liberal relativism espoused equally by John Kerry and the New York Times. Exit polls are showing that significant percentages of voters cited 'moral values,'- at 22% - as the most important issue upon which to vote. The issue garnering the most media attention, the war in Iraq, came last at 15% in a survey by Edison Media Research and Mitofsky."

"For perhaps the first time in US history, the line between traditional moral certitudes and 'postmodern' moral relativism was nakedly apparent even to the liberally disposed mainstream media."

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Matthew 10:34-36
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword. For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law. And a man's foes [shall be] they of his own household."

There will ALWAYS be division among those who love the light and those who love the dark, until the Lord returns. There can be no unity between dark and light, because the light will ALWAYS overcome the darkness. The liberals hate us and the President because we remind them of their slavery to sin. Jesus said that they hated HIM before they hated us, so we should not be surprised. And you know what? I'm not surprised. What DID surprise me however is that the left relied on calling EVERYONE except themselves "stupid" "dumb" "idiot" etc... But that's a different post. =)

John 1:5
"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not."

The liberals do not understand the Bible or God no matter how hard they try with their "educated intellect". All of their education brings no wisdom. I have met people from extremely impoverished countries, with NO education that far FAR exceeded any liberal I have EVER met in wisdom. I would rather live in a tent with uneducated bumpkin Christians, than live in Beverly Hills mansion with "educated" God hating "progressives".

All the left reads in the Bible are rules and regulations. They frequently whine, "how DARE God say that!" and cry about God trying to take away their freedom to engage in their "if it feels good, do it" lifestyle, including killing the unborn.

They are so deep into their denial and their sin that they cannot even see the joy and Grace that is offered freely by our Lord. They look for the bad in everyone and deny the good. If millions of Christians struggle every day to do the right thing, the left takes no notice. But if a single Christian messes up then the left screams "hypocrite!!!" all day long. Their blindness would be sad if it wasn't used as an excuse to drag the rest of us into their dark pit of moral relativism.

John 3:19
"And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil."

The liberals want to be able to commit any sin they feel like and suffer no consequences for it. THAT is what is behind their agenda. That and an overwhelming desire to justify their sinful behavior.

This election really brought to light the two sides:

Those that love the light, and believe that there is still good in this world and it is worth fighting for, worth suffering for, and worth dying for. There is REAL freedom in the light, and a narrow road that gets wider and freer as it goes along.

And those that love the darkness, with its blind, blissfully ignorant temporary peace. There is REAL slavery in the darkness... But through very cunning lies, those that are enslaved believe they are free. This road begins wide, but all too soon becomes more and more narrow, until the traveller is trapped beyone hope.

We battle not against flesh and blood....

Moonbat checklist

2004-11-04T15:41:00.000-08:00

1. Expression that Americans are stupid...check
2. Disdain for prosperity...check
3. Using morally equivalent term 'violence' to describe defense...check
4. Confusing European perfidy with sophistication...check
5. Elitist...check
6. Arrogant...CHECK
7. Anti-American fantasizing...check"

Hahahaha... It's SO true! Liberals are so silly. =)

Thanks to LGF

Suspected Islamist killing tests Dutch tolerance

2004-11-04T13:53:00.000-08:00

"The killing of a filmmaker critical of Islam puts new strains on Dutch traditions of tolerance and will fuel demands for tougher treatment of immigrants, analysts and commentators said on Wednesday.

Theo van Gogh, who angered Muslims with a film that said Islam encouraged violence against women, was shot dead on Tuesday. A man with Dutch and Moroccan nationality was arrested for the killing, and suspected of Islamic extremist motives."
-snip-

"A survey last week showed that a majority of Dutch said they expected to no longer feel at home in their own neighbourhood in five years due to the rising number of foreigners. In the three biggest cities, immigrants make up about a third of the population and form a majority among young people."

Full article

Tolerance, tolerance, people...

Schadenfreude

2004-11-04T13:16:00.000-08:00

Catwoman: "I went to work today, but came back home after an hour

My mind is reeling, I keep bursting out in tears..."

More Schadenfreude HERE

Elizabeth Edwards diagnosed with breast cancer

2004-11-04T11:58:00.000-08:00

Sad news. She and her family are in my prayers. I lost my mother to cancer and it is a nasty disease. Please pray for Mrs. Edwards that all goes well, she has a speedy return to health, and that she lives a long and happy life.

Story here

Cabinet meeting today

2004-11-04T09:31:00.000-08:00

I still cannot contain my happiness at knowing that the adults will be in charge for another 4 years.

President Bush Thanks Americans in Wednesday Acceptance Speech

2004-11-03T13:21:00.001-08:00

For Immediate Release
Office of the Press Secretary
November 3, 2004

President Bush Thanks Americans in Wed. Acceptance Speech
Remarks by the President in Acceptance Speech
The Ronald Reagan Building
Washington, D.C.

3:08 P.M. EST

THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you all for coming. We had a long night -- and a great night. (Applause.) The voters turned out in record numbers and delivered an historic victory. (Applause.)

Earlier today, Senator Kerry called with his congratulations. We had a really good phone call, he was very gracious. Senator Kerry waged a spirited campaign, and he and his supporters can be proud of their efforts. (Applause.) Laura and I wish Senator Kerry and Teresa and their whole family all our best wishes.

America has spoken, and I'm humbled by the trust and the confidence of my fellow citizens. With that trust comes a duty to serve all Americans, and I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as your President. (Applause.)

There are many people to thank, and my family comes first. (Applause.) Laura is the love of my life. (Applause.) I'm glad you love her, too. (Laughter.) I want to thank our daughters, who joined their dad for his last campaign. (Applause.) I appreciate the hard work of my sister and my brothers. I especially want to thank my parents for their loving support. (Applause.)

I'm grateful to the Vice President and Lynne and their daughters, who have worked so hard and been such a vital part of our team. (Applause.) The Vice President serves America with wisdom and honor, and I'm proud to serve beside him. (Applause.)

I want to thank my superb campaign team. I want to thank you all for your hard work. (Applause.) I was impressed every day by how hard and how skillful our team was. I want to thank Marc -- Chairman Marc Racicot and -- (applause) -- the Campaign Manager, Ken Mehlman. (Applause.) And the architect, Karl Rove. (Applause.) I want to thank Ed Gillespie for leading our Party so well. (Applause.)

I want to thank the thousands of our supporters across our country. I want to thank you for your hugs on the rope lines; I want to thank you for your prayers on the rope lines; I want to thank you for your kind words on the rope lines. I want to thank you for everything you did to make the calls and to put up the signs, to talk to your neighbors and to get out the vote. (Applause.) And because you did the incredible work, we are celebrating today. (Applause.)

There's an old saying, "Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks." In four historic years, America has been given great tasks, and faced them with strength and courage. Our people have restored the vigor of this economy, and shown resolve and patience in a new kind of war. Our military has brought justice to the enemy, and honor to America. (Applause.) Our nation has defended itself, and served the freedom of all mankind. I'm proud to lead such an amazing country, and I'm proud to lead it forward. (Applause.)

Because we have done the hard work, we are entering a season of hope. We'll continue our economic progress. We'll reform our outdated tax code. We'll strengthen the Social Security for the next generation. We'll make public schools all they can be. And we will uphold our deepest values of family and faith.

We will help the emerging democracies of Iraq and Afghanistan -- (applause) -- so they can grow in strength and defend their freedom. And then our servicemen and women will come home with the honor they have earned. (Applause.) With good allies at our side, we will fight this war on terror with every resource of our national power so our children can live in freedom and in peace. (Applause.)

Reaching these goals will require the broad support of Americans. So today I want to speak to every person who voted for my opponent: To make this nation stronger and better I will need your support, and I will work to earn it. I will do all I can do to deserve your trust. A new term is a new opportunity to reach out to the whole nation. We have one country, one Constitution and one future that binds us. And when we come together and work together, there is no limit to the greatness of America. (Applause.)

Let me close with a word to the people of the state of Texas. (Applause.) We have known each other the longest, and you started me on this journey. On the open plains of Texas, I first learned the character of our country: sturdy and honest, and as hopeful as the break of day. I will always be grateful to the good people of my state. And whatever the road that lies ahead, that road will take me home.

The campaign has ended, and the United States of America goes forward with confidence and faith. I see a great day coming for our country and I am eager for the work ahead. God bless you, and may God bless America. (Applause.)

END 3:18 P.M. EST

CONGRATULATIONS AND GOD BLESS YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!!!!

2004-11-03T13:21:00.000-08:00

I am SO proud of my fellow Americans for voting to elect such a wonderful, strong, patriotic man for President of the United States. I am SO proud of my fellow Americans for not doing what Osama, the UN, the Europeans, Hollywood, or anyone else said to do. We are the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and WE THE PEOPLE voted for President George W. Bush to be our leader for the next 4 years! So there! HA!

The Presidency is ours! The House is ours! The Senate is ours! And soon the Supreme Court will be ours! You hear that sound liberals?! That is the sound of your precious culture of immorality, secularism, communism, and death being overturned!

It's a MANDATE baby!

CONGRATULATIONS AND GOD BLESS YOU PRESIDENT BUSH!!!!

Kerry concedes

2004-11-03T12:08:00.000-08:00

Kerry concedes... Drones on and on and on... blah blah blah healthcare blah blah blah

All your election are belong to us!

2004-11-03T08:44:00.000-08:00

hehehe (Yes, I'm gloating AND I don't care that it bothers anyone! So, wah!)

MANDATE BABY!!!

2004-11-03T06:47:00.000-08:00

President George W. Bush won the election with more votes than anyone, EVER!

Even with the biased rock the vote, biased and LYING MSM, whining from hollywood, biased foreigners pushing for Kerry, biased schools, Osama stumping for Kerry, and the millions of dollars spent by George Soros, the good people in this nation came out to fight the pro terrorist, pro abortionist, communist elitest Kerry and elect President George W. Bush for four more years!!!

I am SO HAPPY that we Americans didn't listen to the foreigners and islamofascists, and their "advice" for our nation! It must kill the liberals that they did all of that work and yet STILL we voted for Bush.

Oh, I LOVE the smell of liberal whining and crying in the morning... Keep whining little liberals... Keep whining...

NATIONAL
99% of Precincts Reporting
George W. Bush 51% 58,301,150
John Kerry 48% 54,782,697

Can we say MANDATE baby!!!!

Congratulations President Bush!

Oh, and we won the House and the Senate too... And here comes the Supreme Court nominations!

The American President

2004-11-02T10:39:00.000-08:00

This Election Is A War Between Ancient Worldviews; Between Good And Evil

2004-11-02T07:09:00.000-08:00

It would help tremendously if the raging war between Left & Right were to be couched in plain language.

Right now it's called things like "culture war", a clash of bipartisanship, or a clash between religious believers and seculars. These phrases are fuzzy sounding and lead to confusion.

What's occuring between Left & Right is a war between competing ideas. They compete because those on the Right are antithetical to those on the Left. And collectively , these ideas make up worldviews.

The Left's worldview, in very plain language, is godless neo-communism. And the Right's worldview is our traditonal Judao-Christian/Scottish Enlightenment {as opposed to the Franco-Germanic Enlightenment} one on which America was founded. So simply put, the Left's godless worldview states that man is all there is, therefore man is in complete control, and all laws, principles, etc., are the product of man Of course what they really mean by "man" is a relatively small group of "elite men" who were supposedly born with superior intellectual powers and should therefore be the rightful rulers over everyone else.

If this sounds like the thinking that undergirded the formation of ancient monarchies, more modern aristocracies, dictatorships, and ideologically-based regimes like Maos' People's Republic, or Lenin's and/or Stalinins' Soviet Republic, Kim Jung Il's totalitarian regime, Castro's communnist Cuba, etc., you're right. Notions of 'elite' men were ideated by ancient philosophers. This worldview has ancient origins that predate the Bible.

Our traditional worldview states very simply that man is Not all there is. There is a Creator Who created mankind, the earth, the universe, and a transcendant moral code variously known as the Decalogue, Ten Commandments, Natural Law, or as CS Lewis termed it, the Tao.

Using our Creator as the "Lodestar" {or first principle}, our Founders deduced that since the Creator made this earth and all of us, then:

(a) all men were created equal, which means that no man or group of men were "born" to be the natural rulers {controllers} over all other men

(b) if our Creator created life, then it's not for man to define who may or may not live {this goes right to the heart of abortion and euthanasia, both of which are founded on the idea that man can decide how to define life and whether it should be allowed to live or not

(c) if our Creator formed the earth, then it's there for any of us to use and possess. From this, our Founders deduced our right to private property and our right to defend it {2nd Amendment}. This is in complete opposition to the Left's elitist worldview with its' notions of collectivist control of all land, resources, etc. and their opposition to private gun ownership. After all, how can they "own" everything if the {inferior masses} people are armed?

When we see this war of competing ideas as a war between totally oppositional worldviews it makes sense of the following:

(a) why the atheist/secular Left hates our Creator and is waging war on Him by waging war against Christianity and all of its' religious symbols, holidays {holy days} like Christmas, Thanksgiving, and Easter.

(b) why they have a frenzied, demented fear and hatred of GW Bush, an evangelical Christian

(c) why they've virtually eradicated our history and replaced it with a secularized, multiculturalist version

(d) why they've taken control of our institutions of learning, those that disseminate information and lead to the shaping of culture {msm and entertainment industry, our judiciary, etc

(e) why they've created the lie that our Founders intended America to be a secular {atheist} nation.........they did not of course

(f) why they've created the lie that all of our Founders were deists. Only one or possibly two were.

(g) why they've created the lie that there is a Constitutionally mandated "separation of church and state" {there isn't}.

(h) why they've used tax exemption laws to shut up church leaders

(i) why they've been engaging in a campaign of smear-tactics and verbal intimidation towards Christians in which they marginalize them by labeling them as crazed zealots, fundies, radicals, etc. The purpose of this campaign is to strike fear into Christians and thereby reduce them to a state of apathetic passivity and subjugation.

If we're to win the war against the demented infants on the Left who seek to control all of us, then we Must recognize the absolute importance of our traditional worldview and its' lodestar........our Creator. We cannot have our traditional freedoms without Him and the transcendant moral laws which He placed over us all. As He is removed from the picture, we begin to revert to the rule of elite men.........kings, aristocracies, socialism, etc.

There is no third way. it's either obediance towards our Creator or obediance towards elite man."

by Brannon Howse

Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of His might. Put on the full armor of God, that you may be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Therefore, take up the full armor of God, that you may be able to resist the evil day, and having done everything, to stand firm. (Ephesians 6:10-13)

Listen to Mel Gibson on stem cell "research"

2004-11-02T06:49:00.000-08:00

No on Prop 71

Vote Pro-Life!

Dutch Filmmaker Theo Van Gogh Murdered

2004-11-02T06:32:00.000-08:00

Nov 2, 7:30 AM (ET)
By TOBY STERLING
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A Dutch filmmaker who had received death threats after releasing a movie criticizing the treatment of women under Islam was slain in Amsterdam on Tuesday, police said.

A suspect, a 26-year-old man with dual Dutch-Moroccan nationality, was arrested after a shootout with officers that left him wounded, police said.

Filmmaker Theo van Gogh had been threatened after the August airing of the movie "Submission," which he made with a right-wing Dutch politician who had renounced the Islamic faith of her birth. Van Gogh had received police protection after its release.

Dutch national broadcaster NOS and other media reported that Van Gogh's killer shot and stabbed his victim and left a note on his body. NOS said witnesses described the attacker as having an "Arab appearance."

More...

I wonder if the left will say anything about this? They only seem to get alarmed if attacks to free speech effect the freedom of sex, drugs, or rock n roll... Or the occasional homicide bomber. Will the left care about the murder of this particular filmmaker? I won't hold my breath.

But then it was too late

2004-11-01T11:34:00.000-08:00

"THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45"
by Milton Mayer
The University of Chicago Press

From the chapter, "But then it was too late" pages 169 to 172, 1966 edition.

"You see," my colleague went on, "one doesn't see exactly where or how to move. Believe me, this is true. Each act, each occasion, is worse than the last, but only a little worse. You wait for the next and the next. You wait for one great shocking occasion, thinking that others, when such a shock comes, will join with you in resisting somehow. You don't want to act, or even talk, alone; you don't want to 'go out of your way to make trouble.' Why not?---well, you are not in the habit of doing it. And it is not just fear, fear of standing alone, that restrains you; it is also genuine uncertainty."

"Uncertainty is a very important factor, and, instead of decreasing as time goes on, it grows. Outside, in the streets, in the general community, 'everyone' is happy. One hears no protest, and certainly sees none. You know, in France or Italy there would be slogans against the government painted on walls and fences; in Germany, outside the great cities, perhaps, there is not even this. In the university community, in your own community, you speak privately to your colleagues, some of whom certainly feel as you do; but what do they say? They say, 'It's not so bad' or 'You're seeing things' or 'You're an alarmist.'

"And you ARE an alarmist. You are saying that this must lead to this, and you can't prove it. These are the beginnings, yes; but how do you know for sure when you don't know the end, and how do you know, or even surmise, the end? On the one hand, your enemies, the law, the regime, the Party, intimidate you. On the other, your colleagues pooh- pooh you as pessimistic or even neurotic. You are left with your close friends, who are, naturally, people who have always thought as you have."

"But your friends are fewer now. Some have drifted off somewhere or submerged themselves in their work. You no longer see as many as you did at meetings or gatherings. Informal groups become smaller; attendance drops off in little organizations, and the organizations themselves wither. Now, in small gatherings of your oldest friends, you feel that you are talking to yourselves, that you are isolated from the reality of things. This weakens your confidence still further and serves as a further deterrent to---to what? It is clearer all the time that, if you are going to do anything, you must make an occasion to do it, and then you are obviously a troublemaker. So you wait, and you wait."

"But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That's the difficulty. If the last and worse act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked---if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in '43 had come immediately after the 'German Firm' stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in '33. But of course this isn't the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D."

"And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying 'Jew swine,' collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in---your nation, your people--- is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibilty even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way."

"You have gone almost all the way yourself. Life is a continuing process, a flow, not a succesion of acts and events at all. It has flowed to a new level, carrying you with it, without any effort on your part. On this new level you live, you have been living more comfortably everyday, with new morals, new principles. You have accepted things you would not have accepted five years ago, a year ago, things that your father, even in Germany could not have imagined."

"Suddenly it all comes down, all at once. You see what you are, what you have done, or, more accurately, what you haven't done, (for that was all that was required of most of us: that we do nothing). You remember those early meetings of your department in the University when, if one had stood, others would have stood, perhaps, but no one stood. A small matter, a matter of hiring this man or that, and you hired this one rather than that. You remember everything now, and your heart breaks. Too late. You are compromised beyond repair."

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For those of you with Embryonic Stem Cell research, abortion, and other culture of death issues on your ballot, I plead with you to vote PRO-LIFE. Do not be part of the next step in the culture of death. Please, I beg you. Do not let this nation go further down the road to hell, with which we all know what is paved with.

40 million children have been killed in the womb since 1973. Isn't that enough death?

Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you

2004-11-01T10:20:00.000-08:00

Osama is threatening to attack the states that vote for Bush in this election. (Few things make me more angry than being told "do this or else".)

If Kerry wins then it is my guess that Osama will view that as a complete win for him and his minions. He will see us as the weaklings he viewed us as after the Somalia disaster that Clinton brought about on our brave soldiers. Osama will then most definitely hit us hard and frequently, because he will know that we are weak, cannot stand under pressure, will not hit back, and will do whatever Osama wants as long as he "promises not to hurt us again".

C'mon people! Are we AmeriCAN's or AmeriCAN'Ts???

Stand up to this threat and vote for President Bush. If we back down now and become like Spain then we will cease to be the great nation we once were.

To quote the great Samuel Adams:

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you; and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen."

Amen!

Buck up people! We are NOT weak! We are NOT helpless! We are the land of the free and the home of the brave! Put aside the lies of the democrats and their promises of free goodies for this election, please! Vote for President Bush for four more years! If Kerry wins I can guarantee you that this nation will be hit fast and hard by the terrorists.

New Star Wars poster

2004-10-30T13:46:00.000-07:00

I am sick of Osama, sick of Kerry, sick of the liberals, and sick of the whole election today. It is gorgeous out and I am going to go sit outside, play wiffle ball with my family, eat a ton of things that are bad for me, and read a good fluffy book in the shade under my new flag. So, until monday... Here is the new poster from Star Wars Revenge of the Sith.

They are nervous in great part because...

2004-10-29T15:21:00.000-07:00

"They are nervous in great part because they suspect they
NEED the military which their man, Kerry, cannot even
approach at the moment, and which may leave them (in all
their cerebral glory) to be drafted in an eventual honest
to gosh WAR by their icons, Senator Kerry and his primping
partner, Senator Edwards. They suspect that perhaps
Dick Cheney may just have had a few intelligent points in
that "debate" (you know the one where he made Edwards look
like "Ned" in the 1st Reader?)

Now that Osama bin Laden is for all intents and purposes
THREATENING us that we had best vote Kerry, they are
beginning to remember that perhaps there must be some
reason why a man who would casually kill thousands of
our people in one morning must be wanting Kerry (the
continental, erudite, intelligent, tried by fire with
4 months in Vietnam) in the office of President of the
United States.

Oh, and yes, I e-mailed them and told them to go back
for now to their vulgarities and to enjoy them while they
can. . for, when the real military can't stand to serve
under the suave Kerry, they can then pony up in lines for
the draft he will have to reinstate in order to fight the
WAR that the bully, Osama bin Laden, will bring to our
shores where, if they lose, they will lose their hands or
perhaps their heads for using the "F" word, and then they
WILL pray (to Allah, five times a day)."

Original thread here

Osama Bin Laden WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR KERRY!

2004-10-29T15:19:00.000-07:00

Strange how that Osama tape today is basically his endorsement for Kerry.

Osama Bin Laden WANTS YOU TO VOTE FOR KERRY! As an American, how does it make you feel to have some foreign islamofascist terrorist that has slaughtered Americans, TELL YOU HOW TO VOTE? Will you bow down to the terrorists and vote for their candidate (Kerry)? Or will you vote for the American President.. President Bush?

Did you know that the main funder of the Kerry campaign believes that child molestation is a "minor crime"? Is that who you want to have a major say in the way this nation is run? Do you REALLY care more about some mythical "health care dream" than you do for the safety and security of this nations children?

"When will all this extermination cease?"

2004-10-29T12:51:00.000-07:00

"When will all this extermination cease?" Dr. Nyiszli asked Dr. Mengele in Auschwitz. And Dr. Mengele answered: "My friend! It will go on, and on, and on."

"Weaving the Tangled Web

Their works are evil works, and they make haste to shed innocent blood. — Isaiah 59:7

One October morning in Las Vegas, a teenage girl, five months pregnant, checked into Humana Sunrise Hospital to under-go a prostaglandin abortion. Prostaglandin abortion is a simple — but dangerous — procedure in which the pregnant mother is given a pill which causes her to go into labor and expel her baby. On this morning the girl's labor was slow to commence and the abortionist ordered that she be given a second pill.

Editor Sherman R. Fredrick of the Las Vegas Review Journal described what happened next: "Later nurses heard a shriek, entered the room and found the girl screaming. She had given birth to `Adam,' a one pound, four ounce crying arm-waving `fetus'-baby." Since the abortionist was not present, nurses rushed Adam to the neonatal intensive-care unit.

"Returning," wrote Fredrick, "the doctor discovered what had happened and, according to witnesses, turned pale. He left the floor and a short time later called the nurses from neonatal and told them that `doctor's orders' were to remove Adam from specialized care, take him off oxygen and send him back to his original ward."

At first the nurses refused, but after some ca joling a nurse went to neonatal, took Adam off oxygen and brought him back to the abortion chamber where he lay gasping for breath for another hour. When he died he had lived three hours and twenty-five minutes."

FULL ARTICLE HERE