March 30, 2009 AMERICAN FREE PRESS
Was Barack Obama ever eligible to be president of the United States ? Have he and his wife committed massive tax fraud?
Has he perjured himself? Has a forger been at work on his personal documents? These are just a few questions feisty lady lawyer, Orly Taitz, recently demanded Supreme Court Justice John Roberts to address.
When Chief Justice John Roberts opened the floor to questions following a recent speech at the University of Idaho, he and 5,000 people finally heard the truth about an attorneys frustrated attempts to have the court force purported President Obama to prove his natural born American citizen status. When the audience was told after the lecture that they could ask questions, Russian-born Dr. Orly Taitz, the southern California lawyer handling the suit filed by former presidential candidate Alan Keyes et al., was the first to run for the microphone.
'I left home at three oclock in the morning and flew and drove thousands of miles to talk to you and ask you a question, she said to the chief justice. Are you aware that there is criminal activity going on in the Supreme Court of the United States ? I have submitted my Lightfoot vs. Bowen case to you. You agreed to hear it in the conference of all nine justices on January 23rd.
Your clerk, Danny Bickle, on his own accord, refused to forward to you an important supplemental brief that he has hidden from you and refused to post on the docket. Additionally, my case was completely erased from the docket one day after the inauguration, only two days before it was supposed to be heard in the conference. Outraged citizens had to call and demand for it to be posted. I saw Justice (Antonin) Scalia, and he had absolutely no knowledge of my case that was supposedly heard in conference on January 23rd. It is inexplicable, particularly knowing that roughly half a million American citizens have written to him and to you, Justice Roberts, demanding that you hear this issue of eligibility of Barack Hussein Obama, aka Barry Soetoro, to be the president of the United States.'
At this point she showed Roberts a stack of papers, her pleadings and printouts containing the names of some 350,000 people who had signed the petition, and the chief justice, lassoed with no comfortable avenue of escape, surrendered.
I will read your documents, he said. Give them to my Secret Service Agent and I will review them. Taitz had a full suitcase of documents which she then handed to a Secret Service Agent who showed his ID, introduced himself as Gilbert Shaw and promised her that Justice Roberts would get them. The tenacious Orly Taitz had done her homework well. In addition to 3,300 pages of the signees of the petition, were a motion to reconsider Lightfoot vs. Bowen, with all the supplemental briefs, and a copy of Quo Warranto Easterling et al. vs. Obama et al., the challenge by military officers of Obamas qualifications to be their commander-in-chief. In addition, she included a 164-page dossier and all the other documents sent to Eric Holder, attorney general, describing suspected criminal activity associated with Obama and his supporters. It described a whole campaign of cyber crimes, intimidation, harassment, defamation and assassination of character, and the mysterious impersonation of her and U.S. Army officer Scott Easterling by persons unknown. It showed screen shots of information being erased from the docket of the Supreme Court and contained information of court cases being created and fabricated in order to commit voter fraud and sway public opinion. The package also contained the astounding list of 100 addresses for Barack Obama with numerous different Social Security numbers, issued all over the country and attached to those addresses.
It showed the address Obama used in Somerville , Mass. , attached to the Social Security of a man who, if still living, is 118 years old. It showed evidence of Obama committing perjury, lying under oath. It had his school registration from Indonesia under the name Barry Soetoro, citizen of Indonesia , religion: Muslim. Right after this page there was a page of Obamas registration to become an attorney and office of the court in Illinois , where he stated under oath that his name is Barack Hussein Obama and he had no other prior names. It contained a report from federal agent Steven Coffman, stating that there are numerous signs of forgery in his Selective Service certificate.
Furthermore, the dossier contained a letter from renowned expert Sandra Line, stating that there are signs of forgery in Obamas short version Certification of Live Birth, and the original birth certificate needs to be reviewed in order to ascertain his status.
It contained 130 current job positions for Barry Obama, Barack H. Obama and Michelle Obama, but none of them was reported on the Obamas tax returns.
All of these documents suggest possible massive tax fraud, corruption of a public official, bribery and massive campaign contributions fraud, whereby large campaign contributions, well over allowed limits, were reported as fictitious positions with different companies, not surprisingly involving most mainstream media outlets.
As one of the announcers introduced Roberts, he stated that Roberts has his priorities straight. He described an event when Roberts missed most of a reception because he wanted to be there for his young son, at the sports tournament where his son was participating. He described Roberts as a caring and loving father.
I missed time with my children, too, says Taitz, because I am criss-crossing this country talking to justices of the Supreme Court, representatives, senators, FBI agents, attorney generals, U.S. attorneys; asking all of them, What is wrong with you? Did some evil magician put a spell on the men in this country and you stopped being men? Why are you afraid to speak up, to stand up for your Constitution? At least now everybody at that meeting knows the truth and knows that the leftist media thugs, such as the Seattle Washington Observer, shamelessly twists the truth to fit their pro-Obama, blind idiot agenda.
I hope Justice Roberts teaches his son by example and not by empty words."
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It is finally going to happen! Hopefully he will be disqualified for all of his lies...... But you know Obama will be pressuring anyone or any organization from finding the truth.
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Scalia is following through: The pressure to continues to mount of getting suspicious records about Obama and his county of origin. SNOPES confirms that Occidental College did, indeed, release records that Obama had been admitted to that California college as Barry Sortero ( one of Obama's known 6 names) on a Fullbright Scolarship with his country as INDONESIA!!!! Finally, just maybe the mask will come off. TRUTH OR FICTION takes a neutral position. Smoking Gun Found? So what will happen now? Wonder why the media has not reported on this?
AP- WASHINGTON DC. - In a move certain to fuel the debate over Obama's qualifications for the presidency, the group "Americans for Freedom of Information" has released copies of President Obama's college transcripts from Occidental College. Released today, the transcript indicates that Obama, under the name Barry Soetoro, received financial aid as a foreign student from Indonesia as an undergraduate at the school. The transcript was released by Occidental College in compliance with a court order in a law suit brought by the group in the Superior Court of California. The transcript shows that Obama (Soetoro) applied for financial aid and was awarded a fellowship for foreign students from the Fulbright Foundation Scholarship program. To qualify, for the scholarship, a student must claim foreign citizenship. This document would seem to provide the smoking gun that many of Obama's detractors have been seeking. Along with the evidence that he was first born in Kenya, and there is no record of him ever applying for US citizenship, this is looking pretty grim.
The news has created a firestorm at the White House as the release casts increasing doubt about Obama's legitimacy, and qualification to serve as president. When reached for comment in London, where he has been in meetings with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Obama smiled but refused comment on the issue. Britain's Daily Mail has also carried the story in a front- page article titled, "Obama Eligibility Questioned,” leading some to speculate that the story may overshadow economic issues on Obama's first official visit to the U.K.
In a related matter, under growing pressure from several groups, Justice Antonin Scalia announced that the Supreme Court agreed on Tuesday to hear arguments concerning Obama's legal eligibility to serve as President in a case brought by Leo Donofrio of New Jersey. This lawsuit claims Obama's dual citizenship disqualified him from serving as president. Donofrio's case is just one of 18 suits brought by citizens demanding proof of Obama's citizenship or qualification to serve as president.
Gary Kreep of the United States Justice Foundation, has released the results of their investigation of Obama's campaign spending. This study estimates that Obama has spent upwards of $950,000 in campaign funds in the past year with eleven law firms in 12 states for legal resources to block disclosure of any of his person al records. Mr. Kreep indicated that the investigation is still ongoing but that the final report will be provided to the U.S. Attorney general, Eric Holder. Mr. Holder has refused to comment on the matter.
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THE ACLU IS NO BETTER THAN A CROOKED AND CORRUPT COP OR JUDGE! EVEN WORSE! THEIR ULTIMATE GOAL IS "16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights." This was predicted as one of the major goals of communist party many years ago! It was in publication, "The Naked Communist," by Cleon Skousen, and was brought to the attention of Congress by HON. A. S. HERLONG, JR. OF FLORIDA IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Thursday, January 10, 1963 . More on this subject HERE .
ALSO, SEE THIS VIDEO ON YOUTUBE!
WE SHOULD DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PREVENT THIS MEMORIAL FROM BEING TORN DOWN.
ACLU insanity! EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD SEE THIS VIDEO. HERE
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A serious and fatal disease is reeking havoc in this world of ours.
This disease is a form of cancer and it is prevalant among Muslim extremists and radicals. It is characterized by a lack of conscience, a disrespect for life, and and their adoption of false beliefs based on years of misinterpretation and of brainwashing by radical clerics with the same disease. It is spread by close contact with others that have the disease. The result is death in almost all cases. As lepers had done in the past, those with this disease seek refuge and comfort among others like them, but unlike most people with such a serous disease, those afflicted seek to deliberately spread the disease to others. If they are unable to spread their disease to another, they are likely to kill another for spite. "Misery loves company," it has been said and this seems to be true.
There is little hope for those afflicted and only their adoption of a respect for our earth, a respect for the people of the earth and a respect for creation could ever hope to save them.
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And now comes the idea that if one does not acquire health insurance under the proposed governmental program, one may be charged a penalty of $1000 for not complying. Let's see, taxes take 4 months of my social security income and the penalty will take another 2.75 months, That's over one half of my yearly income and though I need to choose between fuel or food already, it will really be difficult in the future. One legislator suggested the new insurance program would be the same as a driver needing to have auto insurance. There is a significant difference. One may choose not to drive an auto and one would not need auto insurance. Under the proposed system of health insurance, one must choose to buy insurance, to not buy it and be fined, or to choose not to live. Some comparison, bright legislator! Common sense is really a rarity among politicians and lawmakers.
Think how much the government would save if they gave urine tests for illicit drugs to all potential recipients of our welfare bucks, the money we taxpayers must pay the government just to be turned over to couch potatoes, free-loaders, and lazy people who live off the system. Illegals get quite a share also. Why should working people need to take urine tests and free-loaders who live off of government handouts do not need to take them? Again, wisdom is not abundant in government-held offices. Overpayment is, wisdom is not.
The time is coming for the people to prepare themselves for change, forced change.
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Regarding Judge Sotomayor
As presented by the NRA.
"...From the outset, the National Rifle Association has respected the confirmation process and hoped for mainstream answers to bedrock questions. Unfortunately, Judge Sotomayor's judicial record and testimony clearly demonstrate a hostile view of the Second Amendment and the fundamental right of self-defense guaranteed under the U.S. Constitution. It is only by ignoring history that any judge can say that the Second Amendment is not a fundamental right and does not apply to the states. The one part of the Bill of Rights that Congress clearly intended to apply to all Americans in passing the Fourteenth Amendment was the Second Amendment. History and congressional debate are clear on this point. Yet Judge Sotomayor seems to believe that the Second Amendment is limited only to the residents of federal enclaves such as Washington, D.C. and does not protect all Americans living in every corner of this nation. In her Maloney opinion and during the confirmation hearings, she deliberately misread Supreme Court precedent to support her incorrect view.
In last year's historic Heller decision, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment guarantees the individual's right to own firearms and recognizes the inherent right of self-defense. In addition, the Court required lower courts to apply the Twentieth Century cases it has used to incorporate a majority of the Bill of Rights to the States. Yet in her Maloney opinion, Judge Sotomayor dismissed that requirement, mistakenly relying instead on Nineteenth Century jurisprudence to hold that the Second Amendment does not apply to the States. This nation was founded on a set of fundamental freedoms. Our Constitution does not give us those freedoms - it guarantees and protects them. The right to defend ourselves and our loved ones is one of those. The individual right to keep and bear arms is another. These truths are what define us as Americans. Yet, Judge Sotomayor takes an opposite view, contrary to the views of our Founding Fathers, the Supreme Court, and the vast majority of the American people. We believe any individual who does not agree that the Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right and who does not respect our God-given right of self-defense should not serve on any court, much less the highest court in the land. Therefore, the National Rifle Association of America opposes the confirmation of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the position of Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court."
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How is this for proof? Sons of _________, right here in America and assaulting Americans!
Bringing their own misery to Americans!
Get them the ____ out of the USA!
Click on the underlined link below and watch the video on Youtube
Ass_____s trying to impose radical Arab law on real American citizens in Dearborn, Michigan. Peaceful religion? BS!
Wake up, Americans.
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"YOU CAN BE GOD WITHOUT GOD", reads signs now on some busses. The signs are designed and displayed by an aethiest organzation and their display was encouraged by the ACLU. Can the ACLU prove it is possible to be good without God? I doubt it, since there seems to be no one among them that is "good", if good is to be meaning righteous. The ACLU are good at what they do, restricting the freedom of the majority for the benefit of the few. That is their goal, the continuing efforts of the communists to use our laws to defeat our own democratic system. This is done by their continuous twisting and misinterpretation of our consitution, with the help of a few judges that are "well-cared-for" by the ACLU and others.
Everyone knows, but no one seems to be doing much about it.
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"Satan rewards all those who martyr themselves while killing others. Satan has special rewards for all suicide bombers; many virgins almost beyond belief! I have learned this straight from a goat."
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Who makes such laws?
Who makes such ridiculous laws that insists upon classifying the human female breast "nipples" as indecent. Such law are degrading and surely made by persons lacking IQs of more than 50. It seems too many laws insist that human breasts should be considered sexual in nature. Yet, they are not sexual in nature, no more than bare feet or a beautiful head of hair. Anything, anything can be "sexually" suggestive to certain persons, as shown by Dr. Kinsey and Dr. Freud long ago. The human breast, nipples or naught, are not "sexual" at all. If they should be considered as sexual, then it would also be true that women engage in sexual behavior simply by breastfeeding their offspring.
There is relentless obsession to turn all beauty and art into "porno" by certain lame-brained individuals who profess to be doing so as public welfare. They are not raising the moral levels of society, but ruining society, They degrade art and beauty, They would choose to ban the nude sculptures of Michaelangelo. They would choose to ban books on art that depict such great sculptures in photos. They would choose to outlaw naturism. In time, they would make it a felony for any man, woman or child to ever appear nude in the presence of another. The laws they strive to pass are based on crude and ancient beliefs, although there are religions that still cling to such primitive codes. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say. The lawmakers of today must have very defective genes.
By making natural things illegal, silly laws only cost all of us more money. Prohibition did not rid the world of booze, nor did it lessen the public desire to obtain booze. Outlawing guns will only produce more criminals. Outlawing art and beauty, whether in print, photography, or film, will also only make more criminals. How are the laws on street drugs working? Our prisons are full to max and black market trade is flourishing. Who makes the money? The traffickers. Who pays the price for keeping all the "criminals"? We do, the tax payers. Meanwhile, what happens where the real crimes are being committed? We pay billions to those real criminals to use our billions as bonuses for themselves and their friends. Is this our country or not?
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"Iran's supreme leader approves Ahmadinejad presidency"
Did anyone ever doubt that the "supreme" leader would?
He is the very essence of evil and corruption, responsible for many many lives of young boys and of women, and he has been at it a long long time. He, no doubt, will continue with his deception until Satan calls him home.
To many Iranians, he is considered a saviour of some sort, but to many more who see through the guise, he is the tyrant behind the tyrant. They fear him and with good reason. They fear him as they have been groomed to fear God since they were old enough to be taught.
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Regarding comments by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd - Australia
With which many Americans agree>
Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia , as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spy agencies monitoring the nation's mosques. Quote: 'IMMIGRANTS, NOT AUSTRALIANS, MUST ADAPT. Take It Or Leave It. I am tired of this nation worrying about whether we are offending some individual or their culture. Since the terrorist attacks on Bali , we have experienced a surge in patriotism by the majority of Austr alians'. 'This culture has been developed over two centuries of struggles, trials and victories by millions of men and women who have sought freedom'. 'We speak mainly ENGLISH, not Spanish, Lebanese, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Russian, or any other language. Therefore, if you wish to become part of our society . Learn the language!' 'Most Australians believe in God. This is not some Christian, right wing, political push, but a fact, because Christian men and women, on Christian principles, founded this nation, and this is clearly documented. It is certainly appropriate to display it on the walls of our schools. If God offends you, then I suggest you consider another part of the world as your new home, because God is part of our culture.' 'We will accept your beliefs, and will not question why. All we ask is that you accept ours, and live in harmony and peaceful enjoyment with us.' 'This is OUR COUNTRY, OUR LAND, and OUR LIFESTYLE, and we will allow you every opportunity to enjoy all this. But once you are done complaining, whining, and griping about Our Flag, Our Pledge, Our Christian beliefs, or Our Way of Life, I highly encourage you take advantage of one other great Australian freedom, 'THE RIGHT TO LEAVE'.' 'If you aren't happy here then LEAVE. We didn't force you to come here. You asked to be here. So accept the country YOU accepted.'
"It takes backbone to stand up for what is proper and right!" We salute you, Mr. Rudd! If only all continents and countries starting with an A and ending with an A would share these policies of Australia.
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Keep your guns handy and your powder dry!
MANNING SPEAKS OUT
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Subject: America as the Last Man Standing!
I don't have a problem with the Muslim people---they do become a problem however, if they come to our country (or to any non-Muslim country) and try to change it to fit their Muslim ways---Sharia law, etc.
In my view, freedom as we know it & human rights will ultimately take a back seat if Muslims have their way with America.
Hugh
Geert Wilders is a Dutch Member of Parliament.
"America as the last man standing"
'In a generation or two, the US will ask itself: who lost Europe ?'
Here is the speech of Geert Wilders, Chairman, Party for Freedom, the Netherlands, at the Four Seasons, New York , introducing an Alliance of Patriots and announcing the Facing Jihad Conference in Jerusalem ..
"Dear friends,
Thank you very much for inviting me.
I come to America with a mission. All is not well in the old world. There is a tremendous danger looming, and it is very difficult to be optimistic. We might be in the final stages of the Islamization of Europe . This not only is a clear and present danger to the future of Europe itself, it is a threat to Ameri ca and the sheer survival of the West. The United States as the last bastion of Western civilization, facing an Islamic Europe .
First I will describe the situation on the ground in Europe . Then, I will say a few things about Islam. To close I will tell you about a meeting in Jerusalem
The Europe you know is changing.
You have probably seen the landmarks. But in all of these cities, sometimes a few blocks away from your tourist destination, there is another world. It is the world of the parallel society created by? Muslim mass-migration.
All throughout Europe a new reality is rising: entire Muslim neighborhoods where very few indigenous people reside or are even seen. And if they are, they might regret it. This goes for the police as well. It's the world of head scarves, where women walk around in figureless tents, with baby strollers and a group of children. Their husbands, or slaveholders if you prefer, walk three steps ahead. With mosques on many street corners. The shops have signs you and I cannot read. You will be hard-pressed to find any economic activity. These are Muslim ghettos controlled by religious fanatics. These are Muslim neighborhoods, and they are mushrooming in every city across Europe. These are the building-blocks for territorial control of increasingly larger portions of Europe, street by street, neighborhood by neighborhood, city by city.
There are now thousands of mosques throughout Europe. With larger congregations than there are in churches. And in every European city there are plans to build super-mosques that will dwarf every church in the region. Clearly, the signal is: we rule.
Many European cities are already one-quarter Muslim: just take Amsterdam, Marseille and Malmo in Sweden. In many cities the majority of the under-18 population is Muslim. Paris is now surrounded by a ring of Muslim neighborhoods. Mohammed is the most popular name among boys in many cities.
In some elementary schools in Amsterdam the farm can no longer be mentioned, because that would also mean mentioning the pig, and that would be an insult to Muslims.
Many state schools in Belgium and Denmark only serve halal food to all pupils. In once-tolerant Amsterdam gays are beaten up almost exclusively by Muslims. Non-Muslim women routinely hear 'whore, whore'( As all psychologists agree, the use of terms such as this in name-calling demonstrates the envy of the name-callers for those they verbally attack. This is because they lack the courage to break any of the rules by which they are bound by Islamic law). Satellite dishes are not pointed to local TV stations, but to stations in the country of origin.
In France school teachers are advised to avoid authors deemed offensive to Muslims, including Voltaire and Diderot; the same is increasingly true of Darwin . The history of the Holocaust can no longer be taught because of Muslim sensitivity.
In England Sharia courts are now officially part of the British legal system. Many neighborhoods in France are no-go areas for women without head scarves. Last week a man almost died after being beaten up by Muslims in Brussels, because he was drinking during the Ramadan.
Jews are fleeing France in record numbers, on the run for the worst wave of anti-Semitism since World War II. French is now commonly spoken on the streets of Tel Aviv and Netanya, Israel . I could go on forever with stories like this. Stories about Islamization.
A total of fifty-four million Muslims now live in Europe . San Diego University recently calculated that a staggering 25 percent of the population in Europe will be Muslim just 12 years from now. Bernhard Lewis has predicted a Muslim majority by the end of this century. (their birth rate is much higher than the people, native to the countries)
Now these are just numbers. And the numbers would not be threatening if the Muslim-immigrants had a strong desire to assimilate. But there are few signs of that. The Pew Research Center reported that half of French Muslims see their loyalty to Islam as greater than their loyalty to France. One-third of French Muslims do not object to suicide attacks. The British Centre for Social Cohesion reported that one-third of British Muslim students are in favor of a worldwide caliphate. Muslims demand what they call 'respect'. And this is how we give them respect. We have Muslim official state holidays.
The Christian-Democratic attorney general is willing to accept Sharia in the Netherlands if there is a Muslim majority. We have cabinet members with passports from Morocco and Turkey .
Muslim demands are supported by unlawful behavior, ranging from petty crimes and random violence, for example against ambulance workers and bus drivers, to small-scale riots. Paris has seen its uprising in the low-income suburbs, the banlieus. I call the perpetrators 'settlers'. Because that is what they are. They do not come to integrate into our societies, they come to integrate our society into their Dar-al-Islam. Therefore, they are settlers.
Much of this street violence I mentioned is directed exclusively against non-Muslims, forcing many native people to leave their neighborhoods, their cities, their countries. Moreover, Muslims are now a swing vote not to be ignored.
The second thing you need to know is the importance of Mohammed the prophet. His behavior is an example to all Muslims and cannot be criticized. Now, if Mohammed had been a man of peace, let us say like Ghandi and Mother Theresa wrapped in one, there would be no problem. But Mohammed was a warlord, a mass murderer, a pedophile, and had several marriages - at the same time. Islamic tradition tells us how he fought in battles, how he had his enemies murdered and even had prisoners of war executed. Mohammed himself slaughtered the Jewish tribe of Banu Qurayza. If it is good for Islam, it is good. If it is bad for Islam, it is bad.
Let no one fool you about Islam being a religion. Sure, it has a god, and a here-after, and 72 virgins. But in its essence Islam is a political ideology. It is a system that lays down detailed rules for society and the life of every person. Islam wants to dictate every aspect of life. Islam means 'submission'. Islam is not compatible with freedom and democracy, because what it strives for is Sharia. If you want to compare Islam to anything, compare it to communism or national-socialism, these are all totalitarian ideologies.
Now you know why Winston Churchill called Islam 'the most retrograde force in the world', and why he compared Mein Kampf to the Quran. The public has wholeheartedly accepted the Palestinian narrative, and sees Israel as the aggressor. I have lived in this country and visited it dozens of times. I support Israel .. First, because it is the Jewish homeland after two thousand years of exile up to and including Auschwitz, second because it is a democracy, and third because Israel is our first line of defense.
This tiny country is situated on the fault line of jihad, frustrating Islam's territorial advance. Israel is facing the front lines of jihad, like Kashmir, Kosovo, the Philippines, Southern Thailand, Darfur in Sudan, Lebanon, and Aceh in Indonesia . Israel is simply in the way. The same way West-Berlin was during the Cold War.
The war against Israel is not a war against Israel . It is a war against the West. It is jihad. Israel is simply receiving the blows that are meant for all of us. If there would have been no Israel , Islamic imperialism would have found other venues to release its energy and its desire for conquest. Thanks to Israeli parents who send their children to the army and lay awake at night, parents in Europe and America can sleep well and dream, unaware of the dangers looming.
Many in Europe argue in favor of abandoning Israel in order to address the grievances of our Muslim minorities. But if Israel were, God forbid, to go down, it would not bring any solace to the West It would not mean our Muslim minorities would all of a sudden change their behavior, and accept our values. On the contrary, the end of Israel would give enormous encouragement to the forces of Islam. They would, and rightly so, see the demise of Israel as proof that the West is weak, and doomed. The end of Israel would not mean the end of our problems with Islam, but only the beginning. It would mean the start of the final battle for world domination. If they can get Israel , they can get everything. So-called journalists volunteer to label any and all critics of Islamization as a 'right-wing extremists' or 'racists'. In my country, the Netherlands , 60 percent of the population now sees the mass immigration of Muslims as the number one policy mistake since World War II. And another 60 percent sees Islam as the biggest threat. Yet there is a danger greater danger than terrorist attacks, the scenario of America as the last man standing. The lights may go out in Europe faster than you can imagine. An Islamic Europe means a Europe without freedom and democracy, an economic wasteland, an intellectual nightmare, and a loss of military might for America - as its allies will turn into enemies, enemies with atomic bombs. With an Islamic Europe, it would be up to America alone to preserve the heritage of Rome , Athens and Jerusalem .
Dear friends, liberty is the most precious of gifts. My generation never had to fight for this freedom, it was offered to us on a silver platter, by people who fought for it with their lives. All throughout Europe American cemeteries remind us of the young boys who never made it home, and whose memory we cherish. My generation does not own this freedom; we are merely its custodians. We can only hand over this hard won liberty to Europe 's children in the same state in which it was offered to us. We cannot strike a deal with mullahs and imams. Future generations would never forgive us. We cannot squander our liberties. We simply do not have the right to do so."
(Unless you wish your children to be bound by the archaic Islamic law, be ready to defend your rights, your freedom to choose, the hard-fought freedom which you now cherish. Do not let the A.C.L U. keep denying the majority for the benefit of a mere few. Our own constitutional laws are being manipulated to do just that. This is a land where there is no monarch, no king, no tyrant and we, the people, by majority rule, must make the laws and keep America free as it was intended to be. The term "love it or leave it!" is more relevant than ever before. I have many Muslim friends, yet I have my doubts that if the time ever comes for any of those friends to choose between respect for my freedom and rights or the traditional ways of their Islamic peers, they would likely not side with me and our established American way of life. If they chose the American way of life or even tolerated it without conflict, that would be fine, but would they?)
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As Republican John Culberson said, There is much fraud and wasteful spending in the existing Medicare program. I have seen it. I have reported duplicate charges for services, some of them on the same page. This fraud and waste is either due to negligence on the part of the government officials that oversee Medicare or some among them are receiving some sort of "kickbacks" to allow payments to be made for such charges to medicare. The charges originate with doctors and hospitals who are either careless or corrupt, most by the greedy as well, but the charges should be scrutinized more carefully and punitive measures taken for evident fraud. Millions and perhaps billions are wasted each year and things are getting worse. Deliberate schemes are created each day to obtain ridiculous amounts of money through Medicare by so-called legal means. FIX IT FIRST! It is broken. Then we can talk about an alternative health care system.
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I am addicted to coffee, but I am not addicted enough to buy Starbucks coffee. I would prefer McDonalds and Dunkin' Donuts coffee anyway. READ THIS!
Recently Marines in Iraq wrote to Starbucks because they wanted to let them know how much they liked their coffees and to request that they send some of it to the troops there. Starbucks replied, telling the Marines thank you for their support of their business, but that Starbucks does not support the war, nor any one in it, and that they would not send the troops their brand of coffee.
SO......as not to offend Starbucks, maybe we should not support them by buying any of their products! I feel we should get this out in the open. I know this war might not be very popular with some folks, but that doesn't mean we don't support the boys on the ground fighting street-to-street and house-to-house!
Semper Fi Sgt. Howard C. Wright 1st Force Recon Co 1st Plt PLT
PS. Also, don't forget that when the Twin Trade Towers were hit the fire fighters and rescue workers went to Starbucks because it was close by for water for the survivors and workers and Starbucks charged them!!
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So the convicted bomber of the airliner over Lockerby was released because of his terminal prostate cancer. He was allowed out of mercy to spend his last days with his family. So the real tragedy was his "local-boy-did-good" welcome he received upon his arrival home. As with all those who believe in God. he really should be concerned about how he will be received when he arrives at his next and final destination.
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Water is wonderful. It is different than many of nature's materials. It returns to earth over and over again. It becomes lighter than its liquid state when it freezes. It is the answer to our fuel problem! We do not need oil for fuel, nor coal, nor diesel. We only need water, hydrogen and oxygen. That is where our research should be focused. Since hydrogen and oxygen returns to water after combustion, it is the answer to a clean, recyclable fuel.
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As long as "gihad" remains associated with the God of Moses instead of with the god it should be, there will be fools sacrificing themselves to kill others. Those that live for gihad are following the way of a very deceitful wanna-be, a god only in his own eyes, and he his not the God of Moses.
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The switching of television stations to digital was, in my opinion, the farse of the century. Most of the time, there is no signal whatsoever, and then I get a glimpse of some program, but only a glimpse. Usually, if there is a program, it is manifested by freezes and a kaliedescope of colored splotches. One soon forgets which show one was supposed to be viewing.
Perhaps it was all a scheme that would convince us to buy cable or satellite.
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The taliban, just as other pseudo-religious Islamic orders, is nothing more than a corrupt poltically-motivated gang of thugs. Religious beliefs are only used as an excuse for their devious demonic acts of cowardess. They murder by cowardly bombings, suicide and roadside both. New members are constantly attracted to join the taliban as flies are attracted to rotting corpses, maggots in the making. Gihad is just an excuse. They would murder their own mothers for a dollar or for a fix. The attraction that brings new blood into the taliban is much the same that brings members to Satanism, to the KKK, and to street gangs, thrill and comraderym a last chance for a loser to be a loser among other losers like him. The same is happening many places in this world of ours, anywhere where Islam is allowed. Why? Islam is a fragmented and diverse way of life, different from not only one location to another, but from one believer to another. There is very little unity, except for the fact that most Islamic believers are intolerant of others who believe in some other named religion.
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It happened in the USA!
A man, falsely accused of some alleged minor offense, was abused by a fascist organization called the "state police". This man had supported the state police in his state for many years amd yet they came and searched his PC for illicit and illegal photos. They found none. They came again many weeks later and copied his PC drive. A week later, they came with a warrant to break down his door and search and sieze. Why? It was all based on a judge's warrant which was based on competely legal photos found "deleted" on the man's PC. What did the fascists do ? They took the man's art books, expensive books on museum quality works of art, such as "Young David" by Michaelangelo and other works similar. What else did they take? They took a first edition comic that costs $38 with shipping. It was called "Niklas and Friends...Anything but Girls". It was important because it addressed that fact that some boys are different, that they have different feelings and that these feelings should not be treated as perverse, but should be met with understanding and empathy. It was important because is was first edition. It was important because it helped many boys and may have saved many wonderful young males from senseless suicides or many years of senseless mental anguish and suffering.
The "police" see their acts as heroic and as helping acts for children, but they are only acts to help normal children as well as acts of thievery. They ruined some art, art worth nearly a thousand dollars because of negligence. It was a serigraph, signed by the artist, and it was stuffed into a tube carelessly after being examined and found as legal and non-pornographic. Those same police took the man's book of passwords, internet passwords to sites like Social Security, banks, credit cards sites and others many others, so the man could not access most of these sites again. They seem to see perversity in all art, as if art was somehow illegal and illicit and dangerous to society. In reality, the police are dangerous to society, ignorant and arogant. They are thieves that legally invade the privacy od a man's home on false grounds. just as the warrant was issued on three completely legal photos that were "naturism", not pornography, and yet the police did not recognize the difference. The man is out over $1000.00 worth of art and collector's editions. Where is something like this condoned? Right in the state of Indiana and that man, who by the way is an artist, cannot afford an attorney to have his items returned. The police found nothing incriminating, but took many things and detroyed others. Is this still America or will this be commonplace in the new order?
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Three lowly persons were convicted for plotting a terrorist attacks, very life-detroying acts of violence in airliners bound for the USA. Those convicted were Muslim, naturally, and all were born and raised in Great Britain. Others associated with this plot were acquitted, unfortunately.
Religion of peace? A way of life seeking peace? More like pieces!
And their main complaint? They are being persecuted by the west. Bull!
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Why The Gihadist Suicide Bombers are Cowards
Not only are the suicide bombers of the Islamic gihad movement cowards, but all suicide bombers are cowards. "Why is that?" someone asked me. "They kill themselves in the process," he added.
If one kills himself in the process of killing another, one might call it an even trade. However, these suicide bombers often kill many others, indiscriminate murders, while at the same time finding their own demise. They are not heroes, but merely murderers. If they would suffer their own death at least once for each life they take, their devious acts might be more justified, but they die only once. Any just god should see that any suicide bomber dies many deaths, at least one for every life he takes, Any just god would make certain those deaths were horrific and that the murdering suicide bomber would suffer greatly. Yet, the followers of the gihad movement, losers awaiting their turn, see these murders as "holy". Blind lead the blind to the demise of both. Cowards do the same.
If the word "gihad" ever really meant "holy war", it does so no more. It now means cowardly and loathesome.
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America's Got Talent is drawing to an end, And Barbara Padilla certainly deserves to win. Drew is one great contender also. Recycle Percussion made a great show of it too. The singer from Kentucky, Kevin Skinner, sometime sings a little flat, but Johnny Cash did fine with that for years. Someone will be disappointed, but that's the risk. The Texas Tenors sound mighty fine, but will they really compete with the superb soprano voice of Barbara? It was good ride for all of them. Next is the new Jay Leno show, and from what I see in the previews, it will be a show that is entertaining and also exposes common folk on the street as the ignorant people they are, the ignorant people we all knew they were. So what new?
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While congress considers health care reform and are currently working ro make safer policies for financing, credit, banks, the stock market, etc., I hope they decide to regulate bonuses of all companies traded on the stock exchanges. There should be two factors that would decide whether bonuses be paid or not and how much they would be if they were paid. These factors are the overall growth and success of the company (Stock value and price) and the stockholders' approval. Rules regarding this will surely be better for the companies and the stockholders. The books must be closely watched too. Stockholders are very aggravated with companies giving all the profits to CEOs and other officers while the company's stock prices decline or move sideways for months on end.
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Iran's unfortunate demented and deluded Ahmadinejad again declares that, "..the holocaust was only a myth". and no one but his mother and the supreme taco, Khomeini, would ever miss him. His win of the recent election reminds me of a joke: "Two men were playing poker and one said, "I have three kings and two eights, a full house. Can you beat that?" The other replied, "I have a pair of threes and my razor with me!". The threatened player with the full house replied. "I guess you win." Is the Iranian razor Khomeini, backed by his loyal militia?"
Later, the deluded president stated that he was leased that people around the world were upset and irate by his claiming The Holocaust was myth. It was as if he were saying, "My mother and father always knew I was ignorant, and my friends knew, and most of my fellow citizens have learned it, so it is about time the whole world realizes it too. I am obsessed with myths. My life is based on a myth. What's wrong with myths? Whole religions are based on them." Yes, it was as if he was admitting he was happy to not only play the fool but to actually be one. Other things he was speaking if may be mythical, but not The Holocaust. There were and are too many witnesses to that. Let us interview one witness that saw Mohammad acsend to heaven. Myths are developed over long periods of time, not over a mere 50 years and not in this day and age with so much recorded history. Religions are very good examples of myths, some moreso than others, but all were based on stories told over many hundreds of years, stories changed and altered by every Tom, Dick, and Mohammad that could get opinions included. Millions of people swallow these myths, hook, line and sinker, while one of them has the brass to deny a factual and proven incident and call it a myth. Consider the source!
Yet, we must respect one's freedom to speak. It is the way of true democracy, and beside that, it is often the best way that the world audience can determine whether the speakers are wise men or are mere fools.
For the poor deluded president-by-currupt-voting Ahmadinejad and his evil "holy" friend:
Irena Sendler
There recently was a death of a 98 year-old lady named Irena. During WWII, Irena, got permission to work in the Warsaw Ghetto, as a Plumbing/Sewer specialist. She had an ' ulterior motive ' ... She KNEW what the Nazi ' s plans were for the Jews, (being German.) Irena smuggled infants out in the bottom of the tool box she carried and she carried in the back of her truck a burlap sack, (for larger kids..) She also had a dog in the back that she trained to bark when the Nazi soldiers let her in and out of the ghetto. The soldiers of course wanted nothing to do with the dog and the barking covered the kids/infants noises.. During her time of doing this, she managed to smuggle out and save 2500 kids/infants. She was caught, and the Nazi ' s broke both her legs, arms and beat her severely. Irena kept a record of the names of all the kids she smuggled out and kept them in a glass jar, buried under a tree in her back yard. After the war, she tried to locate any parents that may have survived it and reunited the family. Most had been gassed. Those kids she helped got placed into foster family homes or adopted. Last year Irena was up for the Nobel Peace Prize ... She was not selected. Al Gore won, for a slide show on Global Warming.
By the way, the number tatooed on the lady's arm was 55374.
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Is anyone surprised that Iran's tyranny has secretly been building nuclear enrichment facilities? The people of Iran are mere sheep in a pen when it comes to the power of the people. They do try for changs, but the cost is so high that their attempts are futile. Iran is ruled by somewhat of a tyranny. but it is not clear which tyrant is really running the show. Is it Ahmadinejad or is it Khomeini? Which is really the monarch of power? Some say that Ahmadinejad is only a puppet in a pseudo-democratic structure where Khomeini is the real power. Others say Khomeini is the real puppet in Iran and that he does what he is told to do. The fact is that the poeple do not have a real say in Iran. Will they all give their lives for Khomeini and Ahmadinejad when the new war comes? Will the people decide it is time for a real change at that time? That may be their best time and chance to do so.
It is a sad situation for Iran's neighbors as well. Everyone has some neighbor that is lacking in morals and good qualities, a neighbor that has no respect for others. I know I do. I have one that like to shoot dogs, even if those dogs are the beloved pets of their neighbors. I have a neighbor that rides illegally across others land and makes trails across other's land without permission. They write and scribble on other's signs and maliciously slander and liable their own neighbors. A French man from Louisiana once told me,"Those folk who are always using obscenities and calling their neighbors names are only talking 'bout their own papas" (ie: They are subconsciously exposing their own family skeletons. I do believe his man was correct.
They have also taken advantage of their neighbors' generosity many times and yet do nothing to ever return a favor or to show an act of kindness. One other neighbor, a kind one, once told me he offered some of his apples to the lacking neighbor. "There's a lot of apples on my trees this year of you would like some," the good neighbor said. The other guy drove his pickup into the man's orchard and picked apple after apple until the apples were gone and then he set out a sign in front of his home, "Apples for sale." I ignore such neighbors and try to keep my distance, but can we all afford to ignore Iran?
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I dreamed there was a pig with platinum-blond hair and it was riding on a large roller skate. It was squealing loudly. Oddly, the next day I saw a neighbor speeding by on her four-wheeler and she was yelling, "We all know where the boundry line is!" What does it mean? I do not know and I could not care less. I enjoyed the dream. The next morning, on one of my daily rides through my woods, I saw that my neighbor had posted paper signs along the fenceline.
Milkboys? Are they young milkmen?
They were composed amd posted by those who are not only rather illiterate, but hateful, vengeful and quite bigoted and homophobic, and yet one of them worked or still works for the state of Indiana. Does the state of Indiana prefer such persons or will the guy's recent arrest for drugs change things?
One may be alarmed and very distressed at all the violence and hatred we see all around the world, so much of it by radical Muslims and political-power-seekers. How can we ever begin to police the world when there are so many of the same devious hate-crime types right in our midst, right here in the USA, right next door?
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An email sent stated that "Senate Bill SB-2099 will require us to put on our 2009 1040 federal tax form all guns that you have or own. It will require fingerprints and a tax of $50 per gun. This bill was introduced on Feb.. 24, 2009, by the Obama staff. BUT . . this bill will only become public knowledge 30 days after the new law becomes effective ! This is an amendment to the Internal Revenue Act of 1986. This means that the Finance Committee has passed this without the Senate voting on it at all. Trust Obama ? ..... you must be kidding!"
This is likely just another hoax, as many other email messages seem to be.
Surely no one is so stupid that he would think Americans would accept such a law and think such a law is good for America! There are those who are so corrupt and caniving that they would try to make and pass such a law, but they are not the friends of America or the American people. Every country that began tracking the people firearms and finally banning firearms ended up with thousand to millions of those people being slain. The German Nazis, the Soviets, and the Chinese. Turkey, Cambodia, Uganda, Guatemala, banned guns of the people and millions of subjected people were massacred and exterminated. Banning huns id the prerequisite to ethnic cleansing and to a governmental tyrrany. We will not stand by and let it happen in America and if any president should attempt it, he is not for America, but against America.
There are those that lurk in the shadows of our government, those that are trying to sabotage our freedom and way of life. Be aware and speak out! If the time comes, hold your weapons and stand against those that would destroy our way of life.
I will never list my guns on a form, nor pay taxes on them and I shall never surrender them until I have been killed. The way we should be heading is the way of Switzerland, requiring all to own guns and training all gun-owners to use them.
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Iran leadership seems "dead-set" in defying the majority of the civilized world and now it is almost certain that Russian scientists are assisting Iran in the development of nuclear arms."Much closer than we thought.." is what we hear from intelligence sources now. Iran, so modern in so many ways and yet so primitive and backward in many others, with a leadership that is almost childish in mentality, would risk devastation and war to keep on the present track. Religion plays some role there, as so many believe that death, as long as it is for some biased and worthless cause, leads one to an everlasting life in paradise. It is rather like accepting that if a Russian pisses in an Iranian's ears, the Iranian's IQ will increase. Has that worked, president Ahmadinejad?
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The name D.B.Cooper rings a bell throughout much of the world, infamous skyjacker who managed to bail from a jet with a whole lot of moolah. What exactly happened afterward is quite a mystery. An outlaw gains international fame.
Yet the name F.M.Coover deserves fame, but is only recognized by a mere handful of art collectors and art buffs. There is a mystery here too! We know Coover was in Indiana and likely born in 1888. We know he was very talented and gifted at art at a very young age, eleven. We can see many of his works that he created between the ages of 9 and 16. They are amazing drawings, mostly ink drawings, professional-quality drawings by a child! The mystery? What happened to him after 1904? What was his full name? Did he change his name and go on to illustrate and create more art? Who was F. J. Rosenberg, a name we see on some of Coover's drawings? Why are there no records of Coover's birth and death found? This young man deserves much credit. He deserves much more fame.
He is represented by his artwork in Paris, France and in the US, but somewhere there are surely more works of art by him. How is it that a notorious crook can be more popular and more remembered than a very gifted boy artist?
F M Coover .
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Very few of us want to distrust Muslims or persecute them in any way. The problem is this: When one looks around the world and sees all the trouble spots, the killing, the suicidal bombings, the gihadist activity, the planned terrorism and the corrupt clerics and warlords, and one sees that nearly all involve Muslims, one cannot help from distrusting the lot. With the few Muslim exceptions I happen to know personally, it is difficult not to distrust them. They need to clean their own house or accept the consequenses, in essence, quit blaming the non-believers for all their problems.
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When on gets right down to the nitty-gritty facts about sexual relations, even the bible thumpers should agree that it is for one devine reason, to produce offspring, to "multiply and cover the earth". Then it must be that any sexual relations other than for that prime reason is no more legitimate or less legitimate than any other. Sexual relations for mere pleasure, whether between male and female, female and female, male and male, or whatever, is not condoned. Like it or not, that is true according to the scripture, "Normal" marriage between man and woman is for the purpose of producing offspring. If a male and a female join in holy matrimony just to be together or enjoy "unproductive" sexual relations, that is no better and no worse than two of the same sex joining together for the same reason. Do the laws of the land condemn "normal" (man and woman) marriages of those who cannot produce any offspring? No, it does not. Should it?
For various reasons there are those who should not be allowed to join in marriage to produce offspring, especially when it is known that the offspring will have certain risky genes. At least in female/female and male/male marriages, one does not need to be concerned with the perpetuation of such genes. It is also about time that people become concerned with the population explosion. "Multiply and cover the earth" is a task that has long been fulfilled.
Addressing those couples who are married in a "normal" man-woman marriage, and who are enjoying sexual relations of any type without the serious intention of making a baby, you may quit looking down your nose at others who are not "normal" and you can stop condemning the idea of "gay" marriage. You are no better than others and your sexual behavior is no more godly than that of the others.
Any loving couple with intelligence and means may adopt and rear children. Not being gay makes no parent more qualified to do so. Most of the bigotry and most of the false beliefs were passed on to the children by "normal" (man-woman) parents. Most of the child abuse has been done by "normal" parents.
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Vladik Shibanov dies in auto accident.
Some did not know this young man nor even know of this man, but he brought much happiness to many with his honesty and with his smile. He shared with the world his love for life and his joy of adventure, the beauty of himself. He will be sorely missed but never forgotten.
"In the late hours of October 20, 2009, Vladik and a group of school friends met for a late night get together. Around 10:50pm local time, Vladik and a school friend identified only as a "champion go-cart racer" from Alushta broke away from the group to head home. Vladik, being the generous kid he was, offered a ride to his friend in his new car - a black 2008 Mitsubishi Outlander purchased in September of this year. Vlad loved his new car and was proud to show it off (pictured left). Vlad also loved speed. As the rain poured down, and visibility decreased because of fog, Vlad's speed increased. The vehicle's tires, designed for sparse recreational use only, already worn down from the rough Crimean terrain were to be replaced a week prior. What little tread was left was not enough to keep Vlad on the road at the speed he was travelling. Vlad lost control, hitting a concrete divider. He died instantly. MVD officials say speed, weather and poor tires were the ultimate cause of the accident. Alcohol was not a factor.
In a cruel twist of fate, his friend never lost consciousness during the entire ordeal. As emergency personnel worked for nearly an hour to cut Vlad from the car, his friend not only suffered from physical pain but the pain of seeing Vlad laying beside him. Vlad's friend remains in critical but stable condition suffering from spinal, chest and head injuries. He is expected to pull through.
Born into a humbled home, Vladik's circle of friends included the rich and elite of Crimea. But he never accepted handouts from his wealthy friends. Vlad carried his weight, and while his mates got weekly allowances from their parents, Vlad worked to keep up a lifestyle he so adored.
Vlad leaves behind Mummy, Daddy and his baby Sister. He also leaves behind thousands of friends all over the world."
Three Hikers that Strayed into the "never-never-land" of Iran may be being used as pawns in Iran's continuing games. President Ahmadinejad had earlier stated he would push for maximum leniency in the Iranian courts and now it is being alleged that the young explorers may face charges of espionage. Ahmadinejad may not even have the power to do anything regarding the kids, as he is suspected by many to be only puppet. Iran's government is notorious for making "mountains from mole hills" and overstating and understating for their own goals. This incident may be no different. the facts are that no evidence exists that there were any ill intentions by the three hikers and Iran's courts realize that, yet the Iranian government along with Khomeini's influence have a reputation for using people, even their own and at any cost of life, for their own devious purposes. Rarely, there were exceptions. It seems to make no difference that the world audience is watching closely.
For a man that denies The Holocaust ever happened, there is no truth but that of imagination.
Very wierd happening!
I am not one to readily believe in ghosts, and yet I cannot say there are not strange things that happen now and then which are very difficult to explain. This incident happened one night in late Sept in 2009.
I have a pool table that has been coverted from a ball-return table to one where the balls fall into the pockets and stay put until they are removed by someone. To make this conversion, I reversed the bottom rubber piece in each pocket, so instead of the ball being guided into a return track, it is stopped by 1 1/2" of rubber that curves upward to within 3/4" of the slate itself. The balls are the usual 2 1/4" ones. One night when friends were over, we were playing nine ball. After one break when the breaker pocketed the five ball into a corner pocket at the foot of the table, we played the game out. In two innings, the game was over. When my opponent went to gather the balls to rack them for another game, the five ball and the two ball were missing. We hunted everywhere, looking into each pocket more than once and on the floor and all around the table. We both remembered the five going into the corner, yet there was no way the ball could have squeezed past the rubber stop and into the table, and even if it were possible, it would follow the track of the ball return. Finally, after sliding under the table and looking into every access hole with a flashlight, the two missing balls were found lying next to each other, both directly under the corner pocket on the plywood bottom of the table. The compartment there was small and the two balls were difficult to retrieve.
How did they end up there? We still have no idea and we have tried to re-enact the incident many times. No balls have disappeared since and one cannot force a ball past that curved guard. I wish I would have written down the exact date and time it happened. It may happen again on that same date sometime. No explanation yet!
That was freaky, but here is another unusual thing that happened in a different pool room. I had just designed and built the game board called Hole-In-One, similar to the old billiard board game called Keno. The board is placed at the head of a pool table and then all 15 balls are racked at the foot as in eight ball. I let my friend, Gary, have the privilege of breaking the first rack to try out the game board for the first time. We were playing on my 9'carom table. Gary broke hard and like a bullet a corner ball hit two cushions and shot onto the board. It stopped almost instantly in the "Hole-In-One" hole, the only hole like it, right in the center of the board. That meant an instant win! "Wow!" I said, "What are the chances of that? The ball was moving fast and then just stopped in the win hole!" Gary, as the winner of the very first game, won the break on the next game and the same thing happened. Two instant wins, just one ball going onto the board and landing in the "Hole-On-One" hole each time.
During hundreds of games played after that, it has never happened again. Not even one instant win with a ball landing in that win-hole! Are we sometimes played with by spirits? I often wonder.
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Two popular world religions clash resulting in thousands of deaths!
Not new is it? Some sort of stigma that people believe they have the only correct and legitimate religion, and so much so they are willing to kill others that think differently. Often wars develop from these differences, two religions with both sides believing they are in the right. The great irony is that neither is right! Their actions of aggression even prove that neither is condoned by a decent god capable of creating life.
Fools abound, but the truth is a great scarcity!
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HOT ITEMS!
Who would have guessed that something like these would have gained so much interest and fetched so much money? I am referring to hot sauces. There are thousands of varieties of hot sauces on the market now and collectors are paying over $100 for some of them. I have been a bottle collector for years, especially a bitters collector, and I know the thrill of finding an old bitters with the label and content intact, I have paid a bundle for such bottles. Old bottles have an intrinsic beauty in just the glass, often colored and having bubbles and swirls, but when one finds a bitters with the label and the original content intact, one does not see the beauty of the glass. He sees only the rarity of finding such a bottle. Perhaps that is why so many are collecting hot sauces now. Someday, they too will fetch humongous prices before too long. That is is they are left unopened and in pristine condition. Some buyers merely buy the hot sauces to use. Others buy as investments. I know of one man who now has over 5000 variations in his collection. There are hot sauces that are very difficult to find and others that are limited in their edition and numbered as such. There are already many of them that are out of production or have had their labels changed. These are already fetching much higher prices than their issue price.
People collect everythng, it seems. Hot sauce collectors appear to be wise investors after all. Some of the names on the labels are intriguing, Acid Rain, Spontaneous Cobustion, Da' Bomb, etc. Some are a 1000 times hotter than jalapena sauce. As 20 new kinds hit the market for the first time, there are a few others that disappear from the market or are no longer being produced. They will only increase in value,
Ebay has a variety of listings, for new ones and scarce ones and even the rare ones.
If you are contemplating collecting, there is no better time than now.There is even a store that deals in all hot sauce and related items. It is HotShotHotsauce.com
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"Ghost Hunters," the SyFy television show, appears to be an interesting one, but the few times I have watched it have convinced me that most of the TAPS guys did not listen well during school lessons, especially during their English classes. Me and Penny are convinced!. LOL.
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SCHOOL -- 1958 vs .. 2008
Scenario : Jack goes quail hunting before school, Pulls into school parking lot with shotgun in gun rack. 1958 - Vice Principal comes over, looks at Jack's shotgun, Goes to his car and gets his shotgun to show Jack. 2008 - School goes into lock down, FBI called, Jack hauled off to jail And never sees his truck or gun again. Counselors called in For traumatized students and teachers.
Scenario : Johnny and Mark get into a fistfight after school. 1958 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up buddies. 2008 - Police called, SWAT team arrives, arrests Johnny and Mark. Charge them with assault, both expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario : Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students. 1958 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the Principal... Returns to class, sits still and does not disrupt class again.. 2008 - Jeffrey given huge doses of Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. Tested for ADD. School gets extra money from state Because Jeffrey has a disability.
Scenario : Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car And his Dad gives him a spanking with his belt. 1958 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, Goes to college, and becomes a successful businessman. 2008 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy removed to foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist tells Billy's sister that she remembers Being abused herself and their dad goes to prison. Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario : Mark gets a headache and takes some aspirin to school. 1958 - Mark shares aspirin with Principal. 2008 - Police called, Mark expelled from school for drug violations. Car searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario : Pedro fails high school English.. 1958 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English and goes to college. 2008 - Pedro's cause is taken up by state. Newspaper articles appear nationally Explaining that teaching English as a requirement for graduation is racist. ACLU files class action lawsuit against state school system And Pedro's English teacher. English banned from core curriculum. Pedro given diploma anyway but ends up Mowing lawns for a living because he cannot speak English.
Scenario : Johnny takes apart leftover firecrackers from 4th of July, Puts them in a model airplane paint bottle, blows up a red ant bed. 1958 - Ants die. 2008 - BATF, Homeland Security, FBI called. Johnny charged with domestic terrorism, FBI investigates parents, Siblings removed from home, computers confiscated, Johnny's Dad goes on a terror watch list And is never allowed to fly again.
Scenario : Johnny falls while running during recess and scrapes his knee. He is found crying by his teacher, Mary. Mary hugs him to comfort him. 1958 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing. 2008 - Mary s accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job. She faces 3 years in State Prison. Johnny undergoes 5 years of therapy .
Everyone should read this e-mail To show how stupid we have become! Think about it! What fools have changed our world so?
Anf just how stypid are the Indiana state police detectives? Stupid enough to call Michaelangelo's art-sculpture of "Young David" pornography! How stupid is that!
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One should not say that all Muslims are evil. In fact, there are many, many exceptions. It is only those who blindly believe what they have been taught to believe that are not exceptions. Among these are the gihadists, the radicals and the fanatics, those that would lower themselves to murder and suicide. These are the majority of the most deluded organisms in our universe. Possessed? Perhaps, but maybe it was just the way they were reared from infancy. The perpetuation of ignorance relies on lies and gullibility.
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Everyone picks on the Muslims. Just because most of the hot areas of trouble on this earth involve murder and rape, bombings and terrorist activity where a Muslims were responsible. Is that fair? Just because there happens to be many rotten apples in a barrel, can one conclude that the barrel of apples is bad? There are some good apples still there and if they are not infected by the bad ones, they are of value.
A group of young boys just went from the USA to assist in a "holy war" against the "enemies of the Muslim people". It seems, according to them, that Muslims are being persecuted by the bad western world. It is the simple philosphy of the gihadist mind that God made a huge mistake by creating humans that eventually ended up as Jews, Christians, and Buddhists, and any other mindset that was not Muslim, Now, it is the gihadist's self-assigned task, their "holy" assignment to clean up, to rectify that horrible blunder by God. It is their "holy" mission to undo what God has done with their assumed license to destroy, murder or maime, anyone that is not a gihadist brother. Cleaning house within the Muslim community is too difficult a task for the good apples, or so it seems anyway. The solution to the rotten-apple problem is cleaning out the barrel and cleaning the house, nevertheless, no matter how difficult the task. The main threat to Muslims are other Muslims.
Al-qaida states that their list of targets has "no end". No wonder! They want to kill anyone and everyone but themselves. Children, women, the old and the young, It makes no difference to them. Is this the plan of THE GOD? Not unless THE GOD and Satan are one and the same! THE GOD would have no intention of destroying what he has created. That would only be the goal of al-qaida and their real master, Satan. No one knows that there is an Almighty God or not. No one knows that there is a dark fallen angel known as satan. What we do know is there is good and there is evil. Some can distiquish between the two. Al-qaida and the gihadists cannot.
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Curruption in the courts and corruption in the Legislature. One would assume that with the marvelous retirement plan for Senators that there would be no incentive for any corruption. They receive the same pay for life, even after they retire, and for the rest of their life. This involves many millions of dollars each year and it is we the people who pay. Let them retire with the Social Security payments we the people have!
The greatest incentive for anyone to go into politics, especially into the legislative branch, is the almighty dollar, millions of dollars! Who cares any longer about making America a better place? It is all about the money and this must be changed!
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Thoughts on love. Love is not unterchangeable with sexual conduct. So some, the word love seems to mean sex, as in 'sex'ual intercourse. To a great many misguided folks, the phrase boy lover conjures mental images of something terrible. It brings on feelings of hate in them. They see images of predators, child rapists, murderers in thier minds. It is unfortunate that people cn be so ignorant that they must rely of their primitive emotions in this way. Love is simply caring for someone dearly, enjoying the moments one is with someone that you adore. Love is being yourself with someone that can be the same with you. Sharing moments to be remembered and treasured for life is love. Teaching someone the ways of happiness, the paths to pleasure, to see beauty and the way to a successful and rewarding life.
Boys are not some possessions of parents. Possessions may be sold and auctioned, boxed and shelved for later use. Boys, as are girls, not possessions, but people who have feelings and desires much the same as adults. They are the future of the world and are a part of our world and they belong to the world. They should be treated with respect, taught with truth, and loved as people and not owned pets that are trained only to blindly obey. Honoring a father and mother does not mean blindly obey. If it did, there would be a bounty of ignorance of ignorance to be perpetuated from generation to generation.
For those who think of sex whenever the word love is mentioned, it is strange that they would think of sex whenever the words boy and love are used together. Do they also think of ugly and perverted thoughts when someone mentions horse lover, or cat lover, or dog lover? Likely not. The images that come to mind when someone mentions boy lover is coming from deep within their own subconscious minds, and that is really scary. As in word association quizzes, the concealed truth is revealed in what they immediately associate with the words they hear. From what are they drawing their instant conclusions? From their own experiences or their own supressed desires?
One cannot help but imagine. It is natural. The images one sees in their mind's eye vary greatly, but not all people develop sudden feeling of hate from images they might dislike. If I picture two old people having sex, I find the imagery appalling. Yet I do not hate old people. I find it appalling to imagine two large hairy having sexual relations. I find it appalling to imagine a man having sex with some lowly and ugly prostitute also, but no feeling of hatred stir in me.
The imagery of two young and beautiful people enjoying sexual relations of any sort does not disgust me. If there is love between two persons, I can understand and accept.
No one can ever understand all the factors that form bonds between two people. It is much too complicated. One must accept the fact that people have a right to bond, to love, and even to have sexual relations. If sexual relations is not for the sole purpose of creating a child, then it is not condoned by the Christian religion anyway. If it is not done for creating life, then it is done for mere pleasure. If it is done for mere pleasure, even for bringing pleasure to the partner, it is not condoned. If it is not condoned by the Christian religion, then any sexual relationship with love is no better than any another with love.
Most of mankind will eventually learn to accept the real facts of life, though there will always be those that, from ignorance, cannot or will not.
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THREE YOUNG IRANIANS ARRESTED IN A NEW YORK TRAIN STATION.
Three young Iranians were arrested today. They are suspected of planning espionage against a government facility, Although all three pleaded that they were merely lost and were trying to locate their parents, they were taken to a government location for questioning and are expected to be kept there until their trial in February. The three, two girls and one boy, ages from 3 years old to 6 years old, were not carrying IDs nor passports, They were not armed, but the boy did have an ad for an airgun in his shirt pocket.
The Iranian government refused to comment on the incident. They know just how seriously dangerous youngsters can be. They had used enough of them for their war with Iraq. He He.
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The ACLU and the out-of-control federal courts are wrong!
These are the preambles to all our states' constitutions. Each acknowledges a devine leadership (God) and yet not one state demands that we worship God. Freedpm means we have the right to make a choice, but not to bow down to some minority or individual because one of them does not agree with the majority.
Alabama 1901, Preamble We the people of the State of Alabama , invoking the favor and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish the following Constitution.
Alaska 1956, Preamble We, the people of Alaska , grateful to God and to those who founded our nation and pioneered this great land.
Arizona 1911, Preamble We, the people of the State of Arizona , grateful to Almighty God for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution...
Arkansas 1874, Preamble We, the people of the State of Arkansas , grateful to Almighty God for the privilege of choosing our own form of government...
California 1879, Preamble We, the People of the State of California , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom...
Colorado 1876, Preamble We, the people of Colorado , with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of Universe...
Connecticut 1818, Preamble.. The People of Connecticut, acknowledging with gratitude the good Providence of God in permitting them to enjoy.
Delaware 1897, Preamble Through Divine Goodness all men have, by nature, the rights of worshipping and serving their Creator according to the dictates of their consciences.
Florida 1885, Preamble We, the people of the State of Florida , grateful to Almighty God for our constitutional liberty, establish this Constitution....
Georgia 1777, Preamble We, the people of Georgia , relying upon protection and guidance of Almighty God, do ordain and establish this Constitution...
Hawaii 1959, Preamble We , the people of Hawaii , Grateful for Divine Guidance ... Establish this Constitution.
Idaho 1889, Preamble We, the people of the State of Idaho , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings.
Illinois 1870, Preamble We, the people of the State of Illinois, grateful to Almighty God for the civil , political and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.
Indiana 1851, Preamble We, the People of the State of Indiana , grateful to Almighty God for the free exercise of the right to choose our form of government.
Iowa 1857, Preamble We, the People of the St ate of Iowa , grateful to the Supreme Being for the blessings hitherto enjoyed, and feeling our dependence on Him for a continuation of these blessings, establish this Constitution.
Kansas 1859, Preamble We, the people of Kansas , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious privileges establish this Constitution.
Kentucky 1891, Preamble.. We, the people of the Commonwealth are grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties..
Louisiana 1921, Preamble We, the people of the State of Louisiana , grateful to Almighty God for the civil, political and religious liberties we enjoy.
Maine 1820, Preamble We the People of Maine acknowledging with grateful hearts the goodness of the Sovereign Ruler of the Universe in affording us an opportunity .. And imploring His aid and direction.
Maryland 1776, Preamble We, the people of the state of Maryland , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberty...
Massachusetts 1780, Preamble We...the people of Massachusetts, acknowledging with grateful hearts, the goodness of the Great Legislator of the Universe In the course of His Providence, an opportunity and devoutly imploring His direction
Michigan 1908, Preamble. We, the people of the State of Michigan , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of freedom, establish this Constitution.
Minnesota, 1857, Preamble We, the people of the State of Minnesota, grateful to God for our civil and religious liberty, and desiring to perpetuate its blessings:
Mississippi 1890, Preamble We, the people of Mississippi in convention assembled, grateful to Almighty God, and invoking His blessing on our work...
Missouri 1845, Preamble We, the people of Missouri , with profound reverence for the Supreme Ruler of the Universe, and grateful for His goodness . Establish this Constitution...
Montana 1889, Preamble. We, the people of Montana , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty establish this Constitution ..
Nebraska 1875, Preamble We, the people, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom . Establish this Constitution.
Nevada 1864, Preamble We the people of the State of Nevada , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, establish this Constitution...
New Hampshire 1792, Part I. Art. I. Sec. V Every individual has a natural and unalienable right to worship God according to the dictates of his own conscience.
New Jersey 1844, Preamble We, the people of the State of New Jersey, grateful to Almighty God for civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing on our endeavors.
New Mexico 1911, Preamble We, the People of New Mexico, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of liberty.
New York 1846, Preamble We, the people of the State of New York , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, in order to secure its blessings.
North Carolina 1868, Preamble We the people of the State of North Carolina, grateful to Almighty God, the Sovereign Ruler of Nations, for our civil, political, and religious liberties, and acknowledging our dependence upon Him for the continuance of those...
North Dakota 1889, Preamble We , the people of North Dakota , grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, do ordain...
Ohio 1852, Preamble We the people of the state of Ohio , grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, to secure its blessings and to promote our common.
Oklahoma 1907, Preamble Invoking the guidance of Almighty God, in order to secure and perpetuate the blessings of liberty, establish this
Oregon 1857, Bill of Rights, Article I Section 2. All men shall be secure in the Natural right, to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their consciences
Pennsylvania 1776, Preamble We, the people of Pennsylvania, grateful to Almighty God for the blessings of civil and religious liberty, and humbly invoking His guidance....
Rhode Island 1842, Preamble. We the People of the State of Rhode Island grateful to Almighty God for the civil and religious liberty which He hath so long permitted us to enjoy, and looking to Him for a blessing...
South Carolina , 1778, Preamble We, the people of he State of South Carolina grateful to God for our liberties, do ordain and establish this Constitution.
South Dakota 1889, Preamble We, the people of South Dakota , grateful to Almighty God for our civil and religious liberties .
Tennessee 1796, Art. XI..III. That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their conscience...
Texas 1845, Preamble We the People of the Republic of Texas , acknowledging, with gratitude, the grace and beneficence of God.
Utah 1896, Preamble Grateful to Almighty God for life and liberty, we establish this Constitution.
Vermont 1777, Preamble Whereas all government ought to enable the individuals who compose it to enjoy their natural rights, and other blessings which the Author of Existence has bestowed on man .
Virginia 1776, Bill of Rights, XVI Religion, or the Duty which we owe our Creator can be directed only by Reason and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian Forbearance, Love and Charity towards each other
Washington 1889, Preamble We the People of the State of Washington, grateful to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe for our liberties, do ordain this Constitution
West Virginia 1872, Preamble Since through Divine Providence we enjoy the blessings of civil, political and religious liberty, we, the people of West Virginia reaffirm our faith in and constant reliance upon God ...
Wisconsin 1848, Preamble We, the people of Wisconsin, grateful to Almighty God for our freedom, domestic tranquility...
Wyoming 1890, Preamble We, the people of the State of Wyoming , grateful to God for our civil, political, and religious liberties, establish this Constitution...
I would rather believe in some devine spiritual being that I cannot see rather than trust some clowns called the ACLU that I can see all too well.
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Some are saying that passing of the new health bill will ultimately hurt the Democrats in next year's poll. If the American people of the US are smart, all the existing senators and congressmen will be exchanged for new ones that care for the people and not for their own political associations. New ones are needed, new ones that will accept social security payments instead of the high pay and high pensions that are being paid now. New ones are needed, new ones that cannot be bought by big oil, big tobacco, big medicine and big insurance. Dump all of them and start anew for the love of our nation and for the right of freedom! Just as so many love their own religion but do not really respect God's plan, so many politicians merely love their own party and do not care what is best for the US. Republicans hate the Democrats and defy them and the Democrats defy the Republicans, Muslims hate the Christians and others, and Christians do not respect Islam, and it seems that everyone hates the Jews. Everyone is ready to stand and fight and to kill for the wrong reasons. We should all be fighting for the same reason, for the health of our planet and the future of children, for our health and for a mutual respect and love for all mankind. No worthy God could not respect us for that!
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Here is a little multiple choice quiz, just for those who might not remember precisely what the good are up against since The Holocaust:
These events are actual events from history. They really happened! Do you remember?
1.. 1968 Bobby Kennedy was shot and killed by: a.. Superman b. Jay Leno c. Harry Potter d. A Muslim male extremist between the ages of 17 and 40
2. In 1972 at the Munich Olympics, athletes were kidnapped and massacred by: a. Olga Corbett b. Sitting Bull c. Arnold Schwarzenegger d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
3.. In 1979, the US embassy in Iran was taken over by: a. Lost Norwegians b. Elvis c. A tour bus full of 80-year-old women d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
4. During the 1980's a number of Americans were kidnapped in Lebanon by: a. John Dillinger b.. The King of Sweden c. The Boy Scouts d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
5. In 1983, the US Marine barracks in Beirut was blown up by: a. A pizza delivery boy b. Pee Wee Herman c. Geraldo Rivera d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
6. In 1985 the cruise ship Achille Lauro was hijacked and a 70 year old American passenger was murdered and thrown overboard in his wheelchair by: a. The Smurfs b. Davey Jones c. The Little Mermaid d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
7. In 1985 TWA flight 847 was hijacked at Athens , and a US Navy diver trying to rescue passengers was murdered by: a. Captain Kidd b. Charles Lindberg c. Mother Teresa d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
8. In 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 was bombed by: a. Scooby Doo b. The Tooth Fairy c. The Sundance Kid d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
9.. In 1993 the World Trade Center was bombed the first time by: a. Richard Simmons b. Grandma Moses c. Michael Jordan d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
10. In 1998, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed by: a. Mr. Rogers b. Hillary Clinton, to distract attention from Wild Bill's women problems c. The World Wrestling Federation d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
11. On 9/11/01, four airliners were hijacked; two were used as missiles to take out the World Trade Centers and of the remaining two, one crashed into the US Pentagon and the other was diverted and crashed by the passengers. Thousands of people were killed by: a. Bugs Bunny, Wiley E. Coyote, Daffy Duck and Elmer Fudd b. The Supreme Court of Florida c. Mr Bean d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
12. In 2002 the United States fought a war in Afghanistan against: a. Enron b. The Lutheran Church c. The NFL d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40
13. In 2002 reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered by: a. Bonnie and Clyde b. Captain Kangaroo c. Billy Graham d. Muslim male extremists mostly between the ages of 17 and 40.
Did you guess them all? All answers were "d", so do you see why a little profiling is important? Recently, many soldiers were wounded or killed by another such extremist within our own military on one of our bases here in the US.
There are many, many good and good-hearted Muslims, but until their numbers and influence are great enough to quell the threat of those who are deluded, evil, and bent on destruction and mayhem, we all must be alert and somewhat skeptical. We here on earth watch as Muslims kill Muslims, In such murders as these suicide bombings where those of Islam kill others of Islam, just who is considered the good martyr that will ascend to paradise with Muhammad? There is no martyrdom involved, just plain murder born from stubborness and ignorance and yet it seems it is taking years and years for others of the Islamic faith to realize this. When a plant bears so much rotten fruit, there is something wrong with the roots. Perhaps someday, we will all live in harmony, no matter what our nationality, gender, race or color, no matter what fantasies we accept as real.
I would rather live my life and treat all as fairly as I can, respect all life the best I can, respect our earth and all people on it than to spend hours praying to some invisible and elusive god. I would rather show my respect for our abundance of beauty, minerals, life than to attach myself to any religious organization for the sole and selfish purpose of living forever in a new world as "promised" by some ancient script. To live for such a selfish reason is ridiculous in my opinion. If one cannot live in a goodly manner in this life, he is not likely to ever live succesfully in any other. One must live for this life and respect others, to kill only in defense of self and family, not for the mere defense of one's meager belief in some religion.
Those who are so self-righteous as to defend their religion with murder are among the least to deserve life, here on earth or in some "promised" paradise or heaven. The whole desire to be spared what death seems to hold for us is a selfish and trivial pursuit, whether by man or woman, by clerics or followers.
None of us have ordered this life we have, but we have been given life by the actions of our parents through natural biological processes that have have yet to completely understand. We call it a miracle of life, but so many waste so many days of their lives by their selfish goals. Rather than seeking truth, they rely on another to tell them what truth is. So many fear death because they know what death holds. They only know they feel better about death because someone they trust has convinced them that there is a paradise waiting for them of they belong to a certain religion or follow some lame path of action that god was supposed to have ordered them to do, but it was not god, but a mere man that contrived such a path.
All the robes, the crosses, the rosaries, the kissing-stones, the books, the manuscripts, the repetitous kneeling prayers, the mosques, churches, cathedrals, the statues and idols, and the false faith cannot make it the truth. Only loving and respecting life and living for our earth is the righteous path for all. People believe religious garble because of fear, fear of death, fear of hell, fear of not living forever as someone had said was possible, not that God had told them anything personally, but another mere human had. So it is with superstitions, better to be safe than sorry. The clerics know this, but they also know that if there is no fear of consequences, there is no means of controlling the people that trust and follow them and after all, religion is a very profitable business.
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OKAY! Maybe I am not the head of security at the CIA, but it seems to me that the recent incidents of piracy near Africa could be avoided easily. One of the latest incidents involved a British-owned ship. Could not there be at least one qualified person on board each ship with a few stinger missiles in his control? Who could possibly board a ship that was defended so? There are many trustworthy mercenaries available for hire these days. Is it not worth it to hire one or two to accompany each voyage into notorious waters? Is there some other hidden agenda at work here with all these acts of piracy
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The recent attempted bombing on board a jet passenger plane had opened a few eyes. The Nigerian appeared in court today declaring he was innocent of the charges. Of course he was! He was only attempting to get rid of his crabs he had acquired before the flight. It was just an innocent case of crab extermination by powerful explosives.
It could be interpreted as an act of terror for sure! In that case, it seems as though God had his eyes open this time and intervened. Thank God for that. It was about time.
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So many businesses now use lowly tactics to deceive potential new customers. Even Direct TV has joined this group, by not stating the whole truth in their ads. One might assume he is getting a special rate for one year and then may stop the service, but in fact the rate increases after 12 months and the contract is for 24 months instead of 12. Read the very small print!
An online movie seller sent out an email to customers that advertised a DVD reduced from regular $19.95 to $12.95. Sounded fine, even to me. The site actually stated the price differently. there, the same DVD was $16.95. I assumed the email ad had the correct price. I added a little note to the seller when I ordered, stating that the price was stated wrong on the site and that an adjustment should be made before charging my credit card. It seems the request was ignored and my credit card was charged $16.95 for the DVD, plus shipping, etc.
After I saw that, I simply went to the site and wrote a note expressing my discontent:
"On email of new release, you had priced the movie at $12.95. You charged me the price of $16.95. This is matter of principle, as I had notified you twice to adjust the charge to the advertised price in the email. You failed to grant me the advertised price, although it was your mistake and not mine. You may now give me credit of the $4 or you may close my account. I wish to deal with only those I can trust. You may still read the note I had sent on the order itself and still it was ignored. Let me know what you decide."
I received this email reply very shortly after:
"It was a mistake in the email, which happens. And something tells me you knew that, but you decided to be an ass about it anyway. As you can see, the movie is 16.95. But tell you what. I'll refund you the whole thing, and you may now go fuck yourself. You're banned! You've got a week to return my films."
Is this a good business attitude or what? The credit card company was shocked to read how one of its seller/users treated their customers and especially shocked with his language. The irony of this is that I was actually banned, my IP address refused from the site, and now that my full payment is credited back into my account, I have no way of knowing where to send the DVD to return it. The original paper container had been burned just after it was opened. Another mistake by the online seller! Oh well, he will likely charge my card again after a few days. That's when the _____ will hit the fan and the credit card company will ban him accepting their particular card for his business. It is always best for a business to be up front an honest in the long run.
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NATURAL
What is natural? The word has been used improperly for years, and the word "unnatural" used even more improperly. Earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, floods, are all considered "natural" disasters. In this context, natural seems to be negative.
Then, when one labels something "unnatural", one is usually speaking of something he infers as negative. For instance, it is often said that boys' or girls' interest in an older person is "unnatural". Often the word infatuation is used on this subject and the underlying thought of those who use these terms is sexual. Such thinking is based on Christian values as established by thousands of years of thinking and rethinking by men who translate ancient text. They, in essence, speak for God, translating in their own way what they perceive as God's will.
Yet, this is all quite contrary to "natural", to which the word natural refers.
The established ways of society, nearly all based on ancient religious principles, are far from natural. It is quite natural to feel intimate desires, for boys and girls as well as older people. It is "unnatural" to believe otherwise. Dr. Kinsey would agree that current laws are primitive and unnatural on the subjects of love and of sex.
It is the established and accepted archaic policies of religion and the laws derived from them that are not natural.
Contrary to popular public opinions, "unnatural" is quite natural among youth. It is estimated that by the time most boys reach the age of 16, they have had consentual sexual encounters with at least ten other persons. These include other boys, both younger and older, girls, adult males, and adult females. Shocking? Not hardly and most people realize that it is true, but somehow do not like to admit it. The real danger of not accepting the natural pattern of young male behavior is how the unacceptance affects the youth. To demonize the normal behavior of youth, to label it as unnatural, often leads to stigmas of guilt in many. This leads to drug use, often to criminal activity, and on some cases to suicides. Which is better, then? Accept youthful behavior as normal and allow ot to run its course or try and upset youth and interfere with normal behavior by inuendo, lies, threats, name-calling, guilt trips, and punitive measures which might or might not alter the normal behavior of the youth, but will certainly leave scars to deal with in future years? One is wise to remember the days of one's own youth, and not how one's own parents and peers dealt with it, but how one acted and felt during the youthful years. Acceptance, understanding, and suggested guidance are always much better than criticism and punishment. The archaic days have come and gone and should not be perpetuated by ignorance and dwelling on archaic beliefs.
Youth often experiment with both love and with sex. It is a natural part of normal development.
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The Great System Rip-offs!
There was a man in Indiana who had four small moles on his face and he wished them removed. He had a "Healthy Indiana Plan" limited insurance coverage by Anthem. He was alloted $1100/year from Indiana for any services he might need. He called several dermatologists, but only a few were willing to accept the HIP insurance as payment.
An appointment was set up in Avon, Indiana, at a provider in the Hendricks County Hospital building. He arrived and waited for approximatey 10 minutes in the waiting room until he met the dermitologist and explained that he wanted the 4 small places removed. The dermatologist said he could do that right away. It took all of 14 minutes for the whole procedure. How much was the bill? $1,035.00!!!
Not bad profit for less than 15 minutes! $646.30 of this ammount was paid by HIP, and the rest was paid by Anthem, but that $646.30 was deducted from the man's allotment of $1100. That leaves only about $460.00 for the remainder of the year, not enough to treat the two other maladies the man needs treating.
It used to take about $35 for a visiting dermatologist to burn off up to 6 spots, warts, moles, etc. That was only twelve years ago. So now it takes $1,035.00? Something is wrong here. The state is being ripped off, Anthem is being ripped off, the patient suffers still , and few seem to realize it or care.
There is definitely some abuse here. It takes 7-8 weeks for me to make that amount of money, but 15 minutes for a dermitologist to bring it in, simply by gouging! $129 just for the office call. He is a thief that takes advantage of our system. "Some will rob you with a six-gun, and some with a fountain pen." Wow!
Someone else in the system is obviously getting some form of kickback from this overcharging or it would not be allowed. This same doctor expects a return visit by the patient in two weeks, "..just a followup". If he thinks he is going to make another killing and use the remaining allotment in the man's account, he is mistaken. The man has no intention of returning if there is to be any charge at all. Healthcare is a disaster caused by greedy doctors and blind social workers. One must remember that Physicians, not unlike lawyers, are in the business to make a lot of money in a short time, not to help people live better or longer. There are exceptions, but they are few. If this type of abuse is allowed the new healthcare system, we will all be in trouble very quickly.
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Wanted! Expendible or worthless men, women, or boys needed for suicide bombing missions. Meet either Satan or Allah within seconds of mission completion. Call me now! 1-666-666-holy. Ask for Al Kyda.
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Osama Bin Laden was exposed by one of his own comrades. One of Bin Laden's own trusted men in Pakistan, it has been reported, exposed many details about the estranged Osama Bin Laden. "He is insane," the man told certain others, and continued, "and he thinks he is Muhamad, may he rest in peace, returned to direct his people. He told me once that he was even greater and more popular than our Prophet Muhamad, may he rest in peace. It is then when I knew I must leave him and not to return." "He is insane and I know this. I wish now for all to know this too."
Osama Bin Laden sent a message to the world yesterday by way of the internet, I have heard. He has taken responsibility for recent terrorist attacks and said more are coming, but nothing new! It was the same old stuff.
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As I know many Muslims, I know that all Muslims are not bad. I did not say they were, but I do say because of all the murderous and demented terrorists originating in the middle east, there is some flaw in the genetics or there is a terrible flaw in the Islamic religion to produce so many evil people, people that murder and plan more murders without remorse or guilt. As in the case of Osama Bin Laden, are all these murderers unsane or were they just poorly reared and taught by their parents?
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Many of the orthadox jews I have seen are, in my opinion, just about as loony as the extremist Islamic radicals. Both are ritualistic habitual followers of traditional beliefs, disregarding how irrational and how archaic those beliefs are. To them, there is only one way to believe, right or wrong, and they stubbornly go the way they have been brainwashed to go.
The middle east is indeed a place of mystical lunacy.
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Maybe Osama Bin Laden is correct when he says he is the Prophet Muhammad returned to earth. That would account for his mass of followers and their devious nature. "Peace, my ass! Kill, kill, kill!" is the al-qaida mindset. If he is or if he is not, he is still scum.
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MyPoints.com
It appears that an online web program with a good reputation can go wrong. Someone seeems to be messing around with the redemptions aspect of the site and loyal customers are not getting what they redeemed their hard-earned point for. Redeem for one thing and get something entirly different. Surely the webmaster is looking into the problem and perhaps the staff, but meanwhile...who knows what is going on?
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At one time, these types were called fear merchants. They deviate from normal loving people because of one or more of several reasons: they were poorly brought up by unloving and/or ignorant parents, mistreated by those responsible for them, or they are envious of those who seem to be happy, they may have genetic deficiencies emotionally, they may be quite narcistic but dislike others, or they may be extremely opposite and actually hate themselves. These types often join with others that have similar social deficiencies or groups such as skinheads, motorcycle gangs, street gangs and other hate groups. They are basically cowards on their own and desperately need comrades to feel safe and feel courageous. They often rely on drugs and alcohol for courage. Groups of terrorists such as al-qaida fall into this type of deviate category. The Gihadist do likewise. They use religious references and association only as excuses for their behavior, while actually realizing that their aggressive actions are condemned by The God of their various religious factions.
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And the stupidity refuses to dwindle as centuries pass!
AGAIN, it is Muslim killing Christian and Christian killing Muslim. After so many centuries one would think that people would mature to at least the level of a dog. Yet, somewhere on our planet, it is the same old bunk, the same old conflict, "death to you and death to me" bullshit! It makes no difference who might start the offensive, he results are the same and people die worthless deaths. As if it makes a difference, it is all not unlike some fierce argument between two people; "God had blond hair!" "Like hell he does. He has black hair like me!" "I said he has blond hair and it is written so!" "You don't know shit! He has hair as black as coal!" "No way, fool, you are jusy another non-believer. You do not deserve to live!" "It is you that is wrong and God and I should kill you right now! It is only just and holy that you should be burned alive!" And on it goes, each moron fanning the flames of their emotional crutches, their holy beliefs. Yet, neither of them and no one else knows the truth. "The wise know only that they know very little". "Gulliver's Travels" taught them nothing?
Mankind's downfall will likely be some selfish quest for salvation.
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While speaking of losers, Iran's government is in the news again after some of the protestors to the crooked election have been hung to death. This was an obvious attempt to quell all future protestors by the threat of hanging, but it is also a display of fear by the government and Khomeini. They fear the protest movement was growing. They forgot one simple truth about true Islamic people; they do not fear death but welcome it. Some of them crave it. So how do a few lynchings scare real believers that wish reform? Only the fake, Khomeini, and the government are fearful and in the long run, they will lose their hold on the people to freedom, to democracy and to the peoples' pursuits of happiness. According to the Irani government, the people are mere sheep that need tended as such. That has been the thinking that brought down many dictators and authoritarian governments.
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MyPoints.com started out treating their members properly. When one redeemed hard-earned points for something they desired, that something was delivered in about 3 weeks and it was the correct item. Now, things are quite different there. One member has amassed everal thousand points and redeemed many of them for two $25 Red Lobster gifts cards. After about three weeks, he wrote to MyPoints to ask why the cards were not arriving yet. The reply was that the two Red Lobster cards should arrive very soon. Within a week, two cards did arrive, but they were not Red Lobster. They were entirely different and they were not welcomed by the long-standing member. He emailed MyPoints to discover why the wrong cards were sent amd said he would reurn them to MyPoints in Illinois. MyPoints responded by writing,"Our records show that you have redeemed your points for twp Restaurant.com cards and they should be arriving shortly." He again explained the problem in clear English and explained that the cards had arribed already and they were the wrong cards. The reply was, "Your Restaurant.com cards have ceen sent. We have no record of any redemption for Red Lobster cards. Please try redeeming for them again." The man followed up bt explaining his points wer almost depleted, since the two Red Lobster cards took 7100 of them. He had not enough points to redeem for two more Red Lobster cards. he also explained that the two cards sent to him by mistake only cost 1200 point each and wondered why 7100 points were used for them. He also told them that the wrong cards had been returned to MyPoints. The reply was, "Your Restaurant.com cards have ceen sent. We have no record of any redemption for Red Lobster cards. Please try redeeming for them again." The member was getting upset and wondered why no one at MyPoints could understand the problem and correct it. He waited for another reply and/or a confirmation that MyPoints had received the cards he had returned. He checked his points each day. There were no more han there were before and no more replies were sent to him from MyPoints. He closed his account and promised he would inform as many people as he could of the incident and the irresponsible management of MyPoints.com. So it has been done. While someone at MyPoints is enjoying his/her Red Lobster dinners at his expense, one discouraged ex-member is eating beans.
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Pierre Garcon stated on television that he would be obligated and happy to give autographs to any fans that gave donations to the Haiti emergency situation. One man who had just donated to Haiti through Mercy Corp heard what Pierre said. He went to Pierre Garcon's personal website and kindly requested that Pierre send him some autographed item, a card, a photo, or anything at all. He also emailed a copy of his donation receipt to verify he had indeed donated to help Haiti. After two weeks of waiting, he has received no reply nor autograph. Will he get what was promised by Mr. Garcon? If the Colts do lose to the Saints, remember that it may have been Pierre's default on his promise that caused it. Pierre, it is best to be honest.
The Colts did lose.
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Our man does his part!
Congressman John Fleming works for the American people. He writes, "You will be pleased to know that more than 100 Members of Congress joined in support of H. Res. 615, my common sense measure calling on Members who vote for an intrusive government-administered health care plan to enroll in that system. Since launching this effort, nearly 3 million Americans like you have contacted my office in support of H. Res. 615. In response I offered an amendment to the Democratic Leadership health care bill to automatically enroll all Members of Congress and all Senators in the public option. Predictably, my amendment was rejected out of hand by the Majority and was not given a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives. Common sense seems to have failed us in the health care debate. That is why I offered a resolution asking Members of Congress to put their “money where their mouth is” and call for Members who support a public option lead by example and be required to enroll in the public option themselves. If a Member is willing to vote for such an option, why shouldn’t they enroll in it?"
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Iran moves closer toward a totalitarian government or a military dictatorship each day, not to the benefit of the many good people there. That fact does not mean that those in the positions of leadership are complete idiots, but it is a fairly good clue that they are. We all know that the Iranian president is a loser, and we have been convinced of Khomeini's evil for many years. Long live Mr. Rushdie! They are referred to by the civilized world as self-centered ignorant oafs, ignorant of reality as they strive to make their own reality from their fantasies.
We hesitate to demonize religious figures, but a spade is a spade and a pile of dung by any other name still smells as foul. The people pf Iran once has their chance to make their move and now it may be too late. They must learn to adapt to a poorly-ran country. Perhaps the next generation will have what it takes to rebel against the archaic-minded few that run the country, if there are any young people alive to do so. We, as humans, must apologize for the inhuman beasts that have ruined the lives of so many good Iranian people and for the demise of those who had the brevity to resist Iranian pseudo-Islamic corruption.
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Today I read that world birthrates have fallen and that may threaten prosperity. With 2000 children dying each day from malnutrition and other maladies, it would seem too many people are irresponsibly breeding as much as rabbits. There needs to be more education and more birth control until out world can feed, clothe, and care for the children we have.
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"Shit-for-brains" terrorists are not lacking in our world. Evil is difficult to defeat and the terrorists are among the most evil thugs of all. They come in all sizes, colors, races and in both sexes, although they are predominantly radical Islamic male morons that never knew what Islam was about in the first place. They could be told Khomeini was really God and they would believe it, as long as it was told to them by one of their respected clerics. If hell were a real place, it would be reeking with murderous Islamic radicals by now. I often wish it were a real place instead of a mere grave.
Now is is feared that Iran is trying to create a nuclear payload for a missile, the agency said in a confidential report on Thursday. "The UN agency also said Iran had produced its first batch of uranium enriched to 20 percent."
How do we eliminate the evil ones in Iran without harming the good people still there? It is the good people in Iran that must do it. They must do it soon or suffer dire consequences.
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Diamond Rio recently performed a good old redneck song, "Here in America", in Las Vegas. The theme was, "In God We Still Trust." The idea is a decent one and there are many many that would adopt this song in a second.
When one thinks a bit longer about God, one might see a larger picture than one's own little spot here on earth and what one traditionally had learned from Mama, Daddy, and Sunday school class. First, the enemies of our society and way of life are just as convinced that it is their god that is in charge of the universe. It is their god that rules, that promises paradise where one may love forever in harmony and bliss as long as one has not committed any terrible sins. A terrible sin does not mean murder to them. Nor does it mean suicide. It might mean missing a morning prayer or offending one's cleric. It might mean looking at pornography. Every religion in different and yet each believer is convinced his religion and his way of thinking is the correct way, the way to salvation. Some are willing to murder simply because he believes the other religions are totally wrong and unworthy of consideration.
The fact is that there is no correct religion whatsoever. They are likely all wrong to the same extent and the text on which each religion was based is no more worthy than any other. Man cannot answer many questions, so he has always tended to rely on his imagination, to trust something much greater than he to carry him through tough times. That something is a god and that god is all powerful, all knowing, and the same god that created this magnificent universe. That god also created the imperfections called man and women. That god watches us from afar, watches as thousands die from disease, from disasters, from wars, from hate crimes, from old age. However, if we have been good believers, we will live forever in paradise.
Poor creatures that fall for this! If it makes one a better person, so be it. Let him believe what he will, but is it a better person that maims and kills indiscriminately in some suicide bombing? Is it a better person who creates dangerous drugs and delivers them to addicts in his neighborhood or around the world? Is a better person who does anything to get ahead of his fellow man?
Who were the better persons in Ireland, the Protestants or the Catholics? Who were the better persons at the Jonestown suicide incident?
Religion can make a person a better person, but it is also a disease, an addiction that has been responsible for millions of deaths and much misery. Is a god merely waiting and watching while entertained by mankind's follies? Believe what you will, but remember this rule, which just happens to be the only logical rule associated with religion; Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. One needs do no more than follow that rule to be a worthy and better person. One need not selfishly seek a life in some glorified paradise. Live this life you have now, live it with love and live it with a respect for reality, not faith in fantasy.
That is what many radicals are doing today, having faith in fantasy. They have traded their sense of logic and their knowledge of right and wrong for faith in some fantasy they have been brainwashed to accept as reality. They question not, for fear of some terrible reprisal, and yet they illogically defy what any loving creator would really ask of them.
That fact is that if there were an all-knowing, all-seeing creator that created man, that creator would have known the future long before it happened, and yet as it is now, we the "creations" have been blamed for the downfall of mankind. The fact is that few fathers could watch their sons and their daughters suffering and being slain needlessly and yet do nothing to help them. The fact is that no one religion is correct and yet all believe they are. The fact is that the only thing we know of a god for certain as that "we do not know." The fact is that there is great profits to be made from religions and many are taking full advantage of it. Profits include monetary gain, power, and control of people for personal gain. Look at those on positions of power today and ask only if they seem to be following that main rule by which we should all live, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you". That is the rule and the key to mankind's success or failure. All else is superfluous.
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President Ahmadinejad of Iran has been mominated for "Ass-hole-of-the-decade" award. He has some tough competition, among them being Hugo Chavez of Venezuela, Osama Bin Laden of who knows where, and one of his own countrymen, Khomeini. According to world opinion, it will be a close race and there may be a good chance of a tie. It is interesting to note that three of the four contenders consider themselves Islamic followers. Update!! Feb 22, 2010:
Osama Bin Laden has been deemed winner of the "Ass-hole-of-the-decade" award by only 2 votes over Ahmadinejad. Khomeini lost by only 4 votes. Chavez came in last place. Osama Bin Laden shall be entered into the "Ass-hole-of-the-century" contest, the grand winner to be named in 2099. Congratulations to all three of the losing ass-holes that were nominated and the North Korean that should have been nominated. Better luck next decade!
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"Every time Congress makes a joke, it turns out to be a law, every time they make a law, it turns out to be a joke." It has come to pass that nothing gets done any more. Government is like a couple of rival gangs, the Rs and Ds, each afraid of doing anything that might go against the grain of his own fellow gang-members. The purpose of the Congress and the Senate used to be to represent THE PEOPLE for a better USA. Maybe it is time for all of the members to resign, so we can find serious new members that are not self-centered. Instead of whining and blaming others, maybe the new ones can work together to help the USA and the problems we have.
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I hear that there are two billionaires competing for the new governorship of California. One, an ex-CEO of eBay. When will Californians learn? When will American voters learn that if money buys political positions of power, especially by the filthy rich, the people are not going to be represented. The filthy rich do not know what the people need or what the people want. They are serving their own egos. What we all need are real representatives of the people in positions of power, not those who can buy anything and buy their way into power. Never let the rich control you. Vote for someone who really cares for the people, who really knows the people, the people on the street, the people without jobs, the people who have no large bank accounts, the people who work hard for what they have. If only the rich are voted into govermment offices, something is very wrong with our system. When Abe Lincoln was voted into The Presidency, it was not because he was rich. It was because he was wise and cared for the people of our country. We do not need some ex-eBay CEO entering politics on an ego trip. The first step, governor, and the next, the presidency, Vote for the poorest but the best of the candidates, not for the movie stars and not the millionaires and the billionaires. No one should be allowed to buy his/her way into office! They really do not care about the common people.
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So many out of work and yet the government does not remember how to help the situation properly. Remember the CCC? Civilians hired for many important tasks regarding the conservation of America's forests and lands. There are many things that need done now. Where is the new CCC? Someone in the Whitehouse does not remember history. Billions spent to save banks, auto manufacturers, and others and yet the problems could have been dealt with much easier and with less spending.
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From an elderly woman in Arizona, a letter follows:
This has to be the email forward of the year! Please take a few minutes to read and absorb just what this woman had to say, and then hopefully everyone will pass it to their entire mailing list, and theirs to theirs until it circles the nation! Time is short and arrogance, stupidity and ignorance abound... The following letter read on Glenn Beck's show, is rapidly circulating around the country. Americans everywhere identify with this 53-year-old woman. She has given us a voice. Once you read this, you will want to forward it to all of your friends... GLENN BECK: I got a letter from a woman in Arizona . She writes an open letter to our nation's leadership:
"I am a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. Instead, we are burdened with Congressional Dukes and Duchesses who think they know better than the citizens they are supposed to represent. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would feel so horribly disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut-job am I? Well, these briefly are the views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels.. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This is not to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the STIMULUS bill. I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you No, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars. I want the circumvention of our constitutional checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution, and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There are many conflicting opinions and it is too soon for this radical legislation. Quit throwing our nation into politically-correct quicksand.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision that will burden me, my children, and grandchildren. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night without even reading it. Slow down! Fix only what is broken -- we have the best health care system in the world -- and test any new program in one or two states first.
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. More is not better! Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real [Constitutional] obligations. Why don't you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes -- how did they pull that one off? Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with any of our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs -- and that is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person! Why do you want me to hate my employers? And what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Every company must sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. (Have you ever ripped off a Band-Aid?) We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk.. Please stop trying to manipulate and appease me with clever wording.. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now. Take a breath. Listen to the people. Slow down and get some input from nonpoliticians and experts on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed-reading our bills into law. I am not an activist.. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent.. I work. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is needless urgency and recklessness in all of your recent spending of our tax dollars.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on bringing our concerns to Washington . Our president often knows all the right buzzwords like unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented.. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work, pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone... and we are now looking at you.
You have awakened us, the patriotic freedom spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us who will rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this.. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution, and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them.. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming."
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Save the Children estimates there are up to 250,000 children held by armed groups around the world, thousands of them in DR Congo.
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"Dependence on one's religion is not a mental illness, but merely one of the symptoms of mental illness." S D B "Faith is believing in something you know is not true." M T
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Continuity is quite lacking in the holy bible and likely lacking in many other holy texts of the main religions. If you have a classroom of students, assign them a subject on which to write a book and let each of them write his own chapter to that book, See how much continuity there is after their writing is finished.
The holy texts on which so many depend and in which so many believe are no different.
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A doctor on a television show last week was speaking to minors regarding STDs and sexual relations in general. He stated that sex is many things other than intercourse. "It is also petting and kissing," he stated. How smart is that! Kissing is NOT sexual. Petting is NOT sexual. Both may or may not lead to some sexual activity, but neither should be termed as sexual. That would mean many moms and grandmas would be breaking the law with their own children Sexual behavior should be explicity defined as sexual intercourse, the entry of a human male member or male member-substitute into another human. All else should be classified differently. That would include mutual manipulation, petting, kissing, hugging or whatever else two may do for mutual enjoyment.
Americans do have their quirks. I have said before that though it is very common for American men to have an obsession for huge breasts, women's breast should not be considered sexual, for they are no more sexual than tongues or fingers. Are these all taboo and should they be covered at all times in public? Breasts have a purpose and it is not a sexual purpose, although one might just assume it is the way some men act and react. To other men, oversized breasts are no more appealing than whopper-jaws, encephalitic heads, human bodies with elephantitis, or ponderous thighs and buttocks. Likewise, many women are not impressed by an unnaturally oversized penis. It is much more important to some to see and consider facial beauty, personality,intelligence and form, rather than in-style body parts. To each his own, I suppose. With all of the research done by Dr. Kinsey and others, it seems many are still in the dark when it comes to sexual realities, sexual taboos, and our commonalities that we refuse to discuss.
Americans think differently than many in other nations. Again, the stigma of ancient religious ideals still exist against all logic.
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"Harry Potter and The Philsopher's Stone" was firt published in 1997. It is said the original version was without a dust jacket and there were only 500 copies printed. It is said that about 300 of those first imprints went to libraries. That makes the other 200 quite collectable if still in pristine condition. I wonder though. Why would 300 hundred copies of 1st/1st ever be sent to libraries to be pawed, abused, printed with library stamps and generally messed up? Does that make sense? Why would any printer or author authorize such a thing as that? It defies logic. Letting people read a book for free at a library would tend to lessen purchases of that particular book. Are not the publisher and the author trying to make as much money as possible?
So, if it is true that 300 first copies were in libraries, I am betting there are very few left in those libraries now.
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Iranian's non-violent protests continue with "green" paint. Too peaceful of a protest for what the Iranian government deserves, but it is keeping the dream of freedon alive. The Basij goons cover all the green graffiti they see with black, but the protestors keep painting. Tehran is beginning to look like what it really is, a gangland street scene, the good green against the bad black! Long live the Iranian people's fight for freedom and down with Khomeini and his puppets!
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US House panel labels WWI killing of Armenians as 'genocide'. Turkey recalls ambassador because of it. Remember, the truth sometimes brings pain and all too often pain lends itself to hostility. Guess that's the way it is with some in Turkey, even though Turkey is considered rather friendly to the US. Iran's president always had problems with accepting truth. Maybe it's something about the regional genetics.
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No progress it seems. Republicans, Democrats, or whatever, make no progress toward a health plan. Are the members more dedicated to their own parties than to the USA or are they just too ignorant to think of a solution? Cleaning house may be the answer. We need people than can make decisions based on real facts and logic. We need people that care more about the US and its people than themselves and their political future. We need people that do not do things or refuse to do things out of spite for our President or the other party.
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ANTHEM BLUE CROSS/BLUE SHIELD INSURANCE is a company that cares not for the people, but for outrageous profits for themselves. Let them go under! Do not bow to them and let them rip off the American people! The BC-BS execs live in luxury at the cost of the people struggle in pain!
THERE ARE DOCTORS WITH CONSCIENCES. Let them come forward. There are INSURANCE COMPANIES that will decide to follow the people's decisions. Let them do it. Let the corrupt and greedy insurance execs go under!
I have seen, in person, that Anthem does not even investigate or seem to care that doctors charge humongous charges for small treatments. Anthem wastes their money and merely passes the costs on to the people. I have witnessed at doctor's charge of $1035 for removing 4 facial moles, all of 14 minutes work. The doctor was one approved by the policy. Anthem did not question the charge, did not seem to care at all. They merely raise the cost of insurance to cover their costs. Who suffers? Not Anthem and certainly not the overcharging doctors! It is we, the people, who suffer and pay.
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Many countries in the middle east have established rules and regulations that deny women certain freedoms. The majority of the males in these countries are afraid of the power of women. Imagine! Hairy males that consider themselves as manly fighting machines afraid of their women! Why? They know that women, if educated, will teach their offspring, will teach others, and the future will change. The majority is afraid of change and therefor afraid of their women. The Koran is too often merely used as an excuse for perpetuating the status quo for women. As archaic as many the middle eastern laws are, they are too often ritually worshiped as idols of sorts. Logic and perception of a creative, loving god are ignored in preference for maintaining the established primitive laws of the past. Educate the women, educate the whole society! Supress the freedom of women, keep society in the dark!
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An excellent idea that should become a part of our Constitution!
Any congressman that does not agree does not deserve his position or the support of the people/
Congressional Reform Act of 2010
1. Term Limits: 12 years only, one of the possible options below.
A. Two Six year Senate terms
B. Six Two year House terms
C. One Six year Senate term and three Two Year House terms
Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
2. No Tenure / No Pension: A congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
3. Congress (past, present & future) participates in Social Security: All funds in the Congressional retirement fund moves to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, Congress participates with the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, server your term(s), then go home and back to work.
4. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan just as all Americans. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
5. Congress will no longer vote themselves a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
6. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
7. Congress must equally abide in all laws they impose on the American people. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
8. All contracts with past and present congressmen are void effective 1/1/11 . The American people did not make this contract with congressmen, congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, serve your term(s), then go home and back to work.
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As I looked over at my very good dog, Penny, I realized that she was waiting on me. She was always waiting on me to go somewhere or to feed her or for her goodies to cool down. I realized that we all are waiting also. We spend nearly 90% of our time here on earth waiting for something, some things that happen and some things that never happen.
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President Ahmadinejad of Iran stated that the only way peace could come to the middle east is if the US pulled out of Afghanistan, but he was very wrong as usual. The only way there can be peace is when all the tyrants, those who misuse their power, those who think they speak for God, those who pretend to be gods, those who supress freedom of their people, those who threaten the world and the lives of innocents, are dead and burried. Yes, President Ahmadinejad of Iran, that includes you and your cleric master. It is just a matter of time.
One may witness some of the wondrous and beautiful things in life on television or live, choirs of children with spirits high, Celtic Women with their heartwarming songs, the natural beauty of this earth of ours. All these things wonderful and beautiful, and then there are the images of Ahmadinejad of Iran and Khomeini of Iran and Osama Bin Laden of "who knows where" to spoil it all. Sadam is gone, as well as many of the foolish jihadists that corrupt the very essence of what our Creator bestowed upon us. That's a start. There are many more such ugly ones to contend with though. Be patient and they too will pass.
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The God Hunters
As I have stated before, in my opinion the religion of Islam is a failed religion. Other religions fall into the same category. In fact, all religions are failed religions, Islam being one of the later religions to evolve. How can one account for the vast misery, unrest, and even murders that have come about within the community of Islam? Yes, Christianity, and Judeo-ideology have had their share of the same. Each religion convinces the followers that it is the only righteous way, the very essence of the will of God, as stated in some holy text attributed to God. But it was men, mere men that inscribed such texts, in their constant effort to find some almighty spirit that would lead them to success in a troubled life. When man first worshiped the sun, worshiped fire, worshiped idols made of sticks, stones, or gold, it was this constant effort to claim some spirit mightier than they, some spirit that would guide them through life, heal their ills and wounds, help them conquer their enemies. Each claimed to know God, to know his wishes, his demands, his hear. After all this time, none have found God, and God has failed to enlighten any one of them or claim any one of them as his chosen ones. There may something that created the universe, that watches mankind and may have control over all, but it not the God described in any religion yet known.
Text may claim differently, a religion may claim differently, but it is only wishful thinking. Yet some of each religion would not only kill to defend his chosen religion, but die for it as well. Some see such death as holy, but it is not. It is wasteful foolishness and they die in vain.
Some that follow Islam follow ancient rules based on nonsense and they follow them as dedicated as possible. One may refuse to have ice with their drinks simply because their believed prophet Mohammad did not have ice to put in his drinks. By that reasoning, the followers must give up much more. By that reasoning, they do not have a clue as I am certain that their great prophet had no idea that his teachings would ultimately evolve into the confused state it has. Jesus was a great teacher also, and yet look what had happened over the thousands of years. His greatest teaching was a simple rule to follow and yet so many of his so-called followers cannot even follow that today, "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."
It is not a rule for Christians alone, but for all people of this earth. How many follow it?
The Ten Commandments are logical, but not as logical as that "Golden rule".
People are thieves. They steal many things, life, loves, wealth, land, pride, freedom, hope, and many other things from others. In doing so, they must lie. Where do they all end up? Ultimately, they end up feeding the worms of the earth, as do we all.
One needs no labeled religion, one needs only to follow the "Golden rule" that most know but often, all too often, forget.
One may find kind and loving people in every part of the world, of all religions, of all races and colors. Many I know follow the religion of Islam. I do not care what they believe, fantasy or fact. What is more important is how people treat others.
Should someone be marked for excecution because he made a cartoon? Of course not! That is a love of one's religion but certainly not what any decent father or decent god would condone. No apt creator desires his creations to be destroyed. Is not almighty God considered by all religions to be The Creator of us all? Perhaps it is time for a universal religion, that of "The Golden Rule".
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The jihadists are deluded beasts. Gadahn's "Call to Arms" is just one more example of how twisted the words of The Koran may be deciphered. What better way to destroy good people than for Satan to speak through those who seem dedicated to a religion of "peace". Evil does exist, whether by the quidance of Satan or the mere whimsies of some other spirit. If such evil is masked as being condoned by The Creator, in this case Allah, it is a perfect coveyance for the destruction of mankind. Is not that what the nemesis of The God intended? All Muslims are not fooled by such rhetoric as the deluded clerics and the jihad-mongors write and speak. Many are beyond the influence of such trickery and are really dedicated to the logical and proper intentions of a religion meant for "peace". To the jihadists and to many deluded clerics, peace means only death, a cowardly escape from the problems of living they cannot handle. Their solution to all; bring misery and death to others and care not if it means their own demise, but some would rather live and let others do all the dirty work. They hide as cowards in caves, behind the skirts of women, among children and the elderly. These are the mongors of death, those that bring ruin to Islam in the guise of being followers.
The irony of the jihadism is that years before when the Christian crusaders were trying to rid the world of Muslims who would not convert, the Christians were hated for it. Centuries later, the jihadist are doing exactly the same thing to all but Muslims and even to fellow Muslims in some cases. They have learned nothing from history except to hate and to try and make themselves feel somewhat righteous. It would appear that the demons that once were Christian have found new homes in unaware bodies.
Unlike the jihad advocator, Gadahn, I do not advocate death to Muslims, but do advocate a relearning of the moral aspects of Islam, which are lacking in too many that call themselves Muslim. One may see with envy, with hate, with eyes of bigotry, but one also has the power to see with one's heart if he is really of God.
Yet, with all their faults and lack of moral character, these "holy" murderers do serve a purpose; to show the worthy and capable citizens of the world how not act and how not to live the life they have been given.
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"If this health care bill is passed, it will mean "Armageddon" for the American people" to paraphrase one of the Republicans. If the health care bill is passed, we will see what happens. It does not mean the end of the US as some Republicans profess. It may always be repealed or altered. Prohibition of the '30s did not work. We do not have it today! (At least on liquor we do don't) We stil have a form of prohibition on many other things, one of them is prohibition of any Republican to agree with a Democrat. There is entirely too much prohibition that is still live and well, very little of it good for the country, but it is not for liquor.
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"..that among these rights are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness". This was the founders' idea for a free America, but it has not been so. The pursuit of happiness is only for about 60% of our people. The percentage has improved a bit since in the last decade because of the partial liberation of some gay members of our society, but many people are still restricted from their pursuit of happiness by laws that are unjust and archaic, laws based on some ancient biblical interpretation that really has no relevence today. Many youngsters cannot pursue their happiness as well as many deserving adults because of taboos that have no justification. Without the freedom to pursue happiness, there are lonely people, old and young, that often consider suicide or turn to illicit drugs or alcohol to help ease their torment.
Then there are some who endeavor to pursue happiness and willing to gamble their limited freedom by disobeying the rules. The prisons are packed with them. The rules will change in time, but many must endure lifetimes of unhappiness until then.
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Commercials on TV.
Don't we just love em? An Utra commercial shows women and men before and after they used the product. The only trouble is they pasted the heads of fit women and men on fat bodies of others. Some viewing folks may be fooled by them, but those with any backgrounds in photography will not. Notice the necks on the fat ones; photshop specials.
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Since the Health Care bill has been passed, the Republicans seem to be more childish than ever. "Hell no!" seems to be their new party slogan. Remember them. If they cannot contribute to our government and seem too childishly biased to help with important issues, they should not be in their positions to do so. They were voted in and they may be voted out. There are those out there that can function properly in government. Don't let the Republican "back yard boys club" type of non-effort ruin our system of government. No contribution, no re-election!
Remember who got the US into this mess we're in. When the Republicans rant and rave that Americans should vote out all those that went with the health plan, let it backfire and vote out all those Republican whiners from political positions.
I am neither, but I know a poor loser when I hear one.
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"Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebels killed at least 290, and maybe more than 300 people in Congo in a previously unreported massacre in December 2009"
This happened in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in a remote northeast part.
I wonder of what religious affiliation these murderous rebels happen to be?
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Words!
I have always found it interesting and yet frightening how the meanings of words change and are often distorted over time. Unfortunately, the meanings of many words are not nearly the same as when they first were used. The word "girl" was once commonly used for young males as well as young females. Not now. What is alarming though is how society's usage of words changes their understood meanings, all too often for the worse. Words often become weapons of those with a bitte thoughts and attitudes. Ignorance plays a major role in such distortions. The destorted meaning are learned by the newer generations and accepted as correct. Soon, the new meanings become commonplace and few challenge them. People tend to demonize and villainize certain meanings of various words to suit their purpose. When was the word "gay" first used? See how it's meaning has changed over time. Let's take the word "audiophile". It is described as "a high-fidelity audio hobbyist". That is about the same as when that word was first coined. How about "bibliophile"? That is "one who loves books, or a book collector". Cool! Other similar words are "gymnophile", obviously coined in recent years. It means, "lover of nudity". Why not? Naturists abound. There are many other such words derived from the Greek suffix,phile, which in turn was derived from the Greek word "philia". or "friendship" and from the word, "philos" or "loving". These meanings are not negative and yet in modern English, some of the words using -phile or -philia suffixes have taken on negative meanings. Necrophila may be one that is somewhat understandable. It is described as "the abnormal attraction to the dead". Then there is "hemophilia". What is the meaning today? We know it one who has a sickness that makes one bleed easily and profusely. One who has hemophilia is always in danger of dying from bleeding and must take medications to help control bleeding. Now we get the word, "pedophile", one of the most mis-used "-phile" words today. Too many assume too much and this word is all too often used to villainize those who respect and love children. The word is all too often used in the same sentence with predator. The word conjures up visions of molestors, of child murderers, of kidnappers of children. This is how ignorance can modify and drastically change the meaning of words. The media does much to perpetuate such ignorant usage as do many in law enforcement.
Perhaps someone should coin a word for "hater of children" and use that word instead. The word "abuser" does not quite fit and the word "abuser" would fit entirely too much of the population of this earth, those who lie to their children, who teach them ignorance, those who beat them, those who ignore them, those who sell them drugs and other dangerous things, as well as those who murder them and teach them to kill according to some archaic and misinterpreted verse in some holy text, those who make soldiers of children or sexual slaves and many others. If one can call the loving respect of children "abnormal", then that one is ignorant. "Abnormal" is abnormal, hating is abnormal and even total ignorance should be abnormal, but respect and love are not. They are neither abnormal for children not abnormal for those who love them. Children are the closest things to what we envision as "a god" and they deserve respect and love.
Careles, hateful minds and razor tongues are not signs of love, but of ignorance and of the fear that was grown from ignorance. If some devious minds think the same way they do with with the word, pedophile, some are likely upset with some audiophile somewhere, perhaps saying, "Oh my god! I wonder what he is doing with my records and CDs right now?" Or perhaps someone is raging mad that some bibliophile has been looking at books, "Oh my god! What is he trying to do with those books?"
Horse-lovers, cat-lovers, dog-lovers, beware! There are those imagining some terrible and evil sexual acts are going on between you and your beloved animals.
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The Rise and The Fall of the Jihadist Movement
Similar to Hitler's assault on the people of the earth, the jihadist are making the same mistakes as did other deluded offenders. They are "biting off more than they can chew," so to speak. Hitler managed to pull off a few successful attacks, but soon had the attention of the whole civilized world. His forces soon were too thin, despite the strategic weapons Germany had, and in time there were far too many enemies fighting against the Third Reich. Hitler failed! His devious attacks on civilians were too malicious and demonic to not force good people of our earth into taking action against him and his war machine. Likewise, the attacks of the jihadists, most indiscriminantly murdering civilians, are awakening the good people of all nations. When the attcks hit too close to home and kill and maime people that are dear to others, those others finally see the jihadists for what they really are, sick, deluded, murderers, not godly followers on some holy mission. People begin to resist, to undermine, to rat out the terror-minded jihadists. Their own religion's brethren become their enemies. This and the growing awareness and the new technologies will be the fall of the jihadist and all other terrorist cells. The recent attacks in Russia have enlightened even more to the true evil of "jihadism". There is no place for such evil in our societies and they will soon be nearly irrelevant, weak, fragmented, and even alone.
The term, jihad, will revert to the original meaning, a holy battle against one's own self, one's own inadequacies and evil nature. Buddhist seems insulted by star, Akon, and a movie made with her with a Buddha seen in the background, Protests? Yes, many Buddhists protested and resented the clip and Akon was even denied a visa for Sri Lanka. Reminding me of the cartoonist that seemed to have insulted some Muslims, the Buddhists did not condemn anyone to death as did the Muslims. The cartoonists srill fears for his life regarding the incident.
If it had been a cartoon of Jesus instead, most Christians would have merely ignored it or just considered the source of the insult and shrugged it off. There is the huge difference between religious followers irrationally influenced by their religions. Remember "The Satanic Verses" and the million dollar death-contract issued by Iran's Khomeini" for the death of the author, Salman Rushdie?
What is tolerance to some? Some merely love their religions much more than they love what that religion was for.
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The suicide bombers that have attacked civilians in Russia are women. Women are seen by the Islamic terrorists as much more expendable than men, although each suicide prospect us considered nealry worthless and much more valuable dead than alive. Note: Osama Bin Laden has never tied explosives to his waist and detonated them. He sees himself as the new great prophet of the Islamic religion, much too important to actually commit the crimes he has others do instead.
Pussym you ask? No, he is merely a deluded "has-been" with access to a lot of money. He feeds on the gullible.
One must realize that religious persons are more gullible than those who are not. Once a person has become an established follower of a certain religio for a period of time, then that person may be suspicious and leary of things that are not of their religion. They may question things and may seem not to be gullible, but they are still quite the same as before. They trust those within the confines of their religious circle, trusting members of the same faith and especially those often referred to as elders and clerics.
This is true of all religions, but especially characteristic of the Islamic religion. Loyalty to the religion itself is only outweighed by loyalty to tribes and sects of that religion.
It is this loyalty that makes it so easy for extremists to recruit suicide bombers and those who are willing to give their lives to please someone within their group of peers.
As long as it is a cleric or someone deemed important within one's religious peer group that encourages a person to carry out "holy" and devious acts, the person will usually comply. Jihadism is dependent on gullibility and blind loyalty.
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There are Arabs that do what is morally proper and then there are persons such as the president of Iran, Ahmadinejad, and his buddy, Khomeini, those that pursue their own selish desires, regardless of what is proper. "With those two on my side," said Satan, "who needs an anti-Christ?"
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I am one who is not politically oriented. I care not whether one is Republican, Democrat, or Libertarian. I do care when there are elected officials in our government who are more as spoiled children than dependable and reliable adults. Those Republicans that are guilty of unreliability, obstinate behavior, reluctancy to do their job, inability to mediate, carelessness, and other immature behavior should not be in office unless it is the principal's office undergoing discipline. Remember their inaction! Remember their childish accusations and innuendo. Remember their decisions not to make decisions and remember their inaction on unemployment payments to people who are waiting.
Clean house! It was their choice to self-destruct.
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I have heard some parents say they abhor the Harry Potter stories and restrict their children from reading the books or even seeing the movies. Imagination is more wonderful than dangerous and children must use their imaginations. Where would be without human imaginations? No Illiad, no Odyssey, no Bible and no Koran.
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There is always some compromise, some mediation, some middle ground that should be reached and accepted in arguments and in even in war. Religious fanatics and extremists take their actions too far because they see themselves as messengers of God. The ACLU takes things too far because they see oppose religion. They say they oppose religion when it comes to government involvement, but it is beyond that. It is not the separation of "church and state" that drives them, but that is merely used as an excuse for their actions.
As the Darwinian theories were opposed and still are in many places, the tall tales within the Holy Bible are no less radical. The Koran has its share of fanstasy also and the Tora as well. People that loosely and repeatedly use the term, "Unnatural" have no idea what is natural and what is unnatural. It is merely a term they have adopted to use when they oppose something that they do not understand. People often refer to the word "god" when they say, "using god's name in vain," as in the phrase "god damn them", and yet "god" is not the name of The God in any holy text I know. Jehovah, Ja, Allah, are some of the various names for the omnipotent spirit that is supposed to have created all, but "god" is not one of the names. It is obvious that many do not think about things very deeply at all, but just habitually use certain terms and words when they pretend to know about something.
When the truth is finally recognized, the truth is that "we know hardly anything" of the truth.
Back to the original subject of compromise or extremism, I have neighbor that is constantly intimidating one or more of his neighbors. In my opinion based on the facts of which I am personally aware, he is somewhat of a rather illiterate Neanderthal. He and his compatible mate take extreme measures to cause problems, to attempt to create mountains from mole-hills, to slander and to cause mental pain for others. Why? They have no obvious reason that one may see. It is just their nature and they have no control over their hateful and/or envious attitudes. Drugs? Definitely! You have heard tales of corrupt and devious law enforcement officials. Those tales are more fact than fiction, unlike the ancient holy tales that are more fiction than fact. It is best to ignore such persons, but that is often very difficult to do.
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There will always be those who somehow make several million dollars per year while there are people all over the world barely getting by, struggling to merely survive or starving. These filthy rich make their money by various means, but mostly by shamelessly gouging, manipulating, or less than completely moral means. The real tragedy is that these filthy rich do not need so much money. They think they do and they even strive for more. They are greedy and only a few ever share their wealth with those who really need it. If there were ever a need for a law, it would be that anyone making over 5 million dollars per year must pay half of their income into a fund to assist less fortunate people. All those that are poor are not deserving. Some are lazy, corrupt, and some use the system to get free handouts from the government. They are no better than the filthy rich that "use" people to gain wealth.
It is an American dream but also an AMERICAN FAULT that a basketball player or a baseball player can have an income of millions/year, or a CEO can receive a bonus of several million/year by just being there, regardless of his failures or successes. Some merely inherit their wealth form their corrupt parents, bootleggers, corrupt politicians, drug dealers, traffickers, thieves of various sorts.
Fairness is nearly a non-existent word today. Nearly everyone is out to get ahead by any method, whether it means by gouging, cheating, or by other shady methods. It is such a wonderful rarity to meet someone honest and fair in his dealings. Will the honest man ever be filthy rich? Probably not, but he will end up in the same place as the filthy rich, and if there ever is a so-called, "Judgement Day", the fair man shall surely have the better life afterward.
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As stated by the local news, the Pope will seek justice in aledged child abuse cases involving clergy of the Catholic Church. According to the news though, the word "pedophile" was used wrongly instead of the proper term, "predator". I assume the Pope will not be promoting a witch-hunt for homophiles, audiofiles, bibliophiles, pedophiles,gymnophiles, etc, etc. Surely it is the news media that us at fault with irrational use of terminology.
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Regarding genocide, there has been too little to intervene and stop such horrific incidents. The UN, which surely stands for "Unconcerned Nations", has not effectively done much to stop genocide, even though it was agreed in 1948 that the UN would not allow genocidal mass murders. Look at Africa! What has been done? The UN pulls out when danger comes too close. Morality in the UN? Not enough to override the "keep me out of it" syndrome for which the UN has become notorious to the stricken peoples who were victims of genocide. Turkey still has not agreed with the Armenian "genocide" accusation made by certain countries. Turkey seems insulted by the accusation when instead they should be honest and regretful.
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"We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress & the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution, but overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution."
~ Abraham Lincoln~
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If there were a god that cared, Ahmadinejad, and his buddy, Khomeini, would be condemned to spend their remaining days in Auschitz rethinking their attitudes. If there were a god that cared, their scheming ways would not be tolerated and their lies would expose them as evil. If there were a god that cared, there would be no genocide and there would be no suicidal demonic jihadist bastards. Since there are such people as these and things as these, what are we to conclude about a god that cares?
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I am all for children being brought up with values of respect for others, respect for nature and our earth, respect for the rights we all should have, but I am not for parents teaching their children the religious fantasies they themselves have adopted as sole truths. Perpetuating ignorance in this manner does not benefit mankind nor has it ever been a real sign of respect for what any creative god intended. It is most detrimental to have so many religious theories, each accepted by many as the sole righteous religion, each accepted by many as what god desires, and yet all without a clue as what is really righteous. The way of the ACLU is no better either. Simplicity! "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". Desist from being greedy, stealing, hating, teaching children non-truths and disrespecting the rights of all.
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Breaking news!
Geologists have proven that the outrageous statements made by Iranian Islamic clerics cause earthquakes! The earthquakes around the world are directly caused by judgemental Islamic clerics that speak ridiculous statements to their followers. The next time there is an earthquake, remember God is displeased with some Iranian cleric.
However,the whole idea of "a God of wrath, a God of jealousy" is ridiculous. Those who believe in such a god are simply assuming human attributes to The God, that god has their own human shortcomings. Shortcomings The God may have indeed, but likely not human ones. The legend that The God of creation blamed mankind for the disobedience in "the Garden of Eden" demonstrates such shortcomings. After all, if man himself can be gifted with forseeing the future as the holy texts state, then The God should have that gift as well. Yet, he either failed to see that Adam and Eve would fail the test, or he failed to see that Satan would have the upper hand in influencing Adam and Eve. Either way, the blame should fall not on man, but on The God that failed the realize the events to come.
Clinging to the archaic fantasies of the ancient past helps no one. Religions? Theories all! Faith? Trying to believe your chosen theory is true.
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The TIMES SQUARE incident, a botched car-bomb attack, tells us many things. A Pakistani Taliban website claimed they were responsible. That may or may not be true, but if it is, it figures. The one who did it was a thief and saw nothing wrong with stealing a car. That would offend a decent god. Whoever did the deed did not mind murdering innocent people indiscriminately and that would offend a decent god. Offending The God by pretending to worship The God seems to be the way of these Islamic defects. No morals but silly, irrelevant ones!
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An Islamic radical referred to "Satan's USA". He did not mention Satan's Iran, Satan's North Korea, Satan's Taliban, or any other of Satan's all-time favorites. Hmmmmmmmm!
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The Church of Hatred
Some think it is a Christian church, but far from it. Furthermore, it is no more godly than the radical extremist Muslim sects. It is nothing more than a congregation of fools that have fallen under the spell of some old freak by the name of Fred Phelps. I saw one of these pukes on a television interview once. She reminded me of one of my low-life neighbors. There are just a few of them nearby. The rest are good ones. Their so called "church" is a festered blemish to mankind, and surely an eyesore to any decent God and does nothing to help the Baptist reputation. The fools hate homosexuals, Jews, and many others, no doubt, all but themselves.
I can almost forget sometimes that there is evil in this world and then I am reminded by some religious perversion such as some Iranian cleric or the Westboro Baptist church of Topeka, Kansas. Maybe it is now "To Puke in", Kansas. Every time I travel through Topeka from now on I will think of the white trash there and the people who must tolerate them.
It is such a shame that the freedom of speech protects such human defects as they flaunt their hatred in the name of religion. I hope to hell there is a hell and a Supreme God to deliver such trash there, but Satan seems to have the upper hand in a small part of Kansas.
Remembering the series, "Gunsmoke" there were some pretty evil and ignorant folks that were characters in those movies about old Kansas. We can see now that there still are.
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Stock prices dropping like lead baloons!
It is Wall Street investors (investment banks, etc.) that are causing it, in my opinion. Some sort of protest against the possibility of the government restrictions that are pending. It only shows just how much they can control the market when they want to.
Large investors with huge investments bailing out to create panic. They sold stocks of well-performing companies, many with with outperform or buy recommendations. Makes little sense, but they will all buy back in. Wait!
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They speak as if their god is real and condones all they do, but remember that less than 800 years before, they were speaking to rocks and sticks as if they were god. WIll they ever learn?
Those morning and evening prayers and prayers in between? They are habitual, what they have been taught to do since they were old enough to be taught. It is not from respect, but from fear not to pray according to custom that keeps them doing their daily rituals. It is almost as one who is superstitious, who had heard that of he steps on a crack he may break his mother's back. He cannot force himself to take chances and avoids stepping on cracks. Superstition and ritual are primitive aspects of mankind, but still alive and well today.
God was created in the likeness of man and by man. To each man, the image of a god may be different. To the extremists, god is a murderous, jealous, beast that must be feared. Insanity rules! God is what they themselves are and they must endeavor to please their image of god by being even more devious.
Furthermore, any religious sect that condones murder is as worthless as those people who do the murdering!
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Regarding the adverse consequences of the latest oil spill and of all oil spills before and in the future:
A special ship, a ship equipped with a very wide scoop at the bow, could be constructed, it could and would scoop up water and spilled oil from an ocean or sea, separate the oil from the water and filter the water while collecting and holding the crude oil. The scoop would reach a depth of twenty-five to thirty feet to allow it to function even in medium high swells. It is a necessity! It is the responsibility of all oil companies, drillers, those that pump oil and those that ship crude oil, to share the cost of production and maintenance of such a ship or such ships as needed. It is the responsibility of the government of the USA to see that such a ship is built and used. It is the responsibility of any government that allows offshore drilling to have such a ship or such ships on hand. There is no excuse not to be ready within a year for any future oil spills.
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Sharahn Homayoun was reported to Interpol by the Iranian regime thugs, They accuse him as being a "terrorist". Isn't that a crock of Iranian shit! Just another slick trick by evil scoundrels that control a county and a people with threats. We all know of Khomeini and his devious mind, the bounty he offered for the death of the author of The Satanic Verses, Rushdie. It is no suprise to anyone that the Iranian government and the "religious" bosses behind it are evil and corrupt. Slavemasters with oil money; that is the Iranian regime.
I have a neighbor that is corrupt and devious. He and his partner have proven themselves to be liars, vandals and now thieves as well. They intimidate, trespess, and have no respect for others. They are users of people and of illicit drugs. Still, they seem to have a few friends and seem to appear normal to some unenlightened folks. Even after being "busted" for marijuana, one of the neighbors still works for the state prison system. Hmmmmmmmmmmm? How similar they are to Khomeini and his puppet president!
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Too Far!!!! They went to far. Now let them go all the way out of the USA.
I do not object to Arizona's law to stop and check any persons about their legal nationality status. I was in Arizona up on a mountain in Buena Vista when two young men that had walked all the way from Mexico came by. I gave them water because they needed water. They were illegals descending the mountain on Carr Canyon Road and into the population of Arizona.
I hate being stopped by any cops. I do not like cops. Many are slobs, bullies, and some are worse than the convicts they put in prisons. Likewise are most prison guards; just plain scum!
I can understand people that think they are being stopped because of profiling, but they are the ones that are profiling themselves as being different. If they had rightly accepted themselves as US citizens, they would not be playing the "profiling" card at all. Many blacks here in the US used to play the "race" card when they were stopped for traffic or vehicle violations. Many still do. It seems that all want to fit in and yet too many play the "I am a different color, a different breed" card and "that is why you are stopping me" card whenever they are questioned or detained by authorities. I have been there and I also feel like I have been "profiled" and I am a white citizen of the USA, and I was born here, My parents and my grandparents had been born here, and their parents were also. It is just normal to feel that way sometimes.
Montebello High School in California was the scene of students inverting the American flag on a pole on school grounds and placing the Mexican flag above it. They went too far indeed. It was nonviolent protest of sorts but it will lead to violence and it was wrong. Now I say, "Long live Arizona's new law!" Clean the nation of those who are not welcome here in the USA, and if that means me too, so be it."
I do not want to be in any environment where I am not welcomed by a majority of my peers. It is either "adjust or leave!"
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Mosques planned to be built near "Ground Zero" (New York City site of the radical Muslim terrorist attack on the twin towers!)
It should not be tolerated. It will not be tolerated. To build a mosque there is only intended to be a slap in the face to New York, to America and to memorialize a victory against our way of life.
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So the TV series, "Lost" is coming to a conclusion, an end. The long stay on the island seems to have been one with plenty of food. The one survivor is no less fat than when he was stranded in the first place!
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Fools that play the stockmarket with panic attacks! "The sky is falling!" reminds me of the thousands of stock investors that panic and sell at the slightest bad news. A few days later, they buy back in and end up losing more on their trading fees than anything else. If the stock is sound, hold onto it! If it is not, don't buy it in the first place! Do not let the media and the analysts control you.
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FOOLS! It is obvious that most investors in the stockmarket are fools! Some are just lucky fools.
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AT LEAST ONE CONGRESSMAN WITH BRAINS, INTELLECT AND GUMPTION! I wish there were many more.
McClintock's Response to President Calderon and His Speech
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Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said: "I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America 's story."
Was he more explicit and exact in this speech? If so, to what parts exactly did Islam contribute?
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN'S RESPONSE:
Dear Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed? Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians. Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day? Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians. Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution? Declaration of Independence ? Bill of Rights? Didn't think so. Did Muslims fight for this country's freedom from England ? No. Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America ? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as "pug nosed slaves." Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family's "rich Islamic heritage," doesn't it Mr. Obama? Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present. There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights. Where were Muslims during this country's Woman's Suffrage era? Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the 'hajib' or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband. Yep, the Muslims are all for women's rights, aren't they? Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi's in killing Jews. Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren't flying planes into the World Trade Center , the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East . No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day. Strangely, the very "moderate" Muslims who's asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day. And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the "rich heritage" Muslims have here in America . Oh, I'm sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates. They were Muslim. And now we can add November 5, 2009 - the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan .
That, Mr. Obama is the "Muslim heritage" in America .
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Is it time for some of our united states to secede from the Union? When ignorance dominates our government,...perhaps it is time
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The Rise and Fall of the American Way!
Common sense is very uncommon, even quite rare, in the Whitehouse, in Congress, and in the entire government of the USA, with a few exceptions.
What's really going on? The destruction of America from within? The people have no say and no power to influence the governmental policies, likely less than some Chinese citizens have. We are being ignored.
See the film clip here .
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One keeps hearing and seeing in the news reports that Indiana counties have insufficient money for all their projects now that personal property taxes have been reduced in some counties. There's plenty of money going into these counties, just not enough to keep up the same spending and waste they are asccustomed to having. Hey, just like the citizens of these counties, they need to make adjustments and waste not! They have adopted programs in the past that have cost more simply becausw they had more to spend before. The more they take in, the more they spend and the more they waste on frivolous programs, unnecessary programs. Too much waste when counties have too much money!
Some are still paying way too much on personal property taxes, unfair and unwarranted taxes.
We really should not be paying taxes on our own property anyway, especially people who are over 65. Taxes on every damned thing there is! It is not right, not proper and not wise to overtax people. Many a conflict has erupted from such taxing. Counties need to tighten their belts, determine what is relly important and what is frivolous and make adjustments, not complain that they need to tax the people more!
When the state of Indiana dropped their tax burden on the people, the counties raised their intake, at least in my case, over 300%. Then they complain!! I appealed and an astute tax worker, a rare worker indeed, found several mistakes in my assessed values. Well, it turns out that the county was operating with knowledge they gathered several years before, not up to date and not accurate at all. There is plenty of cash in the counties treasuries, They would just enjoy more. Well wouldn't we all enjoy more money?
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Freedom!
Freedom is different things to different people. It should be the right to pursue happiness, to believe or not to believe on some religion, to be able to speak out without having your voice or words censored by the government. Freedom should mean your right to choose a mate and to share love with whomever wishes to share their love with you, a mutual understanding with a mutual consent for whatever love may involve. America's freedom was won by sacrifice and great losses of life and America carried that fight forward to help others gain freedom. Belgium recently remembered the sacrifices made by America and Great Britain during the second World War when Belgium was liberated from the Nazis by dedicated troops.
Since then, America has fought to free others in many other nations. Some appreciate our efforts and some do not.
Freedom does not mean that one organization should have the power to crush the rights of many for the whims of a few as does the ACLU. Freedom of speech does not condone yelling "Fire!" in a crowded church when there is no fire. Too many abuse their right and twist the original meanings if our founders' ideals as written in our COnstitution. The ACLU has been very good at this. Some churches are just as guilty and direct their abuses toward certain individuals, usually of minorities. A Kansas church comes to mind. Freedom unfortunately protects the various hate groups to protest and speak, but our laws do not protect them from doing bodily hard to others.
Those murdering terrorists that attack unnocent people in so many places around the world feel they have the freedom to do whatever they want simply because they have been deluded into thinking they are being obedient to their God. It is only delusion resulting from early mind-control by equally deluded clerics and other teachers. I would fight for their right to disagree, but I would not fight for their right to kill or maim because they have no right nor should they.
It is simply common sense to realize that any god that could create beauty and life would want those creations respected and honored. To think otherwise is pure stupidity. It is ironic that so many who believe in god, God by any name, could be so cruel, ungodly and malicious, while many that do not believe in a god are kind, respectful, and good.
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Rockets fired at Israel from Gaza all the time or any time is not prope. It should not be condoned. It must be stopped and Israel has the right to try and the right to fight back. The Hamas thugs or whoever is firing the rockets are no better than cowards.
If you neighbor threw bricks at your home day and night, what would you do? Perhaps smile and just wait for another and another brick to hit your home or you or your children? I would put a stop to the brick throwing, perhaps by notifying the law, or if need be, with my shotgun and eliminating my neighbor who is throwing the bricks. Some people are too evil to ever stop their evil actions by mere peaceful dialogue. So it is with Hamas.
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Al shabaab, al Umari, al Liby, al Zawahiri: All criminals. May they all end up the same as al Capone!
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I have very little if any faith in prophecy, whether by Muhamad, Nostradamus, or any other MAN or WOMAN. If The God himself could not predict what was to happen in "The Garden of Eden" or the influence that Satan was to have on "Adam and Eve", then why should any mere human have the power of prophecy? Dreams are dreams, guessing is guessing. Will Damascus be laid waste? Only time will ever tell.
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People die every minute from diseases, from hunger, by the acts of worthless terrorists with guns or bombs, and from old age. Many of those that die each day are children. They suffer and die, thousands of them each month, from malnutrition, from neglect, by deluded suicide bombers that kill indiscriminately, from diseases and abuse. If The God can steel himself enough to watch this happening each day, I guess we can.
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HERE IS NEWS ABOUT THE OTHER GREAT AND TRAGIC OIL SPILL!!!
Chevron refuses to compensate the devastated people suffering from that one! When Chevron inherited Texaco's wealth and resources, they also inherited the responsibility for Texaco's devastating actions.They are responsible and any competent judge on this earth will agree.
THE OTHER OIL SPILL!
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"America's Got Talent" and the American audience was surprised and overjoyed by the voice of one contestant this Saturday and so was I. A Mississipp man from Waveland, accompanied by his guitar.... WOW! It's gonna take someone very very talents to top him. They had may as well stop the show and give him the win! "You Don't Know Me" was his song. Soon everyone will know this guy! Flawless performance.
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The preachers say "Live righteously according to the word of God". Let God tell me that. The clerics tell their believers, "God is a jealous God, a god of vengeance." Let God speak those words to us. Can he speak? If he created this world of ours, he can surely speak. "The Holy Bible is the word of God," I hear frequently. Let God tell me that is so. If a god can dish out pestilence, then surely he can make himself heard. "Jesus and God are the same." Then let Jesus come to me and tell me that he is God. "There is great profit in the word of God," I have heard. I believe that, especially for those who run the religious television shows. "Jesus is coming soon," I see. Then let him come soon and we shall finally know the truth, one way or the other. Until then, live according to a rule that makes sense, "Do to others as we would have others do unto you." That makes sense! Yet that would ruin the governments and the tyrranies and the corrupt clerics. Most politicians, doctors, lawyers, burglars, murderers, rapists, gang-bangers, and terrorists would lose their occupational benefits.
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June 9, 2010: The UN Security Council has approved new sanctions against Iran
What will this mean to the people of Iran? More hardships perhaps, but will they still tolerate the stubborn hard-line leadership of Iran? Likely they will; some because of their blind faith to the "Islamic" republic, but most will tolerate the present government out of fear for their lives. The early settlers of America had fear also, but their desire for freedom outweighed that fear and they fought and died so their children would live in a free and just country. It takes courage, determination and good leadership, but most of all it takes a strong desire to be free from tyrrany and an unjust system.
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Taliban executes a 7-year-old boy in front of public spectators.
They need to be totally eliminated, but it is like trying to eliminate leprosy. It can be done, but has yet to be done. The Taliban needs to become extinct along with radical Islamic fantasies and evil hearts.
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I have informed BP Oil of a method to repair their broken well casing. The method is not nearly as costly as other methods and if I have correctly understood the problem they had, the method will work! Now it is up to them to decide to repair the casing properly or keep trying the other methods they have chosen.
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The taliban is one of the most evil and deluded groups today. Another example of evil corruption is in Mexico. The Mexican drug cartels have murdered many people, hundreds of them that were in drug rehab centers, all victims between the ages of 16-63. These drug cartel members are the same kind of evil thugs that make up the taliban or any other group that are willing to murder to maintain their corrupt and profitable lifestyle. They have no morals to live by except the evil ones they have adopted, to kill anyone they do not like, to make money at any cost and to kiss their comarades' asses upon request. They would just as soon murdrer a baby or an old lady as they would spit on the ground. Any good moral qualities are completely lacking. I often wish there really were a God of Good, but all I see in the media is the influence of a god of evil.
Peoples' values seem distorted. "Sins" of love are often given more attention than sins of hate, and those that are guilty of sins of hate are treated with more respect than those that are only accused of sins of love.
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Afghanistan
Land of primitive people with primitive ideals, the Taliban, only 700 years behind the main stream of humanity. Yet, they resist the deliverance of modernization as well as a snake resists the growth of hips. Only a few clicks beyond believing the sun is their god, the Taliban holds stubbornly to ancient ideals that have been indelibly imbedded in their brains. Almost as sad is that many on other surrounding countries perpetuate these ideals also. Evolution has not been present of this part of the world, but devolution instead has dominated. Things are unlikely to change for several centuries or until the people decide there is a need to be enlightened. The willpower and dedication are plentiful there; the direction is deviously wrong, but there is always hope where there are still good folks around.
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Something told me there is a cycle gang in Georgia and it is one with most members that speak and write Spanish only. A little zucarbird told me. Get used to that sort of thing!
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My neighbor must learn, so I try to teach by example. I have tried by not writing inuendo and libelous and false accusations on his signs with a magic marker, by not stealing his firewood signs and thus by not painting over them and using them as my own, by not yelling obsenities as I ride by him, by not shooting his animals, by not cutting the fence between us, by not riding vehicles on his property and the property of his neighbor, by not threatening to "shoot to kill" him if he trespasses on my property, and by not tearing down all his "no trespassing" signs he has posted.
As much as I would like to retaliate for all the devious acts he has done, I choose to set an example by being a civilized and intelligent human being. I can somewhat imagine what it is like to be semi-illiterate. Some cannot handle their emotions any more than they can handle the power of authority bestowed upon them by the state of Indiana. So it is with one prison guard and his mate. Maybe they will learn to adjust someday.
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It is a strange phenomenon that most people on our earth want peace and yet there seems to be no peace in sight. Even in the countries that are accustomed to war, where poeple spend their entire lives in the presence of war, peace is what most want. Yet, they do not know what peace is. They do not know how to deal with it. Peace does not mean that one can go out and steal what they have been denied for years, and it does not mean that they can gain be growing and selling illicit drugs that cause misery and death around the world. That is another form of murder and murder is a form of war. Corruption always seems to follow peace, and corruption and peace are not compatible for long. It is greed, hate, lack of toleration for others' beliefs, disrespect for others'rights, bigotry, that corrupt people. These are all forms of thievery, robbing others of the rights they should have under a just and loving God. That golden rule that would prevent all this corruption is either not known to all or simply not obeyed. Religion-based or born simply of pure wisdom and logic, it is a rule that all humankind should follow. Then, there might be a chance for peace.
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How silly is silly?
The Obama administration are experts at acting silly. Ask Hillary Clinton. She may not answer you, but she may choose instead to go to another country and make her point. Suing Arizona is silly, especially since the new Arizona law merely follows the established laws that the US government are not enforcing. Speaking in South America. Hillary said that Obama has made it clear he is against the new law Arizona has adopted in an attempt to do what the US government has failed to do. She stated that the US will be suing Arizona, yet she had not mentioned this to the Arizona governor beforehand. It seems that the US is really not our country any longer. It belongs to the politicians and the government they control. The world looks on as THE LAND OF THE FREE is becoming the land of the NEW WORLD ORDER, changing to the whims of a few that are deaf to the peoples' voice. What is happening and why?
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A few thousand years ago, it was stated in a rather new religion that there was "only one God, the Almighty God." He had a name, as all the various gods before him had had also, and it was not "God". The religion caught on fairly rapidly and the search was on for the prophesied Messiah and time passed. Then, there was born man who was the actual son of "the god". He had a name also. He told it the way it really was and spoke about "Our Father" that was in heaven and his ultimate sacrifice offered all of us, at least all the believers, a way out of the blame and shame we had suffered since the major unforseen blunder in a place named the Garden of Eden. More time, about 600 years, passed and there came another man, born to human parents. He began to preach that there was only one god, an almighty god. Only his name had changed. That religion spread like wildfire among people that were anxious for some sort of wisdom beyond what they knew already. The only thing more important than their loyalty to their new religion and their god was their loyalty to their individual tribes, but nevertheless, "God is good" echoed and still echoes over much of our earth. (I wonder what the popular saying was before that. Surely not "God is bad.") The new religion was hardly a new one at all, but a rewritten and edited version of the last. The man responsible was praised on high and still is, so much so that many were killed just for what a few might perceive as an insult to his name or character (Odd enough for a religion named for peace). Ever since that new religion appeared, millions have died in warfare simply because these two religions created conflict over which one was really "THE TRUE" religion (Wow! Enough to make one's eyes water and to simply pass them both off a pure fantasy). When will the "True Religion" and the "True God" come to all those hungry for reality and true knowledge? Since those days, there have been a few new reported appearances of messiahs or prophets that have appeared on this earth. The saga continues.
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Surely it happens only in the movies! When someone on foot is being pursued by someone in a vehicle that is trying desperately to run him down, the person on foot always tries to get away by running right in the middle of the road. Hmmmmmm. Wouldn't you think it would be wiser to leave the road? Yes, it also happens in the parking garages. Not a lot of thinking takes place in the movie-producing business. Those folks boating down river are always taking the wrong fork, the fork with the waterfall. Duh! There must be a lot of rivers that fork on their way down to the sea, a strange behavior for water.
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What a religion!
As varied as a religion comes, there are so many, many aspects and variations that one woners if anyone knows just how it is supposed to be. Imams and various clerics are as varied in their beliefs as the colors of marbles.
Even the extremists vary on their extremism. It is a regular free-for-all in many cases.
We all are aware of the actions of the so called "jihadists"! All one needs do is pray several times a day and one can do anything he pleases, kill, mass-murder, take hostages, bomb innocents, lie and cheat, maim, commit terrible loathsome crimes against humanity and crimes against women, deal in illicit drugs, rape, smuggle, bribe and you just name it! Rape women! Oh yes, there are few no-nos that some honor, not looking at women's breast and pornography is out of the question. One can go to hell or get AIDS from looking at that stuff! Yet, murder and all the other atrocities are quite okay. All one needs do is to kneel and pray several times each day and practice hating others. What a cool religion! That's religious freedom if I ever saw it.
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From THE WASHINGTON POST
"The Obama administration is seeking to make it easier for the FBI to compel companies to turn over records of an individual's Internet activity without a court order if agents deem the information relevant to a terrorism or intelligence investigation. The administration wants to add just four words -- "electronic communication transactional records" -- to a list of items that the law says the FBI may demand without a judge's approval. Government lawyers say this category of information includes the addresses to which an Internet user sends e-mail; the times and dates e-mail was sent and received; and possibly a user's browser history. It does not include, the lawyers hasten to point out, the "content" of e-mail or other Internet communication. But what officials portray as a technical clarification designed to remedy a legal ambiguity strikes industry lawyers and privacy advocates as an expansion of the power the government wields through so-called national security letters. These missives, which can be issued by an FBI field office on its own authority, require the recipient to provide the requested information and to keep the request secret. They are the mechanism the government would use to obtain the electronic records. Stewart A. Baker, a former senior Bush administration Homeland Security official, said the proposed change would broaden the bureau's authority. "It'll be faster and easier to get the data," said Baker, who practices national security and surveillance law. "And for some Internet providers, it'll mean giving a lot more information to the FBI in response to an NSL." Many Internet service providers have resisted the government's demands to turn over electronic records, arguing that surveillance law as written does not allow them to do so, industry lawyers say. One senior administration government official, who would discuss the proposed change only on condition of anonymity, countered that "most" Internet or e-mail providers do turn over such data. To critics, the move is another example of an administration retreating from campaign pledges to enhance civil liberties in relation to national security. The proposal is "incredibly bold, given the amount of electronic data the government is already getting," said Michelle Richardson, American Civil Liberties Union legislative counsel. The critics say its effect would be to greatly expand the amount and type of personal data the government can obtain without a court order. "You're bringing a big category of data -- records reflecting who someone is communicating with in the digital world, Web browsing history and potentially location information -- outside of judicial review," said Michael Sussmann, a Justice Department lawyer under President Bill Clinton who now represents Internet and other firms."
It is most unfortunate that we in the US are headed for a nation that is very reminiscent of not only many communist countries, but also NAZI Germany.
We have been fortunate that many of our "inalienable rights" given to us by our wise founders'have been not taken from us sooner. The recent activitiies of the White House and those who are attempting to manipulate this country into the NEW WORLD ORDER are intent on altering our rights and they pay very little or no attention to the voice of the people, the very people who are supposed to define and choose the policies of this country, we the people of this once-great nation. We are approaching a very difficult time, a time when we must decide to to keep our constitutional rights or let out nation be converted onto a very different place, a time when we must make a decision to resist or comply, to bow down to a form of dictatorship or choose civil war.
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"The people know nothing. They are stupid!"
That seems to be what the government thinks of us. They are not listening to the voices of Amaerica and if they have been, they are ignoring us. Actually the illegal aliens here have a stronger influence on executive actions that we legal citizens do. This is characteristic of other countries such as North Korea, Iran, Venezuela and communist China, but has not been the case with the USA to this degree. We are mere sheep that must be led by the great shepherd, the great shepherd in the big white house. He knows best because he knows all and everything that is proper for us. You think so? He does. Our is the country whose government once was "of the poeple, by the people and for the people." Now is it heading in a direction that is "of the few, by the few and for the rest of the world." The alarm clock is shrieking!! Wake up!
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AT&T COVERS 99% of AMERICA!
Anyone who has ever driven across America and has expected to receive calls from family members along the way knows that AT & T does NOT cover 99% of America or at least 99% of the USA. I wonder how they can say that it does. Only when one gets close enough to a large city when they are out west, they might receive a call on their AT & T cellular. "Can you hear me now?"
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Nations are very similar to children. They may behave well for a while and suddenly turn rotten. As Germany did in the 30s, under the influence of a bad scout leader, Adolf Hitler, so did Japan under the influence of their "pseudo-god". They needed to be scolded in orde to learn a lesson and return to better behavior. Japan was scolded severely and they seemed to have learned well. All nations need to grow to a state of wisdom, to a state that is mature. The US was not very humane to the native Americans, for sure.
Unfortunately, some nations seem too beligerent to mature. They still continue to behave as spoiled brats, refusing to learn, to act as civilized adults. North Korea is just one of many and Iran is another. Children are not simple, they are complex as are nations, made of many, many elements and parts. Just one part may be impaired, weak or broken and the child cannot function as normal. So it is with some nations. Chavez in Venezuela needs repaired. Iran needs quite a few repaired and North Korea needs a new leader. If they ever hope to mature, to grow to an adult humane state, they must be repaired to function as humans should.
Education makes a difference also, but even education will not help to stubborn persons who refuse to accept truth and choose to libe with superstition and falsehoods instead. Iran's president is not completely stupid and yet he refuses truth in preference to fantasy. Arrogance is partly the reason, but the embedded spiritual fantasies also are responsible for his state of unacceptance of reality.
Much of Afghanistan, including the Taliban, are uneducated and primitive, but things there will change soon if the good people there wish it to be so.
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In a world with so much idiotic hate and envy, there comes this angel!
Too bad the Taliban could not learn something from this, but they would only want to ransom or kill her.
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It is not the all the people of Iran that are liars and A-holes, but those in charge of Iran are definitely in that group. Khomeini and his puppet president are the main ones. There are many good people in Iran. They are not good because of their religion. That means nothing! Khomeini is of the same religion. They are good because they have kindness and goodness in their hearts, virtues that are not born from their religion, but from something much greater, a spirit that some ignore and some cannot feel. Those that cannot are often satisfied with merely belonging to a religion and doing what their religious "bosses" tell them. Even God cares not about which religion one chooses, but cares only of how one treats others and all humanity. There is the difference between one such as Khomeini and one who is really allied with God. Khomeini shall never see The God, but shall meet and sit with the master of evil instead.
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Jacob deserved a lot of credit too!
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Buenos noches!
"As you listen to the news about the student protests over illegal immigration, there are some things that you should be aware of:
I am in charge of the English-as-a-second-language department at a large southern California high school which is designated a Title 1 school, meaning that its students average lower socioeconomic and income levels. Most of the schools you are hearing about, South Gate High, Bell Gardens , Huntington Park , etc., where these students are protesting, are also Title 1 schools. Title 1 schools are on the free breakfast and free lunch program. When I say free breakfast, I'm not talking a glass of milk and a roll -- but a full breakfast and cereal bar with fruits and juices that would make a Marriott proud. The waste of this food is monumental, with trays and trays of it being dumped in the trash uneaten. I estimate that well over 50% of these students are obese or at least moderately overweight. About 75% or more DO have cell phones. The school also provides day care centers for the unwed teenage pregnant girls (some as young as 13) so they can attend class without the inconvenience of having to arrange for babysitters or having family watch their kids.
I was ordered to spend $700,000 on my department or risk losing funding for the upcoming year even though there was little need for anything; my budget was already substantial. I ended up buying new computers for the computer learning center, half of which, one month later, have been carved with graffiti by the appreciative students who obviously feel humbled and grateful to have a free education in America ... I have had to intervene several times for young and substitute teachers whose classes consist of many illegal immigrant students, here in the country less than 3 months, who raised so much hell with the female teachers, calling them "Putas"(whores) and throwing things, that the teachers were in tears. Free medical, free education, free food, free day care etc., etc, etc. Is it any wonder they feel entitled to not only be in this country but to demand rights, privileges and entitlements? To those who want to point out how much these illegal immigrants contribute to our society because they LIKE their gardener and housekeeper and they like to pay less for tomatoes: spend some time in the real world of illegal immigration and see the TRUE costs. Higher insurance, medical facilities closing, higher medical costs, more crime, lower standards of education in our schools, overcrowding, new diseases. For me, I'll pay more for tomatoes. Americans, We need to wake up.
It does, however, have everything to do with culture: It involves an American third-world culture that does not value education, that accepts children getting pregnant and dropping out of school by 15 and that refuses to assimilate, and an American culture that has become so weak and worried about "political correctness" that we don't have the will to do anything about it. If this makes your blood boil, as it did mine, forward this to everyone you know. CHEAP LABOR? Isn't that what the whole immigration issue is about? Business doesn't want to pay a decent wage. Consumers don't want expensive produce. Government will tell you Americans don't want the jobs. But the bottom line is cheap labor. The phrase "cheap labor" is a myth, a farce, and a lie. There is no such thing as "cheap labor." Take, for example, an illegal alien with a wife and five children. He takes a job for $5.00 or 6.00/hour. At that wage, with six dependents, he pays no income tax, yet at the end of the year, if he files an Income Tax Return, he gets an "earned income credit" of up to $3,200 free.
He qualifies for Section 8 housing and subsidized rent.
He qualifies for food stamps.
He qualifies for free (no deductible, no co-pay) health care.
His children get free breakfasts and lunches at school.
He requires bilingual teachers and books.
He qualifies for relief from high energy bills.
If they are, or become, aged, blind or disabled, they qualify for SSI. If qualified for SSI they can qualify for Medicaid. All of this is at (our) taxpayer's expense. He doesn't worry about car insurance, life insurance, or homeowners insurance. Taxpayers provide Spanish language signs, bulletins and printed material. He and his family receive the equivalent of $20.00 to $30.00/hour in benefits. Working Americans are lucky to have $5.00 or $6..00/hour left after paying their bills and his.
Cheap labor? YEAH RIGHT!
THESE ARE THE QUESTIONS WE SHOULD BE ADDRESSING TO THE CONGRESSIONAL MEMBERS OF EITHER PARTY. AND WHEN THEY LIE TO US AND DON'T DO AS THEY SAY (or what we ask?), WE SHOULD REPLACE THEM ."
The above is by a schoolteacher in California.
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So my "righteous-in-their-own-eyes-only" neighbors, the M______y's, continue to intimidate me by posting name-calling signs on the highway and other devious acts. The woman has been seen by a witness taking down my firewood sign, throwing it into the woods, and putting up her own. They try to belittle others, mostly me, by their devious acts of hatred. Are they envious? Maybe. Are they jealous? Maybe. All I know is that they cannot ever live up to my standards and achievements, graduating high school and then Indiana University, my record in the military, my titles of national matches, my abilities in art, pool and billiards, music, restoration of antiques, or anything else I do. Their only talent seems to be taking their magic marker and writing on others' signs, making their own primitive signs and slandering or committing liable. Oh yes, and one can do donuts out on the gravel road with a 4-wheeler! Wow! Losers will be losers until they learn that by trying to deviously belittle others they only belittle themselves. Karma will surely catch up with them. The great spirits that are said to watch over us all are not interfering with their lowly actions. I had always treated them well, and treated their father and mother well too, but I have been treated unfairly and bad by them ever since I remember first coming here in 1963. No accounting for why!
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Poor Piers does not know very much about rather common things such as making pizzas, getting the dough flat, thin and wide enough to fit the pan. To Piers, it was just a guy "chucking pizzas into the air". Poor Piers. He has so much to learn. It is amazing that he sees some things as being ordinary blah and yet he can do none of those things himself.
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US worried about Iraq after the US pull-out.
Why? Too many deaths of Iraqi citizens? If those lowly terrorist "believers" get to go to paradise immediately after murdering others, then those murdered "believers" will surely make it to paradise too. Why worry? Worry is just for us infidels!
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How does one become famous all over the earth and remembered by most of ther world forever?
First, consider all the stories told to you by various people about the history and religion and God.Then, go to a cave and isolate yourself until you come up with your own version of "how to live and how to die", a version that is fool-proof, one with all the bases covered, even with a phrase that allows for contradiction. (ie: If 2 verses seem to contradict, then the later one is correct)
Pretty smart, huh? Now, make sure that there are plenty of people to buy into your ideals. Tell them it was all given to you by THE GOD as you are lounging in the cave. That will convince most of them, and the rest will follow or be killed soon.
At first, I thought Islam was a rather fragmented religion, but I understand now that it is not as much a religion as it is a political way of life that makes it mandatory for all its "believers" to live by or ELSE.
I realize now that it not about God at all, but about a vision realized by a mere man many many years ago.
I realize now why I would never believe in such a misleading way of life. I realize that as long as there are gullible folks that do believe and other gullible folks that will punish non-believers severely if they can, then it is only natural that such a way of life perpetuates itself. The object is to obey every little aspect. every detail, every law, no matter how disrespectful it may be or how immoral it might seem to some. It is the way of "the man" who decided it to be that way. The only reason I now believe in the possibility of Satan is because of that man.
No one is to think for himself, but just to obey those primitive guidelines written long ago. Christianity is confusing enough, but holy verses!!! One may not disobey or alter any verse in this man's "guide" or face eternal torment, but blowing thirty-five people all to hell with a bomb, whether infidels or not, is perfectly acceptable. Lie like hell to infidels! That's cool! There is a difference between the early parts of this man's "holy" "guide" and the later parts of it. (always follow the later, even if they are more violent and quite different than what any decent god would obviously wish) I have come to the conclusion that it may be quite impossible for true believers in Islam and true infidels to ever share this earth. One group or the other must be eliminated, but that is what is going on anyway, isn't it?
UNDERSTANDING ISLAM
I think it is time for all religions and all related material to be destroyed and let us start again with something called truth. Let's let The God write the script this time, not mere men!
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Hate-mongers speak lies about a beautiful talented girl of 10! In Manilla, evil police nastily torture a young small-time thief! The world is full of hatred and it may surface anywhere at any time by those that give in to their evil ways. It happens in Indiana too. The evil radical Muslims do not have the monopoly on evil and hatred, but they have a great start. The only way a Muslim can really be kind and good to people of all beliefs is to not fully obey the Q'ran. So, if something is so misleading to the betterment of all of us on earth, why obey it at all? Live by the golden rule, "Treat and do unto others what you would choose to have others do unto and treat you." That is simple enough to remember and obey.
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Sh'ria laws have changed, I have heard it said: Now you may only be put to death for committing certain devious and terrible crimes such as winking at another, telling a lie to another Muslim, calling another Muslim a "dodo", and dropping your "holy" book on the floor. All lesser crimes will be punishable by merely chopping off a leg or two. Yes, a cynical view!
If Muhammad had only known the impact and chaos that would come to be as a result of his ideas, he would have stayed at home kept silent. MHPIH
I may be a bit slow, but I cannot understand the dire need to condemn others to death for silly things such as cartoons, not being a believer in what another believes to be true, disobeying some ancient verse in a book, considered holy or not. Is the judgement of a person not up to The God or is is that The God cannot handle his workload any more? It is as if this particular "way of life that should strictly follow the verses in a book" does not really have faith that The God is capable. It seems that mere men must do all His work for Him and that there is really no need for The God at all. He seems to be just a name to worship each day several times, but can do nothing on His own. I see men, mere men, controlling the lives and deaths of other men and women to keep a "holy" book relevant in their societies, and they seem afraid that someone just might question that way of life or perhaps convert to another way of life. Is this not a form of tyranny? If The God is still relevant in our lives, if there is a god at all, then He should be allowed His privilege of taking an active role, not regarded as totally senile and helpless. People must be allowed to make their own choices, right ot wrong, without the threat of death constantly restricting them. Let The God take part in judging and punishing, not just mere men, whatever their titles may be.
A person who is really righteous should have no fear of comeone converting to another religion of way of life. The person who is really righteous is content with himself and should be tolerable to others. If one's life is threatened, he has the right to defend himself. He does not have the right to defend his "way of life" or his religion with death to others. Only The God had that right, so it should be up to Him and Him alone.
The fact that there are those that threaten others for converting means only that there is doubt in the minds of those who threaten. They rely on deathly threats to control their flocks, not the way of a godly and righteous shepherd.
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Choosing any "faith" or religion among the multitudes of them is rather like playing the lottery. Often, the only sure way to win is not play at all. True, there may be some winners among the millions of players, but the odds are staggering. Adopting one religion over anotherand following that religion to the letter is highly unlikely, and yet if this is not done, one becomes nothing more than a hypocrite. Too often, the Sunday righteous folk are not righteous during the rest of the week. Too many are putting on a show for other folks and although they may feel better about themselves for having "faith" and practicing the ceremonial aspects of that faith, they may not be any closer to The God than anyone else. Too live the life that is the essence of what all religions should be, one needs only to be logical, to respect others and to regard others and treat others as one would wish to be treated.
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Iraq has a chance to change things for themselves now. The majority of the Americans have left, all of the fighting force. It is now up to the people of Iraq, whether or not they band together to protect their country from more tyranny, from insurgent terrorists, from the influence of Iran and other hostile countries or let their country slip into some non-democratic mire once more. Saddam Hussein is no more, the forces of al-qaida are weakened, but there are still many evil people who would like to see the Iraqi people return to their roles of mere sheep to be kept by a cruel shepherd. If they can set aside the differences of sects and remember they are all children of this earth, they have a real chance of success. The effort needed is not for the timid, but for the brave, the determined, and the righteous and honest. Good luck, Iraq. Be strong!
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"Do unto others--------------------------------
As you would have others do unto you".
It's not hard to remember, but still we forget
To follow this rule of gold.
No matter your color
No matter your race or
Whether you're young or old.
Where there is love, there is always hope
That peace will replace war.
Respect all life, respect our earth
No matter what faith you are.
Imagine no murder, no theft, no greed,
No bombings, no torture, no hate.
Simply follow this wise golden rule.
I know it is not too late.
"Do unto others--------------------------------
As you would have others do unto you".
It's not hard to remember, but still we forget
To follow this rule of gold.
No matter your color
No matter your race or
Whether you're young or old.
Unless this rule has been superceded by something like this, "Do unto others before they do unto you!!" by some illiterate that spent many months in cave, we must all try and follow it.
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Too many people in the Middle-East are illiterate. So many depend on others to interpret the book that most people resepct, the holy Q'ran. Clerics are often the ones who interpret the Q'ran to the people. However, many of the clerics are biased and corrupt or hate the Western world as well as Israel. They, in essence. are in control of what many of the illiterates hear regarding the Q'ran. Terrorist leaders also use wrong interpretations of the Q'ran for their benefit. The accepted meaning of the jihad is invalid and that contributes greatly to the violence. Logic tells one that The God is not a monster, but according to way many believe, The God is something to fear as one should fear Satan. It is fear that keeps many people praying several times each day. They are afraid not to do this. Between the outright lies that people tell about the word of the Q'ran and the misinterpretation that is so commonplace, illiterates have little chance to knowthe truth.
There are many learned people in the Middle-East also. Some adhere to everything they have been taught since birth and dare not think for themselves. Others are corrupt and their hate influences them too much to tolerate other beliefs or sects. Prejudice, hate and attitude problems motivate them, not a love for humanity, nature, or The God and the children of The God.
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The idea of some Floridian pastor burning a copy of the Koran tells us several things. It tells us there is prejudice against Islam. Well earned? It tells us that many people of Islam are willing not only to burn flags of the US, but also to kill because someone might or might not burn a copy of their holy Koran. Would a Christian committ murder because someone burned a copy of the holy Bible? Very few!!!! After all, it is only a copy of the original, a mere book and not worth killing someone over. Most Christians would leave the punitive measures up to God, as they believe that God is alive and well and able to do what he needs or wants to do without the help of mere humans. It seems obvious to me that that is not the same with believers of Islam. They seem to rally at every small threat to their book, their religion, the name of their prophet and many are ready to kill as they rally. It has happened already. Then, they must believe that God is not capable of punitive measures or believe that God would do nothing as if God would deem the burning of a book as trivial. Therefor, of Islam I believe that too many are more concerned with the name and character of their beliefs than they are of God, mush more concerned with revenge than turning the other cheek and letting God handle things. Even the Koran talks of "an eye for an eye" and yet many "believers" of Islam would just as soon maim or kill for someone burning a copy of a "holy" book when the proper retaliation would be to burn a "holy" book of the one who offended them, a far cry from vindictive murder!
So the question if whether or not the Koran and Islam is of Satan or not is unanswered to those who are not biased. One thing is very obvious though. Islam seems far more content and quick with violence than most other religions or ideologies. The fact that so many are already up at arms and threateneing death to others attests to that undeniable fact. One would think. Correction, one should know that a God who could create the universe, this earth and the life upon it, including what we call humans, cannot be a spirit that is so anxious to see his children reek violence on one another. Maybe it is this that has the pastor convinced that Islam is not of God, but of the notorious wanna-be god. It would be wise if those that followed Islam would be more tolerant, less quick to judge, less quick to threaten, less quick to kill and follow the Golden Rule that another of their 'prophets' gave to the world long ago. Then audience of the world can only decide by what they see. Or if they must, let some chosen Islamic official delegate burn a Holy Bible in retaliation. I doubt if many death threats follow that act, certainly not as all the death threats that are being directed to the pastor of the small church in the US. It is sad to think many Islamic followers would want to kill people for such a trivial thing, yet many jump at the chance to do so. That speaks for itself and would indeed prove to the world that the pastor was correct in his assessment of the Holy Koran.
I have a neighbor that is as devious as some the vindictive Islamic jihadists. He and his stubby mate have carried out many devious acts against me, and still do so, simply because I posted my property line with "No Trespassing" signs. Immaturity is not restricted to other countries. There are many such immature and vindictive embeciles in the USA. Who needs al-Qaida? I have neighbors nearly as devious. I consider the source. I turn the other cheek, but I will protect myself in self-defence if my life is threatened.
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Yes, there are those who pick a choose certain verses and passages from their chosen "holy" texts. Some try to live by those particular passages or verses they have elected. Much of all such "holy" text are stories passed down from geberation to generation and are purely literature in my opinion. I saw no god write this text, nor did anyone else. So it is with the Holy Bible and the Holy Koran and likely all such "holy" texts. Men, mere men, have chosen what are to be printed in these "holy" copies and have chosen what to exclude. Since there are so many verses and passages that are quite vague, they are subject to many interpretations. The clerics, the pastors, the reverands, the fathers and the various reprsentatives of any particular sect can interpret them as they see fitting. That is quite a problem, since misinterpretation , whether calculated or in "good faith" can mislead followers. As you know, I have chosen my particular favorit and try to live by it. "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you". As far as I am concerned, it says it all and is at the same time very logical. It needs no interpretation. It is direct and would benefit all on earth should people choose to follow it.
Too many "holy" men have taken advantage of the trust their followers had in them and that had cost millions of lives already. It is still going on today, the corrupt leading their followers to their demise and threatening the very essence of what any religion should be about, how to live in harmony on this earth of ours, in harmony with others, in harmony with all animal-life and in harmony with what our creator has bestowed upon us. As I have stated so many times, too many love only their particular religion as if it were some elite men's club or fraternity, but love not for what that religion was originally intended. Too wordy are the "holy" texts. It is "the meek" that we hear "shall inherit the earth"? Then the meaning of these "holy" texts should be as meek; to treat all others as you wish to ne treated, with respect, with tolerance, with love and with kindness and with understanding.
No one should be murdered for burning a mere book. No one should be killed because he or she allegedly tried to convert someone to another religion. Yet it happens. Would a Muslim expect to be murdered for helping convert someone to Islam? I doubt it and yet so many Christians are maimed, punished, or even murdered for allegedly converting someone or trying to convert someone to Christianity. It is not the people of the US that stain the name of Islam, but those of Islam that do so.
I have stated many times that I respect the Muslim friends that I have, and yet I do not agree with them on many points. They have the right to worship and believe what they will, but no one has right to punish another for not agreeing with him.
Live your life as though your were wanting your decent parents to be proud of you and try to bring respect to your parants and family. Live with the truth in mind, "that you do not know for certain of a god or a devil or any of that. You may want to live as if there were a decent and almighty god, but remember this: If this god created the universe, he is surely a wonderful and brilliant entity and did not design our universe with the intent of mere men destroying what he had created. If he had made man, he made him to live upon this earth in harmony. He made man with wisdom to be superior to the beasts. He did not make man just to watch them destroy and hate each other. Live with our Golden Rule fresh in your mind. If a god is almighty enough to create this universe, he is almighty enough to guide us and communicate with us without mere men as translators. Do not trust men, illiterate or not, who say they have carrried on conversations with The God and have been chosen to be a prophet of The God. It is not true, but it makes good folk literature. We are only dust, dust upon the earth and dust in the wind. No one man is important. Only through interaction with others do we have any significance at all. Man and woman cannot create life, but only start the mysterious and wonderful process that does. One does own children, theirs or not. Children are for all, all the people of this earth and they are not property.
Love each day, don't pass it by, sooner or later we all must die. No one knows what happens after our death. The truth is this.
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CANCER TREATMENT CENTERS OF AMERICA have television ads that sound quite positive and promising. Isn't it ironic that as the people on those ads tell of their wonderful results and tell others to not give up and that "hope is everything", there is small print at the top of the screen that reads, "do not expect the same results"?
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Beware of ongoing scam. People may call saying they are from Online Media and that they have been advertising your business and they want to know how you are planning to pay the fees they say you have acrrued already. I never heard of them before and yet they say I have contracted for their services and now owe them a substantial sum. I have never advertised my business and never once beeded to. Word of mouth has always been my way. I told the Online Media caller to "Kiss off" and reported their scam to the proper authorities.
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It has always puzzled me how good ole American people can coin certain phrases to call others, yet some of these coined phrases that should be complimentary are used and accepted by many as something bad. Among these word-phrases are Injun-lover or Indian-lover, nigger-lover, and boy-lover. It is just like people that are full of hate to use the word "lover" in their inflammatory phrases. Immaturity and ignorance are all too often a dangerous combination and the word "love" has no just place in some people's vocabulary. They know not what love is.
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In the words of Newt Gingrich:
"The proposed "Cordoba House" overlooking the World Trade Center site – where a group of jihadists killed over 3000 Americans and destroyed one of our most famous landmarks - is a test of the timidity, passivity and historic ignorance of American elites. For example, most of them don’t understand that “Cordoba House” is a deliberately insulting term. It refers to Cordoba, Spain – the capital of Muslim conquerors who symbolized their victory over the Christian Spaniards by transforming a church there into the world’s third-largest mosque complex. Today, some of the Mosque’s backers insist this term is being used to "symbolize interfaith cooperation" when, in fact, every Islamist in the world recognizes Cordoba as a symbol of Islamic conquest. It is a sign of their contempt for Americans and their confidence in our historic ignorance that they would deliberately insult us this way. Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for "religious toleration" are arrogantly dishonest. They ignore the fact that more than 100 mosques already exist in New York City. Meanwhile, there are no churches or synagogues in all of Saudi Arabia. In fact no Christian or Jew can even enter Mecca. And they lecture us about tolerance.
If the people behind the Cordoba House were serious about religious toleration, they would be imploring the Saudis, as fellow Muslims, to immediately open up Mecca to all and immediately announce their intention to allow non-Muslim houses of worship in the Kingdom. They should be asked by the news media if they would be willing to lead such a campaign. We have not been able to rebuild the World Trade Center in nine years. Now we are being told a 13 story, $100 million megamosque will be built within a year overlooking the site of the most devastating surprise attack in American history. Finally where is the money coming from? The people behind the Cordoba House refuse to reveal all their funding sources.
America is experiencing an Islamist cultural-political offensive designed to undermine and destroy our civilization. Sadly, too many of our elites are the willing apologists for those who would destroy them if they could."
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Below are the actual voting records of various Arabic/Islamic States which are recorded in both the US State Department and United Nations records:
Kuwait votes against the United States 67% of the time
Qatar votes against the United States 67% of the time
Morocco votes against the United States 70% of the time
United Arab Emirates votes against the U. S. 70% of the time.
Jordan votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Tunisia votes against the United States 71% of the time.
Saudi Arabia votes against the United States 73% of the time.
Yemen votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Algeria votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Oman votes against the United States 74% of the time.
Sudan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Pakistan votes against the United States 75% of the time.
Libya votes against the United States 76% of the time.
Egypt votes against the United States 79% of the time.
Lebanon votes against the United States 80% of the time.
India votes against the United States 81% of the time.
Syria votes against the United States 84% of the time.
Mauritania votes against the United States 87% of the time.
U S Foreign Aid to those that hate us:
Egypt, for example, after voting 79% of the time against the United States, still receives $2 billion annually in US Foreign Aid.
Jordan votes 71% against the United States And receives $192,814,000 annually in US Foreign Aid.
Pakistan votes 75% against the United States Receives $6,721,000 annually in US Foreign Aid. (And I just sent them more to help flood victims)
India votes 81% against the United States Receives $143,699,000 annually.
WHY? WHO IN THE HELL STARTED THIS AND WHY? THEY ACTUALLY BITE THE HAND THAT FEEDS THEM.
Perhaps it is time to get out of the UN and give the tax savings back to the American workers who are having to skimp and sacrifice to pay the taxes.
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Whoever is calling the offensive plays for Minnesota Vikings does not know how to win football games! They need a substitute...and soon!
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I once had a vision of becoming a ginseng grower. Way back in the 1970s I hunted wild ginseng. It was fun and sometimes profitable. Even then, I left more ginseng than I ever harvested. I planted each seed of every plant I found. Later, I decided to buy stratified seeds and plant our woods with them. I waited up to 10 years for these plants to grow large enough to make it worth harvesting their roots, but two times, they were all stolen by thieves before I dug the first root. For 35 years I have planted ginseng seed and yet there may be less than 100 plants left on our land. Thieves! The thieves trespass and steal the ginseng. Some take every plant they find, whether it is a first-year plant or a mature plant. They are lame-brained greedy fools! Some of these thieves hunt for ginseng from spring until fall, never letting the seeds of the plants ripen or fall. How can it survive? Years from now, they may tell their children that they used to hunt ginseng but there does not seem to be any like there used to be. It is all because of these fools that dig it out of season.
Years ago, I made a choice not to plant on our property, but everywhere else that I saw ginseng was disappearing. I planted other counties, state areas, private areas. A few friends began calling me Stevie Sengseed, appropriately I reckon.
I have planted up to 21000 seeds per years for several years now, hoping that future generations will be able to hunt ginseng and enjoy it the way I have. I hope they prove to be wiser than the greedy, lame-brains that have nearly depleted wild ginseng on many areas.
Just this summer, In July, I was in a relative's woods in southern Indiana and I looked down a saw where someone had just dug a root. The stem and leaves were fresh and laying on the ground beside the hole they dug. I know that poaching digger heard my voice as I yelled obsenities it him and told him the next time I would be waiting for him. If no one heard me, so what! No more signs of ginseng being dug there so far, but then there's very little left to dig.
I will continue planting seed wherever I find no ginseng as long as I am able. It is a magnificent plant.
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As the nasty rhetoric of many Islamic speakers echo throughout the "free" world, perhaps it's time to speak out against what we all realize is happening! I can only know those that I consider friends by how they interact with me. I only know strangers by their interactions with all humanity.
The Truth About... As some threaten burning books, they threaten death. As we threaten sanctions, they threaten annihilation. As we contemplate peaceful solution, they speak of extermination!
It is not of peace, but of hate, even amongst their own brethren. Hundreds of years have passed, and immaturity still reigns. Though we look to see goodness and godliness, evil is much more evident.
Do I think all those who follow Islam are evil and not to be trusted? Absolutely not! Those such as pictured below, those thousands out of 10,000, are those that are misguided and evil beings.
Every person on earth has both evil and good within them. The choice is up to us... each of us. These in the photo choose evil as they simply love their way of worship, but not God. Their love and loyalty to their peers is not unlike the loyalty of common street gangs. "Trash talk our gang, dude, and we will kill your ass!" Such mentality cannot respect any god that could have created this universe. Persons with such ways of thinking, person as shown above, are the only reasons I would ever believe there is a great deceiver such Satan!
As a clock that runs, but is not set properly, it may never give us the right time. A clock that does not run at all still gives the right time twice a day. Those who depend on their religions for their salvation may well be like the clocks that are never right. I keep hearing from certain Muslims that those people as in the photos above are "not really representing Islam, but they are radical" separatists of some sort. Yet, do they not pray to Allah each day and do they not claim to follow the Koran? Do they not share the mosques with "real" Islamic believers? Then, it is surely up to the "good" majority of Muslims to clean house, to make it clear to those "false" Islamic followers that they are not accepted in the mosques, that they are misguided and confused, outcasts that should be shunned or converted to "good" Muslims. The "Islamiphobia" of which some speak is no more the fault of non-believers than it is of the "believers" that condone murder, threats, corruption, immorality and supression in the name of Islam. "One may fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but never all of the people all of the time."
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There is a rumor floating around that the "doubting Thomas" president of Iran is a direct desecendent of the notorious Adolf Hitler. It is said that an unidentified Iranian has proclaimed that Hitler's sperm had been frozen in 1944, that experimental cloning had hoped to produce several clones of Hitler, but they did not succeed. It is rumored that the seed of Hitler was not kept in vain though and that the president of Iran is a result of the experimental freezing of Hitler's seed. It is only a rumor, but that would account for several attutudes constantly being displayed by the controversial Iranian leader, his hatred for Jews and Israel, his denial of actual documented events accepted by the world, his stubborness and his deceptive acions. One must decide for himself, but this rumor could only be proven or disproven by a DNA test done by a third party. Whether or not the president of Iran has addressed this issue is unknown at this time.
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What do we see when see when we look at those who over-decorate themselves in tatooing, those who talk rough and try to display a tough and ultra-manly image to others? Some see typical gangland members, those who try to display themselves as super-macho tough guys. Most are fakes, but some soon believe their own deceptive image and turn to drugs, maiming, murder, gang warfare, pushing drugs, advocating hatred and other devious actions. The truth is that most are trying to cover, to hide their lack of masculinity. They are "pussies" in disguise, those that cannot function at all without the brethren of others just like them. Their dependence on their peer packs only tends to prove their inadequacies and cowardice. They literally hate themselves more than they hate others, but in an attempt to compensate, they learn to blame and hate others instead. This earth is abundant with these types and the trend is growing.
Intimidation had replaced love and this mentality cannot be altered easily. Fortunately, these inadequate persons are self-destructive.
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President Ahmadinejad's new role as a stand-up comedian went quite well when he addressed the UN. Not since Pat Paulsen has a comedian been so staight-faced and looked so serious as he said such outrageous and hilarious phrases! Some took him seriously and some delegates walked out before and during his address without realizing President Ahmadinejad was playing the role of the comic. He has a real chance of making it on the comedy scene, even in burlesque or perhaps his own TV comedy series. Soon, as people gradually realize that he was not serious, all may accept him as the comic he is. After all, it should be evident that no human could say such outrageous things as he and still be serious. Why does he not try to compete in "Last Comic Standing" I will never know, but he has a great chance of winning. See him for what he is...a natural-born clown! He and Chavez have surely spent many hours rehearsing their comedy routines and they should both be commended.
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The Islamic-related terrorist influence in Africa is spreading. One al-qaida member was heard to say, "We have thousands now, thousands to make us strong. They here are like baboons and make it easy for us to find ones for our cause. Baboons are plentiful and no one cares if...they live or die."
One deluded baboon talking about gullible potential baboons! That's how it sounds to me.
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The word that many people hate, the word "nigger", means different things to different people. To me, and if I ever use such a word, it is not meant as racial slur. To me, as to some others perhaps, it means someone who is a low-life, someone who has little respect for others, or someone who cheats and steals, someone who constantly breaks the rules. Perhaps someone who is disrespectful of our earth, the hunters who come to the forests to kill deer and leave behind all their trash. These "n....rs" come in all colors and all races, white, red, yellow, and black and all in between. The terrorists are very good examples of them, the hate groups are good examples of them, and a few that live closeby are very good examples of them..and they are certainly not black. It is important to me that black people know that there is no reference to their race or color if I ever use this derogatory word in the future.
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Does anyone else see the difference between people such as Bill Gates and his wife and rich persons in the middle-east, perhaps those in Saudi Arabia or Iran or perhaps Syria? The Gates are spending billions, more than half of their worth on trying to eliminate Polio in third world countries, on education, on treating and eliminating Malaria, and on finding a immunization for AIDS, among other worthy things. Iranian leaders spend millions on funding warlords, al-Qaida, insurgents, things that are entirely unworthy and destructive. Likewise, many in other countries such as Saudi Arabia, spend millions, perhaps billions, on similar follies. The majority is spent for the benefit of Muslims, wherever they live. Why destruction is preferred over improving the lives of people throughout the world, who knows? All the money wasted on such devious follies when that same money could be used to save children from diseases, poverty and illiteracy is beyond is certainly not what any decent God would condone. It is not what any decent human would condone either. The next time you see the greedy, selfish, devious and conniving rich talking about the evils of the Western world, see them for what they really are and then remember the Gates of the USA.
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It does not take much intelligence or moral character to relaize that Osama Bin Laden is nothing but a lowly loser. Money does not make one smart, or good, or holy, or better than others and it certainly has done nothing to make Osama Bin Laden a man. He is not even a man, but a mere bearded coward that once had a little brevity and lost it. Now he merely tries to deal out misery in his vengeful cowardly ways. Many wish to kiss his cowardly ass and they are just as Satanic as he. He is and he will be always remembered as a "wanna-be" Muhammad. Perhaps we here in the West will deny he ever existed, just as some Iranian jerk denies the holocaust ever happened.
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Subject: ONE BIG DIFFERENCE BETWEEN JEWS AND MUSLIMS
The Global Islamic population is approximately 1,200,000,000; that is ONE BILLION TWO HUNDRED MILLION or 20% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1988 - Najib Mahfooz
Peace:
1978 - Mohamed Anwar El-Sadat
1990 - Elias James Corey
1999 - Ahmed Zewai
Economics:
(zero)
Physics:
(zero)
Medicine:
1960 - Peter Brian Medawar
1998 - Ferid Mourad
TOTAL: 7 (SEVEN)
The Global Jewish population is approximately 14,000,000; that is FOURTEEN MILLION or about 0.02% of the world's population. They have received the following Nobel Prizes:
Literature:
1927 - Henri Bergson
1958 - Boris Pasternak
1966 - Shmuel Yosef Agnon
1966 - Nelly Sachs
1976 - Saul Bellow
1978 - Isaac Bashevis Si nger
1981 - Elias Canetti
1987 - Joseph Brodsky
1991 - Nadine Gordimer World
Peace:
1911 - Alfred Fried
1911 - Tobias Michael Carel Asser
1968 - Rene Cassin
1973 - Henry Kissinger
1978 - Menachem Begin
1986 - Elie Wiesel
1994 - Yitzhak Rabin
Physics:
1905 - Adolph Von Baeyer
1906 - Henri Moissan
1907 - Albert Abraham Michelson
1908 - Gabriel Lippmann
1910 - Otto Wallach
1915 - Richard Willstaetter
1918 - Fritz Haber
1921 - Albert Einstein
1922 - Niels Bohr
1925 - James Franck
1925 - Gustav Hertz
1943 - Gustav Stern
1943 - George Charles de Hevesy
1944 - Isidor Issac Rabi
1952 - Felix Bloch
1954 - Max Born
1958 - Igor Tamm
1959 - Emilio Segre
1960 - Donald A. Glaser
1961 - Robert Hofstadter
1961 - Melvin Calvin
1962 - Lev Davidovich Landau
1962 - Max Ferdinand Perutz
1965 - Richard Phillips Feynman
1965 - Julian Schwinger
1969 - Murray Gell-Mann
1971 - Dennis Gabor
1972 - William Howard Stein
1973 - Brian David Josephson
1975 - Ben jamin Mottleson
1976 - Burton Richter
1977 - Ilya Prigogine
1978 - Arno Allan Penzias
1978 - Peter L Kapitza
1979 - Stephen Weinberg
1979 - Sheldon Glashow
1979 - Herbert Charles Brown
1980 - Paul Berg
1980 - Walter Gilbert
1981 - Roald Hoffmann
1982 - Aaron Klug
1985 - Albert A. Hauptman
1985 - Jerome Karle
1986 - Dudley R. Herschbach
1988 - Robert Huber
1988 - Leon Lederman
1988 - Melvin Schwartz
1988 - Jack Steinberger
1989 - Si dney Altman
1990 - Jerome Friedman
1992 - Rudolph Marc us
1995 - Martin Perl
2000 - Alan J. Heeger
Economics:
1970 - Paul Anthony Samuelson
1971 - Si mon Kuznets
1972 - Kenneth Joseph Arrow
1975 - Leonid Kantorovich
1976 - Milton Friedman
1978 - Herbert A. Si mon
1980 - Lawrence Robert Klein
1985 - Franco Modigliani
1987 - Robert M. Solow
1990 - Harry Mark owitz
1990 - Merton Miller
1992 - Gary Becker
1993 - Robert Fogel
Medicine:
1908 - Elie Metchnikoff
1908 - Paul Erlich
1914 - Robert Barany
1922 - Otto Meyerhof
1930 - Karl Landsteiner
1931 - Otto Warburg
1936 - Otto Loewi
1944 - Joseph Erlanger
1944 - Herb ert Spencer Gasser
1945 - Ernst Boris Chain
1946 - Hermann Joseph Muller
1950 - Tadeus Reichstein
1952 - Selman Abraham Waksman
1953 - Hans Krebs
1953 - Fritz Albert Lipmann
1958 - Joshua Lederberg
1959 - Arthur Kornberg
1964 - Konrad Bloch
1965 - Francois Jacob
1965 - Andre Lwoff
1967 - George Wald
1968 - Marshall W. Nirenberg
1969 - Salvador Luria
1970 - Julius Axelrod
1970 - Si r Bernard Katz
1972 - Gerald Maurice Edelman
1975 - Howard Martin Temin
1976 - Baruch S. Blumberg
1977 - Roselyn Sussman Yalow
1978 - Daniel Nathans
1980 - Baruj Ben acerraf
1984 - Cesar Milstein
1985 - Michael Stuart Brown
1985 - Joseph L. Goldstein
1986 - Stanley Cohen [& Rita Levi-Montalcini]
1988 - Gertrude Elion
1989 - Harold Varmus
1991 - Erwin Neher
1991 - Bert Sakmann
1993 - Richard J. Roberts
1993 - Phillip Sharp
1994 - Alfred Gilman
1995 - Edward B. Lewis
1996- Lu Rose Iacovino
TOTAL: 129!
The Jews are NOT promoting brain washing children in military training camps, teaching them how to blow themselves up and cause maximum deaths of Jews and other non Muslims. The Jews don't hijack planes, nor kill athletes at the Olympics, or blow themselves up in German restaurants. There is NOT one single Jew who has destroyed a church. There is NOT a single Jew who protests by killing people.
The Jews don't traffic slaves, nor have leaders calling for Jihad and death to all the Infidels.
Perhaps the world's Muslims should consider investing more in standard education and less in blaming the Jews for all their problems. Muslims must ask 'what can they do for humankind' before they demand that humankind respects them.
Regardless of your feelings about the crisis between Israel and the Palestinians and Arab neighbors, even if you believe there is more culpability on Israel 's part, the following two sentences really say it all:
'If the Arabs put down their weapons today, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons today, there would be no more Israel ." ----Benjamin Netanyahu
General Eisenhower Warned Us:
It is a matter of history that when the Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces, General Dwight Eisenhower, found the victims of the death camps, he ordered all possible photographs to be taken, and for the German people from surrounding villages to be ushered through the camps and even made to bury the dead.
He did this because he said in words to this effect:
'Get it all on record now - get the films - get the witnesses - because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened'
Recently, the UK debated whether to remove The Holocaust from its school curriculum because it 'offends' the Muslim population which claims it never occurred. It is not removed as yet. However, this is a frightening portent of the fear that is gripping the world and how easily each country is giving into it.
It is now more than 60 years after the Second World War in Europe ended. This e-mail is being sent as a memorial chain, in memory of the 6 million Jews, 20 million Russians, 10 million Christians, and 1,900 Catholic priests who were 'murdered, raped, burned, starved, beaten, experimented on and humiliated' while the German people looked the other way.
Now, more than ever, with Iran , among others, claiming the Holocaust to be 'a myth,' it is imperative to make sure the world never forgets.
Although, the obvious trend may only be obvious to those who are open-minded, there are exceptions to the trend, gold amongst the lead, diamonds in the sand! There are always exceptions. I know some of these exceptions and wish there were many more such exceptions, and yet even they do not appreciate many of my commentary postings. When the world news each day reflects a wonderful change in the trend we see, that day may offer usall some hope that all of us on earth have a chance at peace.
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Muslims, as well as everyone else, would do best if we would heed the words below: QUOTE: Success, Emerson
"To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; to earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; to leave the world a little better; whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is the meaning of success."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The Chinese government upset over the newly-named Nobel Peace Prize winner?
It would seems so, yes. They call the winner of Peace Prize "a criminal", but who is the real criminal? Which, this one man who has voiced his concern for human rights and democracy and change for the betterment of the Chinese people or the often cruel Chinese leadership, is guilty of real criminal activity. It's clear to all of decent humanity except, it seems, the Chinese government. Let them whine and squawk and maybe pound their iron fists on the tables!
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The increase in teenage suicides and even suicides of younger children is alarming. It is not "natural" and it must be faced by those who care. I offer the thoughts of one person on this subject and some may well disagree, but the facts are there of people care to see them. Boys as well as girls often try to emulate their parents to some degree, while at the same time try to develop their own individual characteristics based on their discovered interests. At the same time, children must deal with their peers, their school peers, their social peers, as well as their neighbors. When there are adults that are so immature as to call others names, often to an obsessive degree, children tend to do the same. Children can be cruel too. Adults should have learned that name-calling, racial and sexual slurs and inuendo, are not helpful and do as much or more harm to them as to those people they target. If adults have not learned by the time they are twenty, it is very likely that they have serious problems with themselves. One who obsessively uses names such as fag, queer, lezzy, homo, and other related terms, is often expressing a deep-rooted problem accepting their own sexual desire, frustration, or conflict. These persons dare not let others discover this, so they often mask it by calling others names related to their own problems. Children hear these adults and naturally emulate such behavior to a degree.
Media, television series, often dislay such rude behavior on screen, all too often being said from one should be above such behavior, a hero so to speak. It is difficult for a young person to see sexual situations from day to day and still be expected to obstain. From the time a young boy or girl is ten or eleven, he or she is very familar with sexual terms as used in common street language. Boys and girls are naturally curious. Many begin experimenting with some sort of sexual pleasure at early ages. This is natural, yet many parents do not tell them this is so. Too many parents do not remember how they felt at early ages. They often pretend they were pure and do not tell the truth to their children, and then expect their children to be just as the adults pretend to have been. It seldom works and even if it does, it only prolongs the inevitable. A parent need not encourage sexual experimentation, but need not discourage it either, especially with lies. They should be honest with their children and speak with the truth, not the truth just as they see it, but the truth. If they do not know the truth or do not remember, they should learn the truth. Too many children have suffered because of lies, because of unspoken truths, because of guilt that was thrust upon them by parents and peers.
It has been estimated that 8 of 10 children have experimented with some sort of sexual pleasures by the time they are fifteen, perhaps earlier. I would estimate that more than half such experimentation was not with the opposite sex. Believe it or do not. Honestly remember your own childhood and you may be surprised.
Schools should make efforts to have each and every child show respect for all others around them. If some do not or cannot, they should be dealt with. It is they who have a problem. Bullies have problems with which they themselves have not learned to cope. They bully others to mask those problems, even to themselves. Often, the person they bully is someone they really admire and yet they cannot face that reality. They must learn to respect themselves and they can respect others.
A child does not like to be called names be anyone, especially by peers at school. The terms gay and homo and such are sometimes spoken in merely in jest by friends, but such names hurt when repeated over and over, especially by others than close friends. A child may not know his or her true sexual orientation for many years, and even into adulthood may not know. One may appreciate and love others of the same gender and the opposite gender many times before one is well into adulthood. Love can be without sex and sex can be without love. The two words are often wrongly thought of as meaning the same. The terms straight and gay should be insignificant. It makes no difference. It is the stigma of religion that perpetuates much if the hatred and ignorance. We all seek happiness and we know what hurts us and what does not. If somethings hurts us, we try to avoid it. What hurts one usually hurts others, so whatever causes hurt should not be carelessly or deliberately dealt to others. It is the Golden Rule again, "Do unto others as you would have others do unto you."
So there are younsters feeling guilty because they feel totally different from other youngsters, yet they are not much different. They feel different because of parents that do not care to understand or care to explain things properly, or because the parents are ignorant of reality, or because the choose to be dishonest to their children. Parents usually want their children to be better than they were, but their various methods often fail. Youngsters suffer because of the media, Youngsters suffer because of some of their peers, peers who have learned to be unsympathetic or intolerant from their parents, or have learned to demonize youngsters that are not quite the same as they are. Demonizing those who murder, those who kill with suicide al attacks on others, may be acceptable, but it is not acceptable to demonize youngsters simply because they seem different somehow. In many cases, those who do the most demonizing are those with deep-rooted problems of their own.
When a youngsters peers are too critical, cruel, indifferent, or harsh, it hurts, but a youngster may cope with it if his or her parents are loving, undertsanding, sympathetic, encouraging and helpful. When both peers and parents appear to a youngster to be indifferent, unsympathetic, harsh and too critical, it is usally too much with which to cope for most youngsters. Depression and a feeling of alienation often leads to suicidal thoughts and eventually suicide. Yes, drugs can add to the problem, both illicit drugs and those too-often prescribed by physicians.
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