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GOOD KILLS
“I’ve seen it all in my brief and pointless life—here a good person cut down in the middle of doing good, there a bad person living a long life of sheer evil. So don’t knock yourself out being good, and don’t go overboard being wise. Believe me, you won’t get anything out of it. But don’t press your luck by being bad, either. And don’t be reckless. Why die needlessly? It’s best to stay in touch with both sides of an issue. A person who fears God deals responsibly with all of reality, not just a piece of it.” (Ecclesiastes 7:15-18, The Message Bible)
We all know evil kills and we all try to be good. We teach our children to be good children. We try not to swear, watch inappropriate shows, etc… We all want to be good. When we get right down to it the moral fiber that runs through out our lives and heritage is not a bad thing there is just one problem.
Often Christians like you and me get attached to the good in life and not the God that rules over our lives and it drains you of life. We attach ourselves to the promises, to the healing, to the church, to our faith; to whatever we think will get us through. We are living in The Kingdom but what good is the Kingdom if we have forgotten the King! What good are our prayers and our songs and sermons if we run around all week long in the Kingdom doing good things all the while forgetting about the King? Loving ‘good’ and not the God who loved you first will kill you! Saul was the poster child for this behavior, he was tall handsome and a great military leader and leader in general! God gave him victory after victory and all that goes with it, the spoils of war! The prophet comes along and says God wants you to go and win this battle with him and do one thing different take nothing away from this no spoils! Saul wins and he takes just select things! Well the prophet says, “what have you done?” For this disobedience your line will not rule Israel ever again! And so it was the Saul lost the most important thing to him the ability to have a generational line of kings from him the first! He did good and worked fro the Kingdom but forgot who the King is and broke his trust with Him!
We all know evil kills and we all try to be good. We teach our children to be good children. We try not to swear, watch inappropriate shows, etc… We all want to be good. When we get right down to it the moral fiber that runs through out our lives and heritage is not a bad thing there is just one problem.
Often Christians like you and me get attached to the good in life and not the God that rules over our lives and it drains you of life. We attach ourselves to the promises, to the healing, to the church, to our faith; to whatever we think will get us through. We are living in The Kingdom but what good is the Kingdom if we have forgotten the King! What good are our prayers and our songs and sermons if we run around all week long in the Kingdom doing good things all the while forgetting about the King? Loving ‘good’ and not the God who loved you first will kill you! Saul was the poster child for this behavior, he was tall handsome and a great military leader and leader in general! God gave him victory after victory and all that goes with it, the spoils of war! The prophet comes along and says God wants you to go and win this battle with him and do one thing different take nothing away from this no spoils! Saul wins and he takes just select things! Well the prophet says, “what have you done?” For this disobedience your line will not rule Israel ever again! And so it was the Saul lost the most important thing to him the ability to have a generational line of kings from him the first! He did good and worked fro the Kingdom but forgot who the King is and broke his trust with Him!
INSANITY IN CALI
CALI BISHOPS LOOSE THEIR MINDS AS THEY DESTROY THEIR CHURCH!
Without using a defense from Scripture, as those who lead in “The Church” (all Christian denominations) must do, they have chose to use secular generalizations and language that is from Scripture but not the actual Scripture itself. We find the Episcopal Bishops bringing about the destruction of the Episcopal Church in the US. If they wish to go against church teaching then by all means start your own church, the US is full of cults and you will fit right in with them. The following is what they have pronounced from the pulpit.
“As Episcopal Bishops of California, we are moved to urge voters to vote “No” on Proposition 8. Jesus calls us to love rather than hate, to give rather than to receive, to live into hope rather than fear. On Tuesday, November 4th, voters in California will be given the opportunity to vote for or against Proposition 8, which would amend the state’s constitution to reserve marriage as only between a man and a woman. Since the California Supreme Court’s ruling in May that civil marriage should be provided to all of the state’s citizens whether the genders of the couple are different or the same, faithful gays and lesbians have entered into marriage as the principle way in which they show their love, devotion and life-long commitment to each other. Furthermore, marriage provides these couples the same legal rights and protections that heterosexual couples take for granted.
Proposition 8 would reverse the court’s decision and withdraw a right given. Proponents of Proposition 8 have suggested that this amendment to the Constitution would protect marriage. We do not believe that marriage of heterosexuals is threatened by same-sex marriage. Rather, the Christian values of monogamy, commitment, love, mutual respect and witness of monogamy are enhanced for all by providing this right to gay and straight alike. Society is strengthened when two people who love each other choose to enter into marriage, engaged in a lifetime of disciplined relationship building that serves as a witness to the importance of love and commitment.”
The Bishops see homosexual relationships as fully moral, yet no generation of previous Christians have found this to be anything other than sin! Monogamy is defined within marriage alone and between a man and a woman period! Note that the bishops simply refer to “two people who love each other.” Once marriage is transformed from the union of a man and a woman into a union without respect to gender and on the claim that marriage is a “fundamental right” how can the number two be anything but arbitrary? What is next marriage between animals and humans and don’t think that with this new liberal insanity pedophiles are far behind. In Europe Muslims are making case law to have arranged marriages between 30 something’s and preteens. They cannot consummate the marriage until the girl reaches the appropriate age in each country (some as young as 15) but that will change with the power base as Muslims dominate the populations and gain voting seats in the respective houses that make the laws.
Without using a defense from Scripture, as those who lead in “The Church” (all Christian denominations) must do, they have chose to use secular generalizations and language that is from Scripture but not the actual Scripture itself. We find the Episcopal Bishops bringing about the destruction of the Episcopal Church in the US. If they wish to go against church teaching then by all means start your own church, the US is full of cults and you will fit right in with them. The following is what they have pronounced from the pulpit.
“As Episcopal Bishops of California, we are moved to urge voters to vote “No” on Proposition 8. Jesus calls us to love rather than hate, to give rather than to receive, to live into hope rather than fear. On Tuesday, November 4th, voters in California will be given the opportunity to vote for or against Proposition 8, which would amend the state’s constitution to reserve marriage as only between a man and a woman. Since the California Supreme Court’s ruling in May that civil marriage should be provided to all of the state’s citizens whether the genders of the couple are different or the same, faithful gays and lesbians have entered into marriage as the principle way in which they show their love, devotion and life-long commitment to each other. Furthermore, marriage provides these couples the same legal rights and protections that heterosexual couples take for granted.
Proposition 8 would reverse the court’s decision and withdraw a right given. Proponents of Proposition 8 have suggested that this amendment to the Constitution would protect marriage. We do not believe that marriage of heterosexuals is threatened by same-sex marriage. Rather, the Christian values of monogamy, commitment, love, mutual respect and witness of monogamy are enhanced for all by providing this right to gay and straight alike. Society is strengthened when two people who love each other choose to enter into marriage, engaged in a lifetime of disciplined relationship building that serves as a witness to the importance of love and commitment.”
The Bishops see homosexual relationships as fully moral, yet no generation of previous Christians have found this to be anything other than sin! Monogamy is defined within marriage alone and between a man and a woman period! Note that the bishops simply refer to “two people who love each other.” Once marriage is transformed from the union of a man and a woman into a union without respect to gender and on the claim that marriage is a “fundamental right” how can the number two be anything but arbitrary? What is next marriage between animals and humans and don’t think that with this new liberal insanity pedophiles are far behind. In Europe Muslims are making case law to have arranged marriages between 30 something’s and preteens. They cannot consummate the marriage until the girl reaches the appropriate age in each country (some as young as 15) but that will change with the power base as Muslims dominate the populations and gain voting seats in the respective houses that make the laws.
REV. WRIGHT AT THE PRESS CLUB
REV. WRIGHT QUOTES AT THE PRESS CLUB IN DC.
“I take and trace the theology of the black church back to the prophets in the Hebrew Bible and to its last prophet, in my tradition, the one we call Jesus of Nazareth.”
This is his greatest error possible, in seeing Jesus as only a prophet (one who speaks for God) instead of being Almighty God in the flesh! There is ‘Kingdom Theology’ not liberation theology, God’s theology liberates us first from ourselves and then from each other so that we can have better relationship with Him! This statement of the ‘last prophet’ puts him immediately at odds with ‘his Muslim brothers’ because Mohammed was the last prophet. Anything other than this is blasphemy to them! Jesus did not speak for God he being God spoke as God.
“When you read the entire passage from either Isaiah 61 or Luke 4 (vs.18-19 of Luke, Jesus is reading Isaiah 61 in Nazareth at temple) and do not try to understand the passage or the content of the passage in the context of a sound bite, what you see is God's desire for a radical change in a social order that has gone sour.”
Jesus was revolutionary in that the religion of the day was nothing like God wanted it to be. So Jesus being fully man and fully God went about reorganizing religion by abandoning the traditions of man and establishing relationship with God a personal God. This passage is about rejection of the Christ not about a new social order. That however is coming with the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth! This is about the Year of the Lords favor on his people.
“To say, "I am a Christian" is not enough. Why? Because the Christianity of the slaveholder is not the Christianity of the slave. The God to whom the slaveholders pray as they ride on the decks of the slave ship is not the God to whom the enslaved are praying as they ride beneath the decks on that slave ship.”
God is God of all or none! The slaves were animists and worshipped nature and spirits, they did not pray to the Judeo-Christian concept of God (that does not mean God did not hear their cries). The slave owners were men who with an understanding of Scripture found no condemnation for slavery or ownership of slaves. Rather there are admonitions for slaves to be the best slaves they can be so as to win their masters over to Christ! The men who abused slaves and treated them as property have to stand before the Throne even as you and I will one day and give an account for every word and deed! To use the Dr. Wrights reasoning the Germans did not pray to the same God during WWII. He will have to show me how that works’ in light of Scripture.
“Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains. He did not put me in slavery. And he didn't make me this color.”
This is a real gem, Louis Farrakhan is the enemy of America and the “White Devils” that are here. Meaning you and me and all non-blacks! Regular Islam does not even recognize the Nation of Islam or black Muslims of America they view them as a cult. He hates whites, Jews and Christians. He hates America and wants to destroy its government because it is evil. Pastor Wright believes the government of the United States is evil and he waits for others to destroy it! He has more in common with Farrakhan than with say pastor Rod Parsley.
“I take and trace the theology of the black church back to the prophets in the Hebrew Bible and to its last prophet, in my tradition, the one we call Jesus of Nazareth.”
This is his greatest error possible, in seeing Jesus as only a prophet (one who speaks for God) instead of being Almighty God in the flesh! There is ‘Kingdom Theology’ not liberation theology, God’s theology liberates us first from ourselves and then from each other so that we can have better relationship with Him! This statement of the ‘last prophet’ puts him immediately at odds with ‘his Muslim brothers’ because Mohammed was the last prophet. Anything other than this is blasphemy to them! Jesus did not speak for God he being God spoke as God.
“When you read the entire passage from either Isaiah 61 or Luke 4 (vs.18-19 of Luke, Jesus is reading Isaiah 61 in Nazareth at temple) and do not try to understand the passage or the content of the passage in the context of a sound bite, what you see is God's desire for a radical change in a social order that has gone sour.”
Jesus was revolutionary in that the religion of the day was nothing like God wanted it to be. So Jesus being fully man and fully God went about reorganizing religion by abandoning the traditions of man and establishing relationship with God a personal God. This passage is about rejection of the Christ not about a new social order. That however is coming with the establishment of God’s Kingdom on earth! This is about the Year of the Lords favor on his people.
“To say, "I am a Christian" is not enough. Why? Because the Christianity of the slaveholder is not the Christianity of the slave. The God to whom the slaveholders pray as they ride on the decks of the slave ship is not the God to whom the enslaved are praying as they ride beneath the decks on that slave ship.”
God is God of all or none! The slaves were animists and worshipped nature and spirits, they did not pray to the Judeo-Christian concept of God (that does not mean God did not hear their cries). The slave owners were men who with an understanding of Scripture found no condemnation for slavery or ownership of slaves. Rather there are admonitions for slaves to be the best slaves they can be so as to win their masters over to Christ! The men who abused slaves and treated them as property have to stand before the Throne even as you and I will one day and give an account for every word and deed! To use the Dr. Wrights reasoning the Germans did not pray to the same God during WWII. He will have to show me how that works’ in light of Scripture.
“Louis Farrakhan is not my enemy. He did not put me in chains. He did not put me in slavery. And he didn't make me this color.”
This is a real gem, Louis Farrakhan is the enemy of America and the “White Devils” that are here. Meaning you and me and all non-blacks! Regular Islam does not even recognize the Nation of Islam or black Muslims of America they view them as a cult. He hates whites, Jews and Christians. He hates America and wants to destroy its government because it is evil. Pastor Wright believes the government of the United States is evil and he waits for others to destroy it! He has more in common with Farrakhan than with say pastor Rod Parsley.
BEN STEIN MOVIE
Ben Stein Confronts Evolutionary Dogma in New Film.
The High Priests of Evolution are out in force some professors have actually told their students to boycott the movie just short of threatening them with lower grades! The American public is going to see just what the elite left of science and academia thinks of them!
Be warned every time you read something about a genetic reference they are off subject that is microevolution or special evolution and not what is at the center of the debate. This is about the creation of the universe and the General Theory of Evolution or Macroevolution, the Rock to Reed Theory of evolution. How matter is eternal and inorganic mater gave rise to living mater and eventually to me and us! All through random chance that defies the science of mathematics (I would love to have the odds of creation happening by the way evolutionists believe and use those odds to run a lottery). Leaving more questions then giving answers. This is about, not religious dogma but evolutionary sciencetific dogma that fails the baloney detector test (named by Carl Sagan). If we point our baloney detectors at the lies perpetrated on our children in the name of science education and the promotion of the evolutionary theory, they would be going off regularly and off the scale! The movie engages in a style more credible than Michale Moore and with far greater due diligence in the accuracy and facts department!
I personally challenge every science teacher every professor of any discipline to see this movie and try it with a mind that works like a parachute, works best when open! Lastly I would ask any student to go see this and discuss this with your parents and science teachers.
The High Priests of Evolution are out in force some professors have actually told their students to boycott the movie just short of threatening them with lower grades! The American public is going to see just what the elite left of science and academia thinks of them!
Be warned every time you read something about a genetic reference they are off subject that is microevolution or special evolution and not what is at the center of the debate. This is about the creation of the universe and the General Theory of Evolution or Macroevolution, the Rock to Reed Theory of evolution. How matter is eternal and inorganic mater gave rise to living mater and eventually to me and us! All through random chance that defies the science of mathematics (I would love to have the odds of creation happening by the way evolutionists believe and use those odds to run a lottery). Leaving more questions then giving answers. This is about, not religious dogma but evolutionary sciencetific dogma that fails the baloney detector test (named by Carl Sagan). If we point our baloney detectors at the lies perpetrated on our children in the name of science education and the promotion of the evolutionary theory, they would be going off regularly and off the scale! The movie engages in a style more credible than Michale Moore and with far greater due diligence in the accuracy and facts department!
I personally challenge every science teacher every professor of any discipline to see this movie and try it with a mind that works like a parachute, works best when open! Lastly I would ask any student to go see this and discuss this with your parents and science teachers.
TO SPANK OR NOT TO SPANK?
To spank or not to spank that is the question!
Spanking has again come to the political forefront in California, where members of the California Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 5-2 on Tuesday to advance the bill that would define the use of switches (rods, rulers etc.) or paddles (brushes, cricket paddles, boat paddles, etc.) to be ‘child abuse’ and subject anyone convicted under the statute to face a possible year in jail. Bill, AB 2943, is sponsored by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View).
First off think of the complicated legal issues involved: Religious rights of the parents to discipline their children according to religious traditions, just the plain rights of our traditions of raising and disciplining our children as we see fit as parents, abuse of the system by children falsely accusing their parents of this, and the burdening of an already exhaustive system of foster care and social workers who will now have to let more fall through the cracks unless the taxpayers supply more funds to hire a lot more workers to handle this new source of cases! Not to mention all the legal work on both sides of the issue. Attorneys win again! But this all boils down to the fundamental right of the parent to choose how to raise their children. Look Dr. Spock screwed the pooch with his techniques, we have gotten fundamentally worse generations of poorly disciplined children who have not just no respect for authority but down right contempt for it.
Parents who abuse their children need to be prosecuted under our current laws but that is only part of the issue. Because growing up today many parents have not been exposed to proper discipline techniques and so when they try to administer this they fail not knowing proper boundaries they become abusive. Then there are those who are genuinely abusive because of how they were treated in their past. And lastly there are those who just outright choose to be abusive because it feeds their needs for domination and control along with violence.
As a Psychologist and member of the American Association of Christian Counselors I can tell you there are times when children need physical punishment to reinforce the appropriate behavior. I have raised 3 sons to adult hood and the number of times I have had to apply physical punishment to each has been less than ten times to each. This was not started until the age of reason 7 years old 2nd grade approximately. I never lashed out in anger but ritualized the spanking so that they had a clear understanding of why it was happening. Without understanding it is an exercise in futility! Moreover without some self-imposed boundaries it could easily lead to abuse. It was always done in the same room and by the same devise the number of strokes was determined by the breach of the rules never to exceed 5 ever! Ritualizing the process then gives control to the situation and can keep it from being very ugly. Further just the threat of the exercise could ward off future episodes this is know as a deterrent! Lastly I never just concluded the exercise with leaving the room! I would hug them and sit and talk about why this happened and how to avoid it in the future. They understood that I was operating out of love for them and wanting them to grow up with a good character, knowing that there are rules and consequences for breaking them. Ivan Bosky and the Enron execs should have had this lesson drilled into them and possibly they would not have defrauded people out of their life savings! I say possibly because people still make choices and even if they were raised to know better does not mean they will always choose the right way! But by discipline administered in love you can start them on the right path!
Spanking has again come to the political forefront in California, where members of the California Assembly's Public Safety Committee voted 5-2 on Tuesday to advance the bill that would define the use of switches (rods, rulers etc.) or paddles (brushes, cricket paddles, boat paddles, etc.) to be ‘child abuse’ and subject anyone convicted under the statute to face a possible year in jail. Bill, AB 2943, is sponsored by Assemblywoman Sally Lieber (D-Mountain View).
First off think of the complicated legal issues involved: Religious rights of the parents to discipline their children according to religious traditions, just the plain rights of our traditions of raising and disciplining our children as we see fit as parents, abuse of the system by children falsely accusing their parents of this, and the burdening of an already exhaustive system of foster care and social workers who will now have to let more fall through the cracks unless the taxpayers supply more funds to hire a lot more workers to handle this new source of cases! Not to mention all the legal work on both sides of the issue. Attorneys win again! But this all boils down to the fundamental right of the parent to choose how to raise their children. Look Dr. Spock screwed the pooch with his techniques, we have gotten fundamentally worse generations of poorly disciplined children who have not just no respect for authority but down right contempt for it.
Parents who abuse their children need to be prosecuted under our current laws but that is only part of the issue. Because growing up today many parents have not been exposed to proper discipline techniques and so when they try to administer this they fail not knowing proper boundaries they become abusive. Then there are those who are genuinely abusive because of how they were treated in their past. And lastly there are those who just outright choose to be abusive because it feeds their needs for domination and control along with violence.
As a Psychologist and member of the American Association of Christian Counselors I can tell you there are times when children need physical punishment to reinforce the appropriate behavior. I have raised 3 sons to adult hood and the number of times I have had to apply physical punishment to each has been less than ten times to each. This was not started until the age of reason 7 years old 2nd grade approximately. I never lashed out in anger but ritualized the spanking so that they had a clear understanding of why it was happening. Without understanding it is an exercise in futility! Moreover without some self-imposed boundaries it could easily lead to abuse. It was always done in the same room and by the same devise the number of strokes was determined by the breach of the rules never to exceed 5 ever! Ritualizing the process then gives control to the situation and can keep it from being very ugly. Further just the threat of the exercise could ward off future episodes this is know as a deterrent! Lastly I never just concluded the exercise with leaving the room! I would hug them and sit and talk about why this happened and how to avoid it in the future. They understood that I was operating out of love for them and wanting them to grow up with a good character, knowing that there are rules and consequences for breaking them. Ivan Bosky and the Enron execs should have had this lesson drilled into them and possibly they would not have defrauded people out of their life savings! I say possibly because people still make choices and even if they were raised to know better does not mean they will always choose the right way! But by discipline administered in love you can start them on the right path!
Subject 1967 vs 2007
JUST FOR A LAUGH
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes
to his own car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock-down, and FBI is called. Jack is 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.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
best friends.
2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested
and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
Principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class
again.
2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with A. D. D. and given huge doses of
Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from State
because Jeffrey has a learning disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his dad gives him
a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in
foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist convinces Billy's sister
that she remembers being abused herself, and their dad goes to prison.
Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark has a headache and brings some aspirin to school.
1967 - Mark takes aspirin in lunchroom and headache goes away.
2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug
violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails English in high school.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2007 - 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 is
given a 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, and blows up a fire ant hill.
1967 - Ants die.
2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security,
and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are removed from home; computers are
confiscated. Johnny's dad goes on 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 who hugs him to comfort
him.
1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Teacher is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
She faces three years in state prison. Johnny undergoes five years of
therapy.
Scenario: Jack goes quail hunting before school, pulls into school
parking lot with shotgun in gun rack.
1967 - Vice principal comes over to look at Jack's shotgun. He goes
to his own car and gets his shotgun to show Jack.
2007 - School goes into lock-down, and FBI is called. Jack is 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.
1967 - Crowd gathers. Mark wins. Johnny and Mark shake hands and end up
best friends.
2007 - Police called. SWAT team arrives. Johnny and Mark are arrested
and charged with assault. Both are expelled even though Johnny started it.
Scenario: Jeffrey won't be still in class, disrupts other students.
1967 - Jeffrey sent to office and given a good paddling by the
Principal. He returns to class, sits still, and does not disrupt class
again.
2007 - Jeffrey is diagnosed with A. D. D. and given huge doses of
Ritalin. Becomes a zombie. School gets extra money from State
because Jeffrey has a learning disability.
Scenario: Billy breaks a window in his neighbor's car and his dad gives him
a whipping with his belt.
1967 - Billy is more careful next time, grows up normal, goes to
college, and becomes a successful businessman.
2007 - Billy's dad is arrested for child abuse. Billy is placed in
foster care and joins a gang. State psychologist convinces Billy's sister
that she remembers being abused herself, and their dad goes to prison.
Billy's mom has affair with psychologist.
Scenario: Mark has a headache and brings some aspirin to school.
1967 - Mark takes aspirin in lunchroom and headache goes away.
2007 - Police called. Mark is expelled from school for drug
violations. Car is searched for drugs and weapons.
Scenario: Pedro fails English in high school.
1967 - Pedro goes to summer school, passes English, and goes to college.
2007 - 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 is
given a 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, and blows up a fire ant hill.
1967 - Ants die.
2007 - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, Homeland Security,
and FBI called. Johnny is charged with domestic terrorism. The FBI
investigates parents; siblings are removed from home; computers are
confiscated. Johnny's dad goes on 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 who hugs him to comfort
him.
1967 - In a short time, Johnny feels better and goes on playing.
2007 - Teacher is accused of being a sexual predator and loses her job.
She faces three years in state prison. Johnny undergoes five years of
therapy.
FYI WAR WITH IRAN
AAP News---This just released, War with Iran imminent! All U.S. to back the President in humanitarian efforts to liberate homosexuals. While the Iranian President says; “there are none” we know better says Senator Clinton! Military recruiters in San Francisco and LA have lines 200 deep.
Barbara Strisand to organize the USO and run it with Rosie O’Donnell. Their focus will be on local shows and bathhouses, er, I mean canteens. Once bases are established in Iran they will take their show on the road, Bette Middler and Barry Manilow to direct and produce the show. The most devastating news is that they are calling a halt to the election until President Bush can make good on his commitment to free the Gay Muslims!
Ok! Ok! So it sounds ridicules right well so does “Iran is not a threat to us” and “we should not make them angry because the rest of the world will attack us.” What we should do is make Iran a parking lot! If we had done that in 1979 we would not have had to deal with this now. Just like Joshua’s failure to obey God and put all to the sword in Canaan we would have had no Hamas, no Arafat, and very probably no oil crisis and maybe no Muslims at all! Now wouldn’t that be special!
Barbara Strisand to organize the USO and run it with Rosie O’Donnell. Their focus will be on local shows and bathhouses, er, I mean canteens. Once bases are established in Iran they will take their show on the road, Bette Middler and Barry Manilow to direct and produce the show. The most devastating news is that they are calling a halt to the election until President Bush can make good on his commitment to free the Gay Muslims!
Ok! Ok! So it sounds ridicules right well so does “Iran is not a threat to us” and “we should not make them angry because the rest of the world will attack us.” What we should do is make Iran a parking lot! If we had done that in 1979 we would not have had to deal with this now. Just like Joshua’s failure to obey God and put all to the sword in Canaan we would have had no Hamas, no Arafat, and very probably no oil crisis and maybe no Muslims at all! Now wouldn’t that be special!
ETHICAL DILEMMA
Here is an ethical dilemma faced regularly by the medical profession. It comes up in class often (philosophy/ethics). This along with the pharmacist who will not issue birth control drugs, the doctor that has to enforce a DNR and the ultimate in ethical problematics’ abortion. Read the following and search your beliefs.
In September 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."
But what about if the baby had been aborted at a younger age… say 6 weeks? When the baby is this young, doctors use the Saline Method, where they inject a salty saline solution into the mother's womb. You would think it would just poison the baby, but it actually burns it to death. Even though the baby is so young, on ultrasounds of the abortion, the fetus (aka the BABY) is seen pulling away from the poison as it is injected obviously wanting to stay alive. The baby is sentient enough to move away from the pain but the child can't escape it! Think about that before you say that unborn children can't feel pain.
Life is life, no matter how small. A baby cries for it's first and last time when it's murdered (aborted)! If you are responsible enough to have sex, you are responsible enough to carry the baby. Even if you adopt it out.
If it's not a baby, then you are NOT pregnant!
In September 1993, Brenda Pratt Shafer, a registered nurse with thirteen years of experience, was assigned by her nursing agency to an abortion clinic. Since Nurse Shafer considered herself "very pro-choice," she didn't think this assignment would be a problem. She was wrong. This is what Nurse Shafer saw:
"I stood at the doctor's side and watched him perform a partial-birth abortion on a woman who was six months pregnant. The baby's heartbeat was clearly visible on the ultrasound screen. The doctor delivered the baby's body and arms, everything but his little head. The baby's body was moving. His little fingers were clasping together. He was kicking his feet. The doctor took a pair of scissors and inserted them into the back of the baby's head, and the baby's arms jerked out in a flinch, a startle reaction, like a baby does when he thinks that he might fall. Then the doctor opened the scissors up. Then he stuck the high-powered suction tube into the hole and sucked the baby's brains out. Now the baby was completely limp. I never went back to the clinic. But I am still haunted by the face of that little boy. It was the most perfect, angelic face I have ever seen."
But what about if the baby had been aborted at a younger age… say 6 weeks? When the baby is this young, doctors use the Saline Method, where they inject a salty saline solution into the mother's womb. You would think it would just poison the baby, but it actually burns it to death. Even though the baby is so young, on ultrasounds of the abortion, the fetus (aka the BABY) is seen pulling away from the poison as it is injected obviously wanting to stay alive. The baby is sentient enough to move away from the pain but the child can't escape it! Think about that before you say that unborn children can't feel pain.
Life is life, no matter how small. A baby cries for it's first and last time when it's murdered (aborted)! If you are responsible enough to have sex, you are responsible enough to carry the baby. Even if you adopt it out.
If it's not a baby, then you are NOT pregnant!
QUESTIONS FOR OBAMA
In Ohio on Sunday, before mentioning the Sermon on the Mount, Obama insisted he was against "gay marriage" and did not mention his support for allowing same-sex couples to adopt children and have the same "family" status as heterosexual couples.
Obama published on his Web site an "open letter concerning LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) equality in America.
Obama published on his Web site an "open letter concerning LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender) equality in America.
