tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48463193648293661122024-02-19T14:48:33.098-08:00{^_^} Aurally Wasted {^_^}What the bang dang diddly is goin on?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comBlogger126125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-81917485282930309532020-08-31T12:26:00.003-07:002020-08-31T12:26:48.598-07:0012 Questions For 12 Steps<h1 style="background: rgb(249, 249, 249); color: #323436; font-family: Museo500Regular; font-size: 30px; font-weight: 400; line-height: 1.5; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
Is A.A. For You?</h1>
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Twelve questions only you can answer</h2>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">IS A.A. FOR YOU?</span><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Only you can decide whether you want to give A.A.a try —<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />whether you think it can help you.</span></div>
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We who are in A.A. came because we finally gave up trying to control our drinking. We still hated to admit that we could never drink safely. Then we heard from other A.A. members that we were sick. (We thought so for years!) We found out that many people suffered from the same feelings of guilt and loneliness and hopelessness that we did. We found out that we had these feelings because we had the disease of alcoholism.<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />We decided to try and face up to what alcohol had done to us. Here are some of the questions we tried to answer <em style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">honestly.</em> If we answered YES to four or more questions, we were in deep trouble with our drinking. See how you do. Remember, there is no disgrace in facing up to the fact that you have a problem.</div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />1 – Have you ever decided to stop drinking for a week or so, but only lasted for a couple of days?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Most of us in A.A. made all kinds of promises to ourselves and to our families. We could not keep them. Then we came to A.A. A.A. said: “Just try not to drink today.” (If you do not drink today, you cannot get drunk today.)</span><div style="background: transparent; margin-bottom: 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />2 – Do you wish people would mind their own business about your drinking– stop telling you what to do?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />In A.A. we do not tell anyone to do anything. We just talk about our own drinking, the trouble we got into, and how we stopped. We will be glad to help you, if you want us to.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />3 – Have you ever switched from one kind of drink to another in the hope that this would keep you from getting drunk?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />We tried all kinds of ways. We made our drinks weak. Or just drank beer. Or we did not drink cocktails. Or only drank on weekends. You name it, we tried it. But if we drank anything with alcohol in it, we usually got drunk eventually.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />4 – Have you had to have an eye-opener upon awakening during the past year?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Do you need a drink to get started, or to stop shaking? This is a pretty sure sign that you are not drinking “socially.”</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />5 – Do you envy people who can drink without getting into trouble?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />At one time or another, most of us have wondered why we were not like most people, who really can take it or leave it.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />6 – Have you had problems connected with drinking during the past year?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Be honest! Doctors say that if you have a problem with alcohol and keep on drinking, it will get worse — never better. Eventually, you will die, or end up in an institution for the rest of your life. The only hope is to stop drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />7 – Has your drinking caused trouble at home?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Before we came into A.A., most of us said that it was the people or problems at home that made us drink. We could not see that our drinking just made everything worse. It never solved problems anywhere or anytime.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />8 – Do you ever try to get “extra” drinks at a party because you do not get enough?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Most of us used to have a “few” before we started out if we thought it was going to be that kind of party. And if drinks were not served fast enough, we would go some place else to get more.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />9 – Do you tell yourself you can stop drinking any time you want to, even though you keep getting drunk when you don’t mean to?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Many of us kidded ourselves into thinking that we drank because we wanted to. After we came into A.A., we found out that once we started to drink, we couldn’t stop.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />10 – Have you missed days of work or school because of drinking?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Many of us admit now that we “called in sick” lots of times when the truth was that we were hung-over or on a drunk.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />11 – Do you have “blackouts”?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />A “blackout” is when we have been drinking hours or days which we cannot remember. When we came to A.A., we found out that this is a pretty sure sign of alcoholic drinking.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />12 – Have you ever felt that your life would be better if you did not drink?<br style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" />Many of us started to drink because drinking made life seem better, at least for a while. By the time we got into A.A., we felt trapped. We were drinking to live and living to drink. We were sick and tired of being sick and tired.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Did you answer YES four or more times? If so, you are probably in trouble with alcohol. Why do we say this? Because thousands of people in A.A. have said so for many years. They found out the truth about themselves — the hard way. But again, only <em style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">you</em> can decide whether you think A.A. is for you. Try to keep an open mind on the subject. If the answer is YES, we will be glad to show you how we stopped drinking ourselves. Just call. A.A. does not promise to solve your life’s problems. But we can show you how we are learning to live without drinking “one day at a time.” We stay away from that “first drink.” If there is no first one, there cannot be a tenth one. And when we got rid of alcohol, we found that life became much more manageable.</span></div>
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<span style="background: transparent; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><em style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS© </em>is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from alcoholism.</span></div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-30422126803900873052019-04-03T10:38:00.003-07:002020-06-23T15:21:28.798-07:00Another JWhttps://youtu.be/8Tyg5SJDpiQ<br />
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">His partner says, “Ya know, I’d heerd of that there ‘Hind Lick Maneuver’ but I ain’t niver seen nobody do it!”</span></div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-62329154080905611282017-02-05T14:10:00.003-08:002017-02-05T14:18:12.811-08:00The Greatest Generation Speaks<div class="yiv3751165059signature" id="yiv3751165059yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1486319475893_2506" style="-webkit-padding-start: 0px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">
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1) We have abandoned our God and worship Baal.<br />
2) The filth and criminality of Party Politics.<br />
3) Perverted educational standards.<br />
4) Glorification or acceptance of premarital sex with the resultant unwanted pregnancies.<br />
5) Gratuitous sex in movies, advertisements and pornography.<br />
6) Lack of Parental guidance and setting of standards.<br />
7) Lack of Patriotism.<br />
8) Total unawareness of our Founding standards.<br />
9) Lack of Character.<br />
10) Lack of Loyalty.<br />
11) Lack of Courtesy.<br />
12) Lack of Thrift.<br />
13) Lack of Cleanliness.<br />
14) Lack of Morality. .<br />
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A suggested remedy; A mandatory requirement -- Two (2) years of military service directly out of high school in a Combat Branch! There these crybabies will learn Discipline, Cleanliness, Morality, Teamwork, numerous skills and a loyalty to God and Country.<br />
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Dr. Thomas E. Davis, Colonel, USA (Ret)<br />
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GOD BLESS AMERICA! Amen<br />
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-2738219831742206782017-01-16T11:14:00.004-08:002017-02-07T11:29:47.661-08:00Hail Mary, Mother of God<div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">Charity Hospital run by the Sisters of Charity in New Orleans, along with the Upjohn company developed the plasma system in the 1930's tha<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">t saved so many lives in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and in the middle east now.<br />During the Civil War most of the nurses were nuns.<br />Even if you are not Catholic, this is eye opening:<br />When the Catholic Church was founded, there were no hospitals.<br />Today, one out of five people in this country receive their medical care at a Catholic hospital.<br />When the Catholic Church was founded, there were no schools. Today, the Catholic Church teaches 3 million students a day, in its more than 250 Catholic Colleges and Universities, in its more than 1200 Catholic High Schools, and its more than 5000 Catholic grade schools.<br />Every day, the Catholic Church feeds, clothes, shelters and educates more people than any other organization in the world.<br />The new Obama Health Mandate could end all this and the tax payers would have to make up the loss.<br />Also, all Catholic adoption services will come to an end…a human disaster.<br />There are more than 77 million Catholics in this country. It takes an estimated 50 million Catholic votes to elect a president.<br />I am asking all of you to go to the polls in 2016 and be united in replacing all Senators and Reps with someone who will respect the Catholic Church, all Christians, and all Religions with perhaps the exception of Islam.<br />Mr. President, you said, "The USA is not a Christian Nation". You are wrong - we are a Christian Nation founded on Judeo-Christian values allowing all religions in America to worship and practice freely... something that Islam will never do.<br />Oh, by the way, on MUSLIM HERITAGE IN America .... Have you ever been to a Muslim hospital, heard a Muslim orchestra, seen a Muslim band march in a parade, know of a Muslim charity, ever seen Muslims shaking hands with a Muslim Girl Scout, or ever seen a Muslim Candy Striper volunteering in a hospital?<br />Have you ever seen a Muslim do much of anything that contributes positively to the American way of life?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">Let's circulate this to as many as possible. And remember the<br />
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One more note.....in every church or synagogue I have ever been in in the United States, I have always seen an American flag.<br />
No mosque in the United States carries an American flag!...</span></div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-19229205561557681662016-07-11T16:57:00.000-07:002016-07-11T16:57:30.118-07:00 Arabic Christians were already referring to God as Allah<div class="_1dwg _1w_m" style="padding: 12px 12px 0px;">
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CAN MUSLIMS BE GOOD AMERICANS?<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;"><br />This is very interesting and we all need to read it from start to finish. And send it on to everyone. Maybe this is why our American Muslims are so quiet and not speaking out about any atrocities.</span></div>
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Can a good Muslim be a good American?<br />
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Scripturally - no. Because his allegiance is to the five Pillars of Islam and the Quran.</div>
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Socially - no. Because his allegiance to Islam forbids him to make friends with Christians or Jews.</div>
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Politically - no. Because he must submit to the mullahs (spiritual leaders), who teach annihilation of Israel and destruction of America, the great Satan.</div>
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Domestically - no. Because he is instructed to marry four women and beat and scourge his wife when she disobeys him. (Quran 4:34)</div>
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Philosophically - no. Because Islam, Muhammad, and the Quran do not allow freedom of religion and expression. Democracy and Islam cannot co-exist. Every Muslim government is either dictatorial or autocratic.</div>
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Spiritually - no. Because when we declare 'one nation under God,' The Christian's God is loving and kind, while Allah is NEVER referred to as Heavenly father, nor is he ever called love in the Quran's 99 excellent names.</div>
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Therefore, after much study and deliberation...Perhaps we should be very suspicious of ALL MUSLIMS in this country. They obviously cannot be both 'good' Muslims and 'good' Americans. Call it what you wish, it's still the truth. You had better believe it. The more who understand this, the better it will be for our country and our future.</div>
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The religious war is bigger than we know or understand!</div>
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The Muslims have said they will destroy us from within.</div>
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SO FREEDOM IS NOT FREE.</div>
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1) Before Tuesday<br />
2) After Wednesday<br />
3) Someone not Islamic enough<br />
4) Someone too Islamic, but not their kind of Islamic<br />
5) Gay, Straight or Undecided<br />
6) Someone drew a picture of something that was offensive<br />
7) Video on Youtube<br />
8) Global Warming<br />
9) Trump<br />
10) Not Hillary<br />
11) Israel<br />
12) Just one of the days when things go Boom<br />
13) 153 hours since last senseless Islamic killing or slaughter<br />
14) Burqa Lives Kind of Matter</div>
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The mass shooting terrorist <a href="http://conservativetribune.com/rush-sick-goal-orlando/" style="background: transparent; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">attack in Orlando</a> has been discussed endlessly by the liberal media for weeks now, but you probably didn’t hear about another mass shooting that occurred this past weekend in South Carolina.</div>
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Why didn’t you hear about it? Well, because it was promptly stopped by a concealed carrier who used his gun to take out the bad guy before he could kill anybody.</div>
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According to the <a href="http://www.goupstate.com/article/20160627/ARTICLES/160629757/-1/wire?Title=Lyman-man-charged-following-shooting-at-nightclub" id="yui_3_17_2_1_1467394941856_515" style="background: transparent; color: #0088cc; outline: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Spartanburg Herlad-Journal</a>, the incident happened in the early hours of Sunday morning in Lyman, South Carolina. Jody Ray Thompson, a 32-year-old Lyman resident, allegedly got into a verbal confrontation with another man outside the Playoffz nightclub at about 3:30.</div>
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Thompson quickly decided to escalate the verbal altercation, firing at random into the crowd and hitting three people. One of the men who was shot at, however, had a concealed carry license. He fired back at Thompson, wounding him in the leg and stopping his rampage.</div>
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Of the three people who were hit, only one was seriously injured — Renada Shantrice Irby, 34, who had one of the bullets lodged in her pelvis.</div>
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According to <a href="http://bearingarms.com/bob-o/2016/06/29/concealed-carrier-just-stopped-mass-shooting-night-club-media-remained-silent/" style="background: transparent; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Bearing Arms</a>, Thompson had a criminal record dating back to 2003 and should not have legally had a gun. But apparently, gun control didn’t keep this criminal from getting it.</div>
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Shocking, right?</div>
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Meanwhile, liberals have been trying to take guns away from people like the man who ended this mass shooting, legal gun owners who <a href="http://conservativetribune.com/brad-pitt-pro-gun/" style="background: transparent; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">want to defend themselves</a>.</div>
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The media is along for the ride. That’s why the fact that a potential Orlando-style mass shooting, minus the terrorist motivation, isn’t being covered — because a <a href="http://conservativetribune.com/bill-costing-gun-owners/" style="background: transparent; color: #0088cc; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">legal gun owner</a> was able to stop it.</div>
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If the media wants to pretend that they cover both sides of the story, then what happened in Lyman, South Carolina, needs to be reported. It shows just how important the Second Amendment is to protecting ourselves as a people.</div>
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If someone like this man had been at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, maybe there wouldn’t be 49 dead people.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">This summer, if someone would like to send me a package while I am on the road this summer, you can send it general delivery with the US Postal Service, and they will hold the package at the post office for us to pick up. You need to address the package to :</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">June 6th: Blacksburg, VA 24062</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">July 1st: Larned, KS 67550</span></div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-90070337310990680422016-05-26T13:32:00.003-07:002016-05-26T13:32:58.180-07:00Yippy, Dippy Weatherman<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
A Message by George Carlin:<br />The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller<br />buildings but shorter tempers, wider Freeways,</div>
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but narrower viewpoints. We spend more, but have less, we<br />buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families,<br />more conveniences, but less time.</div>
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We have more degrees but less sense, more<br />knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more<br />medicine, but less wellness</div>
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We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,<br />drive too fast, get too angry, stay up too late, get up too<br />tired, read too little, watch TV too much, and pray too seldom.</div>
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We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values.<br />We talk too much, love too seldom, and hate too often.<br />We've learned how to make a living, but not a life.</div>
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We've added years to life not life to years. We've been all<br />the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing<br />the street to meet a new neighbor.</div>
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We conquered outer space but not inner space. We've done<br />larger things, but not better things.</div>
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We've cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul.</div>
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We've conquered the atom, but not our prejudice. We write<br />more, but learn less. We plan more, but accomplish less.</div>
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We've learned to rush, but not to wait. We build more computers<br />to hold more info rmation, to produce more copies than ever,<br />but we communicate less and less.</div>
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These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion, big<br />men and small character, steep profits and shallow relationships. These<br />are the days of two incomes but more divorce, fancier houses, but broken<br />homes. These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, throwaway<br />morality, one night stands, overweight bodies,<br />and pills that do everything from cheer, to quiet, to kill.</div>
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It is a time when there is much in the showroom window and<br />nothing in the stockroom. A time when technology can bring<br />this letter to you, and a time when you can choose either to share<br />this insight, or to just hit delete...Remember; spend some time with your<br />loved ones, because they are not to be around forever.</div>
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Remember, say a kind word to someone who looks up to you in<br />awe, because that little person soon will grow up and leave your side.</div>
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Remember, to give a warm hug to the one next to you, because<br />that is the only treasure you can give with your heart and it doesn't<br />cost a cent.</div>
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Remember, to say, 'I love you' to your partner and your<br />loved ones, but most of all mean it. A kiss and an embrace<br />will mend hurt when it comes from deep inside of you.</div>
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Remember to hold hands and cherish the moment for someday<br />that person will not be there again.</div>
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Give time to love, give time to speak! And give time to<br />share the precious thoughts in your mind.</div>
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<br />AND ALWAYS REMEMBER:</div>
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<br />Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but<br />by the moments that take our breath away.</div>
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If you don't send this to at least 8 people....Who cares?</div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-77449367380069387672016-05-23T07:14:00.001-07:002016-05-23T07:14:03.972-07:00Homestead<div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: SourceSansProRegular, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 21px; line-height: 33.6px; margin-bottom: 35.5px; padding: 0px 185px;">
Lest you doubt me, consider how MTV recently found that nearly 90 percent of Millennials oppose affirmative action! Three in four Millennials also told MTV that they believe it would be more productive for society to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">stop </em>considering race altogether. HUD is clearly behind the times, writing new housing rules that pretend first-time home buyers face an epic level of racism. If anything, our youngest home buyers are ready to move on and fully embrace the principle our country was founded upon: equality.</div>
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By ceding property rights, which stem from our individual personhood, to the federal government, we would be saying that we are <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">not </em>equal to our neighbor. Worse, we would be saying that we—or our neighbor—need an artificial boost from a blustering bureaucrat in order to walk shoulder-to-shoulder. What a farce.</div>
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Let’s take a tip from Millennials and tell Congress, and the Republican presidential nominee, to respect our private property rights.</div>
d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-65790142209978361972016-05-22T08:31:00.001-07:002016-05-22T08:31:24.509-07:00....when pigs fly<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: georgia, 'times new roman', serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 25px; margin-bottom: 15px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
ed Nugent just brought to light one important detail that I guarantee none of these Islamic terrorists have even considered. In the Islamic religion, pork and pork products are forbidden because the pig is considered an impure animal. In a Facebook post Ted writes…</div>
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Chimps & pigs, a match made in hell. ES&D voodooallahpukes.</div>
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Percy the pig makes for an extremely interesting read. I never knew pigs were in most products!!</div>
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Every Muslim who has ever handled TNT, Nitro, Bullets, High Explosive Bombs, Rocket Launchers or been treated for cuts injury requiring stitches, or taken antibiotics, or Vitamin Capsules, has been contaminated with Pig Products.</div>
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The ironical part is that when a Suicide Bomber blows himself up his body parts are impregnated with Gelatine and Glycerine from the explosive. Both Gelatine and Glycerine are manufactured from Pigs worldwide.. Ergo, they will never be accepted by Allah.</div>
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Some makers of cigarettes use haemoglobin from pig’s blood in their filters. Apparently this element works as a sort of ‘artificial lung’ in the cigarette so, they claim, ‘harmful reactions take place before the chemicals reach the user’, (enter the Pig.)</div>
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There is no legal obligation for manufacturers to specify whether the gelatine they use is from a pig or another animal. When it is specified, it is often confusingly referred to as Suilline gelatine.<br />So to all prospective Suicide Bombers, ISIS and innocent, good Muslims, I say, “Have a Nice Day” from “Percy” the wonderful Pig.</div>
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<i>“…be not conformed to this world; but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind…”</i></div>
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The depth & scope of this kind of renewal should rock your world, if you understand the absolute need for it.<br />
On its surface, this exhortation seems to be saying that we need to learn to think differently, in order to escape becoming a ‘bad person’. But the impact of one’s mind eventually NOT being renewed, can be fuel for so much worse than that.<br />
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According to this Scripture, people are either ‘conformed’ or ‘transformed’. I would suggest that either one or the other <b>is </b>eventually going to tip the scales. I would also suggest that we are probably constantly being conformed, without even realizing it. So that just as LifeLock@ safeguards a person’s data identity in cyberspace, we need Someone to constantly safeguard our true life & identity in spiritual space – in Christ.<br />
That which is formed in the spirit will often manifest in the temporal, visible real – either as something good, something apparently good, or something evil. So<i> that to which we are conformed </i>is critical, at the deepest & most minute level, because it may reproduce in various ways & forms, and in same cases exponentially. (I am talking globally here.)<br />
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…so the world/earth is inhabited by people, the same people who are being conformed or transformed as we speak. It stands to reason, then, that our environments will be influenced accordingly.<br />
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<i>“If a ruler hearkens to lies, all his servants are wicked.” </i>(Proverbs 29:12)</div>
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…so suppose that there is in place a president or a prime minister who ‘hearkens to lies’ – because throughout their life, they were ‘conformed’. This does not bode well for the climate thus created by his staff & subordinates, according to the above Scripture. Unless there is present within that group some who were ‘transformed by the renewing of {their} mind’, who will question & challenge narratives & agendas…the rest of us are going to be fed false, unhealthy information and subjected to detrimental (possibly in the extreme) laws & those things which result from these laws.<br />
At least some of the time.<br />
A way of fighting back against this system of manipulation is the renewing of your mind. Learning a different way of evaluating events, and overhauling one’s priorities & values, is a crucial weapon in this battle. Maybe THE only weapon that will yield the kind of lasting change needed in our world today.<br />
…and make no mistake, this starts with <i>you</i>.<br />
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I want to relate these ideas to globalisation.<br />
<span style="font-size: small;">According to David Icke, author of ‘Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster’, the powers behind the scenes find it relatively easy to essentially control what happens in our world. They only need to implement a few ‘key structures’. The first, says Icke, is to ‘<i>impose the ‘norms’, what is considered right and wrong, possible or impossible, sane or insane, good or bad. Most of the people will follow those ‘norms’ without question…”</i> (Enter: the media, advertising, ‘education’, certain religious practices…you get the picture…) Once a conditioning of the masses has taken place, peer pressure does the rest “…</span><a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/05/10/facebook-whistleblower-workers-routinely-censor-independent-and-conservative-news/" style="color: #902c52; text-decoration: none;"><u><span style="color: blue; font-size: small;"><span lang="EN">Facebook</span></span></u></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN"> and almost every other major social media platform are turning hundreds of millions of people into a literal “herd” or “hive” mentality, otherwise known as “Groupthink”…” <a href="http://www.dcclothesline.com/2016/05/11/super-weapon-of-new-world-order-almost-complete/" style="color: #902c52; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">explains</span> </a>Michael DePinto, attorney & contributing writer on The Last Great Stand.</span></span><br />
The imposition of the norm is then followed up by making it <i>‘very unpleasant’ </i>for those who dare to buck the system. This unpleasantness can run the gamut from ridicule to ostracization and beyond.<br />
<em>“The most effective way to do this is to ensure that it is…a crime to be different.”</em><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;">In addition to the ‘Groupthink’ agenda working to establish behavior-controlling norms, there also exists an agenda working to control our emotions. It is <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://valleywag.gawker.com/facebook-deliberately-experimented-on-your-emotions-for-1597939916" style="color: #902c52; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">reported </a></span>that</span><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN"> Facebook “can basically make you feel whatever it wants you to” and </span> <span lang="EN"> “Facebook wanted to see if it could spread feelings (“e.g., depression, happiness”) like the NIH spreads pathogens among monkeys.”</span></span><br />
(…now <i>that’s</i> not a recipe for mental health distress, is it?)<br />
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…so we can get an idea of how devious conditioning could take root & spread, even worldwide. Elements that may not have our best interests as their goal could certainly be behind such actions, seeking to more easily shape and thus control populations & world agendas. Agendas that result in our detriment to their ‘increase’, i.e., power & money.<br />
To some this logic may seem outlandish. Not to me.<br />
…and so it seems imperative that we be at least aware of this possibility, and safeguard against it. Safeguard against being unwittingly sucked into the maelstrom of manipulations & opinions, and become shaped accordingly, to our loss. There are many paths and many ways that can be taken in this life, but you want to find & take the right One.<br />
<em>“…for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there which go in thereat…”</em> (Matthew 7:13) (Groupthink? Globalism? World system? New World Order? )<br />
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Jesus said, <em>“I am the Way, the Truth and the Life”.</em> Not <i>a</i> way. <b><i>THE</i> </b>Way<b>.</b> That way is narrow, but it leads to life (Matthew 7:14). I have read that there is, in fact, only room for Jesus and you in that narrow Way. This does not mean that a person has to become a monk! Jesus Himself did pray to the Father, that He did not ask for His people to be taken out of the world (but rather to be protected from the evil one {Groupthink? Globalism? World system? New World Order?} )…so don’t misunderstand the concept of being tight with Jesus Christ! But it behooves any one of us to turn to Him to find and enter the narrow Way that leads to Life, and to the<em>“so great salvation”</em> that is our escape (Hebrews 2:3).<br />
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Messianic Rabbi at U.S. Capitol: Where Did Supreme Court Get Authority To ‘Strike Down’ God’s Law on Marriage?</h1>
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At a Christian prayer event in the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall, Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn said Israel and America were founded on “God’s calling” but that America today is driving God “out of its public squares,” and that in legalizing homosexual “marriage,” the Supreme Court had overruled “the laws of the Almighty.”</div>
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Rabbi Kahn added that in celebrating that ruling by illuminating the White House in the colors of the gay rainbow, President Barack Obama took the “sacred colors of God’s covenant” and turned them “against the purposes of God.”</div>
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Messianic Rabbi Jonathan Cahn made his remarks on <a href="http://washingtonamanofprayer.com/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;">Apr. 27 during the “Washington – A Man of Prayer” event, </a>where lawmakers, religious leaders, and regular citizens gather to pray in the Capitol for the nation and to honor George Washington. </div>
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“In the history of this world, only two civilizations came into existence on the solitary foundation that God’s calling and purpose was the reason,” said Rabbi Cahn. “The first was Israel, the second was America.”</div>
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“But as ancient Israel turned away from her God and His ways, so too has America,” he said. “The city of a hill, founded for the purpose of the glory of God, drove God out of its government, out of its culture, out of its public squares. It celebrated ungodliness and called evil good and good evil.”</div>
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“It lifted up the most innocent and helpless of its inhabitants and slaughtered them on the altars of self-obsession,” said Rabbi Cahn.</div>
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“The last time we gathered here on this hill, was the day after the Supreme Court heard the case to decide the future of marriage in this nation,” he said.</div>
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“Two months after we gathered here, America’s highest court struck down the order of God, and the day on which it did was the ninth of Tammuz, the ancient day of mourning that commemorates the day that Israel’s hedge of protection was removed in the approach of judgment,” said the Messianic rabbi.</div>
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“And so it must be asked, this day, Supreme Court justices, where did you get the authority to overrule the rulings of the Most High?” said Rabbi Cahn. “And by what authority did you strike down the laws of the Almighty?”</div>
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“You are neither the highest court nor the final authority,” he said. “There is a supreme judge with a supreme justice that does not sleep forever."</div>
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Commenting further on the government’s push to legalize homosexual marriage, Rabbi Cahn said, "And Mr. President, when you assumed the office of your presidency, did you not lay your hand on the Word of God and swear before Him, 'So help me God'?”</div>
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“And yet, on the day that the Supreme Court struck down the order of God, you issued the order that the White House be illumined by the colors of the rainbow to celebrate that striking down,” he said.</div>
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“Mr. President,” Rabbi Cahn continued, “by what authority did you take the sacred colors of God's covenant, the colors of His throne, and the sign of His mercy in the face of judgment and turn them against the purposes of God and the word of God on which you swore your oath?”</div>
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Other speakers and attendees at the prayer event inside the Capitol included House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.), Sen. John Boozman (R-Ark.), and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). </div>
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As a Messianic Jew, Jonathan Cahn believes that Jesus Christ is the Messiah as foretold in the Old Testament. Rabbi Cahn runs the Beth Israel congregation in New Jersey. He is the author of the best seller <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Harbinger</em>.</div>
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According to its website, “<a href="http://washingtonamanofprayer.com/about-us/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;">Washington – A Man of Prayer</a> commemorates the events of April 30, 1789, when, after being sworn in at Federal Hall, President Washington, accompanied by Congress, proceeded to St. Paul’s Chapel where, as one of his first official acts, the president offered a prayer of dedication to God on America’s behalf.”</div>
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The prayer gathering to honor Washington takes place inside the Capitol’s Statuary Hall, “formerly the Old House Chamber, which was the location of weekly Christian church services from 1800 to 1869,” <a href="http://washingtonamanofprayer.com/about-us/" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005291; text-decoration: none;">reads the website</a>. </div>
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“It was actually the largest church on the east coast,” states the website. “Legislation allowing that use was signed into law by President Thomas Jefferson who attended there as did President Adams after him. These past three years, God has allowed us to do something that has not occurred in the Capitol’s Statuary Hall in over 100 years – a Christian led prayer event!”</div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-89843238075145666832016-03-13T14:09:00.001-07:002016-03-13T14:09:17.184-07:00Amen...Onward Christians<figure class="leadFigure " style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0015px; line-height: 24.0024px; margin: 0px 0px 1em; padding: 0px; text-align: center;"><img alt="Bishop Harry Jackson" src="http://cdn.charismanews.com/images/stories/2016/03/HarryJackson.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: 340px; margin-bottom: 0.25em; max-height: 340px; max-width: 618px; overflow: hidden; vertical-align: baseline; width: auto;" title="Bishop Harry Jackson" /><figcaption style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #444444; font-family: Oswald; font-size: 0.9em; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;">Bishop Harry Jackson calls the church to unity in the land. (<span class="figCaptionSource" style="box-sizing: border-box; font-style: italic;">Courtesy</span>)</figcaption></figure><div style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', HelveticaNeue, helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15.0015px; line-height: 24.0024px; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-top: 1em;">
Bishop Harry Jackson, co-founder of The Reconciled Church, called believers at Liberty Counsel's The Awakening event to maturity rather than a worldly agenda.</div>
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"We need a radical invasion of the person and presence of the Spirit of God," Bishop Jackson said.</div>
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At the annual event focused on the Christian and his relationship to politics, he said politics focuses on the question, "What's in it for me?"</div>
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"Everybody is voting our interests," he said at the event March 5 at Faith Assembly in Orlando, Florida. "But somewhere, we, the church, have to get to the point where we say that we are for God's agenda, the righteousness of God, and when we get to that point, we will begin to lead a healing that America has never seen before, and the greatest days of the blessing of God that He's ordained for our land will be ushered in by the church rising up in the matchless name of Jesus."</div>
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Bishop Jackson confessed to the audience that he was angry, but in anger, we are not to grieve the Spirit, he said, citing Ephesians 4:30-32. However, he said, there is a place for anger, the kind of anger that does not lead to sin but causes us to want to make a difference in the world.</div>
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"Anger is a precursor for change," he says. "I believe we're on the verge. If we could just channel our anger with righteousness into the pathways of God, we can change America for good. But it's got to be a church that says time out for business as usual, time out for doing it the way other people are saying it. But we've got to recognize that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but they're mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds."</div>
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Reflecting on the race problems in America, Bishop Jackson said we need to know that in anger, "We can reach the place of murder."</div>
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"They deal with an unresolved issue of a lack of justice in the land," he said. "And even though they understand that life and marriage are important and many of the things that all Christians would believe in, they say, 'But when are we going to get fairness? When is there going to be an equal playing field?'</div>
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"African-Americans are going to have to learn how to forgive. They're going to have to be graced by the Spirit of God to forgive. And then many of my white evangelical brothers, if we're going to have reconciliation, we are going to have to say, I am going to ask God to give me the Father's eyes to see people with a new compassion, to reach out to the wounded and to the least of these in our culture, and from a Christian perspective, I've got to get my heart right before I get my policy right. That will lead me to my vote being right, but the church is responsible for the darkness in the land because we haven't banded together enough."</div>
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Whether the tremendous war so heroically fought and so victoriously ended shall pass into history a miserable failure, barren of permanent results,—a scandalous and shocking waste of blood and treasure,—a strife for empire, as Earl Russell characterized it, of no value to liberty or civilization,—an attempt to re-establish a Union by force, which must be the merest mockery of a Union,—an effort to bring under Federal authority States into which no loyal man from the North may safely enter, and to bring men into the national councils who deliberate with daggers and vote with revolvers, and who do not even conceal their deadly hate of the country that conquered them; or whether, on the other hand, we shall, as the rightful reward of victory over treason, have a solid nation, entirely delivered from all contradictions and social antagonisms, based upon loyalty, liberty, and equality, must be determined one way or the other by the present session of Congress. The last session really did nothing which can be considered final as to these questions. The Civil Rights Bill and the Freedmen's Bureau Bill and the proposed constitutional amendments, with the amendment already adopted and recognized as the law of the land, do not reach the difficulty, and cannot, unless the whole structure of the government is changed from a government by States to something like a despotic central government, with power to control even the municipal regulations of States, and to make them conform to its own despotic will. While there remains such an idea as the right of each State to control its own local affairs,—an idea, by the way, more deeply rooted in the minds of men of all sections of the country than perhaps any one other political idea,—no general assertion of human rights can be of any practical value. To change the character of the government at this point is neither possible nor desirable. All that is necessary to be done is to make the government consistent with itself, and render the rights of the States compatible with the sacred rights of human nature.</span></section><br />
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Slavery, like all other great systems of wrong, founded in the depths of human selfishness, and existing for ages, has not neglected its own conservation. It has steadily exerted an influence upon all around it favorable to its own continuance. And to-day it is so strong that it could exist, not only without law, but even against law. Custom, manners, morals, religion, are all on its side everywhere in the South; and when you add the ignorance and servility of the ex-slave to the intelligence and accustomed authority of the master, you have the conditions, not out of which slavery will again grow, but under which it is impossible for the Federal government to wholly destroy it, unless the Federal government be armed with despotic power, to blot out State authority, and to station a Federal officer at every cross-road. This, of course, cannot be done, and ought not even if it could. The true way and the easiest way is to make our government entirely consistent with itself, and give to every loyal citizen the elective franchise,—a right and power which will be ever present, and will form a wall of fire for his protection.<br />
One of the invaluable compensations of the late Rebellion is the highly instructive disclosure it made of the true source of danger to republican government. Whatever may be tolerated in monarchical and despotic governments, no republic is safe that tolerates a privileged class, or denies to any of its citizens equal rights and equal means to maintain them. What was theory before the war has been made fact by the war.<br />
There is cause to be thankful even for rebellion. It is an impressive teacher, though a stern and terrible one. In both characters it has come to us, and it was perhaps needed in both. It is an instructor never a day before its time, for it comes only when all other means of progress and enlightenment have failed. Whether the oppressed and despairing bondman, no longer able to repress his deep yearnings for manhood, or the tyrant, in his pride and impatience, takes the initiative, and strikes the blow for a firmer hold and a longer lease of oppression, the result is the same,—society is instructed, or may be.</span></section><br />
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It is asked, said Henry Clay, on a memorable occasion, will slavery never come to an end? That question, said he, was asked fifty years ago, and it has been answered by fifty years of unprecedented prosperity. Spite of the eloquence of the earnest Abolitionists,—poured out against slavery during thirty years,—even they must confess, that, in all the probabilities of the case, that system of barbarism would have continued its horrors far beyond the limits of the nineteenth century but for the Rebellion, and perhaps only have disappeared at last in a fiery conflict, even more fierce and bloody than that which has now been suppressed.<br />
It is no disparagement to truth, that it can only prevail where reason prevails. War begins where reason ends. The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion. What that thing is, we have been taught to our cost. It remains now to be seen whether we have the needed courage to have that cause entirely removed from the Republic. At any rate, to this grand work of national regeneration and entire purification Congress must now address itself, with full purpose that the work shall this time be thoroughly done. The deadly upas, root and branch, leaf and fibre, body and sap, must be utterly destroyed. The country is evidently not in a condition to listen patiently to pleas for postponement, however, plausible, nor will it permit the responsibility to be shifted to other shoulders. Authority and power are here commensurate with the duty imposed. There are no cloudflung shadows to obscure the way. Truth shines with brighter light and intenser heat at every moment, and a country torn and rent and bleeding implores relief from its distress and agony.<br />
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If time was at first needed, Congress has now had time. All the requisite materials from which to form an intelligent judgment are now before it. Whether its members look at the origin, the progress, the termination of the war, or at the mockery of a peace now existing, they will find only one unbroken chain of argument in favor of a radical policy of reconstruction. For the omissions of the last session, some excuses may be allowed. A treacherous President stood in the way; and it can be easily seen how reluctant good men might be to admit an apostasy which involved so much of baseness and ingratitude. It was natural that they should seek to save him by bending to him even when he leaned to the side of error. But all is changed now. Congress knows now that it must go on without his aid, and even against his machinations. The advantage of the present session over the last is immense. Where that investigated, this has the facts. Where that walked by faith, this may walk by sight. Where that halted, this must go forward, and where that failed, this must succeed, giving the country whole measures where that gave us half-measures, merely as a means of saving the elections in a few doubtful districts. That Congress saw what was right, but distrusted the enlightenment of the loyal masses; but what was forborne in distrust of the people must now be done with a full knowledge that the people expect and require it. The members go to Washington fresh from the inspiring presence of the people. In every considerable public meeting, and in almost every conceivable way, whether at court-house, school-house, or cross-roads, in doors and out, the subject has been discussed, and the people have emphatically pronounced in favor of a radical policy. Listening to the doctrines of expediency and compromise with pity, impatience, and disgust, they have everywhere broken into demonstrations of the wildest enthusiasm when a brave word has been spoken in favor of equal rights and impartial suffrage. Radicalism, so far from being odious, is now the popular passport to power. The men most bitterly charged with it go to Congress with the largest majorities, while the timid and doubtful are sent by lean majorities, or else left at home. The strange controversy between the President and Congress, at one time so threatening, is disposed of by the people. The high reconstructive powers which he so confidently, ostentatiously, and haughtily claimed, have been disallowed, denounced, and utterly repudiated; while those claimed by Congress have been confirmed.</span></section><br />
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Without attempting to settle here the metaphysical and somewhat theological question (about which so much has already been said and written), whether once in the Union means always in the Union,—agreeably to the formula, Once in grace always in grace,—it is obvious to common sense that the rebellious States stand to-day, in point of law, precisely where they stood when, exhausted, beaten, conquered, they fell powerless at the feet of Federal authority. Their State governments were overthrown, and the lives and property of the leaders of the Rebellion were forfeited. In reconstructing the institutions of these shattered and overthrown States, Congress should begin with a clean slate, and make clean work of it. Let there be no hesitation. It would be a cowardly deference to a defeated and treacherous President, if any account were made of the illegitimate, one-sided, sham governments hurried into existence for a malign purpose in the absence of Congress. These pretended governments, which were never submitted to the people, and from participation in which four millions of the loyal people were excluded by Presidential order, should now be treated according to their true character, as shams and impositions, and supplanted by true and legitimate governments, in the formation of which loyal men, black and white, shall participate.</span></span></section><br />
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The plain, common-sense way of doing this work, as intimated at the beginning, is simply to establish in the South one law, one government, one administration of justice, one condition to the exercise of the elective franchise, for men of all races and colors alike. This great measure is sought as earnestly by loyal white men as by loyal blacks, and is needed alike by both. Let sound political prescience but take the place of an unreasoning prejudice, and this will be done.<br />
Men denounce the negro for his prominence in this discussion; but it is no fault of his that in peace as in war, that in conquering Rebel armies as in reconstructing the rebellious States, the right of the negro is the true solution of our national troubles. The stern logic of events, which goes directly to the point, disdaining all concern for the color or features of men, has determined the interests of the country as identical with and inseparable from those of the negro.<br />
The policy that emancipated and armed the negro—now seen to have been wise and proper by the dullest—was not certainly more sternly demanded than is now the policy of enfranchisement. If with the negro was success in war, and without him failure, so in peace it will be found that the nation must fall or flourish with the negro.<br />
Fortunately, the Constitution of the United States knows no distinction between citizens on account of color. Neither does it know any difference between a citizen of a State and a citizen of the United States. Citizenship evidently includes all the rights of citizens, whether State or national. If the Constitution knows none, it is clearly no part of the duty of a Republican Congress now to institute one. The mistake of the last session was the attempt to do this very thing, by a renunciation of its power to secure political rights to any class of citizens, with the obvious purpose to allow the rebellious States to disfranchise, if they should see fit, their colored citizens. This unfortunate blunder must now be retrieved, and the emasculated citizenship given to the negro supplanted by that contemplated in the Constitution of the United States, which declares that the citizens of each State shall enjoy all the rights and immunities of citizens of the several States,—so that a legal voter in any State shall be a legal voter in all the States.</span></section>d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-6841960790043091952016-01-10T13:22:00.000-08:002016-01-10T13:22:36.802-08:00This Is A TenThousand Year War<div style="background-color: white; color: #141823; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 19.32px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
Saudi and Iran are at each other's throats, ISIS is crucifying children, liquidating Christians and tomorrow I will share a video of them training how to make chemical weapons and driverless car bombs, North Korea just detonated a Hydrogen Bomb (5.1 on the Richter scale). The stock Market tumbles, doctors now ordered to ignore Hippa with Presidents Gun grab, Muslim killers are within our borders, RANGERS ARE TRAPPED AND BEING SLAUGHTERED IN AFGHANISTAN, 95 million jobless and<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline;">the country believes the #1 problem is not terror, war or the economy, but according to Gallup the number one problem:</span></div>
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They want to know if <a class="profileLink" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=69983322463" href="https://www.facebook.com/tedcruzpage/" style="color: #3b5998; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Ted Cruz</a> is mad at Trump for going all "birther"on him!!!!</div>
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Grow up! God help us.<br />
Ted thanks for not taking the bait. Stay presidential. We need an adult!</div>
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Two years ago, a few days before New Year's Eve, I last got drunk. It was the closing night of the Lincoln Lodge, a fantastic comedy venue in Chicago in the back of a now-closed diner. They've since moved, but after that show, I thought I should take a breather from drinking -- and eating meat -- and focus on productivity.</div>
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Here's a short list of what I've accomplished since I stopped drinking:</div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Lost 75 pounds.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bought an amazing loft condo.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finished a first draft of an advice book.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Started exercising three days a week, then four.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Went from a size XXL to size Large.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Performed in three comedy festivals.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Got an amazing new job.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Finished multiple drafts of multiple television and movie scripts.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Went from a 42-inch waist to a 36-inch waist.</li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Went from hating myself daily to relatively enjoying myself.</li>
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A lot of this is what I externally accomplished, what I can show on paper. But I think that last one is the most important.</div>
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I've learned a lot in two years, so I thought I'd share that with you, in case you'd like to take a break from the booze cruise. Also, that's what I tell myself: I've taken a break. Maybe I'll drink again. Maybe I won't.</div>
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But overall, life seems to be a whole lot better for me because I took a break. Perhaps it could be for you too.</div>
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Almost everything does: Comedy shows, concerts, after-work functions, meetups, dates, conferences, dinner, museum tours. But guess what? The events don't change if you decide not to drink!</div>
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You're still you. Maybe you're more "inhibited," but is that altogether terrible? I've found that when I hang out with folks who have been drinking, I start to feel the same way I felt -- in terms of becoming silly, goofy, fun -- when I was drinking too.</div>
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Since I stopped drinking, I've yet to wake up and look at my phone, see something I texted, and go, "Ugh, wwwwwwhhhhhy." I'm in control of my actions basically all of the time.</div>
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I think longer before I respond to something someone says. If I'm angry, it gives me time to calm down. Drinking definitely helped my inner jerk come out a lot more often. Now I am better at keeping the jerkier side of me locked up. It still comes out, sure, but at least I have more control over when that happens.</div>
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This was the weirdest one to deal with. Many, many folks will give you attitude for not drinking. Here are some things I've been told:</div>
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"C'mon, dude, just have one beer! It's not like you're going to meetings or whatever!"</div>
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"I can't trust someone who doesn't drink."</div>
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"You're not fun unless you're drunk."</div>
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"When you don't drink, it makes me feel bad about myself, which makes me not like you."</div>
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"I can't date someone who doesn't want to get drunk with me, sorry."</div>
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I'll bet I said some of these things myself, back when I used to drink -- because when you're around someone who doesn't do something you like doing, you can be taken aback by it.</div>
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I've had friends who've stopped hanging out with me because I don't drink anymore. I've had relationships end (or not even start) because of it. I have been sent screen shots of people I know talking smack about me to other people because I choose to not do a thing.</div>
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It's weird. But it makes you realize the bad relationship with booze that other folks must be having. And for that, I have empathy. And I hope they figure it out.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You sleep so much better</span></h3>
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I haven't slept this great since before high school. Man, it's fantastic. I could point you to all the studies that show how alcohol affects your sleep, but hey, take my word for it.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You get less sad</span></h3>
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I don't know if I have depression, but I used to get bummed out a lot. There were days when I wouldn't want to leave my apartment, or see anyone, mostly because I hated myself. I don't hate myself nearly as much as I used to. I'm generally OK with my life and who I am. Positivity is now my go-to emotion, even when something bad or terrible happens to me.</div>
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It's like I flipped this switch inside my brain: Instead of going to negativity, I try to find the reason something is positive. It's definitely weird to have this happen to me.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You develop more empathy for others</span></h3>
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A few weeks ago, a guy blared on his horn because I was crossing at a crosswalk and he wanted to turn, and he almost hit me with his car, then he flipped me off and cursed at me.</div>
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Old me probably would've stood in front of him, not moved, taken a photo or video of him, shared it on the Internet, explained, "Hey, look at this jerk who tried to hit me with his car!" and felt smug and wonderful about it.</div>
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Instead, after an initial moment of fear and anger, I realized this dude was probably having an awful day. Maybe he was late for an appointment. Maybe he was trying to get to the hospital to see his son who has cancer. Maybe he didn't have parents as loving as mine and that's filled him with resentment his entire life.</div>
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Either way, that guy had something going on, and I wanted him to be happier. Then I felt weird, because my brain has been wired forever to be a little twerp to anyone who wrongs me. But now? I generally jump to empathy. I like that.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You save so much money</span></h3>
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I bought a condo. I'd like to pretend as though it wasn't because of how much money I saved by not drinking and buying food while drunk, but probably a quarter of my down payment came just from abstaining from booze.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You get tired earlier</span></h3>
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It's pretty hard for me to stay up past 11 p.m. most days, even on weekends. When I was drinking, booze was a magical fuel that kept me going, trying to find a new adventure.</div>
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Now that I don't drink, I'm not constantly searching for adventure, trying to find one more fun thing that will fill the empty void inside of me. I'm content with what I've done for the day, and my body wants to go to bed. I dig that.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">You become amazingly productive</span></h3>
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When you're not spending most of your free time at bars, you get a lot done. I read more. I write more. I learn more.</div>
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I spend more time working on bettering myself and my skills than I ever would have sitting at a bar, chatting with a buddy or two. I'm much less social than I used to be, but I'm also creating more art and failing a lot more than ever before.</div>
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In the end, I know I'm going to die. I'd rather there be a few things of me still hanging around after I'm dead, some sort of personal expression that others can enjoy. That requires me to put in the time to work on projects, make something tangible and real for people to enjoy.</div>
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That seems, now, like a better use of my time than chatting with some pals at a bar. That conversation may have been great, sure, but in the end, it dies with me and those people. If I can create a few things that last longer than me, it makes my life last longer. It means I mattered a little more. I'm glad I haven't been drunk for two years. Sure, I've done a few shots of Malort with people who've never tried it. And yes, there was that one time a dude threatened to kick my rear if I didn't drink that shot of whiskey he bought to congratulate me on "being so funny" after hearing me tell jokes about how I don't drink anymore.</div>
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If you ever think, hey, this drinking thing isn't fun anymore, it's OK to take a break. I just quit. For me, it's been relatively easy, and I know it isn't easy for everyone. But just know I've found countless rad people who can have fun without booze. And you can too.</div>
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Good luck.</div>
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We have ISIS loyalists gunning down innocent French and American citizens.</div>
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We have a President sending his Attorney General out to warn Americans to stifle their Free Speech rights.<span id="more-60152" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; font-size: 14.42px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></div>
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We have a shadowy American Muslim advocacy group blaming American citizens for bringing radical Islamic terrorism on ourselves.</div>
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But here is the unvarnished truth about Islam’s history of rape, murder, torture, and slavery – all done in the name of being true to the Muslim faith.</div>
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When one thinks of mass murder, Hitler comes to mind. If not Hitler, then Tojo, Stalin, or Mao. Credit is given to the 20th-century totalitarians as the worst species of tyranny to have ever arisen. However, the alarming truth is that Islam has killed more than any of these, and may surpass all of them combined in numbers and cruelty.</div>
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The enormity of the slaughters of the “religion of peace” are so far beyond comprehension that even honest historians overlook the scale. When one looks beyond our myopic focus, Islam is the greatest killing machine in the history of mankind, bar none.</div>
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This is a very strong statement to make. But just look at the facts as <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/05/the_greatest_murder_machine_in_history.html?utm_source=hootsuite#.VmOzF7t4LRU.facebook" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225e9b; font-size: 14.42px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The American Thinker</a> presents them:</div>
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The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. — Will Durant, as quoted on Daniel Pipes site.</div>
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Conservative estimates place the number at 80 million dead Indians.</div>
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According to some calculations, the Indian (subcontinent) population decreased by 80 million between 1000 (conquest of Afghanistan) and 1525 (end of Delhi Sultanate). — Koenrad Elst as quoted on Daniel Pipes site</div>
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80 Million?! The conquistadors’ crimes pale into insignificance at that number. No wonder Hitler admired Islam as a fighting religion. He stood in awe of Islam, whose butchery even he did not surpass.</div>
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Over 110 Million Blacks were killed by Islam.<br />
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… a minumum of 28 Million African were enslaved in the Muslim Middle East. Since, at least, 80 percent of those captured by Muslim slave traders were calculated to have died before reaching the slave market, it is believed that the death toll from 1400 years of Arab and Muslim slave raids into Africa could have been as high as 112 Millions. When added to the number of those sold in the slave markets, the total number of African victims of the trans-Saharan and East African slave trade could be significantly higher than 140 Million people. — John Allembillah Azumah, author of The Legacy of Arab-Islam in Africa: A Quest for Inter-religious Dialogue</div>
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Guess we won’t be hearing this anytime soon from Rev. Al and Minister Farrakhan.</div>
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But <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2014/05/the_greatest_murder_machine_in_history.html?utm_source=hootsuite#.VmOzF7t4LRU.facebook" style="background: transparent; border: 0px; color: #225e9b; font-size: 14.42px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The American Thinker</a> is not finished:</div>
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Add just those two numbers alone together, and Islam has surpassed the victims of 20th-century totalitarianism. However, it does not end there. Add the millions who died at the hand of Muslims in the Sudan in our lifetime.</div>
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Much of Islamic slavery was sexual in nature, with a preference for women. Those men who were captured were castrated. The mulatto children of the women were often killed, which explains why Islam was not demographically shifted towards the black race, unlike slaves in the West, who bore children to breed a mestizo class. Add in those dead children; and we arrive at well over 200 million.<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.42px; line-height: 24.0814px;"> </span></div>
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…for the 250 years between 1530 and 1780, the figure could easily have been as high as 1,250,000 – BBC</div>
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…many slaves were passed through Armenia and were castrated there to fill the Muslim demand for eunuchs. — Slavery in Early Medieval Europe.</div>
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The same practice ran through Islamic Spain. North Europeans captured from raids up to Iceland, or purchased, were butchered in the castratoriums of Iberia. Many died from the operations that ran for centuries.</div>
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Don’t forget the 1.5 million Armenian Christians killed by the Turks during WWI.</div>
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And these are certainly not all of those slaughtered by Islam throughout the world in history.</div>
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Add this all up. The African victims. The Indian victims. The European victims. Add in the Armenian genocide. Then add in the lesser known, but no doubt quite large number of victims of Eastern Asia. Add in the jihad committed by Muslims against China, which was invaded in 651 AD. Add in the Crimean Khanate predations on the Slavs, especially their women.</div>
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Though the numbers are not clear, what is obvious is that Islam is the greatest murder machine in history bar none, possibly exceeding 250 million dead. Possibly one-third to one-half or more of all those killed by war or slavery in history can be traced to Islam; and this is just a cursory examination.</div>
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Now consider the over 125 Million women today who have been genitally mutilated for Islamic honor’s sake. In spite of what apologists tell you, the practice is almost totally confined to Islamic areas.</div>
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As President Obama speaks to the nation Sunday night, it is doubtful he will cite any of these historical facts.</div>
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It seems his criticism of religion is limited to Christianity and Judaism.</div>
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Please share these truths to all you know. The national media has not given up on the propaganda that Islam is a “religion of peace.”</div>
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Of course, they also thought the old Communist Soviet Union was THE model of government as well!</div>
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METAIRIE, La. (AP) - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said Saturday the idea of religious neutrality is not grounded in the country's constitutional traditions and that God has been good to the U.S. exactly because Americans honor him.</div>
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Scalia was speaking at a Catholic high school in the New Orleans suburb of Metairie, Louisiana. Scalia, who was appointed by President Ronald Reagan in 1986 is the court's longest serving justice. He has consistently been one of the court's more conservative members.</div>
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He told the audience at Archbishop Rummel High School that there is "no place" in the country's constitutional traditions for the idea that the state must be neutral between religion and its absence.</div>
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"To tell you the truth there is no place for that in our constitutional tradition. Where did that come from?" he said. "To be sure, you can't favor one denomination over another but can't favor religion over non-religion?"</div>
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He also said there is "nothing wrong" with the idea of presidents and others invoking God in speeches. He said God has been good to America because Americans have honored him.</div>
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Scalia said during the Sept. 11 attacks he was in Rome at a conference. The next morning, after a speech by President George W. Bush in which he invoked God and asked for his blessing, Scalia said many of the other judges approached him and said they wished their presidents or prime ministers would do the same.</div>
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"God has been very good to us. That we won the revolution was extraordinary. The Battle of Midway was extraordinary. I think one of the reasons God has been good to us is that we have done him honor. Unlike the other countries of the world that do not even invoke his name we do him honor. In presidential addresses, in Thanksgiving proclamations and in many other ways," Scalia said.</div>
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Scalia's comments Saturday come as the court prepares to hear arguments later this year in a case that challenges part of President Barack Obama's health care law and whether it adequately shields faith-based hospitals, colleges and charities from having to offer contraceptive coverage to their employees.</div>
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In December he came under fire for comments he made during an affirmative action case, questioning whether some black students would benefit from going to a "slower-track school" instead of Texas' flagship campus in Austin.</div>
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It would be hard to find anyone in all of America who has been more wrong on the American energy story than Barack Obama.</div>
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Oil prices have fallen from $105 a barrel in the summer of 2014 to hovering at $35 a barrel today. That's a two-thirds reduction in the price, and the biggest factor is shale oil brought to you by fracking. In many areas of the country gas is now less than $2 a gallon, and it could fall further in the weeks ahead.</div>
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The falling price means, of course, an expanded supply. But now listen to Obama, who has lectured the nation on energy as if he were one of the top experts for the last eight years.</div>
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In a 2008 speech in Lansing, Michigan, presidential candidate Obama was all doom and gloom about oil, advising: "We cannot sustain a future powered by a fuel that is rapidly disappearing.</div>
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Then in 2010 from the Oval Office he solemnly declared: "We're running out of places to drill," and he jeered that the oil and gas industry might want to start pumping for oil near the Washington Monument.</div>
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During a 2011 weekly address he referred to oil and gas as "yesterday's" energy sources.</div>
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Then during a speech at Georgetown University, he pontificated: "The United States of America cannot afford to bet our long-term prosperity, our long-term security on a resource (oil) that will eventually run out."</div>
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By the way, this discredited Malthusian belief that we are running out of oil is still widely believed by many scientists and pundits, too. The United States Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory stated in a report that "the world is fast approaching the inevitable peaking" of global oil production. Paul Krugman of The New York Times wrote in 2010 that "world commodity prices ... are telling us that we're living in a finite world."</div>
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That was when prices were abnormally high. So if high prices tell us we are running out, then obviously low prices must tell us supply is rising.</div>
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These stupid predictions of the end of oil have been going on for most of the last century. Just over 100 years ago, the U.S. Bureau of Mines estimated total future production at 6 billion barrels, yet we've produced more than 20times that amount. In 1939 the Department of the Interior predicted U.S. oil supplies would last 13 years. I could go on.</div>
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The wonder is that smart people such as Nobel Prize winners Krugman and Obama haven't learned anything from history and instead keep regurgitating these myths about "running out."</div>
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The folks at the Institute for Energy Research recently published a study showing three data points: first, the government's best estimate of how much oil we had in America 50 years ago. The second was how much U.S. oil has been drilled out of the ground since then. And the third is how many reserves there are now. Today we have twice as many reserves as we had in 1950. And we have already produced almost 10 times more oil than the government told us we had back then.</div>
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Technology and innovation account for the constant upping the amount of "finite" oil we can produce. We discover new sources of oil much faster than we deplete the known amount of reserves, and so, for all practical purposes, oil and natural gas supplies are nearly inexhaustible. Fracking is the latest game-changer and the access it gives us to shale oil and gas resources has virtually doubled over night. And this technology boom in drilling is just getting started.</div>
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My point is how absurd it is for Americans to blindly trust any "scientific consensus" on any of these natural resource or environmental issues. The credibility of the alarmists is just shot. In 1980, hundreds of the top scientists in the United States issued a report called The Global 2000 Report to the President, which was a primal scream that in every way life on earth would be worse by 2000 because the world would run out of oil, gas, food, farmland and so on.</div>
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My mentor Julian Simon and Herman Kahn challenged this conventional wisdom. Today they would be disparaged as "deniers." Yet on ever score these iconoclasts were right and the green scientific consensus was wrong.</div>
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Lately, even Obama doesn't make the ridiculous claim that we have to use green energy because we are running out of oil.</div>
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Instead he now says we should keep our super-abundance of oil "in the ground," even as he tries take credit for the low prices.</div>
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In reality, if we do what Obama wants, gas at the pump and electricity are going to be more expensive. If you don't like $1.89 gasoline at the pump, you're probably a big fan of the Obama energy/climate change agenda.</div>
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Hopefully, the neo-Malthusians like Obama will stop resorting to the century-long false fear that we are running our of oil as an excuse for using much more expensive and much less efficient "green energy."</div>
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Many years ago I was quoted in The New York Times as making this point about our infinite oil supply, and a high school science teacher wrote me and huffed: "Even my 14-year-olds know that oil is finite." This teacher is probably now a top science adviser to Obama. </div>
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One thing that you may be of unaware of when it comes to ISIS is that they’re obsessed with end times prophecy.</div>
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In fact, the terrorists who have come from all over the globe believe their jihad in Syria will help reign in the Apocalypse. To bolster the group’s recruitment efforts, the jihadists promote the idea that a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/belief/2014/oct/10/islamic-state-dabiq-important-not-end-of-the-world" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e769d; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">final battle</a>between the armies of the Muslims and unbelievers will take place in Dabiq, an area located in northern Syria.</div>
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As far as the outcome of the battle goes, ISIS believes that it will emerge victorious over those who oppose them.</div>
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Some have even compared the terrorist organization that controls areas in Syria, Iraq and <a href="http://www.ijreview.com/2014/11/204456-2-new-country-isis-terrorists-invaded-1200-miles-headquarters-syria/" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e769d; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Libya</a> to a doomsday cult. However, there is a big problem with how selective ISIS is when it comes to their apocalyptic vision.</div>
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ISIS (also known as the Islamic State) uses Islamic scripture and prophecies to bolster its assertion, but it conveniently ignores one particularly damning prophecy that could inherently challenge the legitimacy of its self-declared “caliphate” — the territory in Iraq and Syria it controls that is central to Islamic doomsday prophecies.</div>
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Will McCants, director of the Project on US Relations with the Islamic World at the Brookings Institution, mentions it in his new book, “The ISIS Apocalypse.”</div>
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“There is one prophecy about the Antichrist that the Islamic State and its fans have studiously avoided, even though it is in a collection of prophecies they revere: The Antichrist will ‘appear in the empty area between Sham [Syria] and Iraq,'” McCants wrote. “That, of course, is precisely where the Islamic State is located.”</div>
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Clearly, ISIS doesn’t include the prophecy about where the Antichrist will appear in its teachings is because it would severely damage their appeal to other radical Muslims.</div>
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The <a href="http://www.hoover.org/research/isiss-apocalyptic-vision" rel="nofollow" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #0e769d; position: relative; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">Hoover Institute</a> revealed how members of the Islamic State are not in Syria to fight Assad, but because of their interpretation of the Qur’an:</div>
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ISIS is using apocalyptic expectation as a key part of its appeal. “If you think all these mujahideen came from across the world to fight Assad, you’re mistaken. They are all here as promised by the Prophet. This is the war he promised — it is the Grand Battle,” a Sunni Muslim told Reuters.</div>
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With ISIS, we are dealing with a group that strongly believes its carnage-based ideology will help usher in the end of the world, which makes them much more dangerous than a run-of-the-mill terrorist organization.</div>
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Please don’t say things like, “I stand with France,” or “Those poor French people, victims of that attack!” unless you’re prepared to say and do the following things:</div>
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Stop saying “Islam” is about peace and love. It’s not. It’s about submission; the people who really get this are the ones who launch these attacks in the name of their religion.</div>
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Stop supporting politicians like Obama, who insist that Islamic nations like Iran have our same fundamental values and can be trusted with billions of dollars in unfrozen assets (Obama’s treaty), and who don’t mean what they say when they want to wipe Israel off the map.</div>
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Stop saying we don’t really need a strong military and we cannot, under any circumstances, use the full might of our military arsenal to do things to stop militant Islam in its tracks, to quite literally scare the Allah out of these people.</div>
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Unless or until you start to rethink your stance, you have no business expressing compassion towards the victims of people in attacks whose perpetrators – knowingly or not – you aid and support via your positions.</div>
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The president of France calls the attacks in Paris by militant ISIS supporters an “act of war.” Excuse me? Haven’t we been at war since at least 9/11? Even going back as far as 1979, when the first openly organized Islamic government, Iran, took Americans hostage and brutalized them for a year before setting them free?</div>
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We’re not supposed to admit we’re at war with Islam. But Islam has been at war with everyone else for decades now. And it’s not going to stop.</div>
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I am so sick of people saying, “We can’t fight terrorism with violence. We have to understand them and figure out what makes them act this way.”</div>
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Envy, brutality and collectivist/social/racial hatred are what make them act this way. They’re not going to change, and they’re not going to stop. By trying to appease and understand them every chance we get, they interpret this as weakness, because it is, from their point-of-view. They respond with more brutality. They’re not ever going to stop, any more than Hitler and the Nazis would have stopped if, instead of taking them on directly, we had said, “Let’s try to understand them.”</div>
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You cannot defeat a morally certain enemy without moral certainty. But we do not live in an age of moral self-assertion. It’s considered mean, unkind and politically incorrect.</div>
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You do not have moral certainty if you keep insisting that your enemy really does not mean it.</div>
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Stop waiting for the “moderate” or life-loving Muslims to come out of the closet and morally condemn their violent brethren. These moderates are nowhere to be found. Either they do not exist, or they’re too weak or frightened to take on the people who do these things in the name of their faith-based philosophy.</div>
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Obama has stated that these attackers do not share certain basic, universal values with the rest of us. But Obama is the one who insists we cannot really fight terrorists because they operate underground, without state-sanctioned armies, and the like. Obama is the same one who gave away America’s credibility and unfroze billions in assets to the government of Iran, the one actual government known to sponsor and morally support Islamic terrorism around the world. What business does he have expressing outrage and horror? He might as well be on their side. Because he makes life easier for them, through things like this insane treaty he rammed by the Congress.</div>
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So before you rush to show others how sad and angry you are about what happened in Paris, stop to think of the ideas, attitudes and elected officials you’ve been supporting.</div>
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Ideas have consequences, and if you support the wrong ones,<em> this</em> is what you get.</div>
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d2r2http://www.blogger.com/profile/18310334460953085909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4846319364829366112.post-83267999875134938192015-10-21T18:38:00.002-07:002015-10-21T18:38:43.490-07:00Explaining Darwinism’s Many Problems – With a Bicycle Lock?<h1 class="page-header" style="background-color: white; border-bottom-color: rgb(238, 238, 238); border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 1px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-family: 'Minion Pro', Times, sans-serif; font-size: 36px; line-height: 1.1; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding-bottom: 9px;">
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You know Darwinism has problems, but how do you explain them to your friends and family? Well, look no further than a bicycle lock.</div>
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What’s the greatest discovery in the history of biology? If you said “seedless watermelons,” you’re close. Actually, it’s probably the discovery of DNA.</div>
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It’s hard to imagine in this age of genetic engineering, but scientists in Darwin’s time saw life as quite simple. Cells were thought to be blobs of primitive chemicals called “protoplasm.” But as technology advanced and scientists were able to peer inside the cell, they discovered something amazing: Every living thing actually contains intricate, microscopic machines, performing functions without which life would not be possible.</div>
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The real breakthrough, came in 1953 when Watson and Crick uncovered the structure and function of DNA—the molecule that programs and regulates cells. It revolutionized our understanding of life. And it stretched Darwin’s theory to the breaking point.</div>
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DNA is essentially a form of incredibly efficient digital code, uniquely suited for storing the blueprints of living things. And for something microscopic, it’s huge. The human genome contains over a gigabyte of data! Of course, like digital code on a hard drive, DNA can be corrupted. The most recent iteration of Darwin’s theory claims that these corruptions—called mutations—are the engines of evolution. But here’s the problem: We don’t have a single example of a mutation resulting in a <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">net gain</i> of information. Not one.</div>
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As intelligent design theorists have pointed out, unguided, natural processes always <i style="box-sizing: border-box;">degrade</i> information—they never increase it. If life at its most fundamental level is a digital code, then mutations are glitches that, if they accumulate, will eventually kill the organism.</div>
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Information is at the heart of life, and our uniform and repeated experience tells us that matter, by itself, never produces information. The only known source capable of producing information is a mind.</div>
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Okay, fine, you say, but how do I explain this over the dinner table? One great place to start is a new video from the Discovery Institute that condenses the main argument for intelligent design to a snappy 20 minutes. It’s called “The Information Enigma,” and features noted ID authors Dr. Stephen Meyer and Dr. Douglas Axe.</div>
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Here are the basics: Using an analogy from Dr. Meyers’ book, “Darwin’s Doubt,” the video compares DNA with a bicycle lock.</div>
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“The reason a bike lock works,” explains Meyer, “is that there are vastly more ways of arranging those numeric characters that will keep the lock closed than there are that will open the lock.”</div>
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Most bicycle locks have four dials with ten digits. So for a thief to steal the bike, he would have to guess correctly from among 10,000 possible combinations. No easy task.</div>
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But what about DNA? Well, in experiments Axe conducted at Cambridge, he found that for a DNA sequence generating a short protein just 150 amino acids in length, for every 1 workable arrangement of amino acids, there are 10 to the 77<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 13.5px; line-height: 0; position: relative; top: -0.5em; vertical-align: baseline;">th</span>possible unworkable amino acid arrangements. Using the bicycle lock analogy, that’s a lock with 77 dials containing 10 digits.</div>
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Thus, as the film states, it is overwhelmingly unlikely that a random mutational search would produce even one new functional protein in the entire history of life on earth. In other words, random mutation is not driving the biological bicycle.</div>
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It’s a powerful argument, and one I’d love you to understand and use. Come to BreakPoint.org, click on this commentary, and I’ll link you to Discovery Institute’s excellent new video. Then share it with your friends, and start some intelligent conversations about intelligent design.</div>
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<i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Eric Metaxas is the bestselling author of “Bonhoeffer: Pastor, Prophet, Martyr, Spy.” He is the radio host of “The Eric Metaxas Show” and the co-host of “BreakPoint.”</i></div>
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Famed neurosurgeon and 2016 presidential contender Dr. Ben Carson faced-off against the women of “The View” on Tuesday after he decried abortion and said that “we’re killing babies all over the place.”</div>
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“In my case, I spent my entire career trying to preserve life and give people quality of life,” he said, explaining his past operations on premature babies and babies still in the womb. “<span style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no way you’re going to convince me that they’re not important, that they’re just a mass of cells.”</span></div>
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Host Whoopi Goldberg countered by asking whether Carson has “met with the women who have to make these horrendous decisions,” and questioned whether the Republican candidate is empathetic — to which he said that he is.</div>
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Carson then explained his belief that the private sector must provide adequate daycare so that mothers who choose to have their babies can get GEDs and finish their education.</div>
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“You’re assuming that these are mothers who aren’t educated,” Goldberg countered, with the crowd gasping and moaning when Carson said that most of them fit that description.</div>
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“A lot of those young girls who are having babies out of wedlock — when they have that first baby, they stop their education and that child is four times as likely to grow up in poverty,” Carson said. “We, as a society, have an obligation to do what’s necessary to stop that cycle.”</div>
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That’s when Joy Behar stepped in to defend Planned Parenthood against recent Republican attacks.</div>
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“So, how important is birth control then to the Republican Party?” she said. “They should be out there applauding Planned Parenthood for supplying birth control, mammograms and everything else.”</div>
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It should be noted, as <a href="http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/29/planned-parenthood-boss-reveals-exactly-how-many-of-her-organizations-650-clinics-have-a-mammogram-machine/" style="border: 0px; color: #e91e24; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">TheBlaze previously reported</a>, that Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards confirmed during a congressional hearing last week that none of her organization’s 650 to 700 clinics across America has a mammogram machine.</div>
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