143 Days of experience of Obama

You couldn't become

district manager,
chief of surgery,
a school superintendent,
a Colonel in the US military,
the nightly news anchor,
or a CEO of a large Fortune 500 company

after only 143 days of experience!!

But Senator Obama thinks he can become the US President with that amount of time in the senate.

Why?

Because he stayed at a Holiday Inn Express

How long do we have?

How Long Do We Have?

About the time our original thirteen states adopted their new constitution in 1787, Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the University of Edinburgh , had this to say about the fall of the Athenian Republic some 2,000 years earlier:

"A democracy is always temporary in nature; it simply cannot exist as a permanent form of government."

"A democracy will continue to exist up until the time that voters discover they can vote themselves generous gifts from the public treasury."

"From that moment on, the majority always vote for the candidates who promise the most benefits from the public treasury, with the result that every democracy will finally collapse due to loose fiscal policy, which is always followed by a dictatorship."

"The average age of the world's greatest civilizations from the beginning of history, has been about 200 years" "During those 200 years, those nations always progressed through the following sequence:

1. from bondage to spiritual faith;

2. from spiritual faith to great courage;

3. from courage to liberty;

4. from liberty to abundance;

5. from abundance to complacency;

6. from complacency to apathy;

7. from apathy to dependence;

8. from dependence back into bondage"

Professor Joseph Olson of Hemline University School of Law, St.Paul, Minnesota, points out some interesting facts concerning the 2000 Presidential election:

Number of States won by: Democrats: 19 Republicans: 29
Square miles of land won by: Democrats: 580,000 Republicans: 2,427,000
Population of counties won by: Democrats: 127 million Republicans: 143 million
Murder rate per 100,000 residents in counties won by: Democrats: 13.2 Republicans: 2.1

Professor Olson adds: "In aggregate, the map of the territory Republican won was mostly the land owned by the taxpaying citizens of this great country. Democrat territory mostly encompassed those citizens living in government-owned tenements and living off various forms of government welfare..." Olson believes the United States is now somewhere between the "complacency and apathy" phase of Professor Tyler's definition of democracy, with some forty percent of the nation's popula tion already having reached the "governmental dependency" phase.

If Congress grants amnesty and citizenship to twenty million criminal invaders called illegal's and they vote, then we can say goodbye to the USA in fewer than five years.

If you are in favor of this, then by all means, delete this message. If you are not, then pass this along to help everyone realize just how much is at stake, knowing that apathy is the greatest danger to our freedom.

Eye for an eye, or tooth for a tooth, but I say ....

Went to my nephew's birthday party yesterday and my Dad stated that it was really bad that we're spending all of this money on Defense which could go to education and health issues instead. I stated that we'd all love to do this, but we can't redirect that money UNTIL we have peace and the only way we can have peace is having a strong defense. One day we will, and here's how I come to this conclusion.

Today's Our Daily Bread talks about "An Eye for an Eye, and a Tooth for a Tooth" and how in an inner city Pastor suggests that some people change that phrase to say "Two eyes for one eye," or taking revenge for any hurt that you might have felt. While most people might agree, the real reason for the "two eyes" is that you want to prevent the other person from EVER bothering you again, hence the overkill in seeking justice.

But let's take a look at this. Any "Eye for an Eye" really means that you get equal "compensation" for any wrong that you've been done to as the victim, but this also means that you have to have the "Rule of Law" and mass education of all of the people that this is what is going to be done in certain circumstances. The Jews as a nation do this as a rule, but in some countries this may not be the case both in mass education and in the rule of good laws.

What most people do when they move from "an eye for an eye" to "two eyes for an eye" is no longer justice but revenge. God has always said that only He will compensate revenge while we can only look for justice.

However, when you have "I tell you not to resist an evil person. But whoever slaps you on your right cheek, turn the other to him also." and you tell the person in today's world to do this, you're telling them a lie!! Let me explain.

The Gospels in the Bible are 90% of today's Christians as what today's Christians are suppose to do, this is hogwash!! From a Theological point of view, look at the tone of three different areas of the Bible concerning justice and the handling of disputes, etc: the Old Testament, the Gospels and Revelation 20 in the New Testament, and the rest of the New Testaments from Acts to Jude, not including some parts of Revelation, but as a whole include Revelation with the Gospels. What do you find? Especially between the OT and the Gospels what do you find?

You find that the tone of justice in the Gospels is much harsher in for everyday life toward each other and the details with which we're "all accountable" toward others. You go from "eye for an eye" to "turn the other cheek" when seeking justice. But how is this possible? How can you move from one approach to the other?

You move to this position because there is a stronger and more specific "Rule of Law" that EVERYONE in the world is abiding by. When is this applied? This tougher rule of law is ONLY applied during the Millennial Reign of Christ in the Gospels and in Revelation 20. If you study all of the Millennial Scriptures in the Bible you'll see that there will be perfect peach because of this new "Rule of Law" and justice, but it can NEVER be applied to us today. (Most Christians are familiar with the Scripture "the lamb shall lie down with the lion" which give you the picture of how the Millennium will be characterized. This is why most Christians are upset by things, they've been taught wrong Biblical truths and when to apply them to their circumstances.

So how does this tougher "Rule of Law" pertain to Theology? We're going to have perfect peace, prosperity, and our environment will be perfect in this world, but in the end people will rise up once more to try and defeat Jesus Christ. Why? Because even with perfect peace and prosperity for 1000 years the end of the Millennium will show that this is not the answer to people's problems, but faith in Jesus Christ as a personal Lord and Savior is the only answer for each person. Even with the Thousand Year Reign of Christ will not change people hearts about Him even though the external will be for everyone to view, but only the Holy Spirit will change people once they recognize that they need Him as their Savior. While those of us still in this Church Age have NOT seen Jesus Christ, we believe the Bible and have become Christians WITHOUT seeing Him, In the MIllennium we'll ALL see Jesus Christ and know Him, but some will NOT trust Him which is why there is the a Last Rebellion in Revelation 20:7-9 with probably millions or even billions of people on "the Great Plain" of the earth (And for those liberals that are worried about Global warming, God will take care of it all.)

So, the application of the Gospel's "turn the other cheek" is not for today, but only "an eye for an eye" UNTIL the new age begins, which is getting closer and closer to my day and time.

Are you ready for:

1. The Rapture, the taking out of all of the Christians,
2. The 7 Years of Tribulation, where all Hell will break loose here in earth and over half of the world's population will be killed.
3. Battle of Armageddon, where all of the non-believers in Christ will be killed and sent to Hell, to begin a new age with only believers where perfect peace will reign called
4. The Millennium Reign of Christ, one thousand years of peace, followed by
5. The Last Rebellion,
6. And a New Heaven and a New Earth.

Jesus Christ does not want you to lose an opportunity here. Trust Him as your Savior, you'll be glad you did.

Theodore Roosevelt's view of what it means to be an American

“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American…There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language… and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”

Theodore Roosevelt, 1907

You can see more details as to what he was thinking in the article Sole Loyalty where you get a much better idea as to what we an American should be doing today.

The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism

The article The Fallacy of Grievance-based Terrorism goes into detail of what happened to American AFTER the revolution. While the Revolution solved the ground war in America, the Barbary Wars from the late 1700's into the early 1800's all of the American President's had to deal with the Islamic pirates that terrorized the open seas. Here is the clincher to the article:

"The Barbary conflict was the beginning of continuous U.S. interaction with the Muslim Near and Middle East. While Jefferson and Madison believed that a continuous U.S. military presence in the Mediterranean was necessary to protect U.S. national interests, in 1831, President Andrew Jackson secured a treaty of amity and free trade with the Ottoman Empire leading the secretary of the navy to report seven years later that it was no longer necessary to keep a U.S. fleet in the Mediterranean.[18] Three years after Washington withdrew the squadron, Ottoman privateers began raiding U.S. shipping, forcing the reconstitution of the fleet after the U.S. Civil War."

So, what do you think President Bush is doing? What do you think the potential Presidential candidates will be promising? What do the American people think, if they understand what we're up against, and will they do anything?

Only time will tell, but I think the American people will not be too concerned about it, to our peril.

Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech, March 23rd, 1775

Patrick Henry's "Give me Liberty or give me Death" speech is something which should be read by every student in today's high school and "compare and contrast" what was happening then and what is happening how. Here's but a snippet:

"But different men often see the same subject in different lights; and, therefore, I hope it will not be thought disrespectful to those gentlemen if, entertaining as I do opinions of a character very opposite to theirs, I shall speak forth my sentiments freely and without reserve. This is no time for ceremony. The questing before the House is one of awful moment to this country. For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate. It is only in this way that we can hope to arrive at truth, and fulfill the great responsibility which we hold to God and our country. Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings."

Read it and learn what our founding fathers were up against. This will get more and more intense because the end of the Church Age is fast coming to a close. The Muslims are getting more emboldened and will continue until they are decimated by Jesus Christ in the Battle of Armageddon while trying to snuff out Israel.

Firearms Refresher Course

My sister sent this to me and I thought it was appropriate to post, whoever wrote it, I'll point it to your site if you let me know. Here you go.

1. An armed man is a citizen. An unarmed man is a subject.
2. A gun in the hand is better than a cop on the phone.
3. Colt: The original point and click interface.
4. Gun control is not about guns; it's about control.
5. If guns are outlawed, can we use swords?
6. If guns cause crime, then pencils cause misspelled words.
7. Free men do not ask permission to bear arms.
8. If you don't know your rights, you don't have any.
9. Those who trade liberty for security have neither.
10. The United States Constitution (c)1791. All Rights Reserved.
11. What part of 'shall not be infringed' do you not understand?
12. The Second Amendment is in place in case the politicians ignore the others.
13. 64,999,987 firearms owners killed no one yesterday.
14. Guns only have two enemies; rust and politicians.
15. Know guns, know peace, know safety. No guns, no peace, no safety.
16. You don't shoot to kill; you shoot to stay alive.
17. 911: Government sponsored Dial-a-Prayer.
18. Assault is a behavior, not a device.
19. Criminals love gun control; it makes their jobs safer.
20. If guns cause crime, then matches cause arson.
21. Only a government that is afraid of its citizens tries to control them.
22. You have only the rights you are willing to fight for.
23. Enforce the gun control laws we already have; don't make more.
24. When you remove the people's right to bear arms, you create slaves.
25. The American Revolution would never have happened with gun control.

'Those who hammer their guns into plows will plow for those who do not.' - Thomas Jefferson

Muslims in American History: the Early Years of America

As one who has a degree in History, I find it interesting that I was rarely taught about some of these things, but it is never too late to learn something new. As you'll see from the Wall Builders web site that the Muslims of the day of our Founding Fathers had to pay them money to keep them from attacking us, but eventually American had to do something else, and I quote:

"Jefferson, determined to end the two-decades-old terrorist attacks, selected General William Eaton (Adams’ Consul to Tunis) and elevated him to the post of “U. S. Naval Agent to the Barbary States,” with the assignment to lead an American military expedition against the four terrorist nations. Using the new American Navy built under Adams, Eaton transported the U. S. Marines overseas; and when the offending nations found themselves confronted by imminent American military action, all but Tripoli backed down.

General Eaton therefore led a successful military campaign against Tripoli that freed captured seaman and crushed the terrorist forces. After four years of fighting, in 1805 Tripoli signed a treaty on America’s terms, thus ending their terrorist aggressions.

There you have it, the answer to our situation here and now. Now I know why the Marines sing "to the halls of Montezuma, to the shores of Tripoli." It gives new meaning to the words

Iraqi Islamic Party: “Al Qaeda is Defeated”

You heard it correctly!!! But you won't hear it on the MSM these days. And I quote, "another member of the Iraqi Islamic Party said that al Qaeda has changed its strategy now that fomenting civil war between Sunni and Shia has backfired. Al Qaeda has shifted targets, now trying to generate friction between tribes. This time, however, the tribes are onto the game early, and they are not playing."

This is great to hear, now if only the Democrats would hear about what's working, oh, that's right, they're going to keep up the "failure" of President Bush, but once the word gets out the Democrats will lose.

Another quote, "Speaking through an interpreter at a 31 October meeting at the Iraqi Islamic Party headquarters in downtown Baghdad, Sheik Omar said that al Qaeda had been “defeated mentally, and therefore is defeated physically,” referring to how clear it has become that the terrorist group’s tactics have backfired."

Now peaceful Muslims will now have a chance at building their own version of democracy, just like we've done. Good for them, hurrah for Iraq!!!

President Roosevelt's Prayer on D-Day

As located here, here is President Roosevelt's prayer that he read on the radio as the troops were invading France on D-Day. But for those that don't want to head over to this link, here's the text:

"My Fellow Americans:

Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our Allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far.

And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to join with me in prayer:

Almighty God: Our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our Republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity.

Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness in their faith.

They will need Thy blessings. Their road will be long and hard. For the enemy is strong. He may hurl back our forces. Success may not come with rushing speed, but we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph.

They will be sore tried, by night and by day, without rest -- until the victory is won. The darkness will be rent by noise and flame. Men's souls will be shaken with the violences of war.

For these men are lately drawn from the ways of peace. They fight not for the lust of conquest. They fight to end conquest. They fight to liberate. They fight to let justice arise, and tolerance and goodwill among all Thy people. They yearn but for the end of battle, for their return to the haven of home.

Some will never return. Embrace these, Father, and receive them, Thy heroic servants, into Thy kingdom.

And for us at home -- fathers, mothers, children, wives, sisters, and brothers of brave men overseas, whose thoughts and prayers are ever with them -- help us, Almighty God, to rededicate ourselves in renewed faith in Thee in this hour of great sacrifice.

Many people have urged that I call the nation into a single day of special prayer. But because the road is long and the desire is great, I ask that our people devote themselves in a continuance of prayer. As we rise to each new day, and again when each day is spent, let words of prayer be on our lips, invoking Thy help to our efforts.

Give us strength, too -- strength in our daily tasks, to redouble the contributions we make in the physical and the material support of our armed forces.

And let our hearts be stout, to wait out the long travail, to bear sorrows that may come, to impart our courage unto our sons wheresoever they may be.

And, O Lord, give us faith. Give us faith in Thee; faith in our sons; faith in each other; faith in our united crusade. Let not the keeness of our spirit ever be dulled. Let not the impacts of temporary events, of temporal matters of but fleeting moment -- let not these deter us in our unconquerable purpose.

With Thy blessing, we shall prevail over the unholy forces of our enemy. Help us to conquer the apostles of greed and racial arrogances. Lead us to the saving of our country, and with our sister nations into a world unity that will spell a sure peace -- a peace invulnerable to the schemings of unworthy men. And a peace that will let all of men live in freedom, reaping the just rewards of their honest toil.

Thy will be done, Almighty God.

Amen."

Franklin D. Roosevelt - June 6, 1944

How many today would be taken to court for what he said then?

President Bush is right, terrorism/violence is coming to the US

Here's a quote of this article:

War is coming to Tucson

You are not going to like what I have to say today. But it must be said, out loud. People are whispering about it now, but if we don’t face up to it, it will only get worse.

The violent incident in Cananea, Sonora, has hit the consciousness of Tucson squarely between the eyes. Northern Mexico is in a state of war. Who is fighting? That’s hard to say. Officially, it is the drug- and people-traffickers against each other and the government. But in Mexico, you can’t tell the players even with a program. You cannot assume the police or the Army are loyal to their commands. Many are working on their own.

In case you were out of town two weeks ago, about 50 armed men drove into Cananea and killed five policemen and two other residents. The men fled into the hills with police and soldiers in pursuit. In subsequent gunfights, 16 more were killed.

The U.S. State Department has issued a travel announcement saying narcotics-related “violence by criminal elements affects many parts of the country.”

This is with Mexico, but the same thing could happen with Al-Qaiada at some point coming across the same border.

Why we're losing the War at Home, too!

And I quote from the article:

Composed of mostly Salvadorans and other Central Americans—many of them undocumented—the gang has a uniquely international profile, with an estimated 8,000 to 10,000 members in 33 states in the United States (out of more than 700,000 gang members overall), and tens of thousands more in Central America. It's considered the fastest-growing, most violent and least understood of the nation's street gangs—in part because U.S. law enforcement has not been watching as closely as it might have. As authorities have focused their attention on the war against terrorism, MS-13 has proliferated.

The rise of violence in the world means that the End of the Church Age is near and the Rapture is getting closer!!

What does torture look like by Al-Qaida in Iraq

When you hear all of the Liberals in American saying how we're torturing our enemy, you get a different picture when you see what Al-Qaida is doing with Iragi's. Beware, these pictures are graphic and disgusting, but are needed to be displayed so that the moonbats of the Left can see we don't do these things.

Leadership: why we're losing the War

When you read Col. Hunt's first article you get the sense that all is not well with our military. When you read his second article you see that he's right, and all of Al-Qaida is reading this and laughing all the way to the IED storehouse.

I agree with his last comment in his last article:

We once had a president who got it; his name was Lincoln. He got fed up with the Union Army and fired a bunch of senior generals. He hired a drunk by the name of Grant, a man who was not even in the Army at the time, but who knew how to lead and how to be brutal when necessary. This was a man who knew how to win. Lincoln’s advisors told him, “Mr. President do you know that you just hired a drunk?” Lincoln said, “Find out what he is drinking, and give it to the other generals.”

Now, that my friends is leadership and we need it both in the military and the White House.

So true, so true!!!

After Pelosi’s Syria Visit, Dissidents Cower

And I quote part of the full article here:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Syria last month, and the related question of whether or not the U.S. should formally re-engage this Baathist republic, remains as controversial a topic on the streets of Damascus as it was in the days afterwards among Beltway bloggers. And, perverse as it may seem to some American liberals, it is the Syrians who are most sympathetic to their progressive values who have been most critical of Ms. Pelosi’s attempts to begin a dialogue with Syria’s government.

Basically, she's made matter worse in SPITE of what she thought!! But will she see the error of her ways? I don't think so. The elitism of Left basically states "Don't confuse me with the facts!"

“So much of Syria’s opposition was against Pelosi’s visit, against the E.U.’s talks with the regime,” Mr. al-Bunni explained. “They believe that these offers of friendship strengthen the regime and increase its totalitarian tendencies, and they’re angry.

And so should WE BE!!!!!!!!

The undoing of America from within

Read the loonnnggg article here.

It should be obvious by this point that there is and was enough known about the financing and characters involved at the highest levels of the Islamic Society of Boston that a reasonable man acting prudently would be compelled to look closer at this group, their connections, and their financing.

And that’s just what was done. And when those reasonable people found themselves disturbed by what they had found and began speaking out about it, they found themselves silenced by a lawsuit, their personal lives violated by subpoenas and their private emails exposed to the world.

“The intolerant export-version of Wahhabi Islam, driven by petrodollars, has made itself a scourge the world over.”

...

"If a truly moderate, reformed version of Islam is to emerge in the West, it won’t come through funding from the Near East, and it will happen because ordinary Americans insist that emerging institutions and organizations are compatible on a deep level with American values, not simply using the trappings of the Enlightenment West — our tolerance, our courts, our freedom of speech and association — to subvert those very things that make us great.

And it won’t happen if ordinary Americans are afraid to speak for fear of financial and personal ruin at the hands of malicious court filings."

Some Muslims from Saudi Arabia are using our courts to keep us quiet about their wrongs.

A real Iraqi discusses American Politics

Here's the first two paragraphs:

I wasn't surprised when I saw Al Qaeda's second-in-command, Ayman al-Zawahiri, appear on Al Jazeera to announce America's defeat last week, not long after U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid did. Zawahiri claims Al Qaeda has won, and Reid claims America has lost.

But from here in Baghdad, I see only a war that's still raging - with no victory in sight for Al Qaeda or any other entity. In fact, I see Al Qaeda on the ropes, losing support among my fellow Iraqis.

Again, you won't hear of it anywhere in the MSM.

Here's the writer's blog

Arab Countries $3 Trillion investment will be destroyed!!

This is being reported today:

"Estimate: Through 2020, Arab Countries Will Invest $3 Trillion

An international study carried out by Global Futures and Foresight estimate that the Arab countries will invest $3 trillion in tourism and in the air traffic industry through 2020.

Elsewhere in the daily, Syria's tourism minister said his country will need to invest $15 billion in the tourism industry through 2012. He said Syrian income from tourism in 2006 amounted to $2.8 billion, and the number of tourists had reached 3.1 million, in addition to another one million tourists of Syrian origin."

Source: Al-Hayat, London, May 2, 2007

How is this known?

Read in the Bible Revelation 16:17-21

Do I like this fact that this will happen? No, but that's not what I am suppose to do. It's to point out what WILL happen and to show that you don't have to go through this time.

John 3:16-19 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life. For God did not send the Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world might be saved through Him. He who believes in Him is not judged; he who does not believe has been judged already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. This is the judgment, that the Light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the Light, for their deeds were evil."

A view of Christian Martyrdom, a stark contrast to Islamic martyrdom

As it is reported by the Voice of the Martyrs web site regarding the three Christians that were tortured for over three hours to include being stabbed over a hundred times or more each as well as "gutted" by their assailants.

“Do not fear any of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life. He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. He who overcomes shall not be hurt by the second death.” (Rev. 2: 8-11)

Pray that God will use the testimony of our brothers, who were faithful until death, to build His Kingdom!!

Iran versus Israel, comparing Hitler with Iran and North Korea

When you see 150,000 women have been targeted by the "clothing police" in Iran whereas at the U.N. they're bashing Israel because of their stance on Palestine and the violence toward israel. It makes you wonder that "right" has now become "wrong" and wrong has become right.

However, if you look at Germany when Hitler was in power you see similar banning certain literature and proposing more of the same in order to pursue the "excellence" of Germany. Iran is doing the same thing, but in the name of Islam. Iran is getting closer and closer to North Korea's totalitarian regime's complete control over the population without the freedom each of us so deperately need.

Iraq is lost!! I don't think so!!!!!

I read this on the Internet all day long, but all of the MSMs are spreading nothing but scat.

The tide is turning.

But this really hurts the efforts of those there.

And of course you read this and again get the real deal.

And here for more info about turning the tide.

But based on a previous post, here's what COULD happen if we continue to listen and follow the Democrats.

"Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana, "The Life of Reason"

Kevin

Hypocrisy of the Democrats: the results of their "Plans"

Another article that won't make it in the MSM's web sites of various outlets of "news". A snippet:

Why are the Democratic Party, the mainstream press, the human rights groups, the UN leadership and the "social justice" crowd currently pushing policy that virtually guarantees an Iraq genocide? Are they not familiar with what transpired after the US abandoned South Vietnam to the communists? Can they not see that their cries for US withdrawal threaten to take Iraq to the same places as the killing fields of Cambodia and Bosnia and Rwanda?

As one with a degree in History, there is an oft paraphrased quote that I'd like to post in it's entirety:

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

You can read the accurate quote of a scanned image of page 284 of George Santayana's book "The Life of Reason"

It's nice to get accurate once in a while.

“No Substitute for Victory” article

When you read this article “No Substitute for Victory” The Defeat of Islamic Totalitarianism by John Lewis you get a real analysis of the thing going on in Iraq and worldwide. As Lewis points out:

If it is true that the majority of Middle Eastern people want a decent free life for themselves—as the vast majority of Japanese did after August, 1945—then they will rejoice over the excision of Totalitarian Islam from their midst. They will cheer for the freedom to make their own decisions about their own lives. They will react as the Japanese did—by embracing a constitutional government that renounces war, by purging state religion from the schools, by excising militarism from the media, and by building corporations rather than suicide cults. But if they do not, the unconditional surrender of Islamic Totalitarianism must be taken to mean its political defeat: There will be no negotiations over the place of Islam in government, for it has no such place.

But as the Bible points out, the things that are converging toward the "End of the Church Age" will enbolden the Totaliarian (including Islamic) countries in an all out war against the US and Israel where the world will be against them and all will come against Israel and will seem like Israel will be ground into the dust forever, but will be graciously and mightilyl saved by God Himself to show His Wonder against these enemies.

Read the book of Revelation in the Bible, since most of the book is about the 7 Tribulation years, you had better read it standing up and take notice.

Al Sharpton's real image: hypocrite and NOT a Reverend

Which church does Reverand Al Sharpton belong to? While he may be ordained as a preacher, he's not following the Bible or Jesus that I know. But I understand why he may be doing the things he's doing: inciting negative images to invoke change. But as most Bible scholars know, you don't change from the outside in, you change from the inside out!! Changing from the outside is is being religious, changing from the inside out is being a Christian believer!!

Update #1:

Here's a great commentary

Jason Whitlock About Imus on YouTube

What the troops now see with the Dems in power?

When you read this article you get the real reason why the troops are getting worried, and the Democrats think they've got it "in the bag," damn the troops and "we're heading for the election of 2008!"

So the Democrats are not really for the troops, the troops are only their pawns in their chess game for the 2008 election. What fools they are.

Fauxtography of the Brit Soldiers

Ok, it's not too much on the blogsphere, but here are a few pictures of the fauxtography of a few pictures of the British soldiers. Notice the cropped pictures and the one bloke on the right that shows his reverse peace sign that in England is the F*** Y** sign. Here's the original picture of the Brits. Notice the "upset" Brits on the right as well as the hand of the British lady's fingers.






Here's another picture, but it's been cropped by someone using Photoshop.












Here's another one that has not been cropped as close that the last one






But here's the picture of the REAL story. Notice the blokes hand with the reverse "peace sign" of two fingers!

You can find the reference to these pictures here and here for more info.

Speaker Nancy Pelosi has gone BONKERS!!

Isn't it just like a Democrat who does not understand one thing, but parades around as if they do. Look at this commentary "Has Pelosi Gone Bonkers?" and see if you don't agree!! And she was elected by San Francisco!!

Bonkers is right in this case.

But here are the real reasons why Pelosi is bonkers.

Old Hollywood versus the New Hollyweird

When you read this article entitle "Hollywood, Then & Now - Actors in Military Service", if you've got some class, your stomach should be growling right after you read it because of the lack of BALLS by those around you who won't step up to the bar and make some noise.

Couple this attitude with the general "latte laughing" Americans, it's no wonder we've got our head in the sand regarding these threats.

The Bible is scientifically accurate, again!!

The History Channel has a program called The Exodus Decoded which time stamps the Biblical version of the Exodus by Moses and gives scientific evidence of what the Bible claims as fact. What this evidence now does is confirm, once again, that the Bible is 100% accurate and believeable and is NOT to be taken lightly.

If the Exodus story is true, what about the book of Revelation then?

The choice is up to you, but I would surely gather some time and determine now before it's too late and the Rapture occurs and leaves you behind.

And this is not an April Fool's Joke!!!

Wireless Security: the straight scoop!!

When it comes to wireless security and you visit to see 70% of the over 9,000,000 unsecured wireless access points around the world. But what are users suppose to do?

See here for more information

Now let me see what I need to do to my WAP?

MSM killer app among us?

Since the release of Apple TV we've got a number of analysts that are discussing the disruptiveness of new technologies. Once such person wrote about where the Apple TV fits into the content and broadband pipeline. Very interesting thoughts and analysis. With the end result that the MSM will die a slow death!

I love disruptive technologies.

But ......

The MSM will look for a way to "lock in" viewers to control what we see and when.

But ....

Disruptive technologies are here to stay!!

New Child Martyr or Child Abuse?

How does this picture of a little girl wrapped in camo dress and a bomb vest strike you?

What does "Supporting the Troops Mean?"

What do you think Support the Troops mean to you?

Thomas Sowell does an excellent job of getting through the thick of things.

Having served in the USAF for 13 years, supporting the troops is about not undercutting their efforts or handcuffing them so that they can't win!! Winning shortens any war not matter what war you're waging.

"Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country." General George Patton

Personal Opinion in Public Policy

Ok, now I've heard it all. Sen. Clinton now states that personal opinions should not affect public policy

Here's Sen. Clinton's comments: "I disagree with what he said and do not share his (Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Peter Pace's controversial comment) view, plain and simple" and "It is inappropriate to inject such personal views into this public policy matter, especially at a time in which there are young men and women in such grave circumstances in Iraq, in Afghanistan, and around the world"
What a load of crap!!

First, you are ALWAYS going to get personal views injected into public policy ANYTIME you discuss any topic, so now is as good a time as any.

And, by the way, personal opinion will always affect public policy no matter when or where you define it, so this is a load of crap!!!

A view of Iraq: the most accurate and correct view!!!

There is nothing more important than to hear a reporter giving an accurate and correct response to the War in Iraq and to discount what the MSM is "reporting" to us in America.

Terrorist "Dry Runs" on US airlines just the tip of the iceberg of things to come!!

When you read Terrorists “Dry Runs” Keep Coming at Us, DHS Confirms by Annie Jacobson you get a cold chill up your neck, but that's only if you aren't aware of what's going on and are keeping your head under the sand. But then, as a Christian that knows that the "End of the Church Age is near!!" is really what this is all about based on numerous Bible verses that outline these things will happen and increase in intensity, duration, and number in the World.

Only a few numbers of Christians believe that things are getting so bad that "The End of This Age is Near!!" and believe that the last few years after 9/11 that this is a wakeup call for Believers to announce these issues just like Noah did. Most of those that lived during his time did not believe him and perished with the rising tide of the world wide flood. Then the whole world was devasted by the Flood, but after the Rapture most of the world will be killed by a number of catastophes.

The Church Age is nearing it's end, It could end tomorrow, next week, next year, or even in the next 20 years or so, but you can not deny that things are "lining up" for the Rapture to occur.

Are you a believer? You need to be so you can miss out on this terrible ending of this age. God Loves You.!!! Read John 3:16.

Making Lemonade from Lemons, or Manure from Scat

This Mini-Microsoft, Steve Jobs' Secret Diary, and a Potential New YouTube is one of the most appropriate approach to employees that I see most managers need to get a grip with:

If there is criticism, there must be actionable recommendations. I actually think "Mini-Microsoft," in general, does a rather nice job of this. The author does seem to generally consider the implications of what he is criticizing and discusses action items. In most cases, when I see posts like this, they are constant rants. Rants are just annoying, and I've never seen them accomplish much of anything.

To any executives who, rightly, are incredibly concerned about this practice: Having employees who care enough about a company to actually and consistently put their jobs at risk is incredibly rare, and having someone who appears to have the actual breadth of knowledge and capability to do this well is rarer still. I know, because I used to run teams that were supposed to be made up of folks like this -- and let me tell you, they are both really hard to find and incredibly valuable.

Chances are, anyone doing something like this right now will eventually get fired. Were that individual embraced instead -- sanctioned, but then given a more appropriate and effective podium -- I think her or she could make a huge positive contribution. The lesson for management is this: Don't lose an important asset simply because you can't find or use it properly -- or because you have your head up your ass.

This is about making a difference, and that goal should be top and center for executives and managers as well as the grunts who actually do the work.

As I see it, it's about trying to make a difference in where you work, not entrenchment to keep your job or anyone elses. It's about moving your business forward solving business problems that your customers bring to you.

But here's the crux: There are three ways advice is received: taken, pondered and acted upon; ignored; or fought. An employee blog can fix the "ignored" problem, but because executives resent the method, the blog may set up barriers to improvement -- blocking employees who are trying to do the same things by conventional means.

The real question, especially if there is a blog about a certain situation is why? The reason: No one in leadership is listening!! Or if they are, they have not communicated what they WILL do about it or setting up a priority of getting things fixed.

It's not different than the Walter Reed Hospital care, or for that matter care-less!! It's about the process, stupid!! It's about listening to your customer!!! It's about leadership owning the problems and the top of the leadership not creating an atmosphere of fear is problems are uncovered by those below.

Christians and their tools on Macs

OK, here's a beginning of a listings of a number of Christian and Mac related links.

1. Here's a reference aritcle concerning Greek and Hebrew LaTeX on Mac OS X
2. Here's a site concerning The XeTeX typesetting system
3. How about a free web site called The Blue Letter Bible that has free information and will never charge for what is available. I love the Greek and Hebrew linkages concerning the Bible information.
4. How about another free site of Biblical information called BibleNet that has a lot of info for sermons.
5. THE BEST Bible software for the Mac Accordance Bible Software
6. The Christian Mac Users Group
7. Go to Version Tracker for the most up to date software about the Bible.

Hope you enjoy these, I'll update and I find things.

Update #1: See Christian Web Masters where "Christian-Web-Masters is a place to fire the imaginations and the passions of Christian web masters, organizations, and churches with a vision for the web and cyberminstry." That says it all.

Christians: Called to be Squatters, Sin Less, or Sinless

When it comes to being a Christian, there are really three views of being one: being Carnal, Mature, or Arrogant. These three views are based on three perspectives on our lives concerning sin:

Carnal (Squatter) - dwelling in our sins.
Mature (Sin Less) - dealing with our sins.
Arrogant (Sinless) - denying our sins.

Now let's take a look at these three perspectives.

The difference between the Carnal and the Mature is the fact that the Carnal Christian has NOT come to the point of realizing they've been forgiven versus the Mature Christian acknowledges and confesses their sins and moves on. The Carnal Christian for whatever reason either has not been told that their sins are forgiven or does not believe their sins are forgiven. A Carnal Christian is a Squatter, which by definition is "a person who unlawfully occupies an uninhabited building or unused land", but in the Carnal Christian's perspective they are mentally in a place where they are "legally" not suppose to be. The Carnal Christian's verse to get our of their situation is Phl 3:13 - "Brethren, I do not regard myself as having laid hold of {it} yet; but one thing {I do:} forgetting what {lies} behind and reaching forward to what {lies} ahead,"

For the difference between both the Mature and Arrogant it boils down to two perspectives: either I sin less or I'm sinless. The difference between being sinless and sin less is that the Mature person that sins less has not reached perfection while the Arrogant, by virture of their position as a Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ, believe they are sinless, i.e. they believe they don't sin. Sinless perfection is "I don't sin!" whereas the sin less means I don't sin as much as the Carnal Christian, but I still sin and I have to watch out that I don't fall into the trap of thinking I'll sin no more. The Arrogant ones who believe they don't sin believe in this is a boat load of hogwash! The verse for the arrogant is Pro 16:19 - "It is better to be humble in spirit with the lowly, than to divide the spoil with the proud."

You can tell if someone is mature or not, if they leave an organization, church, business, or even an event of some sort and people miss them! As watching T.D Jakes today he states from his Mom that if you go to someones house for a visit you need to be missed because you've ADDED something to their life! You have not been a sponge and been there only for the taking. If you feel depleted, then those around you have only taken and have not contributed back.

So, which are you? A squatter, sin less, or sinless?

This is how we should support our troops!!!

After reading the last post, I thought I'd tell you what you SHOULD do.

When you see this video clip you'll notice that the troops do NOT act like what my previous post aritcle author had stated about our troops. Now where do you see anything like, it's like night and day. While on a occasion you make see a service member milk something like this for all it's worth, most do not.

As I sit here on a deserved day off, I can use this time to acknowledge some things regarding getting support. It's might be a long way around, but you'll see how it ends, so bear with me.

My sister, Jill, teaches high schools civics in Denver and she does a fantastic job of it. In fact, she was nominated for an award that the Daughers of the American Revolution gives to outstanding civic teachers. While she did not make the cut she still is outstanding in my book.

Another time just recently my sister Jill put together a Colorado Supreme Court event at her school that is recorded here and here concerning her event. Basically the Court showed up at her school and presented two real cases in front of the kids to show them how things are done. I was not able to make it but it was a sight to be hold for sure. More accolades for my sister were shown when they gave her a memento for her work. Good on ya, Sis!!!! You always make me proud!!

But by far the greatest thing my sister has done, at least from a personal perspective, was when I had a day off and her high school had a Veterans Day event she invited me to attend which the kids put on. They did a really outstanding job with the production. But either I forgot or she did not mention to me was that near the end they called out to each of the service veterans that were in attendance and asked them to come down and stand behind their respective flags of their services when they were called out. I was not expecting it at all, but when they finally called my service, the Air Force, I had a grin on my face as I walked down the bleecher steps and onto the basketball court to take my place behind the young person dressed the Air Force's military uniform and flag and the other AF vets. Needless to say, when all of the services were called the kids gave us a standing ovation for our service.

As I took in their clapping of thanks in a heart felt stride I looked around to see all of their faces and then caught my sisters face. She was wiping tears from her eyes as the kids were giving all of the Vets the standing ovation. That did it for me! My heart got so big in my chest that if I still had on my Air Force dress blues I probably would have popped a button or two off of the coat. When total strangers and your family are giving you their thanks for your service, especially from teenage kids, there is nothing like that feeling of pride and satisfaction of having served our great country.

I will never forget that moment when my efforts were respected by those I served and thanked, and neither will the kids that come home at the DFW airport in the video on the above web site.

Those thank yous mean the world to those that have sacrificed, but they mean a whole lot more to both the service member AND their famiies when thanks are given on the spur of the moment, especially for those that have made the greatest sacrifice, of giving of their lives, to serve others. May we acknowledge those more than those of us that are still living.

No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology. - Ronald Reagan

It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. Gen. George Patton.

The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. Gen George Patton

Update #1: From a post on a web site: Figures this [video] was in Texas, a red state. It makes me mad that the blue states (NJ, PA) I grew up in have shifted so far to the left that they oughta be in the Pacific Ocean. When I was in the military there were just as many Yankees as there were Southeners. But not anymore, it’s all based on party now. I spoke to a recruiter on my plane last week who said the red states were filling in the ranks and nobody from the blue states were joining up. Conservative America is fighting this war. The media should report THAT! Amen to that.

Update #2: While my previous post was about the less than stellar troops that go into the military, here's one who gives the more prevelant view: The immortal words of 2LT Mark Daily. There are a few young men, not kids, that understand the meaning of service and sacrifice.

Can we really support these troops?

After reading Can we really support these troops? I say, not these, but since this story is one sided toward and having served in our military as an officer, I say that most do not talk like this. But then I'd have to say, not all military personnel talk like this in as much that most businesses have some of their employees that talk different than the "party line" of an organization which you identify with in this article. What is interesting is that you could say the same thing about doctors, lawyers, politicians, etc and the list could go on and on as you do about these soldiers. Why? Read what the definition of mercenary is as an adjective:

mercenary |ˈmərsəˌnerē| adjective - derogatory (of a person or their behavior) primarily concerned with making money at the expense of ethics

While the noun is usually for military styled vocations, the adjective states it such as way as to include mercenary doctors, mercenary lawyers, mercenary sales professionas, mercenary teachers, mercenary CXOs (CEO, CFO, etc), anyone for that matter.

But the one thing that I will defend you, Ms. Terpstra is on that yes, it is your right to give both sides of the story regarding this War on Terror. Why? So we can discuss the ethics of what is being done as a country, a society, and our culture and to prevent our nation from becoming a form of Hitler's or Sadamm Hussein's former empire. But I don't think this will happen anytime soon in our country.

What I'll have you know Ms. Terpstra is that while I was in the military during the first Gulf War I was considered a "liberal," but now having been out and in some business workplaces I am considered a "conservative" regarding my views, even though they've changed little during all of these years. In fact, I see very little difference between the military, businesses, and the educational establishments. Why? Because you're dealing with people.

So, Ms. Terpstra, I can say the same thing about any other organization regarding these same "attitudes" As John C. Maxwell states in his book There's No Such Thing As "Business" Ethics: There's Only One Rule For Making Decisions there is only one rule: ethics!

When wrong becomes right and right becomes wrong, they ethics has been tossed out the window and any country will decline if it follows this path. When you read the Old Testament in the Bible you read that God judged Israel because their country was wicked in His Eyes and even those in power in Israel killed their Prophets of old for telling the truth about their wickedness and wanting them to change for the good.

So what would you think of these propoganda films put out by Palestine on their TV to their children which have been cataloged by the Palenstine Media Watch for those that do not have access to this info?

So, do I support these troops? Yes, when I compare our troops with what is being done by Islamic extremists around the world. But as a last resort, I pray that our nation wakes up to the injustices of those in our own country that believe in our own "superiority" as a nation is "guaranteed" by God BECAUSE we're American's, not by our character toward Him and others.

Loyalty! Loyalty to what?

I recently had a discussion with someone about loyatly. Now the dictionary describes loyatly as: the quality of being loyal to someone or something. If you are loyal to your county then it means that you'rel loyal to it's constitution and the priciples that it holds dear. But the sad part is that some in the business world want you to be loyal to their company and they misconstrue that disagreement with company leadership is being disloyal. But too often the label of being disloyal is really about disagreeing with the various aspects of decisions, policies, etc concerning a company, not being disloyal.

As has been bantered about in businsss magazines, if you begin to believe your own press releases, you're way too serious and are in danger of heading toward the "business loony-toon" of what people will believe about you and your organization.

I, personally, believe that we should be loyal to the Truth, and to our country and to an organization that follows ethical principles. I am a sinner just like the next person, but I try to maintain high standards and not to fall into the sinner trap of saving myself for myself sake and standing up for Truth. When our government or any organization seeks to deviate from these norms, I'll defend what is right and may not go on an offensive to right something, but at some point we all need to be counted for doing what's right.

Years ago, I got this revelation from a boss I had in the military. He expected loyalty from those that worked for him. Knowing what this person was about, his insecurity showed in everthing he did and to those around him. Loyalty is earned, just like respect. But understand, even if loyalty is earned be aware that loyalty that is earned can go wrong as time goes on. So, when those in authority expect you to be loyal, tell them that you are loyal to the truth and that being disagreeing is not being disloyal. Why? Because if I tell you what you want to hear I'll lying to you and if you make decisions about something based on my input, then you'll make good decisions on bad info. But once I've told you my thoughts and you understand them and you make a decision, I'll do my best to implement what you want done.

So, if you want me to be loyal to you, then make sure you want the Truth about things and don't "skew" what I'm telling you to try and trick me into what you're thinking. This is manipulation, not good leadership.

The Christian Church persecutes its own members

Mat 7:1-5 "Do not judge so that you will not be judged. For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you. Why do you look at the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me take the speck out of your eye,' and behold, the log is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye."

Too often Christians, while well meaning by those that are more religious than Christian, try and tell someone that they need help without seeing that they need help themselves. Imagine walking into a hospital and you see someone with a tumor on their face or someone limping with a broken leg and you tell that them that they have their specific problem and telling them they need help. Just telling someone they have a problem is not helping at all, it's only part of the solution. But it breaks down to these three steps:

1. Admitting the problem is the first part of the process of getting better, but that's where most people stop who view others and their problems, they only tell the other person they have a problem. But the key here is knowing EXACTLY what their problem is!! IF you don't know the whole situation you can make the problem worse much like a doctor who misdiagnoses a disease. You could cause irreparable harm if you don't understand the issue exactly and completely, and most do not even know the complete problem even though they've convinced themselves they do. You can't know everything about a person and what they are thinking and feeling although SOME of an issue may become apparent.
2. Providing help is the second step to getting better. This is where you get somewhat involved with that person. If you are blessed somehow and in some way, then you are to be a blessing to others by providing what you are blessed with to those that are without. To be stingy with what you have is to be selfish. Pointing out a problem requires dispensing encouragement or "soul salve" to the situation. If you don't provide that "soul salve" you do like 1 Cor 13:1-3 describes, lots of work without love makes your effort worthless.
3. Recognize you may have a different problem than the person you are helping. Just because you're helping out a person who needs your help such as a "tumor on their face", do NOT forget you have problems yourself such as "bone cancer"! Pointing out their problems without seeing yours makes you a hypocrite and to think that you don't have a tumor on the face makes you better than having bone cancer is to be short sighted.

But, what is Jesus saying above? He's stating that you should work on yourself first and get your own self fixed before you fix others. In other words, those that look to others to fix them are those that are hypocrites and do NOT want to look at their own problems and have self justified their own actions as if there is nothing wrong with what they are doing themselves. Self righteous and scoffers are of a similar vein and they've come to believe that their shit does not stink!

So, what is the correct approach? Try reading 1 Cor 11:23-34, but especially verses 27-31 as well as James 3:11-18 "Does a fountain send out from the same opening {both} fresh and bitter {water?} Can a fig tree, my brethren, produce olives, or a vine produce figs? Nor {can} salt water produce fresh. Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and {so} lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic. For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy. And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace."

So, if only criticism comes out of your mouth, you're like the well that brings out salt water, but if you dispense encouragement, then that's the fresh, cool, clear water that people need. But it also depends on the amount of salt versus fresh water that comes out of your mouth. If 80% of your words you speak are criticisms, then it gives a glimpse of what your heart is like, it contains salt water as well, because what comes out of the mouth is what is in the heart of the individual.

It reminds me of what my mother use to say, "If you can't say anything nice, do say anything at all." Good advice, and it provides cool, clear, refreshing water to a person's soul and allows them to move forward in life rather than being held back by their "sins" of their past.

As I saw on the show "Nanny 911" a couple of weeks back the nanny stated a rather interesting point of about a kid acting up: negative acting up by kids is the only way they get some attention and if parents would provide positive attention and encouragement to their kids, there will be a big reduction in negative acting out and will result in positive actions from then on by their kids.

It also reminds me of also of what Jesus states. In Matt 18:21-35 Jesus uses a rather interesting word in Greek. In verse 24 the Greek word is murioi or MURIOI and while translated $10,000, it probably really means $10,000,000 or the number is innumerable. But in the next verse Jesus states "But since he did not have the means to repay" really is best understood that while the servant would have LIKED to repay the King, the servants debt was so overwhelming him and his family and there is not WAY he could have repaid the King even though the servant WANTED to repay him.

This is also a picture of Jesus Christ's and each individual effort on our behalf toward God the Father's Judgement about our sins. There is NO POSSIBLE way to repay Jesus Christ for our sins, it is impossible!! But Jesus forgives us of our sins and as my wife explains that as Jesus has forgive each of us our innumerable sins, we are to forgive those around us, even though as Jesus stated about his own death in Luk 23:34 "But Jesus was saying, 'Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing.'" because they THOUGHT they were doing right and were not. People's own additions prevent them from seeing the truth about themselves and others.

So, what you say to others really says a lot about what is in your heart and so that if criticisms and condemnation of others is your normal way of doing things then it says a lot about your heart toward others, either an arrogance or insecurities. The corrective actions then become, fix yourself first and then "if you can't say anything nice, don't say anything at all."

Telling the Truth

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else." - Theodore Roosevelt

Everyone should be told the truth, especially at the point at which it will change a persons direction in their life.

I'll have more on this later.

A Soldier's Response to the MSM and anyone else...

"It is proper to demand more from the man with exceptional advantages than from the man without them. A heavy moral obligation rests upon the man of means and upon the man of education to do their full duty by their country. On no class does this obligation rest more heavily than upon the men with a collegiate education, the men who are graduates of our universities. Their education gives them no right to feel the least superiority over any of their fellow-citizens..." - Theodore Roosevelt

Here's a snippet of what the soldier wrote, and I agree 100%:

I am tired of the Democrats whining for months on T.V., in the New York Times, and in the House and Senate that we need more troops to win the war in Iraq, and then when my Commander in Chief plans to do just that, they say that is the wrong plan, it won’t work, and we need a “new direction.”

Only those doing the work should speak up, not those in charge of them. You can't speak for those in the trenches unless you're there.

Bush's Troop Surge causing Insurgents to run

Ok, let me see if I get this straight. Bush has announced that he's going to send around 20,000 new troops to Iraq to enhance the security of Iraq and the insurgents are heading out of Iraq!! Get the info here about what's happening.

DEATH SQUAD leaders have fled Baghdad to evade capture or killing by American and Iraqi forces before the start of the troop “surge” and security crackdown in the capital.

Ok newly elected Democrats, it looks like YOUR policies and approaches are failing, so why don't you resign now that we've figured out you're failures at governmental leadership in foreign policiy matters!!!

John Nelson Darby's view of rich and poor

I 100% agree with Darby's comment about the rich and poor:

Darby was kind and humble in nature and his compassion and generosity towards the poor was without bounds. He observed that "Christ preferred the poor; ever since I have been converted so have I. Let those who like society better have it. If I ever get into it . . . I return sick at heart. I go to the poor; I find the same evil nature as in the rich, but I find this difference: the rich, and those who keep their comforts and their society, judge and measure how much of Christ they can take and keep without committing themselves; the poor, how much of Christ they can have to comfort them in their sorrows. That, unworthy as I am, is where I am at home and happy."

Nothing can be more truthful about the rich and poor view of Jesus Christ. It's not about what you keep, it's about what you do with what you've been given.

If you want to know more about John Darby, take a read here. The reason why he is so revered is because his emphasis was on Jesus Christ, not his own ministry, just like John the Baptist's and Moses: Jesus Christ is who is emphasized!!!

It is not about me, though, but it is about He, Jesus Christ!!

Bethlehem, formerly Christian and the birth place of Jesus, is now mostly Muslim

As stated in this article, "The town's Christian population has dwindled from more than 85 per cent in 1948 to 12 per cent of its 60,000 inhabitants in 2006."

and ...

"There are reports of religious persecution, in the form of murders, beatings and land grabs.

Meanwhile, the breakdown in security is putting off tourists, leading to economic hardship for Christians, who own most of the town's hotels, restaurants and souvenir shops. ...

The town, according to the Cardinal, is being 'steadily strangled'.

The sense of a creeping Islamic fundamentalism is all around in Bethlehem."

The time for the Rapture is getting closer and closer, will you be left behind? Will you be here to face the Billions of deaths that will occur during the Seven Year Tribulation that Muslims THINK they are working for God? Will you face the consequences of your actions during this period of time as the Muslims, who think they are acting for God, will burn in Hell just like Satan and will gladly behead you during this period of time?

Senator Boxer Rescinds "Certificate of Achievement" to CAIR

Finally, some sense from Senator Boxer. she takes back an "Certificate of Achievement award for the organization CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) for it's ties to terrorists. In fact, the press release states

"Former officials from CAIR are currently in prison, serving time for terrorist-related crimes involving Hamas and Al-Qaeda. In fact, CAIR can thank Mousa Abu Marzook, the second in command of Hamas today, for its very existence."

Now, what's next to tackle to rid America of these victims? Let's first start deporting those that that don't belong. Second, trying tightening up our borders. Third, getting Iragi-American's to done some military uniforms and go fight the terrorists just like the Japanese-Americans did during WWII, etc.

Snowed In

This is what it looks like outside my door. It is a long way to get to my car in order to see how far i have to be prepared for going to work tomorrow.

The Red Cross, the Red Crescent, the Red Star of David

You all know about the Red Cross, and you probably know about the Red Cross and Red Crescent, but were you aware of the Red Star of David, also known as Mogen David Adom?

Send donations to help Israel with emergency funds, etc.

What saying Merry Christmas and others mean to me

I work with the public and there has been a lot of commentary recently about whether one that works for or with the public should say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays, or some other form of holiday greeting. But what most people are not realizing is that when I say Merry Christmas it is MY expression to YOU of what I wish for YOU! It is MY gift to You!

When I say Merry Christmas it is because that is what I celebrate and I'd like you to have a Merry Christmas, too! It's my expression to you, but guess what? You do not have to receive it, just as if I offer you a gift, encouragement, or even a compliment, you do NOT have to accept it, you can politely turn it down or say nothing at all. And I would not be bothered by it other than wondering if things are not going well with you and maybe I could help.

On the other hand, if you are Jewish and respond to my Merry Christmas with Happy Hanukkah I consider that your comment is YOUR expression of what you believe in and I'm not offended by it. In fact, if you responded with a Happy Hanukkah after my Merry Christmas then I'd be more than happy to say "Thank You" for expressing your faith to me.

So, in the future, if you are offended by my saying Merry Christmas, and I think you'd be the minority, then don't say anything at all and just walk away. Or better yet, say what postive message you'd return so that I can participate in your good tidings.

Oh, here's a link to 350 ways to say Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you and those around you.

How the Koran treats women

You know, if American women would wisen up to what Islam teaches about women they just might want to send the Muslims back to the Middle East. Women, is that what you want in America as described by the Koran:

* If a Muslim woman is murdered, her beneficiary is entitled to one-half dyyeh-blood money, or compensation-as that of a murdered Muslim male.

* A woman's testimony in the court of law is worth one-half that of a man.

* A woman must provide four witnesses to substantiate her claim of being raped.

* A man can divorce his wife by simply saying to her, "I divorce you," three times.

* A divorced woman is entitled to a miserly compensation and automatically forfeits her rights to her children.

* Women are barred from the lucrative and powerful cast of clergy.

* Husbands are entitled to punish their wives corporally.

* Men are allowed to have four wives at any one time and as many concubines as they desire and can afford.

If you want to read more, read it here

What do you think? Are you willing to put up with that?

Jeane Kirkpatrick, RIP, her 1984 speech to Republican Convention as a Democrat

Jeane Kirkpatrick's death today is sad for America because we've lost a very smart lady. But here's a speech she gave in 1984 that gives light to how far down the slippery slope we've gone. Here's what she started speech with:

Thank you very much for that warm welcome.

Thank you for inviting me.

This is the first Republican Convention I have ever attended.

I am grateful that you should invite me, a lifelong Democrat. On the other hand, I realize that you are inviting many lifelong Democrats to join this common cause.

I want to begin tonight by quoting the speech of the president whom I very greatly admire, Harry Truman, who once said to the Congress:

"The United States has become great because we, as a people, have been able to work together for great objectives even while differing about details."

He continued:

"The elements of our strength are many. They include our democratic government, our economic system, our great natural resources. But, the basic source of our strength is spiritual. We believe in the dignity of man."

That's the way Democratic presidents and presidential candidates used to talk about America.

Twenty two years and we're still going down this route.

Hollywood and Islamic terrorists

It has come to some people's attention that Hollywood is completely out of touch with reality in the world and is so PC that it "just doesn't get it".

Now take a look at what was televised on an arab speaking TV station: An interview with the Saudi government-appointed executioner for Mecca. The interview aired on the Lebanese LBC TV on November 4, 2006

The REAL analysis of the outcome of the 2006 election

There is nothing better than watching a good "down home" analysis of what happened to the GOP and the Dems in the 2006 Election. It's a wake up call for sure, but will the GOP hit the snooze button?

Open Document Format is now an ISO standard

Located here is the information regarding the ratification of Open Document Format (ODF) as an ISO standard 26300.2006. This is a great deal for governments such as the state of Massachusetts where it is in a broil of a fight with Microsoft over this very thing. From the web site, I quote:

Carol Sliwa at ComputerWorld has a hat trick of excellent stories just now on ODF in Massachusetts, based on over 300 emails secured under the Massachusetts Public Records Law (the local analogue of the Federal Freedom of Information Act), as well as research into lobbying records and reports. The longest and in some ways most intriguing article focuses on Microsoft's lobbying efforts in Massachusetts, and on State CIO Louis Gutierrez's efforts to counter those efforts. One of the two shorter articles (they will appear as side bars in the print issue) provides details on the various individuals - both Democrat and Republican - as well as associations that Microsoft hired in the last two years to work both sides of the aisle in Massachusetts. The third and final article reports more narrowly on Massachusetts' decision in the summer of 2005 not to approve Microsoft's XML formats as an open standards.

Open is always better.

Spirit of America in Iraq

Here's some good being done in Iraq WITHOUT the MSMs help in getting the word out. Every little bit helps those that are in need.

What Liberal don't get

This defines liberals perfectly:

Proverbs 18:2-3: A fool finds no pleasure in understanding, but delights in airing his own opinions. When wickedness comes, so does contempt, and with shame comes disgrace.

You can read more abou it here.

Have you ever noticed the contempt liberals have to conservatives and others that are not as "educated" as they are?

Ahmadinejad's letter to Americans

Mr Ahmadinejad, as president of Iran and as a response to your letter to us Americans, at least I say and probably more will say the same if you ask them. The reason why we won't is because what we have and what you don't: common sense and decency. Your own country is bad enough, but why would we want to go backwards toward your problems?

Naw, you can have your own world. But I don't want to be judgemental, Jesus Christ will visit you soon enough and my concern is that you won't listen to Him, at your peril.

Oh, the Arabic writing, It says "No Surrender!"

Even if you were to kill me like a common criminal, I'll forgive you, but you'll answer to Jesus Christ for my death and He's a lot more perfect in His Judgement than I am.

France is headed for??? The 751 No-Go Zones of France

This is a rather interesting post, and I quote here:

"The 751 No-Go Zones of France.....places in France that the French state does not control"

There you have it!

France is on it's way out, but then .....

What about this little piece?

Are HOAs becoming like Islamic Sharia Law of US?

Not quite, you're not going to be killed because you switched HOAs, but it's progressively getting worse.

So, what direction is France headed for? The US?

Militant Islamists are emboldened by US elections

What did I say in a few blogs back

It's just going to get worse because Jesus Christ is coming back soon!

2006 Nobel Prize Winner: Mohammed Yunus's Microloan

Now this is how it should be done, follow along as see how Mohammed uses social networking to get people out of poverty.

When you read here you see how they started their work in the 1970s.

I'll have more when I have more time.

Terrorists want you to vote Democrat!!

Do the Democrats really get it? We're playing right into their hands, those terrorists.

As it been said before, who would bin Laden vote for and vote the opposite if you want to remain secure. Why? Because they will STILL come after us even if the Democrats win.

President Bush "On The Record": A Must Listen To!!!

For those liberals that point the finger at Bush as a bumbling idiot, listen to this hour long "Off The Record" interview with journalists. While he may not be the best "public speaker" I can't help but think his heart is in the right place regarding our country.

In Michael Barone's "An Interview With President Bush" you'll hear President Bush speak his mind.

When wrong is right and right is wrong

When wrong is right and right is wrong, things will go down fast toward the pits. No force border enforcement details to a certain degree the one wrong done by a border agent WAY outways the MANY WRONGS of the illegal alien smuggling drugs into this country!!

RIIIGGGHHHTTTTT!!!!!

CNN's showing of Insurgent sniper film, what we're up against, and that we'll win

Ok, now you've heard probably about CNN's airing of an insurgent's sniper video of killing an American GI in Iraq and showing the downed soldier on the ground. Personally I think this is despicable for CNN to do this (or as they are now called Caliphate News Network) by others.

But, we are winning this. See Sniper shot that took out an insurgent killer from three quarters of a mile about the American doing the right thing. But wait, there's more to the picture here.

Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M24 rifle, Staff Sgt Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier.

His quarry stood nonchalantly in the fourth-floor bay window OF A HOSPITAL in battle-torn Ramadi, still clasping a long-barrelled Kalashnikov. Instinctively allowing for wind speed and bullet drop, Shadow's commander aimed 12 feet high.

A single shot hit the Iraqi in the chest and killed him instantly. It had been fired from a range of 1,250 metres, well beyond the capacity of the powerful Leupold sight, accurate to 1,000 metres.

You'll never hear of this story on the MSM such as CNN or CBS news. But then again, the real American Snipers need our help in getting things the government is less able to do. Of course, you can also get a feel for what these guys are up to here and todays capture of insurgents booty. Lastly, I've never heard of this site, Operation Iraqi Freedom , until today.

Keep on Brothers in Arms!!!

Looking at Two Different Islams

When you read this article "Between the Owner of Grameen [Bank] and Bin Laden" that was posted today, it makes you wonder about the true Islam. It also makes you wonder about America.

From one point of view bin Ladin wants the power to control everyone and get them under his thumb while Yunus, who recently won the Noble Peace prize for creating micro loans to poor people, wants to free and empower his people to better themselves and allow them to "own their own pond" rather than just be given a fish or even better yet to learn how to fish. But one thing is interesting: the liberal attitude in America about spending money on education rather than the military is being sent, or at least acknowledged, but those in the Third World.

But the difference between America's military and bin Laden's is: bin Laden wants to control you through force and threats, America's military is mostly defensive unless provoked.

America, don't lose the faith at this time during our election about President Bush and his direction. We'll win in the long run.

Israel's Sanhedrin: The Continuation of Beginning of the End of the Church Age

Ever since the modern founding of the Jewish nation by the gathering of the Jews to their native soil, a lot of events have been occuring that show a progression toward the end of the Church Age as we know it and the beginning of the Tribulation and the Millineum, the 1000 year reign of Jesus Christ as the King of Kings and Lord of Lords where today's believers will reign with Him.

But how do I know this? What I find realy interesting is the fact that Israel has now re-established the Jewish Sanhedrin based on the Torah and the Christian's Bible as of 2005. Take a look at the web site for more information. But wait, there's more.

There is also more information concerning of the re-establishment of the Third Temple with not only making of the priests garments, but cornerstones for the Third Temple have already been made and are ready to be laid.

You can also trace the history of the making of the High Priests garments, including the chemical found in three dye-producing snails in the Mediterranean: Murex brandaris, Murex trunculus and Thais haemastoma. Things are lining up with event after event.

You can find more detailed accounts of events and expectations leading up to today's timeframe and the convergence of these events pointing to the eventual Rapture of the Church and the rise of the Jewish nation to a pinacle. Events outside of israel are also on the rise.

The Rapture is coming, then the Trubulation where a vast majority of the world's population will be killed. Are you ready?

France is "under attack" by Muslim youths

You won't find this article French police face 'permanent intifada' on the front page news in America's MSM (Main Street Media). This is the part that is so disturbing " 'Many youths, many arsonists, many vandals behind the violence do it to cries of 'Allah Akbar' (God is Great) when our police cars are stoned," he said in an interview." And this is a religion of peace?

If France is getting this now, who's next? Britian? The US?

Yep!!

Unless we take this War on Terror a little more seriously, we'll be next. As Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) put in a poem about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group. Here it is:

When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent; after all I was not a communist.

When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent; after all I was not a social democrat.

When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out; after all I was not a trade unionist.

When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.

However, you can now use it to for what the Muslims are doing rather than the Nazis. But, we've hopefully learned from our past and will do something more substantial. But the left is doing everything to undermine this effort based on false logic and assumption about where these attitudes are going.

Oh, and how do I know this? Try the article about the stars of BBC:We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News, they state it, believe it.

Islamic terorist watching us using our technology

While those that familiar with this type of "warfare" may not be surprised, those that aren't may be shocked!!!

Are you?

What are you going to do?

Get back to your latte?

Think this won't happen to us?

To You?

Think again!!!

Wars and rumors of wars (Matt 24:6) #1

It's on the "run up" here, there will not be any more peace as we know it and most Christians in American have their head in the clouds: so heavenly bound that they are of no earthly good.

A Lawyer's Mistakes about a Mac

You know, the one thing that I don't like is that most people who "switch back" to PC really don't want to change and in nearly every case that I've come across, they want the Mac to act like a PC and have not: taken the time to learn, ask the right questions or are willing to pay to learn how to get the same productivity out of a Mac that they do on a PC.

In reading Larry Bodine's article Commentary: Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree about his hard time with his Mac it really makes you wonder. So I'll go through his commentary point by point to answer what "short comings" he came up with and some of the answers to his problems.

1. I realized it was time to unload the silvery box of frustration when I had to buy a "Dummies" book on how to operate it. I'm smart; I shouldn't need this. Aren't Macs supposed to be intuitive and easy to learn? My mistake. OK, I don't care how much you know, but when you switch to something new there is ALWAYS a learning curve of some sort. Most people who switch to a Mac take between 2-4 months of getting used to it before they exclaim "I've got it now" and take off. Larry bought it May 2006 and was right at the launching off point but decided to quit.

2. I pretended that I liked the one button mouse. I quickly started using click + command keys (and other keyboard shortcuts). I really missed the little scrolling wheel in the center of the mouse. Uh, Larry, you should have had a two button mouse with your Mac called a Mighty Mouse since the mouse was introduced Aug 2005! If you have a Mighty Mouse and take a look under System Preferences > Keyboard/Mouse you'll see that there is are FOUR buttons to choose from, not just the one and has 360 degrees of scrolling, up and down, left and right.

3. What drove me nuts was that I would open Word for Mac and couldn't delete files while I was in Word. There is no File | Delete option. So the documents took up space on my hard drive, until someone told me I had to find the document in Finder and then move it into the trash from there. This seemed stupid to me; I just wanted to highlight a file and tap "delete." Ok, so there is no File > Delete in Mac's Word. You got me there. I don't have any answer at the moment. But one thing is for sure, these documents will not take up space on your hard drive unless you leave them there. Deleting files when you're in the Finder is no different than being at My Computer's C: drive.

4. Word files transferred from the Mac were missing pictures. PowerPoint files transferred from the Mac would lose their formatting. PCs and Macs are not compatible, regardless of what they say. While everything would be nice that things would be that easy, but programs and OSes are getting so big that there are problems, both with Mac, Windows, AND Linux. I'll have to check this one out myself and get back to you.

5. Doing a simple screen capture was an immense chore. On a PC you just press Alt and tap PrtScr. With the Mac I had to download and launch special programs to accomplish this simple task. Uh, no you didn't! Since the beginning of the Mac, using the Shift + Cmd + 3 key you're able to take a picture of your Macs screen. Or, under Applications > Utilities there is a program called Grab that does what you want to do with LOTS of differing options than a simple Alt + PrtScr keystrokes. So you were not aware of this, but if you find under the Finder the Help menu and typed in Print Screen in the search box you would have found a special help document called "What's it called on my Mac" describing all of the differences between your Mac and Windows. If you do screen capturing frequently, then put the app (drag and drop the app icon) onto the dock and with one click you launch the app. If you read up on "short cuts" under the Help menu you'll find a ton of ways to doing more with less keystrokes.

6. I didn't even bother with the Mac's iCal or Mail, which required me to buy an @mac.com address. Instead, I went straight to Outlook for Mac. A lot of the software for Mac -- such as AOL for Mac OS X -- was dumbed down and missing may features of the current PC versions. Ok, here's where you were told wrong information, you are not required to buy a .Mac account for calendar or Mail, but you are unclear what you needed to do here. Are you sharing your calendars with others? Again, you are NOT required to buy .Mac for your Mac. True, some of the software may be as you say "dumb down" compared with a Mac, but then again, this is a part of the Widows marketshare. But it is not about "dumbing down" the software, but more appropriately Mac software that is a "remake" of Windows software may have "less features and bells and whistles" than Mac software, so it is not "dumbed down" by any means. But remember, there are normally equivilents of the more robust Windows software for the Mac. Check out versiontracker.com to see what's available.

7. I run several Web sites, all optimized for IE 5.5 or higher. I couldn't operate my own Web sites with the Mac. Here's the number one problem of PC users do NOT get: Microsoft purposely creates it's OWN standards for web sites using it's OWN technology and therefore it "is optimized" for Windows!! If you were to go to the World Wide Web Consutium and read this "The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops interoperable technologies (specifications, guidelines, software, and tools) to lead the Web to its full potential. W3C is a forum for information, commerce, communication, and collective understanding" you'd find WHY MS stuff doen't work well with Safari, Firefox and others. If you'd follow W3C standards for your web site, you'd reduce your problems considerably and EVERYONE would be able to see your site, not just Windows users.

8. As a consumer, you have every right to choose what you want to use, but one thing that I tell everyone is that you can give feedback to Apple concerning their products just as you can give feedback to Microsoft concerning their products. Don't just complain online, write the companies and tell them what you think.

9. Then the hard drive croaked on me after only three months of owning the machine. I couldn't tell what was going wrong and had to hire someone for $125 an hour to come over and tell me what the heck was happening. Apple replaced it for free, but I became leery of what other hardware would fail unexpectedly. Well, this is nothing new, and it's not an Apple thing, it's a hard drive thing probably. Regarding the $125 an hour you spent to troubleshoot your Mac, you would have been in the same boat in your PC troubleshooting the problem. Or, you could have taken the time to make an appointment for FREE at your local Apple store and found this out. And by the way, ALL computer hardware will fail at some point. While I agree with you that "it's not fun" having to deal with broken equipment you just bought, more PCs have problems than Macs do and while you're getting a "cheap deal" on the new PC, you pay through the nose in upkeep costs, viruses, and the like.

Thanks Larry for the chance to show some positive light to your "bad" experiences.

I run Windows, Mac, and Linux at home, so I understand your comments for sure.

The Hate of Excellence against "Second Best" or less

I had a recent discussion with someone concerning a deaf person's need for an interpreter for a demonstration and wanting to get an interpreter for them. Comments from others chastized my thought process and that I was "bowing to the entitled" handicapped crowd. Although not those exact words, these comments by them troubled me.

This type of act is not a trend by any means, it just goes to show how evil and bad mannered man can be with those that are below them from a competitive perspective. But is it really about being competitive? You've heard the statement "You don't win Second Place" by those in a competitive sport, but what about other areas of life?

How about religion? Did you know that Australian Muslim Taxi drivers and Oslo Taxi drivers are not helping out blind people because of the blind people's dogs?

So what have we got here? We've got a business person that refuses or intimidates their workers NOT to get an interpreter for the deaf person because the boss considers the deaf person's "entitled" interpreter an "excessive cost" for an "entitlement" for a customer. We've also got a Muslim that refuses to allow dogs into their cabs because they "should not go near dogs."

In both cases it's about those that are not "perfect" by "normal" standards not being allowed to have some semblance of a "normal" life because the excessive "cost of doing business (i.e. not making enough profit) or religion (dogs are unclean). But what is interesting about these comments by these dumb and stupid people is this: the business person is willing to "give to the 'normal' customer because of 'customer satisfaction' what a 'normal person wants' " and considers the deaf person "less than a normal customer". The religious person is preventing a less than normal person from getting to a point of self sufficiency so as NOT to be a continual burden to their religion, they want to keep them in "their place" in society and not allow them to grow into productive human beings.

Three sides to every story

1. On the right side, refusing/oppressing/repressing to let anyone to be allow those that are less fortunate to move ahead.
2. In the middle, providing enough of a hand up to at least allow those that are less fortunate to make it on their own.
3. On the left, enabling those that are less fortunate to stay right where they are by giving them a hand out (not a hand up)and not give them some semblance of contributing to society.

It's a moral issue, not a cost issue.

But just like these stories, change can be slow. During the mid to late 1800's in America when baseball was just beginning, playing ball was normally done WITHOUT gloves with injured hands the norm. It wasn't until Doug Allison, a catcher for the Cincinnati Red Stockings, in 1870 and Charlie Waitt, who, in 1875, wore a pair of flesh-colored gloves in a failed attempt to avoid the derision of the fans because they thought they were being "sissies."

In this case, I'm glad to be called a "sissie" by others if it means that someone at least can get a fair deal in living their life.

Author of "The Ezekial Option" Joel Rosenberg

More evidence that Bible Prophecy is coming true and that those things that have NOT come true as of today WILL come true. Take a read on Joel Rosenberg's blog and read about the future events that continue to come true. You can also see Joel's web site and get more info.

I'll have more info concerning the Tribuation in upcoming blogs.

This is the type of discussions that are going on "as we speak" in the world where the Love of God and Christ are changing the minds of many. Not all will come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ, but that's not what we're suppose to do. We're to keep on talking and sharing what Christ has done for each and every Muslim, Jew, Pagan, Unbeliever, etc.

I challenge each and every Muslim to read the Bible and see for yourself what will happen. Start with the book of John and see how many times God talks about His Love for His Son, the Holy Spirit, and Mankind. You don't find love in the Muslim religion, do you? Very little, but the Bible is full of this concerning God toward Man.

Brigitte Gabriel Speaks on Radical Islam

At first I thought this was someone who would speak on a low tone, but when you read about her experiences, she'll never speak in a low tone, only with a fight that I've not seen by anyone in America, except President George Bush. Most of the Democrats are like sniveling idiots. But here's Brigitte's web site that explains it all.

Wake up America, the coming of a bigger and badder war is on the horizon.

Moving toward US government transparency

Blogs have made another step: they got a bill signed by President Bush that opens up the US Federal government so that everyday citizens can now look at what the government does. Download this first link which is a PDF of what the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) in simple language is doing. Read the PDF titled "Achieving Greater Transparency And Accountability In Government" to get more details.

You can also take a look at Porkbuster.org to find more interesting info on how the blogs of America are turning Congress on it's ear in doing the right thing, not the Congressional thing.

Here are some other sites:

Citizens Against Government Waste
Open Secrets.org
Sunlight Foundation
National Taxpayer Union
Tax Foundation

I hope this makes you sick to do something.

Blacks are getting the message: The US govt is little help

After reading this article "Black Entrepreneurs Win, Corporations Lose" by NBMBAA's Barbara Thomas you find the right combination of ideas and evidence: Blacks are doing better on their own rather than with bigger Corporations!

However, the article fails to realize that blacks have probably benefited from the corporate environment by working for them. It has built their confidence and skill base, not their talent base because they already have that in them. In the film Stand and Deliver about Jaime Escalante, a mathematics teacher, who taught "in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students."

This should prove that there is hope for ALL people, including kids.

“Freedom and Justice in Islam” by Bernard Lewis, Cleveland E. Dodge Professor Emeritus of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University

I received this article from the Imprimis for Hillsdale College today, the only college that does not receive ANY Federal funding for college students and is the bastion for Free Enterprise and the Libertarian School of economic and political thought. But this is what Lewis had to say about Islam:

"By common consent among historians, the modern history of the Middle East begins in the year 1798, when the French Revolution arrived in Egypt in the form of a small expeditionary force led by a young general called Napoleon Bonaparte—who conquered and then ruled it for a while with appalling ease. General Bonaparte—he wasn't yet Emperor—proclaimed to the Egyptians that he had come to them on behalf of a French Republic built on the principles of liberty and equality. We know something about the reactions to this proclamation from the extensive literature of the Middle Eastern Arab world. The idea of equality posed no great problem. Equality is very basic in Islamic belief:All true believers are equal. Of course, that still leaves three “inferior” categories of people—slaves, unbelievers and women."

Read the article, it goes way into what the Middle East is thinking about us and where they are coming from.

What is interesting is that the same Hillsdale site has a paper on, based on the writings and history, of what General Patton would have thought of our war in Iraq.

Read this great article. This is a quote from it:

"Patton, who understood the hold of a radically triumphalist Nazism on a previously demoralized German people, would have the intellectual honesty to realize that we are at war with Islamic fascists, mostly from the Middle East, who have played on the frustrations of mostly male, unemployed young people, whose autocratic governments can't provide the conditions for decent employment and family life. A small group of Islamists appeals to the angst of the disaffected through a nostalgic and reactionary turn to a mythical Caliphate, in which religious purity trumps the material advantages of a decadent West and protects Islamic youth from the contamination of foreign gadgetry and pernicious ideas. In some ways, Hitler had created the same pathology in Germany in the 1930s.

Because of the Internet and globalization, Islamic youth have first-hand knowledge of the U.S. - its splendor, power and luxury - that both attracts and repels them, creating appetites forbidden in traditional and tribal society. Thus the fascist terrorists, to be successful, and cognizant of this paradoxical envy and desire, offer a mythical solution in lieu of real social, political and economic reform that in short order would doom the power of the patriarch, mullah and autocrat: Blame the imperialist Americans and the Zionist Israelis who cause this self-induced misery. Even those who don't join the extremists, like most Germans of the late 1930s, don't mind - albeit on the cheap - seeing their perceived enemies take a fall, as long as the consequences of terrorism are mostly positive in a psychological sense without bringing them material suffering in recompense."

What most people may not be aware of that Patton was a student of history and of learning. Both Patton and Eisenhower had person libraries in the thousands of books that they not only read, but passed on to others that had an interest with their own personal notes in the books margins

Would that some of today's kids would see this and take note.

What's the definition of Martyr?

When you read the definition of martyr, what comes to mind?

1. Someone who is killed by someone for their faith/belief?

2. Someone who kills themselves for their faith/belief?

When you look at this link "Despite Plea, Indonesia Executes 3 Christians" you find the real definition of being a martyr. And you find a number of positive comments about the Christians who were martyred as defined by Oxford American Dictionary states: martyr |ˈmärtər| noun a person who is killed because of their religious or other beliefs.

But, this is the Christian way, not the Muslims way. The Oxford American Dictionary states: martyr |ˈmärtər| noun, a person who displays or exaggerates their discomfort or distress in order to obtain sympathy or admiration. This is the second definition, much like the suicide Muslim bombers of the Middle East and Indonesia.

The problem is that the Muslims think they're going to heaven doing this. Buy why? Because their pasters/clerics/teachers are teaching this in their schools, mosques, and whereever they get a place to pronounce this evil.

Mat 7: 21-23 "Not everyone who says to Me, 'Lord, Lord,' will enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father who is in heaven {will enter.} "Many will say to Me on that day, 'Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in Your name, and in Your name cast out demons, and in Your name perform many miracles?' "And then I will declare to them, 'I never knew you; DEPART FROM ME, YOU WHO PRACTICE LAWLESSNESS.'

But what does the Bible state:

John 14:2-6 "In My Father's house are many dwelling places; if it were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you. If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself, that where I am, {there} you may be also. And you know the way where I am going." Thomas *said to Him, "Lord, we do not know where You are going, how do we know the way?" Jesus *said to him, "I am the way, and the truth, and the life; no one comes to the Father but through Me.

So, those that are Muslims that are believing in Mohammed are NOT going to heaven!. And they're not going to heaven as a martyr.

Do you trust your news sources now?

Ok, after reading this piece about double agent for both Viet Nam and America.


Pham Xuan An, who led a remarkable and perilous double life as a communist spy and a respected reporter for Western news organizations during the Vietnam War, died Wednesday at age 79.

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In a 2000 interview with The Associated Press, An said he always had warm feelings for his press colleagues and for the United States, where he attended college at Fullerton, Calif. But deep down he remained a "true believer" in the communist cause as the best way to free Vietnam of foreign control.

So, the next time a reporter talks with you, think about who their talking with.

Bagdad streets are emptying

When you read this story about the dying of a street of stores, your heart goes out to the honest Iraqi Muslims who are caught in the cross fire of those that want to control things THEIR way instead of compromising.

While America has had it's twists and turns getting to where we are today, such as our own Civil War which had over 500,000 killed and about 900,000 wounded.

My heart goes out to the Iraqis that are putting up with this, but a new dawn will come soon, only they wish sooner than later.

Here's an example of is happening here in America:

Unearthing a Town Pool, and Not for Whites Only

A rebirth begins, let's hope Iraq does the same and soon. My hopes and prayers are for this.

Seed Faith or Bleed Faith? How Televanglists are fleecing Christians

Have you heard of the "Seed Faith" promises of certain Christian leaders such as Oral Roberts, etc?

Well, when you read this article The Most Evil Man You've Ever Heard Of you'll read how millions of dollars are being fleeced from poor, unsuspecting Christians.

What does the Bible state about this:

Hebrews 5:11-14 Concerning him we have much to say, and {it is} hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. For everyone who partakes {only} of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.

The Prosperity Doctrine from these individuals and the haven of Christian "Leaders" on the Trinity Broadcasting Network is WRONG!! God is not a formula, but there somethine to be said for doing what's right.

Porn drove me out of UK Navy, says chaplain

"A Royal Navy chaplain quit the service after being told to turn a blind eye to pornography on board two warships, an employment tribunal was told yesterday."

As you see, this is only the tip of the iceberg and will only get worse over time as we get nearer and nearer to the Rature and the Seven Year Tribulation that will make this timeframe seem like heaven.

What did the Pope REALLY say?

OK, now that the Muslims are all in a threat posture over what the Pope said, why don't you read what the Pope really stated:

Pope's speech at University of Regensburg (full text)

Oh, and by the way, this just in:

(AINA) -- According to the website Islam Memo, one Christian was killed in Baghdad after the Pope's speech two days ago. The speech created a wave of anger throughout the Islamic world, including Iraq. A poster has been placed in many Baghdad mosques for the previously unknown group, "Kataab Ashbal Al Islam Al Salafi," (Islamic Salafist Boy Scout Battalions). This group threatens to kill all Christians in Iraq if the Pope does not apologize in three days in front of the whole world to Mohammed.

Ok Muslims, you are proving the Popes references about the evil of Islam based on a historical dialog about Christianity and Islam.

But none have done it best than Father Raymond J. de Souza's (National Post Published: Saturday, September 16, 2006) article: Rioters' madness shames Muslim world: Reactions of some fanatics does not help open dialogue. Put into historical context, we now have a better idea of WHY things were said.

Muslims, are you listening? Or are you showing your deafness toward thinking?

As one person posted here stated "Christian martyrs die defending and caring for the innocent...while muslim martyrs die killing the innocent."

And here's the evidence of a Muslim, Sister Leonella Sgorbati, RIP

I'll love my neighbor, but I'll defend with my life the right to keep law and order in my land and elsewhere.

The True Face of Islam's President

Ok, now we've heard it all. The former Iran president was at Harvard and he basically lied to us about his involvement in the attrocities that he committed.

And the more liberal American's are taking it hook, line, and sinker.

Oh, and how do the Muslim nations prepare to counter this evidence?

They intend to spin this viewpoint so that they look better via the media.

It's only going to more and more terrible as the years go one.

But there is one person that thinks otherwise.

Emilio Karim Dabul wrote One Arab's Apology He states "One look at the average Arab regime should alert us to the fact that the problem, dear Achmed, lies not overseas or next door in Tel Aviv, but in the brutal, corrupt despots that we have bred from country to country in the Mideast, across the span of history. That history and its corresponding economic devastation is the main reason I reside on New York City's West Bank - New Jersey - not the one near Jerusalem. On my worst day, I'm happy about that fact. I'd rather be here than there, and experience the freedom and boundless opportunities that were mostly unknown to so many generations of my family in the Mideast."

Emilio, and I'll defend your right to stay in this country as long as you like. But the real point is:

Who will listen to his point?

The American "Taliban"? Who and where is it?

Since we've now have seen in the news media the likes of the Taliban, Hezzbolah, and al-Qaida, is there anything like this in America? Have we been aware of similar actions? I say a resounding YES!

Where?

How about the Ku Klux Klan (aka the KKK)

At one point about 15% of America's population were associated with the KKK and at the time of WWII it became associated with Nazisim in Germany with it's membership falling to very low numbers today, but it is still around. Although it has spun itself into an "anti-Taliban" like "loving" organization, it still fosters hate as much as al-Qaida, Hezzbolah, and the Taliban.

And you see from the WIKI article the various acts of the KKK are being immitated by the insurgents in Irag being fed by Iran and others.

It's all about POWER!!

Someone wants power to control someone else based on THEIR idea of what should happen.

May we ALL search out and practice God and Jesus Christ's Great Commandments: To Love God first, and to love you neighbor AS youself.

The coming US election: either it's the Right or it's wrong

After reading a number of sites about issues that are facing our nation and listening to the Islamofacists of Iran, Hezzbolah, al-Quaida talk about our nation, there is one thing that it will be coming down to in the near future:

Either we convert to Islam or we die!

President Bush for the most part understands it, but is leaving his responsibilities behind or leaving it to the EU and world opinion to shape the administration's policy. Tammy Bruce gets it right about the historical perspective and a few years ago Spain was attacked by al-Quaida with train bombs killing 191 and injuring over 1400 people. The Madrid bombing turned the tide of the Spanish election to a more Leftist government bent on appeasment, but has it stopped the terrorists? So, we see here that Spain's appeasement has not stopped the terrorists at all.

Winston Churchill stated it correctly while everyone was appeasing to Hitler An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. and the same goes for our nation

It both angers and saddens me about this appeasement. I spent 13+ years of my life defending my country and all it stands for, and even today our troops are being killed daily for this cause, and now the scared, myopic, latte-gulping, obese, narcissistic, power and wealth hungry Americans are leading us down a path of eventual destruction. Both of my aunts are rolling in their graves about my comments while my mother is telling them to quit rolling around in their caskets!

Contrast of contrasts of terms: When President Bush states "Either your for us or against us" he states via his actions that if you follow our laws you'll be kept reasonably secure and to live peacefully. However, from the Islamofascists their "Either your for us or against us" means we’ll behead you for not converting to Islam.

During World War II, Japanese, Native, and Black Americans while segregated and were oppressed to a certain degree by our nation and government, signed up and fought against both the hatred agression of Germany and Japan anyway. And we're talking about months before a decision to go and help in WWII, not like the years the American Muslim community is doing today. Or at least, that's what the American Liberal Media does not want us to hear regarding what part American Muslims are doing to help fight these terrorists.

Either we become crocodile hunters or we'll become crocodile meat!

Want to get a glimpse of Hell? This isn't a joke.......

When you read of what all of the Islamic extremists are doing to the average person the world, much like the Fox News crew got with their "forced" conversion, people don't realize that even the "good" by our standards "Muslims, Jews, and Christians" will have a rude awakening if they die without knowing who Jesus Christ is.

Bill Wiese has had such an experience of what Hell is like.

The real question is: let's say you don't believe it and it's not real. Good, then!! You have nothing to worry about.

But what if it IS real? Where do you stand? Do you carry around a rabbit's foot, Christian cross, or even a Jewish Star of David around your neck to protect you from it?

Read this article. You'll find Judgement there, but more importantly you'll find Love!! God's Love for you and me and the rest of the world.

I pray that you'll listen and not pass this by as an afterthought.

When Islam forces you to convert, or any religion for that matter

When you read about accounts that terrorists forced the two Fox News to "convert" to Islam at gunpoint it makes you wonder.

Centanni said he and Wiig were forced to convert to Islam at gunpoint.

"I have the highest respect for Islam ... but it was something we felt we had to do because they had the guns and we didn't know what the hell was going on."

Who forces someone to convert to their religion? Only those that are interested in THEIR power, not the power of God. When Right is turned to Might in getting someone to convert or change their mind concerning a religion, what does that say of that religion?

No where in the Bible does it state that you are to force someone to convert. In fact, if YOU were to convert someone to Christianity based on YOUR will and by force, it's YOUR will, not God's. Even in Christianity during the Inquisition, Believer's left Christ's Church doctrines to force others into their way of thinking.

Islam is that part of religion that Satan has convinced others to follow with such a force that there is only one way: their way: Satan's/Islam's conversion of the unbelievers to Islam. In True Christianity/Judiasm it is a matter of free will. Noah "was a preacher of Righteousness" and never forced his will by spear point, rock point, or if he had one, gun point, or kill anyone to get them to convert to God's way. Noah left each one to their own devices and God took care of them when He decided enough was enough and caused the Flood!

Notice that this is about defending ones faith rather going on the offensive and try and get one to convert. While there is nothing wrong with reasoning with others about the potentials of one's faith, it should NEVER be by gun point. Otherwise, what does that say of your religion? If you fore me to do one thing, you'll force me to do something else.

Even in America's own Colonial history there are incidences of these vary things happening.

When competition rears it's head rather than compassion, Man then errs when it comes to God. No wonder Unbeliever's look at Christians and other religious persons as weird. Why do you think that Paul states in 1 Cor 13:1-3 the affects of doing things WITHOUT LOVE!!! Because Paul was forcefully converting Christian believers to Judiasm but was stopped by Jesus Christ Himself and asked "Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting Me?"

Reading Acts 9 and then 1 Cor 13 and you see what Paul eventually sees: while judgement determines the direction that needs to be taken, love is HOW it gets done.

May God's judgement convict us of our wrongdoing, but may His Love convict us of our need for Him and to "Love others AS yourself." As 1 Cor 13 states, if you don't love others, your religion is worthless!!!!

Tribulation "Technology" Part 2: RFID tags, or part of "The Mark"

In my last post I showed on IPv6 will allow technology to be able to track each and literally "ever piece" of product and persons throughout the world. But this is only part of the puzzle. The second part is RFID tags. What are RFID tags?

RFID tags are in the works as we write. But I quote: "Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is an automatic identification method, relying on storing and remotely retrieving data using devices called RFID tags or transponders. An RFID tag is an object that can be attached to or incorporated into a product, animal, or person for the purpose of identification using radio waves. Chip-based RFID tags contain silicon chips and antennas. Passive tags require no internal power source, whereas active tags require a power source."

As it states in Rev 13:16- 18 "And he causes all, the small and the great, and the rich and the poor, and the free men and the slaves, to be given a mark on their right hand or on their forehead, V 17 and {he provides} that no one will be able to buy or to sell, except the one who has the mark, {either} the name of the beast or the number of his name. V 18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for the number is that of a man; and his number is six hundred and sixty-six."

Now you state, "Yea right, this is really going to happen!!"

First, follow the RFID News that update regularly what is happening in the RFID world. Second, look what Mexico's officials are doing with RFID tags in their country. Third Boeing uses RFID tags to track inventory so that parts do not get lost or stolen. Forth, RFID tags may be implanted in patients' arms is already happening in some cases.

So, it's happening as we speak!

It may not go worldwide until the technology is widely available over the next decade or so, but it's progressing and will not stop.

Setting the stage before the Rapture, 7 Year Tribulation and...

After reading the article "UN Ceasefire Deal Signals How A One World Government Will Position Evil War against Israel by
Bill Wilson it's suffice to say that this article points out that the recent 34 day war Israel had with Hezzbolah, Lebanon, Syria, Iran, and Russia is playing out just as God has predicted in the Bible's New Testament (especially Revelation), but we're not there yet. We're only in the "wars and rumors of war" part of what the Bible NT states which will continue to excalate over the next decade or so.

As Christians, we can not stop what is happening and the things that are happening in the world are the pre-Rapture happenings that will build until the Rapture occurs, which is the taking out of all of the Christians from the earth leaving the Jews as the only Right evangelistic nation left on earth. After the Rapture, the Jewish nation will become the defacto evangelistic nation but the rest of the world will be against it like never before. This includes the current nations that are lining up to battle against Israel. But God does provide a way to be with Him with everyone in the world seeing Him at work, but still not believing. Some will, most won't. Why? Because of religion.

This also includes Islam, the Great Religion of Satan, and those that are following Satan's religious path of destruction.

But what most Christians don't realized because of their ignorance of Bible Prophecy and the advent of liberal Theology is that the Middle East, including Israel, will continue to escalate "stair step" fashion in both intensity, duration, destruction, and involvement of others. Once the Rapture occurs and most of America is emaciated of God's chosen people because of the Rapture that there will be three and one half years of "peace" against Israel. This will give the other evil nations time to amass logistically many mighty armies that will prepare to go up against Israel and once the "trigger is pulled" at the mid point of the 3.5 years will begin a "Holy Jihad "against Israel that will be obliteraed by God's Own Hand.

For a more detailed and accurate picture of this period of time, see Charting the End Times with Tim LaHaye which describes in more graphic detail. See page 118 for a quick illustration.

Islam does not allow for security for the Islamic believer, see Walid's Testimony about his conversion to Christianity from Islam and read "The interesting thing is that I was not only terrorizing but I was terrorized by my beliefs which required me to gain enough merit and good deeds to go to heaven. But I never was sure if my good deeds would outweigh my bad deeds in the scale when I would be judged by God. Of course to die fighting the Jews would ease Allah's anger towards my sin and I would then be secured a good spot in heaven with beautiful wide-eyed women to fulfill my most intimate desires. Either way, I won and terror was the only way."

But the True God has stated it correctly, accurately, and lovingly.

How do you avoid this coming catastrophe is by becoming a Believer in the Lord Jesus Christ. John 3:16-20: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. V. 17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. V 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. V 19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. V. 20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved."

For those that want to know more about the comparison between Islam and Christianity, see Answering Islam web site that covers the critical aspects of both.

Tribulation "Technology" Part 1: Internet or IP addresses

When it comes to Evangelical Christians that talk about the Rapture, there is one question that most do not talk about: it is not when the Rapture will occur, but how close are we to it happening?

This amounts to another question: what has to be in place for the aspects and other parts of the seven year Tribulation have to be in place in order for a one world government to occur during this time?

Well, the first part is world communications. In order for the One World Government to happen you have to have mass communications throughout the whole world. This means that the current Internet connection, called IPv4, or called Internet Protocol version 4 that was implemented as the Internet took root there is a limit to the number of Internet addresses to 4,294,967,296 possible unique addresses. However, IPv6 called Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) supports 3.4×1038 addresses, or 5×1028 (50 octillion) for each of the roughly 6.5 billion people alive today, or 56.9 billion addresses for each gram of matter on Earth.

So, what does this mean?

It means that there are so many IP addresses that not only will each person have their own unque IP address, or call it a "Social Security Account Number" or a "Permentant Drivers License" or even a "National ID" for every person in a nation but that it will be tied into the credit card system at some point. Why?

As it states in Revelation 13:16-17 "And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads. And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

You can bet that an IP address will be used to track your buying and selling just like the gift cards being used today. In fact, it will be used in conjunction with RFID tags, but that's another article.

Bottom line: there is a convergence of technology to facilitate the advancement of a One World Government and we can not stop it.

Do you trust the photo and caption of your favorite newspaper?

After reading this article "Real Or Fake?" about the accuracy and veracity of the photos coming out of war torn areas such as Lebanon, Iraq, and Afganistan, it makes you wonder who are you going to trust?

You can read about other pictures regarding the recent Qana "massacre" here at this site.

Its seems that blogs are pointing out the inaccuracies of many newspapers such as A picture cannot lie? when in reality the picture can be staged!

So much for truth.

The UN's Interim Force in Lebanon Briefing

OK, now I've been enlightened about getting more "detailed" info from the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon Press Releases about things going on in Lebanon regarding Israel and the terrorist group Hezbollah. And I quote from the July 28th briefing:

"There were two direct impacts on UNIFIL positions from the Israeli side in the past 24 hours. Eight artillery and mortar rounds impacted inside an Indian battalion position in the area of Hula, causing extensive material damage, but no casualties. One artillery round impacted the parameter wall of the UNIFIL Headquarters in Naqoura. There were five other incidents of firing close to UN positions from the Israeli side. It was also reported that Hezbollah fired from the vicinity of five UN positions at Alma Ash Shab, At Tiri, Bayt Yahoun, Brashit, and Tibnin."

And here:

"All UNIFIL positions in the area of operation remain permanently occupied and maintained by the troops. UNIFIL dispatched three logistic convoys to resupply some positions yesterday. Additional convoys are planned for today, particularly to the forward positions in the eastern and central sectors which are facing critical shortages of basic supplies. The number of troops in some Ghanaian battalion positions is somewhat reduced because of the increased safety risk for the troops due to frequent incidents of Hezbollah firing from the vicinity of the positions, and shelling and bombardment close to the positions from the Israeli side."

And you won't hear of this on CNN or the other liberal media's broadcasts in America or for the world for that matter. If the world does NOT listen to this but only of the terrorists, then the world is heading down the wrong path.

Shooting down Israel's Myths

Once you read this article, you'll get a much different picture of Israel than what both US liberal media and extremist muslims talk about.

Read On a trip to Israel, a Muslim journalist sees firsthand a litany of lies.

Where would you live?

When is enough enough? When are sins of the past forgiven?

When you read this article Lawsuit Seeks Reinstatement of KY Teacher Dismissed for Appearing in Adult Film you begin to wonder: at what point does forgiveness start for past sins?

Oh, that's right, most people will continue to judge this lady even though she may have cross the line doing bad things.

From my standpoint, God does allow U-turns!!

The point is: when?

When reading Luke 23:39-43 you find one of the thieves confessing to Jesus to "remember me when You come in Your kingdom!" But is that all there is? Is there anything else that can help us with this picture?

Now read Matthew 27:44 and you find "And the robbers also who had been crucified with Him, hwer caseting the same insults at Him." (robbers is plural, my emphasis added) and again in Mark 15:32 "And those who were crucified with Him were casting the same insults at Him."

So, when you look at Matthew and Mark you find that both of the robbers/thieves were insulting Jesus, but one of the thieves in Luke decided that what he had done was wrong and changed his attitude toward Jesus and became a believer in who Jesus was: the Son of God and Savior of the world. And he did it on his "death bed" and did NOT do any good works, join a church, give money to a charity of church, or even was baptised to be saved!!

Since salvation has to be the same for every person, and there is only one sin that is unforgiven (rejecting the Holy Spirit's convicting you of needing Christ as your Savior), then all others can be forgiven and you can move forward. So for the Unbeliever, it's at the point of Salvation. For the Believer, it's at the point of confession of the sin.

So what is with the teacher? She should not have been fired. But what should be done is for the parents to talk with their kids about what her decisions have been, what she did to overcome them, and where is she now. It's also MOST important the "righteous" or "religious" Chrisitans and others don't smear her for changing her direction. While a judgement may remain for the sin that has been committed, once that judgement is over you're free.

You without sin cast the first stone............. yea, I thought so, you can't throw a stone either because you're a sinner as well.

As it has been stated "broken people" should never be considered "second-class citizens in the family of God" by Southern Baptist evangelist Ted Stone. There are three aspects that most people are not aware of. Judgement, Mercy, and Grace. Judgement is getting what you deserve, Mercy is NOT getting what you deserve, and Grace is getting something you DO NOT deserve.

Your thoughts?

What ARE colleges teaching kids: Windows, but no Mac/Linux

Had dinner tonight with an old friend and he works for a telecom company as a Senior Architect. What he stated is that the kids that have been hired by his company straight out of college are not prepared for the rigors of what he is working with, i.e. they only know Windows and do not know Mac or Linux. The reason: all of the heavier software development is using Sun's Solaris or Linux as their OS of choice and Windows is not capable of doing the things that they do. So it seems to him that the colleges are dumbing down the Computer Science degrees in favor of Windows "usability" rather than the harder aspects of using UNIX versions such as Mac OS X and Linux.

Is this article Toronto high school expels Linux lab you find the same thing happening. But what is interesting is that it seems that schools are cowtowing to the students rather than teacing what the real world is expecting based on this comment: "Worthy, however, said that the Linux lab was more Montgomery’s project than what the students wanted."

Since when are the students running the schools?

But, on the other hand, take a look at what others schools are using: this School Successes article states that Linux is being used more and more to offer those that Windows is priced them out of getting "connected' with the rest of the world.

What you find interesting is that when you look at what Apple has done at Apple Education you find some stark similarities between what Macs and Linux are doing together. They both are UNIX "compatible" if you learned on one or the other.

Is flash of the OS more important than the function?

Your thoughts?

God, Katrina and other disasters, and our moral decline

What I find interesting today is what I read here, Hurricane Katrina: The Prophetic Significance by Dr. David R. Reagan. Then, when you read about Hurricane Katrina Scams and Hurricane Katrina Fraud Task Force homepage you begin to wonder if Dr. Reagan's web page is not a sign of worse judgements to come to our country. When the likes of Enron, WorldCom, and Tyco CEO greed. It states in the Bible that we, both believers and unbelievers are:

"not bold to class or compare ourselves with some of those who commend themselves; but when they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are without understanding" (2 Corinthians 10:12) because doing so will lead us away from God and His Purpose.

When will people listen? When will people quit seeking something that has no value in and of itself? I guess I have to kick off the dust from my shoes and move on to those that might listen elsewhere.

Our Founding Fathers viewpoints of our country

Here are some quotes from some of our country's founding fathers as we near our Nation's Independence Day on July 4th:

"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed…" -The Declaration of Independence

"The sacred rights of mankind are not to be rummaged for, among old parchments, or musty records. They are written, as with a sun beam in the whole volume of human nature, by the hand of the divinity itself; and can never be erased or obscured by mortal power." -Alexander Hamilton

"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion...Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." -John Adams

"Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -John Jay, First Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

"Upon my arrival in the United States, the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention...The Americans combine the notions of Christianity and of liberty so intimately in their minds, that it is impossible to make them conceive the one without the other." -Alexis de Tocqueville, French Historian

"The religion which has introduced civil liberty, is the religion of Christ and his apostles, which enjoins humility, piety and benevolence; which acknowledges in every person a brother, or a sister, and a citizen with equal rights. This is genuine Christianity, and to this we owe our free constitutions of government." -Noah Webster

"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are of the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep forever." -Thomas Jefferson

"Of all the dispositions and habits, which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle." -George Washington

"The Almighty God has blessed our land in many ways. He has given our people stout hearts and strong arms with which to strike mighty blows for freedom and truth. He has given to our country a faith which has become the hope of all peoples in an anguished world." -Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The right to freedom being the gift of the Almighty...The rights of the colonists as Christians...may be best understood by reading and carefully studying the institution of The Great Law Giver and Head of the Christian Church, which are to be found clearly written and promulgated in the New Testament." -Samuel Adams

"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do!" -Everett Hale, Chaplain of the United States Senate

"Almighty God...I yield thee humble and hearty thanks that thou has preserved me from the danger of the night past, and brought me to the light of the day, and the comforts thereof, a day which is consecrated to thine own service and for thine own honor. Let my heart, therefore, Gracious God, be so affected with the glory and majesty of it, that I may not do mine own works, but wait on thee, and discharge those weighty duties thou requirest of me. Give me grace to hear thee calling on me in thy word, that it may be wisdom, righteousness, reconciliation and peace to the saving of the soul in the day of the Lord Jesus. Grant that I may hear it with reverence, receive it with meekness, mingle it with faith, and that it may accomplish in me, Gracious God, the good work for which thou has sent it. Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and for ever for His sake, who lay down in the Grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen." -From the Prayer Journal of George Washington

"Those people who will not be governed by God will be ruled by tyrants." -William Penn

Question is: do these comments ever make it into our schools textbooks?

Is the rise of Extremist Islam the same as the Old Communism?

After reading this web article Somali Islamists seize checkpoints, demand sharia it seems that there is little difference between Islam's Sharia and Communism's approach to its people: extreme limitation to people's freedoms.

However, when you look at the other exteme of not giving citizens the right to protect themselves as it shows in Belgium in this aritcle “Youths” Kick Man to Death on Crowded Antwerp Bus it shows that governments that don't have the means to which to protect its citizens cause fear. But notice what the paper stated "Three Moroccans, two of whom are minors, were arrested today." While most Moroccans are muslims, these may not be following Islam or follow an extemist viewpoint.

What are the answers?

Call to cancel AOL Account

OK, you've got Vincent Ferrari recording his Customer Service call and trying to cancel his account and according to an AOL spokesperson, the person was fired. Typical corporate baloney. Regardless of the company most larger companies have measurements of how well things are going and those metrics are to help the company, not help the customers. While it may show up in the bottom line in the short term positively, it goes to show in the long term how bad this type of measurement and metrics can hurt a firm, not help it.

Another interesting thing is that there are laws that are on the books that allow for Vincent to record these calls without the other party's consent. According to this web site Can We Tape? it states that journalists can record anything without anything being wrong. This site states:

"Federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most also have extended the law to cover in-person conversations. Thirty-eight states and the District of Columbia permit individuals to record conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so. These laws are referred to as "one-party consent" statutes, and as long as you are a party to the conversation, it is legal for you to record it."

OK, so while most customers are not going to make a phone call and try and snag you into saying something which is bad for you and your company, what this implies is that anyone can call anyone and record their phone call and put it on YouTube or their web site for the whole world to know. So if you work for any company, remember that anyone can record your conversaion without your knowledge and based on the above incident, you could be fired for following "company policy" of "zero tolerance" of something or what not.

Maybe that's why phone calls waiting times get longer and longer? Or just maybe it gets tiring of hearing "I Win, You Lose" attitude from companies.

Oh, and by the way, the reverse is also true. How many customers lie to get out of paying something to a company?

It works both ways!!!!

Al Aqsa official: Jewish temples existed

In what is astounding is that the article Al Aqsa official: Jewish temples existed it states

"Contradicting most of his colleagues, a former senior leader of the Waqf, the Islamic custodians of the Temple Mount, told WorldNetDaily in an exclusive interview he has come to believe the first and second Jewish Temples existed and stood at the current location of the Al Aqsa Mosque.

The leader, who was dismissed from his Waqf position after he quietly made his beliefs known, said Al Aqsa custodians passed down stories for centuries from generation to generation indicating the mosque was built at the site of the former Jewish temples.

He said the Muslim world's widespread denial of the existence of the Jewish temples is political in nature and is not rooted in facts.

The former leader, who is well known to Al Aqsa scholars and Waqf officials, spoke on condition his name be withheld, claiming an on-the-record interview would endanger his life.

There you have it folks, the Islamic religion and culture denies anything or very little about Jewish history. Blame the clerics and extremists for "dumbing down" the Arab people. No different than Galelio being suppressed by the Christian clergy in years gone past.

Statements of facts are one thing, statements of beliefs are another. it is when statements of beliefs are NOT based on facts or half truths that problems arise.

Is the info on the web site "God Hates Fags" really true?

After taking a look at the God Hates Fags web site you begin to wonder: Is what they say 100% true?

Well, as a matter of fact, no. But then again, there are very few people in the world both in the past and into the future that are or will be 100% correct, not even me, because we're all fallible. But, from this perspective there are some that are more accurate and correct than others.

Their web site is more accurate than most in describing God's judgements, but where they fail is in HOW they tell about God's judgement and pervert God's love for each individual. Telling a person that they are destined for Hell is correct in expressing God's judgement, but if you don't talk even more about God's LOVE of the person in order NOT for that person to end up in Hell which is provided by God's Son Jesus Christ then you are failing to preach the gospel according to Jesus Christ.

In their FAQ: Doesn't the Bible say that God loves everyone? they state "No. You are probably thinking of John 3:16, which says no such thing. The word translated "world" in that verse (kosmos) NEVER means every individual of mankind who has ever lived (see, e.g., John 17:9)." While they are very accurate, they miss HOW God loves the World. In John 3:16 "God so LOVED the World" means that God judgement was looking to condemn every individual in the world because of the inherant Sin that is in each of us, but that God's LOVE for each of us He was looking NOT to condemned us by His Judgement but it caused Him to offer HIs Son as a sacrifice for each of our sins. Once Jesus Christ satisfied this Judgement, God is able to OFFER salvation to each of us. But, it is up to each of us to RESPOND this this LOVE and accept His Son's Salvation.

But where they really err really bad is when they discuss the Unforgiveable Sin. In their FAQ Aren't all sins equal in God's eyes? they incorrectly state "What is blasphemy against the Holy Ghost? It is attributing the work of God to Beelzebub." This is 100% false!! In the Bible and God's eyes this is works related, not Grace related. This is a SALVATION passage and it's in regard to the Holy Spirit convicting the person of their need for a Savior in Jesus Christ, both with Judgement in that they are a sinner, but also with LOVE in that He has provided a way for them to be accepted into His family by their belief in what Jesus Christ has done for them. We are to SHARE the gospel and allow the Holy Spirit to CONVICT the person. But understand, God expresses Himself regarding salvation depending on where the individual is coming from. In the story in Luke 17:36-50 Jesus states that the one who is forgiven more will love the forgiver more. The prostitute that feels unloved by God will get much more love from Him than condemnation, however, the arrogant will get more judgement than love to show them that their self-righteousness is never acceptable in His eyes.

Where Churches and Christians go wrong is when the church or Christian through their OWN works (see 1 Cor 3:11-15 under "wood, hay, straw" convicts the person that they need Jesus Christ and not allowing the Holy Spirit to convict them. This results in a false salvation and if the person "leaves the faith" then the Christians or church state "they were not really saved then" which causes irreparable harm with the inaccuracy of their knowledge of the Bible and God.

When they state in their FAQ When it says in the Bible that God is not willing that any should perish, doesn't that mean God wants everyone to be saved? that "It is clear by any plain reading of this verse that the "not willing that any should perish" language is directed at and applies to only a specific group of people, here called the 'us-ward.' " Now the NASB version of the Bible is more accurate by stating "The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance." Yes, God does want everyone to be saved, but not everyone HAS BEEN or WILL BE saved. This reference is not for a select group of people other than the whole world, including the scoffers, and it is intended to show that if they don't come to the conclusion about God's judgement about their own life and sinfulness they WILL perish if they don't make a salvation decision!

Read John 3:16-18 and you'll see that each person is condemned already, but God has provided an answer to your situation. Once you are saved you CANNOT lose your salvation and place in heaven as per 1 Cor 3:11-15 under "If any man's work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved". You may lose your rewards that have glorified God, but you will still end up in heaven no matter what you do here on earth.

Does that mean i hate homosexuals? No!! For instance, I don't hate alcoholics, I hate what alcohol does to the person. I don't hate arrogant CEOs, I hate what unbridled power does to a person. I don't hate drug addicts, I hate what drugs does to a person. Judgement is about figuring out right and wrong regarding what a person is doing, love is about how to correct in a way that is meaningful to the person to let go of the addictions they have.

You can also see on YouTube WBC on Fox News 061006 on YouTube describing an encounter with a member of their church.

Writer's being scammed

It is just plain bad business to be be doing this to writers, butt Angela Hoy's article Top 10 Signs You've Been Scammed Into Writing for Free shows the problems of writers and "getting into" the main stream can run into. But this also goes for other writers as well. I've been in touch with Dave Taylor of Ask Dave fame about my book and have not heard from him concerning my book as I, too, want to write a book and showcase my skills. Although he told me after seeing my Table of Contents" that I had a great idea, I needed an Editor to help get things moving along since I have over 118 pages of info already written.

Since it has been since the end of March that I have talked with Dave about my book and have helped him out personally regarding a computer, I'm still eager to see what his comments are concerning my book. He suggested that I contact No Starch Press book publisher, I have to put together a book proposal about my book. I'm working on it and should be done shortly. My purpose of writing the book is to showcare my thought processes and not showcase my writing.

We're moving on.

Entrepreneurs: an MBA at the library?

This is a good article, but it points out the one part that even Bill Gates knows: nothing prepares you for the challenges of building a business than actually doing it for real (he quit Harvard to build Microsoft at the right time). While schools can give you close to real world experience, it's "only simulated" at best and can provide some critical thinking skills.

Iran, what state is it in?

What I find interesting is that Iran is becoming a rather troublesome country. You find that Iran is having trouble at home as well as it's influence abroad in neighboring Iraq. This could spell more trouble for the region which is already unstable, but only time will tell how it will play out.

Viewpoints of: Is the glass half empty of half full?

As I was thinking this morning, I began with just a short view of this issue, but it took on a life of it's own as I began to think of others. Here goes:

Optimist - The glass is half full
Dreamer - We need to find a bigger glass or more glasses
Jesus Christ - “Everyone who drinks of this water will thirst again, but whoever drinks of the water that I will give him shall never thirst; but the water that I will give him will become in him a well of water springing up to eternal life." John 14:13-14
Pastor - Drink of the Living Water
Business Owner - I own the glass
Supplier - We need to find more water.
Property Owner - I own the water (lake, stream, pond)
Engineer - Someone didn’t design the glass to specifications
Jack Welch, former GE CEO - My main job was developing talent. I was a gardener providing water and other nourishment to our top 750 people. Of course, I had to pull out some weeds, too.
Environmentalist - how clean is the water?
Scientist - If we freeze the water it becomes ice, if we boil the water it becomes steam.
Hollywood type - Can I have MY Evian bottled water.....
Survivalist - First thing is to find water because we can’t live without water, then find a glass (container) to put it in.
Manufacturer - how is the glass made?
Conservative Politician - the government is not in the business of finding water, let businesses do that.
Liberal Politician - a pitcher of water in every home and the government will get it for you.
Doctor - you need four eight ounces of water to drink daily.
Sahara desert dweller - how far until I get to the next water hole
Astronomer - where can we find water on other planets
Artist - what style or type of glass should hold the water
Waiter - would you like some more water?
W. C. Fields, comedian - You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
Traveller - I started out with a full glass …
Desert Traveller - Water, I need water …..
Statistician - .5 * 0 = 0, while .5 * 50% = .25, so the glass is ….
Accountant - why did you spend money on too big a glass?
Manager - We need to budget (ration) this water out
Customer - Where can I get more water
Leonardo da Vinci - Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
Worker - I need more water to drink
Blue Collar Worker - I don’t need water, give me some beer!
Government worker - we need to tax more so I can get more water and glasses
Socialist - You need to give some of your water to others, you’re hoarding too much water for yourself.
Pessimist - The glass is half empty
Skeptic - We may not have any more water or glasses to go around
Burglar - I’m going to take your water
Terrorist - I’m not going to let you have any water or any glass
Cynic - There is no more water to fill the glass up and the glass is made of glass and it will break
World View - 1 in 5 people of the world is without adequate drinking water.

So you see, it’s the glass, water, time, and the person viewing it that determine the viewpoint of the glass of water.

Facts about water:

National Geographic: Water Pressure
A Frenchman who can see water beneath the Sahara
The Water Page - The Water Page is an independent initiative dedicated to the promotion of sustainable water resources management and use. A particular emphasis is placed on the development, utilisation and protection of water in Africa and other developing regions.

US Media: Liberal or Too Liberal with Islam?

My wife and I watched the movie "Good Night and Good Luck" about Edward R. Murrow's "discussion" and op-ed pieces regarding Sen. McCarthy's hunt for communists in all sorts of places showed how fabricated McCarthy's sensabilities were about communism, but had shown how McCarthy had taken fear beyond what was realistic. However, after viewing the movie I've come to conclusion that today's media no longer carries along tje tradition as Murrow has established.

As seen on Dr. Salah Sultan's web site, who is president of the American Center for Islamic Research (ACIR), shows that the US media has not picked up on someone who is living right under American's noses and is expressing hatred for Americans. Why? In fact, Dr. Sultan's resume, which I was able to download on his english side of his web site states "• Vision: To live happily. To die as a martyr. To meet the beloved ones in the Paradise of the Lord of the heaven and the earth." which you can download and see for yourself.

While free speech is protected by our Constitution, I wonder if those that teach others to yell "Fire!'" in a crowded movie theater when there is no fire but DOES cause harm to others is prosecutable? As is used on the Internet, IANAL (I Am Not A Lawyer) but I'd keep a close eye on Dr. Sultan, because he's one to incite others to action in his comments.

I believe in Ronald Reagen's approach: Trust, but Verify!

Self Esteem: performance or encouragement?

Was in a discussion last night with my father and sister-in-law about kids in school today and the subject about kids self-esteem. My father's comment was that "kids learn self esteem from performance, not being told their good at things." My sister-in-law spoke about the same thing, but I began to wonder about the whole discussion and wondered if the performance thing is only one part of a kids self esteem?

It also belongs on the argument of kids: are they nature or nurture grown in regards their talent, skills, and experiences?

Just look at the number of kids that are troubled because of alcoholic parents. Is this performance related? Or how about motivating sports teams, at that point is probably no longer encouragement esteem but performance esteem.

Bottom line: I think it's a mixture of both nature and nurture regarding how kids grow up and it has to be age appropriate encouragement and performance. But it's also about motivating an adult. While performance at work is probably self motivating, it's still about motivating everyone so that they can perform to their fullest.

Is Islam the problem or is it's interpretation? What does the Bible say?

After reading this online article called Part of me died when I saw this cruel killing that describes a Iraqi woman journalist that was well respected and followed her heart to unite the Iraqi people around the good that they offered was brutally murdered "in the name of Allah" by the evil, fearful and oppressive Al-Qaeda and Taliban Islamic fundamentalists. The real question is; are the Taliban and Al-Qaeda approach to Islam a poor or wrong interpretation of the Quran (Koran)?

After viewing this site The Middle East Media Research Institute's Inquiry and Analysis Series - No. 273 about the reforms needed to take place in Islam it makes you wonder if such ideas and reforms are possible. After looking at this site Jihad Watch about the more subversive approach Islam works toward is it any wonder that they've chosen a different path using the same "thought-action-habit-character-destiny" approach by the more negative side of hate than of love. But why?

John 3:16-18: For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved. He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

But of more importance is where is this evil all leading us to?

What even most Christians think is that, or the lack thereof, is the more liberal slant of Chritianity: we all want peace and we've created this problem! This includes those Christians that believe that the Sermon on the Mount and what the rest of the Gospels teach us are for us today. There are two basic problems with both the "where is evil leading us" and "Love and Peace is what Jesus teaches us to do in His Kingdom now" views of the more liberal churches.

1. Based on the above Bible verses Man has the capacity to do evil as well as "good" especially under the guidance of Satan, but these Muslims choose evil rather than good "in the name of Allah". When you constantly hear that most Muslims are against Israel while the Bible states that Israel is His Chosen nation, those that are against Israel are against God (In the future a Muslim army will attack Israel and be slaughtered by God supernaturally).

2. But when you look the Bible Prophecy you see a different story, especially when you read the book of Revelation. While the book has 22 chapters, chapters 4-19 contain some of the worse judgements to happen to the world since the Great Flood during Noah's time. If you'd like to understand more, read Events of the Second Coming which describes an overview of what will happen during these chapters in Revelation while Terms To Know describes some of the key terms that explain End Times prophecies.

Based on the original story, it would seem that religion is becoming much more pronounced and counterfeit to what the Bible states: that religion changes man from the outside in while in true Chritianity the Holy Spirit changes a man from the inside out and in the name of religion let's kill those that go against our beliefs.

So, the sequence of events in the future are:

The Great Apostacy - where even Christians will leave the Chritian church to follow counterfeit religons, including Islam, Buddism, and Hinduism, no matter how sincere they are and the rise of terror and evil.
The Great Tribulation - where about 1/2 to 3/4 of the world's population will be killed
The Battle of Armagedon - where Believers and Jesus Christ will come to kill the last remaining unbelievers to set the stage of the Millenium
The Millenium - where there will be 1000 years of peach with Jesus Christ establishing His Kindgon here on earth with no wars or any of the current health problems.

If you'd like to know more about up and coming events in more detail, see Charting the End Times by Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice who give a graphic example of what is to happen in sequence, but not with date and time stamps.

If you need more answers, post the questions, I don't want you to be left behind and neither does God! He loves you enough to provide a way out of your dilema.

UPDATE 5/8/06: It seems that the video of the murder of the Iraqi journalist is a hoax per Atwar Bahjat horror story [UPDATE: it's a hoax.]. Goes to show that even bad AND news in error travels fast!!

But the bottom line on the video and pictures: who would STILL do such a thing? Only EVIL people!!

UPDATE 05/23/2006: Well here is a link to a story"This is a Saudi textbook. (After the intolerance was removed.)" that what I state above is closer to reality than even I thought.

Who owns your data?

One of the things that has bothered me is the fact that as Stephen Nipper writes in "Five things I would do differently if I started blogging today"> that most "free" things are not free, but can be costlly if you allow them the "free" part to continue if things ever get bigger than you considered it.

His first online comments about blogging is "portability, portability, portability" of which I say data retention, data retention, data retenion!! So the question becomes: who hosts or owns your data? If you read Stephen's comments about trying to get his data out of his blog hosting, it basically gone. Same with any other hosting company that web hosts your information. So, if you're a company that uses a web hosting of your data, I'd be very wary of how has the data versus who owns the data. Data now becomes a property thing and if someone hosts your data, someone else can get access to it without your knowledge or input.

BLOGGING

Wow, just read Guy Kawasaki's blog and got some good info about how to do it better under his title "The 120 Day Wonder: How to Evangelize a Blog." I really like Guy's writings and enjoy his insights.

What sites he recommended were Feedburner which actually turns your blog into an RSS feed which you can use NetNewsWire (on Macs) to track RSS feeds and Feedblitz for adding emailing services to your blog. Cool stuff.

A Dangerous Business: Morality at it's lowest

This Frontline program called A Dangerious Business aired a few years ago, but the affects are still being felt today. See the updates to the program.

It's along the lines of Enron, Tyco, and WorldCom, it's a moral thing. The sad part is that most vendors and customers will still do business with a company with this sort of morals rather than "shaming them" into better business behaviors.

Oh, and by the way, when you read the transcripts of the program, read what they state about ACIPCO, same business, different culture, better company!!

Success or Significance?

One of the things that I find when talking with others is whether they are looking for success or significance. What's the difference? Success is finding your own way of getting ahead in life and only thinking of yourself, but with significance is about you AND others that are around you. It's one thing to think about youself, but if you fail to consider others so that it's not a Win/Lose proposition, such as you win and the other loses, but one where it becomes a Win/Win situaion where both you and someone else you associated with gets ahead with being associated with you.

So, next time you are around someone, make sure that you are each encouraging to each other in a way that benefits both of you. It's OK to be corrective, but don't be condenscending or overly critical so that you kill someone's motivation. As the Bible points out in 1 Corinthians 13:1-3:

If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have {the gift of} prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. And if I give all my possessions to feed {the poor,} and if I surrender my body to be burned, but do not have love, it profits me nothing.

You can't give to others what you don't have, so if you can't love yourself, you can't love others. Loving yourself is getting to know what God has created in you, but loving others means seeing what God has made them to be and what they are to accomplish.

As Mother Teresa stated: You can't judge others when you are loving them!!

Linux goes into the Public sector in Steamboat Springs Colorado

In this article Linux taken for a ride in the Old West gives some details about how Steamboat Springs, Colorado is transitioning from Windows to Linux both in the server and in the desktop because of the costs associated with some proprietary software and gives another reason why Open Source software is gaining ground.

The biggest problem is for Open Source to get traction is getting the word out that it works.

iPod Cross Platform: Windows and Mac

As one who has used computers since 1984 and run Windows, Mac, and Linux the one thing that has been most interesting is cross platform issues. Most interesting is that most people I have talked with are not taking advantage of all of the features of a given hardware/software solution.

My wife left the Windows world in her career of real estate a few years back when she saw the various programs and uses of the Mac in her industry. Recently my wife, who is is becoming a geek chick if I ever saw one became fully aware of the iPods full capability: it's not only an MP3 player, but it's a "flash/hard drive" as well.

But, being in a real estate office that is mostly filled with Windows and a few Mac agents she has concerns with being able to get things done in a Windows environment. When she realized that the iPod is also a "flash/hard drive" and is able to carry all types of Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other files with her without carrying her laptop she was excited about the possiblities. However, after I confirmed that the Mac iPod "hard drive" could not be accessed by a Windows computer I had to see what solutions were available.

Enter MacDrive 6 by Mediafour. This product, once loaded on a Windows computer, allows a Mac formatted iPod "hard drive" to be accessed on a Windows computer. Now the question is: what about Windows > Mac "hard drive" via Macs OS X Windows sharing AND flash drive iPods.

I'll let you know what I find out about this answer.

iWork: Pages and Keynote web sites

Here you go with some web sites for Apple's iWork

iWork Community:

iWorkcommunity.com

Pages:

PagesUser.com

Keynote:

Keynoteuser.com
Keynoteadventurer.com
KeynoteHQ.com

As I find more sites I'll update this blog.

Creating Sales is like being a farmer....

you have to plant some seeds before you can harvest!!

I was recently talking with a business person and we got on to the subject of sales and his ONLY comment was:

What are your Sales numbers?

While I don't disagree that sales numbers show results and results are what matters, what HE failed to realize is that results come from activity to produce numbers and results. You can't find out how much a farmer harvests unless you know how much he plants and how much he "maintains" his field in preparation for planting and the next step of planting in search of getting more of a harvest. So, in more detail:

Field Preparation + Planting + Plant Maintenance = Harvest

Same goes for business, but with different terminology:

Planning + Designing + Marketing = Sales

Poor leaders focus on EITHER one or the other side. POOR workers focus on EITHER side as well. Good leaders AND good workers will notice BOTH sides of the equation rather than only on one side, results OR process.

So, next time you are talking with a person whether that person is a business owner or a person who works for someone else, listen to how they measure themselves or how they are measured or even how they've been measured.

If a leader states "I don't care how you do it but reach this number or you'll be ...." is a VERY POOR leader because they fail to understand HOW their business will GROW!! It shows that they will NOT be able to duplicate what has been done.

If a worker states "I don't care how I do it but I have to reach this number or I'll be ..." it shows that the worker is willing to possibly swap out ethical behavior with something less truthful.

In both cases we've seen how Enron, Tyco, and other companies bow to pressure to perform and begin to perform unethically.

If you take care of your customers, they care about how you perform, Wall Street can take a hike.

Free software posted on a Commercial Web site

Here's a neat example of a company that is concerned with their customers, Bare Bones Software has a section of their web site that lists free software on the Mac. Nothing is more important to me starting a business than finding free or low cost software to get my tasks and jobs done. But what is really nice is the fact that here's a company that that lists it on their web site. Good job in my view.

This should be a suggestion for every commercial web site that sells products, placing links to free software that either helps with your products or that you find that have been helpful to you.