tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50313664267904635202024-02-19T05:23:41.292-08:00The rants, musings & adventures of Dale YancyThe purpose of this blog is to stimulate your thinking with my observations on life as a 21st century follower of Jesus, the Church, our culture, the Christian sub-culture & politics.Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.comBlogger216125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-37875455719503046202016-12-29T15:14:00.001-08:002016-12-29T15:14:40.569-08:00Lesson 40: Crazy for God, The Minor Prophets, pt. 3<iframe width="459" height="344" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WARmwMHAQnQ" frameborder="0" allowFullScreen=""></iframe><br />
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Check out this latest lesson on the little-known but so important Minor Prophets. Action-packed and gluten-free!!Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-36226576994357708442013-12-13T07:23:00.002-08:002013-12-16T05:43:13.123-08:00Liar, Liar--Pants on Fire!!<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-size: large;">This just in:</span> </div>
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<o:p>President Barack Obama has been awarded the dubious honor of "LIE of the YEAR" with a rating of "Pants on Fire" by the Politifact-fact-checking website.</o:p></blockquote>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Just to refresh your memory--</b>Our president looked straight into the camera and on numerous occasions and said: <span id="goog_2073236714"></span><span id="goog_2073236715"></span></span></div>
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<li><a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/WEEKLY-ADDRESS-President-Obama-Outlines-Goals-for-Health-Care-Reform/">President’s
weekly address</a>, June 6, 2009:<i> "If you like the plan you have, you can
keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too.
The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold." </i>Tell that to the millions who are receiving cancellation notices from their health insurers because Obamacare has forced the health insurance company to dump them. These millions of insured were happy with their coverage, but are NOW being told by Obama that their coverage is sub-standard, sub-par. According to the new federal guidelines for coverage, most insurance plans don't meet the government definition which includes forcing 50-yr old men to have coverage for mammogram screening and birth control. </li>
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<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/A-Town-Hall-and-a-Health-Care-Model-in-Green-Bay/">Town
hall in Green Bay, Wis</a>., June 11, 2009:<i> "No matter how we reform
health care, I intend to keep this promise: If you like your doctor,
you'll be able to keep your doctor; if you like your health care plan, you'll
be able to keep your health care plan." </i>(How can you keep your doctor when he's not in your exchange and he's not on the short list of accepted doctors? How can you keep your doctor when he's losing his medical practice due to Obamacare?)</div>
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<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Press-Conference-by-the-President-6-23-09/">Presidential
press conference</a>, June 23, 2009. <i>"If you like your plan and you like
your doctor, you won't have to do a thing. You keep your plan. You keep your
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<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/remarks-president-town-hall-health-care-grand-junction-colorado">Town
hall in Grand Junction, Colo.</a>, Aug. 15, 2009:<i> "I just want to be
completely clear about this. I keep on saying this but somehow folks aren't
listening — if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan.
Nobody is going to force you to leave your health care plan. If you
like your doctor, you keep seeing your doctor."</i> (Notice how Obama typically attacks his critics by saying "but somehow folks aren't listening." It's now obvious that his critics were RIGHT.</div>
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<a href="http://www.debates.org/index.php?page=october-3-2012-debate-transcript">First
presidential debate in Denver</a>, Oct. 3, 2012: <i>"If you've got health
insurance, it doesn't mean a government takeover. You keep your own insurance.
You keep your own doctor. But it does say insurance companies can't jerk you
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In one of the opening chapters of Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov", a revered monk tells Karamazov, "A man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point where he does not discern any truth either in himself or anywhere around him, and thus falls into disrespect towards himself and others."<br />
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-64795796835456131532013-12-08T10:43:00.000-08:002013-12-11T18:27:38.198-08:00How well does Sheldon Cooper's IQ stack up to Almighty God?<a href="http://ajaicde.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/to-god-be-the-glory_wide_t_nv.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="224" src="http://ajaicde.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/to-god-be-the-glory_wide_t_nv.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #134f5c; font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>here are times when one needs to take a break from all the politics and foolish behavior that abounds in Washington D.C. as well as the evident decay of our culture.<br />
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It's always around this time of the year that hear about the "war on Christmas" and while there is some truth to that, the fact is that there is a war on God. We are a rebellious people who are constantly shaking our fists at God. In many ways, we scream out, "You're not fair! You're not just! You're not doing your job! You've let us down!" Maybe that's why so many in our nation have abandoned the Living God for gods of their own making, including their own political ideology.<br />
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No matter where you stand on the political spectrum, or where you find yourself in relation to Almighty God, even if you don't believe in His existence--He is still on his throne. He is a debtor to no one. We can NEVER do enough that God would owe us anything. We cannot establish a claim on God's love, mercy, grace or forgiveness based on our birth or our beauty or our brains or behavior.<br />
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<a href="http://the-big-bang-theory.com/images/uploads/1/81631221d8e826d1c6123a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://the-big-bang-theory.com/images/uploads/1/81631221d8e826d1c6123a.jpg" /></a>Sheldon Cooper (The Big Bang Theory) may have one of the highest IQs known to man, but that doesn't make God a debtor to Sheldon in any way whatsoever. Sheldon's wisdom and knowledge about the universe is so infinitesimally minuscule when compared with God's wisdom, power and strength.<br />
God is always ready to surprise us with new things. He is always at work behind the scenes performing his will and good pleasure. In other words, when you don't think God is there, or don't think He's doing anything, He is still at work, and in time, you will see the evidence of what He is doing at this very moment.<br />
<a href="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/121/167/121167662_640.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="265" src="http://b.vimeocdn.com/ts/121/167/121167662_640.jpg" width="400" /></a>He never drops the ball. He never screws up. He never says "Oops!" He is never caught off-guard or caught by surprise.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Everything you and I have comes from Him. Everything that exists--all of creation is His handiwork. </span><br />
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So this Christmas, take time to reflect on the wonder, majesty, strength and wisdom of Almighty God. To God Be the Glory. Great things He has done!<br />
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As <b>Job 36:22-24 (NLT) </b><br />
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<sup><span style="color: black;">22 </span></sup><span class="poetry1"> “Look, God is all-powerful.</span> <span class="poetry2">Who is a
teacher like him? </span><sup><span style="color: black;">23
</span></sup> No one can tell him what to do, <span class="poetry2">or say to him,
‘You have done wrong.’</span><sup><span style="color: black;">24 </span></sup> Instead, glorify his mighty works, <span class="poetry2">singing songs of praise.</span></blockquote>
<b>Romans 11:36 (NLT) </b><br />
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everything comes from him and exists by his power and is intended for his glory.
All glory to him forever! Amen. </blockquote>
<br />Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-51466503308273333712013-12-05T06:05:00.000-08:002013-12-05T06:36:25.562-08:00The Rx that's needed in the black community<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Comedian, Bill Cosby</td></tr>
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The <span style="font-size: large;">"Knockout Game"</span> is symptomatic of an even greater issue in the U.S today. The Black community needs to "man up" and start addressing its own problems. For far too long, blacks have used whites as their scapegoats, choosing to point the finger at 'white racism' or 'racist cops' or a racial imbalance in the prisons and jails. There's a racial imbalance with many more blacks in prison and jails because they're the ones who are committing most of the crimes!<br />
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As <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/blessed-are-the-peacemakers-bill-cosby-on-black-youth">Bill Cosby</a> has said,<br />
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"It's NOT what the white man is doing to us, it's what we're doing to ourselves! Five or six different children, same woman, eight, ten
different husbands or whatever, pretty soon you're going to have to have DNA
cards so you can tell who you're making love to. You don't know who this is. It
might be your grandmother. (Laughter) I'm telling you, they're young enough.
Hey, you have a baby when you're twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a
baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you're twelve, you could
have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I'm just
predicting.”</blockquote>
When I look at the black community, I ask myself, where is the church, especially the black church? What <br />
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are you doing? Why aren't you speaking out? Why haven't we heard any 'black leaders' speaking out condemning 'the knockout game'? And again, I believe the fact that the black community has to rely on so-called, self-appointed 'black leaders' is itself part of their problem. They don't need any leaders. Each of them needs to start taking responsibility for what is going on in their own households, in their own community, in their schools.<br />
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As Bill Cosby has already stated, they've got the wrong priorities and the wrong values. Instead of buying their kid a $200. pair of basketball speakers, they need to be investing in Hooked on Phonics so their kid can read and speak English.<br />
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Many in the black community profess a strong faith in Christ but sadly, their faith never seems to make it out of the church sanctuary and into their homes, community, or at the ballot box. Black Christians don't vote for righteousness, they vote on the basis of skin color. Why else would 96% blacks have voted for Obama?<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvhZJTacp2sUmZzEU4ngBXnayk1xIl_4MUc0M7V5U0cXq00A1Yv2LmIBef9b2H1zzwruKVyhRRNtTiZWhJaN2LxWtroQgD01Q6gd-G0wF02Rg6khY-3AGZD8E6YMK81gQyD0nZsuyZhP9S/s1600/black-crime-report.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="233" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvhZJTacp2sUmZzEU4ngBXnayk1xIl_4MUc0M7V5U0cXq00A1Yv2LmIBef9b2H1zzwruKVyhRRNtTiZWhJaN2LxWtroQgD01Q6gd-G0wF02Rg6khY-3AGZD8E6YMK81gQyD0nZsuyZhP9S/s400/black-crime-report.jpg" width="400" /></a>It's time for blacks to stop playing the "race card" and the "victim card" and take responsibility for their own failures as a people. They need stop allowing liberal educators in their schools brainwash them with a "victim mentality". Instead of attacking <a href="http://www.examiner.com/article/blessed-are-the-peacemakers-bill-cosby-on-black-youth">Bill Cosby and vilifying the messenger</a>, you need to listen to the message that is coming from one who knows you and is speaking the truth.<br />
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Instead of marching for justice, or for more food stamps, try marching to the public schools and declaring you're not going to stand for a 60% drop-out rate any longer. You're not going to put up with the fact that you son or daughter can't read or write or even speak English. Start taking back your schools and your community from black gangs and thugs who happen to be your sons and daughters. Start parenting your own children instead of relying on the schools or television to do it.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Instead of marching to end racial profiling, black parents need to spend<br />
more time at home teaching their kids some moral values so the police<br />
don't have to stop and 'frisk' them. </td></tr>
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Society at large needs to take serious action against those who perpetrate violence of any kind, especially in the form of the "knockout game" which is no game, but deadly attacks on innocent people. Punching out some elderly person's lights isn't wrong because its illegal, it's illegal because its WRONG! If we as a society feel no moral revulsion at gangs of black youths pulverizing fellow citizens, then we as a society have lost our moral bearings. As Chuck Colson pronounced 20 yrs ago, we have become the "new barbarians"!<br />
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My final thought is that we need to pray for our nation, pray for the black community. We need to pray that the black community will look in the mirror and start taking responsibility for what is going on right under their nose and no longer looking for someone else to blame.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">It's time to for blacks to take their faith in God and His<br />
righteousness outside the church sanctuary and into <br />
their homes, community as well as the ballot box. </td></tr>
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At the same time, we all need to look in the mirror and ask ourselves "to what extent am I part of the problem?" What am I doing to turn the tide, or am I just going along to get along? Do I ever speak out? Do I ever correct someone for wrong thinking which comes from believing a lie? Maybe I should be looking for a black child or teen to mentor or tutor, teaching him or her how to read and write. Maybe our churches need to be supporting the Big Brothers and Big Sisters' program. Instead of soup kitchens, we might better spend our time mentoring a young black child and giving him some values and purpose for his life.<br />
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We need to stop the political correctness which is de-humanizing us because it provides cover for these hoodlums and their acts of violence. We are so afraid of being called-out as "racists" that we've allowed ourselves to be silenced. Maybe we need to pray for boldness to stand up to the lies of political-correctness and to speak the truth in love to those around us. I'm sure that as you and I pray, God will speak and show us what He'd have us to do and how to do it.<br />
<br />Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-28588337599266051662013-12-02T05:10:00.001-08:002013-12-02T09:59:59.175-08:00It may be racist & deadly, but it's ONLY a game!<div class="MsoNormal">
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all-out racial assault on whites by young black thugs. You haven’t read much
about it because the media is doing its best to ignore these unprovoked physical
attacks. These “hate crimes” don’t fit their media template. It’s supposed to
be whites attacking blacks, not whites as victims.</div>
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media’s thinking, it’s only a hate crime if the victim is either black or
gay. It can’t be a hate crime if the victims are a 30-yr old white couple. <a href="http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/brooklyn-youths-attack-couple-racial-attack-cops-article-1.1490901">Ronald and Alan Russo, 30</a>, were assaulted by 10 black youths after they honked their
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The New York Daily News reported that after Ronald honked
his horn the upset youths began kicking his car. When Russo got out to examine
the damage, he was thrown to the ground, punched and kicked throughout his body
— including his head. He suffered numerous injuries, including a blood clot,
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His wife, Alana, was also ripped from the car while she
attempted to dial 911. Her head was slammed on the concrete and she suffered a
black eye, bleeding and had difficulty breathing, prosecutors said, according
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“They struck the victims multiple times — heads, body,
legs,” Grimpel said. “The female they struck her in the face. Also took an
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During the attack, racial insults were hurled at the couple.</div>
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“Get those crackers!” some of the youths shouted, court
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“White motherf----r!” others reportedly shouted.</div>
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The <span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://www.today.com/news/knockout-game-teens-attack-innocent-people-just-fun-2D11648773">“Knockout Game”</a></span> is also being played in the heartland of
<st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region>.
Last summer, three black teens were charged in the killing of an Australian
university student in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Duncan</st1:city>,
<st1:state w:st="on">Oklahoma</st1:state></st1:place> “for the fun of it.”</div>
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<st1:street w:st="on"><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/nov/07/chris-lane-killing-michael-jones-charged-murder">Christopher Lane</a></st1:street>, of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Melbourne</st1:city>,
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Australia</st1:country-region></st1:place>, was
shot in the back while jogging on the side of the road. The three black youths
followed him in their car, shot him in the back and drove off.When asked why they did it, one of them said, “We were bored
and decided to kill somebody for the fun of it.”<br />
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was here on a baseball scholarship. He was described by friends as a smart,
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President Obama who usually inserts himself into racial matters by
making public statements condemning whites for violence against blacks, hasn’t yet
uttered a word about black on white crime or "polar bear hunting." </div>
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Maybe it’s because <st1:street w:st="on">Chris
Lane</st1:street> didn’t look like his son. Maybe it's because the three suspects do look like they could have been his son(s). On the subject of "Knockouts", the silence from our President and his black attorney general is deafening.<br />
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<i>(In my next post, I'll offer some thoughts on what we as a society need to do about the increasing number of attacks on whites by young black teens.)</i></div>
Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-81339411263400628522013-11-24T16:51:00.000-08:002013-11-24T17:18:38.267-08:00That Hideous Strength: C.S. Lewis foresaw Obamacare!<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckqvAzAYPbScGnjOLCeN1w-KEHJ4UhaPkHCyb00mkdwyn6_8t7AHE0xQKflndjhpRmXCDUp7Zr5OqKRgplZSYE-i4XMLWuQOTpoUv6Dl8BtpO6LvvYLDJT4dtr5ZEs7T442tSNnTriW1F/s1600/JFK.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="155" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjckqvAzAYPbScGnjOLCeN1w-KEHJ4UhaPkHCyb00mkdwyn6_8t7AHE0xQKflndjhpRmXCDUp7Zr5OqKRgplZSYE-i4XMLWuQOTpoUv6Dl8BtpO6LvvYLDJT4dtr5ZEs7T442tSNnTriW1F/s320/JFK.jpg" width="320" /></a><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>his past Friday, Nov. 22, marked fifty years since the passing of C.S. Lewis. Chances are pretty good you didn't hear about this important milestone as the mainstream media spent all of last week waxing eloquent over Camelot and John F. Kennedy. For most of our media elite, it's "C.S. Who?"<br />
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The drive-by media has sought to turn JFK into a saint, overlooking his numerous alleged affairs and sexual encounters, as well as ignoring his culpability of embroiling us in Vietnam. JFK sent the first U.S. troops to Vietnam, where there were 58,220 military fatal casualties in a failed war that had no reason, purpose or definition of victory.<br />
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What the media elites missed is the lasting greatness of C.S. Lewis who has touched more lives in light of eternity, making JFK's brief 3 yrs as president like the fleeting appearance of a shooting star compared with the brilliance of a harvest moon.<br />
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Lewis foresaw the growth of Big Brother in our daily lives. His prescience characterized our present enslavement to statist efforts to destroy our liberty and freedom:<br />
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<i>Two wars necessitated vast curtailments of liberty, and we have grow</i><i>n, though grumblingly, accustomed to our chains. The increasing complexity and precariousness of our economic life have forced Government to take over many spheres of activity once left to choice or chance...There is nothing left of which we can say to (our new leaders), "Mind your own business." Our whole lives are their business. </i><span style="font-size: x-small;">(from the essay, "Is Progress Possible?")</span> </blockquote>
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C.S. Lewis extolled the beauty of the freeborn mind. In his Chronicles of Narnia, Lewis hoped to immunize young people and their parents against the seductive power of a society run by technocrats who offer us hope, medical care, economic stability and permanent employment, if only we will become the "willing slaves of the welfare state." He writes:<br />
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<i>To live his life in his own way, to call his house his castle, to enjoy the fruits of his own labour, to educate his children as his conscience directs, to save for their prosperity after </i><i>his death--these are the wishes deeply ingrained in white and civilized man. Their realization is almost as necessary to our virtues as to our happiness. From their total frustration disastrous results both moral and psychological might follow</i>. <span style="font-size: x-small;">(from the essay, "Is Progress Possible?")</span></blockquote>
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmo6SAAdSH8HlYfMeW26xNs9pm_92-w3ggfVNC6rMO-PBsIffCtC_jUEv5xD9cd5GtXLMT0cDDqCtSczXystFpRVxHeY36xbi3Nv_ERCuj4aZ8AeBbppZ-HOQHtyCL2ch9HRdFN13jXlp/s1600/Narnia2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwmo6SAAdSH8HlYfMeW26xNs9pm_92-w3ggfVNC6rMO-PBsIffCtC_jUEv5xD9cd5GtXLMT0cDDqCtSczXystFpRVxHeY36xbi3Nv_ERCuj4aZ8AeBbppZ-HOQHtyCL2ch9HRdFN13jXlp/s320/Narnia2.jpg" width="320" /></a>This passage is echoed in the description of the four Great Kings and Queens of Narnia in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The reign of Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy was a long and happy one, and one of the key features that Lewis highlights is that they "made good laws and kept the peace...and generally stopped busybodies and interferers and encouraged ordinary people who wanted to live and let live"<span style="font-size: x-small;"> (chap. 17, "The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe").</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtmyWQlt8htHg2PNUuPK-ba2xw1oSgTAUYLhc7nAuYCGC4xmV0SiZDP6fuzH546BUa2x3LE2ygYgL2xCTOzxFSoeFbb7xsmYQupw8QB-eL6fsF6Bx7ek170oTFBDbMXtaST-_homdh-Au/s1600/Alinsky_Obama.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDtmyWQlt8htHg2PNUuPK-ba2xw1oSgTAUYLhc7nAuYCGC4xmV0SiZDP6fuzH546BUa2x3LE2ygYgL2xCTOzxFSoeFbb7xsmYQupw8QB-eL6fsF6Bx7ek170oTFBDbMXtaST-_homdh-Au/s320/Alinsky_Obama.jpg" width="320" /></a>In the long struggle against elite statism and liberal "do-gooders" who know what's best for you and your family, we would be much better off as a nation if our president had spent more time reading C.S. Lewis instead of Alinsky's "Rules for Radicals."<br />
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It is no secret which author has had the greatest influence on our president and this administration. But for those who are fans of Lewis, we will continue to side with those in Narnia where liberty, freedom, peace, and good laws reside.Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-64206692851565906692013-11-16T06:42:00.000-08:002013-11-16T06:49:48.791-08:00You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig<div style="font-family: Verdana; font-weight: bold; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">This is so delicious to just sit and watch the unraveling of Obamacare. This overhaul of the U.S. healthcare system, one-sixth of our economy was done by one man--the smartest man anywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">By Obama's own estimation, he is a better speechwriter than his speech writers, he is a better economist than his team of economic advisers He sits with the heads of businesses and he knows how to run their companies better than any of them. And Obama is braver and more courageous than any of our highly-trained, elite Seal Teams, because Barack Hussein Obama single-handedly took out Osama bin-Laden.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">So now we have Obama's "re-write" of Obamacare. He came out on Thursday and said, in effect, that you could NOW keep your present health coverage, at least for another year. And if its been cancelled, well then, it's up to the health insurance companies to "give you back" your old, cancelled, sub-standard policy. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-TW78KgBrYgerGyZvkfaNgTif07JWoGFGtJ6Kl32qJ6v-zf8SptK2ufCANvzpngAy0TxsBlBPU82nNPay17VaTnxNiaDEEYTlLZlmHWaf_276RDB6w4FRPz-3KGJpb8o7oKU56U61SecW/s1600/Obamacare-RonPaul.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><img border="0" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-TW78KgBrYgerGyZvkfaNgTif07JWoGFGtJ6Kl32qJ6v-zf8SptK2ufCANvzpngAy0TxsBlBPU82nNPay17VaTnxNiaDEEYTlLZlmHWaf_276RDB6w4FRPz-3KGJpb8o7oKU56U61SecW/s400/Obamacare-RonPaul.jpg" width="400" /></span></a><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: 11.25pt;">What the smartest man in the room doesn't seem to understand is that you can't put toothpaste back into the tube, once it's been squeezed out. But then again, that's just a minor detail, just a bump in the road. Obama only did this to provide cover for the Democrats. But his primary reason for doing this is to deflect some of the outrage from himself and the Democrats to the health insurers. If they can't magically reconstruct new policies in the next 30 days, then Obama will be able to blame them for this problem. And guess what, about 40% of American who get their news from Black Entertainment Television, MTV, MSNBC, or Jon Stewart, will believe him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Obama is trying to stall the anger of Americans until AFTER the November 2014 mid-term elections. He doesn't care who is being hurt by this idiotic law. He just doesn't want it to keep </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Democrats from taking control of the House of Representatives and holding on to the Senate.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">We might as well get rid of Congress because the President, the Executive Branch is now writing and rewriting legislation. Obama has NO authority to delay elements of Obamacare. He can't selectively enforce parts of it while ignoring other parts. But for this brilliant constitutional scholar, our most high President, the law has never posed much of an obstacle. He's above the law and he and only he can choose which laws to enforce and which laws to ignore. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">In a nutshell, Obama and the Democrats are trying to impose on Americans, insurance they don't want, at prices they don't want to pay, while limiting their choices of doctors and hospitals. This is really modern liberalism at work. They really don't care what kind of insurance you have as long as it's MANDATORY. Liberals and progressives love to MANDATE and FORCE their will and vision down the throats of everyone else. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">You can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig. All these so-called "fixes" point out one thing: Obamacare is a disaster on so many levels. It can NEVER be fixed. It can and should be scrapped. </span></div>
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-85238023822839577542013-11-11T09:32:00.002-08:002013-11-11T11:51:21.524-08:00The Day Superman Died.I was sitting in church yesterday and the worship leader made some reference to Jesus as being our "Superman". Right then and there, it got me to thinking about today's post.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">George Reeves. Look at those "padded" muscles, able <br />
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I grew up with Superman. When I was a little kid, I watched Superman on black & white TV (that's pretty much all there was). In the television series, Superman was played by George Reeves. Even as a kid, me and my friends thought he looked too old and his phony muscles came from the poorly-padded costume that he wore. Still, I was a faithful fan of the old Superman TV series, and rediscovered it in color in the 1960s.<br />
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I also remember the day Superman died. June 16, 1959 from a gunshot wound to the head. From the description at the time, it was an apparent suicide. My comic book hero was dead. Unbelievable! Some of the innocence of my childhood died that day as well. The realization hit me that my TV heroes were flawed individuals who had the same struggles as me, maybe more so because they were continually forced into a TV personna that was so disconnected from their everyday life. This truth was brought home again this past summer with the tragic death of Cory Monteith from Glee. Who would have imagined that this handsome young actor would die alone in a Vancouver, BC hotel from a drug overdose?<br />
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The sad irony is that George Reeves played a character on TV who always came to the rescue in the nick of time, to save ordinary people from the clutches of death and despair. But in real life, when the actor, George Reeves, faced that same dilemma, he felt like he was alone with no one to save him. I wish he could have met the real Superman--the one who saved me just a few years later.<br />
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This Superman, Jesus, the Messiah, was and is the true hero. He's able to do a whole lot more than leap tall buildings in a single bound, or bend steel with his bare hands. He set me free from the guilt of my sins. He offered me forgiveness and a new life. I don't have to wait for him to find a phone booth to change out of his street clothes into his "outfit". This superman lives inside of me by his spirit. He's with me 24/7. He directs my steps. As the Psalmist says, "...he leads me beside the still waters. He restores my soul."<br />
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This past week I read the story of someone else who met "Superman", aka Jesus, the Messiah. Kirsten Powers, columnist for the Daily Beast and Fox News contributor and analyst writes in the latest issue of Christianity Today about how she became a reluctant follower of Jesus the Messiah. She says,<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #231f20; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 21.328125px;">After college I worked as an appointee in the Clinton administration from 1992 toy 1998. The White House surrounded me with intellectual people who, if they had any deep faith in God, never expressed it. Later, when I moved to New York, where I worked in Democratic politics, my world became aggressively secular. Everyone I knew was politically left-leaning, and my group of friends was overwhelmingly atheist.</span></blockquote>
As she herself puts it, she was "creeped out" by evangelical Christians whom she derided as anti-intellectual bigots. But God knew her address and knew how to get her attention. The hound of heaven tracked her down while on a trip to Taiwan. He came to her in a dream, and her life hasn't been the same since. (<a href="http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2013/november/fox-news-highly-reluctant-jesus-follower-kirsten-powers.html?paging=off">Read all of Kirsten Powers' story: "Highly Reluctant Jesus Follower" at Christianity Today</a>).<br />
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This Superman, Jesus of Nazareth, the Messiah, the One who is the Way, the Truth and the Life (John 14:6) is at work today opening blind eyes of those who may hate him or despise his followers. Because He is the God of mercy, He delights in revealing Himself to those who are his supposed enemies.<br />
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Jesus is showing himself to Muslims and people of other faiths every day in dreams and visions. He is the one true Superman who has come to earth to save mankind, to save us from our sins and to bring us into a relationship with God, the Father. It's not about going to heaven--it's about knowing the one true God, the One who is the creator of heaven and earth, and his purpose for our lives right here and now!</div>
Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-74221746880210627962013-11-04T07:02:00.000-08:002013-11-04T07:49:10.840-08:00The Biggest Lie ever uttered by a U.S. President<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Big Lie</b></span>. Perhaps the biggest lie ever uttered by a U.S. President:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"> "If you like your present healthcare policy, you can keep it, period. No one will take it away from you. No matter what. You will be able to keep your doctor, period." </span></blockquote>
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That was a <span style="font-size: large;"><b>LIE</b></span> and we heard it so many times from the Obama's lips. Why did he lie? Because if he had told the truth, he and the Democrats wouldn't have been able to sell Obamacare. But then that's the standard M.O. for liberals and progressives. <b>They can ONLY get elected by lying. They never tell the truth. </b><br />
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If they ever told the truth about their true intentions, very few Americans would ever vote for them. If Obama had actually told voters that he wanted to see an increasing number of Americans out of work and on food stamps, who would've voted for him? If he had told voters that he wanted to "cut America down to size" and reduce our standing in the eyes of the world, who would've voted for him? If he had told Americans that he wanted to redistribute the wealth of the producers and give it to the "takers"--who would've voted for him. He had to LIE to get elected.<br />
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Now at least 15 million Americans have had their healthcare coverage cancelled and there will be millions more to follow. <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Another</b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>BIG LIE</b></span>, because these policies were regulated and most of the policy holders were HAPPY with their coverage. (Read the story of a woman with stage 4 cancer who has had her coverage cancelled and will probably die because of Obamacare. <a href="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304527504579171710423780446?mod=ITP_opinion_0">"You Can't Keep Your Doctor."</a> )<br />
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But the President and his Democrat allies are rationalizing that these policies were "sub-standard", "lousy" or "skeletal plans." And the President's spokesman, Jay Carney, is likening the Health Insurers to the Wild West where anything goes and unregulated crummy policies were sold to unsuspecting consumers. All of which is another big LIE and attempt to justify the reason why millions are being kicked off their present healthcare coverage.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Another BIG LIE:</span></b> The President said that the average family would save around <span style="font-size: large;">$2400 a month </span>in premiums. <b>WRONG</b>. Most families and individuals are seeing their healthcare premiums skyrocket by hundreds of dollars and their deductible amount is now double, triple or quadruple in cost!<br />
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What we have is a President who is a Dictator. He dictates to you and me what kind of coverage we can have and how much we have to pay for it. He determines what is "good" coverage. He determines what is "adequate coverage." He is the Dictator who knows what is good for you because you are too stupid to buy the right coverage for yourself. You're too dumb to know what's best for your family. That's why you have the President and his Democrat allies--they're the smartest and brightest. They will lead you and me out out of the darkness. They will light the way to affordable health care. They care about you--way more than those evil Republicans who want to starve the elderly and babies, and wanted to leave you to rot with your lousy sub-standard, skeletal, crummy health plan as well as your choice of your own stupid doctor, and your affordable monthly premium. How awful is that?!!<br />
<br />Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-53350540334131124832013-10-30T17:00:00.003-07:002013-10-30T17:06:12.034-07:00What's up with all these "co-exist" bumper stickers?"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRluEkp-vbApzkHashr7f4cQj-klR01NHip-OJtf2tw7SYsFJAtZ4EQ-z94lrqqWKjCwjrP7YSOV2dDqfeLz58xtyMzXBEakLFqUjXt-0PJ_J7ZUHRUSdNIxPLxU1YoL2o7xN33BKSdy17/s1600/coexist1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRluEkp-vbApzkHashr7f4cQj-klR01NHip-OJtf2tw7SYsFJAtZ4EQ-z94lrqqWKjCwjrP7YSOV2dDqfeLz58xtyMzXBEakLFqUjXt-0PJ_J7ZUHRUSdNIxPLxU1YoL2o7xN33BKSdy17/s400/coexist1.jpg" width="400" /></a>While helping my daughter, Sarah, in her recent move from Paducah, KY to Somersworth, New Hampshire, <br />
I kept noticing one bumper sticker which appeared more and more frequently, the closer I got to liberal and enlightened New England. Of course, I'm speaking about the "Coexist" bumper sticker which can be seen on the back window or bumper of Toyota Prius' with the occupants inside singing "Cum-bay-a" and "We are the World."<br />
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I'd like to see these drivers sport their "Coexist" bumper stickers in places like Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, or Northern Nigeria or Somalia. It's really easy to be tolerant when you're driving your Prius in Stamford, CT. and don't have radical Muslims threatening to behead you.<br />
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<b>In case you haven't seen the "Coexist" bumper sticker, here's what it says and means:</b><br />
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<li>C = The crescent moon representing Islam. </li>
<li>O = Buddhism</li>
<li>E = Science-the scientific equation</li>
<li>X = The star of David, representing Judaism. </li>
<li>I = Paganism: Wiccan</li>
<li>S = The Chinese yin-yang symbol.</li>
<li>T = The cross representing Christianity</li>
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On the surface, it seems like a reasonable sentiment: "Can't we all put aside our religious differences and get along?"</div>
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These same individuals would find it difficult to co-exist with former President George Bush, or Rush Limbaugh, or the Tea Party. It's easy to call for tolerance for a religion, it's another thing to be tolerant and loving toward the next Tea Party conservative you run into, or find yourself in a car with someone listening to Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck. How's that co-existence working out, then?</div>
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The liberal mind thinks this bumper sticker is really nice and shows great tolerance and enlightenment. However, I'm sure that if they really gave it some serious thought, they'd realize that these religions DON'T worship the same god, DON'T believe in the same the same things and DON'T teach the same values. There is an incredible gulf between each of these religious beliefs. Islam is a religion that doesn't believe in coexistence with anyone. If you are not a Muslim, you are considered an infidel. There is no in-between. </div>
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For the Christian and the Jew, there is no other god but Jehovah. The reason Jews have never assimilated <br />
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throughout the centuries due to their stubborn adherence to Yahweh as the one true God. And, Christians, who also believe in Yahweh as Almighty God, also believe that He has revealed Himself to mankind through his son, Jesus, the Messiah who said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father (God) except by me." (John 14:6), You can't be a follower of Jesus Christ and believe that many roads lead to God and that all religions are equally valid. </div>
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So when you think about it, these drivers with the "coexist" bumper stickers are either naive, ignorant or delusional. They can sing "cum-bay-a" and listen to NPR during their rush-hour drive, but they are no more enlightened or tolerant than the Muslim radical who's sitting in a cave in Yemen. </div>
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-40756444186673257262013-10-12T20:02:00.000-07:002013-10-13T04:53:29.079-07:00Two liberals discover they're footing the bill for Obamacare! Priceless!!<div class="MsoNormal">
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This much quickly became clear: People with no pre-existing conditions like Vinson<b> "I was laughing at Boehner -- until the mail came
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Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who
is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare. "I really don't like the Republican tactics, but at least
now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000
out of my family's pocket each year, that's otherwise disposable income or
retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy."<br />
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Both Vinson and Waschura have adjusted gross incomes greater
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while both said they anticipated their rates would go up, they didn't realize
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<span style="font-size: large;">Thank you Tom, for sponsoring me! I have been
against this bill from the beginning although I will get this for free. So this
makes me feel a bit better and not so guilty because you willingly voted for
this. I will think of you every time I visit the doctors office. And you can
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-4473112912165615632013-10-06T12:34:00.000-07:002013-10-08T07:42:13.290-07:00In the immortal words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"<div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0in;">
<b><span style="color: #073763;">Can't
we just stop all this fighting?</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt;"> In the immortal words of Rodney King,
"Ca-ca-ca-can't we all this just along?"</span></div>
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The
Republican house of representatives has voted 4 times to fully fund the
government, everything except Obamacare. It's not the Republicans keeping
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<b><span style="color: red;">Update:</span></b> Check out the latest National Review editorial: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360591/vindictive-shutdown-theater-editors">"Vindictive Shutdown Theatre".</a> This administration going so far as to block roads leading to Mt. Rushmore so you can't even view it. These types of shutdowns are labor-intensive and require more manpower, effort and dollars than keeping the monument or memorial open to the public.<br />
Read more at: <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360591/vindictive-shutdown-theater-editors">http://www.nationalreview.com/article/360591/vindictive-shutdown-theater-editors</a><br />
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Jonah Goldberg writes in the National Review, "Obama has always had a bit
of a vindictive streak when it comes to politics…President Obama and the
Democrats deserve the lion's share of blame for not only prolonging it (for the
government shutdown) but also making it as painful as possible…The National
Park Service which has somehow become the unofficial goon squad of American
liberalism, reversed course and let American World War II vets visit the WWII
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actually costs the government MORE money to try to keep WWII vets out of an
open-air memorial than to just let it be. But this is how liberals typically
make their point--they want to inflict as much pain as possible on the American
people. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Between 2500 & 5000 American soldiers were killed during the D-Day<br />
Invasion. There is still no exact count of how many GI's lost their lives<br />
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you saw the news story of American tourists who had traveled to Omaha Beach in
Normandy, France to pay their respects to friends and loved ones who are among
the 9,387 military dead at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial. Here's
what is despicable about </div>
all this: We can find the money to send workers to
these memorials to keep people out, even under threat of arrest, but we can't
come up with the dough to keep these most hallowed memorials open. And these
are OPEN-AIR memorials which require little or no upkeep. What kind of
supervision do you need over the visitors who want to visit the memorial graves
at Normandy? <br />
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this is typical of this White House which loves to inflict pain on the American
people. Remember, this is the same White House which still finds the money for
travel, vacations, and White House concerts but trying to make a statement
about the seriousness of the sequester, they closed down White House tours. </div>
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President and the Democrats are blaming the Republicans for holding America
hostage. But it's really the President who refuses to negotiate with the
Republicans, who is truly enjoying this government shutdown. This is having
zero effect on his golf game. But to the dismay of those tourists who have
planned for months to visit the memorials of loved ones who gave their lives in
the fight for our freedom and liberty, this is no game, it's another example of
a President who takes delight in bringing pain and disappointment to the
American people, even on foreign soil. </div>
Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-42692746104559013962013-10-01T17:54:00.000-07:002013-10-02T04:45:05.211-07:00Attorney General Holder speaks in "code"--but I've broken the code, using my special decoder ring.<div class="MsoNormal">
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rules, part of a growing battle between the Democrat administration and
Republican-controlled state houses over election laws and race. Holder said that new legislation in North Carolina would make it harder for many minority voters to participate in the electoral process. He was speaking in a special code but thankfully, I've broken the code, using my Capt. Midnight decoder ring which I received from sending in 3 seals from Ovaltine, the drink of champions.</div>
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<li>You need a photo ID to get a drink.</li>
<li>You need a photo ID to get on a plane.</li>
<li>You need a photo ID to rent a car, or to rent equipment.</li>
<li>You need a photo ID to cash a check.</li>
<li>You need a photo ID to enroll in social security or get food stamps or welfare.</li>
<li>You need a photo ID to rent an apt. or buy a house or get a mortgage.</li>
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ineligible and dead person to be able to cast a vote and be able to do it
multiple times in multiple precincts. They know which way those votes will go
and are willing to sacrifice the integrity of the system and effectively cancel
out MY vote to retain power. To top it off, they pull out the trusty race card
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-32293548327819870132013-09-26T06:59:00.001-07:002013-09-26T07:01:02.520-07:00Obama's solution to the Washington Navy Yard Massacre: More disarmed people!!<div style="font-family: Arial; margin: 0in;">
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"We don't take the basic common sense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people." That is administration code words for gun-grabbing, national firearms registry, restricting the kinds of firearms that a citizen can own, magazine capacities, etc. The rhetoric is always the same!</blockquote>
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I agree we need to keep weapons from crazies, including weapons like firearms, knives, baseball bats, pipe bombs, large rocks, etc. But we don't mitigate the situation by restricting the gun ownership by 99.9% of the law-abiding citizens.</div>
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Here's something for the President and all his liberal buds to consider, and maybe offer us an explanation. How can this senseless tragedy occur in Washington DC where we already have the toughest gun-control laws in the nation? The military even prohibits personnel from carrying personal weapons on base. So, the President's answer to this tragedy is MORE gun-control laws? We're NOT even enforcing the existing gun-laws that are on the books.</div>
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A crazed gunman enters the Navy Yard with a ton of DISARMED people, and kills twelve of them. So what does Obama propose? MORE DISARMED PEOPLE!!</div>
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What does the mass shooting at the Washington Navy Yard have in common with the Aurora, Colorado shooting and the Sandy Hook massacre of school children? All three heinous acts were perpetrated by mentally-ill individuals who needed psychiatric treatment. Have you heard the President tackling this issue which is at the heart of these mass shootings? The silence is deafening!! All I hear is crickets. </div>
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-2639379024128883722013-09-20T12:06:00.000-07:002013-09-20T12:06:56.827-07:00Breaking news! Glitch affects roll-out of health exchanges!<div>
<b>The headline in today's Wall Street Journal:</b> <span style="font-size: large;">Glitch Affects Roll-out of Health Exchanges.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;">Can you believe this? This is what we have to look forward to with Obamacare--2 weeks from the start of the all important health exchanges, and the software doesn't work. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 15px;"><b>Peter W. Fierro left the following comment on this story:</b></span></span></div>
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Intent to deal with the computer issues the same way he does Congress, the Supreme Court, Iran, etc. and etc., sources say that BHO walked into the server room, and gave the system a stern warning that it had better get itself into compliance in time. Then he headed for the golf course, stopping only to pick up a carton of smokes.</blockquote>
That about says it all. Thanks Peter!<br />
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Have a great weekend. Stay healthy cause you can't depend on Obamacare!<br />
DaleMjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-47844418920483083922013-09-16T09:16:00.001-07:002013-09-16T09:21:31.829-07:00We've all been lied to. <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHYIm1Gbev_uGs0iOYKygyGPrtqPqAH_Jhwg9_ZCiErmbWV26U9yqnfuOBfXbzcxg4drTuqNKWpgKBXNAk0Knw2FNAgVddJyTeRD9lqtFLlrRZkWEMMDqIv8R5fSgrxZ_p1F6uUXl57e4/s1600/LIES.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaHYIm1Gbev_uGs0iOYKygyGPrtqPqAH_Jhwg9_ZCiErmbWV26U9yqnfuOBfXbzcxg4drTuqNKWpgKBXNAk0Knw2FNAgVddJyTeRD9lqtFLlrRZkWEMMDqIv8R5fSgrxZ_p1F6uUXl57e4/s400/LIES.jpg" width="400" /></a><span style="color: #e06666; font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>he other day, I'm listening to some guy on the radio who all of a sudden proclaims: "We've all been lied to. Every single one of us has been lied to."<br />
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That got me to thinking about all the various ways we've been lied to.<br />
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<span style="color: #0b5394; font-size: large;">This is a non-partisan rant because we've ALL (you and me) been lied to by:</span><br />
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<li>Republicans</li>
<li>Democrats</li>
<li>Independents</li>
<li>We've been lied to by Obama and Geo.W. Bush. We were lied to about the Vietnam, Afghanistan and Iraq wars. When some soldiers like Pat Tilman were killed by friendly fire, our government tried to cover it up and lied to us and the families.</li>
<li>We've been lied to by the media who refuse to report all the facts, and conveniently edit the facts to support their leftist agenda.</li>
<li>We were lied to about Fast and Furious as well as the IRS targeting conservative groups, and of course, Benghazi, where the President and State Dept. wanted us to believe that this tragedy erupted <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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because of a YouTube video.</li>
<li>We've been lied to by those who tell us there is a political solution to the mess we're in as a nation.</li>
<li>We've been lied to by those who would have us believe that the next election will turn everything around for our nation.</li>
<li>We've been lied to by our teachers and professors who tried to brainwash us with information that wasn't really true, accurate or necessary. They tried to build up our self-esteem at the expense of being tough on us and giving us a solid education that could have included critical thinking and hurt feelings because we didn't study enough and weren't prepared. </li>
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<li>They lied to us about the environment, about the dolphins, about global warming, and of course, about Obamacare.</li>
<li>We were lied to about the measure of success. Making a million dollars or more didn't make us feel any better or give us any more purpose in life. Having a BMW and a new Lexus didn't help us sleep any better at night.</li>
<li>We were lied to when they told us that religion is a private thing--just keep it to yourself. </li>
<li>We were lied to when we thought we could have it all, forsaking nothing.</li>
<li>We were lied to when we thought that being a good, moral person is good enough to get us into heaven.</li>
<li>We were lied to when we were told that "all roads lead to heaven."</li>
<li>We were lied to when we were told that Jesus was a great man, a great teacher, a great leader, but he certainly wasn't God.</li>
<li>We have been lied to on a daily basis when we think that "sin" is an outdated, old-fashioned concept and that we are basically good people, with good intentions.</li>
<li>We have been lied to when we thought that we could ignore the spiritual vacuum deep inside our soul by just keeping busy, by constantly being entertained, and seeking new "highs" and "thrills."</li>
<li>We were lied to when they told us that it was "ok" to be a Christian, just don't go overboard with it. Don't become one of those religious, right-wing "nut jobs" who think Jesus is concerned about every aspect of their lives, and actually hears and answers their prayers.</li>
<li>We've been lied to by those who tell us that the mess we're in as a nation is a call to action rather than a call to get on our knees and pray.</li>
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<b><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;">Where does all this lying come from? What is the origin of all the LIES?</span></b></div>
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<b>Jesus </b>said to the Pharisses (John 8:44),<b> "</b><span class="JesusWords">You are of your father <b>the devil</b>, and your will is to do your
father’s desires.</span> <span class="JesusWords">He was a murderer from the
beginning, and</span> <span class="JesusWords">has nothing to do with the truth,
because there is no truth in him.</span> <span class="JesusWords">When he lies, he
speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the <b>father of lies</b>."</span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvHO3fM0ZnZaCDXoTRK-b4x5Q2pHP2n3dcjMm3G7pIQkvOr3TMaMH6hwAzm3gPRBEIm2lIZuMmQv7pPCoB08rjHqzFkHRvZ205fOKTZhXv96RQ6yxpztxRfrIoSUl9L3VwNvwSGifdeJo/s1600/Lies--actions.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIvHO3fM0ZnZaCDXoTRK-b4x5Q2pHP2n3dcjMm3G7pIQkvOr3TMaMH6hwAzm3gPRBEIm2lIZuMmQv7pPCoB08rjHqzFkHRvZ205fOKTZhXv96RQ6yxpztxRfrIoSUl9L3VwNvwSGifdeJo/s1600/Lies--actions.jpg" /></a><span class="JesusWords">All lies originate with Satan (the Devil) who was there in the garden lying to Eve when he told her that if she ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, that she would be like God. And, he's been lying to us ever since.</span></div>
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<span class="JesusWords">If you are seeking the truth, seek the One who is TRUTH.</span></div>
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<span class="JesusWords">Jesus said, "I am the way, the TRUTH and the Life, no man comes to the Father but by me." (John 14:6)</span></div>
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<span class="JesusWords"><b>Jesus </b>said to the Jews who believed in him,<b> (John 8:31-32) </b><br /><span class="ind"><span class="JesusWords">“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples,</span> <span class="JesusWords">and you
will</span> <span class="JesusWords">know <b>the truth,</b> and <b>the truth</b></span><b> <span class="JesusWords">will set you free.”</span></b>
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<br />Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-46383917272144406052013-09-10T18:39:00.000-07:002013-09-10T18:44:32.922-07:00One question needs to be answered on the Benghazi anniversary<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;"><b>T</b></span>oday, Sept. 11, marks the one-year anniversary of the terrorist attack on the U.S. embassy in Libya where Ambassador Christopher Stevens, Glen Doherty, Sean Smith and Ty Woods were murdered. A month later, Obama said regarding the attack that "this is my biggest priority now...bringing those folks to justice, and I think the American people have seen that's a commitment I'll always keep."<br />
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Do you believe that? It's been a<br />
year and we've identified the participants, they've been interviewed on CNN, but still no one has been apprehended. Nothing has been done.<br />
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<b>A year ago today....</b><br />
<span style="color: #20124d; font-size: x-large;"><b>where </b></span><span style="font-size: large;">was<span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b style="background-color: white;">Obama</b></span><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #0c343d;">BETWEEN </span></span><b style="color: #0c343d; font-size: x-large;">the hours of </b><b style="color: #cc0000; font-size: xx-large;">5pm to 1am?</b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqpT6-4U5DB3zFZyKIT0liUax5L2L0RzO2qFJM9e7dilNwCMjhsnsa098wraGKTdop9ZxJkjQGcS40BojDnBIXy0Sbz9kLq_F_RbDClzgY7C3wlPil0DUsYtV-qBq2_7jBFvRZutw4Nou/s1600/Benghazi-fox+news.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXqpT6-4U5DB3zFZyKIT0liUax5L2L0RzO2qFJM9e7dilNwCMjhsnsa098wraGKTdop9ZxJkjQGcS40BojDnBIXy0Sbz9kLq_F_RbDClzgY7C3wlPil0DUsYtV-qBq2_7jBFvRZutw4Nou/s320/Benghazi-fox+news.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>What was he doing? Why have we never been given his minute-by-minute schedule and whereabouts during the terrorist attack on our embassy in Benghazi? When we took out Bin-Laden, Obama and Hillary were together in the White House situation room? Who was in the situation room during this attack where 4 Americans were slaughtered? Was the situation room empty? As far as we know, it was dark and no one was there. Where were they? Where was President Obama during this attack?</b></div>
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-55009692698126370262013-09-08T06:40:00.000-07:002013-09-09T06:31:53.121-07:00Mr. President, what happened to your "cool" diplomacy? <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMWq06re_ZP4jTt3c2Cwq2TDaFfcaqbcAhx7tDtRVPbHE5GL5HTDbLocTBq4UXyoFEJQng28V_YrNzE3MozZg9qskURqTJjmnshyphenhyphenfY-aJzCpqtwT6PArqaCy0x1TSM7sijGfhA4s1vssJ/s1600/audacity+of+lying.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinMWq06re_ZP4jTt3c2Cwq2TDaFfcaqbcAhx7tDtRVPbHE5GL5HTDbLocTBq4UXyoFEJQng28V_YrNzE3MozZg9qskURqTJjmnshyphenhyphenfY-aJzCpqtwT6PArqaCy0x1TSM7sijGfhA4s1vssJ/s320/audacity+of+lying.jpeg" width="247" /></a><span style="color: red; font-size: x-large;">O</span>bama wants to go to war with Syria? Why? Because they crossed a "red line." And, now we learn that it wasn't "his" red line, it's the international community's red line and Congress' red line. Obama never takes responsibility for any thing including his OWN words in 2012 where he said it was HIS <b><span style="color: red;">RED LINE</span></b>.<br />
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What happened to diplomacy? When he ran for prez in 2008, Obama mocked Bush for his "war-mongering" tendencies (even though Bush assembled 50 nations to support his war against Iraq) and said what was needed was diplomacy. Barack Hussein Obama assured us that he could win the respect of the international community. He assured us that he could arrive at a peaceful solution to conflicts rather than resorting to war. Yeah, and how's that working out Mr. President? Thus far, the international community thinks he's a joke and no one wants to join him in his "shot across the bow" to Syria. Obama has LESS respect among the nations of the world than here at home. They have come to realize that he can't be trusted and he is not fit to lead a group of children as a crossing guard across the street much less a war against Syria.<br />
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Even if it is just a shot across the bow, when one takes
such a shot it is a warning of future action if the warning is not heeded, but
in this case WHAT FUTURE ACTION? We don't have a plan for the Middle <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>.
The way this "shot across the bow" has been described, it sounds like
just another thicker red line, sort of like voting present. And what happens if Syria resorts to chemical weapons again?<br />
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When Obama addresses the nation on Tuesday evening, most of America will tune him out. He's a summer rerun when the new fall shows are starting. He has exhausted his credibility. He has lied to us on too many occasions. How about "Fast and Furious", Solyndra, ACA honey pot, IRS, <st1:city w:st="on">Benghazi</st1:city>, NSA? He lied about the cause of death of the 4 Americans in Benghazi and we still don't know what the President was doing from 5pm to 1am on Sept. 11, 2012. And we have a press corps with zero curiosity. No one has pressed him for his minute-by-minute whereabouts on Sept. 11. </div>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: large;"><b>New bumper sticker: "No blood for ego"</b></span><br />
Going to war against Syria will NOT restore America's credibility. We have no credibility among our allies or our enemies. America's credibility will NOT be restored until Obama is out of office. And since when do we go to war to protect the reputation and credibility of a foolish president who doesn't really care about what's going on in Syria or the Middle East. The only thing he cares about is his next golf game.</div>
Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-75860073961363886422013-09-02T11:08:00.001-07:002013-09-02T18:06:25.105-07:00What do you do when you're thirsty? The God who quenches our thirst.How many names can you think of for God? It may sound like an odd question since God's proper name in the Old Testament is YHWH -- but he is referred to by a great many other names and titles in both the Old and New Testament.<br />
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When I pray to God, I like to start out by worshiping Him as he taught us in the Lord's Prayer. I often recite several names and titles back to the Lord of who He is--such as "The Ancient of Days", "The Holy One of Israel", the "Sure Foundation", the "Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last", the God who is "Faithful and True." I could go on, but I think you get the point.</div>
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I want to introduce you today to the God who is "Living Water" (John 4:10). He is like "Rivers of Living Water in a Dry Place" (Isaiah 32:2). </div>
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How long can man go without water? On average, about 3 days. In the book, "Between a Rock and a Hard Place", climber Aron Ralston, pinned against a canyon wall by a giant boulder, went 5 days without water and was finally forced to drink his own urine. Ugh!!</div>
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Another example of deadly thirst occurred when the U.S.S. Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine on July 30, 1945 in the central Pacific. With 1,196 crewmen on board, the Indianapolis sank within 12 minutes in the worst sea disaster in naval history. Three hundred went down with the ship while 900 men faced exposure, dehydration, and shark attacks floating in a few lifeboats and rafts with almost no food or water. Only 317 sailors survived, clinging to life jackets and makeshift rafts. Floating in the hot sun, men became so thirsty, they refused to believe that you couldn't drink the crystal clear ocean water. The younger men would drink the ocean salt water, then get diarrhea, become more dehydrated and then go crazy and die. </div>
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In Isaiah 32:2, we are told that our God is like a hiding place from the wind, a shelter from the storm, and like streams of water in a dry place. He is like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.<br />
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Several years ago, I was taken on a tour of the Judean Hills which go up from Jerusalem and down to the Dead Sea. It truly is dry, parched land with no apparent signs of water anywhere. But, an experienced shepherd knows where the pools of water are, and if you look carefully enough, you can spot cracks in the rocks where water is seeping forth. Even in a dry and parched land like the Judean wilderness, God provides water for those who are thirsty.</div>
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So often when I approach God, I feel dry as though I am walking through the desert with no water and as I come to God, I recognize how much I need His refreshing living water to be poured into my soul, to flood my being, to satisfy my thirst and my longing for Him.<br />
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Daily, you and I are walking through what seems like a desert--where ever you live or work, it's a dry and weary land in need of the rivers of living water that can come only from the Messiah Jesus Himself.</div>
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As you approach God in prayer, call upon Him as the God who is "Living Water" who can quench that thirst for meaning and purpose in our lives. He is the God who satisfies in all the ways that dead religion and good works cannot. He is the God who fills up the emptiness in our soul. He is also the God who is the "Rivers of Living Water in a Dry Place." He is the only one who can bring real refreshment to our weary souls and our mundane daily existence. So ask God to refresh you with Himself, to quench that thirst that only He can satisfy. </div>
Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-24354307465852354372013-08-26T07:11:00.000-07:002013-08-26T07:59:42.298-07:00Some questions I'd like answered regarding the NSA and their spying on ordinary Americans<br />
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Treasury Secretary) wrote about freedom when describing his trip to the old <st1:place w:st="on">Soviet Union</st1:place>, saying that while they were never directly
bothered by anyone there, they were aware of being under constant observation.
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understanding of the nature of freedom: when the pilot announced they had left
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<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why wasn't the NSA with all their data
mining about to detect and prevent the <st1:city w:st="on">Boston</st1:city> massacre? They even had explicit
warnings from the Russians.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why was the NSA was not able to stop the Maj. Nidal Hassan
from committing his jihad slaughter of 13 individuals at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Ft.</st1:placetype> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hood</st1:placename></st1:place>
along with 33 who were injured? We had ample evidence of his radical Islamic
beliefs several years earlier and didn't need any data mining to discover that
he was becoming radicalized.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where is there any real accountability with the NSA? Security
agencies like the NSA define their own legal standards and have no real
accountability. </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where is the judge who rules on these privacy invasions? </span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Where
is the court where an ordinary citizen like myself can appeal this personal
intrusions? What mechanism ever informs an individual that his rights have been
violated?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">How can we trust those who are in charge of our national
intelligence when the director of national intelligence lied to the American
people with no consequences? If we lie to the federal government under oath, we
face imprisonment.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Explain why phone records of the 202 area code were mistaken
for the dialing code of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>,
(20)? Why was the 202 area code even available for such an error. This is a
database query, so the records had to be in the database to query them. Which
means that somebody, somewhere, thought that they should be or thought that
they should not have been excluded from the collection.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Why should we believe anyone in this administration or those
heading up the NSA or national intelligence when thus far, they have lied to us
on numerous occasions and proven to be less than truthful in the scope and
amount of data being searched?</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">President Obama assures the American people that there is no
evidence of this data being abused or misused against the American people. In
light of the IRS going after Tea Party groups, and the Justice Dept. going
after Fox reporter, James Rosen, why should we not believe that this
information could be used against any American to destroy their life or put
them in jail just because they are opposed to this administration?</span></li>
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I don't know what you think, but right now, I'm ready to award the medal of freedom to whistle-blower, Edward Snowden who is languishing in Russia and may never step foot on U.S. soil again. Many pundits on the right have labelled him a traitor, but I'm not one of them. I don't march in lockstep with the right or the left. I'm thankful that Snowden dumped all this "secret" information and started this national conversation on security and privacy. We wouldn't be talking about this had it not been for Edward Snowden. We'd still be believing the lies of the James Clapper, Director of National Intelligence (what an oxymoron!), who perjured himself under oath when he was asked by Sen. Ron Wyden if the NSA collected any data at all on hundreds of millions of Americans? His answer: "No Sir." (Watch the video yourself at the end of this post).<br />
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In my next post, I have some questions that I'd like answered regarding the NSA and their invasion of our privacy in the name of fighting the evil of terrorism (which DOES exist and needs to be taken more seriously than our President takes it. Instead of Islam being the enemy, Obama sees you, me, Republicans, conservatives, Rush Limbaugh, etc. as the enemy). For now, I leave you with this quote from Xavior Simon, "<i>I for one have come to fear abuses of power by the government more than I do terrorism."</i> Amen.<br />
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-84314243039090205272013-08-17T04:01:00.002-07:002013-08-17T05:24:39.013-07:00The "contrived outrage" over the Missouri rodeo clown<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-large;"><b>W</b></span>hen Missouri does stupid, they go all the way! I'm talking about their reaction to a rodeo clown who dared to wear an Obama mask (BTW, get your Obama Halloween mask now, while supplies last) as the announcer called for him to "get gored." Talk about contrived anger. The response to this incident by the libs in Missouri and elsewhere is so out-of-proportion!<br />
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Of course, you have the AP reporter who had to hunt down the one offended spectator who likened this to a "KKK rally." So now you have a racial incident. The rodeo clown was "racist" and what he did is a hate crime!<br />
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The State Fair commission has now called for the members of the rodeo association to prove that all officials and sub-contractors have completed sensitivity training before competing in future rodeos. Are you kidding me? Do you know what sensitivity training is? It's like being "brain-washed"--it's where you are told to keep your mouth shut because almost anything you say or do will offend someone. Sensitivity training is basically a course in "You'd better think like we want you to think, or you're a racist, hatemonger." It's the leftist's attempt to destroy free speech, to basically curb your first amendment rights. </div>
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I suspect that the poor rodeo clown who dared to mock Obama will now be audited by the IRS and investigated by our Justice Department for civil rights' violations (hate crimes). </div>
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Does anybody remember George W. Bush being hanged in effigy including the famous "Pants on Fire Tour" led by Ben and Jerry's founder Ben Cohen who hit the road with a 12-ft. tall effigy of Bush? The Left did things like this to Bush every other week including making a movie depicting his assassination. And nobody ever "had a cow." Nobody was ever fired, lost their job, sent to sensitivity training, or anything else. In fact the media loved it and celebrated it because it's OK to mock the sitting President if he happens to be a Republican. When are Republicans going to learn that making fun of Democrats is illegal?</div>
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-27569095365778840392013-08-11T07:19:00.002-07:002013-08-11T16:12:04.678-07:00The Crash Reel and the quest to be "fully alive"<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKupS-vaavP2UHrOusKWECFM2RldeUAglNWef9MLch012zPONpFwWDTZP-myNiK-vToH5CwT6CW1XCdzjV66iMrX0tJCJM3Bfpau8OPcsvG6DykKL4rjaiPvNrRkseQZib_kdQ4oziFxo/s1600/Crash+Reel+Poster.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjBKupS-vaavP2UHrOusKWECFM2RldeUAglNWef9MLch012zPONpFwWDTZP-myNiK-vToH5CwT6CW1XCdzjV66iMrX0tJCJM3Bfpau8OPcsvG6DykKL4rjaiPvNrRkseQZib_kdQ4oziFxo/s400/Crash+Reel+Poster.jpg" width="276" /></a>Svati Kirsten Navala in the Atlantic writes, "Watching the documentary, '<a href="http://thecrashreel.com/">The Crash Reel</a>' is like watching a high-speed train hurtle toward a cliff." <a href="http://thecrashreel.com/">The Crash Ree</a>l which is currently playing on HBO features 15 yrs. of footage showing the epic rivalry between half-pipe legends Shaun White and Kevin Pearce, pushing each other to attempt even more dangerous tricks in the run-up to the 2010 Winter Olympics.<br />
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The film cuts to the next stop on that road, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Park</st1:placetype> <st1:placetype w:st="on">City</st1:placetype></st1:place>,
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a bad fall and traumatic brain injury. His friend and fellow snowboarder, Scotty Lago calls it "the perfect storm of all falls; it couldn't have been any worse." Kevin is left in a coma as his tight-knit Vermont family flies to his side to help him rebuild his life as a brain injury survivor. Their first image of Kevin is a broken, bruised body with tubes everywhere. The film shows Kevin's dramatic recovery, re-learning how to walk, speak and eat. </div>
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The film poses the question: "How much risk is enough? How much risk is too much? The filmmakers peel away the sport aspect to reveal a cut-throat business with rewards, endorsement contracts, fame and perpetual celebration. We see an exploitative business where the athletes are uninsured and pushed to conjure up bigger and better and more dangerous tricks.</div>
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says Simon, Kevin's father and a professional glassblower. “Then there’s the expectations, and all
the sponsors, and everybody’s expecting you to do better and better and more
and more, and so you push the limits.” The camera cuts to close-ups of his wife, Pia, and children as he speaks. “The only way to be successful
in that sport is to push the limit. Everybody’s having bad falls, and it’s just
luck whether you have what happened to Kevin or you don’t.” </div>
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caution him to rethink his plan to snowboard again, he argues with them, still
in love with the old self now lost: “How much longer am I going to have to take this
advice?” he asks, “I feel like there’s no trust in this family.” Knowing that
another head injury might be catastrophic, his father, Simon, sees it as a matter of risk,
not trust. “Is it fair to your mother and your family to be put in the position
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I couldn't help but think about the words of Jesus in John 11 where he shows up four days late to find his friend Lazarus dead and buried in a tomb. Fighting back the tears, Lazarus' sister, Martha, says to Jesus, "If you had only been here, my brother would not have died." Jesus assures her that Lazarus will arise again. With some resignation, she says, "I know. He will rise again in the resurrection on the last day." Jesus then says to her, " I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live even if he dies, and everyone who believes in me shall never die. Do you believe this?" She says, "Yes Lord, You are the Messiah, the Son of God, who has come into the world." </div>
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Now I can hear your puzzled thinking. What does this have to do with Kevin Pearce and The Crash Reel? Much in every way. Mary and Martha thought that Lazarus would live again in the afterlife, what we call heaven. What Jesus wanted them to know in a practical demonstration of his power over life and death is that he came that we might have a resurrection life right now, today. He is the source of life. He declares, <i>"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me, even if he dies, he will yet live! And whoever lives and believes in me shall never die!"</i> (John 11:25-26)</div>
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What Kevin Pearce and other extreme sports athletes seek in terms of feeling <b><span style="color: #0c343d;">"fully alive"</span></b> is fleeting at best and can only be felt during those moments of great risk. But Jesus said that all of us, including every extreme sport athlete, could know what it is to truly be alive through a relationship with him. Jesus says in John 10:10, <i>"I came that they might have life and have it to the fullest." </i>This is being "fully alive" and you don't have to risk your life doing tricks on a snowboard, skis, snowmobile, dirt bike, free climbing, hang-gliding, or whatever extreme sport you can come up with. Being "fully alive" happens when you take the greatest risk of all, giving up your life to follow Jesus and serve Him. It's in giving up your life that you find life.<br />
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Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-82865440090435407342013-08-05T14:24:00.002-07:002013-08-05T14:41:59.648-07:00For $1.00, a wine tasting and a free dog!<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody>
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Martin Luther said, "Beer is made by men, wine by God."<br />
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Most who know me would be surprised, maybe even shocked to learn that I harbor a secret desire to be a winemaker (vintner).<br />
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If I owned a winery, I think I would find it satisfying watching and listening to visitors' reaction as they tasted my assorted wines, nodding their heads in approval and raving about the delicate, complex taste of each wine. <br />
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But since that is not going to happen anytime soon, let me introduce you to one of the best kept secrets here in Western Kentucky and Southern Illinois, The <a href="http://www.shawneewinetrail.com/">Shawnee Wine Trail</a>, a winding, scenic 25-mi route between the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers where you can visit about 12 or more wineries. There are certain spots where the terrain reminds me of the Napa Valley in Northern California. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wine tasting at the Van Jakob Winery</td></tr>
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Our next stop was <a href="http://www.pomonawinery.com/index.html">Pomona Winery</a> where the wines are made from apples and other fruits. After the personal wine tasting hosted by their chief vintner, we gathered for a picnic lunch and were joined by a friendly dog who showed up at the winery the night before (Apparently, this dog is one of many that has been abandoned by his owners). This reddish-brown dog quickly made friends with everyone in our group. It was obvious that he'd missed several meals over the course of the past 2 days.<br />
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Next thing I know, my daughter, Sarah, wants to rescue him. We ended up bringing him home, and for the time being, we are his surrogate "masters". We named him Cinder. He's about one-year old--a mix of bloodhound and beagle, weighing about 40 lbs. Thus far, with a visit to the vet, and two visits to Pet-Smart, Cinder has cost us over $400. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sarah & her rescued dog, Cinder</td></tr>
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From the way he cowers at the sight of a broom, or a raised voice, we're pretty certain that Cinder was abused. He craves love and attention. Surprisingly, he can easily get through the doggie door which is designed for our 11 and 18-lb terriers and 9-lb cat.<br />
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Our final stop of the day was the Van Jakob winery (they have two locations on the trail and this was the smaller, older and more rustic of the two). We sat in their enclosed patio, enjoying some wine and some interesting conversation. We'll be back this coming fall for some more wine, good food and the enjoyment of friends.<br />
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<br />Mjrjolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00336020793970981721noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5031366426790463520.post-12271583578856300332013-07-31T19:41:00.000-07:002013-08-01T04:21:39.090-07:00I was once a Zombie...and maybe you still are??<div style="font-family: Verdana; margin: 0in;">
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<b>Zombies</b></span><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><b> </b>have taken over! With the current movie "World War Z", the
most expensive zombie movie ever made, the popular culture is over-run with
zombie images from popular films (Zombieland, 28 Days Later, Shaun of the Dead,
Night of the Living Dead) to the AMC TV hit, "Walking Dead" where
police officer, Rick Grimes, leads a group of survivors in a world overrun by zombies.</span></div>
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The
typical zombie is a dead person who has come back to life. They are also known
to feed on human flesh to sustain their life, which is part of their
"creepiness". You don't want to get too close to a zombie.</div>
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You
may be surprised to learn that long before any books or movies on
"zombies", the Bible referenced zombies. Paul writes in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202:1-6&version=GW">Ephesians 2 </a>that all of us are dead men because of our disobedience
to God and our many sins. He goes on to say that you and I like everyone
else, and they are enslaved to our master, the Devil. We are subject to
following our passionate desires and doing whatever our sinful nature wants.
While we are in this state, we are "walking dead men (and women)". </div>
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In
<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans%201:21-32&version=NLT">Romans 1:21-32</a>, Paul describes the lifestyle and behavior of the "walking
dead" (all of mankind). He writes that those who are dead have no desire
to worship God or give him thanks. Their minds are dark and confused. They
claim to be wise but in reality, they are utter fools. They have abandoned God
to do whatever shameful things their hearts desire. They have traded the truth
for a lie, and instead of worshiping their Creator, they worship and serve
created things including each other's bodies, men with men and women with
women. </div>
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Paul
goes on to describe these "zombies" as full of every kind of
wickedness, greed, hate, envy, murder, quarreling, deception, malicious
behavior, gossip, etc. They will stab you in the back when you're not around,
they HATE God. They are proud, boastful and totally disobedient to their
parents. They think nothing of breaking their promises. Their word means
nothing. These "walking dead" are heartless and show no mercy, and
they are always on the lookout to convert others to their way of thinking and
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Paul informs us in Ephesians 2 that because of our being
dead in our sins (Walking Dead), we were subject to God's wrath (his righteous
anger). Roman 1 says that because of our behavior and hard hearts, we are daily
storing up God's wrath (against each one of us) which will be unleashed on the
day of judgment (<a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Rev.%2020:11-12&version=NLT">Revelation 20:11-12</a>). </div>
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here's the Good News. Paul writes in <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Eph.%202:4-7&version=NLT">Ephesians 2:4-7 </a>that because God is rich
in mercy and b</span>ecause of his love for us, that even though we were zombies,
walking dead men--he gave us new life when he raised the Messiah Yeshua (Jesus)
from the dead. He raised us from the dead along with Yeshua (Jesus), and it is
because of God's grace (His un-merited favor) that we have been saved (from
being "walking dead men and women." By God's grace, we have been
rescued from the domain of darkness where we were held captive, under the spell
of Satan. Yeshua (Jesus) is our Deliverer! He has given us new life and adopted
us into his family so that we could have a relationship with God, our Heavenly
Father.<br />
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So
I am thankful that I no longer live as a Zombie, seeking to please my own flesh
as well as consuming the flesh of others. I am also thankful that I no longer
living as a "walking dead man" with an appetite for wickedness, and a
hatred toward God (maybe I never said I hated God, but my actions spoke louder
than words). With the life of God flowing through me, I now want to worship God
and give Him the glory and honor he so rightly deserves. My mind has been
renewed and is no longer consumed with twisted thinking, deception, lies and
unbelief.</div>
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You
too can be set free from the world of the "walking dead." Start
reading the Bible (begin with the Gospel of John, and ask God to reveal himself
to you (He will), and then begin to talk to God and ask Him to change you and
give you a new life (that He would begin to live in and through you) and
deliver you from being a "zombie" and the "walking dead."</div>
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