tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-74795252011-12-16T23:20:29.804-05:00"Captain, my religious belief teaches me to feel as safe in battle as in bed. God has fixed the time for my death. I do not concern myself about that, but to be always ready, no matter when it may overtake me. That is the way all men should live, and then all would be equally brave" - Lt. Gen. Thomas Jonathan "Stonewall" Jackson, CSAElmo Q. Shangnasterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12721098068397482282noreply@blogger.comBlogger7131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7479525.post-23343629043845591512010-09-23T06:53:00.004-04:002010-09-23T13:34:45.212-04:00

It's been almost 2 years since I last posted, but I've been around. It's not that I haven't had anything to say, it's just that there are others saying the same things I would have and perhaps better. What has one more to add? What have I to say?As it's said, some things change and some things stay the same. Life isn't static. Two years isn't very long in the grand scheme of life, but it's enough

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That's pronounced "mass-a-cree" by Arlo Guthrie, if you happen not to be old enough to remember this schtick from the 60's. Seeing as how this is Thanksgiving I thought it appropriate. Enjoy...This song is called Alice's Restaurant, and it's about Alice, and the restaurant, but Alice's Restaurant is not the name of the restaurant, that's just the name of the song, and that's why I called the song

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The California Supreme Court on Wednesday accepted three lawsuits seeking to overturn Proposition 8. The amendment passed this month with 52 percent of the vote....that the SCOCA will allow the voters of California to decide this issue? It ain't too good.

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Let's just try this and see how it works. Seems like most of the bugs/fixes have been ironed out...

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I don't ever remember a new president-elect giving a press conference standing behind a podium with a sign reading "Office of the PRESIDENT-elect", and I've been through Nixon to Carter to Reagan to Bush to Clinton to Bush. It seems I'm not the only one who notices this bit of narcissism. His flair for the dramatic, combined with his mellifluous speeches, melts the hearts of the faithful. It's

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Of all the things I've read and heard since the election of Tuesday, this is by far the most important and significant statement anyone's made...Since it's now far too late to salvage the USA in its present form, the important thing is to build for the future. If there's one thing certain about dysfunctional societies, it is that they are doomed to collapse. Therefore it is much more important to

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Polling totals, 98% precincts reporting: Obama 62,945,914 52% McCain 55,753,790 46% Nader 646,933 1% Barr 483,973 1% Baldwin 172,635 0% McKinney 140,749 0% Keyes 34,498 0% Paul 19,285 0%Georgia unofficial polling, 96%

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Fox News quoted a statistic from exit polling about Indiana white evangelical voters tonight. According to exit polling, and I know exit polling is somewhat unreliable, white evangelicals, and I know defining evangelicals is a challenge, voted for Obama, who's a Marxist who doesn't know an abortion technique he doesn't like, in the neighborhood of 31%...31%And idiotic Christians would try to lay

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Another reason I won't be voting for McCain this time or any time.John McCain on Wednesday [January 16th] sharply defended his opposition eight years ago to the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the South Carolina state capitol in Columbia, brushing aside protests that dogged him at campaign events and suggesting most people in the state don't want the issue reopened.Several protesters

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Let's just put an end to the charade that the law makes things fair.In Connecticut, state officials initially said the Barr campaign came up about 500 names short of the 7,500 signatures required to put Barr's name on the ballot. They later acknowledged that they had made an addition error. Barr was only 321 names shy of the minimum. The state then admitted that state officials had actually lost

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Continued from Dan Phillips' "Biblical Christianity" blog:4. All third-party candidates are immature, fools, and/or liars. Which, I think, is a minus! At least, it's a fatal flaw in their leadership qualities. How can I make this claim? Because they either know they cannot win and are misleading and misdirecting their supporters and (already!) wasting their money; OR they do not know it, in which

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Something to remember, indeed.

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Dan Phillips at the Biblical Christianity blog regurgitates the same old tired anti-third party voting arguments in his post, Biblical Christianity: Go third-party? Or don't vote?. I'll try to make this as clear again:1. I start with the most popular, and yet sadly most foolish and Biblically absurd argument: "lesser of two evils." It never ceases to astonish me that any Christian who has, and

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“We commend those members of the U.S. House of Representatives who put their country first to vote for this important legislation. Make no mistake, none of us were happy to find our economy being assailed by the failed financial decisions of unscrupulous Wall Street executives and none of us wanted this rescue proposal to cost so much. However, this financial crisis has cost people their jobs

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Ahead in the national polls, Obama made his charge as he campaigned in a traditionally Republican state where he has invested heavily in hopes of collecting 13 electoral votes. He is spending far more on television advertising in Virginia than McCain and has 50 offices statewide. The trip was his seventh here since wrapping up the Democratic nomination in June.Still, in a state that once boasted

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That's the conclusion I've come to after reading "Pagan Christianity?" by Frank Viola and George Barna. I'm sure there's a place in the world for theologians in their halls of christian academia, but Viola/Barna make a sound case that the institutional church has become too smart for its own good, relying more upon its own cleverness rather than God's spirit to change the world. To quote the book

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Earlier this year, when Ron Paul was still a presidential candidate and few in the MSM (megalomaniacal sadistic media) took him seriously, he posed a question to McCain, to which McCain responded as if he were without a clue.REP. PAUL: My -- my question is for Senator McCain.This is an economic question that I wanted to ask. It has to do with the President's Working Group on Financial Markets.I'd

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Scattered vandalism was reported as revelry continued into the early morning hours Thursday before police began breaking up the thinning crowds.Windows were smashed at a bank and luggage store in the downtown shopping district and at least either of businesses Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey said Thursday. At least three cars were overturned, the windows of a TV van were smashed, dozens of

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If you haven’t gotten your fill of presidential debates after watching the McCain-Obama match-up this evening, mark your calendar for Sunday night.That’s when Free and Equal.Org, a group formed to encourage third-party candidacies, is promoting a debate at the Columbia Political Union at Columbia University in New York for all six candidates seeking the presidency. The group is pretty much

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I witnessed one of the most remarkable speeches today on a local college campus. There are political campaigns with stump speeches which drone on with mundane promises stirring nothing but bowel movements, and then there's Michael Caldwell, unlikely candidate for President of these United States, promising to build a fence around Oklahoma and raise their tax rate to 85% while giving the rest of

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"We're not just going to win an election, but we're going to transform a nation" - ObamaI don't care about Obama's race. He's a Marxist and he shows it every time he opens his mouth, whatever color it is. Confederacy fought to keep slaves? The Battle Flag is racist? The War of Southron Independence is a "lost cause"?"The right to secede may be a revolutionary one, but it exists nevertheless; and

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Sarah Palin makes a stop on the campaign bus at a Wal-Mart in Gallipolis, OH with her son trig in mind...“It was so exciting,” said Pat Miller of Patriot, accompanied by her daughter Amber, a student at South Gallia High School. “She seemed to be very sweet, and if she could stop and take the time to buy some diapers for her son, it tells you that for her, family is first.”Curious how everything

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Following the financial gesticulations of the Bush administration have become a daily affair of late. Bailout after bailout for the last few months and now this:Big banks started falling in line Tuesday behind a rejiggered bailout plan that will have the government forking over as much as $250 billion in exchange for partial ownership—putting the world's bastion of capitalism and free markets

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Years ago, when I first gave my life to Christ and became born again, I received bible training through a charismatic fellowship in New Orleans. In the intervening years since my initial salvation, my theology has changed. Anyone devoted to serious bible study or inquiry of God should hardly expect not to have some of their theological concepts at least challenged if not overturned. The

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If Christianity is to receive a rejuvenation it must be by other means than any now being used. If the church in the second half of [the twentieth] century is to recover from the injuries she suffered in the first half, there must appear a new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never do. Neither will the priestly type of man who carries out his duties, takes his pay

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Pope Benedict XVI says the global financial crisis show the futility of money and ambition. Benedict says "the only solid reality is the word of God."There may be points of disagreement I have with the pope and Catholicism in general, but upon this I most heartily agree. Government leaders and economists expect me to believe in an economy comprised of regulations, financial rewards and "back room

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President Obama, with Vice President Palin? President Biden? President Pelosi? Call them the "Doomsday" scenarios -- On Nov. 5, the presidential election winds up in a electoral-college tie, 269-269, the Democrat-controlled House picks Sen. Barack Obama as president, but the Senate, with former Democrat Joe Lieberman voting with Republicans, deadlocks at 50-50, so Vice President Dick Cheney steps

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Clay Aiken is finally confirming what many people already knew: He's gay.The cover of the latest People magazine shows Aiken holding his infant son, Parker Foster Aiken, with the headline: "Yes, I'm Gay." The cover also has the quote: "I cannot raise a child to lie or hide things."Better to remove all doubt than to live a lie. At least he's being honest.I thought he considered it chic to act gay.

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The $700 billion dollar bailout...It's just incredible. Words fail me to describe what's happening. I'd say it was insane but they know exactly what they're doing. God save us from ourselves, God have mercy.

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I just got a McCain/Palin sticker offered to me today. I refused it without comment. Some people think just because I'm a church going fellow I must be for McCain, The Maverick. In terms of the political thought of contemporary Christian church goin' folk, I'm a maverick. McCain is out. So is Obama. I'm voting Chuck Baldwin if I'm voting for anyone for president this year, and at least I'll have

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I don't pretend to know the economy. Heck, it's enough for me just to keep up with my own finances. I think I do know who to trust when it comes to an explanation of what is going on and Ron Paul is among those at the top of the list. Speaking on the recent collapse and government bailout of several big financial institutions he warned:“We’re talking about big bucks, we’re not talking about

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I was on Facebook and gave a reply to a question about not voting for either of the major party candidates. Just thought I'd post it here for my own enjoyment as I considered it one of my better monologues. No, I'm not an anarchist libertarian...yet, but I can see how not voting has some worthy principle."So then what is the solution? (not trying to be bratty, just curious what your thoughts are)

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An update on what I originally noted in August...Earlier today, Bob Barr and our campaign manager, Russ Verney, stood on the steps of the Supreme Court of Texas to rally a crowd of supporters and answer questions from the media.Today, we filed an emergency stay to prevent the Texas Secretary of State from printing ballots until after our case was decided.For a quick recap, earlier this week we

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Now this is an idea no one bats around...The most senior judge in Saudi Arabia has said it is permissible to kill the owners of satellite TV channels which broadcast immoral programmes. Sheikh Salih Ibn al-Luhaydan said some "evil" entertainment programmes aired by the channels promoted debauchery.He was speaking in response to a listener who asked his opinion on the airing of programmes

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I've begun to wonder what an McCain/Obama debate is going to sound like given Obama's gaffe-a-day handling of a presidential campaign. In this video of a Keyes/Obama debate from the Illinois U.S. senate race of 2004, Obama is asked, "Sen. Obama you say you're a Christian, but Ambassador Keyes said that your record runs counter to Jesus' teachings. What's your reaction to your opponents assertion

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Why should the devil have all the good music? Because Christians keep coming up with stuff like this. Embarrassing, simply embarrassing.HT: Just In Kace

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Obama surely has some experience issues, like issues running a political campaign let alone running a presidential administration. If this guy even makes it to the November ballot it'll be no small achievement. Should he make it to the Oval office, France will seize their opportunity, declare war on us, and run a continuous "Jerry Lewis Telethon".Polls showing John McCain tied or even ahead of

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“If you’ve got a gun in your house, I’m not taking it,’’ Obama said. But the Illinois senator could still see skeptics in the crowd, particularly on the faces of several men at the back of the room.So he tried again. “Even if I want to take them away, I don’t have the votes in Congress,’’ he said. “This can’t be the reason not to vote for me. Can everyone hear me in the back? I see a couple of

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Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and energy particle accelerator complex, will recreate conditions of the earliest universe that might just answer missing links in physics and science.However, The Independent reported that some scientists trooped to the European Court for Human Rights to put a halt in turning on the collider. It said that some scientists are seeking a restraining order

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Janet Parshall, host of "Janet Parshall's America," syndicated by the Salem Radio Network, told Christian TV host John Ankerberg Sunday, "There's a book floating around now called 'None of the Above' [by Joseph Farah, founder and editor of WorldNetDaily] that advocates exactly the position that you talked about [not voting for either the Democrat or Republican candidate]. When we do that we have

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Chuck Baldwin calls it "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" as he views the Republican ticket by Amos 3:3. I take a slightly different 1 Corinthians 15:22 view. While she may be a political good, she can't avoid being corrupted by the bad company of McCain, particularly as a potential VP. Essentially I agree with Chuck.By all appearances, Governor Palin is a true conservative. She is

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New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin on Saturday ordered an evacuation of the city starting early on Sunday to prepare for what he called "the mother of all storms.""I must tell you, this is the mother of all storms," Nagin said. "You need to be concerned and you need to get your butts moving and out of New Orleans right now."I generally take pity, but when I read about Ray Nagin while thinking of the

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Oprah Winfrey is leaving Denver with the candidate she wanted, but reportedly without her eyelashes.The talk-show host said she was moved to tears by Barack Obama's acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. And those must've been some serious tears."I cried my eyelashes off," she said in the bowels of Invesco Field, moments after Obama accepted the nomination for president before

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We just got a call from Devline Rossell, a charter captain based out of Venice, Louisiana. He was shopping in New Orleans to get some supplies before the arrival of Gustav (currently listed as a tropical storm that has left at least 22 dead in the Caribbean) and reported that the item most in demand was not food, clothing or shelter. “I just left a sporting goods store and you would think that

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pleonexiaPRONUNCIATION:(pli-uh-NEK-see-uh)MEANING:noun: Excessive or insatiable covetousness.ETYMOLOGY:From Greek pleonektein (to be greedy), from pleion (more) + ekhein (have).POLITICAL USAGE: The Magic Negro's pleonexia for the White House might only be exceeded by the Lizard Queen's.

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If Barack Obama has inspired anything among Americans it's dreaming of the possible possibilities and the change that can come about when believers believe.Welcome to America

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Bob Barr is slated to be the only presidential candidate on the ballot in Texas after Republicans and Democrats missed the Aug. 26 deadline to file in the state. "Unless the state of Texas violates its own election laws, Congressman Barr will be the only presidential candidate on the ballot," says Russell Verney, campaign manager for the Barr Campaign and the former campaign manager for Ross

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Illinois passed when its turn in the order came up so it could yield to New York. The hall erupted in cheers as Clinton approached the microphone. “With eyes firmly fixed on our future and in the spirit of unity ... let’s declare together in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our president,” Clinton said, setting off a loud celebration as House

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The French officials said the plane lost 26,200 feet of altitude in five minutes before the landing, which the pilot requested."I think it's fair to say there was muffled consternation in the first few seconds," passenger Pen Hadow told Sky News. "People were clearly suffering with the shock of it, but on the whole ... people had a stiff upper lip about it and they were resigned to their fate.

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The nation's largest greeting card company is rolling out same-sex wedding cards -- featuring two tuxedos, overlapping hearts or intertwined flowers, with best wishes inside. "Two hearts. One promise," one says.Hallmark added the cards after California joined Massachusetts as the only U.S. states with legal gay marriage. A handful of other states have recognized same-sex civil unions."It's our

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There weren't any butchers or bakers or candlestick makers bathing at the Burger King in Xenia, Ohio.Just a 25-year-old aspiring musician who thought fans would get a kick out of watching him take a bath in the restaurant's kitchen sink.The fast-food chain fired everyone who appeared in the video."We have sanitized the sink and have disposed of all other kitchen tools and utensils that were used

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People are stupid. I'll admit I've been and still am. If I'm not so dull as the average it's because I know representatives of government, like this cop, take advantage of the stupid for their own gain. It is better to say nothing than something.Several months ago I got a rather large envelope in the mail from the American Community Survey. The ACS asks for such personal things as employment

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Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton asked the question herself, on the last night of the primaries in June: "What does Hillary want?"Everyone knows what she wants, especially the Obama camp of staffers, unless they're just plain stupid. The media is just being obtuse, they know too.It's the same thing she wanted before all this campaigning started. Allowing her name to be put in nomination is

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Yes this is what the heat shield looked like after it was bent out of the way to allow me to remove the alternator. Not a pretty sight but there just didn't seem to be another way to do it. If anyone else has a better idea I'll listen. Being careful to bend it without weakening or tearing it too badly to bend it back into shape once the alternator was replaced was a primary concern.An overview of

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8) While the car is still up and after the splash shield is removed, the drive belt can be removed by placing relief pressure on the belt tensioner with a pry bar and slipping it off the A/C pulley.9) Remove the bottom motor mount bolt. Also remove the lower alternator stud nut and and bolt, then lower the car. Place a jack under this motor mount using a piece of 1x6 wood block to cushion as the

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A red Ford Focus was perfectly fine in every way. Every way except that once upon a day, as autos are wont to do, something broke. Yes, cars break from time to time and this one certainly being no exception to the general rule, wouldn't start. So after having the infernal contraption toted back to the house, began the arduous task of determining what when wrong. Leaving it up to a mechanic to

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Believing the beliefs that believers believe so that we can all do what we can to be able to do the things that we can because, yes, we can do them.He makes love to us all.

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Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama will make their first joint appearance as the presumptive Republican and Democratic presidential nominee, respectively, at Saddleback Church on Aug. 16 for a leadership and compassion forum.In the two-hour event, each candidate will take the stage separately for about an hour to respond to Pastor Rick Warren’s questions about faith and moral issues such as

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People of Berlin -- people of the world -- this is our moment. This is our time.I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.But I also know how much I love America. I know that

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Tomorrow morning. This evening will be the pre-fun fun. Osmoprep. The toilet is a marvelous invention. What would we do with out it?UPDATE: It all came out fine. None the worse for wear with the Osmoprep, mind you, but better knowing no polyps. Not another colonoscopy due for 2 years now. One less thing I have to concern myself with. Thank God.

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There's plenty of buzz about the latest Batman flick around. Others are talking about it. I will too. It's a popular thing. You can tell by its gross ticket sales of $158M in the US alone...in three days. Three days, $158,000,000. Retail gas prices have jumped up 100% in about a year and a half, the mortgage banking business is in a tailspin and the dollar is losing value worldwide. But Batman is

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Another youth camp has come and gone. This one was different than the rest. Maybe it was just that we're tired. After 14 years people get tired. Past camps with things that could go wrong and did. Past camps with things that didn't go wrong because God met and helped us. Choices. Every day, more of them and more decisions to make. Affecting the course of history sounds nice. Maybe we did.

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A measure seeking to commemorate President Bush's years in office by slapping his name on a San Francisco sewage plant has qualified for the November ballot.It's designed to take the public's attention off their drab day to day lives and focus on someone they have no control over. If government can get you to think they are on your side you're a fool.

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They're fun. They come to my front door or ring my home phone and want to sell me death insurance, (Why do they call it life insurance? Nobody benefits from it until someone dies!), get me signed up for another in the carnival of garbage collection companies or purify my water. Geez, the guy even came to my house to test my water and tell me it's harmful to my family and clothes. Where else but

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"Someone" mentioned John 10:16 to give support to the notion that devotees of Christ could be those other than Christians. It's a bad interpretive twist of scripture but let's consider the verse, keeping in mind it should be examined in context. So beginning with John 10:14: (14) "I am the good shepherd, and I know My own and My own know Me, (15) even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father;

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The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people." And Joab gave the number of the registration of the people to the king; and there were in Israel eight hundred thousand valiant men who drew the sword, and the men of Judah were five hundred

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I ran across a post "Somebody" had written as commentary to this CBS news article quoting a Pew Forum study finding that Americans just want to get along without religious differences because it feels better. Thusly:America remains a nation of believers, but a new survey finds most Americans don't feel their religion is the only way to eternal life - even if their faith tradition teaches

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Lincoln "saved the Union. He emancipated the slaves. I mean, he won the war," William J. Cooper, a professor of history at Louisiana State University and author of "Jefferson Davis, American, says. "Fighting against Lincoln is, you know, fighting against motherhood.""The Civil War is the central event in our nation's history, and Davis had a critical part to play in that," Cooper says. "And not

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...this will auto-post. God willing, that is. Another summer, another youth camp, this time tucked in the far Northeastern corner of Tennessee. We'll see how the weather holds up but I'm planning to ride the ride on my ride. A growing concern of mine is youth who have an indifference toward the things of God, toward spiritual issues. They seem unconcerned with the seriousness and the gravity of

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The Pray at the Pump Movement, founded by Rocky Twyman, has been holding prayer vigils at gas stations across the country. On Monday, Twyman decided to take his movement from Exxon and Shell stations straight to the steps of the Embassy of Saudi Arabia in Washington, D.C., hoping to encourage the oil-rich country to raise the amount of barrels they release each day from 200,000 to 1.2

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For a decade it appeared there was no such thing as too many Starbucks for U.S. coffee drinkers, whose willingness to buy its $4 lattes and dark drip brews rationalized a second green-and-white mermaid awning just down the street - and sometimes even a third. But in a sign that those days are over, Starbucks Corp. announced Tuesday it will close 600 company-operated stores in the next year as the

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It's hard to break through the weight loss plateaus, harder than I expected, but I'm still on track for my target weight on the 15th, the next doctor's appointment. Actually if things go as I hope I'll be somewhat below my target. Diets are for those who only know how to live to eat. I'm not on a diet. I'm just eating to live.

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If I were on Uranus I'd almost be at my ideal weight.

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He's engaged. I'm going to have a daughter-in-law.

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This has rights......and this doesn't.Spain is to become the first country to extend legal rights to apes, wrongfooting animal rights activists who have long campaigned against bullfighting in the country.Any questions?

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"Even if we did have only Christians in our midst, if we expelled every non-Christian from the United States of America, whose Christianity would we teach in the schools?" Obama said. "Would we go with James Dobson's or Al Sharpton's?" referring to the civil rights leader.Dobson took aim at examples Obama cited in asking which Biblical passages should guide public policy - chapters like Leviticus

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I particularly appreciate the stanza, "War to the hilt! Theirs be the guilt, Who fetter the freeman, To ransom the slave." Theirs is the guilt and the shame for calling good evil and making the evil good, for shaming the South and making her sons and daughters the scapegoats, for enslaving the free to supposedly free the slave. They, the Yankee in spirit, the central government statist, the very

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Praying for cheaper gas? Why not just pray for gasoline to come right out of their faucets, make water into octane, or something like that. It really makes me wonder if there's any future for the country when people think to call on God to give us cheap gas, because Bush won't do it, and Obama won't do it. Is this what we've become? A nation of self-indulgent whiners without enough perspective on

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One of the common ways church leaders see themselves is as shepherds. They lead their flock. The sheep, dumb animals that we are, follow. (Or we are at least, supposed to.) These shepherds cite scripture to justify their position. Jesus is the over-shepherd, they are the under-shepherds - and the rest of us are mutton. But, if you're going to call yourself a shepherd and justify your actions via

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Overspeeding drivers who pass through Holly Spring in Georgia would be issued not only a speeding ticket, but also a $12 fuel surcharge. The extra fee was approved by the city council to cover the extra fuel cost used in chasing overspeeding drivers, said Holly Springs Police Chief Ken Ball. Ball told the USA Today, "I was hearing that Delta (Air Lines), pizza deliverers and florists were adding

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"When I'm not working I have to eat like a rabbit and exercise like a crazy person," she says. If she knows she will be going to a tasting at a bakery or eating a four-course meal, she usually eats fruit or salads throughout the day. "What people don't realize is that as a food critic or writer, you're not writing about health--you're celebrating food. And these chefs don't try to make it healthy

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I appreciate a politician's ability to speak out of both sides of their mouth. Latest case in point: Barack Obama. First he says this in addressing political ads about his wife's confirmed, widely reported statement on being proud of the country for the first time in her life."These folks should lay off my wife," Obama told ABC News, hitting out at a Tennessee Republican Party ad questioning the

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On one of Shangy's recent travels we had the opportunity to stop by a Maurice's Gourmet BBQ restaurant near Columbia, SC. Now I'm no connoisseur of bar-b-que, nor am I versed in the proper use of the term, but living in Georgia and having tried some of the local bar-b-que particularly the fine samplings at Col. Poole's Bar-B-Que Pig Hill of Fame in Ellijay, I look for indigenous bar-b-que places

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She's not out of it yet, in spite of the political rhetoric.Sixteen months have passed since we first stood together on the steps of the Old State Capitol in Springfield, Illinois. Thousands of miles have been traveled. Millions of voices have been heard. And because of what you said—because you decided that change must come to Washington; because you believed that this year must be different

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Mr. President, it does not require a foreign country to commit terrorist acts on American soil. Terrorist acts can be committed by federal, local, and private entities that are operating under the guise of “protecting the public.”“The freedom to worship is so central to America’s character that we tend to take it personally when that freedom is denied to others.” But we are not talking about

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Miami-Dade County's Consumer Services Department has slapped Rosco O'Neil with $2,000 worth of fines, but O'Neil claims he is falsely accused. "I ain't running nothing illegal," O’Neil said. The 78-year-old said he was walking into a Winn-Dixie to get some groceries when he was approached by a woman who said she needed a ride."She asked me, 'Do I do a service?'" O'Neil said. "I told her no. She

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It's a happy Mother's Day for an Arkansas woman—she's pregnant with her 18th child. Michelle Duggar, 41, is due on New Year's Day, and the latest addition will join seven sisters and 10 brothers. There are two sets of twins."We've had three in January, three in December. Those two months are a busy time for us," she said, laughing.The Duggars' oldest child, Josh, is 20, and the youngest, Jennifer

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...who among Obama, Clinton or McCain wins. We lose.The campaign of 2008 is the...realization of socialism or ‘soft’ Marxism. It’s the consolidation of an all-powerful Empire no longer bound by checks and balances, subject only to its own will as the final judge of its authority. Election day in November 2008 will see an even stronger “unitary Executive,” a President who is above the law and can

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The frustration factor rises while the falsity becomes even more apparent. Insincerity is among those human foibles I find most difficult to deal with, yet I tolerate. I've never been more ready to "walk" than now.

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Academy Principal Norman Rangel said he wanted fifth-, sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders to do science projects for the fair.Students in first- through third-grades, however, were welcome to research whatever topic they chose.“Kids like project-based learning,” he said. “If you give kids the freedom to learn on their own, they want to impress you.”That is essentially what homeschooling is about

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Blogging has been light of late, but in the interest of dispelling any aspersions which might be taken by my silence on these matters, I offer the following:1) Yes, I'm still of the opinion that Hillary will be the Democratic nominee and ultimately POTUS, for a variety of reasons. All this talk of her top campaign advisor leaving, her campaign having little money, her dip in the polls, means

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Now some lawmakers in New Jersey are considering taking food taxes a step further and install a proverbial "sin" tax on fast food."[It cost] $12.86 for [fries] and this little chicken wrap, and they want to tax that? You're serious?" asked Newark resident Saladine Fuller. "If they raise it, I'll stop buying it."Still, some say taxing fast food isn't such a bad idea."I think this country has gone

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1) Anonymous comments are trash, plain and simple. If you can't use a handle you're an amorphous pile of equine fecal matter. 2) Unlike you "anonymous", I've got nothing to hide. My motives are as clear as stated and I have no inclination to represent opinions as my own which I know not to be true or don't believe in. The only reason I'm responding to a gutless troll like yourself is that I

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"...John McCain won't get any help from me. He won't get my vote. In fact, to be honest, if the Republican Party is ever going to recover itself and become the party it was under Ronald Reagan, it will happen faster if John McCain is beaten. It will happen faster if Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton gets elected and implement the Big Brother, socialist agenda they both endorse.Bring it on. I'll do

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The Clintons will do anything—anything—to win the nomination for Hillary, the popular vote be blasted. The filing of lawsuits, the dangling before the noses of superdelegates of various irresistible blandishments—whatever it takes, the Clintons will do. Without compunction. Even with a certain glee. Regardless of the popular vote going into the convention, therefore, Hillary Clinton, and not

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[anonymous] will be having surgery tomorrow. We do not know the time. Before they removed a portion of his brain, ( I am not sure why) but tomorrow they are going to reattach it. They had saved it in the freezer. Please pray...I'll pray for sure. Not sure about what exactly but pray nonetheless.

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