Archive for May, 2010
“A video has been posted online in which Michelle Obama, at a 2007 fundraiser, describes her husband as “Kenyan.”
The statement from the now-first lady adds weight to another video revealed earlier in which she describe Kenya as Barack Obama’s “home country.”
At about two minutes into the video, she says, “What it reminded me of was our trip to Africa, two years ago, and the level of excitement that we felt in that country – the hope that people saw just in the sheer presence of somebody like Barack Obama – a Kenyan, a black man, a man of great statesmanship who they believe could change the fate of the world.”
The video apparently was from a Tampa, Fla., fundraiser in December 2007. …”
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=150505
“Tomorrow’s forecast: slightly breezy with 100 percent chance of peanut butter.
It may sound like the storyline of a children’s book, but a Georgia company plans to launch peanut products through the air and into the hands of elected officials Friday at 10 a.m.
It’s all part of a live airdrop of nutrition-packed food products to be conducted at Tara Field near the Atlanta Motor Speedway. The event will demonstrate deliverability of food products developed to assist USAID and humanitarian relief agencies.
Herman Cain, nationally recognized radio host and a WND columnist, is scheduled to present the product and delivery system.
Bell Plantation Inc. has developed food products that are super-enriched with vitamins and minerals to nourish the world’s underfed population. The two products, known as PB Emergency and PB Sustain, contain much of the same ingredients found in its current product, PB2 Powdered Peanut Butter.
PB Emergency and PB Sustain will be packaged in aerodynamic foil sleeves containing six individual packages each. The packages are designed to float from a low-flying plane into the hands of aid workers – reducing or potentially eliminating risk of pirate attacks, convoy hijacking and theft.
“The traditional method of delivering hunger relief involves shipping the supplies to the affected areas, then off-loading onto truck convoys that are often attacked, hijacked or stolen by local warlords,” Bell explained in a statement. “Our new product will not only eliminate that process but the food itself is much more nutritious and easier to administer.” …”
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http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=150625
“At President Obama’s request, Billy Graham met yesterday with the president at Graham’s home in North Carolina. Rev. Graham’s son, Franklin, whom the president had just banned from a Pentagon prayer service (in the name of inclusivity!), was also there.
Franklin Graham was banned from praying at the Pentagon because he has truthfully called Islam an “evil and wicked religion,” and has refused to back away from the plain truth about this dark and vicious faith. Islamic fundamentalists, like those at CAIR, have celebrated this violation of Rev. Graham’s First Amendment rights to free speech and the free exercise of religion on the grounds that, if he had been allowed to pray, Muslim nations would have been offended.
We have sunk to the point now where we are allowing Muslim nations halfway around the world to determine who gets to pray in America. We are more concerned about offending the one billion people who want us dead than the 80% of Americans who believe that Jesus is the Son of God. God help us.
And we witnessed Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council get bounced from a prayer luncheon at Andrews Air Force base in February because he had the temerity to defend the existing law that says homosexuality is incompatible with military service. Three-star general Lt. Gen. Benjamin Mixon, commander of the U.S. Army in the Pacific, was recently urged by Defense Secretary Robert Gates to “vote with his feet” – that is, to resign from the military – for expressing his view that the current law should be retained.
The signal being sent here is that if you are a Christian who defends natural marriage and tells the truth about counterfeit religions, the U.S. military has no use for you.
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“The U.S. Supreme Court has ordered a federal court in California to re-evaluate its earlier decision nullifying the transfer of a war memorial cross and a small patch of land on which it sits in the Mojave Desert. The majority opinion said that the district court in California was wrong in ordering the memorial cross be removed.
Photo: The seven-foot cross, which has been covered by a large box (inset photo) since the lower court’s ruling, stands on top of Sunrise Rock in the Mojave Desert east of Los Angeles, Calif. near the Nevada border. The Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) originally erected the memorial in 1934.
The 5-4 ruling, issued April 28, means the case returns to the federal appeals court where the American Civil Liberties Union challenged a congressional effort to bypass constitutional concerns by transferring ownership of the cross to the private VFW. Although the court established a majority to send the case back to the lower court, it failed to craft a single majority opinion. Instead, six justices penned their own opinions, addressing various issues with the case. As a result, the high court, which heard oral arguments in October, took a more narrow approach only addressing the land transfer.
The small Latin cross, on a rocky hilltop in the government-owned Mojave Desert preserve, was erected in 1934 as a tribute to those killed in World War I. The American Civil Liberties Union filed suit against the landmark in 2001 in Salazar v. Buono saying that the cross’ presence in the federal preserve violated the First Amendment.
The ACLU sued the National Park Service on behalf of retired Mojave Preserve Assistant Superintendent Frank Buono, who wrongly claimed that his employer denied a Buddhist colleague’s application to install a Buddhist symbol near the memorial. Both the colleague and the story turned out to be fictitious, but Buono, who fabricated the story, claimed to be offended by the cross and continued the lawsuit, according to the Alliance Defense Fund attorneys.
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“A shoemaker named Simon, who had neither house nor land of his own, lived with his wife and children in a peasant’s hut, and earned his living by his work. Work was cheap, but bread was dear, and what he earned he spent for food. The man and his wife had but one sheepskin coat between them for winter wear, and even that was torn to tatters, and this was the second year he had been wanting to buy sheep-skins for a new coat. Before winter Simon saved up a little money: a three-rouble note lay hidden in his wife’s box, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were owed him by customers in the village.
So one morning he prepared to go to the village to buy the sheep-skins. He put on over his shirt his wife’s wadded nankeen jacket,
and over that he put his own cloth coat. He took the three-rouble note in his pocket, cut himself a stick to serve as a staff, and
started off after breakfast. “I’ll collect the five roubles that are due to me,” thought he, “add the three I have got, and that will
be enough to buy sheep-skins for the winter coat.”
He came to the village and called at a peasant’s hut, but the man was not at home. The peasant’s wife promised that the money should be paid next week, but she would not pay it herself. Then Simon called on another peasant, but this one swore he had no money, and would only pay twenty kopeks which he owed for a pair of boots Simon
had mended. Simon then tried to buy the sheep-skins on credit, but the dealer would not trust him.
“Bring your money,” said he, “then you may have your pick of the skins. We know what debt-collecting is like.” So all the business
the shoemaker did was to get the twenty kopeks for boots he had mended, and to take a pair of felt boots a peasant gave him to sole with leather.
Simon felt downhearted. He spent the twenty kopeks on vodka, and started homewards without having bought any skins. In the morning he had felt the frost; but now, after drinking the vodka, he felt warm, even without a sheep-skin coat. He trudged along, striking his stick on the frozen earth with one hand, swinging the felt boots with the other, and talking to himself. …”
More: [This story by Tolstoy is definitely worth reading!]
http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2735/
The topic of women’s ordination to the ministry has been debated among Adventists for many years now and the issue seems to survive and acquire new life every time we approach another General Conference session of the Adventist Church. This issue is currently being discussed in several Adventist forums. I have been participating in one of them. At one point of the discussion, one of the bloggers posted the following statement made by Ellen White over a century ago:
“Women who are willing to consecrate some of their time to the service of the Lord should be appointed to visit the sick, look after the young, and minister to the necessities of the poor. They should be set apart to this work by prayer and laying on of hands. In some cases they will need to counsel with the church officers or the minister.” RH, July 9, 1
“James Dobson left Focus on the Family in February, bringing to an end three decades of hosting the popular radio program. This week, Dobson returned to discuss families, faith, and policy in a new show, “Family Talk with Dr. James Dobson.” Dobson is joined by his son, Ryan Dobson, and former Focus on the Family producer LuAnne Crane for a 30-minute show unaffiliated with Focus.
Focus president Jim Daly said Dobson’s new show is not in competition with the Focus on the Family broadcast. Indeed, Focus gave one million dollars to help Dobson start Family Talk.
The decision to ask Dobson to step down as host has raised speculation about the direction of Focus. Some conservatives worry that Focus is adopting a new tone that is less confrontational and less policy focused.
Ken Hutcherson, pastor of Antioch Bible Church in Redmond, Washington, had earlier questioned where Focus was going.
“I am not very happy with the new, progressive, ‘loving’ leadership at Focus on the Family,” Hutcherson said in March. “Dr. Dobson only wants to continue to speak the truth on the radio. Apparently, that truth has limited appeal to the new leadership at Focus.”
“Please don’t expect me to take a ’softer, gentler’ approach to the issues that burn within my soul. I have never spoken or written without passion for values in which I believe, and I don’t intend to start now. Babies are dying, the very definition of marriage is under attack, the financial underpinnings of families are being destroyed by confiscatory taxation, and children of all ages are being taught
wickedness and every form of godlessness. This is no time to grow timid!” said Dobson …”
More:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/mayweb-only/28-51.0.html
“In the space of half a dozen months the United States has experienced an endless and seemingly seamless string of calamities that many would call natural disasters, but there is nothing natural about them. They are rather visitations of divine corrections upon a recalcitrant and stiff-necked people. In quick succession the nation has been confronted with consuming conflagrations, monumental blizzards and ice storms, disastrous floods, earthquakes and tremors, mine disasters, and now a prodigious and unrelenting flow of crude oil from the subterranean depths that threatens to destroy the economic structure of the entire contiguous southern tier of states that abut the Gulf of Mexico. Some call these events happenstance; others characterize them as environmental aberrations and the natural occurrences emanating from the fallible acts of men. Only the insurance industry correctly qualifies them as “Acts of God” as indeed they are.
Even in the face of such divine condemnation the people do not flee from their egregious lawlessness and sin, they shun correction and sink even deeper into gross and disgusting degeneracy, and they seemingly take pride in the nastiness of their perversions. Indeed so proud are they that their putrescence is packaged and exported via films, music, and the written word to the entirety of the world. We are most certainly a shame deficient people.
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“Individuals who are suffering from high blood pressure may want to consider supplementing their diet with a moderate amount of nuts, according to a recent study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine.
For the research, a team of investigators collected data from 25 separate trials that were designed to investigate the health benefits linked to nut consumption. After analyzing the serum levels of 583 men and women, the researchers found that participants who consumed an average of 2.4 ounces of various nuts each day experienced a 5.1 percent total cholesterol concentration reduction. …”
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http://www.personalliberty.com/news/study-eating-nuts-can-help-lower-cholesterol-levels-19771692/
“The cactus in the photo at bottom planted along the Arizona border with California gives a pretty good indication of the reaction of that state to the boycott directed at them by the Los Angeles city council over the new immigration law. However, what is the opinion of folks in California? If a Los Angeles Times poll showed overwhelming support for the boycott, do you not think this would be front page news? Well, the results were overwhelming…97.6% of the respondents to this L.A. Times poll [1] were opposed to the boycott of Arizona. The poll question: “Was the L.A. City Council right to pass a boycott of Arizona?” Here are the results:
Yes. Arizona needs to feel the consequences of enacting a bad law. 2.1% (378 votes)
Yes, though the boycott should be more of a symbolic gesture than an official measure. 0.4% (64 votes)
No, but only because doing so is probably illegal and not in L.A.’s interest. 4.2% (771 votes)
No. The city should mind its own business. 93.4% (17,030 votes)
So an astonishing 97.6% percent of those who participated in this poll are opposed to the boycott. Is this not big news? Not for the L.A. Times since the only place you can find the results is at the page that pops up after you vote. For the time being the results of the poll are being kept under wraps at the Times which is probably embarrassed by the one-sided outcome. Not kept under wraps are the comments [2] by the readers: …”
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http://action.afa.net/Blogs/BlogPost.aspx?id=2147494420
“After criticizing Arizona’s new immigration law over its alleged proclivity to promote racial profiling, Attorney General Eric Holder admitted last week that he has not read the statute.
While fielding questions at the House Judiciary Committee’s latest hearing, Representative Ted Poe (R-Texas) asked Holder directly if he had read the law that he openly criticized.
“I have not had a chance to,” the attorney general responded. “I’ve glanced at it. I have not read it.”
Meanwhile, Holder said on NBC’s Meet The Press last weekend that the law could lead to racial profiling and may put a “wedge” between law enforcement personnel and the Latino community.
“People in that community are less likely then to cooperate with people in law enforcement, less likely to share information, less likely to be witnesses in a case that law enforcement is trying to solve,” he said.
Holder also indicated last month that the Federal government may challenge the law in court based on its constitutionality, Fox News reports.
In response to the attorney general’s confession, Poe responded, “its 10 pagesit’s a lot shorter than the healthcare bill. I will give you a copy of it if you would like.” …”
Here is what our President Theodore Roosvelt stated about our flag and our english language back in 1907, before most of the odest living Americans were born:
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American….There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag… We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language.. And we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
“KEY WEST – The Coast Guard says the tar balls found off Key West aren’t linked to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
A report released today says tests show the tar balls don’t match the type of oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill. The source of the tar balls isn’t known. Tar balls can occur naturally or come from other sources such as ships.
Twenty were found Monday and several others Tuesday.
Government scientists who surveyed the Gulf on Tuesday said tendrils of light oil were near or already in a powerful current that could take it to Florida. The loop current circulates in the Gulf and takes water south to the Florida Keys and the Gulf Stream. But most oil remains dozens of miles away from the current.”
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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2010/may/19/190916/na-source-of-keys-tar-balls-uncertain/news-breaking/
In this video Read Skelton recites and explains to school children the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance. “Red Skelton–from his television show in 1969 WOW ! Just think, he said this on his television show in 1969 and really had no clue it would ever come about. SAD, isn’t it? What a wonderful and worthwhile clip to watch and share with all your friends and acquaintances! ” The patriotism and strong belief in God Almighty his something which is missing from our American society today.
Watch this Video Clip:
http://media.causes.com/604250?p_id=42563578
In this video clip, Pastor David Asscherick. one of our successful evangelists, apologizes on behalf of the many Adventists who misuse Ellen G. White. He also tells his story of how a visit to a vegetarian restaurant and the reading of the “Great Controversy” led him to accept Adventism. In two weeks, this formerly agnostic young man who despised religion asked for baptism into the Adventist Church after reading Ellen White’s main evangelistic book which has sold by the millions and has been translated into many languages of the world.
Watch this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivIqfdfAup4