The Davinci code - Fact or Fiction?

Good afternoon all, I hope you had a fantastic Easter/Resurection Day. God is good all the time!! Amen.

Well, I wanted to comment on the new Sony movie based on the book "The Davinci Code" before it made its way into your theatres and your minds (heaven forbid). Too many people much more adept at apologetics than I have torn this book and now this movie to shreds for me to try and do it with any degree of skill. So instead I bring you my personal favorites.

Sign a petition telling Sony what we know about their movie

The Davinci Hoax - Carl E. Olson and Sandra Miesel

The Davinci Code: Fact Or Fiction - Hank Hanegraaff

The Facts behind the Fiction - apologeticsindex.com

All of these brilliant men come to one conclusion, this book and its child movie are BOGUS with a BIG B. This is just another attempt to create doubt by coming in the back door. If they stick with the truth, they (just as did the pharassies and Teachers of Jesus; time) cannot show Jesus Christ to be anything but what He is without lying about Him and bringing false testimony against him.

This scripture lays it out perfectly

False Testimony against Christ

Matthew 26:65; Mark 14:64; John 10:33-38

News on Iran Nukes

I have for some time now been following a little known website call Debka. They are not quoted in the MSM web ver often if at allbut they are credible. They have sources that others do not. During OIF they were a day(s) ahead of the MSM on most stories and on occassion even weeks ahead. Check out their troubling story on Iran's secret nuke plant already in testing phase.

Iran's Secret Plant

Most worrisome to me was this potion in particular:

Hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim of Iranian success in low-level uranium enrichment was more bombastic than frank. Before springing his disclosure at a sacred mausoleum in the northern town of Mashhad on April 11, DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources disclose he paid a stealthy visit to Neyshabour in Khorassan, 38 kms to the southeast.

There, he inspected a project he omitted to mention in his Mashhad speech about low-level enrichment, namely, a top-secret plant under construction that is designed to run 155,000 centrifuges, enough to enrich uranium for 3-5 nuclear bombs a year.

Malkin barking up wrong tree?

I love Michelle in general and most of what she has to say but I find myself for the second time having to call her on something she has posted. Last time it was this when she gave an example of Muslims seeing Allah's name in Arabic on a fish without even likening it to the many many more instances of Christians (namely Catholics) doing the same or worse. Today she is on Comedy central for censoring the dipiction of Mohammed in an episode of South Park. She has cried everything from censorship to cowardess to explain or goat the network's actions. She had never answered or commented on my letter regarding her Allah Fish post and thus far after two e-mails today she will still not comment on my objections to todays. They are as follows: Comedy Central may be a lot of things but cowardly and censoring are not two of them. Comedy Central airs some of the most vile trash I have ever seen on a non-pay channel. A good example would be their airing of a celebrity roast for Pamela Anderson where the F word was one of the tamer things to be said that night. Not to mention the wanton use of Sexual material and adult based programming that would make HBO or Cinemax blush. If they are guilty of anything it is Political Correctness or major Irony, but not cowardess by any stretch of the imagination.

Michelle Malkin's Page

While we are on the subject, why does it take their censorship of a stupid cartoon to get our ire up? This is one of the most vile channels on the cable dial and as I said it is not even a pay channel (at least not from my cable company). We should be more upset about what they are showing nightly than this one incident, however clueless. What is the deal??

Coulter points out the Irony

I love Ann Coulter. What B*lls this woman has... I don't agree with 100% of what she says, but probably 99.9% at least. The imigration issue is eloquently made clear in her aritcle.

I want to comment on a couple of points she made as well:

Firstly this part just pisses me off beyond rational thought. She is quoting an interview Dobbs did with Nativo Lopez, president of the Mexican-American Political Association. When Dobbs used the word Illegal to describe the people who have come here, well... Ilegally, he acted like Dobbs called them all wetbacks or something. It infuriates me as I said beyond words that these people feel they have the right to abuse our country's laws, then have the nerve to become offended by our natural response to the sludge pond the imigration system has become and actually want to do something about it. Let me state this once again for the record, in a way that the logical mind can understand. No emotions, no grey areas, no spin, no more lying.

You are breaking the law if:

You, walked, drove, rode, flew, swam, skipped, hopped, crawled, tip-toed, danced across the Sovereign border of the United States by any unofficial means.

You did not file for a temporary visa, green card, fill out forms to become a citizen, go through the legal steps to become a citizen of the United States.

If this is YOU, then I am sorry but YOU ARE AN ILLEGAL IMIGRANT. I don't care if you washed the presidents underwear for 8 years, have 20 children here, own a home, etc... You ARE BREAKING THE LAW and have NO RIGHTS in this country. PERIOD

Verse of the Day 04/12/2006

2 Corinthians 10:17-18

Through the negative looking glass follow up

I saw this story on Drudge today and it made me want to clarify what the Christian position should be on homosexuals and homosexuality. The portion of the article that caught my eye was this statement:

"But some students are publicly questioning the school's values, Kuder said. Many wore shirts yesterday with "God loves my gay friends" printed on them and are waiting for Johnson to let them know the best response to the university."

The answer to that is "of course He does!! He loves all His children with a surpassing love that a stupid T-shirt does not even begin to approach. There is a misconception that christians believe God hates homosexuals and further that Christians hate them as well. This is the lie that the public is told everytime a Christian person, group or Christian institution opposes homosexuality or homosexual relationships. The immediate cry from the Gay lobby is "Christians hate Gays", and "Christians preach intolerance and hate". This could not be farther from the truth. Let's be clear about something once and for all. We as Christians (true Christians) do not hate homosexual people, period. Nor are we told by scripture to hate them. In addition it is not individuals who are Christian that say being Gay is a sin and an abomination. It is God himself, through Holy scripture who proclaims all kinds of sexual immorality and particularly homosexuality a sin. If we as believers in this word can say that we "hate" anything, it is sin. Consequently, since we believe homosexuality is abhorent to God, it is then by nature abhorent to us as well if His spirit is truly living inside us. Which suits the term thusly, "Love the sinner, hate the sin".

Gay student expelled from Cumberland Baptist University

Now, with regard to this particular situation, a private university has the right to exclude a student, expel a student, or suspend a student for conduct that reflects poorly on it and its charter. It is sad that the student will now have to find a new school 3/4 of the way through the term, but perfectly legal and within the universities rights to expel him.

Verse of the Day 04/06/2006

Psalms 19:1-4

All one need do is look around at nature to know that God IS

Make your own commercial

Chevy has a contest going right now where you can make you own commercial using flash slides. My two are here and here. Also, my friend Kender over at http://kendersmusings.blogspot.com/
has some really cool ones you should check out. Lastly, by all means, go and make your own, share with friends, what better way to waste valuable work hours! Start here

Through the negative looking glass

I have heard conservatives rightly say it over and over again in the past 5 years. That in our society today black is white, up is down, right is wrong, etc... and feel the call to illustrate to you, some of those things and shed light where the enemy has brought this darkness. Let's take Homosexuality for starters. The act of two men or two women in a relationship that is sexual in nature.

What society and liberal thought says: Homosexuality is equal in moral terms to race or gender. It is not a choice that one can make or choose not to make, you either are or you are not. It essence, you are born that way and it is therefore completely natural and right and should be accepted the way much of enlightend society accepts other diverse people groups. For much of the history of the homosexual movement it was a given that people who practiced homosexual behavior would not be accepted into the Christian community at large due to the biblical teaching that homosexuality is a sin against ones body and against God himself. In the last 5 years however there is now a movement to "inform" the larger Christian community of the fact that homosexaulity is in fact not a sin at all. But rather that God accepts homosexual behavior as he would any kind of sexual relationship in the context of a loving partnership. This is the part that needs to be discussed in my mind. How anyone could read Holy scripture and come to the conclusion that God accepts gay sex as equal to straight sex, that homosexual relationships are equal to heterosexual relationships I do not understand. The only thing I can come up with is that they are so desparate to be accepted without having to repent of their behavior that they see what they want to see and hear what they want to hear. Now I will give you some examples of the so called Gay Christians proof that God does not hate homosexuality or count it a sin:

From http://www.dignityusa.org/faq.html

What was the point of the Bible texts if not to condemn homosexuality?

It is not easy to summarize briefly the body of research on homosexuality in the Bible. But these are the interpretations that some scholars are proposing:

• The story of Sodom in Genesis 19 is about offense against the sacred duty of hospitality. That is how Ezekiel 16:48-49 and Wisdom 9:13-14 interpret this text. The attempted male rape only heightens the atrocity of this offense.
• Leviticus 18:22 does forbid male-male sex as an "abomination." But the word simply means an impurity or a religious taboo — like eating pork. As in the case of Catholics who used to be forbidden under pain of mortal sin to eat meat on Friday, the offense was not in the act itself but in the betrayal of one's religion. The ancient Jews were to avoid practices common among the unclean Gentiles.
• Romans 1:27 mentions men having relations with men. But the terms used to describe them are "dishonorable" and "shameless." These refer deliberately to social disapproval, not to ethical condemnation. Moreover, according to Paul's usage, different from the prevalent Stoic philosophy of the day, para physin ("unnatural") would best be translated "atypical" or "beyond the ordinary." So it bears no reference to natural law. And it can imply no ethical condemnation because in Romans 11:24 God is said to act para physin. Paul sees gay sex as an impurity (see Rm. 1:24), just like uncircumcision or eating forbidden foods. He mentions it to make the main point of his letter, that purity requirements of the Jewish Law are not relevant in Christ Jesus. See L. William Countryman, Dirt, Greed, and Sex.
• 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 and 1 Timothy 1:8-10 list arsenokoitai among those who will be excluded from the Reign of God. This obscure term has been translated "homosexuals" but its exact meaning is debated. It certainly does not include women but only some kind of male sexual offenders. If it does refer to men having sex with men — which is dubious — it must be interpreted in light of the abuse and licentiousness commonly associated with male-male sex in the Roman Empire. See Robin Scroggs, The New Testament and Homosexuality.
• Finally, Genesis 1-3 shows Adam and Eve created for mutual companionship and procreation. These accounts use the most standard of human relationships to teach a religious lesson. The point is the love and wisdom of God, who made all things good and wills us no evil. Nothing suggests the biblical authors intended a lesson on sexual orientation.

These arguments take easily understood portions of scripture and take them out of context, flip them around and make them fit into a world view that says "I'm ok your ok". They are almost more ridiculous when you consider that they must go to such lengths to prove themselves. Here is the Truth about homosexuality in scripture and the reason why we love the sinner but hate the sin.

This article first appeared in the Ask Hank column of the Christian Research Journal, volume 27, number 6 (2004). For further information or to subscribe to the Christian Research Journal go to: http://www.equip.org

A popular sentiment today is that the Bible is increasingly irrelevant in a modern age of scientific enlightenment. Thus, when the Scripture’s condemnation of homosexuality is referenced it is not uncommon to see expressions of polite exasperation etched on the faces of the masses. After all, the Bible not only condemns homosexuality but also clearly teaches that Sabbath breakers must be put to death (Exod. 35:2).

First, it should be noted that while Sabbath breaking had serious ramifications within ancient Israel, it is not a precedent for executing people today. Not only are we no longer under the civil and ceremonial laws of a Jewish theocratic form of government, but as the apostle Paul explains, the symbolism of the law has been fulfilled in Christ (Gal. 3:13–14). In his letter to the Colossian Christians, Paul underscores the Christian’s freedom from adherence to Sabbath laws by pointing out that “these are a shadow of the things that were to come; the reality, however, is found in Christ” (Col. 2:17 NIV). Thus, there is an obvious difference between enduring moral principles regarding homosexuality and temporary civil and ceremonial laws relegated to a particular historical context.

Furthermore, we would do well to recognize that the God of the Bible does not condemn homosexuality in an arbitrary and capricious fashion; rather, He carefully defines the borders of human sexuality so that our joy may be complete. It does not require an advanced degree in physiology to appreciate the fact that the human body is not designed for homosexual relationships. Spurious slogans and sound bites do not change the scientific reality that homosexual relationships are devastating not only from a psychological but also from a physiological perspective.

Finally, far from being irrelevant and antiquated, the Bible’s warnings regarding homosexuality are eerily relevant and up to date. In the book of Romans, Paul aptly describes both the perversion and the penalty: “Their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion” (Rom. 1:26–27 NIV, emphasis added). It would be difficult to miss the relationship between Paul’s words and the current health care holocaust. More people already have died worldwide from AIDS than the United States of America has lost in all its wars combined. This is but the tip of an insidious iceberg. The homosexual lifestyle causes a host of complications including hemorrhoids, prostate damage, and infectious fissures. Even that merely scratches the surface. Nonviral infections transmitted through homosexual activity include gonorrhea, chlamydia, and syphilis. Viral infections involve condylomata, herpes, and hepatitis A and B.

While there are attendant moral and medical problems with sexual promiscuity in general, it would be homophobic in the extreme to obscure the scientific realities concerning homosexuality. It is a hate crime of unparalleled proportions to attempt to keep a whole segment of the population in the dark concerning such issues. Thus, far from demonstrating that the Bible is out of step with the times, its warnings regarding homosexuality demonstrate that it is as relevant today as it was in the beginning.

Hank gives us the truth, but there is more, See below. It is important to note that Hank uses the same scripture in its porper context to show that in fact what the homosexual community and its advocates are reaching at best, attempting to change Holy scripture at worst.

WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY?

The Metropolitan Community Church claims to be an evangelical Christian church. There’s only one problem: they endorse homosexuality. What does the Bible have to say about homosexuals?

Those who advocate homosexuality use passages such as 2 Samuel 1:26 to support their position. It states that David and Jonathan had a relationship that surpassed the love of women. This is not referring to sexual love, however, but to a special friendship they had which exceeded or was different from any kind of sexual relationship. David and Jonathan would have been stoned under Levitical law had they been homosexuals (Lev. 18:22; 20:13).

God also condemns homosexuality in Genesis 19. Pro-homosexuals respond that the sin of Sodom was not homosexuality, but rape. However, the Sodomites did not initially force Lot’s male guests to have sex with them, but just by them mentioning it, Lot urged them not to do such a “wicked” thing (19:4-8). Other ancient sources such as Josephus and the New Testament (Jude 7) confirm that the sin of Sodom was homosexuality.

Additionally, Romans 1:21-32 and 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 clearly condemn lesbianism and homosexuality (cf., 1 Tim. 1:9, 10). Homosexual advocates reply that Romans 1 refers only to phallic cults who committed idolatry. Along with 1 Corinthians 6, they claim that God is simply condemning excessive and promiscuous sex, not a dedicated relationship between two homosexuals.

First, let me say that if it were true that God is only condemning promiscuity, 90 to 99 percent of all homosexuals would fall into this category! According to recent studies, only about 1 out of 7 homosexuals have had fewer than 50 partners in their lifetime, and 99 percent of the male homosexuals interviewed have had sex with complete strangers! Nevertheless, the context of Romans and Corinthians affirm that homosexuality is completely unnatural (Rom. 1:26, 27). When categorized with the other sins mentioned in these passages, there is no such thing as a moderate form of homosexuality any more than there could be moderate form of murder or adultery. Finally, the Bible condemns all types of fornication which would therefore include homosexuality (Matthew 15:19; Mark 7:21; John 8:41; Acts 15:20, 29; Gal. 5:19-21; 1 Thes. 4:3; Heb. 13:4).

I just had to...

After Potion
Before potion

Ok, so now Jihad Cindy (as she is known to Schlussel readers) is claming that she was inappropiately touched and that is why she reacted the way she did. Get it straight Cindy, was there no assault, or were you assaulting someone becasue he mistook you for an inappropriately dressed, freaky eyed, no house pin wearing reverse racist who did not pass through the metal detector.

As an aside, in my previous post I compared poor Cindy to a Prempro user in need of a fix, but I stand corrected. I have done some journalistic investigating and discovered that she is in reality a victim of the infamous Jeckel/Hyde potion of horror film fame. See above for my findings: Bottom is before potion, Top is after potion. But I could be wrong of course, she could just be a freaky voodo witch doctor masquerading as a U.S. Congresswoman...Ooh eeh, ooh ah ah, ding dang, walla walla, bing bang

Make the scarry woman go away mommy...

Click for video
Aside from the fact that it was stupid of her to punch a security gaurd at the capital bldg. and then go on national TV and play the race card while denying she had done anything wrong... This woman has freaky, scarry eyes. She looks one missed dose of Prempro short of a complete meltdown. Click the link to check out the video from Malkin's page and you will see what I mean.

Verse of the Day 03/31/2006

Psalms 62:1-2

I am impressed today that our hope is completely in God, not in any human being. No matter how much they love you, with as much as any one person can be to you, he/she can never know you the way God can. He/she can never fill that hole inside you that is reserved for God's spirit. My prayer for you this weekend is that you might fully realize this truth.

Verse of the Day 03/29/2006

Mark 3:24-25

This verse applies just as well to our country's current immigration dilema.

Traidores! DON'T TREAD ON ME!!

I want to help keep this at the front of everyones mind because it is not going away anytime soon. The new imigration reform bill in congress, the protests that followed, the potential for who's knows what on the horizon. Malkin has great coverage this morning, and Carolyn Hileman over at The Voice has a great write up and call to arms.

I have gone from being sympathetic toward Mexicans to absolutely outraged in a matter of 2 days. I have always believed that imigration should be legal and that those who violate our laws are criminals. But the events of the past week have taken this to a new level. There are protestors at our city institutions taking down the American flag, putting the Mexican flag up and then hanging the American flag below it upside down. That is no less than a declaration of war in my mind, a few decades ago the national gaurd would have been called in and those people doing that would have been in danger. Not anymore however, not even the INS, much less the National Gaurd were called out to stop this outrage. If there was ever any doubt in anyones mind what their intentions were/are, one only need read about and look at these protests, the signs they are carrying, what they are saying to know that these people are traitors, plain and simple, and what does our constitution say we do to traitors again??


Teddy Roosevelt said it well:

"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 man's becoming in very fact 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, and this excludes the red flag, which symbolizes all wars against liberty and civilization, just as much as it excludes any foreign flag of a nation to which we are hostile...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."

Verse of the Day 03/28/2006

In light of the below post I felt this one to be appropriate for today

1 Corinthians 6:12-20

"Flee from Sexual immorality" Pretty clear to me, that is the only sin in the bible that God tells us to run away from. Wonder why that is??

Gotta love Hollywood's morality

Hat Tip: Drudge

First I have to say if Sharon Stone tried to give my daughter a 2 minute talk about sex, I'd tell her, ok but only if you let me give your children my 2 minute talk about abstinence. I think that would do the trick. Or does she even have children? That would figure, if not. Anyway, the link to the article is below, this just infuriates me.

Here is one gem from within:

"If you're in a situation where you cannot get out of sex, offer a blow job. I'm not embarrassed to tell them."
Sharon Stone

...and exactly what situation other than rape could a teenager find herself in where she "cannot get out of sex". A(freakin')mazing. This woman has no clue!

Sharon's idea of safe sex

Holy Fish??

Hat Tip to Malkin for this.

A Muslim man bought two fish that he claimed had the arabic symbols for Allah and Mohammed in their scales. Michelle had a little fun with them and rightly so but I have got to be the one to say: There are no other people like Christians (Catholics in particular) who claim to see diety in ordinary objects. Check out the below links for examples.
JESUS TOAST (above)

Virgin Mary sightings

Jesus Sightings

Sorry Michelle, but we have them by a mile on this one!

Verse of the Day 03/27/2006

John 1:1-4

Foundation!

Funcione, su la patrulla de frontera!

In order to frame this issue properly one must admit that Mexicans make up a large portion of our blue collar work force. They are invaluable to our economy and it would be devestating were we to deport every illegal back to Mexico today. Having said that, these demonstrations are still no less ridiculous. The bottom line is, when you break the law and cross our border without permission there have to be consequences. Also that if these mass rallies tell us anything it is that more border fences are needed. The piont that they are missing is that when they ask "What about our rights?" the answer is, if you came here illegaly, you have none. I don't care if you are holding up our economy with your bare hands, you are a criminal and not only that, but a criminial who is not even a US citizen. It is nice to know however that the Mexican American community can work themselves into such a lather. If they could do this much in the their own country there would be no need for them to steal their way into ours. All I have to say is Bush better not buckle on this one.

ACLU's effect on society

Its not enough that we have to call it "Spring Holiday" in our public schools, but this City was so affraid of offending non-christians that they took down an Easter decoration consisting of a Bunny and colored eggs. Which by the way have literaly nothing whatsoever to do with Christ's death and resurection

Hat Tip to STACLU for this story

Verse of the Day 03/24/2006

This passage always touches me. It reminds me both of our frailty and of God's providence

Psalms 8:1-9

My take on the Abdul Rahman case

I am linking to Malkin's article in the Jewish World Review becasue it makes the right points. This is about religous freedom. We are pouring billions upon billions of dollars into getting Afghanistan up on its feet post-Taliban and part of their new constitution has a section gaurenteeing religous freedom. That should be more than a condition for our continued support, it should be the be all, end all. If they execute this man for converting to Christianity we should pack up and leave them to their fate. Babarians do not deserve our hard earned tax dollars. Keep Mr. Rahman and our diplomats in your prayers.

Malkin's article

MSM Bias exposed - The Truth about Iraq's Reconstruction

I have been following the media storm brought on by Laura Ingraham's bout on the today show accusing the MSM of not reporting the whole story. For those of you who get no other news than that you hear on the major networks here is a website that will give you a more rounded picture of the reconstruction of Iraq by our brave military.

Iraq Reconstruction

Verse (Hymn) of the Day 03/22/2006

This old song pretty much
says it all.It answers
those who would leave
the side of God and
leave their faith
because of trails
and/or evil in the world.

1. When peace, like a river, attendeth my way,
when sorrows like sea billows roll;
whatever my lot, thou hast taught me to say,
It is well, it is well with my soul.
Refrain:
It is well with my soul,
it is well, it is well with my soul.

2. Though Satan should buffet, though trials should come,
let this blest assurance control,
that Christ has regarded my helpless estate,
and hath shed his own blood for my soul.
(Refrain)

3. My sin, oh, the bliss of this glorious thought!
My sin, not in part but the whole,
is nailed to the cross, and I bear it no more,
praise the Lord, praise the Lord, O my soul!
(Refrain)

4. And, Lord, haste the day when my faith shall be sight,
the clouds be rolled back as a scroll;
the trump shall resound, and the Lord shall descend,
even so, it is well with my soul.
(Refrain) 

MSM Iraq Bias is real and wrong

Laura Ingraham was on the today show yesterday and pummeled Carville and David Gregory over the press coverage on Iraq. Since then, it seems nearly every MSM outlet has come out excusing and justifying their own coverage and for the most part ignoring Laura's main point which is: They cover the death, killing, strife, and violence but do not paint an accurate picture of the soldiers, their mission, the progress of the Iraqi people, or pretty much any other positive regarding OIF. It gave me pause to imagine how much gratitude, love and hope the Iraqi's have for us and for what our troops have done there. It also made me sick to my stomach to know that we have people in this country who would falsify their coverage of the war to further a dying, leftist agenda at the expense of the truth, at the expense of our nation's honor and the honor of our awesome service men and women. Men and women who daily sacrifice more and know more about sacrifice and honor than the elites who are writing this garbage will ever know in this life or the next. Uncle Tim's salutes our troops and people like Laura Ingraham who are not only brave enough to tell the truth but put their own words to action and prove it as well. Rock On!!

Verse of the Day 03/21/2006

Psalms 23

Our God is an Awesome God!!

"Dill Hole" of the Week

You might ask what is a "Dill Hole" exactly? I asked the same question sometime ago and found this definition on the urban dictionary site. It seemed to fit the sentiment quite well.

Dill Hole - someone that is always in the way making retarded comments or actions slowing down any type of progress.(sometimes for their own enjoyment)

....And the like Dill Hole(S)...um of the week .... uuuhhhh...are the Berkley City Council and the Mayor of Berkley for voting in favor of a letter that says our Marines are not welcome in their city, and for giving Code Pink a permanent parking spot in front of the recruiting office to bother them. I agree with those who would say if they don't want the Marines there, then fine. The next time a terrorist attack happens in or near Berkley we can just tell them to stay at home. So with resounding voice we say...


SHUT UP!! DILL HOLE(s)!!!

"AAAOOUUUWWW! It's the brain pain"

I saw this on Drudge this morning. Susan Sarandon is playing Cindy Sheehan in a movie about Cindy's life. Yes, you heard that right, there is actually some director out there who thinks people actually give a crap about Cindy Sheehan and her self-seeking, self-agrandizing enough to want to watch a movie about her. This is one of those moments when I have to stop and wonder, who are these people? I mean aside from the ones who attend her rallies and the hardcore left wing of the democratic party, who are the people that think this woman has any social or political relevance at all? She is a lunatic!

File this one under "Things that make my head hurt" , just like Mama Bouchet in Water Boy.

NEW FEATURE - Poetry Corner

As I walk through a sea of humanity, a touch on the shoulder. Are you her? No, I’m sorry sir. There are just too many, but then so few or even one who is truly you. Alone and sometimes frantic, Are you she? Could you be! Please, Please tell me! No, and frankly mister neither am I your sister. Now would you let me be? Beat the path, the beaten one, He promised me I’d know her, but still He won’t show her. A keen deception when, “my precious, my love… I’ve seen your promise walking, talking, soft and gentle as a dove”. Eyes that often fail me, could an apple so derail me, a ruse? ARE YOU HER MISS?! Only laughter, and thereafter n’er a vision could I use. Deciding I’d be hiding, for the near term fraught with change. I’d leave my promise, walking, seeking me in my abiding. I perk my ears, oh, did I hear her? A voice I could never fear, “Are you he, for me?” she exclaimed. Still small voice inside me, warning… Miss you found me, thus I must be. But alas, she walked past and I could not even feel her go, she would not reveal her so, deaf I’ll now remain. Great and small they go before me, shuffling, bustling, living, thoughtfully I refrain. Still small voice that lives inside me? I exclaimed. Might I trouble you for a query, for a moment, in the quiet could I pray? Oh Father now, oh how now will I find her; faith in my sight has gone away. Oh my Lord how will I heed her, oh how when now my ears have gone and gone astray? Silence, only quiet in my silence, so now I wait. Deeply, truth did rise within my mind, then answers to my harrowed mind did come, and fall like rain. That small voice within me, no longer small but now convinced me, of the purpose in my pain. He said, “My love, I made her from your rib, you’ll know her in the form I give, no eye has seen. My love you’ll sense her even in a hush, as when she speaks you will feel Me, no ear has heard. My love even with no faculties, with even so little as a sneeze, you will conceive, tis’ she! My love despair is not for you, I understand completely, I do. Your task is not to scratch and fight, to wander, searching, asking day and night. Perfectly I made you and perfectly I’ve wound the clock, My time for you will come and not, one second before I mean. Yours is just to rest in Me, to hope. Yours is just to trust in Me, to dream, and n’er to be alone.” I stayed there long on my knees, silence, only quiet in my silence, and a cool night breeze. A God that truly loves me, in and through, below and above me! No, my heart will not cease wanting, though however daunting, tis’ ever hidden, cosseted, and in You… free.

Mark Luther
Copyright 2006

1 Corinthians 2:9

Verse of the Day 03/17/2006

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

He cares enough to reveal His spirit to us!

Who says models aren't book smart!

Now I have seen some very stupid things come out of the high fashion world before, but this has got to be in the top three. I have never understood the logic that says, make clothes that nobody in their right mind will ever wear. I mean I get that there are very, very, rich people out there who run in very, very, small social circles that might think these things are cool. But the way the world props these designers up as inovators, visionaries, etc... is ludicrous. Note to Europe: When less than one % of the worlds population actually gets what you do and thinks it is cool and original, that is not visionary or inovation.

Anorexic in Fun with Dick and Jane: See Dick design lame clothes, see Jane wear lame clothes... Run Jane Run!!

Bin Laden and Iraq

I want you all to note the disclaimer at the end of this article from ABC news. It as much as admits that Saddam's goverment was involved, if not initimately with OBL and Al Quaeda. Of note is that even with this evidence there is still denial. My personal opinion is that they can go one of two ways with this. Try to bury it, or try to deny and dismiss it. I feel vindicated and justified as I believe many who supported the president do, and to this day continue their support of our mission in Iraq. Praise God that the truth always comes out eventually!!

March 16, 2006 — Following are the ABC News Investigative Unit's summaries of four of the nine Iraqi documents from Saddam Hussein's government, which were released by the U.S. government Wednesday.

The documents discuss Osama bin Laden, weapons of mass destruction, al Qaeda and more.

The full documents can be found on the U.S. Army Foreign Military Studies Office Web site: http://fmso.leavenworth.army.mil/products-docex.htm.

Note: Document titles were added by ABC News.

"Osama bin Laden and the Taliban"

Document dated Sept. 15, 2001

An Iraqi intelligence service document saying that their Afghani informant, who's only identified by a number, told them that the Afghani Consul Ahmed Dahastani claimed the following in front of him:

That OBL and the Taliban are in contact with Iraq and that a group of Taliban and bin Laden group members visited Iraq.
That the U.S. has proof the Iraqi government and "bin Laden's group" agreed to cooperate to attack targets inside America.
That in case the Taliban and bin Laden's group turn out to be involved in "these destructive operations," the U.S. may strike Iraq and Afghanistan.
That the Afghani consul heard about the issue of Iraq's relationship with "bin Laden's group" while he was in Iran.

At the end, the writer recommends informing "the committee of intentions" about the above-mentioned items. The signature on the document is unclear.

(Editor's Note: The controversial claim that Osama bin Laden was cooperating with Saddam Hussein is an ongoing matter of intense debate. While the assertions contained in this document clearly support the claim, the sourcing is questionable — i.e. an unnamed Afghan "informant" reporting on a conversation with another Afghan "consul." The date of the document — four days after 9/11 — is worth noting but without further corroboration, this document is of limited evidentiary value.)

Verse of the Day 03/15/2006

I decided to do this a little differently today. I read this about 2 years ago and the impact it had on me has changed my life in the area of relationships. I hope it blesses you the way it did me:

God’s Prescription for Lasting Relationships
by: Chip Ingram

The following article is drawn from Chip’s new book, Love, Sex, and Lasting Relationships.

Few subjects in life ignite as much passion and longing within us as our desire for love, our interest in sex, and our hope for enduring relationships. But whether single, married, or single again, many people admit they are not experiencing the relational intimacy they desire.

I believe the problem causing our disappointment lies not in our inability to love, but in the rules we have unconsciously accepted from Hollywood, the media, and our culture that tell us how we should try to find love.

If you take away the lighting, warm scenes, slow-motion moments, and background music, Hollywood tells us there are four basic steps leading to deep, sizzling relationships. I call this the “Hollywood Formula.”

The Hollywood Formula

Step 1: Find the Right Person

In the Hollywood Formula, finding the right person just happens. It’s wild, accidental, and you’re helpless in the process. You glance across a crowded room, your eyes meet, and suddenly you’ve found the “right one.” Love is mystical and magical. It happens when you least expect it. So, if you don’t have it, just keep looking.

Step 2: Fall in Love

According to Hollywood, you can fall in love with strangers because you base love on chemistry rather than knowledge or character. You know you’re in love when you have that “ooey-gooey” feeling and you lose all common sense—but you’re in love, so what does it matter?

Step 3: Fix Your Hopes and Dreams on This Person for Your Fulfillment

Once you fall in love with the right person, nothing else matters. You can’t be held to any previous commitment because you have suddenly realized that this person alone will make you complete. Hollywood teaches you to believe that finding the right person will solve all of your problems and meet your deepest longings 100 percent of the time.

Step 4: If Failure Occurs, Repeat Steps 1, 2, and 3

If the intense feelings you experience in the first three steps start to subside, you must not have found the right person after all. Or perhaps it was the right person then, but not now. So Hollywood provides a quick, supposedly painless solution: Find a differentt right person, fall in love again, and fix your hopes and dreams on this new “right” person.

The Hollywood Formula Doesn’t Work

I know this sounds harsh and oversimplified, but the fact remains: Books, movies, songs, and television programs are consistently telling you the way to love, sex, and lasting relationships is found through the four steps I’ve outlined.

But the Hollywood Formula isn’t working. Divorce is epidemic in our society. Families are breaking apart, and it’s causing immeasurable pain and damage, especially to children. And if we keep doing the same thing in relationship after relationship, it will keep producing the same tragic results.

God’s Plan for Enhancing Your Love Life

But God has a better way. It’s found throughout the Bible but is summarized well in Ephesians 5:2, which tells us to “live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us.” In God’s plan, you begin with what Christ has done for you.

Step 1: Become the Right Person

Instead of constantly looking for the right person, God tells you to become the right person. That starts with developing a relationship with Him through Christ. Once you grasp God’s boundless love for you, feel secure and complete in your relationship with Him, and learn to rely on the power of His Spirit living in you, you will be able to show genuine love to others. You will start imitating Him as closely as possible in how you treat others. You will learn to “walk in love.”

Step 2: Walk in Love

In God’s plan, walking in love means more than long, hand-in-hand strolls on the beach. It means loving each other in the same way Christ loved you. Walking in love is about sacrificial commitment. It means giving the other person what he or she needs the most when it is least deserved, because that’s exactly how God treated you. Love is other-centered action that provides what’s best for the other person.

Step 3: Fix Your Hope on God and Seek to Please Him Through the Relationship

In a relationship that honors God, you come together with your partner, invite God’s blessing, and ask God to help you keep the commitments you are making. You acknowledge that Christ is the most important person in your lives, and because of that, you are able to love each other even better than you could on your own.

Step 4: If Failure Occurs, Repeat Steps 1, 2, and 3

When it comes to failure in relationships, the real question isn’t if, but when. Even if you are utterly convinced of the truth of God’s way, you cannot follow the steps flawlessly. But, instead of assuming you have the wrong person, God calls you to examine yourself and ask, “God, am I the man or woman You want me to be? Am I walking in love? How can I imitate You and walk in love so this relationship is pleasing to You?”

God calls you to go back to the beginning, to become the right person, to walk in love, and to set your hopes and dreams on Him.

God’s prescription for loving, lasting relationships may be the most challenging pursuit you have ever undertaken, but let me add this good news. The by-product of God’s approach to relationships is the very kind of intimacy, love, sex, and lasting companionship you have always wanted.

REPORT CARD ON THE HOLLYWOOD FORMULA

The divorced population is the fastest-growing marital category in the United States—from 4.3 million to 18.3 million in just 26 years.

After a divorce, 1/3 of all women find themselves living at or below the poverty level at some time in their lives.

The negative impact of divorce on children can last for 25 years or more.

Cohabitation has quadrupled in the last 10 years, and men and women are waiting between 3 and 4 years longer to get married.

About the author: Chip Ingram is President of Walk Thru the Bible in Atlanta, GA, and Teaching Pastor of Living on the Edge, a national radio ministry.

Friday, September 26, 2003

Update on Iran

It looks as though some inside Iran are having doubts. I do not have much to say about it right now because it only affirms most of what I already new. But it does raise some interesting points and questions regarding the solidarity of Iran's influencial and powerful.

Times - Some in Iran have doubts?

Verse of the Day 03/14/2006

Ephesians 6:10-18

Be Strong in The Lord, and in His Mighty Power!!

Deep (Liberal) Thoughts... Cue Music

I have been thinking, and have come to the conclusion that Democrats like Dean, Pelosi, Schumer, Reid, Biden, Kerry, etc... are something like an animal the political world needs to maintain the balance of reality. Just as we could never know joy without pain, true Love without hate, light without darkness, we also would never know reason and common sense without people like the above mentioned liberals to contrast them for us on a daily basis. To give you an example (just one of many, many examples mind you) here is Nancy Pelosi with her latest pearl of wisdom for the Left in 06/08:

"People said, 'You can't beat something with nothing(no unified agenda),' and I said Yes we can!"

I say preach on Nancy, Joe, Chuck, Jon, and all the rest. You are a needed part of the political ecosystem and the repulican's best hope for victory in the coming elections!

Dems holding themselves hostage

Verse of the Day 03/13/2006

Malachi 4:2

We who revere His name will recieve His healing light

Shut up and Act!!

George Clooney, what a classy fella. He has in my mind reached the heights of such diarea-mouthed Demllywood wannabe politicos as Striesand, Sarandon, Penn, Baldwin, etc... Congrats George, your tinfoil hat and official moonbat badge are on the way!

George (C)Looney article

Verse of the day 03/12/2006

1 Corinthians 13:4-13


My prayer for you this day is that you might know the kind of Love described in this passage. Many may deny it, but it can only come through Christ.

Well if the French want more talks...that's different

NOT. I wonder what it is again that they think they are going to propose, talk about and diplom that is going to change the mind of the Iranians. Lets remember again that the Iranians have at every turn, stalled, lied, stalled some more, made threats, lied some more, then made more threats. What in that equation says "We can be reached through diplomacy"? Can someone please tell me, cuz I am at a loss here! Sheesh!!

France/Russia propose more talks

Verse of the Day 03/10/2006

1 Corinthians 2:9-10

What a beautiful thing to know that you know that you know, the things God has prepared for you in Christ!! Have a Great weekend!!

Incredible Sidewalk Art

Hat Tip : Blogs Now and Malkin

This guy has a gift

More on Iran

I found this article from a link on Drudge this morning. The Israeli official quoted in the article hits it right on the head in saying:

"The only real way to stop Teheran's race to obtain the bomb apart from military action was through tough economic sanctions that caused the Iranian people to suffer. "Once the people understand that their government is bringing upon them a disaster will they realize that the [Iranian President Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad's regime needs to be replaced," the official said.

Iran, the official said, was doing all it could to stall for time, including holding "pointless" talks with Russia concerning the enrichment of its uranium. "They are just trying to get more time and they will continue lying and deceiving the international community while simultaneously trying to obtain nuclear power,"

I could not agree more with those statements. The only thing that more time and more useless talks are going to do is allow Iran an opportunity to get farther toward their goal. That is one reason why the statements coming out of Russia and China are so curious. They must know that the above is true. I am all for diplomacy if there is a point, but with Iran's current leadership there is none. These are not rational, peaceful people we are dealing with here. I really hope that we or another country have the brass ones to step up and demand that Iran comply. Our problem is Iraq, that killed our credibility and left us limp to a certain extenet politically as to what we are able to do in the Iran situation. There is no win, win here though and we have to accept that first.

Read the whole article here

Iran/Russia, What is the deal?

I have been following the issue of Iran's nuclear ambitions over the last month or two and have found something a bit odd. We hear Russia in the news via Lavrov and others closing ranks with the US and saying things like Iran should not enrich Urainium, and at the same time saying things like, they do not approve of sanctions or military action. So tell me then, with Iran's complete defiance and unwillingness to acquiesce to the international community. What exactly do countries like Russia and China think we should do? We know they favor negotiations, but we also know that they are seeing and hearing the same actions and tone out of Iran that we and everyone else are. So how can they think that talking, talking and more talking will be effective? In my mind there is something majorly fishy about this whole thing. I know this is far fetched, and no I do not where a tinfoil hat on the weekends, but it almost appears as if the Russians and/or the Chinese are at the very least indifferent and at the very worst complicit in allowing Iran to develope WMD's. The question you have to then ask is why? I will try and answer that one in a future post because it will take some research, but think about this for now. Who are China and Russia's largest global competitors? What could those two countries stand to gain by a Nuclear armed Iran?

Archane Bugs Bunny Reference

If you got here then you found the "UTBB" Easter Egg. You probably also put together the bugs bunny picture with the "Other Picture Postcards" line in my blog title. Well, here is the explaination...Enjoy!

The original line is from a cartoon made during World War II. Bugs is an Elevator Operator and he delivers this classic line:

"Fifth floor. Tires, coffee, butter, nylons*...and other picture postcards."

From: Bugs Bunny, "Heir Conditioned" (paraphrased) Circa 1940 something I think.

*all items were rationed during the war, you see, so the fifth floor only offered pictures of these items. Yuk yuk!

Our only hope in 2006

I have posted recently in conjunction with the Dubai Port deal, that I believe Democrats have a unique opportunity to capitalise and win back many of the house and senate seats that have eluded them for so long. Today I read this article that expounds on that idea a bit, but also underscores our only hope for victory in the mid-terms at this point. We have to count on the Dems to be the Dems. So far they have not really taken advantage of our leadership's struggle to get past things like Iraq, Katrina, Social Security, Dubai Ports World, corruption in the senate GOP, etc... As this article points out their main and largest problem is that they (inspite of themsleves) have nothing positive or productive to say that will resonate with the American people. At this time their strategists are counting on America's impression of the GOP to win them the election. I tell you, if we get that lucky I will be amazed, not shocked, but amazed. Our leadership has pretty much handed them the mid-term on a silver plate. How can they possibly screw this one up? Well friends, it is for the very reason that this question must be asked, that it is still possible. Our hope is equally and ironicly in the fact that when left to their own devices, Democrats show their true colors in the wrong places at the wrong times. So with that said:

On Kennedy, on Pelosi, on Schumer and FeinStein, go Reid, go, Kerry, go Murtha and Dean. From the top of the Senate to the top of the wall, now lose away, lose away, lose away all!!

Democrats Struggle

Verse of the Day 03/07/2006

Romans 15:1-4

Oiy, what do I know from internet posting...

Apparently Babs is blaming here poor grammar and spelling on the help. Read the below from New York Daily News this morning:

Songstress Barbra Streisand spells her first name funny, and that's her prerogative. But right-leaning cybergossip Matt Drudge — who delights in tormenting Streisand for errors on her political blog, barbrastreisand.com — believes the Democratic diva desperately needs spell-check.

Drudgereport.com yesterday gloated: "Barbra Streisand has launched a new spelling error-ridden dispatch on the Internet — a dispatch that mocks President Bush for being a C student!"

Drudge reported that in an anti-Bush dia­tribe, "Streisand flubs 11 words, a personal record." Among the errors: "Irag," "curruption," "dictatoriship," "warrented" and, yes, "desperatly."

Yesterday, a couple of hours after Lowdown alerted the Streisand camp to Drudge's spelling feint, her online polemic was corrected. And Streisand's PR rep, Dick Guttman, sheepishly explained: "The errors … are regrettable and have resulted in a change in how the actress' own contributions to the blog will be posted." He blamed the mistakes on the company that operates Streisand's Web site: "The errors occurred in that entity's typing of the original dictated material. Henceforth, Ms. Streisand's office will post her essays directly."

Drudge quipped: "Ah, the perils of Internet journalism!"

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Funny how that works huh?

Stupid is as stupid does...mam

This is too cool, I got this off Drudge today. Babs foaming at the mouth over our president and his C average in school shows her own Jr. High School level spelling ability. Gotta love it, too classic!

Drudge Story

Babs raving

...Just wanted to add a few that Drudge missed.

#1. "Our congress, who (are) is supposed to serve as the checks and balances of the executive branch of government, ( have) has completely lost their voice." Nice grammar babs!

#2. "the President appointed inexperienced( , ) inept buddies to the most important government positions." Commas help!

#3. Republican leaders came under indictment for fraud and corruption. And they continued to do nothing"

"when the rest of the world turned their back on the regime. And a study by U.S. News & World Report"

"tied directly to the reactions of Corporate America. And the fact that the White House"

I think I learned not to start a sentence with the word "And", in like the 7th grade or something.

#4. "Bush spoke against nation building, yet went into Irag a year later to national build…which we now see has resulted in disaster." That Bush, first it's Iraq, then Irag, next he will "Naitional build" in Noth Koria or Iram. =o)

Ya' know Babs might say we are all pointing this stuff out to ignore the real issues that she raised so to answer that I'll say this: That "essay" was so full of juvenille canned left wing rhetoric that I felt very comfortable glossing over her many invalid points and going straight to her horrible grammar and spelling, thanks Babs, that was fun!!

Verse of the Day 03/03/2006

1 John 2:26-27

Turn on the light and the roaches...Hold protests??

I thought this worthy of a post since I abhor the idea that our schools are overun by Liberal teachers who can't keep their views outside the classroom. My personal opinion is that any teacher caught promoting strongly one ideology should be fired, yes not reprimanded, but fired. That is an awesome responsibility and to me doing what these people are obviously guilty of is the same as molestation. They are molesting our children's minds and hearts and they do leave scars, they do hurt. I say round up the lot of em' and send them to Austrailia, isn't that what the English used to do with Traitors?

HS Teacher suspened for rant

Students Protest

More from Malkin

Audio of moonbat teacher

High School's Statement

Verse(s) of the Day 03/01/2006

Ecclesiasties 12:14

Hebrews 4:12-13

U.S. MNT 1-0 over Poland

...and the beat goes on!

Dempsey nets game winner for U.S.

I am not the only one who sees this...

Rich Lowry's article today on NRO outlines in more detail the point I made here and here. Again I say, we shall see, the American public are a fickle bunch.

Going Nativist?