Easy as Pie

If they are anything, they are consistant

You can always count on the unhindered bias of the PRESS...

 

Headlines On This Date 4 Years Ago:

"Republicans spending $42 million on inauguration while troops Die in unarmored Humvees"

"Bush extravagance exceeds any reason during tough economic times"

"Fat cats get their $42 million inauguration party, Ordinary Americans get the shaft"

Headlines Today:

"Historic Obama Inauguration will cost only $120 million"

"Obama Spends $120 million on inauguration; America Needs A Big Party"

"Everyman Obama shows America how to celebrate"

"Citibank executives contribute $8 million to Obama Inauguration"

meditations on the Innauguration

"His image is everywhere" raved the editors of Time magazine. "He's become an instant icon" said AOL. The icon himself observed, his head tipped to one side with his nose in the air, as if he is looking at a bug under a glass, "We (meaning I) am the one we've (you've) all been waiting for,"  From Cartoon Network to CNN this morning and every channel in between, American eyes both young and old are being fed the golden visage and taught the legend of the most holy, most high, President Barak Hussein Obama.

Who knew that half of the proudly independent American people were so ripe and so eager for national worship? Who knew they would stand by and cheer the Rev. Lowry (who appears to be stuck in a time warp) as he insulted every caucasian in the country with this prayer,

"Oh Lord, we ask that you will bring the day when blacks will not be told to get in the back, when brown can stick around, when yellow can be mellow, when red can get ahead, and when white embraces what is right."

Indeed, if you are not willing to join in this change of worship; if you are not willing to wish much success on the One and his plans; then you are very bad, or very bitter, or (the ultimate irony) ...hung up on race! There will be a firey furance of correction for you.

 Ever respectful and classy, Obama's people chanted as President Bush took his seat on the podium "Nah, nah, nah nah, Nah, nah nah, nah, hey, hey hey, Goodbye".

So heaven weeps as a free people, bought at great price, mock the man who kept them safe from terror for seven years. Heaven weeps as those who claim life and liberty as their sacred motto, ignore Sanctity of Life Sunday an bow by the millions, with tears of adulation, before a man who is fiercely dedicated to the extermination of their unborn neighbors.

Like Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, I feel like am in exile in Babylon, a great city proud of it's multiculturalism and moral relativism. And standing along side these few saints, I say...

 "Oh Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to defend ourselves before you in this matter. If we are throw into the blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will rescue us from your hand, O king. But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have made of yourself and set up before the people."

 

A Modern day Sodom and Gomorrah

The video the Press won't report on as a small group of Christians are surrounded by a mob of homosexual men in San Francisco who threaten to molest and kill them.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?pageId=81310

 "We went to the Castro (the homosexual district of San Francisco) with JHOPSF (I have been with the Justice House of Prayer San Francisco since April 2008.) like we usually do on Friday nights. Normally, we sit on 18th and Castro, and someone plays the guitar, and we all worship God. Often times people will be drawn to us, even if only for curiosity of what we're doing, so we get to talk to them, and tell them about the Love of Jesus Christ. On rare occasions, when the Holy Spirit clearly guides one of us (Usually a leader, probably Roger), one person will open-air preach for a little bit.
Sometimes a person will yell at us, or maybe a few. Sometimes people will ignore us. Sometimes people will let us pray with them. We get different responses from different people each time, but the Lord always meets us there.

This time was not a normal night. It was the first time we'd been back in the Castro to do our normal outreach since California Proposition 8, which defined marriage as "one man with one woman" was passed. Apparently, previously, someone at a no on 8 rally singled out Promised Land Fellowship (The church that we attend), and specifically the team they send out to the Castro on Friday nights (Us) as being affiliated with the yes on 8 campaign (Which is partially true. All the individuals involved with the Castro Outreach were involved with the yes on 8 campaign, but mostly in prayer. However, the Castro Outreach isn't about Gay marriage, or politics - it's about Jesus Christ.).

We played the guitar and sang together and worshiped the Lord. Nobody preached. Nobody even really talked to anyone except for a little bit near the beginning. After just singing and worshiping God for a while, Roger decided that we should all hold hands in a circle and continue singing. So we did.
Someone (Actually a person who came up and hugged and kissed some of us who he knew from the past and was asking us how we were doing) convinced some people that we were there to protest against the no on 8 campaign. Then some guy who was dressed up like one of the sisters (The sisters of perpetual indulgence is a group of men who dress up in drag like nuns and call themselves the spiritual authority of the Castro.) took a curtain-type thing (Which I think they use to curse people) and wrapped it around us.

Then a crowd started gathering. We began to sing "Amazing Grace", and basically sang that song the whole night. (At some points we also sang "Nothing but the Blood of Jesus" and "Oh the Blood of Jesus".)   At first, they just shouted at us, using crude, rude, and foul language and calling us names like "haters" and "bigots". Since it was a long night, I can't even begin to remember all of the things that were shouted and/or chanted at us.  Then, they started throwing hot coffee, some people got it in their faces, soda and alcohol on us and spitting (and maybe even peeing) on us. Then, a group of guys surrounded us with whistles, and blasted them inches away from our ears continually.

Then, they started getting violent and started shoving us. We just gathered in as tight as we could together and worshiped singing Amazing Grace. At one point a man tried to steal one of our Bibles. Chrisdene noticed, so she walked up to him and said "Hey, that's not yours, can you please give it back?". He responded by hitting her on the head with the Bible, shoving her to the ground, and kicking her. I called the cops, and when they got there, they pulled her out of the circle and asked her if she wanted to press charges. She said "No, tell him I forgive him." Afterwards, she didn't rejoin us in the circle, but she made friends with one of the people in the crowd, and really connected heart to heart.
Roger got death threats. As the leader of our group, people looked him in the eyes and said "I am going to kill you.", and they were serious. A cop heard one of them, and confronted him.

(This part is kinda graphic, so you should skip the paragraph if you don't want to be offended.) It wasn't long before the violence turned to perversion. They were touching and grabbing me, and trying to shove things in my bu tt, and even trying to take off my pants - basically trying to molest me. I used one hand to hold my pants up, while I used the other arm to hold one of the girls. The guys huddled around all the girls, and protected them.

Soon after, the cops came and stood between us and the mob. When it was getting more heated, the cops were like "You guys should leave." because it was getting harder to protect us. and Roger said "We want to stay." Then he said if you want to get out you have to get out now.
Someone tried to steal my backpack, but I tapped a cop on the shoulder, and said "Hey, that's my bag." and he got it from him and gave it to me. Others weren't so lucky. Probably half our team got their jackets stolen. Eventually, as the crowd was getting more and more uncontrollable, the cops were afraid for our lives, so they escorted us to our van. (The cops were very nice to us from start to finish.) Our van was parked pretty far because it was hard to find parking that day. As the cops escorted us, the mob followed us, until the cops formed a line, and held off the people so we could drive away. We took the long way home, just in case anyone tried to follow us.

When we got home, we prayed and sang more, and then prayed over each-other.The whole experience made me love, and brought me closer to God, and my friends, and the people in the Castro, as well as the church in general, and the lost in general.  Please know my heart. All of what we do is for the Love of Jesus Christ, and the love for those in the Castro. The Bible says to love God, and then love people. We can only love because He loved us first. We can't hate the people because they are just broken and blinded by the spirit of this age. Our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against Principalities and Powers. It's not a political thing, we just love the people. We don't want to convert gays to straight people. We want them to know the Love of Jesus Christ. Even if someone never becomes attracted to the other sex, they can still love Jesus Christ with all their heart, mind, and soul.   As the mob raged, all I could pray was "God have mercy.". It really is all about God's mercy. He desires mercy over judgment. He desires for all to be saved.

One of the things that I remember them chanting was "Shame on you.". One of our girls later pointed out how, in some weird way, it's a privilege for us, because we know that Jesus bore all our shame, and all our transgressions on the cross, so it's kinda like taking on their shame, so we can cast it onto Jesus.  The raw video footage of the walk from 18th and Castro Street to our car. It was only the very tail end of the night and says that we were all about prop8... when in reality we had nothing to do with prop 8 this night.  I wonder why the mainstream Press hasn't reported a word of this?

The politics of Life

My Letter to the Editor:

 

In embryonic stem cell research human beings are intentionally created for the purpose of destruction so they can be harvested and used, much like in the plot of a science fiction novel. If "Life is the issue" for James Lortz, a local WWU professor who made a Gregoire TV ad attacking Rossi, then he might take a moment to consider the countless, anonymous human lives he wants harvested.  Lortz says the benefits (for him) outweigh the costs (for those who are created and destroyed for his sake). His own survival and fitness is what matters most. That is an understandable and emotional argument. But shouldn't compassion for one life lead us to extend compassion to all innocent human life, no matter how small? The ends of embryonic research don't justify the means, especially when other non-lethal methods are just as promising. Embryonic stem cell research, like abortion, is the extermination of the powerless by the powerful.  I'm grateful that Dino Rossi ascribes dignity to all human life, and will not use the law of the jungle to govern our state."

 

 

Professor Arkes wonderful column on the ethics of embryonic stem cell research:

 

 "Given a choice between a therapy that happens to be lethal for human subjects and one that is not, wouldn't we be inclined to favor the therapy that is not lethal? Wouldn't that be even more the case if that non-lethal therapy turns out to be vastly more promising, and far less speculative, than the lethal therapy? Stem cells drawn from adults have already yielded some striking achievements, and they do not require the killing of the person from whom they are drawn. The extraction of stem cells from human embryos does, however, result in the destruction of the nascent human being in the stage of an embryo (as opposed, say, to his stage as an undergraduate).

By now we have all absorbed the familiar complaints against the kind of science performed so directly, and without inhibition, by German doctors during the Second World War: If we want to know how long pilots could survive in the cold waters of the Atlantic, why not just dunk some human beings in water brought to that temperature and find out directly? As it so happens there were Jewish prisoners at hand who, as the saying goes, were "going to die anyway." Why not use them to find out what science was keenly interested in knowing?

Yet the fact that the prisoners were marked to die did not dispose of the question of whether they were being sent to their deaths rightly or wrongly. And even apart from that question, the scientific community seemed to recoil from the prospect of performing, on non-consenting human subjects, experiments highly likely to be lethal.

As everyone used to understand, then, there were moral constraints that properly limited the passion of science to "know."

Of course, the argument arises over the question of just why the human embryo should be regarded as a human being, with the same human standing as those human beings we see all about us. But happily there is a truth of this matter that does not hinge merely on "beliefs." President-Elect Obama claims that he does not know when human life beigns, and so he plans on lifting all restrictions that President Bush put on embryonic stem cell research, abortion and human cloning. Obama curiously ignores the plain fact contained in every textbook on embryology and gynecology. Twenty years ago the Senate Committee on the Judiciary undertook a survey of the leading books in the field, and quite remarkably found a thorough consensus on the science of the matter. Twenty years later the consensus remains the same: Human life begins with the union of the male and female gametes to form a unique being, with a genetic definition quite separate from that of the mother and father. When we refer to the "human" embryo, we've already answered most of the question: The organism never undergoes a change in species. The offspring of homo sapiens is homo sapiens, or a human being, from its first moment to its last.

Try it another way: If I wanted to strike at that person known as Barak Hussein Obama, when is the earliest I could have struck and removed the memorable person we have come to know? When he was merely boy-baby Obama, before he was even named Barak, he was clearly the same being. Two days, two weeks, two months, several months earlier, in utero, it was the same being filling out to the form that would later be recognized as boy-baby Obama. If we traced that being back, we would be dealing with the same entity, with the same distinct genetic makeup, all the way back to zygote Obama. And one would think any graduate of Harvard would know at least this: If that zygote Barak Obama had been destroyed, the one we have come to know as Barak Obama would not have sprung from the next pregnancy of Mrs. Obama. That zygote, and only that zygote, was the one we have come to know as Barak Hussein Obama.

All of this should be enough to settle the question, if indeed it seems clear to both sides of the debate that we would choose a form of therapy that is not lethal for other human beings. That leaning in principle would be further strengthened by the results we have already seen. Embryonic stem cells, in being so unformed, are highly versatile. And yet they are also harder to control in their effects, sometimes generating tumors and other less-than-welcome surprises. Adult stem cells seem more stable, and when they are used to treat the person from whom they are drawn they have signal advantages: There is a vanishingly small risk of rejection, and virtually no risk of transferring genetic and viral diseases. The differences are also borne out dramatically in the record.

Adult stem cells healed broken bones and torn cartilage in a clinical trial.
They were responsible for the first completely successful trial of human gene therapy, helping children with severe combined immunodeficiency disease to leave their sterile environment for the first time.
Adult cells from a young paraplegic woman's own immune system, injected into the site of her spinal-cord injury, cured her incontinence and enabled her to move her toes and legs for the first time. (Reported in congressional testimony in July 2001.)
In June 2002, research confirmed that adult stem cells are more effective than embryonic stem cells in blood formation; and a month later, Canadian and Japanese scientists saw adult bone-marrow cells show significant immune tolerance. The cells were not only incorporated into bone marrow, but also into damaged hearts to help in repair.
In July 2002, bone-marrow stem cells were incorporated and differentiated into retinal neutral cells in an injured retina. Researchers have used bone-marrow stem cells to grow new blood vessels in the eyes of mice — a procedure that they hope might lead to treatment for some forms of blindness in humans.
Around the same time, scientists implanted adult bone-marrow stem cells into children with osteogenesis imperfecta, a severe bone and cartilage disease, and the stem cells stimulated bone growth.
In the summer of 2002, researchers at the Massachusetts General Hospital successfully turned adult stem cells into insulin-producing cells that could reverse diabetes.
In February 2003, researchers showed convincingly that stem cells transplanted from a patient's muscle tissue to the heart may be able to take over for cardiac muscle damaged by a heart attack.

The experience since then has amplified these findings and given further hope to this line of research. In the face of such developments, we must wonder just what fuels the passion for heating up the presidential campaign by raising, to a high pitch, the issue of embryonic stem cells. The motives must be various, but it seems clear that for many of the partisans the drive to use stem cells from embryos does not arise from a sober consideration of the prospects for that research. For many, it appears, the passion for sweeping away the moral reservations about stem cells is bound up with the argument over abortion. The prospects for research are evidently far less important than the possibility of proclaiming, once again, that the human embryo, or the nascent human life, has no standing, and no rights, that the rest of us need to respect.

— Hadley Arkes is the Ney Professor of Jurisprudence at Amherst College and a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington.

 

Getting to know you...

Who is Rahm Emmanuel, Obama's pick for White House Chief of staff?

 

He is the son of  Bejamin Emanuel, who was part of Irgun- a Zionist terrorist group responsible for bombing open markets, as well as the King David Hotel in Jerusalem and British military headquarters.  Benjamin was an Irgun operative for the splinter group which carried out political assassinations in the name of Jewish nationalism, including those of the Swedish U.N. mediator Count Folke Bernadotte and British diplomat Lord Moyne.

Rahm is co-author of a book, "The Plan: Big Ideas for America",

 that calls for, among other things, compulsory service for all young Americans. Here's a book excerpt:
"All Young people will know that between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five, the nation will enlist them for three months of civilian service. They'll be told to report for three months of basic civil defense training in their state or community."

 

Rahm was also on the Board of Directors for Freddie Mac when it misreported profits by billions of dollars in order to deceive investors between the years 2000 and 2002.

Rahm doesn't pay property taxes on his enormous Chicago home, the largest in the neighborhood, while his neighbors on either side pay $6,600 anually.  Why?  Because he declared his home to be the headquarters of his non-proft organization. The "charity" donates money to the private school his children attend. The only people who donate to the charity are Rahm Emmanuel and his wife.

Rahm has a reputation for orchestrating career "assasinations"  and is well known for his foul mouthed rants in public and in private. His ruthless tactics in fund raising during the Clinton administraiton were notorious on Captitol Hill . Reflecting on his own attack-dog style, Mr Emanuel has said: "I wake up some mornings hating me too.   At a dinner to celebrate President Clinton’s first election victory, Mr. Emanuel began to name those who he believed had earned his enmity. As he listed the names of those he saw as traitors, he grabbed a steak knife, stood up and began plunging the knife into the table and shouting “Dead! Dead! Dead!” after each name…”

 

Then there’s the story of the pollster who crossed him, and got a 2  1/2 foot dead fish in the mail.

 

Obama calls him a "Go-toGuy" saying, "Nobody can get things done like Rahm Emanuel". 

 

Yeah. 

 

"For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of my country."

That, of course, was Michelle Obama's famous quote. Her husband echoed those sentiments over and over again. His faith in America was restored every time he got more votes.

"I’m so proud and filled, I can hardly talk without weeping. I’m so filled with pride for my country. What do you say? We are growing up. My God, I’m so grateful…. I mean, look at our souls, look at our hearts. We have elected a black man to talk for us..." Maya Angelou (who endorsed Hillary Clinton, by the way.)

What do comments like this mean? Why are we seeing video of black celebrities weeping and acting as if our country changed on November 4th, 2008?  Was the election all about race after all?

I think it means what it always means... to a certain set of people: all of American history from the colonization through the Revolution to defeating the Nazi regime and freedom for the Iraqis, all of the Americans from Adams and Jefferson through Truman to Petreus, is just so much poop!  Now with Obama we can finally BE something and finally accomplish something that was impossible before he ascended to the throne.

I beg to differ. If we were not a racist nation the day after the election, then we were not a racist nation the day before the election.  The only difference is that some people refused to believe that. They needed proof in the form of a black Liberal in the white house, because a black Conservative on the Supreme Court and a black Conservative as the Secretary of State, and a black Liberal as the most powerful woman on television failed to convice them of just how far our country has come. 

Can we be done with now? 

Georgia on my mind...

So the great Bear invades our ally...  the Democratic state Of Georgia... with tanks and bombs and troops. Thousands and have killed and left homesles.  The Messiah...Obama...says he wants a dialogue and restraint by both parties. I guess he can't recognize naked agression when he sees it. The Russians are occupying 1/3 of the country and have seized several major oil pipelines, but Obama wants the Georgians to put down their arms and talk about it, as a show of good faith in the UN National Security Council?   Pardon me, but aren't the Russians ON the Security Council? Aren't they laughing?  Hasn't Putin called Georgia a silly little exercise in virtual democracy?

The Elected President of Georgia has been on our side since the begining. They even sent troops to help us out in Iraq when so many older allies (like France) wouldn't lift a finger. As the leader of Georgia put it so well, "Who else but the United States can help us now?  Who else in the world today stands and fights for liberty?"

So, are we gonna talk and do nothing while the Georgians die? Putin is betting on it. He thinks Americans are tired of war and would rather leave the Georgians (and the Iraqi's) to their doom.

Where's Ron Reagan when we need him?

My top five reasons NOT to vote for Obama, #1

Reason Number One:

Obama remains the most hard-core abortion/infanticide supporter EVER in the Senate.

The Born Alive Infants Protection Act of 2002 is a federal law that simply prohibited the killing of a baby born alive.  It was passed unanimously by both houses. To address the concerns of pro-choice lawmakers, the bill included language that said nothing "shall be construed to affirm, deny, expand or contract any legal status or legal right" of the baby. In other words, the bill wasn't intruding on Roe v. Wade. 

The year after the federal law was made, identical language was considered in a committee of the Illinois Senate. It was defeated with the committee's chairman, Obama. He voted to allow doctors to deny medically appropriate treatment or, worse yet, actively kill a completely delivered living baby.  He said, "They (babies) who survive abortions or any other preterm newborns, should be permitted to be killed because giving legal protection to preterm newborns would have the effect of banning all abortions." He also argued that Partial Birth Abortion should remain legal because it was necessary to  destroy "genetically imperfect children".  Make no mistake, nothing short of a dead baby is going to satisfy this charming man's sense of Freedom of "Choice" The rest of the House and Senate doesn't agree with him. Not Kennedy, Boxer or Hillary Rodham Clinton. Not even the hard-core National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL).

Audacity:

Contemptuous of law, religion or decorum, a bold or arrogant disregard of normal, moral restraints.