Our Muslim Heritage
Barack OBAMA, during his Cairo speech, said:
“I know, too, that Islam has always been a part of America ‘s story.”
AN AMERICAN CITIZEN’S RESPONSE:
Dear Mr. Obama:
Were those Muslims that were in America when the Pilgrims first landed?
Funny, I thought they were Native American Indians.
Were those Muslims that celebrated the first Thanksgiving day?
Sorry again, those were Pilgrims and Native American Indians.
Can you show me one Muslim signature on the United States Constitution? Declaration of Independence? Bill of Rights?
Didn’t think so.
Did Muslims fight for this country’s freedom from England?
No.
Did Muslims fight during the Civil War to free the slaves in America? No, they did not. In fact, Muslims to this day are still the largest traffickers in human slavery. Your own half brother, a devout Muslim, still advocates slavery himself, even though Muslims of Arabic descent refer to black Muslims as “pug nosed slaves.” Says a lot of what the Muslim world really thinks of your family’s “rich Islamic heritage,” doesn’t it Mr. Obama?
Where were Muslims during the Civil Rights era of this country? Not present. There are no pictures or media accounts of Muslims walking side by side with Martin Luther King, Jr. or helping to advance the cause of Civil Rights.
Where were Muslims during this country’s Woman’s Suffrage era? Again, not present. In fact, devout Muslims demand that women are subservient to men in the Islamic culture. So much so, that often they are beaten for not wearing the ‘hajib’ or for talking to a man who is not a direct family member or their husband.
Yep, the Muslims are all for women’s rights, aren’t they?
Where were Muslims during World War II? They were aligned with Adolf Hitler. The Muslim grand mufti himself met with Adolf Hitler, reviewed the troops and accepted support from the Nazi’s in killing Jews.
Finally, Mr. Obama, where were Muslims on Sept. 11th, 2001? If they weren’t flying planes into the World Trade Center, the Pentagon or a field in Pennsylvania killing nearly 3,000 people on our own soil, they were rejoicing in the Middle East. No one can dispute the pictures shown from all parts of the Muslim world celebrating on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other cable news networks that day. Strangely, the very “moderate” Muslims who’s asses you bent over backwards to kiss in Cairo , Egypt on June 4th were stone cold silent post 9-11. To many Americans, their silence has meant approval for the acts of that day.
And THAT, Mr. Obama, is the “rich heritage” Muslims have here in America .
Oh, I’m sorry, I forgot to mention the Barbary Pirates.
They were Muslim.
And now we can add November 5, 2009 – the slaughter of American soldiers at Fort Hood by a Muslim major who is a doctor and a psychiatrist who was supposed to be counseling soldiers returning from battle in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That, Mr. Obama is the “Muslim heritage” in America.
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92 Year Old Preacher
an email I wanted to share…
While watching a little TV on Sunday instead of going to church, I watched a church in Atlanta honoring one of its senior pastors who had been retired many years. He was 92 at that time and I wondered why the church even bothered to ask the old gentleman to preach at that age.
After a warm welcome, introduction of this speaker, and as the applause quieted down, he rose from his high back chair and walked slowly, with great effort and a sliding gait to the podium. Without a note or written paper of any kind he placed both hands on the pulpit to steady himself and then quietly and slowly he began to speak……
“When I was asked to come here today and talk to you, your pastor asked me to tell you what was the greatest lesson ever learned in my 50-odd years of preaching. I thought about it for a few days and boiled it down to just one thing that made the most difference in my life and sustained me through all my trials.. The one thing that I could always rely on when tears and heartbreak and pain and fear and sorrow paralyzed me… The only thing that would comfort was this verse…….. …….
“Jesus loves me this I know.
For the Bible tells me so.
Little ones to Him belong,
We are weak but He is strong…….
Yes, Jesus loves me….
The Bible tells me so.”
When he finished, the church was quiet. You actually could hear his foot steps as he shuffled back to his chair. I don’t believe I will ever forget it.
A pastor once stated, “I always noticed that it was the adults who chose the children’s hymn ‘Jesus Loves Me’ (for the children of course) during a hymn sing, and it was the adults who sang the loudest because I could see they knew it the best.”
“Senior version of Jesus Loves Me”
Here is a new version just for us who have white hair or no hair at all.. For us over middle age (or even those almost there) and all you others, check out this newest version of Jesus Loves Me.
JESUS LOVES ME
Jesus loves me, this I know,
Though my hair is white as snow
Though my sight is growing dim,
Still He bids me trust in Him…
(CHORUS)
YES, JESUS LOVES ME.. YES, JESUS LOVES ME..
YES, JESUS LOVES ME, FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO.
Though my steps are oh, so slow,
With my hand in His I’ll go
On through life, let come what may,
He’ll be there to lead the way.
(CHORUS)
When the nights are dark and long,
In my heart He puts a song..
Telling me in words so clear,
“Have no fear, for I am near.”
(CHORUS)
When my work on earth is done,
And life’s victories have been won.
He will take me home above,
Then I’ll understand His love…
(CHORUS)
I love Jesus, does He know?
Have I ever told Him so?
Jesus loves to hear me say,
That I love Him every day.
(CHORUS)
If you think this is neat, please pass it on to your friends. If you do not pass it on, nothing bad will happen, but you will have missed an opportunity to “reach out and touch” a friend or a loved one.
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The heavy handed FCC
Yesterday the FCC voted 3 to 2 to regulate the internet as a telecom, rather than the previous class of “lightly regulated”. This was reported in the NY Times
The article said
The commission has said it intends to exempt broadband service from most of the regulatory options it has under the stricter designation, keeping only those regulations that are necessary “to implement fundamental universal service, competition and market entry, and consumer protection policies.”
It would not regulate Internet content.
Opponents of the reclassification say that it would give the F.C.C. the power to regulate rates charged to consumers by broadband service providers, something that Julius Genachowski, the chairman of the commission, has said that it does not intend to do.
One of the dissenting voices, Meredith Attwell Baker, said this “will place the heavy thumb of government on the scale of a free market to the point where innovation and investment in the ‘core’ of the Net are subjected to the whims of ‘Mother-May-I’ regulators.”
Future commission members, she said, could overturn current decisions to regulate broadband service only lightly.
Since they specifically say they will not regulate Internet content, that is probably one of the most important goals of the decision. A tax on the service fees charged by providers will probably be coming soon as well.
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America Rising
The video says it all very nicely.
Actually, the “we” at the start of the video does not include anybody associated with Irk The Enemy, but we were outvoted by those who drank the kool-aid and decided that America needed to be “fundamentally transformed.”
Please exercise your constitutional right to vote in November so America can be put right again.
original article at http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025329.phphttp://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2010/01/025329.php
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Have you read the Arizona law?
Eric Holder, the US Attorney General is considering a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of Arizona’s new law allowing police to ask for citizenship for people stopped for criminal activity. When asked in a congressional committee whether he had read the law, he said he had not.
Our AG is opposed to a law he has not read. This makes sense. A state is trying to make use of the tenth amendment and take responsibility for a problem that is harmful to its citizens. The federal government does not want this problem dealt with because the problem causes the federal government to have to increase in size to deal with all the fallout this problem creates. Actually dealing with the problem would not be beneficial to the federal bureaucracy.
Have you read the law? Below is the text of the law. For more information, here is a nice long article describing the law and the problem it confronts?
Take the poll to tell us whether you agree with this law.
In a nutshell, the Arizona law says if you have a criminal in custody, before you let him go you need to check his immigration status. How hard is that? How bad is that? Why does that tick off the elitist pinheads of the progressive party?
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add to your faith virtue …
2Pe 1:5-8 says “And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity. For if these things be in you, and abound, they make [you that ye shall] neither [be] barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Peter is giving a command to add qualities to make us grow systematically that we will be fruitful because we are living holy. He tells us we need:
- faith
- virtue
- knowledge
- temperance
- patience
- godliness
- brotherly kindliness
- charity
These qualities named in the old english of the KJV seem a bit fuzzy today. The same list given in the new ISV makes a bit more sense:
- faith
- moral character
- knowledge
- self-control
- endurance
- godliness
- brotherly kindness
- love
These qualities build on each other, like the stories in a building. If you have been justified you have faith. Most people study the bible to add to their knowledge. The problem is, this is an era where virtue, moral character, is mostly ignored. Without moral character, knowledge can easily be perverted.
Character has received a lot of lip service in politics since the Monica and Bill story was used by the press to draw our attention away from the real lapse of character that Bill suffered. A lot of politicians and celebrities have had their careers harpooned by a lack of character that caused them to have affairs, cheat by using illegal substances, cook the books, etc.
The problem is that for many years the public schools have been teaching relative morality, do what works for you, because they say that there are no moral absolutes. The biblical phrase for this was “every man did what was right in his own eyes.” This phrase was used to describe times when men’s hearts were far from God. This would appear to be such a time.
Character has been described as how you act when no one else is around. Secular philosophers have studied and debated moral character since long ago. A study on their musings is available at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Basically it boils down to doing the right thing whether you really want to or not.
So, how do we build moral character? Two courses come to mind:
- Do it yourself.
- Do it with the Holy Spirit.
We know that sin is doing not the right thing. The natural man is in bondage to sin, so any attempt to do the right thing is ultimately futile. Someone who has been justified has had his spirit regenerated and indwelt by the Holy Spirit. Therefore, if you are saved you have resources that the natural man does not have. The bad news is you can still ignore the Holy Spirit and do the wrong thing, display a lack of moral character.
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Census 2010
Another decade rolls around and the United States constitution requires the government to count the citizens in order to allocate representation in the House of Representatives.
Question 1 asks “How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?” I believe that is a valid question, although it would exclude people dwelling in caves, wigwams and other living accommodations of an unusual nature, but most people living in a cave would probably still answer the question, so that point is moot. This question is the only question the constitution requires the government to ask. The constitution does not require any citizen to answer the question. Most probably will answer so they can have representation in the House.
The question should have used the word domicile to include any type of living quarters. Apparently domicile is considered too complex a word for the average US citizen, so they had to spell out the most common types of domicile.
After that the questions get into murkier waters. Question 2 asks if anyone else was living there that was not included in question 1. Question 3 asks about the ownership of the domicile. Question 4 asks for a phone number to call if the US Government does not understand one of your answers.
Questions 5 through 9 is where they venture into shark infested waters. That is where they ask for my (5) first and last names and middle initial, (6) sex, (7) age and date of birth, (8)whether I am one of several different flavors of latino and (9) exactly what race I am.
5, 6 and 7 are merely invasive. 8 and 9 are downright wrong. The civil rights movement was about making the country color blind. America was the land of opportunity where anyone could work hard and try to be successful, regardless of race, color or creed. What on earth does our government need to know any of this information for? I understand question 1 is used to allocate our representatives. None of the other questions is useful for anything but discrimination. Our government is supposed to be non-discriminatory.
Question 10 is just nosy, asking if you sometimes stay somewhere else.
As you turn the page you see they want to know the full name, relationship to person 1, you, the person answering all these foolish questions, sex, age and DOB, and all the race and ethnic origin as well as other location questions for each person in the house.
Hello! Have any of you read the constitution? All you need to ask me is how many people live under my roof. Looking back at question 1 answers the question “Why are they asking all these invasive, discriminatory questions???” Let’s see question 1 again: “How many people were living or staying in this house, apartment or mobile home on April 1, 2010?” AHAH! it is all an elaborate April Fools joke, All the extra printing costs, all the advertising, all that wasted money is just for a big joke on the citizens of the United States, at our expense, of course.
But then again, it could be that the Progressive elites that run our wonderful nanny state are really just trying to grow the database of information on the citizens so they can be rounded up, classified and disposed of more easily. I don’t know.
I do know this: I am answering question number one. The US constitution does not require me to answer it, but I will graciously do so. This will allow me to be represented in congress. Of course, my vote in November will represent that I want to kick out the elitist trash that thinks they rule over me and replace them with honest, God fearing public servants that want to “Progress” this country away from the totalitarian regime that has crept up on us, back to the constitutional republic our founding fathers set up.
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You are saved? Great!…
I wrote a book called “You are saved? Great! What are you going to do with it?” It is about moving forward after asking Jesus to forgive your sins and become your Lord. The goal of being saved in the first place is to become more like Jesus; to have a close relationship with Jesus and God the Father.
Without a plan it is easy to become a casual Christian, maybe a little more moral than your unsaved neighbors. Eventually you could lose your relationship with God and end up instead with enough religion to make you miserable. Nobody wants that. Unfortunately, that is all too common.
Below is the introduction. You can buy (or download for free) the whole thing at my LULU.COM Storefront or download it free.
1 Introduction
Hi new Jesus Follower!
Since you are reading this I assume that you have decided to have a relationship with the creator of the universe, Jesus, our savior. That is great and I thank God that you have come into the family. If you walk out of here and get run over by a truck you would go to heaven and spend the rest of your life with Jesus in heaven, [1] where he happens to be right now.[2]
Since that is not likely I think you are going to want to know what comes next. A few things you are probably wondering are:
- Just what is “salvation” anyway?
- What does God want me to do with the salvation He has given me?
- What do I need to know right now to get started?
- How do I go about growing in Jesus, to become a mature believer?
That is what this guide is here for. Hopefully you have an older believer to walk with you as you grow. In that case, this handbook will be like a reminder and a reference to use when your mentor is not available. If not (or even with a mentor) remember that Jesus is living in the new heart he gave you, the Holy Spirit has sealed your spirit and the Father is watching and protecting you, so you are never alone. You are in a new relationship with the creator of the universe. To enter this relationship all you had to do is believe God when he said it was possible. He did all the heavy lifting to get you started and He will help you get along, so always pray before studying. The Holy Spirit promises to teach you all things
13 Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth: for he shall not speak of himself; but whatsoever he shall hear, that shall he speak: and he will shew you things to come. 14 He shall glorify me: for he shall receive of mine, and shall shew it unto you.
John 16:13-14 (KJV)
[1] Jesus said to the thief that believed I Luke 23:43 “And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.”
[2] 1John 2:1 My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous:
Eph 1:20 Which he wrought in Christ, when he raised him from the dead, and set [him] at his own right hand in the heavenly [places], – Read the whole first chapter of Ephesians
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Dear Mr President
Dear Mr President,
America wants health care reform. What Americans do not want is a 2000+ page bill that takes complete control of the best health care system in the world.
Start over. Do it a piece at a time. We do not want this horrible bill that was written by union hacks and lobbyists. It is patently obvious that this bill is more about the growth of government leading toward a totalitarian state than it is about health care.
Actually, I look forward to you ramming this monstrosity down our throats. It will mean the end of progressivism in America for a long time. This fall we will vote in a congress that cares about America that will repeal your monstrosity and make America great again.
Do the country a favor. Resign, go back to Indonesia, disappear from politics. With any luck, within a few years, an American that is actually black will get into the White House.
Sincerely
Bradfoot
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Rev 6:8 Critters
When God brought the children of Israel out of Egypt, God released ten “plagues” on the Egyptians to convince them to release the Hebrews. The plagues were specifically targeted at ten of the gods worshiped by the Egyptians.
In a similar fashion, the various “plagues” released during the seal, bowl and vial judgments in the Revelation are similar to what we are doing to corrupt the earth, only magnified. For an example, let’s look at Revelation 6:8.
Rev 6:8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
We have great ingenuity creating weapons and systems for so people can “kill with sword”. Between religious practices that make certain animals sacred, causing food to be wasted to the point where humans starve and political acts that result in famines, we kill with hunger today. I am not sure what killing with death is, but we probably do it. The last method is killing with the beasts of the earth. Some of what is happening with beasts today may surprise you.
Apparently bears are becoming more aggressive because of acclimation to the presence of humans and human encroachment on their habitat. It is on the History Channel and in the newspapers. According to one resident of Alaska there used to be maybe one bear attack on humans every ten years. Nowadays there are at least 2 attacks every year.
For some smaller beasts, just look to the hybrid Killer Africanized Bees. There was a geneticist in Brazil in the 50′s that tried to create a bee that produced like African bees and was gentle like European bees. Oops! Before the work was finished an assistant removed the guards that kept the queens inside the hives. A bunch of queens left for the wild with their colonies right behind them. The swarms have made it as far north as Flagstaff Arizona, breeding with local honeybees and picking up traits that allow them to survive in high altitudes and cold temps. Swarms hit people and sometimes kill them, others survive as many as 4000 stings and end up in ICU.
There are even smaller beasties we have killing people. Besides weaponized versions of anthrax bacteria and smallpox and ebola viruses, we have some nasty critters in the wild, such as MRSA and “flesh eating bacteria” or necrotizing fasciitis. These are bacteria that have adapted to the insane measures taken to sanitize facilities and equipment in hospitals.
Of course, the judgments of Revelation have not started yet. What we see in terms of what will be seen is just a foretaste. If you think it is bad now, dealing with a hostile environment that is just going to get worse, you do not want to be here when the seals get broken, the trumpets sounded and vials get dumped.
Accepting the free gift of salvation that Jesus provides now will keep you from having to navigate through the worst living conditions man has ever seen. If you wait until the meat grinder starts up to ask Jesus to forgive your sins, chances are good you will end up with your head cut off. That might actually be a good thing according to Revelation 7, to die during the seven year period of rule by the man of evil. The biggest problem with that strategy is the lying wonders that could deceive even those that belong to Jesus. If you wait, you might just miss the whole thing and end up on the wrong side of history.
Me personally, I do not want to see any of it. I would much rather spend that seven years in heaven with Jesus, getting ready for the second coming and the start of the 1000 year kingdom to come.
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