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Gays attack woman with Cross
November 13, 2008, Thursday

New lows were reached the other day when sodomites protesting those who voted "Yes" on California's proposition 8, attacked an elderly woman carrying a "cross" into their protest group. They grabbed her cross and destroyed it by stomping on it, showing their contempt for all things decent. See video below

If you claim to be a follower of the Gospel of Christ you cannot be tolerant of these fascists. It's one thing to be committing this sin in private and be aware of the shame of such an act; it's quite another to parade your acts as normal behavior, dressing in obscene, blasphemous and sacrilegious clothing and costumes and shouting epithets and obscenities whenever cameras are present. Paul wrote a short book claiming it to be the Gospel of Christ in its fullness, Romans. In Romans 1:15.  he addresses the problem of the unthankfulness of man and how for this perversion of spirituality, he gives them over to sodomy and that which is worked between "even their women".
These pinheads actually think by these methods of protesting, that they gain sympathy from those who view such a horrible act as destroying this woman's cross and then accosting the woman unmercifully.
This is the way the Roman and Greek societies fell people. We're a young country moving inexorably to the same fate...

How I've learned to pray...
September 22, 2008, Monday
Prayer is one of the greatest gifts God has ever made available to mankind. With it, we change the mind of an infinite God. He listens carefully to those who have come to Him through His Son, Jesus Christ. He wants to hear from us as a father loves to hear the petitions of his own children. Sometimes, just as a father must sometimes do for his children, the Father of us all must say "No" or return a modified form of the answer we would like. Many of us do not pray in keeping with the Bible, nor do we give much thought to it.
One of the greatest and most ubiquitous errors made by us is that of "praying in our hearts". The Bible makes no mention of this, and the examples of prayer in the Bible are always given audibly. If we are allowed to pray in our "hearts", why did Jesus tell us to go into a closet to pray, or pray unobserved so that it can be between just us and God? Hannah in Shiloh to pray for her circumstances, prayed in her heart, yet her lips moved so that the priest was able to determine that she was praying.
Eph. 3:9 and 10 makes it clear that the church is a classroom to the angels. Peter says in one of his letters that the angels desire to look into things regarding salvation. The cherubim on the ark of the covenant are arranged facing each other, but their eyes are intently fixed toward the "mercy seat" where the work of salvation is performed in shadow. The angels therefore would have great interest in our prayer. There is nothing in the Word that would indicate that the angels can read our minds, so unless we speak audibly or at least move our lips, they can never know our prayers to see how God answers them.
In addition, think about the senses which are manifest in either case. When speaking aloud, the speech areas of the brain are brought into the activity. The ears hear the words that you are praying. Your mouth and the tactile nature of your tongue are brought into it. The angels can hear and rejoice with you and praise God that one of those whom Jesus has saved is calling upon the Name of the Lord.
Try this method of "audible" praying. Keep a diary of the requests you make by prayer and see if your prayer life isn't brought to new levels of life and glory. May God bless you as you obey him in what may be a new way of prayer for you!

Health problems, Russia's Adventures
July 22, 2008, Tuesday
I'd really appreciate your prayers. My health problems really gave me a wallop the last few days. I get this about every month and I have no idea why. The symptoms include, fatigue so bad it hurts to move, ringing in the ears, really bad tremors so that I can't type or control the mouse, feeling terribly flushed but I'm not, increased system-wide pain. If you happen to know what malady expresses itself with these symptoms, I'd appreciate knowing.
Well, now Russia has attacked Georgia. I'm sure that it chose this moment because the world is distracted by the Olympics in Beijing. Imagine our attacking Canada. Russia is attacking its neighbor on the pretext that it is attempting to stop "ethnic cleansing" in Southern Ossetia, a region of Georgia in the top middle of the country, which is currently seeking independence from Georgia with an armed rebellion. There is no such ethnic cleansing going on there. Russia just seeks to annex Southern Ossetia. Why does Russia need to start this trouble? It's a very small piece of real estate. I'm not very updated on the treasures of S.O., but I expect it is oil as in the case of Chechnya.

July 22, 2008, Tuesday
Reflection, Media Bias, Obama's inexplicable stupidity
I've just re-read what I've written so far to see if I should continue. I'm not really happy with with the content so far. I'm not gonna quit at this point, but I reserve the right to do so without explanation other than what I've just said. I'm sure almost no one reads this other than family members who check in to see what I'm up to (or down to.)
Anyhow, the media which claims that it's unfair to label them as "left leaning" has sent the 3 network anchors, each and every one, to follow Obama to the middle east. Meanwhile McCain get's almost no facetime. Where were they on his recent trips all over the place? Barely a correspondent among them. The figures I've heard is Obama's getting 70% of network coverage to McCain's 30%. Do we really want ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and MSNBC choosing our president? The New York Times recently published an editorial  by Obama. When McCain asked to submit a fair rebuttal to Obama's charges, he received a flat "NO" from the Times. Where is the fairness in that? We really do need networks like Fox which present a fair and balanced view of our world.
Obama, fresh from his discussions with Gen. Petraeus and Nouri al Maliki, determines by spitting into the face of logic that he was indeed right when he opposed the surge! It was that very surge which made his trip safe enough for him to go in the first place! He really is a complete loon. He is playing the presidential part very well, but it's completely vacuous and without substance. He will be a very dangerous man in the White House should he get elected.

July 1, 2008, Tuesday
Conscription
Things are going just great in Iraq, we have won the war there. Much building is going on, life is returning to normal. Al Queda In Iraq has been defeated. We've beaten them back to their "you can't get me" standoff in the Waziri stronghold in Pakistan. We still haven't gotten Bin Laden because he continues to cower in his Pakistani sandbox. We need conscription to get our country ready for the large war we are going to be fighting probably with Iran when Israel bombs their Nuclear facilities and possibly Pakistan when we violate their sovereignty when we go after the Taliban and Al Queda. Our all volunteer army is broken and the only way to fix it is more men. The reason John McCain was against the G.I. Bill in Congress was because it gave too much to first term recruits when those could have been reserved for those who signed on for a second term.
We need to insist to our European "partners" in Afghanistan that they need to put some muscle to their "commitments" and put feet on the ground there so that we can defeat the Taliban and their friends. After all, the Taliban is much more of a threat to them. We have not had a single strike on our continent while President Bush has been in office. There have been several in Europe in that same time. Speaking of Bush; what would that statistic look like if Kerry had taken office? It would have been a much weaker government in terms of terrorism. Anyone who is honest with himself knows that. Even worse, what if Gore had won just before 9/11? He would still be trying to wake up from the nightmare of the impact of terrorism on Global Warming. ("bin Laden, do you really want to set up Sharia law over an Earth which has suffered the environmental impact of global warming?")
Does Gary Coleman care about the environment? Jus' wondering...

June 26, 2008, Thursday
Iran
Now, it's really imperative that we solve the Iran problem and FAST! Many think that Israel, which has already declared its intention to attack Iran and has already war-gamed the scenario, will attack before chancing Obama becoming president and just making things more difficult. Remember Obama declared his own intention to sit down with Ahmedinejad without preconditions to reward them for their progress on becoming members of that dangerous fraternity of nations who now have nuclear capabilities.
What is Israel to do? Ahmedinejad has announced that Israel must be wiped from the map and is now racing toward getting the means to do so. There is no lack of nuts who will be willing to carry such a weapon in a suitcase right into Israel proper.
This whole scenario might begin WWIII with all of the alliances tying up the various countries' economic and military interests. We must do something now. Waiting will only worsen the problem.
Maybe this would be just the time to take out Iran's nuclear reactor with a tactical nuclear device. It may very well be what Israel is preparing to do. Their nuclear facilities are very well bunkered in, so conventional bombing would have little or no effect it would seem.
This all reminds me of a poem by Ogden Nash:

How odd of God to choose the Jews
Odder still are those
Who hate whom God chose.

June 17, 2008, Monday
Politics
As far as politics go, I am an addict. I lean toward the Republican side, but am a very "compassionate conservative". I have a problem with the concept of "trickle down economics" and have not really seen it work though I've been voting since the end of the Nixon administration. I think that the rich should be taxed a lot more than they are.
On the war, I am for keeping the surge going. We are now winning and since 9/11 there has not been a single attack on American soil. The liberal news was all about blathering on and on during the early phase in which there were a lot more casualties, but now that they are down to just a few a day in Iraq, you don't hear a peep from the press. Our young men and women are doing a wonderful job at winning this war and they are not getting the recognition they so rightly deserve just because of the radical left ideology of most of the press.
Everyone thought Iraq had WMD. EVERYONE. Now that it appears that they didn't, the radical left likes to say that "Bush Lied". He certainly did not lie. Declaring war on Iraq was the safest and the most intelligent thing to do. Yes, it was unfortunate that we made the mistake, but all were guilty of the mistake. Obama likes to congratulate himself that he was against going into Iraq. He was a nut to have taken that position. Given what we "knew" about Iraq's WMD program and Hussein's unwillingness to back down, it was totally irresponsible to take the position Obama did. His current position on taking the troops out if (God forbid) he becomes president, is even more irresponsible. It has cost of lot of lives to get where we are in Iraq. If we leave now, we risk a bloody civil war and the likely prospect of Iran and Syria pretty much taking control of Iraq. That is intolerable for our national interests, so we would be right back in within a few years and have to fight the same battle all over again this time with greater disadvantages than we had at the beginning of this war.
McCain is our only hope to continue toward final victory in this war and toward containment of Iran which has made its intentions clear regarding our ally in the Middle East, Israel.

June 17, 2008, Monday
My Graphics Phase
As I was becoming more and more ill, I tried to keep working. For awhile, I worked at a sit-down job manufacturing rotary cutting tools. Even that became difficult after awhile. Then I tried a new industry I discovered through serendipity. I saw a web page for a Romanian Antivirus product and noted the very broken English. Because I am good at both technical communications and the English vernacular, I thought I would offer to "Americanize" their documentation so that it did not appear to be of "foreign origin" to American customers. This worked out quite well as they were very pleased with my work. The company was later purchased by Microsoft.
I then joined a Yahoo group of Russian shareware authors and advertised my service to them. I got a whole bunch of work this way and had a lot of happy customers from whom I received glowing testimonials. Sadly, my health continued to decline and even sitting for long periods of time became painful and exhausting.
At the same time I was also learning to use CorelDraw, a competitor to Adobe Illustrator and began to create graphics for documentation and technical writing. I also created a number of logos. I did business under the dba "SPELLBOUNDesign". Here are a number of my graphics samples.
Now, I still use the computer for small projects for the time that I can sit comfortably. I tried to take on some occasional work, but was unable to meet deadlines due to days at a time being to ill to work at all. I have done some where there was no deadline. I love the work as I get to exercise my creative side.
 

May 13, 2008, Tuesday
An Experiment
Well, everyone else has a blog why can't I? I'm not very good at finishing what I start sometimes, and I'd only be able to contribute on good health days, but I have opinions which if effused in the right arena would give me some relief. I can't guarantee that this blog will even be here next time you visit because this is just an experiment. We'll see how good I can be at this. If you have responses you'd like to make, lemme know by email. I'm not using blog software for now. If I stick with it, I'll learn some software (I would appreciate any suggestions you might have) and allow for the posting of comments and all of the other features of a regular blog.