Barr the Door, Margaret!

‘And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God gave them up to a debased mind to do what ought not to be done.’  ~ Romans 8:28

 

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• More funny search engine terms used to find my blog:

–         mr lee businessman 2008

–         larry ross from Indiana

–         okadigbo ben

 

 

 

• ‘It looks like Bob Barr has let himself get talked into seeking the presidential nomination of the Libertarian Party: according to my sources, he does so with the full support of Ron Paul. Which means it looks like the Paulian Revolution is not only alive and kicking it’s also in the best possible position.’ 

 

 

 

• ‘But where is the simple, straightforward study of autism in never-vaccinated U.S. children? Based on our admittedly anecdotal and limited reporting among the Amish, the home-schooled and now Chicago’s Homefirst, that may prove to be a significant omission.’ 

 

 

 

• ‘These storms would carry enough static electricity that people would avoid shaking hands because the shock would flatten a person.’ 

 

 

 

• Reason Number 13,284 to homeschool your children.

 

 

 

• ‘The alarmists are alarmed, the panic mongers are panicking, the scare mongers are scared; the Gores are gored. Why? Because global warming stopped ten years ago; it hasn’t got warmer since 1998.’ 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Actor/ writer/ director Bill Paxton was in the crowd waving to JFK in Fort Worth on 22 November 1963.

 

 

 

• Jenny McCarthy discusses her son’s autism.

 

 

 

• In a related note, a man with autism drew the entire city of London—completely from memory. 

 

 

 

• Update on the D. B. Cooper story.

 

 

 

• In the continued assault on private property rights: ‘A roommate-finding site cannot require users to disclose their sexual orientation, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday, in the latest skirmish over whether anti-discrimination rules apply to the Web.’ 

 

 

 

• Ted Turner has, apparently, changed his views on religion.  This has only added to his confidence regarding his eternal destination because, as he says:  ‘I have a really hard time believing I’m going to Hell.’ 

 

 

 

• Whether homosexuality is a trait some are born with is irrelevant and Christians should not be distracted by or lured into the debate on this point.  The fact of the matter is that God calls homosexuality sin; it is therefore irrelevant whether it is inherent. 

 

Island + Rising = A Moveable Feast

‘This means that it is not the children of the flesh who are the children of God, but the children of the promise are counted as offspring.’ ~ Romans 9:8

• McDonald’s restaurants ‘has signed onto a nationwide effort to promote [homosexual] business ventures.’ 

   

• As an Irishman once asked his nephew during the 1916 Easter Rising: ‘Do you expect to come back to-day?’

   

• The 21 year-old Big Texan’s 72-ounce Steak Challenge record has been broken!

   

• ‘[T]he war will soon assume a turn to extermination not of soldiers alone, that is the least part of the trouble, but the people . . . . There is a class of people, men, women, and children, who must be killed or banished.’  ~  Gen. William T. Sherman

   

• ‘Time to listen to Texas Congressman Ron Paul, the lone voice of reason in Congress today who’s got to feel like he’s shouting into a field of cotton with his repeated warnings about the dangers of a collapsing dollar, while the administration goes AWOL on the problem.’ 

   

• A dying 10 year-old gets her wish to have her prisoner father released long enough to visit her on her deathbed: ‘Jayci, who cannot speak, move or eat, could sense that her father was next to her and feel his touch, because she began breathing more heavily during his visit, the family told FOX News.’ 

   

• ‘Money with them [congressmen] is nothing but trash when it is to come out of the people. But it is the one great thing for which most of them are striving, and many of them sacrifice honor, integrity, and justice to obtain it.’  ~ Congressman Davey Crockett

   

• There is good news to be had!  A recent study indicates that the traditional (and, I may add, Biblical) family model is making a resurgence. 

   

‘Oprah Winfrey identifies herself as a Christian. But she says that, when she was a young woman, she was disturbed by a pastor’s declaration that the God of the Bible is a jealous God. “And something about that didn’t feel right in my spirit because I believe that God is love and that God is in all things,” she told her television audience. “And, so, that’s when the, the, the search for something more than doctrine started to stir within me.”

   

• From the ‘Relevance Files’: ‘An Anglican vicar has rewritten the most famous biblical tales because he wants to make them more “accessible” to modern readers.’ 

   

• I am shocked—shocked—that Hillary Clinton would be caught in a lie.  Shocked! 

   

• The last French World War I veteran passed away recently at the age of 110.  ‘More than anything, he was appalled that he had been made to fire on people he didn’t know and to whom he, too, was a stranger. These were fathers of children. He had no quarrel with them. C’est complètement idiot la guerre. His Italian Alpine regiment had once stopped firing for three weeks on the Austrians, whose language many of them spoke; they had swapped loaves of bread for tobacco and taken pictures of each other. To the end of his life, Mr Ponticelli showed no interest in labelling anyone his enemy. He said he did not understand why on earth he, or they, had been fighting.’ 

   

• Update:  New evidence has surfaced in the D. B. Cooper case.  ‘The FBI is analyzing a torn, tangled parachute found buried by children in southwest Washington to determine whether it might have been used by famed plane hijacker D.B. Cooper, the agency said Tuesday.’ 

   

• ‘Marko Kulju, 26, faces seven years in prison and a fine of $19,100 if convicted of stealing pieces of the right earlobe from a Moai, one of numerous statues carved out of volcanic rock between 400 and 1,000 years ago to represent deceased ancestors.’ 

   

• Andrew Sullivan explains ‘Why Ron Paul Still Scares the GOP’:  ‘When his fellow candidates denounced big government, Paul was there to remind them that President Bush and the G.O.P. Congress had shattered spending records and exploded the deficit.  When they hailed freedom, Paul asked why they all supported the Patriot Act and other expansions of executive power.  And when they called themselves conservatives, Paul asked what was so conservative about sending thousands of young Americans to try to transform the Middle East.’ 

   

• ‘During a campaign stop yesterday in Greensboro, North Carolina, Senator Obama told the audience that he believes he “can have everlasting life” because Jesus Christ died for his sins. But he then told a questioner that he believes Jews and Muslims who live moral lives are just as much “children of God” as he is.’ 

   

• ‘Skulls. Black cats. A naked woman riding a killer whale. Grim reapers. Snakes. Swords. Occult symbols. A wizard with a staff that shoots lightning bolts. Moons. Stars. A dragon holding the Earth in its claws.’ 

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