Recent Items of Interest

Starting with the good news first.

$20,000 offered for listing 10 Commandments

Entrepreneur creates incentive to memorize God's laws

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Home: No place for Bible study

County demands pastor obtain $10,000 permit to host friends

Friends, this is in the USA, specifically San Diego, CA.

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Upholding values will shield US from terror: Obama

Now, just what values does he mean?

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Responsible drinking for prostitutes? Your tax $ at work...

The Obama administration will pay $2.6 million to train China's prostitutes to drink responsibly on the job.

I find this very ironic given what he recently said, that we cannot borrow from China forever.

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Do You Want Your OTV?

Obama White House officials decided to do their own media report on the
visit, complete with cuts, interviews, and chyrons identifying who's
speaking.

Even the media who put him in office are offended by this one. However, they seem to miss the real issue: This seems to be state controlled access to the White House. This sounds too much like the beginnings of socialism, or communism, neither of which permits unfavorable coverage of the government.

Note: Mr. Obama spending time with another sports team.

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Sobbing Kindergarteners Snubbed for Steelers?

Kids locked out of White House; officials say they were too late

Mr. Obama is spending a lot of time with sports teams, talks of values, and turns away kindergartners.

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Have a blessed Memorial Day.
Remember to honor those who have fallen for our freedoms and values.
Remember most of all the one who died to free us from our sins.
Worship Jesus.

BE

Right-Wing Extremist ID Card

From Liberty Counsel, The 'Official Liberty Counsel card-carrying Right-Wing Extremist' card.  Get yours today.

BE

Today's Quotes on Liberty

"Each one should remain in the condition in which he was called.
Were you a slave when called? Do not be concerned about it.
(But if you can gain your freedom, avail yourself of the opportunity.)

"For he who was called in the Lord as a slave is a freedman of the Lord.
Likewise he who was free when called is a slave of Christ.

"You were bought with a price;
do not become slaves of men.

"So, brothers, in whatever condition each was called, there let him remain with God. "
(1Co 7:20-24 ESV)

"Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters."
-- Daniel Webster
(1782-1852), US Senator
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Daniel.Webster.Quote.9BFA

"Today, when a concerted effort is made to obliterate this point, it cannot be repeated too often that the Constitution is a limitation on the government, not on private individuals -- that it does not prescribe the conduct of private individuals, only the conduct of the government -- that it is not a charter _for_ government power, but a charter of the citizen's protection _against_ the government."
-- Ayn Rand
(1905-1982) Author
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ayn.Rand.Quote.DE9E


"The deterioration of every government
begins with the decay of the principles
on which it was founded."
-- C. L. De Montesquieu
[Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat] (1689-1755) Baron de Montesquieu
Source: The Spirit of the Laws, VIII, 1752
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/C..L..De.Montesquieu.Quote.8108

Liberty and Government

Just received the following quotes this morning, and got more excited with each one.
Hope you are blessed with the sentiments as much as I was.

BE

"Liberty has never come from the government.
Liberty has always come from the subjects of government.
The history of liberty is the history of resistance.
The history of liberty is a history
of the limitation of governmental power,
not the increase of it."
-- Woodrow Wilson
(1856-1924) 28th US President
Speech, 1912
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Woodrow.Wilson.Quote.2AEF

"That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression."
-- Alabama, Declaration of Rights Article I Section 35
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Alabama,.Declaration.of.Rights.Article.I.Section.35.Quote.5244

"I have little interest in streamlining government or in making it more efficient, for I mean to reduce its size. I do not undertake to promote welfare, for I propose to extend freedom. My aim is not to pass laws, but to repeal them. It is not to inaugurate new programs, but to cancel old ones that do violence to the Constitution ... or have failed their purpose ... or that impose on the people an unwarranted financial burden. I will not attempt to discover whether legislation is 'needed' before I have first determined whether it is constitutionally permissible. And if I should be attacked for neglecting my constituents' 'interests,' I shall reply that I was informed that their main interest is liberty, and in that cause I am doing the very best I can."
-- Barry Goldwater
(1909-1998) US Senator (R-Arizona)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Barry.Goldwater.Quote.401D

Recent Headlines of Interest

Of Issachar, men who had understanding of the times, to know what Israel ought to do, . . .
(1Ch 12:32 ESV)

Google joins Bilderberg cabal
Rich, powerful meet secretly in Greece

Former British cabinet minister, Lord Denis Healey, one of the founders of the group, explained the purpose of the group to Jon Ronson of the Guardian: "Those of us in Bilderberg felt we couldn't go on forever fighting one another for nothing and killing people and rendering millions homeless. So we felt that a single community throughout the world would be a good thing."

With Google's propensity for collecting information, I'm not certain I'm comfortable about this.

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'Killer Chip' tracks humans, releases poison
Saudi inventor applies for rights to GPS-linked lethal security device

The tiny semiconductor device is intended to be surgically implanted or injected into the body, according to the patent application, for the purpose of tracking visitors from other nations by global-positioning satellites and preventing them from overstaying their visas.
. . .

The application included a request to patent a model B of the device that could release poison to "eliminate" the individual if he or she became a security risk.

First, pets and cattle, now this.

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Should a Christian be a Mason?
By Dr. David R. Reagan

At that point, he handed me the handbook and told me I could keep it. I immediately turned to page 95 and found the following paragraph:¹

"Masonry makes no profession of Christianity... but looks forward to the time when the labor of our ancient brethren shall be symbolized by the erection of a spiritual temple... in which there
shall be but one altar and one worship; one common altar of Masonry on which the Veda [Hinduism], Shastras [Buddhism], Sade [Astrology],
Zend-Avesta [Zoroastrianism], Koran [Islam], and Holy Bible shall lie untouched by sacrilegious hands, and at whose shrine the Hindoo (sic),
the Persian, the Assyrian, the Chaldean, the Egyptian, the Chinese, the Mohammedan, the Jew, and the Christian may kneel and with one united
voice celebrate the praises of the Supreme Architect of the Universe."

Notice how this paragraph equates the Bible with the
pagan scriptures and then asserts it is possible to obtain salvation
through any religion. In short, this paragraph refutes the Gospel which
maintains that "there is salvation in no other name under heaven except the name of Jesus" (Acts 4:12).

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Girl Scouts exposed: Lessons in lesbianism
Communists, radical feminists cited as role models for troops

You need to read this for yourself. I cannot quote enough to do it justice.

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'Hate crimes' a bogus argument for raising funds

The activist is Andrew Sullivan, one of the movers and shakers in the international homosexual movement. "The real reason for hate crime laws is not the defense of human beings from crime.
. . .

Sullivan continues: "The real reason for the invention of hate crimes
was a hard-left critique of conventional liberal justice and the
emergence of special interest groups which need boutique legislation to
raise funds for their large staffs and luxurious buildings.

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GM bankruptcy plan eyes quick sale to gov't

General Motors Corp's (GM.N) plan for a bankruptcy filing involves a quick sale of the company's healthy assets to a new company initially owned by the U.S. government, a source familiar with the situation said on Tuesday.

Sounds very much like socialism, perhaps even communism.

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Chinese imports could bring GM political troubles

As thousands of General Motors workers await word on more U.S. plant closures, reports that the company plans to import Chinese-made vehicles to the U.S. have created a political problem for the automaker and the White House.

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Obama Says U.S. Long-Term Debt Load ‘Unsustainable’

President Barack Obama, calling current deficit spending “unsustainable,” warned of skyrocketing interest rates for consumers if the U.S. continues to finance government by borrowing from other countries.

“We can’t keep on just borrowing from China,” Obama said at a town-hall meeting in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, outside Albuquerque. “We have to pay interest on that debt, and that means we are mortgaging our children’s future with more and more debt.”

This is beyond comprehension. Here the tax payers have been on the verge of revolt, and Mr. Obama acts like the spending is not his idea, and we are responsible.

BE

Parental Right Amendment: Another Reason We Need It

He said to them, "But now let the one who has a moneybag take it, and likewise a knapsack. And let the one who has no sword sell his cloak and buy one.
(Luk 22:36 ESV)

This just (well was just in, been delayed by life, thought I had already posted this) in from Michael P. Farris @ www.parentalrights.org
The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child:The Impact on Private Gun-Ownership in America.

“The spread of small arms creates a serious global problem and requires an equally urgent response because the lives and futures of children are at stake. These weapons have extinguished more young lives than they have protected.” – Carol Bellamy, Executive Director, UNICEF

This is the opening quote in Mr. Farris' article.  Clearly the UN officials are not well studied in history.  We live in a fallen world and the right to self-protection is from God.

Michael Faraday, Father of Electromagnetism on Creation & God

"Yet even in earthly matters I believe that 'invisible things of Him from the creation of the world were clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead.'"
--Michael Faraday, Father of Electromagnetism
Acts & Facts, February 2009, www.icr.org

Robert Boyle, Father of Modern Chemistry on Nature

"[When] I study the book of nature I find myself oftentimes reduced to exclaim with the Psalmist, How manifold are Thy works, O Lord! in wisdom hast made them all!"
--Robert Boyle, Father of Modern Chemistry
Acts & Facts, February 2009, www.icr.org

To Start the Week Right

Some encouraging words to start the week.

"This most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
--Isaac Newton, Father of Universal Graviation Theory
Acts & Facts, February 2009, www.icr.org

"The principle of free speech is no new doctrine
born of the Constitution of the United States.
It is a heritage of English-speaking peoples,
which has been won by incalculable sacrifice,
and which they must preserve
so long as they hope to live as free men."
-- Robert M. Lafollette, Sr.
(1855-1925) U.S. Senator
Source: Speech, 6 October 1917
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Robert.Lafollette.Quote.A338

Of Miss CA, Beauty Contests and the Christian Faith

Eph 1:3-6 ESV
(3) Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places,
(4) even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love
(5) he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,
(6) to the praise of his glorious grace, with which he has blessed us in the Beloved.

Ms. Prejean has made a courageous stand for biblical marriage. I cannot argue this. However, I must ask, "Has she thought through the consistency of her witness?"

As I perused the news I happened upon a link this is article,
Miss California: I’ll fight on despite racy photos. No racy photos in the article, for which I am thankful. However, the quote that got my attention was this:

“I am a Christian, and I am a model,” Prejean said in a statement released overnight to the media. “Models pose for pictures, including lingerie and swimwear photos. Recently, photos taken of me as a teenager have been released surreptitiously to a tabloid Web site that openly mocks me for my Christian faith. I am not perfect, and I will never claim to be.”

She makes no apologies for posing in lingerie and swimwear, none of which I would allow my teenage daughter to appear in public in, however, she sees no inconsistency with this and the call for the christian to be holy.

I'm not trying to be legalistic here, but the world knows the difference between modesty and sensuality, why don't we as christians.

This last year my daughter decided to participate in our community's fair queen contest. Even in hometown, rural America it is difficult to make a stand. Thankfully, there was no swimsuit competition (she would not have had her father's blessing in that). Yet even in evening gowns, no one seemed to show any sense of shame in the amount of cloth, or lack there of, of the dresses.

My daughter decided to make a point. Did she win? Not this year, however, she was very beautiful and it didn't require the exposure of much of her body. She very pointedly made a dress that didn't call attention to physical features, but instead she tried to direct attention to woman inside, not what she is, but who she is.


What is the real point of these contests?
Are they really compatible with our values?
Can we really represent Christ in such an environment?

As long as the bodies of young women are being exposed, exploited for the arousal of men, I don't believe a Christian witness is likely, or perhaps even possible. Men aren't listening to the words of women in bathing suits, they are ogling the flesh. Women don't hear the witness, they are wondering how they can ever measure up.

Please don't miss understand.
I don't question Ms. Prejean's salvation.
That is between her and the Lord.

My question is "How must we live differently, that the world knows we are not the same?"

Joh 17:13-16 ESV
(13) But now I am coming to you, and these things I speak in the world, that they may have my joy fulfilled in themselves.
(14) I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.
(15) I do not ask that you take them out of the world, but that you keep them from the evil one.
(16) They are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Ultimately, we need to question ourselves.
Is the nature of what I am doing pleasing to the Lord?
Are we holy, like he is holy?
We are called to live in contrast to the World, not like them.

BE

WND: Census GPS-tagging your home's front door

Rev 13:16-18 ESV
(16) Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
(17) so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
(18) This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

WorldNetDaily (WND) reports that the US government is recording the GPS coordinates of your door, accurate to 40 feet.

"Enhancing the concerns is the Obama administration's recent decision to put White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in an oversight role over the census, which will be used to determine a reapportionment of congressional seats and could be used to solidify a single political party's control over the nation, its budget, military and future."

The first concern about this relates to the political climate created by the simply how people are counted for congressional districts. However, the concerns are greater than this.

But at American Daily Review, blogger Douglas Gibbs had more than a few doubts.

"GPS coordinates of your front door will make it easier for the government to monitor you," he said. "The U.S. Census Bureau is simply an excuse – a harmless looking means of obtaining the front door coordinates. The creation of GPS coordinates for front doors has nothing to do with the census, in all honesty, no matter how much the United States government tries to convince you that it does."

All of this begs questions to be answered.

"Why does the Obama administration need or want the latitude and longitude coordinates for every home in America? Why the rush to GPS paint every home in the next 90 days? Why must the marker be within 40 feet of every front door? For what possible purpose does the Fed need GPS coordinates for every home, and under what authority do they have the right?"

We must be vigilant.

(Mat 10:16 ESV) "Behold, I am sending you out as sheep in the midst of wolves, so be wise as serpents and innocent as doves."

Friends, none of this surprises the Lord. He is still in control and this somehow accomplishes his purposes. We must keep our eyes on him.

BE

WND: 'Electronic Police State' report cites U.S.

Rev 13:16-18 ESV
(16) Also it causes all, both small and great, both rich and poor, both free and slave, to be marked on the right hand or the forehead,
(17) so that no one can buy or sell unless he has the mark, that is, the name of the beast or the number of its name.
(18) This calls for wisdom: let the one who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man, and his number is 666.

WorldNetDaily (WND) cites a report about the state of electronic surveillance in the world, in which the United States takes Number 6!

"Not surprisingly, China and North Korea ranked No. 1 and No. 2, with Belarus and Russia following up. But the United Kingdom ranked fifth followed by the United States."

What we don't understand is that this makes what Hitler and Stalin did look small in the hands of tyrants today. How long will we have to wait before we see this implemented in our own country?

"Most of us are aware that our governments monitor nearly every form of electronic communication. We are also aware of private companies doing the same. This strikes most of us as slightly troubling, but very few of us say or do much about it. There are two primary reasons for this," the report said.

"We really don't see how it is going to hurt us. Mass surveillance is certainly a new, odd, and perhaps an ominous thing, but we just don't see a complete picture or a smoking gun," the report continued. Also, "We are constantly surrounded with messages that say, 'Only crazy people complain about the government.'"

Presently, this type of thing is going on in China and North Korea, and we see the results, repression and persecution.

Let's suppose that an administration took control of the White House and the Department of Homeland Security declared those who are Bible believing, pro-life, and opposed to homosexual marriage to be terrorists, i.e. enemies of the USA. What are the implications of this type of government having control over all communications and records of communications, say such as this blog? Hitler would have loved this kind of clearing house for intelligence gathering about the people themselves.

I had to read in high school 1984, by Orwell, and Brave New World, by Huxley. Somehow it seems that we are moving down the road of both books.

Friends, we need to be careful about what we put on-line, say on the phone, etc. Not that we should hold back the truth.

Only that we should be careful.
And be ready.

BE

SB 909: Hate Crime Legislation

This is my latest message to our MO senators on the hate crimes bill. (Specifically Senator McCaskill, the one to Senator Bond slightly modified)

Senator McCaskill,

We again implore you to oppose SB 909. Please consider the following:

Because of pressure from homosexual groups, Congress has refused to define what is meant by sexual orientation in S.909. By doing so, this means that the 30 different sexual orientations will be federally protected classes.

Laws already exist in all 50 states to punish violent crime, making S.909 unnecessary, unfair, indefinable, un-American and constitutionally suspect. S.909 is not designed to aid in crime fighting. Instead, punishing wrong beliefs about homosexuality is its sole purpose. Further it creates a class of people how have greater value than others in the eyes of the government, a violation of the very principles upon which our government was founded.

Additionally, legislation of this nature HAS BEEN USED in other countries, such as Canada, to bully and oppress those who hold to a Biblical Worldview, included immorality. Given the current state of our judicial system, I would expect to be arrested and tried for simply sharing my beliefs about what the God the universe has stated in his word.

S.909 is one more step in the campaign to legitimize homosexuality in our culture by treating it as a protected class along with race, gender, and religion. This is wrong, the Bible clearly states that sexuality outside of marriage is wrong, and our government should not be condoning, much less promoting such behavior.

"Together, we can work to bring the values of the heartland to Washington."

This is what you state on the front page of you website. Senator, your support of SB 909 indicates your values do not match with the values of the heartland, nor of your constituents.

Please reconsider your position on this bill, for the future of our nation, and our children.

Feeling VERY Disenfranchised,

William and Sharri Emmerling

Lamar, MO

No White House ceremony to be held on Nat'l Day of Prayer

No White House ceremony to be held on Nat'l Day of Prayer

We have officially turned our back on God.
May God have mercy on us.
Enough Said.

BE

Encouragement for the Downcast

Browsing the news, I found this article encouraging, "Couples save first kiss for wedding day."

How I hope that all my children would receive this blessing, and be able to share it with the one God provides for them.

How I wish that I had do this for my wife.  God is faithful, and forgiving, as is my wife.

BE

Hate Crimes Legislation on Fast Track

Friends, our legislature is truly out of touch, worse, is without principle.

WorldNetDaily is reporting (Next on Senate agenda? 'Pedophile Protection Act')that both the House and Senate are poised to vote as early as tomorrow in favor of hate crimes legislation.

I urge you to call your Senators and Representatives in opposition to this legislation.  The legislation makes special punishments for crimes which already have punishments legislated.  This is truly more an attempt to punish thoughts and free speech related to 'politically INcorrect' speech.

Senator McCaskill (D-MO) who 'represents' me assures me that this is not the case, however, analysis has shown that the language of the bill is far to vague.  Further, such legislation applied over-seas and Canada has been used in attempts to silence 'politically INcorrect' speech.

Remember, laws are morality and ethics codified.  The issue is by whose morality and ethics will we be living.

Regarding Judges: Consider the Constitution

"That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution."
-- Ezra Pound
(1885-1972) American poet
June 30, 1943
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Ezra.Pound.Quote.9EBA


"I spent three years getting my law degree at Yale Law School. From the moment
I enrolled, I was assigned huge, leather-bound editions of legal cases to study
and discuss. I read what lawyers and judges, professors and historians said
about the Constitution. But never once was I assigned the task of reading the
Constitution itself...Over the last decade, however, I have become a student of
the Constitution, searching each line for its meaning and intent. Studying the
Constitution is like studying the Bible. It is amazing how much more you will
learn when you quit studying about it and pick it up to read it for yourself."
-- Pat Robertson
Source: 'America's Dates With Destiny' (1986)
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Pat.Robertson.Quote.4FA3


"This Constitution...shall be the SUPREME LAW OF THE LAND;
and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby"
-- U.S. Constitution Article VI
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/U.S..Constitution.Article.VI.Quote.4FA9

Liberty Cannot be Inherited

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable
Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, ...
That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends,
it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it."
-- Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776
Source: written by Thomas Jefferson
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Declaration.of.Independence.Quote.517A


"Liberty cannot be caged into a charter or
handed on ready-made to the next generation.
Each generation must recreate liberty for its own times.
Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves."
-- Florence Ellinwood Allen
(1884-1966)
Source: This Constitution of Ours, 1940
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/Florence.Allen.Quote.8183


"Constitutions are made of paper;
Bayonets are made of steel."
-- French Aphorism
http://quotes.liberty-tree.ca/quote_blog/French.Aphorism.Quote.96EE