Thursday, November 13, 2008
The Great American God-Out
San Francisco is already renowned as a godless city, but atheists in the Bay Area want to emphasize their intolerance for anything religious by holding a "Great American God-Out" day this November 15th.
According to the web site, the Great American God-Out is "a newly demarcated holiday wherein, like 'The Great American Smokeout', individuals are encouraged to combine their supportive efforts to help prevent and cure disease. Even if just for one day-- people will live as as if there is no god; people will live as if there only exists the goodness of self and others to sustain healthy living!"
This is just the latest example of that religious intolerance is growing at an alarming rate. Churches and people of faith have been targeted in particular for their support of Proposition 8. In the election aftermath, many churches have experienced protests and even vandalism by homosexual activists. The Great American God-Out is nothing more than an attempt to belittle and ridicule people of faith
More persecution is coming, as followers of Christ let us maintain our devotion to God's Truth, stand firm in our convictions and pursuit of being in His presence 24/7/365, in other words be "ALL-IN"
Friday, November 7, 2008
Thursday, November 6, 2008
More from Oz
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
We're off to see the Wizard!
My dear friend Chan sums up last nights election results nicely:
Whom did the country just elect?
After journeying along the Yellow Brick Road during this election cycle, our country, with its diverse band of Dorothy, Toto, Scarecrow, Tin Man, Cowardly Lion, Good Witch, Wicked Witch, Munchkins, and Flying Monkeys, finally reached the Emerald City last night. On January 20, we'll pull back the curtain on the great and terrible Oz and discover his true nature.
~Chan
Monday, November 3, 2008
The time has come
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Barack Obama - Words, Words, Just Words
Monday, October 27, 2008
Friday, October 24, 2008
In their Own Words
Thursday, October 23, 2008
"Joe the Plumber"
Just by coincidence — and I know Chris Matthews and Katie Couric will never believe it was simply a coincidence — Joe met Barack Obama as Obama passed through his Ohio neighborhood. When Joe challenged Obama with a tough question — something the press has not done during the past two years — the Anointed One wilted. How dare Joe want to make and keep his own money? The nerve of this man to want to be a success in a small business! As Obama put it, shouldn't Joe want to help him "spread the wealth around?"
With that one remark, Obama's No. 1 Lie, his disguise as a moderate crumbled.
Lie No. 2: I will tax just the rich!
There is no such thing as a tax on just the rich. Taxes on wealthy people affect everyone. Remember, Obama defines anyone making over $90,000 a year as "rich." Joe the plumber discovered that Obama thinks Joe's rich too. Under Obama, he won't be able to hire new employees and grow his business. Joe's not alone. Obama says he'll strip away the FICA cap at $90,000 for every worker.
That means every dollar you earn over that amount, you'll pay 7 percent!
Welcome to Club Obama
Obama has often said that Ayers was "just a guy in your neighborhood", but The Wall Street Journal tells us that Obama and William Ayers worked as a team on a $100 million radical education project. And they must be right, because when Obama decided to run for the Senate, he announced his candidacy at home of William Ayers!
Obama also collaborated with Bernadette Dorhn, a woman who was responsible for the death of two police officers and two armored truck guards. How can we trust Senator Obama to be President of the United States? His judgment should be called into question by EVERY American. Just this year Obama said, Americans, "when they get bitter, cling to guns or religion..."
Is that how you want to be perceived by YOUR President?
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
Words and Motorcycles
Lets say that relationships are like vehicles. Different types of vehicles would in this analogy represent relationship types. The heterosexual relationship (know for centuries as marriage) would, in this analogy, be the standard average passenger vehicle, for this discussion, “the Car”. The homosexual relationship (also around for centuries, albeit not in “as great of numbers’) could be represented as perhaps by the relatively infrequently seen, Motorcycle.
No offense to those motorcycle enthusiasts who may be reading this, allow me a little license here please.
How would California (society) respond if four California Supreme Court judges suddenly decided that motorcycles should now be referred to as “Cars”? More to the point, how would the voting public respond following this silly decision by the court, to a proposition to forever change references to these types of vehicles, back to the original term “motorcycles”?
My point is simply this:
Clearly there are differences in the two types of vehicles (relationships). Referring to them by using the same word does not change this. It only adds confusion. It makes the word “marriage” rather arbitrary, requiring further definition in order for the listener or reader to fully comprehend what is being discussed. This runs contrary to the natural development of language. Language grows to be more and more descriptive with time. New words are added to the languages of the world, each and every year. Changing a perfectly well excepted and defined words meaning is fraught with problems.
Using the same word for two diametrically opposed types of vehicles, clothing, or other consumer products would be marketing suicide. Consider buying a regular cola and later discovering it was really a diet lemon-lime drink, or a sack of flour only to later discover at home that you had purchased powdered milk.
We currently have perfectly good words and binding legal contracts available for same-sex couples to use to both celebrate and secure their relationships. We do not need to change our dictionaries for same-sex couples to achieve “equal rights”. The family code of the State of California has more than adequate provisions, made on their behalf. To obtain proof of this, do your own research at the following link:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/waisgate?WAISdocID=7059521563+0+0+0&WAISaction=retrieve
Unfortunately, what we do have to do, thanks to the liberal, activist leanings of the California Supreme court, is change our Constitution to include those 14 little words that are causing the homosexual community such distress:
“Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California”
Friday, October 17, 2008
Better Dead Than Red
The current financial crisis has created a climate of fear and uncertainty and unleashed an unprecedented tolerance for large-scale government intervention, which is playing perfectly into Obama's hands. People are blaming this largely Democratic-spawned mess on Republicans because Bush is still at the helm.
I do not mean to be an alarmist, but I'm worried for the first time in my life that the election of a presidential candidate could lead to a fundamental change in our system of government. It is scary, just listening to the comments of post-debate focus group members expressing a knowing willingness to accept Obama's socialism.
Already some 38 percent of Americans do not pay income taxes, and Barack Obama wants to increase that percentage dramatically. In this class warfare the upper-middle class and wealthy are demonized as not earning an honest living. Do you suppose it has registered with Obama voters that Obama is deliberately turning the American dream on its head? Can they hear that his message to the middle class is:
a) it is immoral to have more than others,
b) the government will take your wealth away from you and give it to others,
c) why bother to bust your rear end to make more when you can vote yourselves money from the public trough?
Obama let slip his socialist proclivities to “Joe the plumber” when he denied he wanted to punish wealth and insisted he just wanted to spread the wealth around. Joe was justifiably repulsed by Obama's cavalier attitude toward the American dream. Afterall, even “Joe the plumber” knows the stated purpose of the income tax system was to fund government services, not to redistribute wealth.
It's one thing to say that higher income earners should pay a higher percentage for government services. But Obama makes no pretense of stopping there. He told Joe that he wants to use the tax code to confiscate money from higher income earners and give it to others.
When Obama says he will cut income taxes for 95 percent of Americans, he is playing games with the truth. If 38 percent are already not paying, his tax credits to them amount to transfer payments from higher income earners, which are actually spending increases, not tax cuts, as The Wall Street Journal editors have noted.
Liberals, such as Obama, might deny human nature, but they can't change it. And human nature happens to dictate that people will not produce as much when you confiscate more of what they produce and give it to others. The working wealthy, especially Christians and conservatives, are some of the most generous people in the world, but we're talking about voluntary charitable contributions, not unconstitutionally coerced redistributions.
How many times must history repeat itself before we learn that socialism and communism cannot work. Liberals love to mock the trickledown theory, but they simply cannot refute the alarming truth:
Monday, October 13, 2008
Monday, October 6, 2008
Show Me the Money
An online review of contributions for Protect Marriage’s Yes on 8 reveals that nearly half of the money is coming from gifts of $1,000 or less and 95 percent of individual donations are coming from within the state. Contributions to the No on 8 campaign show, however, that nearly two-thirds of the donations are for more than $1,000. In addition, more than a dozen gay and lesbian rights organizations have combined to pump in several million dollars to try to defeat the measure.
“It illustrates this is a classic battle between a vocal minority and a broad majority of Californians over traditional marriage,” said Andy Pugno, legal council for the Yes on 8 campaign.
For more details follow this link:
http://www.christianexaminer.com/Articles/Articles%20Oct08/Art_Oct08_12.html
Friday, October 3, 2008
Theft...A New Political Strategy?
Throughout this campaign those opposed to Proposition 8 have shown that they are willing to go to any length to secure their so-called “Civil Right” for same sex couples to marry. Jerry Brown, in an attempt to bias voters, re-titled the proposition from "limits marriage between one man and one woman" to "a constitutional change to eliminate the right of same sex couples to marry". No doubt Jerry Brown has more than one agenda here, as our state Attorney General he is well aware that the rights that are being fought for in this battle are already granted to same sex couples under current laws.
Also are you aware that “Brides” and "Grooms" are no longer allowed to marry in the State of California, that privilege is only extended to individuals who allow themselves to be called “Party A” and “Party B” on marriage licenses. According to Pacific Justice Institute, a young couple's marriage license was denied by the Placer County Clerk/Recorder because it failed to comply with California State registration laws. Their offense? Writing "bride and groom" next to the license's "Party A and Party B." Writing the gender-specific terms was an "unacceptable alteration" to the new ambiguous marriage licenses. One wonders, what's next? Will the State of California force ministers to use the terms "Party A" and "Party B" in the ceremony itself?
Man-woman marriage is the only natural way to build families, which in turn builds a society. In the United States, same-sex couples are free to live as they choose. It is dangerous, however, to treat marriage as a "social construct" that is changeable. Husband-wife unions are the basic source of society. Because society is not the source of marriage's definition, it cannot change the accurate description of marriage by its own will. Voters should hear alarm bells ringing when radical judges act as they did this year to “redefine words”, especially words that do not find their definition in the courts.
To correct this injustice Proposition 8 adds 14 words to the constitution of California:
“Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid and recognized in California.”
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
40 Days Left - Let's Finish Strong!
I attended another simulcast conference this morning focused upon updates to the Proposition 8 strategies around the state. Todays meeting also marked forty days of prayer left until November 4th. It was really good for me personally to be present there this morning.
I have struggled lately with the realization that my own deep felt interest in the issue of protecting the definition of marriage is not as passionately felt by many people that I come in contact with, even many that are very near and dear to me. I have even felt that my own church is hesitant to get too involved with the issue. These realizations cause me to take stock of where I find myself. Am I out of touch here? Am I making too much of this perceived threat?
This mornings meeting was a great reminder of the following truths:
God designed marriage to be one man and one women
Churches need to be informed and careful as to how they respond politically
Whether apparent or not, there really is a lot of support for Proposition 8 out there.
Voter polling regarding this issue has traditionally been off by 7-8% to the negative
(Meaning public opinion is in favor of the measure 7-8% more than reported)
Previously the State of California ballot boxes showed a 62% support for similar measures, like proposition 22, back in 2006 (75% in the county where I live)
Satan wants me to become discouraged and feel unsupported in my efforts.
At this mornings meeting, Lou Engle of The Call Ministry painted a very convincing argument that we are living in a period of State sanctioned and legalized sexual immorality very similar to that, which existed under King Ahab and his wife Queen Jezebel. The Bible lists Ahab as the most evil of all the kings before him (1 Kings 16:30). He did not make wise choices:
A Little History:
Ahab was the seventh King of Israel. He reigned for 22 years (871-852 BC). He was the son of Omri. He married Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, the king of the Sidonians. Ahab, under Jezebel's influence, built a pagan temple, and allowed idols into Samaria. Elijah the prophet warned Ahab that the country would suffer from drought if the cult of Baal was not removed from the land of Israel. Baal worship was accompanied with sinful sexual acts; behaviour expressly forbidden in Jehovah's law.After three years of drought, Elijah challenged Ahab and his pagan priests on Mount Carmel. God sent down fire to ignite a sacrifice, but the priests of Baal could not summon Baal to do the same. Then the people realized that God was the only true God. (1 Kings 18:18-39). Then, rains came and ended the drought.
Elijah denounced Ahab as a murderer because of the stoning of Naboth, which Jezebel, had instigated. Elijah told Ahab that dogs would lick his blood outside of the city, just as they had licked the blood of Naboth. He also told Ahab that none of his male heirs would survive and that Queen Jezebel would be torn apart by the dogs of Jezreel (1 Kings 21:17-24).
It is not hard to see Lou Engle’s point, as beacons of Light in this dark world, we Christians have a right and, ...dare I say an obligation to protect the future of this country from those that wish to sanction immorality as a social norm.
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Queerly Beloved
According to Pacific Justice Institute, a young couple's marriage license was denied by the Placer County Clerk/Recorder because it failed to comply with California State registration laws. Their offense? Writing "bride and groom" next to the license's "Party A and Party B." Writing the gender-specific terms was an "unacceptable alteration" to the new ambiguous marriage licenses.
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Obama & Biden... A Bridge to Nowhere?
The Barack Obama’s “Blueprint for Change” is a 59-page document detailing Obama’s game plan to build our government into a Goliath sized welfare wagon and will replace economic incentive with legislated handcuffs. When states try these sorts of maneuvers, businesses leave them for warmer climates. Such practices on a federal level could only further stifle the U.S. economy and pound a wooden stake in the heart of the country. The only jobs that government can create are government jobs and our government is large enough now. We desperately need to provide American Businesses with all the incentives we can so that we can stimulate businesses to create more jobs and restore the economy.
The ideas Senator Obama puts forth in this liberal manifesto sound encouraging, generous, magnanimous and enabling, kind of like the mythical “free lunch”, but these ideas are dangerous and ill conceived. This so called “Blueprint” has NOT had the benefit of the plan check process. Almost every “supposed solution” that Obama promotes has a huge price tag associated with its realistic establishment. The document outlines the creation of countless new government agencies and subsidies. Translation: Bigger government and more taxes. Also included is the extensive use of the Internet to operate the business of the United States government. No doubt he’ll be getting most of his assistance from Al Gore with this part of the plan, unless Al is too busy saving the planet.
In all fairness, new ideas are needed to improve the mess that we are in. Real reform is required in numerous departments in Washington, but larger government and more taxes would move us in the wrong direction. When families struggle with managing their finances, they too often think that more money is the solution to the problem. But the problem is management, not money. Statistics prove that more money just makes for a larger problem. The same is true with government. Additionally, Obama’s blueprint for change has Grand titles and notions but little substance. Even Hillary Clinton during the primaries pointed out that there are very few specifics outlined in the document.
So, how do we obtain REAL REFORM?
We elect people who are real reformers. People with a proven track record, with the ability to take on the old school, wasteful crowd of politicians, no matter the party and put the needs of the people first. Senator McCain & Governor Palin are such people and have reformers records to prove it. Obama is a two-year-old U.S. Senator with the most liberal spending record in the senate. His running mate is a dyed in the wool liberal, a plagiarizing 30 year old senator with the 2nd highest spending record in the senate. Neither has spent any time reaching across the aisle to create a unified bipartisan coalition of reform. Their plans for America are poorly planned and un-supported, much like a “Bridge to Nowhere”.
We don’t need “bridges to nowhere” or “blueprints that can’t pass plan check”
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Profile in Courage
Well, the media has lost little time in attempting to find fault with her. Revelations regarding her seventeen-year-old daughters pregnancy are being used to try and make her appear as a hypocrite. There is an argument being made that, if it is revealed that your family has flaws in areas you espouse to be core values, then you must just be spinning the truth and your stated beliefs are just fluff, packaged for general distribution to the voters to win you a spot on the American stage.
But when it comes to your core values and your moral compass, it is not your circumstances that prove your sincerity, but your actions when under the pressure of dealing with those circumstances. People are imperfect. Bad stuff happens, even with the best of intentions. It is the reason why we are all in need of a Savior. It is times like these when the moral compass is needed most to stand firm and do the right thing. Governor Palin would prefer no doubt to not have the issue of her daughters pregnancy be plaguing her campaign right now – the highlight of her career in politics. But the facts are the facts and she has rightly and appropriately addressed the issue by loving and supporting her daughter and embracing this new life, because that is a true expression of her core values.
Bravery does not imply the absence of fear, but the ability to rise above the crippling power of fear and not be controlled by it. The courageous person, especially one with intellectual courage, must learn to endure suffering and hardship in the interests of the truth and to continue attacking harmful falsehoods even when it is risky and painful. For the Christian courage comes from a deep confident understanding in God’s providential care of His children.
Both Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin are Brave leaders of America; reminding us that Core Christian values do matter and have a place in the voting booth
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Obama's Inexperience - Exposed
"Well, my understanding is that Governor Palin's town of Wasilla has, I think, 50 employees. We've got 2,500 in this campaign. I think their budget is maybe $12 million a year. You know, we have a budget of about three times that just for the month. So I think that our ability to manage large systems and to execute I think has been made clear over the last couple of years," Obama said.
Second, Obama tries to compare his operation to Gov. Palin's by using budget and personnel numbers when she was MAYOR. The Obama campaign seems to forget that she is governor of Alaska. As McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds notes, "It is a testament to Barack Obama's inexperience and failing qualifications that he would stoop to passing off his candidacy as comparable to Governor Sarah Palin's executive experience managing a budget of over $10 billion and more than 24,000 employees."
Friday, August 29, 2008
"I am honored to announce that I have chosen Governor Sarah Palin of Alaska as my choice for the Republican nominee for Vice President. As a father with three daughters, I can't express how proud I am to choose the first female Republican Vice-Presidential nominee. Sarah Palin is a trailblazer and a reformer. As the first female governor of Alaska, she challenged a corrupt system and has been a tireless advocate for reform - passing a landmark bill on ethics reform. She has taken on the old politics in Alaska and reformed the state's energy industry. She rejects wasteful pork barrel spending. She's fearless - exactly the type of leader I want at my side and the type of leadership we will bring to Washington."
McCain has brilliantly also captured the press today. The pomp and pageantry of last nights close of the Democratic convention is buried by not only this announcement of the McCain-Palin ticket but also by Hurricane Gustav. Now that he has picked a strong partner and has the full attention of the media, for once, he needs to do the following:
Shatter the image the Democrat's painted that
Let America know how much Obamas Changes would cost
Point out Obamas weakness in foreign policy.
All in all today was a great day in the trenches
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Hail Ceasar!
Tonight, Senator Obama will accept the Democratic Parties nomination for president
“We're trying to do something new," said a senior Obama campaign aide, noting that Obama is taking a page from the campaign book of John Kennedy, who in 1960 delivered his acceptance speech to 80,000 people in the Los Angeles Coliseum.
Allen, the stage supervisor for Spears and several other rock stars, says he designed the set more to evoke images of the White House and the Lincoln Memorial, not the Acropolis. "We've done Britney's sets and a whole bunch of rock shows,” Allen said, “but this was far more elaborate and complicated and we had to do it in far less time."
Once Obama speaks, confetti will rain down on him and fireworks will be fired off from locations around the stadium wall, according to an Associated Press report.
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Obama - Biden ...or Osama Bin Laden?
On Monday, while Democrats delivered vague speeches from a stage set that rivaled a rock concert, those outside the convention hall were left asking:
Who is the real Barack Obama?
An ad at www.americanissuesproject.org provides part of the answer:
The ad explores Obama's ties to William Ayers, whom the New York Sun describes as a "founding member of the group that bombed the U.S. Capitol and the Pentagon during the 1970s." If you plan to vote in November, you need to see this ad.
In 2001, Ayers Did Not Express Regret For His Past Conduct And Even Claimed The Weather Underground "Didn't Do Enough" Bombings. "Mr. Ayers wrote a memoir, 'Fugitive Days,' published in 2001, and on the day of the September 11 terrorist attacks, he was quoted by the New York Times as saying: 'I don't regret setting bombs. I feel we didn't do enough.'" (Russell Berman, "Obama's Ties To Left Come Under Scrutiny," The New York Sun, 2/19/08)
"Obama's relationship with Ayers is an especially vivid milepost on his rise, in record time, from a local official who unabashedly reflected a very liberal district to the leader of national movement based largely on the claim that he can transcend ideological divides." (Ben Smith, "Obama Once Visited 60s Radicals," Politico, 2/22/08)
The fact that Barack Obama chose to launch his political career at the home of an unrepentant terrorist reflects not only a lack of judgment, but also real questions about his views. Obama's response to the ad? A full-throated defense of his long association with a man who says he didn't bomb enough U.S. targets. That tells us more about Barack Obama than any of the speeches we saw Monday night ever could.
Obama - Biden or is it Osama Bin Laden?....I am confused, who is running again?