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From President Bush's FIRST inaugural Address http://www.atthewell.com/speech/ "After the Declaration of Independence was signed, Virginia statesman John Page wrote to Thomas Jefferson: "We know the Race is not to the swift nor the Battle to the Strong. Do you not think an Angel rides in the Whirlwind and directs this Storm?"

  I've never seen anything like it in American pop-culture. Joss Whedon just introduced a new character who's a bleached-blond United States Senator and who intends to become President in 2008. Her most trusted aid is a vampire, and she's a member of the Circle of the Black Thorn - the most evil assemblage of characters in the history of the greater Buffy-verse [kind of like a Justice League of America, only for evil, not good]. Talk about your full body slams... All I can say is: WOW!  

The Digital Angel Implant Beware of Geeks Bearing Gifts by John Vennari, editor of Catholic Family News On October 30, 2000, Applied Digital Solutions Inc., [ADS] successfully unveiled in New York a prototype of the Digital Angel; a microchip designed to be implanted under the skin, capable of tracking the location and vital signs of humans anywhere on the globe. During the invitation-only demonstration, the temperature of a man about 50 miles from Manhattan was monitored before a large crowd of analysts, journalists and potential investors. On June 8, 2001, ADS announced that it has begun its first production run...

Book details 2 encounters in near-death experiencesTwice President Reagan faced life-threatening experiences and twice he had encounters with angelic beings who comforted him and helped pull him through his medical crises, says a new book, "Hand of Providence: The Strong and Quiet Faith of Ronald Reagan," by Mary Beth Brown. As Reagan was fighting for his life after being shot by John Hinckley March 30, 1981, he was having trouble breathing. His skin had turned so pale, Nancy Reagan remembers, "He was the color of paper – just as white as a sheet, with dried blood around his mouth." Reagan...

Psalm 27:6 And now shall mine head be lifted up above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.It could be that his head wasn't screwed on quite right. It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were to tight. But I think that the most likely reason of all May have been that his heart was two sizes too small. - Dr. SeussAllow me to be a bit pastoral during the first part of this article. Some mundane data is needed to...

In a move that has completely blindsided producers and fans alike, the WB Network announced late Friday that it was cancelling its long-running Buffy the Vampire Slayer spinoff, Angel."Those bastards!" was the reaction from Loey Lockerby, film critic and operator of  Loey's Guide to Angel, an Angel review site. "I haven't trusted the WB Network since the debacle over 'Graduation Day Part 2.'"Many fans like Loey have already turned to the first wave in most cancellations these days, PetitionOnline.com.  An online petition has already gathered almost 5,000 signatures within hours of its creation.  Lockerby expects that number to rise quickly...

Colossians 2:8 Beware lest any man cheat you by philosophy and vain deceit: according to the tradition of men according to the elements of the world and not according to Christ. Annibale Bugnini.Up until the turbulent 1960s, Catholic Liturgy and the mass we celebrated had been the result of centuries of divine inspiration, historic experience, wisdom, refinement, debate and the school of hard knocks. Those who developed our worship service, canon law and collective ethos throughout these centuries  (politely putting aside Jesus Himself for a moment) were church elders, wise-men and saints who had managed to build the greatest and...

Marcelene June Cope-Golden On December 23, 2003 MARCELINE JUNE COPE-GOLDEN (nee Zimmerman), devoted mother of Rick Golden, Sheila Stauffer, Randy Golden and Donna Raye Golden; dear sister of Buddy, Mead and Oudley Zimmerman, JoAnn Smith and Doris Knopp. Also survived by eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Daughter of the late Henry Dayton Zimmerman and Josephine Carter Zimmerman. Funeral Services will be held at the family owned Duda-Ruck Funeral Home of Dundalk Inc., 7922 Wise Ave, on Monday at 1 p.m. Interment Sacred Heart of Jesus Cemetery. Friends may call Saturday and Sunday 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 p.m....

Preaching abundant living The Rev. Della Reese Lett teaches lessons of material success and personal empowerment in her own church. Della Reese, who played a down-to-earth heavenly being on "Touched by an Angel" isn't acting as she stands in front of a congregation on Sundays in West Hollywood. She's preaching — in her own church. And her message has no mention of sin, no mention of good and evil and no endorsement of sacrifice if it means doing without. She talks about abundant living, not in the hereafter but in the here and now.

CINCINNATI, Posted 6:33 p.m. EDT July 14, 2003 -- In the movie "The Sixth Sense," a young boy said he saw dead people. In Cincinnati, a boy said he could see angels. NewsChannel5 reported that the boy, Ryan Reynolds, died in April from a brain tumor. Before he died, he told his mother he had a great time at a family picnic because he was surrounded by his guardian angels. "My parents died way before he was ever born, and he said, 'Mommy, your mommy and daddy,'" said Shirley Reynolds, Ryan's mother. "I said, 'Yeah, what about them?' He said,...

Is 'Angel' getting a stake through the heart? By Todd Camp Star-Telegram Staff Writer WB Angel, which stars David Boreanaz, was easily one of the most cleverly written shows on television. The show's fate now rests with the network Powers That Be. WB David Boreanaz as Angel In writer Joss Whedon's slightly off-center Buffy the Vampire Slayer universe, where spunky high school girls stake vampires after cheerleading practice and the end of the world comes up more often than a new reality dating show, the uncertain fate of the WB's Angel seems almost appropriate.Spun off from the WB's Buffy in...

From the Washington Politics & Policy Desk Published 2/27/2003 7:25 PM HIGHLANDS, N.C., Feb. 27 (UPI) -- This here's the 339th Report ta the Folks Back Home from the (More er Less) Honorable Billybob, cyberCongressman from Western Carolina. The beginnin subjeck this week izza marble angel carved by the father ov Thomas Wolfe what inspired the title ov his towerin novel, Look Homeward, Angel. It has some application ta modern American politics. Since ma able assistant, John Armor, Esq., izza lit'rary eggspert onna premises, I'll turn this over ta him. Thomas Wolfe's AngelOn a trip to Raleigh, the North Carolina...

My reaction to Digital Angel when I first heard of it in January of 1999, was "This could very well be used as the Mark of the Beast". I still think that, but this article will sell many people on the "benefits" of this little gem waaaaay before it's ever used for the antichrist's little servant to make every person obeisant. While I'm all in favor of technology and advancements in science, we must remember the times we live in and be ever vigilant to keep our wits about us, "Redeeming the time, because the days are evil" Ephesians...

The Drama Complex The traditions of Greek tragedy as in Oedipus Rex are based upon the religious traditions of the Greeks - - the idea of destiny or a preordained fate subject to the whims of the gods. Socrates saw this fallacy in Plato’s Euthyphro, when he asked Euthyphro what was pleasing to the gods and how could someone be pious to the gods when they all wanted something different than the others. It made no sense to observe the divinity of one god and ignore the demands of another god. How could a person know what it was to...

And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels, And prevailed not; neither was their place found any more in heaven. And the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent, called the Devil, and Satan, which deceiveth the whole world: he was cast out into the earth, and his angels were cast out with him. And I heard a loud voice saying in heaven, Now is come salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of his Christ: for the accuser of our...

<p>Mark Judelson has been writing since his high school days in New Haven, when he once skipped classes for two weeks and justified it to his parents by announcing he was writing a book.</p> <p>His parents' first reaction was uncontrolled laughter, he says. He was a white student at a largely black inner-city school at the end of the 1960s. His hometown was experiencing race riots, and Black Panther Bobby Seale was on trial there. Judelson had a story to tell, and after two years of work and revision, his book about his experiences was published. Although he went on to study forestry, he's been putting words on paper ever since. After spending time in Africa, where storytelling is the medium of the masses, he's pursued that art form while working as executive director of the Arts Council of Rockland.</p>