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Barry, when you find you’ve dug yourself into a hole, STOP DIGGING!

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...and hand Biden the shovel.

Man, you think they would go to Walmart and spend the big bucks on the camo duct tape.

So what are we going to do with the Marine Corp Hymn(for those of you who listen to Obama its pronounced ‘core’).

The final stanza:
“Here's health to you and to our Corps
Which we are proud to serve
In many a strife we've fought for life
And never lost our nerve;
If the Army and the Navy
Ever look on Heaven's scenes;
They will find the streets are guarded
By United States Marines”

And I doubt anyone ever asks them to hold an umbrella up there.

No praying in foxholes.

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Sad, because our great military has seen the hand of the Lord upon so many times. So many of our heroes have been men of faith. Even those who don’t agree with their beliefs should at least respect them.

George Washington got on his knees in Valley Forge alone in prayer at what I believe was the true turning point of the Revolution.

George S. Patton was said to have prayed every morning. And at a critical point in the Battle of the Bulge he ordered his men to pray. http://www.generalpatton.com/prayer/index.html
I would love to hear his opinion on this matter, if he were around to give it. What a vital part of America we are losing!

What no mention of the word “Malaise”?

It's worth noting that this is what happens when the government is in charge of the statistics and either government or Universities employee most of the experts in the field. This leads to a mind set that government can and should do something to fix our problems, and a good economist should always have the answer (like Paul Krugman and the trillion dollar coin).

When this doesn't work the government simply redefines the definitions and the experts go along with it.

No one has given you authority to interpret scripture.;

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Maybe I'm misinterpreting it, but the Bible does.

The Beareans were praised for searching the scripture and not simply take even the Apostle Paul at face value.
Acts 17:10-11:”And the brethren immediately sent away Paul and Silas by night unto Berea: who coming thither went into the synagogue of the Jews. These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.”

The Bible states that the Bible is not to be left to any private interpretation, but used by believers.
I Peter 1: 19-20 “We have also a more sure word of prophecy; whereunto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts:Knowing this first, that no prophecy of the scripture is of any private interpretation.”

We are commanded to use the word in our daily lives to bring them into line with what pleases our Lord and Savior.

Psalm 119:9 “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word.”
This is a wonderful chapter on God's word in the Bible and no where in the chapter are we told that we need to have scripture interpreted for our consumption. Instead we can go directly to the One who is the bread of life.

Indeed God even calls us to him by saying in Isaiah 1:18 “Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.”

Jesus commanded us to keep his word, not any interpretation of His Word. John 14:23-24 “Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my words: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him. He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.”

....Home to home searches by the FBI/DEA/DHS/CIA/IRS.
UN Troops occupy all school zones.
Parents taken away by US Military to re-education camp in Mogadishu.
Schools buses quarantined.
New shows on TV imitating the children's parade.
News shows on TV decrying the abusive parents who participate in the children's parade.
Politicians promising to ‘fix the problem’ if you let them continue to live like a king.

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You forgot the counseling to those traumatized by seeing fake weapons.

Someone’s been praying:

Let them be caught in the plots which they have devised. Psalm 10:2

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And all of God's people said Amen. Psalm 2:4 “He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh: the Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them in his wrath, and vex them in his sore displeasure.”

The cavalry will ride to the rescue.

Please don't take me wrong, I'm not trying to douse anybody with a bucket of cold water. The verse I think is good, but its not actually God speaking at this point. In the context of the book this is from Eliphaz talking to Job and some of what Job's friends say doesn't match the rest of scripture.

That said the principle here is backed up in many other spots in scripture. The book of proverbs is replete with the idea. This is slightly different topic, but another good promise to encourage “The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them, because they refuse to do judgment.” Proverbs 21:7.

In before the Gorn comments.

Darn you beat me to it. Oh well here come the secondary jokes. Drum roll if you please.

1. It’s Bush’s fault!

2. The sequester.

2. Global Warming

3. They don’t have enough miles on their card.

4. Out of gas.

It's the same no judgement everybody and everything is equally good, no absolutes philosophy the liberals are steeped in.

After all we wouldn't want to hurt Dagastan’s self esteem.

Sounds like those Senators dialed the wrong number. That’s what happen when you have both Wayne LaPierre and Biden on your speed dial.

I hate the “we’re all immigrants” meme.
When the English sailed up the James River to establish Jamestown, I had forebears on the ships, and forebears in the woods watching them arrive.

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That’s probably true of more Americans than the left cares to consider. We have never been as racist and bigoted as they say.

They also like to push the idea that we were illegal immigrants. Much of New England and Pennsylvania was settled on land bought with the Indians consent.

Chalking up the sidewalk is bad parenting.

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Why?

If the parents can afford the chalk, they can afford the fine. They could pull
the carpet from their floor and let the kid draw there.
That would be acceptable.

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Now wait, wait just a minute here. Shouldn’t it be apparent that the girl had no intention of doing anything criminal, that is no malicious intent? It was drawn on public property, no one complained, and it wasn’t permanent. Now take those cuffs off and put that bullet away.
/Andy Griffith voice over.

This is clearly less important than baseball steroids issue our congresscritters spend so much time talking about.

Why would we assume Assad has chemical weapons? After all It is documented Saddam Hussein used such weapons on his people; yet Bush lied and people died. /sarc

Indeed, that should be interesting. Something to keep in mind is the difference between what John Maynard Keynes actually taught and what passes for Keynesian Economics as pushed by Krugman and company. The most controversial idea of the Keynesian school of thought is the idea of using government spending to boost the economy. In actual writings of Keynes you will find that he placed several qualifies on this to at least theoretically keep countries from spending themselves into oblivion. Krugman and their trillion dollar coin economics make no such qualifications.

However while both Friedman and Keynes agreed that a central bank is necessary. Reading Friedman one gets the impression that the central bank is a necessary evil, and not a true tool of economic policy as Keynes taught. In fact the implementing of the “Friedman Rule” would stop Bernanke from being able to attempt to use quantitative easing to affect the economy.

So while it can be argued that Friedman was a monetarists ( in that he believed that money supply should be controlled by a central bank); he was not a Keynesian in his philosophy of government intervention in the economy.

From the article: Sunday school tales of early Christians being rounded up at their secret catacomb meetings and thrown to the lions by evil Romans are mere fairy tales, Moss writes in a new book. In fact, in the first 250 years of Christianity, Romans mostly regarded the religion's practitioners as meddlesome members of a superstitious cult.

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The history of the church is filled with many accounts of persecution. I don't think any historian can be honest in calling the events portrayed in Foxe’s Book of Martyrs or the Martyrs Mirror fairy tales. Or if you want a research project look in into how the 12 apostles fared. Look at those killed by John Calvin in Geneva (just to show that this isn't only a Catholic Issue); or even how the Baptists fared in early New England colony. John Bunyan wrote Pilgrims progress from Prison...

The Bible promised in many places the church would be persecuted and so it has been and in many places in the world still is.

Utterly Reprehensible (that's disgraceful for those of you in Rio Linda).

To paraphrase our pResident: God Bless Texas!

Yep, they sure tolerated that teacher. /sarc

...appeared to have allowed their rights against unlawful search and seizure to not be suspended, but removed.

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When the only alternative is to go down in a blaze of glory yourself or let you rights be violated; I don't think that is a fair statement.

Everybody wants to quote Patrick Henry, but when it means that you gunned down by the ‘good guys’ it would become a different story very quickly.

So I’m going to have to have an ATF permit to buy coffee mate?

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Flour is also flammable, so is powdered sugar. Does any body think before they right “flammable powder;” we know they mean gun powder?

Maybe because the media made sure that’s not what most people took from the filibuster. -Gasp!

OMG! I can’t even handle this story flipping through the comments here on FR! How does any human being defend this?

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This is a tragedy, but I think the greater tragedy is what this shows about the human heart and I have found my self condemned first and foremost about this. The human heart is so hard that only a murder that is grotesque or horrific in the circumstances is worthy of our attention. The media will hush this up, because they know it would incense the public and many people would be outraged.

At the same time abortion clinics across this great land remain open and like the ovens in concentration camps of Nazi Germany the steady grind and churning of death continues. No notices these places, no outrage exists yet the end result of death is the same.

The government is not putting Gosnell on trial for murdering babies, they are putting him on trial for being an ineffective murderer of babies. We are trying him for botching the job in the darkness and silence of the womb and letting a life struggling to live emerge into the light of day and cry for help.

Oh that God would soften our hearts and open our ears to the cries he hears everyday of those children who were murdered with more care and cried out in the silence of their own mother's womb.

“However, if we take this path, it is always with our own baggage – because we’re all sinners and we always have some things that aren’t right. But the Lord forgives us if we ask for forgiveness,” he said.

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I'm no Catholic, but to give credit when credit is due. -Amen.

Common symptoms of poisoning include abdominal pain, convulsions, nausea. Higher doses of the drug can lead to severe liver injury and in some cases, death.

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What if you get existential dread thinking about taking the stuff.

Yep. It must be them Amish again...

Let see.... they can’t blame

1. Saddam he’s dead
2. Osama he’s dead
3. Gaddafi he’s dead
4. Chavez he’s dead

Wonder who will get blamed first.

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Have you learned nothing in 4 + years of the blame game? It's Bush's fault.

I like to know what the enemy thinks. I will either make it possible to compromise, or ease the conscience when you determine that you need to do all in your power to oppose him and his beliefs.

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True; however, as you noted earlier we would be assuming in this case that the children have the necessary teaching to get that far. In our day and age of relativistic morals it would not be fair to assume that the Nazi's have been labeled as the enemy, nor have I seen anything in the article to indicate that these children are doing this assignment to better understand why not to think exactly what they are being asked to write. The danger is the proper ground work for the assignment hasn't been laid based on the evidence seen in the article.

What we need is to teach children to be able to understand both sides of an argument and still take a stand. Just because I can understand why someone would seek an abortion doesn't change the ethics of the matter. On the same note I think Bible believing Christians should read or at least be familiar with the arguments of Spencer, Darwin, Dawkins ect.

Everything would have bacon in it if I was running that place. Laundry soap, pancake syrup, every freakin thing would have ham or bacon in it.

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Lard is Allah's gift to the great Satan.

The assignment was for the student to imagine themselves as Nazis and write why they think Jews are evil. This is valid creative writing exercise for a history or “social studies” class. Only problem I can see is that she probably has not taught the inter-war period to the students well enough for the assignment; Germany went through a civil war against the communists after WWI.

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What good can come from having students imagine they are Nazi's and try to wrap their mind around their sick twisted thinking. I'm not venturing any conspiracy theories, but they are plenty of politicians today who wouldn't mind their constituents mastering this assignment a little too well. How does this kind of creative writing teach the students anything that helps them succeed in society? Would you like wager on weather the same children are ever assigned a creative writing assignment pretending they are colonial Americans in 1775?

On a more personal level, this kind of thinking is not healthy for young skulls full of mush. Remember Columbine, they got a little to caught up in what the Nazi's believed.

Should we just add “pretend you're a modern progressive democrat” to all of the other assignments kids receive pushing a liberal agenda?

It seems that they are implementing more of the evil that the progressives like to tell us are the flaws of the capitalist system. This is a good example of the capitalist system being cheaper and providing people with far more than the collective system.

Paging Ayn Rand...

Just one of the Democrats’ high priests offering human sacrifice to their demonic deity via their sacred rite of abortion.

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But it is so much more modern and scientific than it was thousands of years ago. /sarc
“And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire,...” 2 Kings 17:17 Only the human heart hasn't changed, neither has Molek; he just doesn't mind not being named nowadays.

My prayer is that this will help people realize the obvious question. Few normal people are not repulsed by the atrocities that Gosnell committed; but we need them to ask: when does it become murder and why? I think the only logical answer to that question is will lead you back to conception.

Is is murder because it happened in a dirty office at the hands of a malevolent man? Are those the deciding criteria?

Is it murder because the baby had managed to survive as it passed the few inches of the birth canal; are those inches what made it murder? Because some of the victims even lived long enough to scream (chronicled in various other threads)?

Would it be ethical if only all of the slicing and dicing and screaming, had been done unseen and unheard in the mothers womb?

The answers are obvious its wrong because it's a baby. Let's hope that like the French, who finally realized that the people being guillotined were not names, not simply a class, but real people and many innocent; our country too may awake.

I'm pretty sure some Indian chiefs argued might hard that it was, but no not there last time I checked.

As in thou shalt not terminate?

Married men live longer than single men, but married men WANT to die.

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Married men don’t live longer it only seems longer.

It is becoming clear that if Rove is an 'evil genuis mastermind' like the democrats used to claim; he is not on our side.

If the baby is on the table struggling to live it is very hard to argue that it is not a ‘viable life’. If it takes extra effort to kill outside of the womb it sounds viable to me. Amazing that the part of the woman’s body that mass of fetal tissue has its own life in this case.

something that doesn’t stand a snowballs chance of becoming law

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I still remember hearing that about health care years ago. I hope you are right.

I forgot to duct tape my head years ago and it blew up...

Yep. Or the old British musket bayonets that were triangular with three sharp edges instead of two. It's darn hard to stitch up a triangular hole...

There is no question that knives are arms covered by the Second Amendment.

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Well that depends. You see the founders clearly meant knives as well, but what would they think of modern assault knives. Maybe they didn't mean that coverage to include modern stainless steel knives, especially if they have camouflage handles. These knives are a far cry scarier than their revolution era counterparts./sarc

They can become politicians. Make a bad situation worse.

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or TSA agents...

But at least we wil have our pocket knives to fight back with...

If Peter was the first Pope was Paul the first Protestant?

Galatians 2:11-14 " But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?

I Timothy 2:5 "For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus;"

Matthew 18:20 "For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." There are a great many churches that gather in the name of Christ and not Peter or the Pope, teach the Bible, ect. What of them?

Bears can cross borders — they come from surrounding countries.

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These bears are know as ‘undocumented wildlife’...

Yep, making me get yet another government ID will stop illegal aliens and taking my guns will keep them out of the hands of criminals. /sarc