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Alright, it's official now, the sharks have set up their own version of Animal Planet, entitled "People Planet". The shark following the kayaker is the shark world's equivalent of Steve Irwin, always running after and accosting unsuspecting People (animals in Irwin's case) and showing them off to the camera!

Okay, I've worked my giggles off now. This is probably the strangest shark article on FR in a while. A really big, predatory fish swimming along behind a man in a kayak, not doing anything other than watching him for all of fifteen minutes?

Mayhap it was just curious, probably had never seen anything like that before and wanted to find out exactly what it was. Good thing the other boat showed before the fishy stalker conducted a few physical tests.

Whoo-hoo! Another freeptoon out. I haven't posted much here on FR due to college and time constraints. But I have always enjoyed seeing your cartoons and showing them to my family. They got an especially big kick out of the Zawahiri 'toon.

Keep up the good work man, you've got a growing, loyal pack of fans here on FR

I agree, totally, they deny the Bible and they are corruptors.

I went to the Love Won Out conference in Houston last year and got some real good info on the ministries to the homosexual community Homosexuals are, at their base, very, very damaged people. We must fight their sin to keep them from destroying themselves and others. We want them to change, make no bones about it, but their sin is so deeply ingrained in them most of the time. I heard stories at that convention that were heartbreaking.

So yeah, it is hard. Thanks for being so understand with this young fire-eater. Maybe God is calling me to join the Vineyard's "River" program, but as a minister and not as one getting ministered to.
NE-way, you're right about praying for God to use it for good. God can do all things, even tame Leviathan, so we just need to put it God's hands.

The Armadillo of Doom

Hey, AMR, for what it's worth, I agree with you 110.5%

This guy is gay, but nowhere does he try to preach gayness from the movie, and, quite frankly, I have no love for sexually immoral or drunken people in Christian entertainment at all, but we are all sinners. You go to hell as much for an addiction for masturbation as an addiction to homosexuality. Sin is sin and sinners are sinners. In God's eyes, the only difference between myself and a homosexual or a murderer, is that I have turned to Him for salvation and am trying to change.

What do we do when unrepentant sinners poke their ugly heads up in Christian movies? Well, we go to the movie, take what we can from it, and teach ourselves and our children discernment. Let children know the proclivities of the actors in these flicks, but don't let them associate Nate Saint with this pervert, and don't let an unrepentant sinner's presence in a Christian movie keep you from seeing it; I saw it yesterday, and it was a powerful film, not for homosexuality, but for Christianity.

"Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends" John 15:13

"For whoever seeks to save his life shall lose it, but whoever loses it for my sake shall find it" Matthew 6:25

"...love your enemies, do good to those who hate you" Luke 6:27

This doesn't, as some freepers have worried, say that Christians can't punish people or fight evil when they must, but, as C.S. Lewis says in "Mere Christianity" "we must not hate or enjoy hating". Mere Christianity is an excellent companion to any Christian film or Bible study, as it shows a mature Christian's exposition of Scripture.

I am not trying to sound prideful, but I think that the son of the Morning is laughing at the Sons and Daughters of God who are trying to slime this movie.

If Lucifer can get us to disregard the message of "End of the Spear" and focus on the gayness of an actor, than he has won a battle that he feared he'd lose.

The man playing Nate Saint may put on a brave face to the world, but I have no doubt that he is screaming inside, weeping because he knows he is lie. I know what that is like from personal experience {I wasn't a homosexual, but I had another, equally filthy besetting sin}, I know what it's like to have nightmares of demons taunting you, of flames ripping up in front of shadowy faces, and of a constant niggling in my brain that tells me that I am inescapably d*mned, that not even Christ can save me.


My mindset at that time, and the mindset of many who have fallen into sexual sins probably mirriors a quote from the Mad at the World "That Lonesome Road":

"Free, I used to be so free/then I gave away my faith so willingly/Bound by those sins I used to hate/I feel for those lies from hell that tell me it's to late/and this'll be my fate. {Chorus: So I'm travelling down that lonesome road/my head is heavy and my soul so cold/and it feels like Satan's waiting there for me/he lives on the end of this one way street}"

Despite this I always played the role of the good Christian on the outside, until one time I punched a hole in a wall and broke down in front of my family.

Am I saying that this young actor's besetting perversion is alright? No, I am saying that homosexuality is a perversion from the black pits of hell,but that homosexuals are folk who need Christ's love, and that the people at Every Tribe showed one of them that love. He may never change,but he doesn't need to be told he is wrong at every turn; he probably knows that already in his heart and from what he's heard from the Christian community. But some people tried to reach him with compassion, and that's all they can really do, all any Christian can do. We are not the Holy Spirit.

That's my 2 cents at least. Forgive me if I have offended any fellow Christians in speaking my mind. I meant to share my view, not to offend or attack anyone.

oh, and 'Democrats doesn't need to...". Just caught that. Whoever wrote this article should be slammed with the almighty Mace of Proper Grammar and Vocabulary.
:)

Welcome to FR. Your article is very...interesting.

I just hope you don't get the big Z, what with this being your first post and all.

You seem to be a nice and fairly intelligent new freeper

Please tell me you're not a troll.

Mmmmhmmmm. Well, Robertson was being quite impolitic in saying what he said about Sharon. He is free to hold his own opinion, but it's not always wise to say everything you think or feel to be true (uh-oh, I'm not turning into Machiavelli here, am I?) Robertson, IMVHO, has done a lot of good for the Christian conservative community, but this recent spate of off-the-wall statements are making the Christian conservatives look really, really bad.

Perhaps he should be a bit more careful about his timing.

Well, I see another troll got da zot. Good stuff.

The trolls check in
The trolls get the big 'Z'
Trollies don't ever check out again.
So sad.

Man alive, that was a fightin' troll if I ever saw one.
But y'all handled him just peachy-like.

Meta-groups indeed

Meta-Zot is more like it

Whoa, those are "some pictures". Not to trivialize the horror and criminal activity or anything, but I can just hear heavy metal blaring in the backgrounds of those shots, or maybe some Orc-music from the Lord of the Rings soundtrack :)

Let's hope the French shut this down, but do it even-handedly. A "whiff of grapeshot" is what they've been doing in the Ivory Coast, and it ain't cuttin' mustard. A heavy-handed (classic French anti-colonial/anti-minority tactic) response will just make matters worse. Get the Mooselimbs off the streets, but for the love of God, don't go in with rifles blazing.

MMmmm, you are right on that count, Hos'. I don't support affirmative action, and, from your post, I would assume (makes an a$$ of you and me, I know, but it's all I can do), that you don't support it either.

That being said, having co-cultural-specific organizations to help minorities assimilate and deal with life in this new country, as well as representation of said minorities in gov't is not affirmative action.

It is justice.

Oh God

How can a grown man do this to a kid...just a flippin' kid.

I don't think he deserves to be shot on sight, I mean, God loves him as well and all, but yeeesssh!

Raping a student? Betraying the trust they had in you as their instructor? What kind of person is this...I hate to say man, but he/it is a male.

But...but France is so much more advanced than us vulgar colonials...right?

How can they be so cruel to the poor Mooselimbs

Okay, seriously, why doesn't this surprise me.

A country with a history of colonial rule over Algeria, like France, doesn't seem like it would really respect minority rights.

Hoookay, couldn't be bothered to read all the "USA is Evil Drug-Cartel Furthering Overlord" bulloney in your source.

Suffice it to say that I don't buy it and categorically deny it.

No other real comments except that the author is upset whenever a supposed "US-sponsored" government change occurs. He cannot attack the freedoms gained in them, so he goes and says that drug lords have been enabled by these changes.

Oh, and three or four final comments: You might be a troll-and if so:

all your Narco/Meth/Meta-Groups are belong to us

Have at you! IB4TZ!

Now, to paraphrase Tolkien's Tom Bombadil: Get out troll, vanish in the sunlight!

"If Bush is a man of his word, then he should let Rove go" Wait, since when did Bush promise to fire Rove?


I love the WaPo's,(synonymous with Whacko) throwing in the hoary old lie about Plame being 'outed' to punish Wilson for not agreeing with Brit Intel.

Which brings me to another point

How come everyone on the left's taking Wilson's word as better than Brit Intel?

Is Wilson the Moonbats' personal Karl Rove, an omniscient, evil genius?

Only time will tell.

Well, it looks like Howard Dean left out the fact that Alito burns minorities in effigy, putting life cats inside the dummies, that he kicks a puppy every 10 minutes, and that he is against 'saving the poor ickle whales'

"Basic reproductive rights?" WIHHN is up what that? I guess he means abortion, but I'd hardly call that a "basic reproductive right due to its retroactive effects on reproduction in the strictly medical sense.

In summary, Howard Dean should take off the village idiot ma...oh wait, it's not a mask.

Hey, great poem-puts the whole sit. in a nutshell.

I've been dealing with some lefties here on my college campus. One asked why we were still in there after so many soldiers had died

I felt like telling them to remember that 3,000 civilians died on 9-11-01, that the soldiers had signed up to do a job, that every death was tragic, but the men and women in our armed services know that there are risks to serving.

They weren't forced into the army, they made the choice to join, some of them wanting to see acutal combat after 9-11, and I honor them for that, as their sacrifice has brought freedom to the land of wood-chippers. I feel sorry for the families who have lost loved ones, but I will not, and can not condemn the war in Iraq. We should stay in until the job is done.

Ah, so Israel is taking it to 'em on the political front as well as the military front? Go Israelis!

Unfortunately Iran won't get kicked out of the UN. You were correct ex-Texan, in saying that :

"Iran is a totally corrupt terrorist state bent on causing the next world war"

But the problem is, if you will allow my paraphrasing and altering your insightful state, that the UN is a unimaginably corrupt terrorist-protecting institution bent on doing everything they can to bring ignore the (real) possibility of a Third World War. The President and country of Iran-amuck are going to get a slap on the wrist, if that, and nothing more


I kinda thought it was interesting that the Israelies are buying into the whole "Iraq as wrong target in WOT" line. Guess the media there isn't so different from ours after all---wait, it IS slightly more conservative.

Remember the Israeli raid on the Iraqi nuclear reactor? Well, us goin' into Iraq helped ensure that Saddam InsaneHussein-thePain didn't get another of those things. Ah well.

Mmmm, yeessss, Bush is attacking Plame and Wilson to draw attention away from the "Iraq Debacle". It seems to me that John Fleein' Kerry is trying a bit of projection. "Oh, look at me, I'm so special I'll attack Bush's record in the National Guard to get focus off those embarrassing Swift Vets for Truth and their mean media campaign." Not gonna fly really, Kerr-Bear.


Oh, and Bush failed to spell out a reasonable and detailed plan of action in Iraq?

Well, I think Kerry swigged a bit of the Chappaquidick-Chugger's coffee before coming up with that bit of brilliance. Didn't the clear plan of action involve ensuring that Al-Qaeda-"The Wall that must be torn down", didn't get WMD from Saddam or Zarqawi, getting the Iraqi's back on their feet and under a reasonably free government, and then going home.

Exactly what is missing in this detailed plan of action?

And why should Kerry care about the "families of the brave men and women serving in Iraq" when he slimed the memories of the brave men and women who served in Vietnam?

Sorry, this is a bit close to my heart.

Hmph, isn't this lovely. Now, of course the media is gonna have a field day with this if the bill passes. They're already having the prelude to that field day by implicitly linking those who support Proposition 2 with racist skinhead scum. Thanks, big media.

Hmph, isn't this lovely. Now, of course the media is gonna have a field day with this if the bill passes. They're already having the prelude to that field day by implicitly linking those who support Proposition 2 with racist skinhead scum. Thanks, big media.