Hugh Hewitt this day brought to America's attention that the L. A. Times is in it's death throes. Of 30,000,000 possible customers they have a measly 775,000 and that number is falling. He has spoken on this before. The numbers change on occasion with the LAT numbers plummeting each time and the customer base rising...

Saturday - November 11, 2006 - Tim Rutten: wrote in Regarding Media

A tough place for The Times

This week, the paper's new publisher, David D. Hiller, asked Editor Dean Baquet to resign because they were unable to agree on The Times' future direction and on the Tribune Co.'s demands that costs be cut by further reducing the staff.
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Earlier this week, Hiller sent The Times' staff a thoughtful appraisal of the paper's situation and of the steps that need to be taken to ensure that it go on fulfilling its responsibilities to its readers and meeting its financial obligations to Tribune's stockholders. The key initiatives he identified centered on reinvigorating local and regional coverage, reaching out to Latino readers, young people and young families.

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Rutten goes off into la-la land (No relation to all of L.A.. just portions of it.) in his article and the majority of it is nonsense but what Hugh Hewitt said on his radio show made sense. The a good portion of that 775,000 number the LAT claims is not real readers.

I can say personally that one of those Sunday issues goes to my brother-in-law's house. His wife is Korean by birth,  American by naturalization and had signed up for a Korean newspaper. With it and unknown to her came a complimentary copy of the Sunday L.A. Times. - She does not bother with it. She seldom reads much of the Korean paper.

My Bro-in-law is legally blind.

I called the LAT up and cancelled the "FREE" issue. They have not as of this time accepted my cancellation.

Every Sunday I pick the paper up from their driveway and throw it in the trunk of my car with the idea that I can pull out the comics and share them at work.

Once a month I pull the papers out of the trunk and set them just inside of my garage with the idea that I will pull out the comics and share them at work.

The pile is getting higher.

One of these days I will put the papers in my blue recycling bin unopened and unread. Comics included.

The LAT circulation is really 774,999...

In this posting, I write a remembrance from the 80's.

A mile from our church is a park that had become a hangout for "Urban Campers". Some might call them homeless. A few people from our church decided to do something for these poor folks so one Saturday they dragged a couple bar-b-ques down there and set up a huge picnic for them.

Huge success.

These folks were so grateful for the delicious meal and were very friendly and quite a few were receptive to the Word of God that these good Christians were sharing with them. All were invited to the church the following day.

The following day (Sunday) none of them made it the mile away to the church service perhaps because they didn't know where the church was or felt they would be out of place amongst all them 'fine church folks'.

The following Saturday with each meal served assurances were given they would be welcome to come to the church service the following day. Perhaps connections could be made for jobs etc...

None showed up.

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However, during the following week quite a few people come by asking for help. They really needed/wanted money but seemed satisfied to take a bag of groceries each. The next week even more came for 'help'.

I believe it was a Wdnesday that one man came by as Mitch, our church custodian, was finishing up some gardening. He was approached by this man who asked if there was somthing that the church could do for his predicament.

Homeless and hungry...

Mitch said the man would have to wait a bit while he finished what he was doing. As Mitch coiled hoses and put away the gardening equipment the man sat and patiently waited. He was so patient he did not feel the need to hurry Mitch up in his work by lending a hand. He just patiently waited for Mitch to finish.

After the gardening tools were put away Mitch led the man to a paint shed and explained that the church would be happy to give him food and some pay if he would help with just a bit of painting.

The man got irate and after a few choice words that sailors use normally outside of earshot of ladies he left without getting a bag of groceries.

The word must have spread pretty quickly because the beautiful people requesting help from out little church thinned out to nothing in two days time. None would lift their hand to paint or garden. None showed up for the next Sunday service either...
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This was written in response to a blogpost by Norm Weatherby.
 - - -  I am not against charity and I'm pretty sure Norm is not either. What I am against is enabling people asking for handouts so they don't have to work. I could write more on this but I think this posting along with that of Quantum Thought's is 'nuff said'...

Please take a minute to visit and read Norm's story through the link above...

Paul - prying1
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At - A Day In The
Life Of....... - by Charlotte (An Army mom) posted this jewel she got from a BB she
frequents. I recommend visiting Charlotte, an Army Mom, and let her
know you appreciate her and her's by leaving a comment.

DEAR SENATOR KERRY:



WE ARE STILL LAUGHING OVER HERE IN IRAQ AT YOUR JOKE ABOUT THE TROOPS
BEING DUMB. WE DO RECOGNIZE THAT YOU ARE A LOT SMARTER THAN WE ARE
BECAUSE YOU WERE ABLE TO GET OUT OF COMBAT IN THREE MONTHS. THIS IS WHY
WE ARE SEEKING YOUR ADVICE. PLEASE GIVE US GUIDANCE.



1.) WHERE IS THE LEAST PAINFUL AREA ON THE BODY TO INFLICT A WOUND?

2.) DOES IT HAVE TO BLEED OR WILL A SCRATCH DO?

3.) WHERE DO YOU GET THE FORMS TO FILL OUT RECOMMENDING YOURSELF FOR A PURPLE HEART?

4.) DO YOU NEED A WITNESS? IF SO, HOW MUCH DOES THAT COST?

5.) ARE THREE PURPLE HEARTS STILL GOOD FOR A TRIP HOME?

6.) WHAT IS A REALISTIC PERIOD OF TIME IN WHICH TO ACQUIRE THESE
WOUNDS? LESS THAN THREE MONTHS SOUNDS A LITTLE SUSPICIOUS EVEN TO US.



THANKS FOR YOUR HELP AND KEEP THE JOKES COMING.



JUST A DUMB G.I.

prying1 sez: Keep the jokes coming folks. Most libs won't get 'em so it'll keep 'em confused until the next election cycle.



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The following statement was made at a rally for Phil Angelides who is running for governor of California. California voters should keep in mind the type of characters Angelides hangs out with.

- quote - "Education -- if you make the most of it and you study hard and you do your homework, and you make an effort to be smart, you can do well. If you don't, you get stuck in Iraq." - John Kerry (D-MA) 30 Oct 06 - end quote -

John Kerry could have simply said he mis-spoke during an off the cuff speech. That he meant to add, "Like our President" or some such line somewhere in the sentence. That would have pretty much ended the kerfuffle. Instead he goes on the attack at the same time playing the victim card. His only claim to fame is the ability to do both at the same time...

- Quote - "This is a textbook Republican campaign strategy: Try to change the topic; try to make someone else the issue; try to make something else said the issue, not the policy, not their responsibility," Kerry said. "Well, everybody knows it's not working this time, and I'm not going to stand around and let it work." - end quote -

prying1 sez: Change the topic??? All that is being done is quoting what you said!

Attention John Kerry.

Republicans have had enough with Democrats pointing their fingers in our faces and accusing us of being in the wrong... The only people that work their brains real hard to fall for that crap are Democrats who run around pretending stains on blue dresses are caused by not having sex. The same 'real smart' people that don't know what "IS" is. - Real simple. "IS" is what "ISN'T" isn't! -

Kerry released a statement: "If anyone thinks a veteran would criticize more than 140,000 heroes serving in Iraq and not the president who got us stuck there, they're crazy. I'm sick and tired of these despicable Republican attacks that always seem to come from those who never can be found to serve in war, but love to attack those who did."

To attack a Democrat simply repeat what they say!

prying1 sez: Listen up goofball! Your service in Vietnam was self centered and a means to advance your own agenda. You are still playing off your mediocre military service. You have shown that to be true by the lies you presented to the American people about U.S. troops in Vietnam being savages. Christmas in Cambodia!

This statement comes from someone who was drafted and himself served in a mediocre fashion. This attack comes from one who recognises a rectal aperture when he sees one because at times he has been one. Note that I said "at times". I will admit I do not know what it is like to be a full time rectal aperture. Perhaps Mr. John Kerry can tell us.

ATTENTION DEMOCRATS - Don't even think of allowing John Kerry to run for President. Write to or call his office and tell him to sit down and shut up. (Don't bother to accuse me of stifling free speech either!) The jerk is not fit to be Commander in Chief of our military forces. If you do let him run, trust me on this, Republicans will tear him a new rectal aperture.

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A lot of talk recently about "Cut and Run Republicans" - I have yet to meet any although I've heard a few calling in on the talk radio shows. Supposedly they feel that if the Republicans should loose this election cycle. They should loose the majority they have in the Senate and Congress. Then all of those left in office and those who run in the following elections will know that their base wants them to pull further to the right. Shrink government, lower taxes, punish criminals, step up the war on terror, fix social security, stop the outsourcing of jobs and/or whatever other pet projects they want.

Partner of mine was wondering if they will make a movie about it. He has the central line. The one they can use in their advertising. See if you can figure where the plot will be stolen from...


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I'M MAD AS HELL!!! AND I'M NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT!!!


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- prying1 -

"Politics is the best show in America," Will Roger's said. "I love animals and I love politicians and I like to watch both of 'em play either back home in their native state or after they have been captured and sent to a zoo or Washington."*

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prying1 sez:

This mid term election might seem to be a bit wilder than previous ones but in reality all election cycles are quite similar. Both sides taking pot shots at one another trying to convince the public that they have the winning combination for happiness and prosperity.

This time there is a bit of difference because our nation is at war. Not at war with other nations but with an ideology that wants to rule the world. The proponents of this ideology have so stated. With a religion as it's foundation terrorists & Islamofacists are working worldwide to foment unrest throughout the worldwide Muslum communities. Seeking to blame anything but human nature & the Muslum religion itself for any misfortune or slights they continually point their fingers towards the west and shout, "There is your enemy!" Many Muslums believe them instead of looking in their own hearts and realizing that they carry their own enemy within their breasts. As do all men who are son's (and daughters) of Adam.

This election cycle it really comes down to two parties of opposing viewpoints.

The Libertarians have yet to count for much of anything so I won't even include them in this diatribe. So it goes.

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The Democrats want to convince America that the entire escalation of worldwide terrorism is Bush's fault. Included in this tactic is claims that the image of the United States has tarnished significantly throughout the world as a result of President Bush. Their rhetoric does not explain why terrorism started long before Bush took office nor why so many people around the world are still vying to come to America.

I remember as a child, many moons ago, pictures of graffiti on walls in third world countries stating, "Yankee go home!"

Certainly Bush is not to blame for either allegation. Let's blame the escalation of worldwide terrorism on the terrorists and those who listen to and follow their twisted teachings. As regards the image. Offer those who 'hate' America a free ticket to visit and see how quick they snap it up. I think most of that is really jealosy not hatred.

Many of the Democrats want to pull out of Iraq either quickly or slowly. Their solution leaves a weak country wide open to become a terrorist state. The peoples of that land would be murdered by the millions just as happened in Vietnam when the U.S. pulled out. This is not a viable solution and they really have come up with no other plans except verbage that is really a reworded "Stay the course" as Bush has repeatedly stated.

They keep promising A PLAN and keep coming up with a list of what the plan will be about. Should Americans vote for a list? I think not!

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The Republican party sees terrorism as a threat that will not go away with talking pretty and convincing the world we are really nice guys. All the economic and local issues pale in comparison to the global threat of terrorism. Indeed, worldwide commerce would suffer (not to mention tourism - some country's main staple) if the terrorists were allowed to continue running roughshod over the poorer nations. Know too they would not stop at the poorer nations. Europe already has it's problems that are only going to intensify. Savings accounts and retirement funds would come to naught if the terrorists got halfway to their stated goals. The war on terrorism is the main thing to consider this election cycle.

Voting for Democrats will be voting to put the war off for a few years. Until it comes to our shores. AFTER it has decimated millions in poorer countries.

Voting Republican will be voting to utilize sources (phone/bank records etc...) the Democrats do not want us to use in the fight against terrorism.

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* 'Borrowed' from How We Elect Our Presidents Will Rogers (selected and edited by Donald Day) / Little Brown and Company - 1952 -
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<p>Washington Times - Rowan Scarborough - Headline: The flameout of the Plame game -


If you do not know anything about the Valerie Plame affair I suggest you go read the article for the full and 'end of story' obituary. DO NOT BOTHER BUYING ANY BOOKS ON THIS!!!!
From the article
<p><blockquote><br />The expectation on the left that the Valerie Plame affair would blossom into another Watergate, bringing down a second Republican presidency, has fizzled.
    Liberals expected that convictions of one or more persons in the Bush administration for leaking or confirming to columnist Robert Novak that Mrs. Plame, the wife of Bush critic Joseph C. Wilson IV, was an undercover CIA operative. Echoing Mr. Wilson's claims, prominent liberals and leftists, most of them in the press, accused the White House of orchestrating a smear, and sought to drive Karl Rove either out of office or into prison, or both.
    Three years on, none of that has happened, and the "scandal" is played out.
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But in the end, the exhaustive investigation produced no criminal charges against any official for leaking Mrs. Plame's name in violation of the 1982 Intelligence Identities Protection Act. Moreover, it has recently emerged that the official who first revealed her name to Mr. Novak, for a July 2003 column, was not a White House official, but Richard Armitage, who was deputy secretary of state to Colin L. Powell.
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Mr. Armitage, now in private business, had never publicly acknowledged his role in the previous three years.
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Internet bloggers wrote hopefully of many indictments. One blogger even reported that Mr. Rove had been indicted, which he had not.
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Tom Matzzie, Washington director of the leftist MoveOn.org wrote in July 2005, "This conspiracy clearly reaches into the highest levels of our government. This could be among the worst presidential scandals in our history. ... Again, we call on the president to keep his promise and fire Karl Rove. How long will the cover-up continue?"
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean likened the scandal to Watergate, which brought down President Richard Nixon.
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Stacie Paxton, a spokesman for the committee, argues now that the Armitage disclosure does not vindicate the White House of misconduct.
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An early newspaper story asserted that two White House officials actively contacted six Washington reporters to reveal Mrs. Plame's identify and that she worked at the CIA. This was accepted as fact by liberal bloggers.
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The Senate investigators reported that Mr. Wilson did, in fact, find evidence that an Iraqi overture to buy yellowcake may have occurred. To Republicans, this meant Mr. Wilson's op-ed in the New York Times -- the essay that triggered the whole affair -- was inaccurate, just as Mr. Libby contended to Mrs. Miller that it was.
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The Wilsons are now represented by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
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Melanie Sloan, executive director and a former Democratic Senate and House staffer, said in an e-mail to The Washington Times it's wrong to infer that Mr. Wilson was sent to Niger on the suggestion of his wife. The Senate report "clearly indicates that the CIA decided to send Wilson to Niger." <span style="font-weight:bold;">(HUH!!!)</span>
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Ms. Sloan said the Armitage disclosure does not affect the Wilson lawsuit, "which is premised on the deliberate and unlawful actions of top White House officials to publicly discredit Mr. Wilson and retaliate against him by deliberately disclosing the classified identity of Ms. Wilson. Mr. Armitage's conduct in no way alters the fact that VP Cheney, Mr. Libby and Mr. Rove were engaged in a concerted effort to violate the rights of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson and they should be held accountable for their actions."
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prying1 sez:
It seems that there were lots and lots of people that are/were guilty in the Valerie Plame Affair. Their credibility is shot. With many they never had any in spite of appearances at the time...

Richard Armitage, ex-deputy secretary of state to Colin L. Powell and now in private business, could have stepped forward a bit sooner. Remember that when you see his name in print. Especially if it is on a contract and your money is on the line.

Bottom line is Bush Hatred started this nonsense and that plus love of money will try to keep it going. - Fact is, <span style="font-weight:bold;">"The Valerie Plame Affair is Dead!"</span> May it soon be buried.

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Hattip to Hugh Hewitt for leading me to the article - Thanks Hugh! -

John Chapter 4 vs. 21-24 plus

Church was really good today. Wish you were there. For those of you who could not make it here is a very small touch of the sermon.


John Chapter 4 vs. 21-24 - (Jesus talking to the Samaritan woman at the well) -

21: Jesus declared, "Believe me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. 22: You Samaritans worship what you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. 23: Yet a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father seeks. 24: God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth." - (NIV)

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Bottom line: It matters not which way we face nor where we are on planet earth. - We keep seeking God while we do not have to. God will seek after us when we learn to worship Him.

'Spirit and in truth' is from the heart and willing to admit our shortcomings.

P.S. - Attn: Non Christians - Click the scripture link above and see that the Bible says in the next two sentences (vs. 25 and 26) -

Cross posted at - http://prying1.blogspot.com -
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Cross posted at - http://prying1.blogspot.com -  - Got this email from a personal friend. I've known this man for years and will stand behind the following as being true and not just made up verbiage to stir up emotions. - prying1 -

Feel free to copy the following quote and pass it on - I would request that you not change the body of the following message nor the name at the end. -
 

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Brothers and sisters -
 
As most of you know, I was born and raised a Jew in Brooklyn, New York. My parents were of the WWII generation. My father was a soldier in the United States Army in the fight against the Axis powers and the Nazi holocaust against the Jews.
 
It was part of the  Jewish upbringing I received to have instilled in me a knowledge and remembrance of the evil the Nazis perpetrated on the Jews and the world. The Jewish motto was, "Never forget!" lest such an evil rise again.

So, as part of my education, my parents told and showed me all the details of the Nazi holocaust. I read much literature, such as The Diary of Anne Frank, and saw countless photographs and films documenting the horrors and atrocities. My brain is seared with the black & white images taken when Eisenhower and the liberation troops first entered the concentration camps.

I also had many family members murdered by the Nazis in Poland and Lithuania. Many of my maternal grandmothers cousins and brothers and sisters were killed by the Nazis in concentration camps. I have pictures of them as young people. My maternal grandparents had escaped from Russia during the early anti-Jewish pogroms prior to the Russian revolution.
 
One story that was told to me over and over is the following.

I had a cousin, who has since passed away, named Jennie. I knew her when I was a child. She was, then, an elderly widow living in Trenton, New Jersey. When she was a young woman, she had been arrested in Poland, by the Nazis, and put in a concentration camp. On a cold winter's day, when the snow was deep, she was forced to strip naked, with a group of women doing likewise. They were marched out in the snow, naked, to a place where they were all going to be shot. My cousin Jennie was very exhausted and faint and collapsed into a bank of snow. At that moment, she was sure she would be shot in the back by one of the Nazi guards. Amazingly, they did not see her and marched on. A Christian woman living on a farm nearby, later found her lying in the snow and stealthily brought her back to her farm. She nursed her back to health and then helped to smuggle her out to the United States.

This is one story in a thousand. Growing up in the Jewish community in Brooklyn, I knew survivors who still had tattoos on their arms from the Nazi concentration camps.
I used to have dreams, two or three times a year, since early childhood, that Nazis were looking for me. They wanted to kill me because I was Jewish. They continued into my late adulthood.
 
When the Allied troops defeated Germany and her allies in WWII they outlawed Nazism. Nazism is illegal in Germany as it should be. Any philosophy that advocates the genocide of any race should be declared illegal by a sane world. It should not be permitted to exist and flourish.
 
During WWII, the Arab nations loved Hitler. They had a name for him in Arabic which is translated "the great one." His philosophy of exterminating the Jews agreed with their philosophy, set forth in the Koran. There was a branch of the SS that was Islamic. I have seen films, and have a video tape, of them marching in Storm Trooper uniforms, identical to that of the German SS except for their hats. They wore the fez instead of the traditional high-peaked Nazi hat. When the war was over, these Islamic Nazis were never held accountable for their dastardly crimes. They simply took off their uniforms and melted back into the population. They taught their sons and grandsons to continue to hate the Jews with traditional Nazi fervor and Islamic tradition.
 
I have seen, and you can see too, the verses from the Koran that urge its adherents to kill all those who do not bow to Allah and their Islamic beliefs. The Koran enjoins them to make jihad, holy war, against all the infidels. There are verses which tell them to behead, boil in oil, and flay the skin from those who are not Muslim.

This is their scripture!

The mild Muslims who say they are for peace do not come out and make a stand against the terrorists. This is because they secretly admire them for being more fanatically dedicated to what they believe their 'word of god' is. So the mild ones simply adopt as their mission the job of infiltrating Western society, to make inroads, so the more dedicated Muslims can come and do the work of Allah.
 
Shouldn't we have the courage to see this for what it is? If our parents and grandparents had the courage to call the Nazis evil, and outlaw them, why can't we have the backbone to do the same? Shouldn't any religion or philosophy that advocates such violence and genocide be made illegal? Political correctness has gone too far. The situation has gotten out of hand.

What is really called for seems unthinkable with our standards of tolerance today. Islam should be declared illegal in the United States and they should all be exported back to the violent wasteland that is their home.

God knew what He was saying when He told His people to kill all of their enemies, man, woman and child and not leave one of them standing.

That sounds really radical, doesn't it?

Read your Bible.

I don't say we should kill them all, but at the very least they should be outlawed and expelled from this country. Otherwise, we will follow in the footsteps of Europe and Great Britain. You know what is happening there. Somehow or other, America must get a grip on this, and face the reality of the terrible evil that is infiltrating our society behind the smiling faces and the reasonable statement that, "We're just trying to seek a better life for our families."

2 Corinthians 11:14, 15 says, "And no wonder! For Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light. Therefore it is no great  thing if his ministers also transform themselves into ministers of righteousness, whose end will be according to their works."

Can a tree which has a rotten root produce good fruit? Can a well that gives salt water also give fresh water?
 
Just as when I was a child I had dreams of the Nazis trying to kill me, I recently started having dreams that Muslims were trying to kill me. It is the same story, over and over.
 
If a Muslim knew I was writing this, he would try to kill me. Don't send this to a Muslim friend.
 
Blessings and wisdom in Christ are desperately needed. We need courage to face the enemy and do what is needed or we are lost.
 
Pray, brothers and sisters, pray. This is serious.

Barry

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prying1 sez: The United States does allow freedom of religion but on the other hand outlaws treason. If a group of people or a so called religion is in effect treasonous to any country or other group of people by teaching genocide and murder should it be allowed continued existence in this country? Or any other for that matter?

Back in the 70's we had several home grown terrorist groups like The Weathermen, Black Panthers, SLA, etc. that were in effect outlawed and it's adherents rightfully jailed. Most of those groups died out from attrition.

What if thousands or even hundreds of thousands of people had been allowed to enter the U.S. for the reason of joining those groups and working towards the destruction of this nation? Should that have been allowed? Wouldn't we call foolish any nation that allowed such?

Should the people of the United States demand of it's elected officials that the adherents of Mohammed be officially labeled as a cult and forcibly removed from our nation as a danger to us and our children? - Some will say it is unconstitutional but  establishment clause was not designed for the destruction of this nation nor was it designed to put it's populace under the slavery and fear generated by this group of people.

These are questions that should be given serious thought by anyone religious, new age,  agnostic and atheist alike. The threat is not just with towards one group. It is towards all groups. Including themselves AND those (mild) Muslims who are quite possibly setting us up...

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As I have visited other blogs I have found that the majority of those who post are concerned with accuracy in what they post. When giving opinions they state so. When reporting on news they provide links. When they discover they erred, without hesitation, they fess up and offer corrections.

I believe this is because a lot of bloggers are concerned with and for the truth. The funny thing about truth is the adjectives that can go with it. Immutable is one that comes to mind. If I tell you something, ie... "The sky is blue.", and you take me outdoors and show me a grey overcast day I find I did not tell you a truth. I must modify my statement, "The sky is usually or sometimes blue." If I chose to remain adamant and make excuses I appear to be a fool.

I cannot claim to tell you a truth one day and then, say a week later, come up to you and tell you I have a greater truth that supersedes lasts weeks truth and now makes it null and void. Last weeks 'truth' never was true or perhaps this weeks 'truth' is really flawed. If conflicting, either one or the other is really true and therefore conforms to facts and reality.

One problem I have with the (unchangeable) truth is sometimes I do not like it. I might prefer to ignore it but it in no way ceases to be the truth because of my attitude or wishes. So it goes.

Protogoras, the fifth century B.C. greek Philosopher, maintained that all is illusion, and that there is no such thing as truth. But Aristotle refuted him by the following dilemma: " Your proposition is true or false: if it is false then you are answered: if true, then there is something true, and your proposition fails."