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Estelle P. ShrumStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.comBlogger131125truetag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-73676936204437241802012-08-16T10:59:00.002-07:002015-08-10T16:45:36.636-07:00<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Declaration of Rights
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Thus, we the people do hereby declare not only our rights,
but do now establish this bill of responsibilities.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">1. Because I have the right to choose, I recognize that I am
accountable to God and have the responsibility to keep the 10 commandments in
my own life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">2. Because I have the right to worship as I choose, I have
the responsibility to honor the right of others to worship as they see fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">3. Because I have freedom of speech, I have the
responsibility to defend the speech of others, even if I strongly disagree with
what they’re saying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">4. Because I have the right to pursue happiness, I have the
responsibility to show humility and express gratitude for all the blessings I
enjoy and the rights I’ve been given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">5. Because I have the right to honest and good government I
will seek out honest and just representatives when possible. If I cannot find
one then I accept the responsibility to take that place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">6. Because I have the God given right to liberty, I have the
personal responsibility to have the courage to defend others to be secure in
their persons, lives and property.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">7. Because I have the right to equal justice, I will stand
for those who are wrongly accused or unjustly blamed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">8. Because I have the right to knowledge, I will be
accountable for myself and my children’s education…to live our lives in such a
way that insures the continuation of truth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">9. Because I have the right to pursue my dreams and keep the
fruits of my labor, I have the responsibility to feed, protect and shelter my
family, the less fortunate, the fatherless, the old and infirm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">10. Because I have a right to the truth, I will not bear
false witness nor will I stand idly by as others do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Unconditionally, while maintaining my responsibility to
compassionately yet fiercely stand against those things that decay the natural
rights of all men. And for the support of this declaration, and with a firm
reliance on the protection of Divine Providence we mutually pledge to each other
our lives, fortunes and sacred honor.</span></div>
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</span>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-87311509201153618492012-08-15T06:56:00.001-07:002012-08-15T06:56:25.615-07:00<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">
</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">President Obama's Unprecedented Agenda</span><br />
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Many of these actions are literally unprecedented – this is the first<br />
time they have happened in four centuries of American history. The<br />
hostility of President Obama toward Biblical faith and values is<br />
without equal from any previous American president.<br />
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April 2008 – Obama speaks disrespectfully of Christians, saying they<br />
“cling to guns or religion” and have an “antipathy to people who<br />
aren't like them.”<br />
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February 2009 – Obama announces plans to revoke conscience protection<br />
for health workers who refuse to participate in medical activities<br />
that go against their beliefs, and fully implements the plan in<br />
February 2011.<br />
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April 2009 – When speaking at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Georgetown</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">University</st1:placetype></st1:place>, Obama orders
that<br />
a monogram symbolizing Jesus' name be covered when he is making his<br />
speech.<br />
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May 2009 – Obama declines to host services for the National Prayer Day<br />
(a day established by federal law) at the White House.<br />
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April 2009 – In a deliberate act of disrespect, Obama nominated three<br />
pro-abortion ambassadors to the <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">Vatican</st1:country>;
of course, the pro-life<br />
<st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Vatican</st1:place></st1:country>
rejected all three.<br />
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October 19, 2010 – Obama begins deliberately omitting the phrase about<br />
“the Creator” when quoting the Declaration of Independence – an<br />
omission he has made on no less than seven occasions.<br />
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November 2010 – Obama misquotes the National Motto, saying it is “E<br />
pluribus unum” rather than “In God We Trust” as established by federal<br />
law.<br />
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January 2011 – After a federal law was passed to transfer a WWI<br />
Memorial in the Mojave Desert to private ownership, the U. S. Supreme<br />
Court ruled that the cross in the memorial could continue to stand,<br />
but the Obama administration refused to allow the land to be<br />
transferred as required by law, and refused to allow the cross to be<br />
re-erected as ordered by the Court.<br />
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February 2011 – Although he filled posts in the State Department, for<br />
more than two years Obama did not fill the post of religious freedom<br />
ambassador, an official that works against religious persecution<br />
across the world; he filled it only after heavy pressure from the<br />
public and from Congress.<br />
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April 2011 – For the first time in American history, Obama urges<br />
passage of a non-discrimination law that does not contain hiring<br />
protections for religious groups, forcing religious organizations to<br />
hire according to federal mandates without regard to the dictates of<br />
their own faith, thus eliminating conscience protection in hiring.<br />
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August 2011 – The Obama administration releases its new health care<br />
rules that override religious conscience protections for medical<br />
workers in the areas of abortion and contraception.<br />
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November 2011 – Obama opposes inclusion of President Franklin<br />
Roosevelt’s famous D-Day Prayer in the WWII Memorial.<br />
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November 2011 – Unlike previous presidents, Obama studiously avoids<br />
any religious references in his Thanksgiving speech.<br />
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December 2011 – The Obama administration denigrates other countries'<br />
religious beliefs as an obstacle to radical homosexual rights.<br />
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January 2012 – The Obama administration argues that the First<br />
Amendment provides no protection for churches and synagogues in hiring<br />
their pastors and rabbis.<br />
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February 2012 – The Obama administration forgives student loans in<br />
exchange for public service, but announces it will no longer forgive<br />
student loans if the public service is related to religion.<br />
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2. Acts of hostility from the Obama-led military toward people of<br />
Biblical faith:<br />
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June 2011 – The Department of Veterans Affairs forbids references to<br />
God and Jesus during burial ceremonies at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Houston</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">National</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Cemetery</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<br />
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August 2011 – The Air Force stops teaching the Just War theory to<br />
officers in California because the course is taught by chaplains and<br />
is based on a philosophy introduced by St. Augustine in the third<br />
century AD – a theory long taught by civilized nations across the<br />
world (except America).<br />
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September 2011 – Air Force Chief of Staff prohibits commanders from<br />
notifying airmen of programs and services available to them from<br />
chaplains.<br />
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September 2011 – The Army issues guidelines for </span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Walter</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Reed</st1:placename>
<st1:placename w:st="on">Medical</st1:placename><br />
<st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> stipulating that
“No religious items (i.e. Bibles, reading<br />
materials and/or facts) are allowed to be given away or used during a<br />
visit.”<br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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<span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">November
24, 2011 – Obama leaves out “God” at his Thanksgiving address from the White
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November 2011 – The Air Force Academy rescinds support for Operation<br />
Christmas Child, a program to send holiday gifts to impoverished<br />
children across the world, because the program is run by a Christian<br />
charity.<br />
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November 2011 – The Air Force Academy pays $80,000 to add a<br />
Stonehenge-like worship center for pagans, druids, witches and<br />
Wiccans.<br />
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February 2012 – The U. S. Military Academy at <st1:place w:st="on">West Point</st1:place>
disinvites<br />
three star Army general and decorated war hero Lieutenant General<br />
William G. (“Jerry”) Boykin (retired) from speaking at an event<br />
because he is an outspoken Christian.<br />
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February 2012 – The Air Force removes “God” from the patch of Rapid<br />
Capabilities Office (the word on the patch was in Latin: Dei).<br />
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February 2012 – The Army orders Catholic chaplains not to read a<br />
letter to parishioners that their archbishop asked them to read.<br />
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3. Acts of hostility toward Biblical values:<br />
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January 2009 – Obama lifts restrictions on <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country></st1:place> government funding for<br />
groups that provide abortion services or counseling abroad, forcing<br />
taxpayers to fund pro-abortion groups that either promote or perform<br />
abortions in other nations.<br />
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January 2009 – President Obama’s nominee for deputy secretary of state<br />
asserts that American taxpayers are required to pay for abortions and<br />
that limits on abortion funding are unconstitutional.<br />
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March 2009 – The Obama administration shut out pro-life groups from<br />
attending a White House-sponsored health care summit.<br />
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March 2009 – Obama orders taxpayer funding of embryonic stem cell research.<br />
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March 2009 – Obama gave $50 million for the UNFPA, the UN population<br />
agency that promotes abortion and works closely with Chinese<br />
population control officials who use forced abortions and involuntary<br />
sterilizations.<br />
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May 2009 – The White House budget eliminates all funding for<br />
abstinence-only education and replaces it with “comprehensive” sexual<br />
education, repeatedly proven to increase teen pregnancies and<br />
abortions. 31 He continues the deletion in subsequent budgets.<br />
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May 2009 – Obama officials assemble a terrorism dictionary calling<br />
pro-life advocates violent and charging that they use racism in their<br />
“criminal” activities.<br />
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July 2009 – The Obama administration illegally extends federal<br />
benefits to same-sex partners of Foreign Service and Executive Branch<br />
employees, in direction violation of the federal Defense of Marriage<br />
Act.<br />
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September 16, 2009 – The Obama administration appoints as EEOC<br />
Commissioner Chai Feldblum, who asserts that society should “not<br />
tolerate” any “private beliefs,” including religious beliefs, if they<br />
may negatively affect homosexual “equality.”<br />
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July 2010 – The Obama administration uses federal funds in violation<br />
of federal law to get <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kenya</st1:place></st1:country>
to change its constitution to include<br />
abortion.<br />
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August 2010 – The Obama administration Cuts funding for 176 abstinence<br />
education programs.<br />
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September 2010 – The Obama administration tells researchers to ignore<br />
a judge’s decision striking down federal funding for embryonic stem<br />
cell research.<br />
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February 2011 – Obama directs the Justice Department to stop defending<br />
the federal Defense of Marriage Act.<br />
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March 2011 – The Obama administration refuses to investigate videos<br />
showing Planned Parenthood helping alleged sex traffickers get<br />
abortions for victimized underage girls.<br />
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July 2011 – Obama allows homosexuals to serve openly in the military,<br />
reversing a policy originally instituted by George Washington in March<br />
1778.<br />
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September 2011 – The Pentagon directs that military chaplains may<br />
perform same-sex marriages at military facilities in violation of the<br />
federal Defense of Marriage Act.<br />
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October 2011 – The Obama administration eliminates federal grants to<br />
the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for their extensive programs<br />
that aid victims of human trafficking because the Catholic Church is<br />
anti-abortion.<br />
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4. Acts of preferentialism for Islam:<br />
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May 2009 – While Obama does not host any National Day of Prayer event<br />
at the White House, he does host White House Iftar dinners in honor of<br />
Ramadan.<br />
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April 2010 – Christian leader Franklin Graham is disinvited from the<br />
Pentagon’s National Day of Prayer Event because of complaints from the<br />
Muslim community.<br />
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April 2010 – The Obama administration requires rewriting of government<br />
documents and a change in administration vocabulary to remove terms<br />
that are deemed offensive to Muslims, including jihad, jihadists,<br />
terrorists, radical Islamic, etc.<br />
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August 2010 – Obama speaks with great praise of Islam and<br />
condescendingly of Christianity.<br />
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August 2010 – Obama went to great lengths to speak out on multiple<br />
occasions on behalf of building an Islamic mosque at Ground Zero,<br />
while at the same time he was silent about a Christian church being<br />
denied permission to rebuild at that location.<br />
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2010 – While every White House traditionally issues hundreds of<br />
official proclamations and statements on numerous occasions, this<br />
White House avoids traditional Biblical holidays and events but<br />
regularly recognizes major Muslim holidays, as evidenced by its 2010<br />
statements on Ramadan, Eid-ul-Fitr, Hajj, and Eid-ul-Adha.<br />
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October 2011 – Obama’s Muslim advisers block Middle Eastern<br />
Christians’ access to the White House.<br />
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February 2012 – The Obama administration makes effulgent apologies for<br />
Korans being burned by the <st1:country -region="-region" w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.
S.</st1:place></st1:country> military, 51 but when Bibles were<br />
burned by the military, numerous reasons were offered why it was the<br />
right thing to do.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-29871331365587174332012-08-14T12:17:00.002-07:002012-08-14T12:17:54.908-07:00What is the National Right to Work Committe?<br />
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<span style="color: red;">It was founded in 1955, it is a nonprofit, non partisan, single-purpose citizens' organization dedicated to the princile that all Americans must have the right to join a union if they choose to, but none should ever be forced to affiliate with a union in order to get or keep a job.</span><br />
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So what has happened and who has caused it? Is this the way it should be?<br />
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1. Exemption from prosecution for union violence.<br />
2. Exemption from anti-monopoly laws.<br />
3. Power to force employees to accept unwanted union representation.<br />
4. Power to collect forced union dues.<br />
5. Unlimited, undisclosed electioneering.<br />
6. Ability to strong-arm employers into negotiations.<br />
7. Right to trespass on an employer's private property.<br />
8. Ability of strikers to keep jobs despite refusing to work.<br />
9. Union-only cartels on construction projects.<br />
10. Government funding of forced unionism.Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-78300286371147744262012-05-22T12:49:00.000-07:002012-05-22T12:49:41.661-07:00My Testimony on Word Salt<div class="MsoNormal">
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Estelle P. Shrum - Author of, He Is The Word
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My blog: http://wwwheistheword-estelle.blogspot.com/Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-43095507533831167622012-03-20T06:40:00.000-07:002012-03-20T06:40:59.193-07:00How can I say this in a Godly way?<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">12/22/11<o:p></o:p></b><br />
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After thinking how I would approach this I have decided that there is no diplomatic way to say the things I am about to say. I do know that no one should cast the first stone, because we all sin, and fall short of the glory of God. I also believe that we are living in the end days as the Bible so clearly tells us. Of course, no one person, not even Jesus when he walked the earth, knows the hour of His return, but the Bible tells us to watch the fig tree, and we can know when the season is near. The Bible tells us “This generation will not pass away” until all these things Jesus spoke of will come to pass. Well they are coming to pass more quickly than we realize. In the day of the internet with information so readily available, time is but a millisecond away. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When I was growing up people had the good sense not to discuss politics, religion, or things of a sexual nature. People had the good taste of keeping their dirty laundry within the confine of their own home. No one hung out their dirty laundry. Today, the more open people are about their bad habits, their personal feelings, or their secrets, are open for everybody to witness. In my humble estimation that is why our society is so accepting of everything and anything. It actually makes one cool to air their dysfunctional lives. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Most people have a secret they we would not want known, but Christians confess it to God, and repent, because they are convicted of sin. Our society today just makes excuses for it. This is why our country will never move forward. We are living in the days of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sodom</st1:place></st1:city> and Gomorra and there is no Noah to build us an ark. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">O.K…let’s take sex. Our society now accepts, open marital relationships, soft pornography, (they still sort of frown at hard porn), people living together (we used to think of it as “shacking up”), but now it is quite acceptable. We embrace homosexuals having all the benefits of marriage that God created for man and woman. Homosexuals have been around as long as the bible, this is not something new. Of course we never want to repeat the past and condemn anyone for their life style. Man was given free choice and a free will to do whatever our laws today allow. Sin is sin, and there is no sin that is better or worse than another. However, God is a holy God, and only one man walked the earth without sin and that was Jesus. No one, but Him, is without sin. However, as a society we accept whatever feels good and is politically correct, and that is a new standard.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now let’s, take religion. Today our society is very conscious of not offending most religions. I say that because it doesn’t seem that Christians are considered worthy of not being offended. Between the three major religions, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, they have all suffered from persecution, but I am speaking of today, not the past. Today Christians are held in contempt. It is obvious they offend atheists, and far left liberals. Otherwise why would they fight so hard to remove God from every part of secular society, by using such a lame excuse as mixing government and religion? They don’t even understand what that means. It was written in defense for freedom of religion, so government could never dictate religion, not the other way around. The quote will be at the end of this article.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now for politics, and that seems more harmful and threatening than sex, and religion. This is a subject that you will lose more friends than disagreeing on religion, or talking about sex. I really am amazed at how hateful people can become with their political views. The odd part is that most people know very little except what they hear on the news, and many of them only listen to one side…either conservative or liberal news stations. For all practical purposes newspapers are extinct, the only thing good in them are the sales. So to be really up on political news, you must listen to both sides of an issue, before you make your mind up on what you believe to be true. In this respect I am speaking to everyone. However, it is impossible not to mix sex, and religion with politics, because our politics dictate who we are and what we believe as an individual for society.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The rest of this article speaks to the <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">80%</b> of the population in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> who claim to be Christian. I realize that Christians are no better or worse than anyone else, but I do have an issue that I am so confused over and it shakes me to the core. There is no easy approach...but why did 80% of our Christian population give their vote for late term abortion, open borders, and redefine marriage between a man and a woman? How does anyone justify all this and claim they are a Christian? Do all these folks really want a socialist society, and have our choices taken away? Do they want the government to take care of them? Do they realize that their anger is for <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1%</b> of the population that are rich? Do they resent rich people so much to go against God’s laws? He is the only one who decides to take life? The Bible says there is a time to be born and a time to die, so if we make a choice to take a life we need to be sure it is justified, and only self defense is justified. Do they know how many children are put to death everyday in our country alone? Do they not realize that <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">1%</b> of the rich are the same people who start up big factories and business that give them their jobs? Most of these people are self-made millionaires. Do they not see that taking “loop-holes” away from the rich is far easier than unfairly taxing them just because they are rich? God only asks us to give 10% to go the warehouse, so there is plenty left over to take care of the poor and the hungry. Do these Christians give God their 10%? Do they feed the hungry, or give to the poor? Or do they want the rich to do it all? </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It is a fact, that rich folks and middle class conservatives give far more money to charities than the far left liberals. Why do we allow the minority far left wing to rule our nation? What happened in the last 10 years to divide our nation so drastically? It is more than just greed. Greed has always been around, democrats and republicans have always been around. The rich, the middle class, and the poor, have always been around. Immigration has always been around, atheists and agnostics have always been around, and extremists have always been around. So what has changed? </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Sin has changed, and man has turned his back on his creator for the last time. We are living in the end days, where sin will increase at a remarkable rate, and the book of Matthew will come to pass. If you are not a bible believer, I tell you true, it is the most remarkable and truthful book you will ever read. So when you vote next year, vote your conscience, and not politics. If we want to make the right choice as Christians we have to choose God’s Word every time. Politics has no conscience. For believers, it’s God’s way or the highway. We can not vote race, color or creed. Never allow politics to override God’s principles. </div><br />
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How can they see the sun, moon, and stars, but in God they can not perceive?<br />
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How can men acknowledge the universe having no beginning or end, but not see that God is infinite?</div>
How can they comprehend the vastness of space, and not grasp that man is but a vapor and finite? <br />
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How can men watch the metamorphosis of a caterpillar as it turns into a Butterfly?</div>
Seeing something that once crawled suddenly fly, but still in God they deny?<br />
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How can men witness as a chameleon changes color to adapt to the environment, but in God they will not rely?</div>
How can they be so accepting that life exists so tiny it’s invisible, but in God they must see with their own eye? <br />
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How can men accept the science behind the forces of the universe, but not see the continuity of an intelligent God who is just?</div>
How can they experience the beauty of nature, or the flawless design of the human body and still in God they refuse to trust?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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How can men readily seek the mystery of a black hole?</div>
Then so easily dismiss the teaching of what the Prophets foretold?<br />
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How can men not fear where the forces of evil came from, and the origin of love and hate?<br />
But stubbornly they question the majesty of a God of love who wants to save them from their fate?<br />
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Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-55270620107252367842012-02-04T14:16:00.001-08:002012-02-17T17:06:13.509-08:00Our Government Has Been Invaded By Martians…There is no other way to explain what is happening in our government!<br />
By Estelle P. Shrum, <a href="http://www.heistheword.com/">www.Heistheword.com</a><br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600;">“We worked night and day, laboring and toiling so that we would not be a burden to any of you. We did this, not because we did not have the right to such help, but in order to make ourselves a model for you to follow. For even when we were with you, we gave you this rule: ‘If a man will not work, he shall not eat.’” 2 Thessalonians 3:8b-10<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Ineptocracy (in-ep-toc’-ra-cy)</b> - a system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed, are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"The per person Medicare insurance premium in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> will increase from the present monthly fee of $96.40, rising to $104.20 in 2012; $120.20 in 2013; and $247.00 in 2014. These are provisions incorporated in the Obama Care legislation, purposely delayed so as not to 'confuse' the 2012 re-election campaigns. So…who is being thrown under the bus?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">PLEASE HEED THE WISE WORDS OF OUR FOREFATHERS AND PRESIDENTS. </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It's very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project..<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, the American people, if you put it to them about socialized medicine </span></em><strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">a</span></i></strong><em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">nd gave them a chance to choose, would unhesitatingly vote against it." <o:p></o:p></span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">-- </span></em><strong><i>Ronald Reagan</i></strong><strong><i><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></strong><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>— President Ronald Reagan, Sept. 28, 1981<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it".<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- Ronald Reagan</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged". <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- Ronald Reagan</b><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> is unique because we are an empire of ideals.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><strong>--Ronald Reagan</strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><o:p>"Government is not the solution, it's the problem". <strong>--Ronald Reagan</strong> </o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"America</span></st1:country-region></st1:place><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.” </span><strong>-- George W. Bush </strong></div><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“Each time someone stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, they send forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--Robert F. Kennedy</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Capetown, June 6th 1966<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><strong><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">"Fear not the path of truth for the lack of people walking on it." <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></strong><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>--<em><span style="font-style: normal;">Robert F Kennedy</span></em> <o:p></o:p></b></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- Lyndon B. Johnson<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">-- Jimmy Carter</span><o:p></o:p></b><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: 12pt; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favor." </span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>— George Washington</b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreeably to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">— <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">George Washington</span>,</b> to the Annual meeting of Quakers, </span><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">September 1789</span><span style="color: #11163d; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible.”<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b>--George Washington<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></b></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- George Washington</b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="mso-font-kerning: 14.0pt;">"We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge or gallantry would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution is designed only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate for any other." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--John Adams</b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">"It is the duty of all men in society, publicly, and at stated seasons, to worship the SUPREME BEING, the great Creator and Preserver of the universe. And no subject shall be hurt, molested, or restrained, in his person, liberty, or estate, for worshipping God in the manner most agreeable to the dictates of his own conscience; or for his religious profession or sentiments; provided he doth not disturb the public peace, or obstruct others in their religious worship."</span><span style="color: #11163d; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">— <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">John Adams</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #11163d; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">:</span></b><span style="color: #11163d; font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;"> </span><span style="color: #11163d; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Thoughts on Government, 1776</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>"All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine that we no longer need his assistance? I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the Ground without his Notice, is it probable that an Empire can rise without his Aid?" <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">— Benjamin Franklin</b>, To Colleagues at the Constitutional Convention.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: black;">"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what to have for dinner. </span><span style="color: black; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><span style="color: black;">Liberty</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="color: black;"> is a well-armed lamb."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--Benjamin Franklin</b><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">“The Bible is worth all other books which have ever been printed.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div><div class="MsoBodyText" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><strong>--Patrick Henry</strong><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"Socialism, in general, has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">--Thomas Sowell</b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">"Fathom the hypocrisy of a Government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured...but not everyone must prove they are a citizen"<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>--Author Unknown. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">"Culture of intellect, without religion in the heart, is only civilized barbarism and disguised animalism." <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- Christian Karl von Bunsen<o:p></o:p></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span class="messagebody"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">"The natural motivations of all human beings are mixtures of good and evil – with evil consistently spoiling the good. Hardness of the heart is its consequences."<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><span class="messagebody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">--Author Unknown</span></b></span><span class="messagebody"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: Tahoma; mso-ansi-language: EN;">.</span></b></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><o:p></o:p></b></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: #ff6600;">"WHAT YOU PERMIT, YOU PROMOTE’</span> <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">-- Author Unknown</b> </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"></div>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-87471129082393420712012-01-24T12:33:00.000-08:002012-01-25T08:10:03.888-08:00An Independent Wants To KnowI wrote this when Obama was running for President - nothing has changed...<br />
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<b><span style="color: #ff6600;">Democrats and Republicans have always stood on the opposite side of the fence, however:</span></b><br />
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1. Why would I support amnesty for illegal immigrants?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Is it fair to the people who have waited for years and paid thousands of dollars to enter our country legally?<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2. Why would I want my tax dollars to pay for abortions?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If it is a personal choice, shouldn’t they pay for it?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">3. Why would I be against English as being the official language in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>? This is America!</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">4. Why would I want retroactive Social Security to illegal immigrants who gain <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> citizenship through amnesty?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">5. Why would I want expanded welfare benefits and unlimited eligibility?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">6. Why would I want a national health care insurance plan that would be orchestrated by <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Washington</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">D.C.</st1:state></st1:place>? Who would they answer to?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">7. Why would I expect bureaucrats to be able to monitor health care when Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security are broke?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">8. Why doesn't everyone object to our government voting on their own personal agendas, i.e., raises, health care plan, or vacations? </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">9. Why am I sensitive to the fact that President Obama scraped the Missile Defense Shield that would protect <st1:country-region w:st="on">Poland</st1:country-region> on the anniversary of the Soviet Union invasion of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Poland</st1:place></st1:country-region> in 1939? A bit insensitive, isn’t it?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">10. Why I am upset that there are people in this country who want to turn over information that would put our soldiers in harms way?</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">11. Why isn’t <span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">everyone</span> in Congress upset over the Acorn deceit and misappropriation of tax dollars? Child Prostitute! Can it get any worse?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">12. </span><span style="mso-bidi-font-size: 13.5pt;">Why can’t we have a bi-partisan health care plan?<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">13. Why does our nation hate entrepreneurs, big business, and rich people? They sure like their cell phones, Iphones, Ipads? Who do they think made them...not rich people, but they became rich.</span></div><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;">--Estelle P. Shrum<o:p></o:p></span></div><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><a href="http://www.heistheword.com/">www.Heistheword.com</a></span><br />
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</div>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-69782814969753988812012-01-20T09:11:00.000-08:002012-01-20T09:33:25.484-08:00The Muslim Brotherhood – verified by Wikipedia<strong>WHY WE NEED TO WORRY...</strong><br />
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928 after the collapse of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Turkey</st1:place></st1:country-region> and returned to the precepts of the Qur’an. This is the official slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood: <br />
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<strong>THE MUSLIM BROTHERWOOD - WHY WE NEED TO WORRY...<o:p></o:p></strong><br />
The Muslim Brotherhood was founded by Hassan al-Banna in 1928 after the collapse of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Turkey</st1:country-region></st1:place> and returned to the precepts of the Qur’an. This is the official slogan of the Muslim Brotherhood: <br />
<span style="color: red;">"Allah is our objective.<br />
The Prophet is our leader.<br />
Qur'an is our law.<br />
Jihad is our way.<br />
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
The most famous slogan, used worldwide, is <span style="color: red;">"Islam is the solution."</span> <br />
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The Muslim Brotherhood's goal, as stated by Brotherhood founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna" title="Hassan al-Banna"><span style="color: blue;">Hassan al-Banna</span></a> was to reclaim Islam's manifest destiny, an empire, stretching from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><span style="color: blue;">Spain</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia"><span style="color: blue;">Indonesia</span></a>. It preaches that Islam enjoins man to strive for social justice, the eradication of poverty and corruption, and political freedom to the extent allowed by the laws of Islam. The Brotherhood strongly opposes Western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism"><span style="color: blue;">colonialism</span></a>, and helped overthrow the pro-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world"><span style="color: blue;">western</span></a> monarchies in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region> and other Muslim countries during the early 20th century.<br />
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In October 2007, the Muslim Brotherhood issued a detailed political platform. Amongst other things it called for a board of Muslim clerics to oversee the government, and limiting the office of the presidency to Muslim men. It declared that a woman was not suited to be president because the post's religious and military duties ’conflict with her nature, social and other humanitarian roles.` <br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arab Nations Involved with The Muslim Brotherhood:</b><br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bahrain</b></st1:place></st1:country-region> - It has strongly opposed the government's accession to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights" title="International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"><span style="color: blue;">International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights</span></a> on the grounds that this would give Muslim citizens the right to change religion, when in the party's view they should be "beheaded".<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Syria</b></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> -</b> Membership in the Syrian Brotherhood became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment"><span style="color: blue;">capital offence</span></a> in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region> in 1980, (but the headquarters of the MB-linked Palestinian group, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas"><span style="color: blue;">Hamas</span></a>, is located in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>'s capital <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Damascus</st1:place></st1:city>, where it is given Syrian government support. This is seen by some as an example of the lack of international centralization or even coordination of the MB.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jordan</b></st1:country-region> - The Hamas's Damascus-based leader, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Meshaal" title="Khaled Meshaal"><span style="color: blue;">Khaled Meshaal</span></a>, said: <span style="color: red;">"<st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>'s unrest will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United States</st1:place></st1:country-region>."</span> However, he did not specifically name Jordanian King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II" title="Abdullah II"><span style="color: blue;">Abdullah II</span></a>. The Muslim brotherhood is rightfully or wrongfully feared by several commentators in the west; however it is not known how many seats in a democratic government the brotherhood will gain in any of the aforementioned countries.<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iran</b> - Although Iran is a predominately Shia Muslim country and the Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni in doctrine, Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati claim the Brotherhood has had influence among Shia in Iran.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iraq</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- After the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq"><span style="color: blue;">fall</span></a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein"><span style="color: blue;">Saddam Hussein</span></a> regime in 2003, the Islamic Party has reemerged as one of the main advocates of the country's Sunni community. Also, in the north of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iraq</st1:place></st1:country-region> there are several Islamic movements inspired by or part of the Muslim Brotherhood network.<br />
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<st1:city w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Palestine</b></st1:city> -The Islamic Resistance Movement, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas"><span style="color: blue;">Hamas</span></a>, founded in 1987 in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Gaza</st1:place></st1:city>, is a wing of the Brotherhood, formed out of Brotherhood-affiliated charities and social institutions that had gained a strong foothold among the local population.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saudi Arabia</b></st1:place></st1:country-region> - The Brotherhood has been tolerated by the Saudi government, and maintains a presence in the country<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kuwait</b></st1:country-region> - The Muslim Brotherhood in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:place></st1:country-region> is represented in the Kuwaiti parliament by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadas" title="Hadas"><span style="color: blue;">Hadas</span></a>.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yemen</b></st1:place></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- The Muslim Brotherhood is the political arm of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform" title="Yemeni Congregation for Reform"><span style="color: blue;">Yemeni Congregation for Reform</span></a>, commonly known as Islah.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oman</b></st1:place></st1:country-region> - The Muslim Brotherhood obtained support from the uneducated people. <br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Algeria</b></st1:country-region> - When a multi-party system was introduced in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Algeria</st1:place></st1:country-region> in the early 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood formed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Society_of_Peace" title="Movement for the Society of Peace"><span style="color: blue;">Movement for the Society of Peace</span></a> (MSP), previously known as Hamas.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sudan</b></st1:country-region> - <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sudan</st1:place></st1:country-region> has a long and deep history with the Muslim Brotherhood compared to many other countries. By April 1949, the first branch of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood organization emerged. The Muslim Brotherhood/NIF's (National Islamic Front) main objective in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sudan</st1:place></st1:country-region> was to Islamize the society "from above" and to institutionalize the Islamic law throughout the country where they succeeded.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Somalia</b></st1:country-region> - <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s wing of the Muslim Brotherhood is known by the name Harakat Al-Islah or "Reform Movement". Nonetheless, the Brotherhood, as mentioned earlier, has inspired many Islamist organizations in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Somalia</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br />
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<st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tunisia</b></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Islamic world in general, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has influenced the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tunisia</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s Islamists.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">The <st1:placename w:st="on">United</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> - The </span><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation_for_Relief_and_Development#Terrorism_charges" title="Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development"><span style="color: red;">Holy Land Foundation trial</span></a></span><span style="color: red;"> has led to the release, as evidence, of several documents on the Muslim Brotherhood. One of these documents, dated in 1991, explains that the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> is "settlement," defined by the brotherhood as a form of jihad aimed at destroying Western civilization from within and allowing for the victory of Islam over other religions. In another one of these documents, "Ikhwan in America", the author alleges that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US include going to camps to do weapons training (referred to as Special work by the Muslim Brotherhood), as well as engaging in </span><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-espionage" title="Counter-espionage"><span style="color: red;">counter-espionage</span></a></span><span style="color: red;"> against US government agencies such as the </span><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation"><span style="color: red;">FBI</span></a></span><span style="color: red;"> and </span><span style="color: navy;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency"><span style="color: red;">CIA</span></a></span><span style="color: red;"> (referred to as Securing the Group). </span><br />
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The <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:place></st1:country-region> - The Muslim Brotherhood has formally been active in the U.K since 1996 and now holds a significant but widely unknown presence within the U.K's Muslim population.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine" title="FrontPage Magazine"><span style="color: red;">FrontPage Magazine</span></a>)</span><br />
"The Muslim Brotherhood is a group that worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas but because it defends the use of violence against civilians." <br />
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<span style="color: red;">(Editor of The Al Qaeda Reade)</span><br />
<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad"><span style="color: blue;">Muhammad</span></a> himself described war as "deceit" and those Muslim Brotherhood disciples, past and present, merely duplicate the "everlasting words of Allah", as iterated in the Qur'an. <br />
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<span style="color: red;">Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross,</span> who told <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharq_Alawsat" title="Asharq Alawsat"><span style="color: blue;">Asharq Alawsat</span></a> newspaper that the Muslim Brotherhood is a global, not a local organization, governed by a Shura Council, which rejects cessation of violence in Israel<span style="color: navy;">, and supports violence to achieve its political objectives elsewhere too.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">The Interior Minister of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:country-region>, Prince Naif Ibn Abdul Aziz has stated</span> ‘The Muslim Brotherhood” has links to groups across the Arab world, including <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jordan</st1:place></st1:country-region>'s main parliamentary opposition, the 'Islamic Action Front,' and the 'Palestinian resistance movement, 'Hamas." The Interior Minister's outburst against the Brotherhood came amid mounting criticism in the United States of Saudi Arabia's longstanding support for Islamist groups around the world.<br />
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<span style="color: red;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times"><span style="color: red;">Financial Times</span></a></span> reported financial links between 74-year-old Swiss Muslim convert, and businessman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Huber" title="Ahmed Huber"><span style="color: blue;">Ahmed Huber</span></a>, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, notably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef_Nada" title="Youssef Nada"><span style="color: blue;">Youssef Nada</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ali_Ghaleb_Himmat&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Ali Ghaleb Himmat (page does not exist)"><span style="color: blue;">Ali Ghaleb Himmat</span></a>. According to the <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">U.S.</st1:place></st1:country-region> government, Al Taqwa "has long acted as financial advisers to al-Qaeda." He is reported to have "confirmed" having "had contact with associates of <span style="color: red;">Osama bin Laden</span> at an Islamic conference in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beirut</st1:place></st1:city>", whom he called "very discreet, well-educated, very intelligent people”.<br />
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The involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood in the failed assignation of former President Nasser and President Assad and numerous other officials makes it doubtful that they will support a democratic system where non-Muslim or secular voices have a chance. <span style="color: red;">There are rumors that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to use the democratic system to hijack the government and to make <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> into a Sunni version of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> utilizing Sharia law as the main guiding principle of government.</span> Coptic Christians have already been attacked by Muslim Brotherhood thugs so it is clear that the Muslim Brotherhood has no intent to protect Coptic Christians in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br />
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Helmi el-Gazzar, member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), stated that the party decided to abandon the slogan <span style="color: red;">“Islam is the solution”</span> used by the Muslim Brotherhood for decades in favor of the new slogan <span style="color: red;">“Freedom is the Solution and Justice is the Application”</span> during the next parliamentary elections.<br />
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I believe history speaks for itself.<br />
-- Estelle P. Shrum<br />
<a href="http://www.heistheword.com/">www.Heistheword.com</a><br />
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<span style="color: red;">“Allah is our objective.<br />
The Prophet is our leader.<br />
Qur'an is our law.<br />
Jihad is our way.<br />
Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The Muslim Brotherhood's goal, as stated by Brotherhood founder <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hassan_al-Banna" title="Hassan al-Banna"><span style="color: windowtext;">Hassan al-Banna</span></a> was to reclaim Islam's manifest destiny, an empire, stretching from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spain" title="Spain"><span style="color: windowtext;">Spain</span></a> to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indonesia" title="Indonesia"><span style="color: windowtext;">Indonesia</span></a>. It preaches that Islam enjoins man to strive for social justice, the eradication of poverty and corruption, and political freedom to the extent allowed by the laws of Islam. The Brotherhood strongly opposes Western <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonialism" title="Colonialism"><span style="color: windowtext;">colonialism</span></a>, and helped overthrow the pro-<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_world" title="Western world"><span style="color: windowtext;">western</span></a> monarchies in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region></st1:place> and other Muslim countries during the early 20th century.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">In October 2007, the Muslim Brotherhood issued a detailed political platform. Amongst other things it called for a board of Muslim clerics to oversee the government, and limiting the office of the presidency to Muslim men. It declared that a woman was not suited to be president because the post's religious and military duties ’conflict with her nature, social and other humanitarian roles.` </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Arab Nations Involved with The Muslim Brotherhood:</b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Bahrain</b></st1:country-region></st1:place> - It has strongly opposed the government's accession to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Covenant_on_Civil_and_Political_Rights" title="International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights"><span style="color: windowtext;">International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights</span></a> on the grounds that this would give Muslim citizens the right to change religion, when in the party's view they should be "beheaded".</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Syria</b></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> -</b> Membership in the Syrian Brotherhood became a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment" title="Capital punishment"><span style="color: windowtext;">capital offence</span></a> in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region> in 1980, (but the headquarters of the MB-linked Palestinian group, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas"><span style="color: windowtext;">Hamas</span></a>, is located in the <st1:country-region w:st="on">Syria</st1:country-region>'s capital <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Damascus</st1:place></st1:city>, where it is given Syrian government support. This is seen by some as an example of the lack of international centralization or even coordination of the MB.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jordan</b></st1:country-region> - The Hamas's Damascus-based leader, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khaled_Meshaal" title="Khaled Meshaal"><span style="color: windowtext;">Khaled Meshaal</span></a>, said: <span style="color: red;">"<st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region>'s unrest will spread across the Mideast and Arabs will topple leaders allied with the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>."</span> However, he did not specifically name Jordanian King <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdullah_II" title="Abdullah II"><span style="color: windowtext;">Abdullah II</span></a>. The Muslim brotherhood is rightfully or wrongfully feared by several commentators in the west; however it is not known how many seats in a democratic government the brotherhood will gain in any of the aforementioned countries.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iran</b> - Although Iran is a predominately Shia Muslim country and the Muslim Brotherhood is Sunni in doctrine, Olga Davidson and Mohammad Mahallati claim the Brotherhood has had influence among Shia in Iran.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Iraq</b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- After the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq" title="2003 invasion of Iraq"><span style="color: windowtext;">fall</span></a> of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein" title="Saddam Hussein"><span style="color: windowtext;">Saddam Hussein</span></a> regime in 2003, the Islamic Party has reemerged as one of the main advocates of the country's Sunni community. Also, in the north of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Iraq</st1:country-region></st1:place> there are several Islamic movements inspired by or part of the Muslim Brotherhood network.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:city w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Palestine</b></st1:city> -The Islamic Resistance Movement, or <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamas" title="Hamas"><span style="color: windowtext;">Hamas</span></a>, founded in 1987 in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Gaza</st1:city></st1:place>, is a wing of the Brotherhood, formed out of Brotherhood-affiliated charities and social institutions that had gained a strong foothold among the local population.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Saudi Arabia</b></st1:country-region></st1:place> - The Brotherhood has been tolerated by the Saudi government, and maintains a presence in the country</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Kuwait</b></st1:country-region> - The Muslim Brotherhood in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Kuwait</st1:country-region></st1:place> is represented in the Kuwaiti parliament by <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadas" title="Hadas"><span style="color: windowtext;">Hadas</span></a>.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yemen</b></st1:country-region></st1:place><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- The Muslim Brotherhood is the political arm of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Congregation_for_Reform" title="Yemeni Congregation for Reform"><span style="color: windowtext;">Yemeni Congregation for Reform</span></a>, commonly known as Islah.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Oman</b></st1:country-region></st1:place> - The Muslim Brotherhood obtained support from the uneducated people. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Algeria</b></st1:country-region> - When a multi-party system was introduced in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Algeria</st1:country-region></st1:place> in the early 1990s, the Muslim Brotherhood formed the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Movement_for_the_Society_of_Peace" title="Movement for the Society of Peace"><span style="color: windowtext;">Movement for the Society of Peace</span></a> (MSP), previously known as Hamas.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Sudan</b></st1:country-region> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region></st1:place> has a long and deep history with the Muslim Brotherhood compared to many other countries. By April 1949, the first branch of the Sudanese Muslim Brotherhood organization emerged. The Muslim Brotherhood/NIF's (National Islamic Front) main objective in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Sudan</st1:country-region></st1:place> was to Islamize the society "from above" and to institutionalize the Islamic law throughout the country where they succeeded.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Somalia</b></st1:country-region> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Somalia</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s wing of the Muslim Brotherhood is known by the name Harakat Al-Islah or "Reform Movement". Nonetheless, the Brotherhood, as mentioned earlier, has inspired many Islamist organizations in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Somalia</st1:country-region></st1:place>.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><st1:country-region w:st="on"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Tunisia</b></st1:country-region><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"> </b>- Like their counterparts elsewhere in the Islamic world in general, the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood has influenced the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Tunisia</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s Islamists.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">The <st1:placename w:st="on">United</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">State</st1:placetype> of <st1:country-region w:st="on">America</st1:country-region> - The </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land_Foundation_for_Relief_and_Development#Terrorism_charges" title="Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">Holy Land Foundation trial</span></span></a><span style="color: red;"> has led to the release, as evidence, of several documents on the Muslim Brotherhood. One of these documents, dated in 1991, explains that the goal of the Muslim Brotherhood in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> is "settlement," defined by the brotherhood as a form of jihad aimed at destroying Western civilization from within and allowing for the victory of Islam over other religions. In another one of these documents, "Ikhwan in America", the author alleges that the activities of the Muslim Brotherhood in the US include going to camps to do weapons training (referred to as Special work by the</span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="color: red;"> </span><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">Muslim Brotherhood), as well as engaging in </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-espionage" title="Counter-espionage"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">counter-espionage</span></span></a><span style="color: red;"> against US government agencies such as the </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Bureau_of_Investigation" title="Federal Bureau of Investigation"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">FBI</span></span></a><span style="color: red;"> and </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Intelligence_Agency" title="Central Intelligence Agency"><span style="color: navy;"><span style="color: red;">CIA</span></span></a><span style="color: red;"> (referred to as Securing the Group).</span></span></span><span style="color: red;"> <o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United Kingdom</st1:country-region></st1:place> - The Muslim Brotherhood has formally been active in the U.K since 1996 and now holds a significant but widely unknown presence within the U.K's Muslim population.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrontPage_Magazine" title="FrontPage Magazine"><span style="color: red;">FrontPage Magazine</span></a>)<o:p></o:p></span></div>"The Muslim Brotherhood is a group that worries us not because it deals with philosophical or ideological ideas but because it defends the use of violence against civilians." <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;">(Editor of The Al Qaeda Reade)</span></div><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad" title="Muhammad"><span style="color: windowtext;">Muhammad</span></a> himself described war as "deceit" and those Muslim Brotherhood disciples, past and present, merely duplicate the "everlasting words of Allah", as iterated in the Qur'an. <span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;">Former U.S. Middle East peace envoy Dennis Ross,</span> who told <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asharq_Alawsat" title="Asharq Alawsat"><span style="color: windowtext;">Asharq Alawsat</span></a> newspaper that the Muslim Brotherhood is a global, not a local organization, governed by a Shura Council, which rejects cessation of violence in Israel<span style="color: navy;">, and supports violence to achieve its political objectives elsewhere too.<o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;">The Interior Minister of <st1:country-region w:st="on">Saudi Arabia</st1:country-region>, Prince Naif Ibn Abdul Aziz has stated</span> ‘The Muslim Brotherhood” has links to groups across the Arab world, including <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">Jordan</st1:country-region></st1:place>'s main parliamentary opposition, the 'Islamic Action Front,' and the 'Palestinian resistance movement, 'Hamas." The Interior Minister's outburst against the Brotherhood came amid mounting criticism in the United States of Saudi Arabia's longstanding support for Islamist groups around the world.</div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span style="color: red;">The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times" title="Financial Times"><span style="color: red;">Financial Times</span></a></span> reported financial links between 74-year-old Swiss Muslim convert, and businessman <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahmed_Huber" title="Ahmed Huber"><span style="color: windowtext;">Ahmed Huber</span></a>, and members of the Muslim Brotherhood, notably <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Youssef_Nada" title="Youssef Nada"><span style="color: windowtext;">Youssef Nada</span></a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ali_Ghaleb_Himmat&action=edit&redlink=1" title="Ali Ghaleb Himmat (page does not exist)"><span style="color: windowtext;">Ali Ghaleb Himmat</span></a>. According to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">U.S.</st1:country-region></st1:place> government, Al Taqwa "has long acted as financial advisers to al-Qaeda." He is reported to have "confirmed" having "had contact with associates of <span style="color: red;">Osama bin Laden</span> at an Islamic conference in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Beirut</st1:city></st1:place>", whom he called "very discreet, well-educated, very intelligent people”.<span style="color: red;"><o:p></o:p></span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">Foreign Relations<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>The involvement of the Muslim Brotherhood in the failed assignation of former President Nasser and President Assad and numerous other officials makes it doubtful that they will support a democratic system where non-Muslim or secular voices have a chance. <span style="color: red;">There are rumors that the Muslim Brotherhood wants to use the democratic system to hijack the government and to make <st1:country-region w:st="on">Egypt</st1:country-region> into a Sunni version of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Iran</st1:place></st1:country-region> utilizing Sharia law as the main guiding principle of government.</span> Coptic Christians have already been attacked by Muslim Brotherhood thugs so it is clear that the Muslim Brotherhood has no intent to protect Coptic Christians in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Egypt</st1:place></st1:country-region>. <br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Helmi el-Gazzar, member of the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), stated that the party decided to abandon the slogan <span style="color: red;">“Islam is the solution”</span> used by the Muslim Brotherhood for decades in favor of the new slogan <span style="color: red;">“Freedom is the Solution and Justice is the Application”</span> during the next parliamentary elections<br />
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I believe history speaks for itself.</div>--<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Estelle P. Shrum<br />
<a href="http://www.heistheword.com/">www.Heistheword.com</a>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-84533811940683353732012-01-13T09:40:00.000-08:002012-01-24T12:03:51.243-08:00This Is Not About Race or Politics...It's about FactsI wrote this four years ago and it seems it seems like nothing has changed!<br />
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ASK YOURSELF THESE QUESTIONS WITHOUT RACISM OR POLITICS…<br />
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Isn’t it true that no one was called a racist when Bush was loathed and called every name under the sun?<br />
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Isn’t it true that Bush gave more money to help the people in Africa than any other President?<br />
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Isn’t it true that many white people voted for Obama and helped him to become President?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Obama was the first person to use the race card?<br />
Isn’t it true that racists have always been around, and not just with this <br />
election, or this President?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Kennedy met with much prejudice because he was Catholic?<br />
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Isn’t it true that Jimmy Carter’s politics is racist against the Jews, but he claims racism against Obama?<br />
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Isn’t it true that the American people love our country and are proud of it?<br />
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Isn’t it true that American’s give more money to charities than any other country in the world?<br />
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Isn’t it true that American people are frightened of a $23.1 trillion deficit over the next 10 years, and don’t want to leave a debt like this to their descendants?<br />
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Isn’t it a legitimate fear of the bail out money that went to the banks, insurance companies, and auto industry with so little accountability?<br />
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Isn’t it true that many people fear where this country is headed and think the changes may be for the worse?<br />
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Isn’t it true that conservatives disagree with liberals, and liberals disagree with conservatives, and it has nothing to do with race, color or creed?<br />
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Isn’t it true we are all immigrants to America? Most of our great-grandparents came from another country, with exception to the American Indian who had their land stolen from us.<br />
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Isn’t it true that separation of church and state means that government cannot dictate or forbid religion? But it doesn’t mean that government is not allowed to have faith in God?<br />
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Isn’t it true that Islamic extremists in many parts of the world tortured and chopped heads off of our U.S. soldiers and citizens? Can that compare to water boarding three killers?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Obama announced to the world that America is NOT a Judeo/Christian nation?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Obama ignored Nation Prayer Day? What message is he sending?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Obama gave pause and recognized Gay and Lesbian Day? What message is he sending?<br />
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Isn’t it true that President Obama Bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, and did not kiss the Pope’s ring? What message is he sending?<br />
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IF YOU ARE A CHRISTIAN AND LOVE THE LORD ASK YOURSELF THIS?<br />
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DO I HAVE HATE IN MY HEART FOR PRESIDENT OBAMA, OR ANYONE ELSE? I HOPE THE ANSWER IS NO BECAUSE IT IS A SCIENTIFIC FACT THAT TWO ELEMENTS CANNOT OCCUPY THE SAME SPACE. WE CANNOT HATE ANYONE AND LOVE CHRIST…<br />
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WHAT DOES YOUR HEART TELL YOU? PRAY FOR OUR NATION AND PRESIDENT OBAMA FOR I FEAR THE CHANGES HE IS GOING TO MAKE WILL DESTORY OUR COUNTRY.<br />
--- Estelle P. Shrum<br />
<a href="http://www.heistheword.com/"><span style="color: #473624;">www.Heistheword.com</span></a>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-79861188018727771952012-01-07T15:10:00.000-08:002012-01-07T15:10:17.726-08:00How can I say this in a Godly way?After thinking how I would approach this I have decided that there is no diplomatic way to say the things I am about to say. I do know that no one can cast the first stone, because we all sin, and fall short of the glory of God. I also believe that we are living in the end days as the Bible so clearly tells us. Of course, no one person, not even Jesus, when He walked the earth, knows the hour of His return, but the Bible tells us to watch the fig tree, and we can know when the season is near. The Bible tells us “This generation will not pass away” until all these things Jesus spoke of will come to pass. Well they are coming to pass more quickly than we realize. In the day of the internet with information so readily available, time is but a millisecond away. <br />
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<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When I was growing up people had the good sense not to discuss politics, religion, or sex. People had the good taste to keep their dirty laundry within the confines of their own home. No one hung out their dirty laundry. Today, the more people that are open about their bad habits, their personal feelings, or their secrets, are there for the world to witness. In my humble opinion that is why our society is so accepting of everything and anything. It actually makes one cool to air their dysfunctional lives. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Most people have a secret they we would not want known, but Christians confess it to God, and repent, because they are convicted of sin. Today our society just makes excuses for it. This is why our country will never move forward. We are living in the days of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sodom</st1:city></st1:place> and Gomorra and there is no Noah to build us an ark. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">O.K….let’s take <b>sex</b>, for example. Our society now accepts, open marital relationships, soft pornography, (at the moment most still frown at hard porn), people living together (we used to think of it as “shacking up”), but now it is quite acceptable. We embrace that homosexuals have all the benefits of marriage that God created for man and woman. Homosexuals have been around as long as the bible, this is not something new. Of course we never want to repeat the past and condemn anyone for their life style. Man was given free choice and a free will to do whatever our laws today allow. Christians believe sin is sin, and there is no sin that is better or worse than another. However, God is a holy God, and only one man walked the earth without sin and that was Jesus. No one, but Him, is without sin. However, as a society we accept whatever feels good and is politically correct, and that is a new standard. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now let’s, take <b>religion</b>, another taboo topic. Today our society is very conscious of not offending most religions. I say most religions because it doesn’t seem that society cares about offending Christians. Between the three major religions, Jews, Christians, and Muslims, they have all suffered from persecution, but I am speaking of today, not the past. Today Christians are held in contempt. It is obvious they offend atheists, and far left liberals. Otherwise why would they fight so hard to remove God from every part of secular society by using a lame excuse as not mixing government and religion? They don’t care or understand what Thomas Jefferson wrote. It was written to defend freedom of religion, so government could never dictate religion, not the other way around. <span style="color: #3366ff;">His quote will be at the end of this article</span>. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Now, for another taboo subject…<b>politics.</b> This topic is more harmful and threatening than sex, and religion. It can cause you to lose more friends than disagreeing on either sex or religion. I am really amazed at how hateful people can become on their political views. The odd part is that most people know very little about politics, only what they hear on the news, and the people that are involved only listen to one side…either conservative or liberal news stations. For all practical purposes newspapers are extinct, the only good thing in them are the sales. So to be really up on political news, you must listen and read up on both sides of an issue; before you make your mind up on what you believe to be true. However, it is impossible not to mix sex, and religion with politics, because it’s our politics that dictate who we are and how our society should be ruled. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The rest of this article speaks to the <b>75%</b> of the population in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> who claim to be a Christian. I realize that Christians are no better or worse than anyone else, but I do have an issue that confuses me and shakes me to the core. There is no easy way to approach it…but why did <b>75%</b> of the Christian population give their vote for legal abortions, especially allowing late term abortions. These babies are viable and can live outside the mother’s womb? How can anyone justify that? The Bible says there is a time to be born and a time to die, so if we make a choice to take a life we need to be sure it is justified, and only self defense is justified. Do they know that seven thousand babies are killed every year in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Jacksonville</st1:city>, <st1:state w:st="on">FL</st1:state></st1:place>? </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">When I was a young girl I was raised Catholic and didn’t believe in abortion, but as I grew older my beliefs changed and although I still believed that I would never have an abortion, I still didn’t feel I had the right to make that choice for anyone else. I believed they would have to answer to God for what they did. Well, when I became a born again Christian, I realized that if I don’t speak out and say it is wrong, what I am actually saying is that’s it’s OK. It’s never OK to break God’s Commandments. It’s never OK to be silent when society goes against breaking the "Ten Commandments". I can tell you from experience of counseling women from all ages who had abortions that they never get over the pain and remorse of making that decision. They feel the lost of their child the rest of their lives. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Also, why do Christians in our society not care that marriage has been redefined by our society to appease the minority. Marriage was a gift from God for man and woman to be united as one. Homosexuals have been married by civil law for years, so how do Christians justify these broken commandments that God gave to the Jews and Christians? </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Another issue that grieves me is that so many people seem to want a socialist society. Do they really want their freedom to choose taken away? Do they want the government to take care of them? Why is their anger targeted at only the <b>1%</b> of the population who are rich? Do they not realize the <b>1%</b> of rich people are the people who start up big factories and business that create their jobs? Most of these <b>"rich" </b>people are <b>self-made millionaires</b>. It would be far easier to take away their “loop-holes” than unfairly taxing them just because they’re rich? God only asks Christians to give <b>10%</b> for the warehouse, so there should be plenty left over to take care of the poor and the hungry. Do these Christians give God their 10%? Do they feed the hungry, or give to the poor. Or do they want the rich to do it all? It is a fact that middle class conservatives give more money to charities than the far left liberals. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So why do we allow the minority far left wing to rule our nation? What has happened in the last ten years to divide our nation so drastically? It is more than just greed. Greed has always been around, democrats and republicans have always been around. The rich, the middle class, and the poor, have always been around. Immigration has always been around, atheists and agnostics have always been around, and extremists have always been around. So what has changed? </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">It is man’s <span style="color: black;">heart</span> that has changed, and he has turned his back on his creator for the last time. We are living in the end days, where sin will increase at a remarkable rate, and the <b>book of Matthew</b> will come to pass. History has already witnessed hundreds of prophecies come true. If you are not a Bible believer, I tell you true, it is the most remarkable, truthful, and inspiring book you will ever read. It has been with us from Genesis 1145 B.C. to Revelation early 90 A.D. It is the spirit of the living God and through his Saints He gave witness of His love for mankind. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">So when you vote next year, vote your conscience, and not politics. If we want to make the right choice as Christians we have to choose God’s Word every time. Politics has no conscience. For believers, it’s God’s way or the highway. We can not vote race, color or creed. Never allow politics to override God’s principles. </div><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b>CHURCH AND STATE</b> </div><div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><strong>A<span class="yiv2139665007mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ncient history</span></span></span></strong><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Ancient history is replete with examples of the mixing and melding of Church and state. Typically a successful ruler or king would assume various "priestly" titles, in addition to the "temporal" titles that such a position tended to confer. Some examples of this certain Church-state mixing and melding are: the execution of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates" target="_blank" title="Socrates"><span style="color: blue;">Socrates</span></a>, whereby Socrates was sentenced to death by the Athenian state for among other things, "his disrespect for the Gods", the claim of many of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kings_of_Judah" target="_blank" title="Kings of Judah"><span style="color: blue;">ancient Judean kings</span></a> to rule with a mandate from Heaven, or the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Thessalonica" target="_blank" title="Edict of Thessalonica"><span style="color: blue;">Edict of Thessalonica</span></a>, whereby Christianity was officially made the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_church_of_the_Roman_Empire" target="_blank" title="State church of the Roman Empire"><span style="color: blue;">state religion of the Roman Empire</span></a>.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br />
</div><span class="yiv2139665007mw-headline"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong>Reformation</strong></span></span></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">At the beginning of the Protestant Reformation, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" target="_blank" title="Martin Luther"><span style="color: blue;">Martin Luther</span></a> articulated a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_the_two_kingdoms" target="_blank" title="Doctrine of the two kingdoms"><span style="color: blue;">doctrine of the two kingdoms</span></a>. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Madison" target="_blank" title="James Madison"><span style="color: blue;">James Madison</span></a>, perhaps one of the most important modern proponents of the separation of church and state, Luther's doctrine of the two kingdoms marked the beginning of the modern conception of separation of church and state. </span></div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In the 1530s <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" target="_blank" title="Henry VIII of England"><span style="color: blue;">Henry VIII</span></a>, angered by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Church" target="_blank" title="Catholic Church"><span style="color: blue;">Catholic Church</span></a>'s refusal to annul his marriage with his wife <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" target="_blank" title="Catherine of Aragon"><span style="color: blue;">Catherine of Aragon</span></a>, decided to break with the Church and set himself as ruler of the new Church of England, the Anglican Church, ending the separation that had existed<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">[ </span></sup>between Church and State in England. </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Main article: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state_in_the_United_States" target="_blank" title="Separation of church and state in the United States"><span style="color: blue;">Separation of church and state in the United States</span></a></span> </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">In the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place>, the term is an offshoot of the phrase, "wall of separation between church and state," as written in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" target="_blank" title="Thomas Jefferson"><span style="color: blue;">Thomas Jefferson</span></a>'s letter to the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptists_in_the_history_of_separation_of_church_and_state" target="_blank" title="Baptists in the history of separation of church and state"><span style="color: blue;">Danbury Baptist Association</span></a> in 1802. The original text reads: "... <span style="color: red;">I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church & State." <st1:place w:st="on">Jefferson</st1:place> reflected his frequent speaking theme that the government is not to interfere with religion</span>. The phrase was quoted by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Supreme_Court" target="_blank" title="United States Supreme Court"><span style="color: blue;">United States Supreme Court</span></a> first in 1878, and then in a series of cases starting in 1947. The phrase "separation of church and state" itself does not appear in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" title="United States Constitution"><span style="color: blue;">United States Constitution</span></a>. The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" target="_blank" title="First
Amendment to the United States Constitution"><span style="color: blue;">First Amendment</span></a> states that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." The <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supreme_Court" target="_blank" title="Supreme Court"><span style="color: blue;">Supreme Court</span></a> did not consider the question of how this applied to the states until 1947; when they did, in <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everson_v._Board_of_Education" target="_blank" title="Everson v. Board of Education"><span style="color: blue;">Everson v. Board of Education</span></a></i>, all nine justices agreed that there was a wall of separation between church and state, but a majority held that the present case (a local authority paying to transport parochial students to school), the benefits to the children outweighed the Constitutional objection. </span></div><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p> </o:p></span><br />
<div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b>By Estelle P. Shrum</b> </div><div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><a href="http://www.heistheword.com/">www.Heistheword.com</a></div><div class="yiv2139665007msonormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Author of: He Is The Word</div>Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-80973160359086483402012-01-06T11:02:00.000-08:002012-01-06T11:02:11.983-08:00QUOTES BY MARK TWAIN ON GOVERNMENTThe government is not best which secures mere life and property -- there is a more valuable thing -- manhood. - Mark Twain's Notebook<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">...nations have no command over their governments, & in fact no influence over them, except of a fleeting & rather ineffectual sort.</div>- Letter to Baroness von Suttner, 17 February 1898<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">I think it is not wise for an emperor, or a king, or a president, to come down into the boxing ring, so to speak, and lower the dignity of his office by meddling in the small affairs of private citizens.</div>-- Mark Twain in Eruption<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The government of my country snubs honest simplicity, but fondles artistic villainy, and I think I might have developed into a very capable pickpocket if I had remained in the public service a year or two.</div>-- Roughing It<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do. -- A Tramp Abroad</div><o:p> </o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">...no country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more.</div>- The Gilded Age<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">The mania for giving the Government power to meddle with the private affairs of cities or citizens is likely to cause endless trouble, through the rivaly of schools and creeds that are anxious to obtain official recognition, and there is great danger that our people will lose our independence of thought and action which is the cause of much of our greatness, and sink into the helplessness of the Frenchman or German who expects his government to feed him when hungry, clothe him when naked, to prescribe when his child may be born and when he may die, and, in fine, to regulate every act of humanity from the cradle to the tomb, including the manner in which he may seek future admission to paradise. - "Official Physic"</div><o:p> </o:p><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">There is a phrase which has grown so common in the world's mouth that it has come to seem to have sense and meaning--the sense and meaning implied when it is used: that is the phrase which refers to this or that or the other nation as possibly being "capable of self-government;" and the implied sense of it is, that there has been a nation somewhere, some time or other, which wasn't capable of it - wasn't as able to govern itself as some self-appointed specailists were or would be to govern it. The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung, in affluent multitude, from the mass of the nation, and from the mass of the nation only--not from its privileged classes; and so, no matter what the nation's intellectual grade was, whether high or low, the bulk of its ability was in the long ranks of its nameless and its poor, and so it never saw the day that it had not the material in abundance whereby to govern itself. Which is to assert an always self-proven fact: that even the best governed and most free and most enlightened monarchy is still behind the best condition attainable by its people; and that the same is true of kindred governments of lower grades all the way down to the lowest.</div>- A <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Connecticut</st1:place></st1:state> Yankee in King Arthur's CourtStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-43886383975325473682011-09-19T13:34:00.000-07:002011-09-19T13:34:10.659-07:00THEY WANT TO CHANGE AMERICA<strong> </strong><span><span style="font-size: x-small;">They want to change the face of American but some of those changes may be unwise.<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-weight: normal;">They want to change our Constitution and that may lead to our countries demise.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want open borders allowing more people to enter here illegally.</div>They want to give amnesty to those who are cheating the ones who came legally.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want us to be like European governments who have lost all their authority.</div>They want Muslims to have freedom of Sharia law dictating their laws to the majority.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want us to be like <st1:country-region w:st="on">China</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Sweden</st1:place></st1:country-region> where it is legal to abort a child for sex selection.</div>They want to change the face of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> to a country without values or direction.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want us to embrace the terrorists and apologize for water boarding to save lives.</div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want us to close Gitmo and allow extremists free to kill and execute with knives. </div><br />
<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want to change the definition of marriage when civil unions are already accepted.</div>They want us to be agreeable with everything they change with no dissent expected.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want to keep their freedom of speech but the conservatives must remain quiet.</div>They want cable news silenced and never say a word about the radicals who riot.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">They want our nation to be a socialist state nation with one party ruling the day.</div>They want to change <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region> to a third world country and this may happen to our dismay.<br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">By Estelle P. Shrum</div><a href="http://www.heistheword.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.Heistheword.com</span></a><br />
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><b>2 Chronicles 7:14<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”<o:p></o:p></b></div><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">AL-QAEDA ISLAM IS VERY DANGEROUS TO <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">ISRAEL</st1:place></st1:country-region></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">HISTORY OF HATRED AGAINST JEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">175-163 B.C. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Attempt to outlaw Judaism<br />
164- 163 B.C. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Jerusalem</st1:place></st1:city> captured<br />
72 A.D. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Palestine<br />
1096 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>12,000 Jews killed in </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> First </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Crusade<br />
1099 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jerusalem captured, </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Jews killed<br />
1215 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Forced to wear yellow circle </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> on clothes<br />
1290 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from England<br />
1306 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from France<br />
1349 -1360 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Hungary<br />
1421 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Austria<br />
1492 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Spain<br />
1495 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Lithuania<br />
1497 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Expelled from Portugal<br />
15th century – 1772 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Banned in Russia<br />
1555 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Forced into Italian ghettos<br />
1543 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Concerning the Jews and </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Their Lies”</span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> released<br />
1648-49 <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>10,000 killed in massacres in</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Ukraine<br />
1925 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>“Mein Kampf” published<br />
1933 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nazi Party comes to power in </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Germany<br />
1935 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Nuremburg Laws introduced<br />
1938 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>7,500 businesses destroyed in </span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> Kristallnacht<br />
1941 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>33,000 killed in Ukraine<br />
1941-1945 <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>67% European Jews are</span><br />
<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> murdered<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Hizbollah is known to have been involved in numerous anti-U.S. and anti-Israeli terrorist attacks and prior to September 11, 2001, was responsible for more American deaths than any other terrorist group.</div>
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Hizbaollahs terrorist attacks have included the suicide truck bombings of the U.S. Embassy and U.S. Marine barracks in <st1:city w:st="on">Beirut</st1:city> in 1983, and the U.S. Embassy annex in <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Beirut</st1:place></st1:city> in 1984, and the 1985 hijacking of TWA flight 847, during which a U.S. Navy diver was murdered.</div>
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April 20, 2011 (Address to a large crowd in the Iranian city of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Sanandaj</st1:city></st1:place>)</div>
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Qaradawi: The Jews are the most miserly of all people and the most protective of their lives, yet they devote their lives and their money to their cause. The Muslims worldwide must contribute to the regaining of <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:city>. <st1:city w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Palestine</st1:place></st1:city> is not merely Islamic land. It is the land of the Al-Aqsa Mosque and of the holy places. (Dec 17, 2010)</div>
Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-63635697913278087472011-08-30T16:52:00.000-07:002015-08-10T16:47:06.677-07:00AMERICA IS NO LONGER A MELTING POT!AMERICA IS NO LONGER A MELTING POT<br />
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The writing on the Statue of Liberty says: <br />
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Give me your tired, your poor, <br />
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, <br />
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. <br />
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, <br />
I lift my lamp beside the golden door!<br />
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Those poignant words are so beautiful and will always remain music to my soul. <br />
The immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900’s were a beacon for those legally searching for a better life. They came here and worked hard and learned English. Their pride would never allow them to ask for a hand out. They were thankful to be in a land where they could practice freedom of religion. They were anxious to learn American ways. <br />
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However, there are some new immigrant's who do not hold the same ideals of those immigrants who once teemed our shores yearning to be free The new immigrants expect entitlements while remaining faithful to their mother countries. They expect America to print everything in their native language. Many refuse to learn to speak English. They fly their homeland flags in place of the American flag. They come here expecting to be taken care of. The new immigrants do not want to be part of the American dream, they want to rule over and change the American dream. Many come from countries where cheating, stealing and crime was a way of life and they bring that system to America and then spread the word to their friends and family members on how to cheat our system. America is no longer a melting pot because these new immigrants do not want to live by our code of ethics or laws. Truly, America is no longer the great melting pot we once were; we have become a dumping ground.<br />
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Case in point…Fox news reported on an story of an illegal immigrant winning $750,000 for a Georgia State Lottery ticket, but since he was illegal, he did not have a social security card, so he asked his employer (who knowingly hired him illegally) to pick up the money for him and they would split the money 50/50. I am sure you can guess what happened here! The employer kept all the money, and now the illegal immigrant is suing his employer. How can someone who is in America illegally sue anybody? I can only hope the money will go back to the state, the illegal alien will get deported, and the employer gets fined for hiring him. If we had sanity or justice in America that would happen. Unfortunately we live in a mad society. So even though the "illegal" may be exploited by the employer, the American taxpayer is exploited by the illegal through welfare, food stamps, section 8 housing, free healthcare, free education for children...etc.<br />
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Truly! What is wrong with a government willing to lavish all kinds of social benefits on illegal immigrants, but does not want to support their troops? <br />
Why are our soldiers living on the streets and not having their health care needs met? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>We need to get control legal and illegal immigration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> W</span>hy shouldn't we have the right to protect our borders like any other country? <br />
My heart hurts for the choices and changes in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">America</st1:place></st1:country-region>.<br />
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FACTS ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION:<br />
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In 2010 illegal aliens took advantage of a loophole created by Obama when he expanded tax credits in the "Stimulus Plan" which cost the Federal Government $4.2 billion.<br />
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<st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Pew</st1:placename> <st1:placename w:st="on">Hispanic</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Center</st1:placetype></st1:place> puts the number of people living here illegally at 11.2 million.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">The Pew analysis is based on the Census Bureau's Current Population Survey through March 2010. Because the Census Bureau does not ask people about their immigration status, the estimate on illegal immigrants is derived largely by subtracting the estimated legal immigrant population from the total foreign-born population. It is a method that has been used by the government and Pew for many years and is generally accepted.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Bear Stearns used micro-economic indicators to project an alternative estimate. They examined trends in school enrollment, foreign remittances and housing permits in states with high populations of undocumented immigrants like <st1:state w:st="on">Texas</st1:state>, <st1:state w:st="on">California</st1:state>, and <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">New York</st1:place></st1:state>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their estimate of 20 million illegal immigrants is the identification of two patterns: 1) a trend of sharply increased demand for public services in communities that have become gateways for immigration, and 2) increases in foreign remittances (money sent back to an immigrant's native country), housing permits and border-crossings.</span><br />
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Other Immigration officials estimate that the illegal immigrant population grows by as many as 500,000 every year. <br />
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>--Estelle P. Shrum <a href="http://www.heistheword.com/"><span style="color: blue;">www.Heistheword.com</span></a>.<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<br />Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-88831532906002441272011-08-25T18:21:00.000-07:002011-08-25T18:21:15.644-07:00Which side of the fence do you sit on?<br />
Which side of the fence do you sit on?<br />
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If you ever wondered which side of the fence you sit on, this is a great<br />
test!<br />
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If a Republican doesn't like guns, he doesn't buy one. If a Democrat<br />
doesn't like guns, he wants all guns outlawed.<br />
If a Republican is a vegetarian, he doesn't eat meat. If a Democrat is a<br />
vegetarian, he wants all meat products banned for everyone. <br />
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If a Republican is homosexual, he quietly leads his life. If a Democrat<br />
is homosexual, he demands legislated respect.<br />
If a Republican is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his<br />
situation. A Democrat wonders who is going to take care of him.<br />
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If a Republican doesn't like a talk show host, he switches channels.<br />
Democrats demand that those they don't like be shut down.<br />
If a Republican is a non-believer, he doesn't go to church. A Democrat<br />
non-believer wants any mention of God and religion silenced.<br />
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If a Republican decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping<br />
for it, or may choose a job that provides it.<br />
A Democrat demands that the rest of us pay for his.<br />
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If a Republican reads this, he'll forward it so his friends can have a<br />
good laugh.<br />
A Democrat will delete it because he's “offended”.<br />
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Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-89048695173377788252011-08-05T21:12:00.000-07:002011-08-05T21:14:02.479-07:00THE ARABS ARE NOT HAPPY!!!The Arabs are not happy...!!! <br /> <br />Posted by an anonymous person who reads newspapers every day... <br /> <br />The conclusion: The Arabs are not happy!!! <br /> <br />· They are not happy in Gaza. <br />· They are not happy in the West. <br />· They are not happy in Jerusalem. <br />· They are not happy in Israel. <br />· They are not happy in Egypt. <br />· They are not happy in Libya. <br />· They are not happy in Algeria. <br />· They are not happy in Tunis. <br />· They are not happy in Morocco. <br />· They are not happy in Yemen. <br />· They are not happy in Iraq. <br />· They are not happy in Afghanistan. <br />· They are not happy in Syria. <br />· They are not happy in Lebanon. <br />· They are not happy in Sudan. <br />· They are not happy in Jordan. <br />· They are not happy in Iran. <br /> <br />Where are the Arabs happy? <br /> <br />· They are happy in England. <br />· They are happy in France. <br />· They are happy in Italy. <br />· They are happy in Germany. <br />· They are happy in Sweden. <br />· They are happy in Holland. <br />· They are happy in Belgium. <br />· They are happy in Norway. <br />· They are happy in the U.S.. <br />· They are happy in Australia. <br />· They are happy in the New Zealand. <br />· They are happy in Romania. <br />· They are happy in Hungary. <br /> <br />They are happy in any other country in the world that is not under a Muslim rule. <br /> <br />And whom do they blame? <br /> <br />· Not Islam. <br />· Not their leadership. <br />· Not themselves. <br /> <br />But the same countries in which they are happy to live. This is so true ..... Democracy is really good for them : <br /> <br />In a democracy they can live comfortably, enjoy the high quality of life which they did not build and work for, they don’t have to be productive and earn a living, they can be wild, pray in the street and exploit social services, bite the hand that feeds them. <br /> <br />And by the time the free world wakes up, it will be too lateStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-49528585129164091592011-08-04T13:00:00.000-07:002011-08-04T13:03:06.942-07:00JESUS I LOVE (Song)JESUS I LOVE YOU (song)<br /><br />Jesus I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It’s a blessing to walk with you.<br />It’s a comfort to talk to you.<br /><br />Jesus I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It’s a pleasure to praise you.<br />It’s a joy to adore you.<br /><br />Jesus I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It’s a privilege to worship you.<br />It’s humbling to know you.<br /><br />Jesus I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It’s a gift just to feel you.<br />It’s peaceful being near you.<br /><br />Jesus, I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It‘s my desire to be with you.<br />It’s my dream just to see you.<br /><br />Jesus I love you, Jesus I love you.<br />It’s delightful to hear from you.<br />And I thank you for loving me too.<br /><br />By Estelle P. Shrum<br />www.Heistheword.comStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-57575985797752415212011-07-31T13:04:00.000-07:002015-08-10T16:44:38.910-07:00AMERICA IS FED UP!OUR AMERICAN DILEMMA!<br />
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August 2nd is the time line for America’s government to decide the bi-partisan dilemma. This fiasco is so confusing that most American’s don’t know who, or what, to believe. Our country has never been so divided. There is no tolerance between democrats and republicans because their ideology is so far apart.<br />
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President Obama has to take partial blame in the polarization of our government. He must take responsible for the division of the House, the Senate, and for all the states being so divided. The changes he adhered to when he ran for office was mainly for a minority of far left democrats with big pockets. "Move on.org was one of them and George Soros, who is an atheist, and admittedly helped the Nazis with the coffiscation of property from the Jews in 1944, who also stated he has no conscience of wrong doing. Mr. Soros does not care a hoot about America, it‘s forefather‘s, it‘s history, or it‘s future.<br />
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When President Obama was campaigning he ran on change for America, but did the American people realize that he wanted to change our entire system. He wants the rich to give to the poor, but WHO decides how much to take? What happens if the rich take their money, their businesses, and their ingenuity and bring it to a country that appreciates them? Bill O’Reilly, Donald Trump, and many other wealthy people have already stated that they don’t mind paying more taxes but they would leave America if they were unfairly taxed.<br />
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What President Obama is advocating is a moderate socialist system with government being the ruling force. America is a three party system for a reason. Socialism is not a far leap from a government ruling the people rather than the people ruling the government.<br />
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Bottom line… pray for our country. <br />
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GOD BLESS AMERICA...Estelle<br />
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Estelle P. Shrum - Author of, He Is The Word<br />
My book: http://bit.ly/cemM8z<br />
My website: www.heistheword.com/index.htm<br />
My blog: http://wwwheistheword-estelle.blogspot.com/Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-83225805269690288622011-07-08T14:16:00.000-07:002011-07-08T14:42:56.496-07:00THE CRUX OF THE CASEY ANTHONY TRIAL…As so many of you, my heart breaks for the lack of justice for little Caylee. I watched every moment possible of the trial so I could come to an unbiased opinion. I don’t take the news media as gospel… So here is what I took away from it.<br /><br />The Prosecution did a good job on presenting the circumstantial evidence.<br /><br />The Defense did a good job on rebutting the circumstantial evidence.<br /><br />The family did a good job on confusing all the evidence presented.<br /><br />The witnesses did a good job on lying, deceiving, exaggerating, embellishing, and distorting the evidence.<br /><br />The Judge did a good job on slowing the entire process down. If he talked any slower everyone would have fallen asleep.<br /><br />The jury did a good job on coping out with a fair verdict because the Jury did not understand what circumstantial evidence meant.<br /><br />CONCLUSION:<br /><br />The simple truth is that no one will ever know the truth because the lies were overwhelming. We will never get the truth from Casey, because she is incapable of it. So I must conclude that the Defense team, the joyful way they acted, must really believe that Casey did not kill her daughter, or they are the most deceitful defense team ever.<br /><br />I must also believe the Prosecution was convinced of Casey’s guilt, or they would never have brought her to trial for murder. I agree with most everyone that they over-reached by asking for the death penalty. <br /><br />I also believe, if Casey was a minority the death penalty would never have been put on the table. Having said that, I hate when people play the race card, but truth is truth. Sad, but prejudice remains alive and active in America. As a Christian, I do not believe in the death penalty, however, the jury could easily have found Casey guilty of murder by neglect, or even manslaughter. Instead, they chose to believe since there was no DNA or a direct connection to Casey killing Caylee they had to give her a free ticket to pass go. This was a sad day for American justice.<br /><br />So what now folks...well, there is no longer justice in our new America. The people voted for change, and this is the change we are seeing. We live in a world where people make excuses for every action taken. We live in a world where everyone is afraid to speak the truth. Everyone wants to “live and let live.” There is no right or wrong, good or evil, nothing is black or white. <br /><br />My heart hurts for our Country and the world over. When people can’t stand up and say this is wrong without being called a racist, or being prejudice, or a crazy conservative, or a far left loon, then we are a lost people.<br /><br />Casey is already planning on writing a book…please don’t buy it. We all know the truth, just like we did in the OJ trial!<br /><br />By Estelle P. Shrum<br />www.Heistheword.comStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-47356539058346339012011-06-30T13:55:00.000-07:002015-08-10T18:09:48.649-07:00WHAT HAS BECOME OF AMERICA?Michigan Newspaper – Editorial<br />
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Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard?<br />
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Let’s see if we lie to Congress it’s a felony, and if Congress lies to us, it’s just politics; if we dislike a black person, we’re racist and if a black person dislikes whites, it’s their 1st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill and unborn child, but its wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don’t burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama’s policies you’re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st Amendment right.<br />
You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to us an animal.<br />
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replace with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina, and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.<br />
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises taxes; tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their reelection campaign.<br />
What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?<br />
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--Ken Huber<br />
Tawas CityStellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-43623549137979414582011-06-28T05:24:00.000-07:002015-08-10T16:42:27.917-07:00THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO“Skepticism has never founded empires, established principals, or changed the world's heart. The great doers in history have always been people of faith.” <br />
--Edwin Hubbel Chapin <br />
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THEY KNOW NOT WHAT THEY DO <br />
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I grieve for them for they know not what they do.<br />
They have taken God’s Holy Word and destroyed all that is true. <br />
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They don’t understand a battle rages between the prince of darkness and a Holy GOD who Created all there is. <br />
They do not acknowledge that all that’s seen, all that was, or all that will ever be is HIS. <br />
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They removed prayer from schools claiming separation of church and state with a forceful voice. <br />
Then they wanted to change the dress code for children in the name of freedom of choice. <br />
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The apocalypse of war, drugs, and freedom of sex descended upon our nation in a twinkling of an eye. <br />
This then became the catalyst for all mankind to be open to every divination and casting sanity a wry. <br />
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When God made man and woman He said it was good and blessed that day. <br />
God’s intention for man was to multiply and should not be misunderstand in any other way. <br />
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History has defined a new low by redefining God’s law on marriage claiming it is for the greater good of man. <br />
This is an abomination and defiles God’s first blessing of one man one woman thus desecrating His first command. <br />
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Civil unions were acceptable under the law, but this is not the change heathens want; they want to change the definition of marriage and times to come. <br />
Now that we have spat upon God’s Law’s we opened ourselves to every vile thing under the sun. <br />
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I grieve for they know not what they do they have made every bad thing good and every good thing bad. <br />
Our children are no longer innocent lacking in morals, ethics and wisdom the world has truly gone mad. <br />
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By Estelle P. Shrum <br />
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PLEASE SHARE IF YOU AGREE!<br />
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Estelle P. Shrum - Author of, He Is The Word<br />
My book: http://bit.ly/cemM8z<br />
My website: www.heistheword.com/index.htm<br />
My blog: http://wwwheistheword-estelle.blogspot.com/Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-9879800408911280692011-06-20T05:52:00.000-07:002015-08-10T18:10:18.168-07:00IT'S TIME TO FIX CONGRESS...The 26th amendment (granting the right to vote for 18 year-olds) took only 3 months & 8 days to be ratified! Why? Simple! The people demanded it. That was in 1971...before computers, before e-mail, before cell phones, etc. <br />
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Of the 27 amendments to the Constitution, seven (7) took 1 year or less to become the law of the land...all because of public pressure. <br />
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I'm asking each person to get this message out... <br />
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In three days, most people in The United States of America will have the message. This is one idea that really should be passed around. <br />
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Congressional Reform Act of 2011 <br />
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1. No Tenure / No Pension. <br />
A Congressman collects a salary while in office and receives no pay when they are out of office. <br />
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2. Congress (past, present & future)participates in Social Security. All funds in the Congressional retirement fund move to the Social Security system immediately. All future funds flow into the Social Security system, and Congress participates with the American people. It may not be used for any other purpose.<br />
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3. Congress can purchase their own retirement plan, just as all Americans do. <br />
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4. Congress will no longer vote them a pay raise. Congressional pay will rise by the lower of CPI or 3%. <br />
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5. Congress loses their current health care system and participates in the same health care system as the American people. <br />
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6. Congress must equally abide by all laws they impose on the American people. <br />
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7. All contracts with past and present Congressmen are void effective 1/1/12. The American people did not make this contract with Congressmen. Congressmen made all these contracts for themselves. Serving in Congress is an honor, not a career. The Founding Fathers envisioned citizen legislators, so ours should serve their term(s), then go home and back to work. <br />
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If each person contacts a minimum of twenty people then it will only take three days for most people (in the U.S. ) to receive the message. It is time to get this message out! <br />
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THIS IS HOW YOU FIX CONGRESS! So let's get it fixed!Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-88518407612640960222011-06-13T08:36:00.000-07:002011-06-13T08:45:20.658-07:00JOSEPH THE EARTHLY FATHER OF JESUSJoseph was a descendant of Abraham and destined to be the husband of Mary. <br />After they became betrothed Virgin Mary was with child and Joseph was wary. <br /> <br />In spite of Mary’s condition Joseph took her away so she would not be stoned. <br />Out of love he did this for her because he knew she would be disowned. <br /> <br />What compassion Joseph had for Mary even though he felt dishonored and pained. <br />Then an angel came to Joseph in a dream and told him to wed Mary and not be ashamed. <br /> <br />He told him the child Mary carries will give everyone life for He is the King and Savior. <br />He told Joseph the child’s name will be called Jesus Immanuel and with God he has favor. <br /> <br />So Joseph obeyed the angel and took Mary to his home to keep her safe and be his bride. <br />His marriage was chaste until after the child was born beginning anew with nothing to hide. <br /><br />Little is said of this faithful man who loved Mary even when he felt she did him wrong. <br />What a wonderful man to protect Mary and honor God while keeping his principles strong. <br /> <br />By Estelle P. Shrum <br /> <br />(Matthew 1:1-25), (Matthew 2:13-15), (Luke 2:3-5)<br /><br />Estelle P. Shrum - Author of, He Is The Word<br />My book: http://bit.ly/cemM8z<br />My website: www.heistheword.com/index.htmg<br />My blog: http://wwwheistheword-estelle.blogspot.com/Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4094030385642997343.post-90922491104305025492011-06-11T09:59:00.000-07:002015-08-10T18:10:33.484-07:00PRESIDENT'S AND PRAYERSFACTS ON PRESIDENT’S AND PRAYER<br />
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In June 2007, Presidential candidate Barack Obama declares the USA not a Christian nation.<br />
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In 1952 President Truman established one day a year as a National Day of Prayer.<br />
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In 1988, President Reagan designated the first Thursday in May of each year as the National Day of Prayer.<br />
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2008 President Obama decided to cancel the ceremony at the White House not wanting to offend anyone.<br />
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On September 25, 2009 from 4am until 7pm, a National Day of Prayer for the Muslim religion was held on Capitol Hill, beside the White House. They were praying for the “Heart of America.” I have no idea what that means. They expected over 50,00 Muslims that day in Washington D.C. <br />
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I hope that all Christians everywhere will pray for our nation…and the world over. It seems that Christianity is no longer popular in this country or throughout the world. <br />
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2 Chronicles 7:14 says "If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land."<br />
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Perhaps all the things going on now in this country and around the world could be solved if we would heed this scripture. Estelle P. Shrum<br />
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www.Heistheword.com<br />
wwwheistheword-estelle.blogspot.com/Stellehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02468662461390481668noreply@blogger.com0