Radical Christianity??

Rosie O'Donnell once again shows that she's safe from the threat of being accused of having any trace of the ability to think rationally.

She actually said that radical Christianity is as great of a threat as radical Islam. One would think she got her information from reading comic books but their academic qualities are too much for her to comprehend.

Does anyone have any idea where she could have come up with such nonsense? Maybe from Katie Couric?

She says weren't attacked by a nation. Does the Taliban and Afghanistan come to anyones mind? Afghanistan was, duh, ran by the Taliban. The Taliban trained al queda in the country they ran. Does anybody remember President Bush telling the Taliban to turn over the al queda members that were responsible for the crime of murdering innocent people. Does anybody remember the Taliban handing them over? Of course not.

Does anybody remember who the U.S. attacked? It was the Taliban and al queda. Anybody that was an innocent bystander and was killed can rest assured they weren't targets. Al queda targets the innocent.

Christianity doesn't murder. Islam does.

The real tragedy is that there are people that think she's right.

Living Wage May Not Be the Solution

Have you heard the news? A study issued by the Employment Policies Institute says the so-called "living wage", A.K.A. a higher minimum wage, may be more of a hindrance than a help. The study has found that prices tend to surge as unemployment rises in municipalities that require employers to pay more than the federal or state minimum wages.

NO KIDDING???

Robert Strauss, an economics professor at Carnegie-Mellon University and the guy who conducted the study for the Employment Policies Institute said, "Municipalities that adopt living wage ordinances holding various things constant, have on average ten percent lower employment after adoption."

In case you don't get it, this means that employers have to let employees go in order to pay the other employees the mandatory higher wage. This means that unemployment goes up.

Strauss admitted that he was surprised by the outcome of his study. Now if only congress can figure it out.

Chicago's Mayor Daley Defies Liberal Thinking

In what may be the first time in recent history a democrat actually did the right thing instead of following the way the wind blows.

Daley vetoed a law that would have required retailers earning over $1 billion in annual sales and stores with at least 90,000 square feet of space to pay workers at least $10 an hour in wages plus $3 in benefits by mid-2010.

He had campaigned against the measure for months because he claimed it would drive jobs and desperately needed development from some of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods and cause most retail giants to abandon the city.

Hooray for Mayor Daley.

9/11/2001 Where Were You?

Five years ago today the single worst act of terrorism committed on U.S. soil, nearly 3,000 people died when two hijacked jetliners crashed into New York's World Trade Center, causing the twin towers to fall, a commandeered jetliner smashed into the Pentagon and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in western Pennsylvania. In each case, the cause of the terror were practitioners of that "religion of peace".

I was fishing with my father in law. Where were you?

Click on the comments and tell us about it.

Quotes of the Week

Here are some great quotes from the news.

“For the president to articulate who the enemy is so clearly and unambiguously is a huge step forward. You cannot diagnose and treat a disease without first identifying and naming it. So, a strategist cannot defeat an enemy without first identifying it and naming it.” —Daniel Pipes

“We should not be apologetic or defensive in defining the problems of terrorism.” —British Prime Minister Tony Blair, suggesting that the tie between terrorism and Islam can not be ignored

“Humiliation and hate go together. Why humiliation? Because a once-proud, dynamic culture in the forefront of world civilizations, and still carrying a message of their own superiority to ”infidels“ today, is painfully visible to the whole world as a poverty-stricken and backward region, lagging far behind in virtually every field of human endeavor... There is no way that they can catch up in a hundred years, even if the rest of the world stands still. And they are not going to wait a hundred years to vent their resentments and frustrations at the humiliating position in which they find themselves.” —Thomas Sowell

Of course you won't hear this on CNN or NPR.

The Founding Fathers Said...

Here are some quotes that our Founding Fathers made. You may want to consult a dictionary to learn what some of the words meant during the time the quotes were made.

"[W]e ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and
susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early
prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they
are capable of appreciating their own."

-- George Washington (letter to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, 28 January 1795)


"Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants
thereof - Lev. XXV, v. X"

Inscription on the Liberty Bell, from Leviticus 25:10


"With hearts fortified with these animating reflections, we most
solemnly, before God and the world, declare, that, exerting the
utmost energy of those powers, which our beneficent Creator hath
graciously bestowed upon us, the arms we have compelled by our
enemies to assume, we will, in defiance of every hazard, with
unabating firmness and perseverance employ for the preservation
of our liberties; being with one mind resolved to die freemen
rather than to live as slaves."

-- John Dickinson and Thomas Jefferson (Declaration of the Cause
and Necessity of Taking up Arms, 6 July 1775)

Reference: Documents of American History, Commager, ed., vol. 1
(95)


Just a thought about the last one.  It's funny that some quote Thomas Jefferson as someone that thinks God should be separate from government.  The above quote seems to say the opposite.

Do You Know if You'll Go to Heaven?

Do you ever ask yourself that question? It's one of those questions that begs an answer. Maybe you haven't thought too much about it but what do you think? Will you go to Heaven?

Here are some facts from the Bible.
1. Heaven is a free gift. Romans 6:23
2. Heaven can't be earned and it isn't deserved. Ephesians 2:8-9. That means no matter what you've done, it isn't good enough.
3. Man is a sinner. Romans 3:23
4. Man can't save himself. Ephesians 2:8-9
5. God is Love 1 John 4:8
6. God is just and must punish sin. Exodus 34:7
7. Jesus is God and man. John 1:1
8. Jesus died for your sins. John 3:16
9. You must accept these facts by faith.

Any questions? donsblogger@excite.com
I'd love to talk to you about this.

Fish is Safe to Eat! PETA Loses Again!

Are you sick and tired of the Food Police? I am. Everytime I turn around some fear monger is trying to use scientific manipulation and misinformation to keep me from eating fish, beef, pork and poultry; otherwise know as the four basic food groups.

Thank goodness for the Center for Consumer Freedom. They actually go out of their way to use facts instead of fiction to prove their points. They go so far as to consult scientists and medical doctors instead of hollywood stars for their data.

The latest reports are in and salmon and tuna are safe to eat. Children don't have to worry about mercury poisoning.

Physicians Committe for (ir)Responsible Medicine (PCRM) is probably hoping you didn't catch the news this morning. The PETA-linked animal rights group, dedicated to eliminating animal products like meat, dairy, and fish from Americans' diets, was handed a decisive defeat Wednesday in federal court. Read more about it by clicking onto the link at the top of the page.


Remember, when the left loses we all win.

Did You Know?

Now That's Hot!
The highest temperature recorded anywhere on Earth was in Aziziyah, Libya, in September of 1922 – 136 degrees Fahrenheit. Lybia is s in Northern Africa.

The highest temperature recorded in the United States was in Death Valley, Calif., in July of 1913 – 134 degrees Fahrenheit.
Source: Goddard Space Flight Center

Where Is Everybody?
The U.S. Census Burear reported in 2003 that the country's non-metropolitan population (people who don't live in cities) was 49 million. That's only 17 percent of the overall population but they are spread out among 252 counties which is 75 percent of the land in the U.S.
Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Who Drew the First American Political Cartoons?
Benjamin Franklin may have been responsible for the first political cartoon in America. The cartoon's caption was "Join or Die" and depicted a snake's severed parts, which Franklin used as an analogy for the American colonies.

Franklin's cartoon argued for the inter-ocolonial association - in other wards a national union.
Source: Stephen Hess and Milton Kaplan. The Ungentlemanly Art: A History of American Political Cartoons.

I Read the News Today.....

This morning I read an article by Patrick Goodenough for the Cybercast News Service. He wrote that during a Monday morning news conference in Beirut, the French foreign minister, Philippe Douste-Blazy, said that Iran was “a great country, a great people and a great civilization which is respected and which plays a stabilizing role in the region."

Anybody who's given the smallest amount of interest about the turmoil in the Middle East knows that Iran has been playing a big role in supporting Lebanon's attacks against Israel. It's so blatant that CNN has had to report it; much to their chagrin I'm sure.

How can a nation as unstable as

Iran play a stabilizing role?

Let’s look at the facts and see if we can find out whether or not there is any reason to accept the French foreign minister’s statement.

• Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has called repeatedly for Israel's annihilation.
• Iran also is at odds with the international community over its nuclear programs.
• Hizballah's representative in Iran, Abol-Hassan Zo'aiter, told a gathering in Tehran that his organization would put into effect the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini's call for the "cancerous tumor" (Israel) to be eliminated.

Maybe the minister means that Iran is stable in that it wants Israel wiped off the face of the earth. I think he's nuts. He should stop reading fiction and start listening to Fox News.

The Jerusalem Post reported that Israeli officials were bewildered by Douste-Blazy's remarks about Iran, and quoted one diplomatic source in Jerusalem as asking "what planet is he on?"

I’m wondering the same thing.

Predicting When Jesus is Coming

Mankind has tried to predict Jesus' return since He ascended into Heaven some 2,000 years ago. Prognosticators, in all their knowedge, signs, and indications have managed to miss it consistantly. They should have listened to Jesus because He said:

But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only.(Matt 24:36).

Score
Jesus 1
Prognosticators 0

When I was a child I remember the Jehova Witnesses predicted the coming of Jesus. They missed it just like they did in the early part of the 20th century. Edgar C. Whisenhunt reportedly made a quarter million dollars from his best-selling book, "88 Reasons Why the Rapture Will Be in 1988". It didn't happen. There have been many, many attempts to predict the coming of Jesus and all of them were wrong.

C.S. Lewis makes it very clear. Here's a passage from "The Worlds Last Night: An Other Essays:

"Clearly, no one wishes to say anything that will [awaken] mass hysteria. We must never speak...about 'the Day' [of the Second Coming] without emphasizing again and again the utter impossibility of prediction. We must try to show them that that impossibility is an essential part of the doctrine. If you do not believe Our Lord's words, why do you believe in His return at all? And if you do believe them must you not put away from you, utterly and forever, any hope of dating that return?

His teaching on the subject quite clearly consisted of three propositions: (1) That He will certainly return; (2) That we cannot possibly find out when; (3) And that therefore we must always be ready for Him."

Many like to argue whether Jesus is going to return before the tribulation, in the middle of the tribulation, or the end of the tribulation. I used to get caught up in the argument in a big way. Now I don't worry about it. Jesus clearly says that nobody knows. I'm going to trust Him and be ready. You should, too.

Did You Know?

Here are some interesting facts that everybody wants to know. OK, maybe just me.

Who Invented Styrofoam?
German drugstore operator Eduard Simon discovered polystyrene in 1839, isolating the substance from the natural product resin.

In 1922, German, organic chemist Hermann Staudinger published his theories on polymers, stating that natural rubbers were made up of long repetitive chains of monomers that gave rubber its elasticity. He also wrote that the materials manufactured by the thermal processing of styrene were similar to rubber. In 1953, Staudinger won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry.

Styrofoam was invented in 1954 by Ray McIntire of Dow Chemical Co. He combined styrene with isobutylene, a volatile liquid, under pressure. The result was foam polystyrene, 30 times lighter than regular polystyrene.

Styrofoam® is a trademarked name, the real name of the product is foamed polystyrene.
Source: The Detroit News

One Down, Two to Go
The U.S. State Department had placed a $25 million bounty on Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s head – the same reward offered for information leading to the apprehension of al Qaeda kingpin Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri.
Source: The FBI

Kids and Meth
How extensive a problem is methamphetamine abuse in the United States?

In 2004, 6.2 percent of high school seniors reported that they had used methamphetamine at some point in their lifetimes.
Source: The National Institute of Drug Abuse

Don't Call Me!

The 'Do Not Call Registry' is a great benefit to mankind. The only regret is that it wasn't implemented immediately after Don Ameche invented the telephone. The moment it opened for business we were among the first to register our phone numbers. The reason was clear and simple. We didn't want to be bothered.

Believe it or not the telephones in our household were never intended as a convenience for telemarketers.

Much to our chagrin a new telemarketing is group abusing our right to privacy. They start calling in the morning and don't stop until late at night harassing us with automatically dialed recorded messages and occasionally with real people. These people infringing upon our privacy are POLITICIANS.

Yes indeed, those extraordinary Snake Oil salesmen and saleswomen (notice the offensive term salesperson was not used) whose message hasn't changed for centuries are infringing on our privacy. Personally, It bothers me tremendously that these arrogant politicians would think for one moment that anyone really wants to hear their biased message and let alone over a telephone. Most of them don't have the decency show their numbers on Caller ID so we can know whom we're ignoring.

Those calls are probably coming from India.

I'm aware that they've made a loop hole for 'not for profit' groups and themselves. But wouldn't be to their advantage if they would simply show respect and call only those who don't appear on the Do Not Call Registry?

I've personally called a few politicians in advance to let them know that we don't want to receive any calls from them. We'll be hard pressed to trust anyone with our vote who won't respect our privacy.

That's how I see it.

http://www.ftc.gov/donotcall/

Conflict in the Middle East

I recently read a great article by Dennis Prager. He succinctly made the problems in the Middle East very easy to understand. His explanation of the conflict is contained in a nutshell:

"The Arab and other Muslim enemies of Israel (for the easily confused, this does not mean every Arab or every Muslim) want Israel destroyed. That is why there is a Middle East conflict. Everything else is commentary.

The Middle East conflict is difficult to solve, but it is among the simplest conflicts in history to understand."

You should take the time to read his article in the Jewish World Review.

http://jewishworldreview.com/0706/prager071806.php3

Here are some of the facts he mentioned for the conflict in the Middle East

• Iran, Palestine, Hizbollah, Hamas, and Muslim supporters all over the world want the Jewish state annihilated.

• 1947- 48 The Arab states tried to destroy the tiny Jewish state formed by the United Nations partition plan.

• 1967 June 5 – 10 Egypt, Syria, and Jordan tried to destroy Israel in what became known as the Six-Day War.
  

• 1967 September 1 Arab countries convened in Khartoum, Sudan, and announced their famous Three no’s to Israel: "No peace, No recognition, No negotiations."

• 1973 Egypt invaded the Israeli-held Sinai Peninsula

• 1977 November Anwar Sadat visited Israel and addressed its parliament in Jerusalem.

• 1978 Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in return for which Israel gave all of the oil-rich Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt.

• 1981 Sadat was assassinated by Egyptian Muslims, a killing welcomed by most Arabs, including the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization). Why welcomed? Because Sadat had done the unforgivable — recognized Israel and made peace with it.

• 2000 July 11-14 Israel's Camp David offer of a Palestinian state for Palestinian peace was rejected because most Palestinians and their Arab and Muslim supporters don't want a second state. They want Israel destroyed. They admit it. Only those who wish Israel's demise and the willfully naive do not.

The extremist New York Times foreign affairs columnist, Thomas Friedman, wrote two weeks ago:

"The Palestinians could have a state on the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem tomorrow, if they and the Arab League clearly recognized Israel, normalized relations, and renounced violence. Anyone who says otherwise doesn't know Israel today."

If a harsh critic of Israel like Friedman can get it so can anybody else.

According to Prager, If you ask almost anyone living in the Middle East why there is a Middle East War, in English, they will assume you are either an academic, a Western news reporter, a diplomat, or a "peace activist." They will assume you are gullible and will tell you that it's because of "Israeli occupation" or "the Zionist lobby."

But they know it isn't. And it never was.

Where to Hide

Q: Where's the safest place for Osama bin Laden to hide?
1. Afganistan
2. Pakistan
3. New York Times Building

A: 3

Right to Know?

I'm looking for "the right to know" in the first ammendment. It's got to be in here somewhere. Can you find it?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Let me know what you find.

New York Times - All the news that's left... far left.

The New York Times irresponsibily reported on a secret financial-monitoring program used to trace terrorists. The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Peter King, is urging the Bush administration to seek criminal charges against The New York Times.

Rep. Peter King (R-NY) blasted the newspaper's decision last week to report that the Treasury Department was working with the CIA to examine messages within a massive international database of money-transfer records.

"I am asking the Attorney General to begin an investigation and prosecution of The New York Times, the reporters, the editors, and the publisher," said Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y. "We're at war, and for the Times to release information about secret operations and methods is treasonous."

The NYT appears to siding with Al Queda. As long as the current administration is in charge the NYT will do everything in it's power to be an enemy of the USA.

Did You Know?

POW's
The number of Americans taken prisoner in World War II was 130,201.
Source: Infoplease

Father of the Oil Well
Edwin Drake, not to be confused with the English explorer Sir Francis Drake, is credited with having "discovered oil" on August 27, 1859, near Titusville, PA. Drake was the first to successfully drill for oil and create an oil well.
Source: Answers.com




32 Million Unregistered Voters
Can you believe it? That's the number of people who reported to the U.S. Census Bureau that they were not registered to vote in 2004. Here are some of the reasons given for not registering to vote.

1. 15 million gave as a reason the fact that they were not interested in the election or politics. That's nearly half!
   
2. 6 million said they had failed to meet the registration deadlines.

Less frequent responses for not registering were:

1. Voting ineligibility.
2. Permanent illness or disability. I don't get this one
3. Not knowing how to register
4. Feeling that their vote would not make a difference
5. Lacking residency requirements

Source: U.S. Census Bureaw

300 Times Bigger 40 Years Later

From its modest $1 billion budget in 1966, the Medicaid program’s cost has rocketed. It now costs taxpayers approximately $300 billion a year.

In other words, the more money spent to fight so-called poverty puts more people on welfare (government assistance). The total population hasn’t grown 300 times its size. Wasn’t the opposite supposed to happen?
Perhaps Medicaid was created for buying votes.
Source: Congressional Research Service.

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I Read the News Today..... Hooboy...

Have you heard the latest? A homosexual activist group at NYU is accusing the Bush administration of spying on them and anti-war protesters. The anti-war group is Students Against War at the University of California at Santa Cruz. The punch line is that the spokesman for the group admits he has no proof.

A leftist hate group accusing somebody without proof? Gee, that's a big surprise.

Want more?

Did you hear that Jesse Jackson and his Rainbow (some call it Monochrome) Colition returned a $10,000 check from British Petroleum (BP)? JJ says BP doesn't employ enough minorities nor do they have enough owners of BP stations. JJ is probably bluffing and is holding out for a larger extortion check from BP.

We'll here's the good news. BP may decide all together to stop paying extortion money to JJ and the RC. Many NYSE companies are finally realizing that paying extortion money doesn't help the companies because JJ has little or no effect on the purchasing power of blacks or any other minority group.

Among other groups that demand extortion payments are Greenpeace and Sierra Club.

I hope the rest of us realize that extortion is wrong and that we'll stop funding groups that use extortion.

Okay, one more...

From the AP. Delegates of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) are debating whether to adopt "gender-inclusive" language to replace the traditional "Father, Son, and Holy Spirit," wire reports said. A panel is actually studying what is called "fresh ways to speak of the mystery" of the Trinity.

One reason is that language limited to the Father and Son "has been used to support the idea that God is male and that men are superior to women," the panel said.

The gender-inclusive options include "Mother, Child, and Womb," "Creator, Savior, Sanctifier," and "Rock, Redeemer, Friend," the AP reported.

They say Conservatives (rational thinkers) object to this and believe that the church should stick close to the way God is named in the Bible.

Two professors at the Presbyterians' Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Andrew Purves and Charles Partee, said there is potential danger that "we not only lose the ground for our language for God, we in fact lose the Trinity. We lose God."

Hooray for the two professors at PPTS.

Going to the Doctor

I remember a visit to the doctor's office a while back. Something happened to my back during a weekend with Martha (wife) that caused me to look like Quasimodo and feel worse. I called the doctor and made an appointment. The appointment writer downer gave orders to arrive 30 minutes early to fill out paperwork.

Upon arrival I approached a window where the beast was housed. She (it looked female) handed over scads of forms to fill out and at least 5,000 questions to answer in the brief span of 30 minutes. Little did I know that it would be plenty of time.

With the help of Martha we completed everything and I returned it to the beast. She told me to sit down and wait and she'd call when the doctor was ready to see me.

See Don. See Don Wait. Wait, wait, wait.

45 minutes elapsed since feeding the beast 35 pounds of paper and the ink from 3 boxes of Bic pens. Unacceptable, I thought. I approached the window that seemingly provided protection for infirmed humans and told her that the appointment was for 10:15 am and it was 11:00 am. I was informed that the doctor was usually this late and it wasn't a problem. I told her I didn't care about what was 'usually' and that it was a problem. We had words.... lots of words....

I waited..... and waited....

FINALLY my name was called and we were ushered into the examination room. After a few minutes the door opened. In walked this girl dressed incredibly sloppy with a huge lab coat. Why do they dress like that? This nurse, or tech, started asking the same questions I spent all that time answering 30 minutes before the appointment. I reluctantly answered them. She scribbled on a sheet of paper attached to a clipboard in large illegible balloon letters and left. I guessed that I'd be seeing the doctor next.

WRONG!

In walks this guy that could be mistaken for a doctor...

"Who are you?" I asked.
"I'm the PA"
"Huh?"
"The PA. Physicians Assistant."
"Where's the doctor?"

He started playing doctor and proceeded asking the same 5,000 questions...

"I answered those already. They're on the chart".

He kept asking THEN proceeded to poke and prod my body. I couldn't stand it. Lastly, he scribbled on a pad using illegible hieroglyphics only he could interpret and left.

So far over 45 minutes had been spent in the exam room and no doctor had been sighted.

I WANT TO SEE THE DOCTOR!

When the overbooked and time challenged M.D. finally made his glorious appearance he picked up the chart and began asking the same questions the nurse and PA had previously asked.

DOESN'T ANYBODY LOOK AT THE FORMS I SPENT HALF THE MORNING FILLING OUT?

After asking questions He proceeded to poke and prod my body. Occasionally he'd grunt something in Latin (I think) and ask stupid questions like,

"Does that hurt?"
"Of course it hurts. You just poked me."

The doctors examination, writing of the prescription, and asking the if I had any questions took almost 10 minutes. Why was I there for 2 hours if he was only going to spend 10 minutes?

Needless to say, I was not happy. After pondering this horror story and thanking God I didn't have to remove my clothes, I believe I've found a solution to this silliness. I'm starting a new medical service called

"Don's Patient's Assistant"

It's truly ingenious. You call the doctor and make an appointment. Immediately, you place a call to "Don's Patient's Assistant" and give us the details. When it's time for your appointment "Don's Patient Assistant" will get to the doctor's office early, fill out the forms, and answer all the stupid questions that nobody is going to look at.

During that time you'll be able to stay at work, take a nap in your car, or visit the coffee shop. Instead of non productive down time you can take care of business, read your newspaper, or keep up with e-mail via your wireless.

Meanwhile the "Don's Patient's Assistant" is telling anybody who'll listen where it hurts, how much you've puked, and what you had for breakfast. When the time comes for the doctor to see you "Don's Patient's Assistant" will call you via your wireles and you're on your way. By the time you get to the exam room the doctor will almost be ready to see you and will ask you all the questions your assistant has answered to deaf ears and nobody will know the difference.

Seriously, I don't know about you but we pay insurance to see a doctor, NOT a P.A. It gripes me to spend money on something and not get what I paid for, i.e. a doctor and not some wannabe play doctor.

From now on I'm making it a point to tell the receptionist that I will not be seen by the pa. If the doctor won't see me I'll go elsewhere. I'm paying for a doctor and I expect to see a doctor.