Hamas And The Middle East Democracy Dilemma

Hi peeps. I've been unable to post for a few days because of technical problems,but now I'm back in black- so to speak.

So. Hamas wins the election fair and square in the Palestinian elections- now what? They are certianly not amending thier charter calling for the destruction of Isreal. Maybe later, after the coffers start running dry they may, but it will only be a superficial change you can bet. Same with the Fatah faction who are the moderates?? Whether the agenda is blatant or veiled, you can rest assured the terrorism will continue. They may pay lip service to the Roadmap for Peace but they can't get rid of thier thirst for violence and bloodshed.Where is this Roadmap anyway? The problem is the radical, virulent strain of Islam spreading throughout the world at large. They (the Palestinians)are only too happy to listen to these evil clerics who call for the killing of Jews and Christians and basically everyone who dosen't agree with them.

Hamas is more of this sort. If you're unsure, see the above photos.You won't see those on the Crescent News Network (CNN) Evil is evil, I don't care what political or religious label you stick on it. Teaching first graders it is thier duty to kill Jews by blowing themselves up is evil, plain and simple. Now that the United States has kicked that tyrant Saddam out and had free elections and basically threatened Iran with the same, we have another problem. What if the the terrorist's win the election? Do we tell them, "well that dosen't count, cause the wrong people(Hamas)won." and risk undermining our own efforts. Or say "Well you may have won, but we don't have to fund you or recognise your gov't." I think the
latter course of action will prevail for now. Yes it looks pretty bleak right now for peace in Isreal,unless Hamas sees the light (unlikely) and renounces violence. It will be interesting to see what happens.

In other happenings, Iran is about to be hauled in front of the Security Counsel for blatant violations of the Non-proliferation treaty. I'm sure they don't have much to worry about since China and Russia are unlikely to impose sanctions. But you never know, they may abstain from the vote. One thing for sure, if diplomacy fails two things will happen- You'll be paying $5.00 a gallon for gas and the U.S. or Isreal will strike Iran. Not necessarily in that order. I'm sure Isreal will ask the U.S. to do it for them, since a first strike by the Jewish State would be just what Mr. Adminjan would like to see happen so he could call for Jihaad in every Muslim nation in Asia and Africa against Isreal. Even if we do it, we will risk ill-will from the Shiites in Iraq, who regard their brothers in Iran as, well, brothers. Oh what a tangled web we've fallen into eh? Till next time.

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The New Paradigm Shift

Hi Peeps. I hate to touch on heavy subjects all the time, but this is
the End Time Chronicle. And I know that God has charged me with this
task, even if I do get political alot of the time. I see more flak from
Al Gore accusing the President of breaking the law ect. Gee, that never happened on his watch, did it? I can see concern for civil liberties but nowadays we have to balance this against a new model of asymetrical warfare.

We don't fight organized armies anymore, our enemies
hide in caves and kill indiscriminately when they get the chance. They aren't motivated by nationalism but fundamentalism. They don't even care whether they live or die. A dangerous enemy indeed. I don't think it's beyond the Presidents' authority to tap the phones of people who have connections to Al Quieda. I'm not worried about thier rights because they're not worried about mine. Least of all my right to live. They do not play by the rules,and we as a nation still don't seem to get that message, even after 9/11.

The good old days are over people. I almost long for the cold war
again. At least we knew where the Kremlin was, and we had a hotline set up and could talk with the Soviets. At least they cared about thier kids and didn't want a nuclear holocaust. Mr. Ahmadinejad, president of Iran does not care. His brand of Islamic extremism dictates jihaad no matter what the cost. He and his country have nothing to loose if the global economy is shattered, if he triggers a nuclear war. He certianly has less to loose than most countries. He and his people are poor. We are not. We can't function without oil and electricity. They can. We are victims of our own standard of living. Most people in this country don't understand that we are on the verge of a very rude awakening in how vulnerable we are to terrorist attacks, despite increased security. Technology has benefited the little guy who wishes to cause us harm. Just look at hackers and how much money is lost to denial of service attacks and viruses. One guy with a computer can cause major disruptions to banking and communications infrastructure. There are some people (like Al Gore)in this country who are stuck in the vietnam protest era whining about the rights of terrorists when the next attack could very well kill hundreds of thousands of people,through a nuclear bomb or smallpox outbreak. What darn difference will a wiretap make if Boston or Chicago is vaporized in a mushroom cloud? If our water supply is purposfully poisoned? I'm not really going out on a limb at all people, these scenarios are not only plausible, but very likely.

If Iran becomes a nuclear bomb factory, they will not only profit from
selling them to Al Quieda and other groups like Hezbollah they will gain a great victory against the hated Great Satan (that's us) and it's benefactor the Zionist scourge (that's Isreal) See? They have eveything to gain by making nukes and using them against the West and Europe. We had better stop them or we will be the losers. It is a new dangerous world we live in and we'd better wake up to that fact or it will kick us where the sun don't shine.

"Always go to other peoples' funerals, otherwise they won't go to yours."
- Yogi Berra, Baseball player

Judicial Tyranny

Hi Folks. Well the confirmation hearings are underway for Judge Sam Alito and everyone is acting true to character. In the first picture we see the valiant Sam Alito ready to meet the derogatory and snide remarks made by Senate demonrats Ted Kennedy and Charles Schumer pictured below. Whuups. Did I misspell democrat? Oh well, my bad.
Seriously though the whole circus is almost laughable if so much weren't at stake. Recent decisions by the Supreme Court concerning everything from religious freedom to private property rights have really had a chilling effect on our freedom. Don't think so? The dark -robed high priests of judicial tyranny have forced changes in the law that no law maker could have have accomplished, nor would the people ever have supported. For instance, now the government can seize private property including churches if they can show economic benefit to the community.
Not a very stringent criteria to take your house is it? The way polls and data are manipulated nowadays, any big developer could show whatever beneficial economic data he wanted to and seize your house or property or place of worship. Stop and think about the ‘good old boy' network in your local government/board of commissioners. Now they have Carte blanche to seize whatever they want. Home of the free huh? What about that blasphemy against free speech known as the Mccain- Fiengold bill that says you can't talk about specific issues 30 days before an election? I thought that's what democracy was all about. What the heck happened to Mccain in that Vietnamese prison anyway? Did they smack his head against the wall too hard? Has he forgotten what the heck he was fighting for in the first place?
Another example is all the pro-marriage legislation passed by numerous states such as Nebraska.
"In a decision that has been anticipated for several months, Nebraska federal district court judge Joseph Battaillon on May 12 struck down the Nebraska marriage amendment, also called Section 29, which was passed by 70 percent of Nebraska voters in the November 2004 election..." - courtesy of Focus On The Family

Basically, the right of the states to pass legislation governing themselves in all things is subject to the whims of activist judges in federal courts and ultimately decided by the Supreme Court. So this means that a council of nine unelected judges can over-rule the President, Congress and you and me, and impose whatever laws they see fit by simply striking down any law they don't agree with. It will continue to get worse unless the make-up of the High Court is changed by Sam Alito or someone like him. I, for one, pray he gets in. America will either stay a free country or turn into a Socialist State with only lip- service to individual rights depending on the next appointment to the Supreme Court. Yes, it's that serious. All your free speech rights,religious liberty, gun ownership (which guarantee's the rest) and rights against warrantless searches hinge on the next appointment. All our rights as Americans have already been severely undermined already, we need to stop it now.

"They are not jackbooted Nazi thugs. They are merely German policemen in spiffy uniforms here to help us." - Vichy government (1941 - 1945)

Happy New Years- And All That Nonsense

Hey peeps. Well it's New Years' Eve. Yay. Let's all go out and drink too much and try to pretend next year will be better than last, even though it probably won't. Chances are it will be worse, but anyway, lets get wasted and forget all about it. Honestly, of all the holidays in the year I always thought New Years' was the most ridiculous. Groundhog Day has more meaning and significance than New Years' imho. I'm a Christian now, but I remember even when I wasn't, I used to pretend I was having a good time on New Years Eve with my friends, acting silly because the alcohol and drugs gave me an excuse the next day, in case I did something stupid.
But even if I didn't, time would stop for awhile. Even in my drunken haze, I remember thinking- "I should be happy now- right? I've got plenty of beer and dope. The tunes are blasting,all my friends are here. It's a regular house party. So why am I not happy?" What do you do when the party's over? On January 1st the reality train pulls in to the station with a vengeance and we spend most of the day sleeping in, trying to get ready for work on the 2nd, or, for you hardcore people, a continuing binge session right up until you have to go to bed for work the next day. I remember hating Mondays (or Tuesdays in this case) with a passion. I would endure the drudgery of work all week for the sacred Friday quitting time and the equally sacred paycheck, so I could pay a couple bills and buy my drugs. (Drugs includes alcohol b.t.w.) So I really did some soul searching and figured out I didn't want to live for the sole purpose of earning a check or buying chemicals to ingest. Because basically, that what my life was. The truth bothered me a lot, it really began to weigh on me after awhile. I was trading my hours for these little slips of green paper, so I could trade them in on addictive chemicals and give a few to the utility companies.
I was raised a Christian, I believed in God, but I didn't know Jesus Christ in a personal way. I didn't even know it was possible- it is. I started reading the New Testament in late '96 and read in Romans 10:9 - 9" that if you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. 10For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. 11For theScripture says, "Whoever believes on Him will not be put to shame." 12For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek, for the same Lord over all is rich to all who call upon Him. 13For "whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved." So that's what I did. And I had what I was looking for- PURPOSE in life. Peace. A reason for living, found nowhere else, under no other activity, political organization, relationship or quest. Serving God is the purpose we are here for! My life has never been the same since. To know that the sovereign God of the universe not only loves me but desires fellowship with me is astounding! That Jesus Christ, the Son of God would die on a cross and suffer as payment for my sins is equally astounding! Why should He? He didn't deserve it. But if I ever wanted to go to heaven when I died, that was the only way I was getting in. Certainly not because of my good works. Let's face it, if we're really honest with ourselves, we really don't do a lot of good deeds anyway. I wouldn't want to be judged by that standard. Well, I didn't mean to go on so long, but one thing relates to another, and there's no way to make sense of it without telling the whole story.
Thanks for listening, and B.T.W. - Happy New Year!

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- Ron Fairley, Giants broadcaster

Intelligent Design

Hi folks. I've been away trying to earn money for Christmas, but one thing I saw today in the news that I just had to comment
on. A Federal judge in PA ruled that the school board of Dover could not teach intelligent design or even suggest it in thier curriculum. Yeah, how dare they suggest that we are nothing more or less a product of blind chance and circumstances in the cosmos. How dare those people challenge the prevailing wisdom of people who are so smart- they're stupid. Isn't Darwin's Theory just that, a theory? Are we so indoctrinated that we can't express ideas in the classroom anymore? Are we so afraid of the evidence that speaks for itself? Yes, the evidence does speak for itself, if the judges and school administrators will let it. But they won't because of thier own bias. They won't even allow a discussion of ideas, nevermind teaching anything other than Darwinism. Psalm 14:1 in the Bible says "The fool in his heart says there is no God." Just look at the evidence.....











We live on a planet with a complex diversity of interconnected life. The earth is just the right distance from the sun, not too close and we fry. Too far away- we freeze. We have just the right amount of gravity so that oxygen and nitrogen stays but helium and hydrogen leaves. We have an oversized moon to control the tides, absorb comets and asteriods and provide nightime illumination. We have a medium sized star for light, not a red giant or white dwarf or blue star. Are you starting to get the picture? We have trees to give oxygen and shade and wood for buildings and for campfires. And water! How could we forget H2O? Necessary for all life, and there's an abundance of it. It just happened right? Bang! and it all appeared.

Better yet, we as humans somehow got here because millions of years ago, a bunch of proteins got struck by lightning and spontaneously generated themselves into living organisms and became fish with gills and fins and eyes and then crawled onto land and then became reptiles and then a few million more years became mammals and a few million more became apes and then humans. Wow. Sounds ridiculous to me. Assuming that every step along the way, the mutations in the genetic code were beneficial- which most times (99%) they are not. Assuming that the fossil record supports this account- it does not. Concerning genetics, I'm not a scientist but I know that you can breed a dog into a better dog. But you can't breed a dog into a horse. Or a lizard into an ape, or a human. So lets be real, and remember that chaos + chaos = more chaos not a Swiss watch. Unorganized matter floating in space just dosen't decide to form complex living and non-living things on it's own. It needed some help. So give the creationist's a chance, it's no less believable. 'Nuff said.

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Christmas - It's Not A Dirty Word

Hi all. Now that the Christmas holiday 100k dash has started, I've noticed something
sinister this year. All of the sudden Christmas is being deleted
from all the big retail stores' vocabulary. Now it's 'happy holidays'. Why is it that we're so paranoid about being politically correct we can't even mention the word Christmas now? Who are the people we're trying not to offend? About 90% of Americans celebrate Christmas, even if they might not be religious. So who cares if some Muslim up in Detriot if offended. This is our country, not Pakistan. Nobody would be offended (I don't think) if I said 'happy Kwanza' or 'happy Ramadan' or even -gasp- 'happy Chanukah' How come we who are Christians can't have a Christian Holiday in our free country without offending people who don't believe. Don't agree? Don't celebrate it. Don't like public prayer? Don't say one.

But don't tell me in my free country, where I'm protected by the 1st amendment that I can't pray, or say Christmas, or even talk about my faith in public. I have rights too. Seriously folks, this kind of stiffling of religious expression in this country reminds me of Nazi Germany. What next? Shut down all the Churches. Put a yellow cross on all of us, and herd us into camps? Think about, how far will these faceless socialists go in their war on people of faith? Answer: As far as we let them. Don't think it can't happen here people, if we are apathetic enough it will. Declare your faith! Rebel against p.c. mania. Raise cain about your Ten Commandments display when the home owners' association tells you to take it down. If they can stifle religious expression, they can stifle political expression too. Practice civil disobedience like Dr. Martin Luther King and refuse to go along with the program. I will. In fact, I'll start right now. Jesus. <---- Look, I said it. And I wasn't cussing! Ha,ha. This is fun. Jesus is Lord! Whoo hoo! Okay. You get the point. Now I'm gonna go CHRISTMAS shopping.

"Give Bill a second term, and Al Gore and I will be turned loose to do what we really want to do."
- Hillary Clinton, former first lady, at a Democratic fundraiser

Happy Thanks-giving

Hi all. Well today is Thanksgiving. I trust you all are kicking back and watching the game or napping after feasting with family and friends. I'm in the kicking back categlory. So what's it all about anyway? It's about giving thanks to God for everything we have, be it food, family, homes to live in, whatever. It is not about eating turkey, watching football or early Christmas shopping. Shocked? Most of the country will tell you what they were taught in the secular cesspool of public education, that the Pilgrims were thankfull to the indians for the help planting corn. They may have been, however the they were mostly thankful to God Almighty that they survived the harsh winter and had a decent harvest. The revisionist's don't want you to know the Christian heritage of our nation, lest you become informed and question thier war on God's name everywhere it still resides.

Consider the first Thanksgiving proclamation in 1676 by the governing council of Charlestown, Massachusetts.(I know there is supposedly one made by Gov. Bradford of the Massachusetts Colony but it's authenticity is in dispute) However, there's no dispute about this one. Check it out this excerpt...
"The Council has thought meet to appoint and set apart the 29th day of this instant June, as a day of Solemn Thanksgiving and praise to God for such his Goodness and Favour, many Particulars of which mercy might be Instanced, but we doubt not those who are sensible of God's Afflictions, have been as diligent to espy him returning to us; and that the Lord may behold us as a People offering Praise and thereby glorifying Him; the Council doth commend it to the Respective Ministers, Elders and people of this Jurisdiction; Solemnly and seriously to keep the same Beseeching that being perswaded by the mercies of God we may all, even this whole people offer up our bodies and soulds as a living and acceptable Service unto God by Jesus Christ."

The thing is kinda lengthy but in a nutshell they were thankful to who? - God, through Jesus Christ. Boy, it's a good thing the ACLU wasn't around back then huh? They would've had a fit. How dare a public figure talk about Jesus in a positive way. Nowadays we give thanks to the sponsers of The Macy's Day Parade, the NFL, the turkey, the indians, and everybody but God.
Is it any wonder we're riddled with crime, drugs, gangs, pedophiles, pornography and and staggering load of national debt? Is this a good time to take "In God We Trust" off our money? I think not. Do we think we are any better than the Romans, Spanish,French, and British who all at one time had greatness but lost it in proportion to thier rejection of God? Follow history and notice that wherever the Gospel took root,peace and prosperity followed- Western Europe, England, North America. Wherever Islam went, there was slavery and violence. Any doubters should observe how women are treated in countries where Sharia law riegns supreme. In any Muslim country you go to, you will find the rights of minority religious groups trampled on. Even the death penalty for proclaiming any other faith than Islam.
So anyway, we should all be thankful to the One who deserves it the most for the many rights we enjoy, and the the food we have. God is the one who deserves all the thanks, because He owns it all, and He made it all. Have a great holiday weekend.

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