tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36624092969368978502024-03-06T08:58:38.459+07:00 Rebellious Kafirre*bel*lious = defying or resisting some established authority, government, or tradition; insubordinate; inclined to rebel.
Kaf*ir = an infidel or unbelieverRebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.comBlogger199125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-27387782743010871082013-01-26T13:36:00.001+07:002013-01-26T13:47:15.043+07:00Jesus and Guns Parts 3 and 4 <div class="title" style="text-align: center;">
<strong>Here are Part 3 and Part 4. Read it all, don't be lazy. </strong></div>
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"And they that were about Him, seeing what would follow,
said to Him: Lord, shall we strike with the sword? And one of them struck the
servant of the high priest and cut off his right ear."
So just to make certain that we are all appreciating this, Peter, the Prince
of the Apostles, is carrying a side arm and knows what to do with it. Now this
next verse is the one that really surprised me:
"But Jesus answering, said: Suffer ye thus far. And when He had touched his
ear, He healed him."
Huh? What does "Suffer ye thus far" mean? Hmmm.<br />
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contemporary translations and see what they say:
"Stop! No more of this." (New American Standard)
"Let them be. Even in this." (The Message)
"No more of this!" (Holman Christian Standard)
Uh-oh. Facepalm. This is not good. These modern translations aren't anywhere
close to the Douay-Rheims. The words "stop" and "no" were obviously part of the
English lexicon when the Douay-Rheims was made, and they are not used in this
verse. Something is wrong here. In order to figure this out, let's go to the
Latin. "Sinite usque huc."
Sinite: second person plural active imperative of "sino" <br />
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Sino: let,
permit
Okay, so sinite means "you all let" or "you all permit" in the imperative
case, which means a command. <br />
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(That makes sense! Like "suffer the little children to come unto Me"
means "permit the little children . . . ")
Usque: adverb meaning "all the way"
Huc: adverb meaning here, hence, to this place, to this point
You all permit + all the way + here.
Our Lord isn't scolding them. Our Lord isn't saying "no more of this" and
barking at them to stop. Our Lord is giving them the command to <b>hold and
stand down.</b>
"You all permit all the way here."
This is a HUGE distinction. If a military commander gives his men the order
to hold fire and stand down, is he criticizing them? Is he attacking and
rebuking their use of weaponry? Is he communicating that they should be
pacifists? Is he rejecting their vocations as soldiers? No! He is simply telling
them to hold their fire and stand down <b>because there is, at the moment, a
tactical reason to do so.</b> <br />
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That is EXACTLY what is going on here. Our Lord
isn't rebuking the apostles because they are doing exactly what they should do -
they are defending their Beloved Friend.
If your spouse, or your child, or your best friend, or whoever you love most
in this world was being physically attacked and seized, what would you do? What
would every fiber of your being be screaming out for you to do? Come to their
defense and aid. This is called the Natural Law. God MADE us this way. God made
us with the instinctual drive to physically fight to defend those we love.
Failure to do so is the sin of cowardice. <br />
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Cowardice is a violation of both of
the Great Commandments: to love God above all else, and to love our neighbor as
we love ourselves. Cowardice places the self above both neighbor and God. And in
the case of the apostles, they were engaging both commandments (God and
neighbor) directly in the person of Jesus.
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Jesus & Guns Part 4</div>
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This is why Our Lord had to give the order to hold and stand
down. He had to <b>specifically release</b> them from the Great Commandments in
that moment. Why? Two reasons: Obviously, it was the will of the Triune Godhead
that Jesus be arrested and crucified. These things had to happen. The apostles
couldn't be expected to understand this at the time, so there was no expectation
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Remember who Jesus is. Jesus is God. He knows everything and everyone. Jesus
knew every one of the men who came to arrest Him. Not only did He know them, He
loved them all infinitely. He MADE every one of them. He wove them together in
their mothers' wombs. He knew every detail of their lives, every thought, every
deed. And He loved them. Every single one of them. He also had a plan for every
one of them. Like, oh I dunno, CONVERSION? Can you imagine the amount of grace
those guards were exposed to? They got to TOUCH Him. They got to look right at
Him, and speak to Him. He probably locked eyes with every one of them at some
point. Don't discount that. Even though they were absolutely horrible to Him,
they were primed for conversion. We know that Malchus, the guy who got his ear
cut off, and then was healed by Our Lord, converted. We don't know about the
other guards, but we do know that thousands and thousands of Jews were converted
in the first years after the Resurrection. <br />
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We also know who the first Gentile
convert was. It was the Roman Centurion Longinus. Longinus was the Roman soldier
who drove the spear into Jesus' side to make certain He was dead, instead of
breaking His legs. When the spear went in, it burst the cardiac edema, or the
water that had built up around Our Lord's Sacred Heart as He died of asphyxia
and heart failure. Longinus, standing beside and below Jesus, was sprayed with
that water. Baptism. When the all of the water had come out, Our Lord's Precious
Blood sprayed out. Eucharist. <br />
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Calvary IS the Mass. The Mass IS Calvary. The Last Supper was an ANTICIPATORY
MASS that instituted the Sacrament of the Eucharist AND ratified and elevated
all of the previous licit, yet woefully inadequate sacrifices of mankind which
were in accordance with the Natural Law. Calvary, and thus the Mass, reaches out
through time in BOTH DIRECTIONS, like the crossbeam of the Cross itself, pulling
all of time, both before and after, THROUGH the temporal centerpoint of Calvary. <br />
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And so, the first Gentile convert was a man who had just spent the past nine
hours participating in the torture and execution of Jesus. Grace. I wouldn't be
surprised to learn that some of the Jewish guards in the garden were converted
too. So we can see an additional reason, beyond the obvious, why Jesus told the
apostles to stand down. It was His will that some or all of the guards survive
and convert, not die in battle in that moment. <br />
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Finally, some might reference Jesus' words in Matthew's gospel: <br />
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"Then Jesus saith to him: Put up again thy sword into its place: for all that
take the sword shall perish with the sword." <br />
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Do you know what I think Jesus is doing here, in part? I think this may be a
veiled prophecy about islam. Islam teaches that the way to convert people to the
islamic political system is to put a sword to their neck and give them a choice:
convert or die. This is referred to as "the Sword of islam". This is how all
other evil, satanic political systems operate as well. Marxism leaps to mind. In
Marxist tyranny, people are arrested and imprisoned, given the choice to "learn
the new system" and be "re-educated" or die. <br />
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In addition to a veiled prophecy, Jesus is telling Peter that Christianity
does not and will not convert with the sword. It converts only with love. AND,
He is telling Peter and us that Christians do not and will not punish apostates
(people who leave the faith, like Judas) with the sword. Both islam and Marxism
execute apostates. But the second phrase, "shall perish with the sword" is very
telling. Jesus is saying that those who "take the sword" and try to convert
people to, and hold people in their evil systems by force will in the end be
killed WITH THE SWORD. Who will be wielding that sword? Christ will be
victorious, so doesn't it stand to reason that the Army of Christ will be the
one wielding the sword in the second phrase? Boy, this sure sounds like a
ratification of self-defense and just war, doesn't it? <br />
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So there you go. Like I said, I'm no authority. I'm just a chick with a
Douay-Rheims/Vulgate Bible and a Latin dictionary. I hope you find this
interesting, and I hope it spurs thought and discussion. I also hope it drives
home the point that the translation of the Bible that we use is utterly
critical. It isn't a mere "detail". It is the difference between the Truth and a
lie. I think my exegesis is rooted in Scripture, logic and love. I don't think
I'm simply fabricating things that aren't there in order to support my own
personal philosophical leanings, but then, I'm not a "theologian". I guess
we'll all find out, someday.
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Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-66980376043729656692013-01-23T09:17:00.003+07:002013-01-23T09:55:56.351+07:00Have you Heard of Ann Barnhardt?She posts some amazing stuff--the things I want to say but don't have the courage to say (I'm getting there Ann) Because she doesn't post the linky things to her blog, I'm going to grab some of her stuff and link it here and tweet it. I should have been doing this for years, but, I'm doing it now.<br />
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It's time for this again. Originally penned and posted on November
27, AD 2010.</blockquote>
We need to have a frank discussion about Christianity, war and pacifism,
because we may all be making direct decisions about these huge questions in our
own lives before long. Some scripture popped into my mind earlier this week, and
I was able to really dig into it yesterday. I was taken aback by what I found
but in a good way. I hope that this will help bring some clarity, or at the very
least start some discussions.
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First, a small but necessary sidetrack. I have been asked many times about
which Bible translation I use or think is best. I used to hemm and haw and say
something non-committal about the King James version. I now know beyond a shadow
of a doubt what translation we need to be using. We need to be using the
Douay-Rheims translation which was begun in 1582 and completed in 1610. It is
only two steps removed from the original texts. The Douay-Rheims is the direct
translation of St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate. St. Jerome was commissioned to
translate the entire canon of scripture into Latin in the year 382 in
preparation for the Church Councils which finally set and canonized the Bible,
particularly the Council of Carthage in 397. St. Jerome worked from ORIGINAL
texts as much as possible, and translated from Hebrew, Greek and Aramaic. <br />
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The
Douay-Rheims is the direct translation from St. Jerome's translation of the
original texts into modern English.
Remember, English as we recognize it today, has only been around for 550
years or so. If you were to be dropped into England earlier than the year 1450,
you would have a very, very difficult time communicating. So, the Douay-Rheims
has between it and the original texts only St. Jerome's Latin Vulgate. I
personally use a Bible that is Douay-Rheims side-by-side with the Latin Vulgate.
As I pick up more and more Latin, I find myself reading the Latin, and using the
English as a cross-check. You're about to see that this is all very, very
important.<br />
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<strong>Let's go to Luke 22, The Last Supper.</strong><br />
Christ has just instituted the Eucharist and the Mass. By doing this in
anticipation of His death on the Cross the next day, He has made Calvary the
centerpoint of time. He has drawn the Old Testament forward to the Cross, and He
has pulled the time after Calvary backward. Every moment in time will now pass
through and be reconciled to Calvary.
"And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all things to Myself."
John 12:32<br />
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What I want you to appreciate is the enormousness of the occasion. This is
one of the most important things that has ever or will ever happen. This isn't
just a farewell meal. The entire world and everyone in it is utterly pivoting on
what is happening in this room.
Let's go to verse 35 through 38. Jesus has just told Peter that he will deny
Him three times.
"When I sent you without purse and scrip and shoes, did you want anything? <br />
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But they said: Nothing. Then said He unto them: But now he that hath a purse,
let him take it, and likewise a scrip: and he that hath not, let him sell his
coat and buy a sword. For I say to you that this that is written must yet be
fulfilled in Me. And with the wicked was he reckoned. For the things concerning
Me have an end. But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And He said to
them: It is enough."<br />
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FYI: "scrip" means money. What He is telling them is that they are about to
encounter evil, and in preparation for this they need to do whatever they need
to do in order to prepare. He is saying that they need to reallocate their
assets and "buy a sword". In Latin, "emat gladium".
Emat = buy, purchase, acquire, procure.
Gladium = sword. <br />
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Wow. I can hear the communists and homosexualists screaming from here. "He didn't really mean it! He wasn't speaking literally! He was speaking figuratively!" </div>
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He was speaking, as God Almighty almost always does, on multiple levels, INCLUDING THE LITERAL. Oh, yes. I'll concede that we should take from this scripture His call to reject materialism and gird ourselves for spiritual battle. No doubt. But if we delude ourselves into thinking that this is the ONLY sense in which He is speaking, we are missing something huge. <br />
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"But they said: Lord, behold, here are two swords. And He said to them: It is enough." <br />
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Okay. Stop, stop, stop. Hold the phone. Put out the cat. First of all, this proves that He was speaking in the literal sense in addition to the figurative sense. But more importantly, do you realize what this means? At least two of the apostles arrived at the Upper Room wearing side arms, which they then took off so they could sit on the floor around the low table that was used in those days. What this also means is that there were side arms present, in the room, at the Last Supper. <br />
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Now here is where all of the Communist-homosexualists are going to absolutely lose it. What is the contemporary, technological equivalent of a sword? What is considered a "side arm" today? That's right. A gun. A sword, in first century Judea was, without any doubt or question, an "assault weapon". Now you can scream and spit and stomp and rage and retch all you want, but you know I'm right. The apostles report that they have two swords, and Jesus says, "It is enough." <br />
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I saw in my research that some "scholars" try to paint Jesus as snapping at the apostles, trying to translate "Satis est (It is enough)" as "Oh, enough already!" I don't hear that at all. I hear Him simply saying that two swords will be enough. This is where we get into huge problems with modern quasi-Christian "scholars" projecting their own agendas onto their translation of the Bible. <br />
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Here are a couple of examples of bad, agenda-driven translations: <br />
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"Enough of that!" (Holman Christian Standard) <br />
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"Enough of that; no more sword talk!" (The Message - not a joke, they completely fabricated that second phrase. Evil.) <br />
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Even if you go with these false translations, you're still stuck with the fact that there were side arms, assault weapons, IN THE ROOM at the Last Supper. What, are you going to argue that Jesus didn't KNOW that there were swords in the room? Who is Jesus? He's God Almighty. He knows EVERYTHING. <br />
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Further, if this was just a horrible mistake or coincidence, why would Jesus make specific reference to swords (which are assault weapons, remember) and arming one's self, thus leading the apostles to inventory the weapons arsenal in the room? <br />
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FURTHER, why would the Holy Spirit, through Luke, put all of this down in writing? Why are we all sitting in front of our respective computer screens, poring through our Bibles, reading and discussing this 1979 years after the fact? Dude. It is not sufficient at this point to simply declare me a bloodthirsty, gun-toting war monger and then walk away. You have to refute and rebut the logical progression I just laid out. Good luck with that. <br />
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Dude, they're STILL ARMED. With ASSAULT WEAPONS. If Jesus was disgusted with the swords back in the Upper Room, why are the apostles wearing SWORDS (which are assault weapons, remember) in the Garden? Don't you think that hippie, pacifist Jesus would have told them to LEAVE THE SWORDS BEHIND? And then scolded them? He didn't do that. They put on their swords (which are assault weapons) and walked to the Garden. You know why? Because Jesus is neither a hippie nor a pacifist. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">1. In spite of the new "Introduction" to "</span></span><i><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship</span></span></i><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">," the bishops’ document will be cherry-picked and repackaged into sound bites to justify voting for a candidate who supports abortion and same-sex marriage. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">2. Pro-life Catholics will be labeled as "single issue voters" who don't care about the larger social teaching of the Church, especially concern for the poor and vulnerable. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">3. The budget passed by the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Paul Ryan (R, WI-01), a Catholic, will be relentlessly attacked as not caring about the poor because it proposed cuts and spending freezes to reduce the growing U.S. deficit that is hurting the economy. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">4. "Progressive" Catholic groups will produce polling that supposedly shows Catholics disagree with Church teaching on the sanctity of life and marriage, implying those who agree are in the minority and "behind the times." <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">5. Catholic politicians and leaders who support abortion and same-sex marriage will not be termed "dissenters" or "liberals" but "progressives" in order to make them sound more attractive to independent voters. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">6. Catholic voters will be told the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama-care) did not contain federal funding for abortion. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">7. Catholic voters will be told the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obama-care) does not pose a threat to religious liberty, for example, the conscience of a Catholic health care worker. <br />
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<span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Garamond,Garamond; font-size: small;">10. The issue of immigration will be elevated to a level of importance equal to abortion and marriage with the only acceptable 'Catholic' position being support for specific pieces of legislation such as the 'DREAM Act' (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors). </span></span>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-71873334025861091972011-09-07T19:28:00.000+07:002011-09-07T19:28:01.404+07:00Killer WindmillsI hate to see this happening. This is a no win for everyone and the only answer I can see to disable the windmills. We need these magnificant birds, they work non stop hunting rodents, snakes and insects. But, the damage may already be irreversable, averaging 67 deaths per year for <i>decades</i> I hope not.<br />
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<blockquote>"<a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1394945/The-green-killer-Scores-protected-golden-eagles-dying-colliding-wind-turbines.html">The death</a> count along the ridgelines of the Bay Area’s Altamount Pass Wind Resource Area has averaged 67 a year for three decades.<br />
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The 200ft high turbines, which have been operating since the 1980s, lie in the heart of the grassy canyons that are home to one of the highest densities of nesting golden eagles in the US."<br />
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As a Catholic in the south, I am often asked if I have a "close and personal relationship with Jesus Christ". I smile and say "I do" We Catholics are blessed with Seven Sacraments, Reconciliation is just one...<br />
Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-10579077529353796012011-09-03T20:51:00.003+07:002011-09-03T20:51:56.876+07:00BetrayalWe've all experienced it--betrayal, the moment when expectation bursts through the veil of reality. I don't expect alot from the folks I know and trust within my circle of life other than respect and loyalty--both of which I am happy to return. Yet, there is always that one person, isn't there? She knows who she is...<br />
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I am sick and tired of hearing that Sarah Palin is "unelectable." Says who? The urbane degenerates masquerading as "journalists?" This is who America is looking to for information and direction? Civilizational suicide.<br />
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I am sick and tired of hearing Republicans say Sarah Palin is unelectable. Says who and why and based on what? I am sick and tired of letting our enemies define our leaders for us. Palin has the stuff of true greatness. She has grit and courage and love of country. The palpable hatred among the left elites (and their counterparts, the RINOs) is the hatred of the good for being the good.<br />
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Palin's record is exemplary. From the PTA to the Mayors office. From the Mayor to the Governor. From Governor to Vice-Presidential candidate. She is close to perfect, and yet she is reviled, defamed, ridiculed by those who aren't fit to wipe her black stilettos."</em></div><br />
We need a person with the grit, determination and unabashed love of country that Sarah Palin so proudly demonstrates, over and over again. Even though we are on a tight budget these days, this is one expense I will gladly budget for, if for other reason than to annoy the liberals. :) So yeah, Im going to see this documentary <strong><a href="http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/atlas_shrugs/2011/06/ten-hut.html">"Undefeated"</a> </strong>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-60796188458616096242011-06-06T12:38:00.000+07:002011-06-06T12:38:24.679+07:00I am not suprised.<span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>I wish I could say I am suprised, but I am not. He's told so many lies, I doubt even Obama remembers the truth.</strong></span><br />
<img src="http://www.brokencountry.com/webimages/Pinocchiobama.jpg" /><span style="color: #0b5394;"><strong>But, of course, Sarah Palin is the one "unfit to be president" Rigghtt...</strong></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.crockerpost.com/2011/06/obamas-ssn-may-be-fraudulent.html?spref=tw">The Crocker Post</a>: Obama's SSN May Be Fraudulent: "Attorney Orly Taitz has been given the go ahead by U.S. District Chief Judge Royce C. Lamberth to go after Obama's potentially fraudulent C...">>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-5972356872360655142011-06-04T13:13:00.000+07:002011-06-04T13:13:22.483+07:00Mittens Romney You Aren't Fooling AnyoneThe more I see this woman, the more I like her. Ann Barnhardt rips the guts out of Mitt Romney's campain platform. Please share this ass kicking.<br />
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</div><strong>The Department of Defense announced late Saturday night the death of six 101st Airborne Division soldiers who were supporting Operation Enduring Freedom.</strong><br />
<span class="pp"></span><strong>They died May 26 of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked their unit with an improvised explosive device in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, according to a news release from Fort Campbell.</strong><br />
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<span class="pp"></span><strong>They were assigned to Fox Company, (Pathfinder), 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 159th Combat Aviation Brigade.</strong><br />
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<strong>Go </strong><a href="http://www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20110528/MAJOREVENT/110528005/Six-101st-Airborne-soldiers-killed-Afghanistan"><strong>here to read the</strong></a><strong> rest and see their faces. Six more. God.</strong>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-41330981452502869362011-05-27T04:21:00.000+07:002011-05-27T04:21:08.854+07:00Trump still isn't finished with Obama's birth certificateHmmmm...more questions than answers at this point. You know what I find striking--the complete lack of curiosity of those who claim to be searching for the truth --and from those who so self-righteously thump their chests and claim that those who keep asking questions are going to "hand the 2012 elections to Obama"--a more contemporary charge than "racist" I suppose. It's almost as if the charge of "racist" has been replaced by the charge of "birther" as a form of silencing, complete with ridicule and mockery. <br />
What I don't understand is how anyone can not grasp the fact that if Obama is proven to be a fraud, then he will not be eligible to run in 2012. Maybe I am just too simplistic, idk. <br />
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<a href="http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=303181">Via WND</a><br />
"Billionaire businessman Donald Trump, who staged a weeks-long public campaign questioning Barack Obama's eligibility to be president during March and April – and rose to the top of the pool of potential candidates for the 2012 GOP nomination then as a result – says he believes the "birth certificate" released by the White House is forged. <br />
His comments came yesterday in a telephone call to WND senior reporter Jerome Corsi, Ph.D., who is appearing on wall-to-wall radio programs – between 10 and 20 per day – to respond to questions about his latest best-seller, "Where's the Birth Certificate? The Case That Barack Obama is Not Eligible to be President." <br />
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Trump asked Corsi about the book, its evidence and what is happening next in the effort to document whether Obama is, in fact, constitutionally qualified for the presidency under Article 2, Section 1's "natural born citizen" requirement."Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-78085601263202800602011-05-26T00:58:00.001+07:002011-05-26T01:10:18.539+07:00St. Michael the Archangel<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQ4GrjZkKZprxZBLu90fSGuZgIXFE15WXa1CdiT20be97yIGXvDPSgCPf7GA9hHZwck5Ej25K3je0xntYZtKMTfhsvRmQyknmcw0IpX-46u_ilygTbXizEouR3tpqG-LNkCN4bh4NnzK9/s1600/stmichael.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibQ4GrjZkKZprxZBLu90fSGuZgIXFE15WXa1CdiT20be97yIGXvDPSgCPf7GA9hHZwck5Ej25K3je0xntYZtKMTfhsvRmQyknmcw0IpX-46u_ilygTbXizEouR3tpqG-LNkCN4bh4NnzK9/s400/stmichael.jpg" style="cursor: move;" unselectable="on" width="299" /></a></div><table border="0" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="10" style="width: 580px;"><tbody>
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<a href="http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/25/oklahoma-declares-state-of-emergency-in-68-counties/"><strong>68 of Oklahoma's 77</strong></a> counties are declared disaster zones today by Gov Mary Fallin. It's bad y'all.<br />
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Oklahoma, my homestate, was slammed by <a href="http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?subjectid=11&articleid=20110525_11_0_ELRENO845379">another round of tornadoes</a>... again. If you can take a few moments to pray for the brave people of this great state, they would be very much appreciated. Today, they will do what Oklahomans always do after a disaster, pick themselves up and carry on. It's what we do. <br />
If you are so inclined, you can reach the <a href="http://www.redcross.org/portal/site/en/menuitem.d8aaecf214c576bf971e4cfe43181aa0/?vgnextoid=46f51a53f1c37110VgnVCM1000003481a10aRCRD&vgnextfmt=default">RedCross here</a>, and specify the donation for the Oklahoma tornado survivors<br />
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<dt> The Holy Gospel according to <a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm">Luke 1: 39-55</a></dt><br />
<dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">During those days Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v41"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, "Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v43"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord <sup><a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm#foot14"><span style="font-size: small;">14</span></a></sup> should come to me? </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v44"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v45"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blessed are you who believed <sup><a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm#foot15"><span style="font-size: small;">15</span></a></sup> that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled." </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v46"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And Mary said: <sup><a href="http://www.usccb.org/nab/bible/luke/luke1.htm#foot16"><span style="font-size: small;">16</span></a></sup> "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord; </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v47"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">my spirit rejoices in God my savior. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v48"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For he has looked upon his handmaid's lowliness; behold, from now on will all ages call me blessed. </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Mighty One has done great things for me, and holy is his name. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v50"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">His mercy is from age to age to those who fear him. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v51"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has shown might with his arm, dispersed the arrogant of mind and heart. </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has thrown down the rulers from their thrones but lifted up the lowly. </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v53"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The hungry he has filled with good things; the rich he has sent away empty. </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">He has helped Israel his servant, remembering his mercy, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/" name="v55"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></dd><dd><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">according to his promise to our fathers, to Abraham and to his descendants forever."</span> </dd><dd><div style="text-align: center;">****************************************</div></dd><dd><div style="text-align: left;">You know what is really cool? In that section of the gospel is where Catholics derive two of my very favorite Catholic prayers, the Hail Mary and the Magnificat.</div></dd><dd><div style="text-align: left;">Look:</div></dd><dd><div style="text-align: left;">"Hail Mary, full of grace the Lord is with thee. Blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus..." See? That is nothing more than what Elizabeth said to her younger cousin when the child within her womb leapt for joy, as John recognized his Savior, Jesus Christ. The Hail Mary is one of the prayers Catholics pray during our Rosary--it is not a spell or incantation, it is a prayer. </div></dd><dd><div style="text-align: left;"></div></dd><dd><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/7924/Greg-Erlandson-A-prolife-feast-day.aspx">Greg Erlandson</a> says this about the Magnificat </div></dd>"The Visitation is also the occasion for Mary’s great prayer, the Magnificat. This prayer is treasured by a wide variety of Catholics because it is an eloquent articulation of the Catholic belief in the dignity of all people and the Gospel injunction to help the weakest among us, uniting the pro-life and social-justice wings of our sometimes divided Church. <br />
This May 31, pray for all women who are struggling with pregnancies. Pray that God gives them strength to protect the life they bear in their wombs. And while you are at it, make a donation to an aid organization that provides assistance to unwed mothers." <br />
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Two women, both of them endangered by the tiny lives they carried within their wombs, Elizabeth who was advanced in years and Mary, unwed in a society who stoned women for adultery. Courage. Faith. Love. <br />
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Catechism of the Catholic Church, #1577: “Only a baptized man validly receives sacred ordination. The Lord Jesus chose men to form the college of the twelve apostles, and the apostles did the same when they chose collaborators to succeed them in their ministry. The college of bishops, with whom the priests are united in the priesthood, makes the college of the twelve an ever-present and ever-active reality until Christ’s return. The Church recognizes herself to be bound by this choice made by the Lord himself. For this reason the ordination of women is not possible.”<br />
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Seems pretty clear to me. Where's the confusion?Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-87021446654983555722010-08-26T22:03:00.000+07:002010-08-26T22:03:57.639+07:00Answering the 'why not?' of women's ordination: Our Sunday Visitor<a href="http://www.osv.com/tabid/7621/itemid/6795/Answering-the-why-not-of-womens-ordination.aspx">Answering the 'why not?' of women's ordination: Our Sunday Visitor</a>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-51602271626571749222010-08-24T05:21:00.000+07:002010-08-24T05:21:25.586+07:00That Would Be as Stupid As...<a href="http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2010/08/that-would-be-as-stupid-as.html">That Would Be as Stupid As...</a>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-71668481813115335932010-08-24T03:45:00.000+07:002010-08-24T03:45:57.077+07:00Songs From the Soul of AmericaOur nation is under seige-- relentless, grinding seige from people who do not care about our way of life. They only want to impose their way of life upon us, the free people of the United States of America. Tyranny. Totalitarianism. Dictatorship.Oligarchy. Whatever label one places on those who seek to usurp the freedom of Americans doesn't matter. What matters is that we continue to fight against them. Fight when you are fired up and full of fury when American citizens are burned alive in buildings. Fight when you are saddened by the loss of another son or daughter. Fight when you are so bone weary from worry and work that you feel you simply cannot face another moment of animosity. Fight when you want to give up. Fight when you are mocked and ridiculed. Fight in everyway you know. <br />
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When we stop fighting, we lose. Everything. Keep going. Never surrender.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te aeternum Patrem omnis terra veneratur.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tibi omnes Angeli; tibi caeli et universae Potestates;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tibi Cherubim et Seraphim incessabili voce proclamant:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus, Dominus Deus Sabaoth.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Pleni sunt caeli et terra maiestatis gloriae tuae.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te gloriosus Apostolorum chorus,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te Prophetarum laudabilis numerus,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te Martyrum candidatus laudat exercitus.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te per orbem terrarum sancta confitetur Ecclesia,</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Patrem immensae maiestatis:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Venerandum tuum verum et unicum Filium;</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Sanctum quoque Paraclitum Spiritum.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tu Rex gloriae, Christe.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tu Patris sempiternus es Filius.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tu ad liberandum suscepturus hominem, non horruisti Virginis uterum.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tu, devicto mortis aculeo, aperuisti credentibus regna caelorum.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Tu ad dexteram Dei sedes, in gloria Patris.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Iudex crederis esse venturus.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Te ergo quaesumus, tuis famulis subveni: quos pretioso sanguine redemisti.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Aeterna fac cum sanctis tuis in gloria numerari.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">V. Salvum fac populum tuum, Domine, et benedic hereditati tuae.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">R. Et rege eos, et extolle illos usque in aeternum.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">V. Per singulos dies benedicimus te.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">R. Et laudamus nomen tuum in saeculum, et in saeculum saeculi.</div><br />
V. Dignare, Domine, die isto sine peccato nos custodire.<br />
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R. Miserere nostri, Domine, miserere nostri.<br />
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V. Fiat misericordia tua, Domine, super nos, quemadmodum speravimus in te.<br />
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R. In te, Domine, speravi: non confundar in aeternum.<br />
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O God, we praise Thee, and acknowledge Thee to be the supreme Lord. <br />
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Everlasting Father, all the earth worships Thee.<br />
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All the Angels, the heavens and all angelic powers,<br />
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All the Cherubim and Seraphim, continuously cry to Thee:<br />
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Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of Hosts!<br />
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Heaven and earth are full of the Majesty of Thy glory.<br />
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The glorious choir of the Apostles,<br />
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The wonderful company of Prophets,<br />
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The white-robed army of Martyrs, praise Thee.<br />
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Holy Church throughout the world acknowledges Thee:<br />
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The Father of infinite Majesty;<br />
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Thy adorable, true and only Son;<br />
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Also the Holy Spirit, the Comforter.<br />
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O Christ, Thou art the King of glory!<br />
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Thou art the everlasting Son of the Father.<br />
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When Thou tookest it upon Thyself to deliver man,<br />
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Thou didst not disdain the Virgin's womb.<br />
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Having overcome the sting of death, Thou opened the Kingdom of Heaven to all <br />
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believers.<br />
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Thou sitest at the right hand of God in the glory of the Father.<br />
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We believe that Thou willst come to be our Judge.<br />
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We, therefore, beg Thee to help Thy servants whom Thou hast redeemed with Thy <br />
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Precious Blood.<br />
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Let them be numbered with Thy Saints in everlasting glory<br />
V. Save Thy people, O Lord, and bless Thy inheritance!<br />
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R. Govern them, and raise them up forever<br />
V. Every day we thank Thee.<br />
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R. And we praise Thy Name forever, yes, forever and ever.<br />
V. O Lord, deign to keep us from sin this day.<br />
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R. Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us.<br />
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V. Let Thy mercy, O Lord, be upon us, for we have hoped in Thee.<br />
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R. O Lord, in Thee I have put my trust; let me never be put to shame.Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-17648285126039052942010-08-20T21:54:00.000+07:002010-08-20T21:54:48.989+07:00Te Deum - Arvo Pärt<object style="BACKGROUND-IMAGE: url(http://i3.ytimg.com/vi/RFQ2joN1hJw/hqdefault.jpg)" width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/RFQ2joN1hJw?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/RFQ2joN1hJw?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-80292416400871171922010-08-20T10:17:00.001+07:002010-08-20T10:38:12.071+07:00Oohhh My!! Rep Issa (R-CA) has a big monkey wrench for the Obama Propaganda MachineFor many months now, Representative Issa R-CA has been hard at work delving through reams of reports and information, gathering potential evidence to use in subpoenas. And he plans on serving them when the Republicans regain control of the house this fall.<br />
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"Cabinet officers, assistant secretaries, directors — I will be able to take on everybody that the president hires and relies upon; the people who tell him that everything is fine,” pledges Issa, the ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, in an interview with National Review Online....David Bossie, who worked as chief investigator for Burton, says Republicans should embrace the subpoena as “an incredibly powerful tool” that will enable Congress to keep a “true check and balance on power.” Being able to bring in officials for deposition, he says, “will be a game-changer,” with witnesses being forced to answer questions truthfully or risk the penalty of perjury." <br />
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Now, with that article in mind, the folks over at Hillbuzz have done an awesome job of grinding up Rep Issa's report , you will need to click over to their page, because their stuff is all nicely linked up and I don't want to break any of their links. <br />
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Keep this in mind: It is against the law for US taxpayers money to be used for propaganda. Yes, I know what the liberals are going to say---well Booosh did it! Yes, he did. In e<strong>ight years there were four times.</strong> In the<strong> last four administrations there were seven in 28 years</strong>. Contrast that <strong>with 11 in just the last 18 months! </strong><br />
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Here is the link to <a href="http://hillbuzz.org/2010/08/19/the-issa-report-propaganda-on-our-dime/">Hillbuzz--</a>you can also read the report for yourself. <br />
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Hold on Lady Liberty, we are coming. <br />
Remember November.Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-65125823709751369872010-08-20T00:38:00.002+07:002010-08-20T00:43:33.073+07:00SALT IN THE WOUND written by Rita W. Jones<object height="344" width="425"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/1-dPSh--CHU?fs=1&hl=en_US"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/1-dPSh--CHU?fs=1&hl=en_US" width="425" height="344" allowscriptaccess="never" allowfullscreen="true" wmode="transparent" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></object><br />
"All you really want to do is rub salt in the wound..." The truth in it's purest form.<br />
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h/t <a href="http://ibloga.blogspot.com/">Infidel Bloggers Alliance</a>Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3662409296936897850.post-51711624427387200762010-08-19T22:29:00.003+07:002010-08-19T22:34:16.131+07:00So What Happens if the Ground Zero Mosque Moves a Few Blocks?<a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/08/so_what_happens_if_the_ground.html">So What Happens if the Ground Zero Mosque Moves a Few Blocks?</a><br />
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<div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Stella Paul in American Thinker.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">Pity the poor New York politician. Take Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who was merrily reigning over New York, banning bake sales in public schools because he doesn't trust parents to monitor their children's cupcake ingestion. Now, all of a sudden, just because he trusts a sharia-spouting imam with mysterious Mideast millions to preach peace and love at Ground Zero, the whole country is mad at him. Why, he can practically feel his plan to sweep to the presidency on a "Make Mosques, Not Cupcakes" platform crumbling before his eyes.</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.wnd.com/images/groundzero.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" ox="true" src="http://www.wnd.com/images/groundzero.jpg" width="317" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">And spare a tear for forlorn Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer. A bland hedgehog of a man, he glowed with confidence that all he had to do was call his fellow New Yorkers "outright haters and bigots" for opposing a Ground Zero Victory Mosque and they would clasp him to their hearts and crown him mayor. Now he's stuttering that he didn't know...didn't think...while waking up in a cold sweat at 3 A.M., realizing that every red-blooded American with a dollar will send it to whoever runs against him</div><br />
As the Victory Mosque for the Nineteen Martyrs debacle explodes across the headlines, New York's courageous politicians are running for cover, crying for mommy. Even ardent endorsements by Hamas and President Obama haven't helped. <br />
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Because it is an immutable law of nature that no New York politician will ever stand for any principle higher than his survival, the Great Do-Over must now be underway. How can these worthies save their darling little hides? What can they do to get that dang thing out of the headlines and lull everybody back to sleep once more? And what will happen when they do?<br />
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Well, dear reader, fortunately for you, Stella knows all. Join me now as we peer into Stella Paul's Crazy Crystal Ball.<br />
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Prophecy 1: Very soon, Imam Rauf will take time from his busy schedule of fundraising in the Middle East on the U.S. taxpayers' dime and meeting with genocidal Iranians to make the following announcement: <br />
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"My fellow Americans, all I want for our mosque is to bring peace and understanding. Unfortunately, un-American bigots are now twisting the beauty of Islam to attack us, and their intolerance is placing every Muslim in danger. My own family has received death threats, and my face, which seeks only to turn with love to Allah and the Statue of Liberty, has been showered with spit from New Yorkers more hate-filled than Nazis.<br />
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"Therefore, because of the great danger to peace-loving Muslims and my Daisy, I am agreeing to move the mosque a few blocks away. This whole tragedy for Muslim-Americans began when Mayor Bloomberg and many Jewish leaders told us that New Yorkers would welcome a mosque at Ground Zero with open arms. Because we Muslims are trusting and have only friendship in our hearts, we fell into their Zionist trap." [Editor's note: a day after publication, the Ground Zero Mosque fiasco is being blamed on Zionists by Muslim spokesmen. 8/19/10 8:17 AM PDT]<br />
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Prophecy 2: Delirious with gratitude to Imam Rauf for agreeing to move the mosque, Mayor Bloomberg announces the city will donate a magnificent site. After a brief hubbub about separation of church and state, a red-faced Bloomberg withdraws his proposal but offers to buy the site with his own money. When Imam Rauf sulks about the city's betrayal, Mayor Bloomberg frantically agrees to pay for the entire mosque: $100 million for the biggest, best, most beautiful mega-mosque in North America! It's all on him!<br />
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(As you may remember, Mayor Thomas Menino of Boston giggled through constitutional barriers when he donated $2 million of public land to the Islamic Society of Boston for their Saudi-funded mega-mosque. But Roxbury is not quite as visible as Ground Zero.)<br />
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Prophecy 3: At the Victory Mosque's grand opening on 9/11/11, Bloomberg, Obama, all Democratic members of Congress, the cabinet, and half the Supreme Court all reverently file in and bow down in a pageant of multicultural splendor. Outside, a group of picketers from St. Nicholas Church protests the fact that their church was destroyed on 9/11 and bureaucratic barricades still keep them from rebuilding ten years in. The picketers are tear-gassed and clubbed away from the site, and the next morning, The New York Times blasts them for their insensitivity to the peace-loving Muslim community.<br />
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Prophecy 4: Like the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center, the new Victory Mosque quickly spins out headlines about violent plots and jihad-drenched rhetoric emanating from its associates. Meanwhile, the long-promised civil trial of Khalid Sheik Mohammed begins in downtown Manhattan, a few blocks away. Thousands of Muslims converge on lower Manhattan, praying five times a day at the Victory Mosque, then surging to the courthouse to scream threats about justice for Khalid. The streets of downtown New York are a madhouse.<br />
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Prophecy 5: Over time, as more Muslims decide to live next to the Victory Mosque, Lower Manhattan becomes a no-go zone, like certain areas in France and Sweden. Wall Street firms are the first to flee to Connecticut, New Jersey, and finally, Switzerland, taking with them thousands of New York's most productive citizens. The already damaged fiscal base of New York City collapses. As the years go by, demographic pressures create a civic death spiral, just like in Antwerp or Rotterdam. Finally, the city's new mayor, Hussein bin Mohamed, comes up with a perfect solution: the mother of all bailouts. It seems Saudi Arabia has generously agreed to save New York. All they ask is the women agree to a slight adjustment in their style of dress.<br />
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Now who's going to tell me I'm wrong?<br />
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Stella Paul blogs at StellaPundit.Rebellious Kafirhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10622610713639304665noreply@blogger.com0