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Go into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature. - Mark 16:15
Tomorrow bloggers will unite in a hurricane relief day to blog and give to the charities of their choice. I’m asking my readers to donate to the Salvation Army. As you may know, the Salvation Army began as — and in many ways still is — a Christian organization. Read more of the history.
You don’t have to wait until Thursday to begin donating. You can donate money online here or send to PO BOX 4857 JACKSON, MS 39296-4857. You can also give clothing, food, and your time. Most of all, hurricane victims need your prayers.
…for allowing the invasion of illegal aliens, says Pat Buchanan:
Where is Bush? All wrapped up in the issue of whether women in Najaf will have the same rights in divorce and custody cases as women in Nebraska. His legislative agenda for the fall includes a blanket amnesty for illegals, so they can be exploited by businesses who want to hold wages down as they dump the social costs for their employees — health care, schools, courts, cops, prisons – onto taxpayers.
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Filed under: Bush Bad, Illegal Aliens
Because it certainly isn’t “news” to people with IQs higher than 80.
Islamofascists have exploited our lax immigration laws. Oh, no! Whatever.
The report provides newly compiled data on U.S. terror arrests to illustrate gaps (GAPS?) in the nation’s border security, visa approval and immigration systems. It was written by Janice Kephart, who served as counsel to the 9/11 Commission that investigated missteps leading to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
“The attack of 9/11 was not an isolated instance of al-Qaida infiltration into the United States,” the 46-page report found.
“In fact, dozens of operatives both before and after 9/11 - other than the 9/11 hijackers - have managed to enter and embed themselves in the United States, actively carrying out plans to commit terrorist acts against U.S. interests or support designated foreign terrorist organizations,” the report concluded. “For each to do so, they needed the guise of legal immigration status to support them.”(Emphasis added) (Source)
Here’s one lie in the story: “Tightening U.S. borders has become a top priority for Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, who last week called immigration enforcement an issue of utmost importance.”
Continue reading News Flash for Imbeciles: Terrorists Exploit Immigration Laws
Filed under: Illegal Aliens, War - Islamofascism
Someone just e-mailed to tell me that G. Gordon Liddy read this op-ed on his show today. Free publicity is a good thing.
Unrelated Update: Pictures of the speakers at the National Conservative Student Conference, sponsored by Young America’s Foundation.
Related post: The Blogging Panel was…
Michael Graham was fired from WMAL after criticizing Islam. A gutless move but not a violation of his First Amendment rights. The amendment restricts the government, not private entities, from suppressing protected speech.
A Florida teacher was recently suspended for exercising her constitutional rights. She wrote to her representative about the burden illegal aliens place on America, and the school board suspended her.
Dear Honorable Congressman,
Please consider my views when you are voting and representing voters.
I believe we must close the doors to all foreigners for awhile (sic) until we get this economy and the schools back on their feet. As a classroom teacher in Florida for 28 years, I know that foreigners are the largest users of our taxpayers’ money. Foreigners are taking all of the jobs that poor and little-educated Americans could have. Many people are being paid under the table, and therefore they are not paying their fair share of taxes. Schools are dealing with too many problems with language differences, and time is lost to our American children who have parents who pay taxes. I’m seeing money going to local charities going to Mexican, Haitian, and Mid-Eastern immigrants instead of to the poorer people of American descent. (Read the rest)
Whether you agree with her or not is hardly the point. Jan Hall is an employee of a government institution, and she was suspended for criticizing the government, the type of speech the First Amendment was created to protect.
If you’d like to write to the school board urging her reinstatement, visit this site [corrected link].
Other sources: Civil Commotion, Teacher Suspended Over ‘Puerto Ricans Destroying Orlando Letter
Journalists who have visited Niger are reporting finding a strange phenomenon: villages in which women and children are going hungry, while there is still food in their households.
Kim Sengupta of the UK’s Independent newspaper found that men had left their families, locking the grain store, while they were away.
“They’ve gone away to look for work or look for money and sometimes across the border in Nigeria. And you have this strange situation where there were women in the villages with stocks of sorghum and millet with hungry children, but no access to the food,” he says. (Story and photo source)
Niger men love their multiple wives and children enough to teach them the value of scrounging for food. Africa is filled with such wonderful traditions.
Men are allowed to drop their seed all over the place, and they don’t have to fend for anyone but themselves. Women and children are on their own except when it’s time to cater to their men. A rogue’s paradise.
Here’s another gem: “And men may be calculating — correctly — that if they don’t provide for their families, aid agencies will step in to fill the gap.”
Hmm…making babies with multiple women, knowing the state will feed them. Why does that sound familiar?
Wait just a minute…now that I think about it, it’s probably the white man’s fault! Those blue-eyed devils are forcing these oppressed men to starve their babies.
Racists!
Blogger Aaron Wall of SEOBook is being sued by company called Traffic Power for defamation and disclosing trade secrets. From The Blog Herald:
If successful the case has the potential to cause major upheaval in the blogosphere as comments would need to be filtered in cases where there was even the slightest chance someone might sue or find the comment offensive or disagree with it.
Might be time to update the disclosure and editorial statement.
Related: As blogging grows, companies eye legal pitfalls
Is it riskier to moderate blog comments?
(Cross-posted on The Language Artist)
Christian bloggers: I know it’s only fiction, but The Da Vinci Code should definitely be on your list of “things to blog.” The book was a raging bestseller, and the movie is scheduled for release in May 2006.
The convoluted plot is just window dressing. The two main characters discover that the “Holy Grail” is not a chalice but a woman: Mary Magdalene. Mary and Jesus were married, and after Jesus was killed, she fled to Gaul (France) and had a child. One of the main characters is a descendant of the child.
The Roman Catholic Church hid this knowledge for 2,000 years, recasting Jesus the man as Jesus the divine Son of God. The Jesus of The Da Vinci Code was a sinner… just like you and me. In the end we learn that the way to God is not through repentance, redemption, grace or divine mercy. No, the way to God can be found through a pagan sexual ritual.
The Da Vinci Code hype has died down in the past couple of years, but it’s sure to heat up again. The story is not true, but that’s hardly the point. In a world hostile to the faith, we must be prepared to defend the faith when confronted by questions and absurd arguments based on the nonsense within the pages of this book.
Related post: Review of Breaking the Da Vinci Code
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Update (8/27): From a reader:
Just a thought as I hear more about the book and the movie and the claims made therein. Can you imagine… just imagine… what muslims would do if such a book/movie were made about islam?
-They commit terror in the face of Korans in the toilet
-They riot when someone suggests Mohammad would’ve married a Miss Universe contestant
-They issue a fatwa against Salman Rushdie for the “blasphemous” Satanic VersesI think the DaVinci Code’s movie release may provide an opportunity for Christians to show that we can oppose such a blasphemous work without resorting to violence, and perhaps that opens a door or two allowing for some opportunity to witness to others.
