Propaganda department a CBS at it again

Worldnetdaily is reporting that CBS jumped the gun on reporting Terri's death. Now, I can understand how a news organization could have a story about an anticipated event ready to go and someone pushes the wrong button and publishes it.

What I find appalling is some of the "facts" they reported on an event that hasn't happened yet.

They reported that, "Surrounded by stuffed animals and medical equipment in her small hospice room in Pinellas Park, Fla., Theresa Marie Schindler Schiavo died. ... "

Certainly sounds wonderful and pleasant.

Now, here is the really good part, "Michael Schiavo, who was at the bedside of his wife Terri when she died, told Larry King that he lives now with another woman with whom he has two children.
"I can love more than one person," he told King. "Everybody can do that."
According to friends and relatives, Michael Schiavo was Terri's only love. His big-but-tight-knit family took in Michael's bride, and she befriended his siblings, including his brother, Scott.
"It's so sad they've turned this wonderful person into a sideshow," Scott Schiavo told the [Washington] Post. "It's such a shame. It really is. The one that's hurt the most here is Terri."

If this isn't propaganda what is?

Sick.

Read the whole story here.

Do you think a "living will" or "end of life directive" will save you?

I have heard a lot about putting your end of life wishes down on paper because of the Terri Schiavo case from all sides. Now, I suspect what this really means is "give us permission to terminate you".

However, if you decide that you would not like to be terminated do you honestly think a piece of paper is going to save you? If a county probate judge can ignore orders from congress, what makes you think your measly little piece of paper is going to do anything? Why can't he just decree that whatever state you find yourself in is not covered by your "directive" and therefore he knows you wouldn't want to live?

If you won't fight now, don't lull yourself into a false sense of security because of a piece of paper.

Joseph Farah on the powerless church.

I wanted to direct your attention to a great article by Joseph Farah at Worldnetdaily.

He points out why the church is becoming increasingly irrelevant and why we need more heros of the faith like Pastor William Rice of Calvary Baptist in Clearwater, Fla. He had the courage to ask Judge Greer to leave the church he pastor's because of his conduct.

Farah writes:

"Rice has my highest regard for that decision. Too many pastors in this country don't require obedience to God as a prerequisite for church membership. They seem to believe in a kind of "cheap" grace that comes with regular attendance or tithing rather than a Christian walk. They seem to have no minimal standards for fellowship and communion with the saints..."

"...Do you want to know why the church doesn't have influence and impact in our increasingly secular world today?
Because there are too many so-called Christians like Judge George Greer and not enough like Pastor William Rice..."

"... Christians can go on blaming others for the problems we face in this country. Or we can go into the churches and start cleaning up the messes we have in our own houses of worship. It's time to take back the churches. It's time to renew the idea of standards. It's time to make church membership mean something again..."

Farah also brings some great quotes from Pastor Rice:

"Tread carefully if you think this is simply about a dying woman being allowed to die peacefully," Rice wrote. "Remember when we were told that Roe v. Wade was simply about helping women who had been raped or whose lives were imminently threatened? Today, few abortions fall into that category, but millions of human lives have been sacrificed upon the altar of selfishness. And the slide down the slippery slope continues."

Read the entire article here...

Terri is being given morphine?

CNN just reported that Terri is being given morphine? WHY would you give someone morphine if 1.) You are in a PVS and you can't feel anything and 2.) Starvation is such a painless peaceful way to die?

How can most (if you believe media polls) Americans not see through this tragedy?

What is a Persistent Vegetative State exactly?

I figured out something rather interesting today. I thought I would do a little research on what exactly constituted a persistent Vegetative State. I went to three different online medical dictionaries and searched for the definition. Funny thing, none of my searches produced any results. I thought, "how can this be?". We have all of these doctors running around giving their opinions on whether Terri is in a PVS so there must be a definition somewhere I thought.

This got me to thinking about the wording of the term. Would doctors who use all sorts of Latin and technical medical terms use a term that sounds so agricultural. I think they would use a term such as a "persistent comatose state" or perhaps a "persistent unconscious state".

I did more research and guess where I found the definition of PVS. In statue 765.101 of "The 2004 Florida Statutes". In other words, PVS is not a medical term, but a legal one. Here is what the statue defines PVS as;
""Persistent vegetative state" means a permanent and irreversible condition of unconsciousness in which there is:

(a) The absence of voluntary action or cognitive behavior of any kind.

(b) An inability to communicate or interact purposefully with the environment. "

(I thought we were all upset about congress practicing medicine Sunday night?)

You may be saying "so what?" Well, here is the "so what?" all the government has to do is find a doctor willing to pronounce that you are in a PVS and bingo! You go from being a human being with rights to a plant that may be uprooted with impunity.

Think of it, people used to be against abortion until they came along a redefined a baby as a "fetus". Ok, it's not human it's a fetus so it's OK to "terminate" it. Terri is redefined as a vegetable, not a human, so people think their is nothing wrong with killing a turnip.

What's next? Perhaps the pro-death crowd would like to bring back the Roman practice of exposure of unwanted children after birth. Perhaps we could call infants pre-viable organisms until they can put food in their own mouth and swallow it on their own. While they are in the "pre-viable" stage we could simply put them in a room and not feed them till they die a "natural peaceful death". After all, if they were viable they could feed themselves. Don't laugh, that is exactly the argument they are using with Terri.

Good Friday Meditation

Tomorrow is Good Friday. It is the day we remember and celebrate the death of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. My family is going to observe it by going to see "The Passion of the Christ" again. Afterwards, we are going to share in the Lord's Supper. I hope to answer for my children the question that has been asked at the Passover meal for thousands of years and that was indeed asked at the Last Supper; "Why is this night different than all others?"

During the Easter season we sometimes put more emphasis on the resurrection of Jesus than on his death. The resurrection is no doubt very important, it is the proof that Jesus was who he said he was and the guarantee of our own eternal life and resurrection. But, the central focus of the Bible, indeed of all history, is the Cross of Christ. In the Bible, Christ's death is mentioned in the third chapter of Genesis and the central figure of the Revelation is the "lamb, looking as if it had been slain". Indeed, the cross is the central message of everything in between. You see it in the sacrificial system of the old testament. God even instructed the Israelites in the wilderness to set up their camp in the shape of a cross (see Numbers chapter 2) with the tabernacle in the center! His death on the cross was the atoning sacrifice for our sins. It is what makes us righteous, reconciled to God and deserving of eternal life. As Jesus said on the cross, "It is finished!".

I want to share with you something that I think is very significant in the account of the crucifixion. Read the account of the events from Matthew 27 of Christ's death on the cross and as you read it pay close attention to all of the details of things that happened.


"MT 27:27 Then the governor's soldiers took Jesus into the Praetorium and gathered the whole company of soldiers around him. 28 They stripped him and put a scarlet robe on him, 29 and then twisted together a crown of thorns and set it on his head. They put a staff in his right hand and knelt in front of him and mocked him. "Hail, king of the Jews!" they said. 30 They spit on him, and took the staff and struck him on the head again and again. 31 After they had mocked him, they took off the robe and put his own clothes on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.

MT 27:32 As they were going out, they met a man from Cyrene, named Simon, and they forced him to carry the cross. 33 They came to a place called Golgotha (which means The Place of the Skull). 34 There they offered Jesus wine to drink, mixed with gall; but after tasting it, he refused to drink it. 35 When they had crucified him, they divided up his clothes by casting lots. 36 And sitting down, they kept watch over him there. 37 Above his head they placed the written charge against him: THIS IS JESUS, THE KING OF THE JEWS. 38 Two robbers were crucified with him, one on his right and one on his left. 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"

MT 27:41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, 'I am the Son of God.' " 44 In the same way the robbers who were crucified with him also heaped insults on him.

MT 27:45 From the sixth hour until the ninth hour darkness came over all the land. 46 About the ninth hour Jesus cried out in a loud voice, "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

MT 27:47 When some of those standing there heard this, they said, "He's calling Elijah."

MT 27:48 Immediately one of them ran and got a sponge. He filled it with wine vinegar, put it on a stick, and offered it to Jesus to drink. 49 The rest said, "Now leave him alone. Let's see if Elijah comes to save him."

MT 27:50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.

MT 27:51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook and the rocks split. 52 The tombs broke open and the bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs, and after Jesus' resurrection they went into the holy city and appeared to many people.

MT 27:54 When the centurion and those with him who were guarding Jesus saw the earthquake and all that had happened, they were terrified, and exclaimed, "Surely he was the Son of God!" “
When I study the Bible I always try to pay particular attention to things that seem unusual as I read. Something unusual appears in verse 45 when Jesus cries out; "Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani?"--which means, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?" . The thing I find remarkable about this statement is that the Bible records that the statement was spoken in Aramaic when nothing is mentioned about what language anything else in the story is spoken in. Most modern teaching says that the reason Jesus said this is that at that moment all of the sins of the world were on Jesus and since God is holy he can not look on sin and so he had to turn His face from Jesus. I will explain later why I don’t believe this is the case.

I believe the scripture tells us that this was spoken in Aramaic because God wants us to realize who that statement was intended for. You see, virtually everyone who witnessed the crucifixion were Roman and spoke Greek or Latin and would not have understood Aramaic. Jewish people would not have attended a crucifixion as it was Passover and being around blood and dead bodies would have made them unclean and unable to participate in Passover that week. There was one group of Jews that were present: 39 Those who passed by hurled insults at him, shaking their heads 40 and saying, "You who are going to destroy the temple and build it in three days, save yourself! Come down from the cross, if you are the Son of God!"
MT 27:41 In the same way the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders mocked him. 42 "He saved others," they said, "but he can't save himself! He's the King of Israel! Let him come down now from the cross, and we will believe in him. 43 He trusts in God. Let God rescue him now if he wants him, for he said, "I am the Son of God."

That group was the chief priests, the teachers of the law and the elders. These folks understood the language and more importantly the message he was speaking to them. You see, the priests and the Pharisees memorized all of the Old Testament as a part of their training and they knew immediately that was the first verse in the 22nd Psalm. They also knew what the rest of the 22nd Psalm said:

"PS 22:1 My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me,
so far from the words of my groaning?
PS 22:2 O my God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer,
by night, and am not silent.
PS 22:3 Yet you are enthroned as the Holy One;
you are the praise of Israel.
PS 22:4 In you our fathers put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them.
PS 22:5 They cried to you and were saved;
in you they trusted and were not disappointed.
PS 22:6 But I am a worm and not a man,
scorned by men and despised by the people.
PS 22:7 All who see me mock me;
they hurl insults, shaking their heads:
PS 22:8 "He trusts in the LORD;
let the LORD rescue him.
Let him deliver him,
since he delights in him."
PS 22:9 Yet you brought me out of the womb;
you made me trust in you
even at my mother's breast.
PS 22:10 From birth I was cast upon you;
from my mother's womb you have been my God.
PS 22:11 Do not be far from me,
for trouble is near
and there is no one to help.
PS 22:12 Many bulls surround me;
strong bulls of Bashan encircle me.
PS 22:13 Roaring lions tearing their prey
open their mouths wide against me.
PS 22:14 I am poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart has turned to wax;
it has melted away within me.
PS 22:15 My strength is dried up like a potsherd,
and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth;
you lay me in the dust of death.
PS 22:16 Dogs have surrounded me;
a band of evil men has encircled me,
they have pierced my hands and my feet.
PS 22:17 I can count all my bones;
people stare and gloat over me.
PS 22:18 They divide my garments among them
and cast lots for my clothing.
PS 22:19 But you, O LORD, be not far off;
O my Strength, come quickly to help me.
PS 22:20 Deliver my life from the sword,
my precious life from the power of the dogs.
PS 22:21 Rescue me from the mouth of the lions;
save me from the horns of the wild oxen.
PS 22:22 I will declare your name to my brothers;
in the congregation I will praise you.
PS 22:23 You who fear the LORD, praise him!
All you descendants of Jacob, honor him!
Revere him, all you descendants of Israel!
PS 22:24 For he has not despised or disdained
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help.
PS 22:25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;
before those who fear you will I fulfill my vows.
PS 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him--
may your hearts live forever!
PS 22:27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
PS 22:28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
PS 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him--
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
PS 22:30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
PS 22:31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn--
for he has done it."

The 22nd Psalm was written some 700 years before Christ and detailed everything that the people at the crucifixion had just witnessed, from Jesus hands and feet being pierced to the guards dividing up His garments! I don’t believe it is any coincidence that Jesus uttered this statement immediately after the priests and Pharisees heaped insults on Him. I believe the message He was giving them was, “Boys, you just killed the Messiah”!

Another one of those interesting things happens in verse 6 of the 22nd Psalm. Jesus calls Himself a worm! When I first read that I wondered why in the world Jesus would say such a thing about Himself. A little bit of study revealed the answer. This worm was not just any worm. The Strongs lexicon gives this description of the worm in question:
"1) worm, scarlet stuff, crimson
1a) worm-the female 'coccus ilicis'
1b) scarlet stuff, crimson, scarlet
1b1) the dye made from the dried body of the female of the
worm "coccus ilicis"
2) worm, maggot
2a) worm, grub
2b) the worm "coccus ilicis"
++++
When the female of the scarlet worm species was ready to give
birth to her young, she would attach her body to the trunk of
a tree, fixing herself so firmly and permanently that she would
never leave again. The eggs deposited beneath her body were
thus protected until the larvae were hatched and able to enter
their own life cycle. As the mother died, the crimson fluid
stained her body and the surrounding wood. From the dead bodies
of such female scarlet worms, the commercial scarlet dyes of
antiquity were extracted.

What a picture this gives of Christ, dying on the tree,
shedding his precious blood that he might "bring many sons unto
glory" (#Heb 2:10)! He died for us, that we might live through
him! #Ps 22:6 describes such a worm and gives us this picture of
Christ. (cf. #Isa 1:18)
( from page 73, "Biblical Basis for Modern Science", 1985,
Baker Book House, by Henry Morris)"

AWESOME!!!!!!

By the way, that thing about God hiding his face from Jesus while he was on the cross, the 24th verse of the 22nd Psalm says: “ For he has not despised or disdained the suffering of the afflicted one; he has not hidden his face from him but has listened to his cry for help.

In conclusion, the 22nd Psalm says:
PS 22:26 The poor will eat and be satisfied;
they who seek the LORD will praise him--
may your hearts live forever!
PS 22:27 All the ends of the earth
will remember and turn to the LORD,
and all the families of the nations
will bow down before him,
PS 22:28 for dominion belongs to the LORD
and he rules over the nations.
PS 22:29 All the rich of the earth will feast and worship;
all who go down to the dust will kneel before him--
those who cannot keep themselves alive.
PS 22:30 Posterity will serve him;
future generations will be told about the Lord.
PS 22:31 They will proclaim his righteousness
to a people yet unborn--
for he has done it.

This Good Friday let us bow down before Him, serve Him and proclaim His righteousness.
God Bless,
Mike

Death of the Republic

Is the Terri Schiavo case only about the life of one handicapped woman? Is it perhaps about the rights of all handicapped, old and infirm Americans? True, it is about these things, but is it about something even bigger? I believe it is something much bigger.

As I write this Terri's last chance seems to be Gov. Jeb Bush. The Federal Courts have all backed up a county (Yes, Greer is a county judge, not a state judge as has been widely reported) probate judge that has thumbed it's nose at the Congress and the President of the United States of America. The Congress and the President have both stated that they have done all that they could for Terri. If they have done all they can then they are completely impotent.

Last week congress decided to have an investigation of it's own into this case to decide for itself what the merits of the case are. They issued subpoenas for Terri and Michael Schiavo, among others, to appear before congress to testify. It is a Federal offense to disregard a congressional subpoena or to tamper with a witness. I think killing a witness is probably tampering. Think of it, a COUNTY PROBATE JUDGE tells the Congress of the United States of America to go take a flying leap and they do NOTHING! They should have sent Federal agents to Florida to jerk Greer out of his backwater courtroom and bring him before Congress to prosecute him for contempt of Congress. Congress is completely impotent, they might as well disband it. I know I am going to get hate mail for saying this, but so be it.

Judge Greer has pretty much set the Reichstag on fire. If a lowly county probate judge is more powerful than our elected representatives and unelected Federal Judges backs him up then we have no representation in our government. We are at the mercy of a tyrannical oligarchy.

Are we are all too blind or fat and happy to see it?

We have many liberals in our society that love to remind us of the evils our country has perpetrated in the past to the Indians and slaves among others. I say let them look in the mirror, we can't do anything about our past sins but we can darn well do something about our current ones. To see our current sins one only has to read the news. Put on your thinking cap for a few minutes and think about some of the things you accept as fact without questioning.

Take the Social Security debate. Our society is getting older and that is putting a strain on the system. When Social Security was designed it was intended to have 40 workers in the system for every retiree. I believe it now has three workers for every retiree. Why is this? We have been told that it is because the baby boomers have been retiring. Is this true? I am not so sure that the concept of "baby boomers" is all that convincing. The theory is that all of these GI's came home from WWII and started making babies. I wonder about the half a million potential fathers that didn't come home from the war. What about their potential progeny? Shouldn't that offset it somewhat if not totally?

So what has caused the aging of our society? I say it is the result of the holocaust of the murder of 40,000,000 of our fellow taxpayers; a large portion of which would now be working and paying taxes since the Roe vs. Wade decision happened in 1972. We tried the eugenics experiment in the twenties and people saw through it so the social engineers came up with a new twist. If we can't sterilize the undesirables lets kill their offspring through abortion. You say I am being too extreme or radical? Go read the writings of the hero's of the abortion movement like Margaret Sanger and see if I am not telling the truth. Look at the abortion statistics and see who's children are being killed. The thought of killing people because they are inconvenient or undesirable or some undefined quality of life is beyond my understanding.

Think about the logical result of this evolutionary social engineering. If you create a society that is strained by having to care for too many elderly people what do you do. Well, you get rid of the excess elderly people. Is the location of this travesty lost on everyone. Where is the largest population of elderly people located and where is the medical system the most strained by them. That's right, Florida.

If "We the People" don't do anything about this we will be living in a brave new America where we have no representation and more importantly no rights except those granted us by black robed dictators.

If you're only response to this is to call me extreme or radical don't bother as that is no argument at all. If however, you have a reasoned counter argument to this I will be happy to be proven wrong. My fear is that I am not wrong.

Michael Schiavo comes out of the court house

I have been watching CNN this morning. They have been going on and on about how the devoted husband has been right by Terri's side since they took her food from her. Well, they have been showing a picture of the county courthouse all morning and guess who just came out the front door at 11:40 central time? None other than the loving husband himself. Of course they immediately cut away from the picture.

They haven't announced it yet, but since he has left the building that means that Heir Greer the backwater county judge has given the expected ruling against Terri.

Sad.

Turned down by the Supremes

Well, I can't say I am surprised but I just learned from BlogsforTerri that the Supremes just turned Terri down. All eyes are now on Gov. Bush. Rumor has it he is supposed to show up in Pinellas at noon when Heir Greers restraining order expires to maybe take her into protective custody. We will see.

I think I smell a carp and his name is George Felos

Code Blue Blog reports:

CSI MEDBLOGS: FURTHER INVESTIGATION OF CT BRAINS TURNS UP NEW ASTOUNDING EVIDENCE

Terri Did Not Suffer Her Brain Damage Outside The Hospital--It Occurred While She Was Hospitalized

The gist of the post is that the first two CT brain scans of Terri's after her injury and admittance to the hospital were normal. Suddenly, a few days later, the next brain scan was very abnormal indicating that the injury happened in the hospital. Someone else comments and says it is pretty normal after a brain injury for the first couple of scans to be normal. Now I am not a doctor nor have I played one on TV but Code Blue Blog's conclusion does seem to make some sense.

However, I believe the greater story here is the one that The Empire Journal put forth in outlining the evidence that Terri is not in a persistent vegetative state. I am not sure how they obtained this information, but if true, it is certainly damning to Felo's case.

Here is an entry from the record I found particularly striking:

"9/11/1999
Dr. Letter Jeffrey Karp, M.D.
pt is in a persistent vegetative state per Florida Statutes provided to me by Mr. Felos"

In other words, Dr. Karp (here in Missouri we recognize a carp as a rather smelly, ugly, bottom feeding creature) declared Terri to be in a PVS not by a medical diagnosis, but by a definition made by a legislature and delivered by a carp-like lawyer. First, does anyone see a conflict of interest here besides me? Isn't our carp-like lawyer a bit too cozy with our Karp doctor who made the "medical" pronouncement of PVS condemning Terri to death?

Conspicuous is the absence of those who cried foul when they alleged that the US congress was making medical diagnosis' when they commanded the Federal Courts to give Terri a new trial. A new trial that the Federal Courts refused to give as they exercised their supremacy over the branch of government that in fact writes the law the courts are supposed to rule according to.

And the Crowd Said: "Crucify"

Great read from Getting Elected Blogline. Here is a snippet:

"Terri Schiavo's life is now in the hands of the Supreme Court. In the meantime, Terri's life is slowly slipping away. She is being starved to serve "justice". However, she has committed no crime.Several recent polls say that a majority of Americans believe that starving Terri is OK. God help us...

...It is clear. The final appeal must now be made to God. Only He can save her. Jesus said: "Father, if it is your will remove this cup from me". I pray this prayer for Terri.

Ironically, the chances are good that Terri will die as Jesus did, on Good Friday.

The polls have been taken and the crowd is still calling: "Crucify!"."

Read the rest...

Christain Carnival is up at "A Nutt's View"

The Christian Carnival is up at "A Nutt's View"

A letter to Roy Blunt

I wanted to share with you a letter I just sent to my Representative Roy Blunt.


Mr. Blunt,
I just witnessed you on TV saying that you and congress had done all you can for Terri Schiavo. As one of your constituents I am very disappointed.
All you have succeeded in doing is finish making Congress completely powerless and irrelevant. You have let a state court and two Federal courts thumb their noses at acts of congress. Yours is the legislative branch of government that makes the law that the courts are supposed to follow.
You ordered the Federal courts to give Terri a brand new trial. They refused. You have let them establish that they are above the Congress and worse above the law.

Disappointed,
Mike Bennett

Judicial terrorism

David Bass has a great article at Worldnet daily called "Judicial Terrorism". He is right about judges being terrorists. We already knew that however. I think the point below is more important.

"America considers herself a civilized nation. We eschew the barbaric practices of ancient Rome, the religious conflicts of the Medieval period, and the mass genocide that took place in wars throughout the 20th century. Yet now, a entirely innocent woman, one who committed no crime other than requiring more love and attention than most other Americans, is starving to death on our watch. Are we really any less barbaric than Rome, or have we simply learned new ways to veil our wickedness behind the curtain of science, choice and a so-called "right to die"?"

We are a society of barbarians.

Read the rest....

They are asking the wrong question

Dory has a great post I wanted to share with you. She is right, most people don't take time to think about what they hear. We keep hearing this is a "right to die" case. It's not, it is a right to live case. Why is Terri in a hospice when she is not dying. As Dory has asked, she is not being "allowed" to die. She is not dying. She is being killed.

Here is a snippet of Dory's post:

"No one has suggested that Terri should be "allowed to die" because she is dying anyway. What is being suggested is that she should be caused to die because her life is not worth living. "I wouldn't want to live that way," people are fond of saying. Well, thanks for sharing, but that's not really the point, is it? What if I decided that I wouldn't want to live as a diabetic with all the challenges that disease presents. Does that then justify me killing a diabetic child or spouse? Dare I argue that to suggest otherwise is to interfere with "a personal family decision?"

Read the rest...

I am shocked, SHOCKED!

I was just watching the Today show and Lester Holt was interviewing some researcher who had done some research and found out that men and women are different! Whoda thunk it!

Lester asked him something to the effect, "You mean men and women think differently because differences in thier DNA, not just because girls grow up playing with Barbies and boys grow up playing with G.I. Joe?"

It is a shame that left-leaning people are so decieved that this would come as a surprise to them.

New Site Layout

Well, I have the remodeling on the site pretty much done. I still am going to try to design a graphic for the header. Let me know what you think or if you are having any problems viewing the page.

Thanks and God Bless,
Mike <><

This from Hyscience - Terri told what is happening: Terri cried

Terri told what is happening: Terri cried

Federal representatives served subpoenas on the Hospice house earlier today, citing intent to have Terri Schiavo appear before Congress on March 28, 2005. Judge Greer has ordered that the subpoenas wouldn't be entertained and that Terri's feeding tube would be IMMEDIATELY removed.
It is unclear if this has happened yet or not.
Attorney Barbara Weller was with Terri earlier today. She told the media that, during her visit with Terri, she explained to her what was happening. According to Weller, Terri began to cry and could not be quieted. She tried to coach Terri to say "Let me live" but she simply was having too much difficulty.
Congress is reported by local news to still hold be holding hearings on this matter. It is unclear at this stage who will win this tug of war - the United States or a probate judge from Clearwater. All that is known is that an innocent life is in the balance.
If you can be at Hospice, now is the time.

Terri's execution has now begun; Greer declares himself Grand Exaulted Emperor.

From Terri's parents sometime in the last hour:

Friday - Terri's nutrition and hydration have now been withheld from her. It is unclear if the port that accommodates her feeding tube has been surgically removed as her family was ordered to leave her room.


There is evidently no higher authority in the United States of America than George Greer. He sees no "cogent" reason to obey a directive of Congress. How about the separation of powers for one?

Judge OKs Removal of Schiavo Feeding Tube

March 18, 2005 2:01 PM EST
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - The presiding judge in the case of Terri Schiavo ruled Friday that the feeding tube keeping the brain-damaged woman alive must be removed despite efforts by congressional Republicans to have her appear at hearings.
Pinellas Circuit Judge George Greer refused a request from U.S. House attorneys to delay the removal, which he had previously ordered to take place at 1 p.m. EST. Greer determined that removal must go forward about an hour after another judge issued a temporary delay blocking it.
"I have had no cogent reason why the (congressional) committee should intervene," Pinellas Circuit Court Judge George Greer told attorneys in a conference call, adding that last-minute action by Congress does not invalidate years of court rulings.

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Terri to appear before congress

Lawmakers Widen Schiavo Right-To-Die Fight


March 18, 2005 11:52 AM EST
PINELLAS PARK, Fla. - As a deadline loomed, U.S. Senate Republicans sought to keep severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo alive Friday with an invitation to bring her to Washington, and an attorney for her parents said they hoped the move would buy them more time.

The Senate Health Committee has requested that Terri Schiavo and her husband, Michael, appear at an official committee hearing on March 28. Earlier Friday, a House committee was issuing congressional subpoenas to stop doctors from disconnecting the tube....

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Great analysis from an anonymous poster on Shiavo's Nightline appearance.

I wanted to make sure everyone saw this. An anonymous commenter left this on the post I made about the Nightline appearance. He lets Schiavo hang himself with his own words. Too bad Nightline wasn't interested in calling him on it. I wish I knew who this was so I could give them credit.


Anonymous said...
BURY: You did receive something of a malpractice settlement north of $1 million at one point, is that correct?

SCHIAVO: Yes.
FELOS: Well, no.

Which is it? Make up your minds you two.

BURY: And what happened to that?

Great question!

FELOS: Michael didn't receive those funds. Those were received in Terri's guardianship and it was a bank who was her guardian of the property that administered those funds.

Michael didn't receive the funds. Felos did, to the tune of $400,000 and rising.

BURY: But the question remains: What happened to those funds?

Ding, ding. Round two with the great follow-up

FELOS: Well, those funds have been used for Terri's medical care and guardianship expenses and costs and fees over many, many years.

If medical care stopped in 1992, then "guardianship expenses" are itemized where? "Costs and fees over many, many years" are itemized where? These people need a serious audit.

Those funds are virtually gone, and Mr. Schiavo is not going to inherit or gain one penny by the result of Terri's death.

"inherit"? He already has his hands on the money because he is her guardian!

BURY: And so, Michael, who is now — and let's get the camera over to Michael if we can — Michael, who is now paying for Terri's case?

Ding, ding. Round 3 with the great question!

SCHIAVO: Actually, right now, she's listed on the indigent list for hospice. They were taking care of her. They take very good care of her.

How can she be "indigent", penniless or homeless? Oh, that's right -- Michael lives with his fiance and children and has Terri's money, too!

BURY: It's got to be very expensive.

Not really, especially on the no-food and water mealplan that Michael has ordered.

SCHIAVO: She had — I haven't received any bills from it, so I couldn't tell you how much it would cost.

He has not received any bills since 1992? Medical facilities not looking for reimbursement? Not in my universe!

Please pardon my construction

I have been trying to revamp my website while trying to teach myself HTML. I hadn't planned on publishing this to the web until it was a bit more finished. Someone posted a comment and I guess that causes the blog to republish. That's why it looks a bit goofy at the moment. Stay tuned for other updates.

The Mind of George Felos

Cait has a great post giving us a look into the mind of George Felos' mind through a book he wrote. His mind is a scary place.

Felos is a devil
By Katrina Maguire.

OSCAR Schindler endangered his own life to save the lives of Jewish people. A true hero, a man to be admired and emulated, he placed the lives of others before his own.

I wonder if somewhere in the perverted mind of Florida attorney, George Felos, Terri Schiavo nee Schindler has to die, because of the role of her namesake in saving more than a thousand Jews from their role as "sacrificial lambs?" Felos is the attorney representing Michael Schiavo, the man who wants to starve to death his estranged and brain damaged wife.

On the face of it the question may seem frivolous but when one is confronted with the writings of Felos all thoughts of frivolity quickly evaporate.

Consider the following passages from his book, Litigation As Spiritual Practice."The Jewish people, long ago in their collective consciousness, agreed to play the role of the lamb whose slaughter was necessary to shock humanity into a new moral consciousness. Their sacrifice saved humanity at the brink of extinction and propelled us into a new age."

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Michael is starvation really painless?

Along the lines of my last post Blogs4Terri has this on the Nightline interview last night. Great Post!

More on Terri Schiavo

Nightline had Michael Schiavo on last night to do an apologetic for killing the handicapped. You can read the transcript here.

Here is an excerpt I thought was particularly lame:

"BURY: Your wife's family and their supporters have been arguing in the most graphic terms that what you are going to allow happen on Friday, in their words, is in effect condemning your wife to a cruel death by starvation.
I'd like you to address that charge from them.
SCHIAVO: That's one of their soapboxes they've been on for a long time.
Terry will not be starved to death. Her nutrition and hydration will be taken away. This happens across this country every day.
Death through removing somebody's nutrition is very painless. That has been brought to the courts many of times. Doctors have come in and testified. It is a very painless procedure. Terry can't — she has no cortex left. She doesn't feel pain. She doesn't feel hunger.
So what's going to happen is slowly — her potassium and her electrolytes will slowly diminish and she will drift off to a nice little sleep and eventually pass on to be with God. "

Shiavo makes the claim that they aren't going to starve her, they are merely going to take away her food and water. Isn't that the same thing? Of course, it's no big deal, it happens all the time and besides, she will just drift off into "a nice little sleep". Of course, the interviewer didn't call him on this idiocy.

More on the "idiocy" front from Judge Green. He made two rulings here and here this week. In the first ruling the "Judge" ruled against a motion by the Schindlers to try some new therapy that might allow Terri to speak and swallow food on here own since it has already been documented that she can in fact swallow. The second motion that was denied was one asking that the Schindlers be allowed to try and feed her by mouth once her feeding tube is taken away.

The judge's reasoning for turning down the first was because it is not known if the new therapies would work therefore he considered them "experimental". His convoluted reasoning in denying the second was that he had already decided in his previous decision that trying to feed her was "experimental" so therefore he couldn't disagree with his first ruling. Talk about circular reasoning! Here is an idea, rather than declare feeding her experimental and therefore we don't know if it would work, let's try it and see if it would work! Yea, I know, don't confuse this guy with facts, his mind is made up.

Here is the judges denial of a motion for rehearing on the basis that a ruling he previously made was in error. Dory had a post explaining the mistaken ruling here that I commented on here. The Schindler's attorney used the case Hensel vs. Hensel as a precedent for getting a (b) (5) motion. Evidently a (b) (5) motion allows for a motion that is "no longer equitable" because of new evidence to be overturned. The judge weasels out of it by saying the motion is not the correct vehicle because the Schindlers argued the ruling was "never correct".

He then has the audacity to admit that his ruling was based on faulty facts so he changes the reasons he gave in his previous ruling in this ruling. In effect, "yeah, I was wrong, but I could have said this instead so you can all go jump in a lake". What a crock!

Does anyone else see the irony in the fact that the people who are trying to save Terri and future handicapped people from extermination are named Schindler? There was this fellow named Oskar Schindler that saved many Jews from extermination in the Nazi holocaust. Let's hope we can make a film someday called "Terri's list".

We have already dropped the ball as far as the abortion holocaust is concerned, let's not drop the ball on this one! Call your congressmen, write letters to the editor, call the President, call the governor, call and write your friends. WE CAN STOP THIS!

The Christian Carnival is up.

The Christian Carnival is up over at Christweb. There is a good discussion on the merits of Christian Libertarianism. Personally, I think its a rather untenable position to hold. These guys really have both sides laid out well so I recommend reading them and coming to your own conclusion.

The Readability of Well-Known Blogs

This is really an interesting post from Belief Seeking Understanding. It would be interesting to find out what level I write on but I am afraid I would find out it is the level of Kindergarteners with crayons!

Here is a snippet:
Jakob Nielsen's latest newsletter observes that lower-literacy readers have different strategies for reading web-sites than higher-literacy readers. It got me wondering, because there are some bloggers who write on relatively complex subjects. When I say that, I'm thinking about the contributions of Parableman and World of Sven to the latest Christian Carnival. Isn't readability a virtue?

Check it out....

Vox Apologia IX is up at Razorskiss

Vox Apologia is up at Razorskiss. Joshua has started a great thing with this, very interesting, thought provoking and of course defending the Gospel. You can even check out my humble entry.

Head And Stephen Baldwin Plan Line Of 'Cutting-Edge Christian Products'

This is pretty interesting. This has got to be the first time I have ever linked to MTV! I think it is great that God has saved these guys. I always wonder how Alec has taken Stephen's conversion?

Head And Stephen Baldwin Plan Line Of 'Cutting-Edge Christian Products'

Stephen Baldwin

Brian "Head" Welch may have severed creative ties with his former Korn bandmates following his conversion to Christianity, but he's found at least one new partner in the youngest of Baldwin clan.

The born-again actor said that he and Welch have been talking about launching a line of "cutting-edge Christian products" in an attempt to give young people of faith some pop culture they can actually be proud of.Welch left Korn last month, noting that his newfound Christianity made it impossible for him to continue to play Korn's music and live the band's lifestyle (see "Brian 'Head' Welch Leaves Korn, Citing Moral Objections To Band's Music"). Since leaving the band, Welch has spent considerable time working with members of the Valley Bible Fellowship in Bakersfield, California, and has also sought out Baldwin, who went through his own very public conversion to Christianity.

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Church Gunman Said Upset Over Sermon

This is awful. I don't quite know what to think about it. Please pray for the victims and their families and pray that God will use this for good and His glory.

Church Gunman Said Upset Over Sermon

March 13, 2005 10:10 PM EST
BROOKFIELD, Wis. - The man who fatally shot seven people during a quiet church service before turning the gun on himself was on the verge of losing his job and upset over a sermon he heard two weeks ago, investigators said Sunday.
Terry Ratzmann, 44, left no suicide note and gave no explanation for the killings during Saturday's weekly meeting at a suburban Milwaukee hotel. It was unclear what specifically upset him, but Ratzmann was a member of the Living Church of God, a denomination whose leader recently prophesied that end times are near.


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A Physicist's Perspective

I just found a great blog through the Christian Carnival. It's called "A Physicist's Perspective"

David has some very though provking stuff over there. Mikey likes it!

Check him out.

The Kingdom of God, the kingdom of man and the root of sin.

Vox Apologia: Glory to Man in the Highest: Humanism's Dangerous Claim.

PS 10:4 In his pride the wicked does not seek him;
in all his thoughts there
is no room for God.

What is at the root of sin? I believe it is pride. When Satan fell it was his pride that motivated him. Satan declared, "I will ascend to heaven;I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain. I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High." Satan appealed to Adam and Eve's pride when he tempted them to eat the forbidden fruit so that they could "become like God". It was Adam and Eve's pride that was their motivation to give in to Satan's temptation. Adam and Eve's pride is what caused this world we live in to be fallen and cursed.

This was illustrated to me several years ago on a trip to see the Great Passion Play in Eureka Springs, Arkansas. There are several things to do on the grounds before the play that you can see and do. One of those was called the Holy Land Tour. What you do is walk along a road that is about one-half mile long and along the road are exhibits that demonstrate things from the Bible such as how the Israelites made bricks in Egypt, a cistern and a Bedouin tent like Abraham might have lived in among other things. At the end of the tour was a full scale replica of Moses Tabernacle. A man dressed as the High Priest gave you a tour of the Tabernacle and explained the significance of each thing in it. It was especially interesting because the man in the role of the High Priest was a Messianic Jew. He was able to explain things from a Jewish and a Christian perspective.

When he took us through the Holy of Holies the thing that was striking to me was his explanation of the unleavened bread. The Bible uses leaven, or yeast, as a symbol of sin. The "priest" explained this from a Jewish perspective. He drew the analogy that the yeast puffs up the bread the same way that pride causes us to be "puffed up".

Satan is very good at deception. He has several methods of deceiving us which work very well. One is the same one he used with Adam and Eve, an appeal to our pride. He also takes the good and Holy things of God, twists them and creates evil counterfeits to replace them with. In other words, he takes a lie and ads enough that is true and good to make it believable. A little sugar helps the medicine go down sort of thing.

I believe that God has given us a desire to seek Him. To fill that God shaped hole as some have put it. I also believe that he has given us a desire to "Seek first the Kingdom of God". Satan's ruse is that we can create Heaven on earth ourselves without God. We can be the most exalted beings in this humanistic kingdom. In effect we can have our cake and eat it too.

I once entered into a year and a half conversation with an atheist named Reg Reid. Of course, he was constantly extolling the virtues of communism and I, of course, defended the Godliness of capitalism. Reg kept insisting that the philosophy of Jesus was communism and I kept insisting that Jesus was a capitalist. Reg was, of course, wrong but he got me to think about it a little. I was wrong also, Jesus wasn't a capitalist. As a matter of fact, I don't think Jesus cares a whit about economics and political philosophy , what he cares about is people.

Reg, kept telling me that Jesus advocated selling one's possessions and giving to the poor which is true. However, that is a bit different than government taking ones possetions by force and giving them to others. It got me to thinking about why capitalism works and communism doesn't. Capitalism doesn't work because it is virtuous, it works because of two factors. One is that I believe God has designed us to enjoy our work and the fruit of our labor if you believe what Solomon told us in Ecclesiastes as I do. The other is that people are greedy.

The reason that Marxism fails is because they take away the only reason that one would want to share his possessions and put the needs of his neighbor ahead of his own at the beginning. They declare that their is no God and man is the highest authority in the universe. This is a very easy sell as it appeals to our sin nature and pride. We don't want to be under the authority of that ole' cosmic kiljoy God. We want to be our own God. The trouble is that if we won't restrain ourselves by living by God's laws and a changed heart through the Gospel of Christ then we must be restrained by the raw power of an iron fisted government.

After enough friends and love ones disappear because of non-conformity and after it becomes apparent that no matter how hard one works that your lot in life is going to be no better than others who do little or no work, the sham begins to crumble. The sham is that we believe we can have the Kingdom of God on earth without God. We want to have a kingdom of man utopia with no god but ourselves.

The next time you wonder how supposedly intelligent people can believe in idiocy like evolution and that it is OK to kill the unborn or the old and handicapped because they are inconvenient remember that it is because they will raise their throne above God. In other words, pride.

It is said that there have been more people killed in the name of God than anything. What a crock. Humanism has killed 40 million from abortion in this country. It has killed about 60 million in Communist China. Stalin killed about 100 million in the name of humanism. I could go on and on. I hear a lot these days about being "humane". For example, it's the "humane" thing is to kill handicapped people like Terri Schiavo. I hope no one ever tries to treat me "humainly", I can think of nothing more scary. If it is a question of whether the Godly way or the humane way is better it is no contest. Humanism is completly bankrupt.

Terri Schiavo Deserves the Same Rights as Ted Bundy

Great Post from Hyscience on Terri.

Here is a clip:

"Capital felons in Florida are entitled to a trial by jury, independent counsel, competent representation and automatic review of their death penalty by the Supreme Court of Florida. By contrast, Terri Schiavo has received none of these protections. Perhaps even more ironic is the fact that if the most heinous of mass murderers were to receive a sentence of death by starvation or dehydration, the courts would overturn that sentence as a violation of the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment."

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Mel Gibson pleads for Terri

Worldnetdaily reports:

Gibson pleads for Terri's life Encourages parents to be vigilant, pray, condemns 'cruel starvation'
Posted: March 12, 20051:42 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
In a personal telephone conversation yesterday with Terri Schiavo's father, Bob Schindler, actor-director Mel Gibson encouraged the Schindler family to "never give up and continue to pray."

Shortly after the telephone conversation Gibson sent a fax to the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation with the following statement to be read at today's rally in Pinellas Park, Fla.: "I fully support the efforts of Mr. & Mrs. Schindler to save their daughter, Terri Schiavo, from a cruel starvation. Terri's husband should sign the care of his wife over to her parents so she can be properly cared for."


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The Ten Commandments and hills to die on.

I was checking one of the new blogs in Nick Queen's Out of the Wilderness showcase called A Ticking Time Blog by Byron Harvey. He's got a great blog going over there and I am going to add him to my blogroll when I get a chance. He has a post over there called Dying on Ten Commandments Hill that I just had to comment on. One the purposes of my blog is to examine commonly held beliefs today in the Body of Christ and hopefully change some paradigms in light of what scripture tells us with the ultimate goal of advancing the Kingdom of God. I am going to make an attempt to do that here. I hope this isn't taken as disparaging Byron, Paul or Cal as that is not my intent, I just want to offer a different perspective.

Here is the post:
Dying on Ten Commandments Hill?
Another tip to Paul McCain for a fabulous article by Cal Thomas questioning the wisdom of so many evangelicals making such a bigfathairydeal out of the posting of the Ten Commandments.
If it’s true that we need to “pick our hills to die on”, this surely isn’t one of them…

I think Cal has a mistaken idea what the commandments are about. Cal states in his article:
"Christians, who sometimes seem so bellicose about these things, think Jesus Christ fulfilled every one of the Ten Commandments and thus became the perfect "Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world" (John 1:29). Christians also think "a man is not justified by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ" (Galatians 2:16) and "all who rely on observing the law are under a curse" (Galatians 3:10). They think anyone who wishes to be judged by the law falls short and is condemned.

If Christians believe such things, why would they "settle" for the posting of the Ten Commandments through which they believe no one can be saved? Why not lobby for the display of their favorite verse: "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" (John 3:16)? The display of that verse on public property would surely be ruled unconstitutional, but at least Christians would be consistent with what they believe."

I think Cal makes the mistake many believers make; that is, that the since we are under the New Covenant somehow that renders the Old Testament and the Law of Moses irrelevant. Cal illustrates this thinking when he states: "There are some amusing things about this case. First, it is a group of conservative Christians behind the effort. Not many, if any, Jewish groups are petitioning government for this right even though the Ten Commandments are uniquely Jewish. Moses was Jewish, and the Ten Commandments preceded all other laws that followed." In other words, the Commandments don't really have anything to do with us as believers, they are just a "Jewish thing".

I would contend that the entire Bible from Genesis to "maps" is a book about Jesus Christ and his death on the Cross. As Jesus said, "I have not come to abolish the Law and the Prophets, I have come to fulfill them". The Law of Moses points to the Cross.

Posting John 3:16 would be great but without the Ten Commandments it really doesn't have meaning to the uninitiated. Most people think that they are a pretty good person. (Stay tuned for an essay I am working on about humanism and pride) We Christians know that "all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God". But again, to people that think they are pretty good that really has no meaning. You see, the Ten Commandments isn't something you follow to obtain righteousness, it is a yardstick to measure one's condition against. That is why Satan works so hard to hide the Commandments from public view. That is why atheist's and humanist are offended by them. They show them that they are not the good people they think they are.

Let me share an illustration from another post I wrote.
My experience has been that one of the big obstacles in sharing the Gospel is that most people think they are a pretty good person and therefore they use themselves as the standard for what is good and evil rather than the laws of God. I think maybe this is a result of all the obsession with "Self Esteem" we have in this country or maybe it is just part of the human sin nature.

Let me give you an example of what I mean. My wife and I went on a cruise a few years ago. If you have been on a cruise you know you sit at the same table with the same people for all of your meals. At each meal my wife and I would quietly pray before we ate. There was a lady at the table that was with a guy she had met in Vegas a couple of weeks prior.

I guess she had taken note of our praying and made the suggestion that we all hold hands and make some sort of a new age wish kind of thing. We politely declined and said we would rather just pray. She proceeded to tell us she thought that praying was the same thing as making a wish. Eventually, the conversation came to the point that I shared the Gospel with her (and everyone else at the table by default). I asked her if she thought she would go to heaven if she died. She said she would because she was a good person, after all she had never killed anyone.

So, I went through the Ten Commandments with her. Ok, you haven't killed anyone, but have you ever lied? Yes. Have you ever stolen anything? Yes. Ever commit adultery? Yes. Ever coveted anyone else's possessions? Yes. Ever taken the Lords name in vain? Yes. I told her it looked like she had broken all of them except killing someone. I suggested maybe she wasn't as good a person as she thought and maybe she would need some help getting into heaven. She told me she had never looked at it that way and perhaps I was right.

Her reasoning was the same as most people. Since she was a good person she measured others against the standard of herself. She is good, she had never killed anyone, therefore a bad person was someone who had committed murder. After she measured herself against the Ten Commandments her self-righteousness disappeared. That is why Satan is working so hard to hide the commandments from public view.

Cal made a good observation when he said, "No human has ever obeyed them all." That is why Jesus died on that hill 2000 years ago. When Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and the Apostles before us were told by the government they couldn't acknowledge God they thought that was a hill worth dying on. When our government tells us we can't acknowledge our God by displaying the Ten Commandments, praying or reading the Bible in the public square isn't that a hill worth dying on?

"Life" - Great post from a great blog.

I just ran across a blog called New Wineskins Outres Neuves from France. I haven't gotten to look around there as much as I would like, but early indications are that this is one of the best blogs I have seen. Check them out.

Here is a sample; an incredible post from Frederic:

(Click to enlarge the picture) A friend send me this..Here is the story..

"One of the most amazing photographs that you'll ever see -- is this picture of Samuel, a 21 week old baby boy, whose tiny hand reaches out of the womb and grabs the finger of the surgeon who was operating on him, as if to say, "thanks doc, you did a wonderful job." It should be seen by the WHOLE WORLD."

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A Sort of Notebook

I have been checking out Waterfall's new blog A Sort of Notebook. This lady goes by the name Waterfall and loves to backpack. My kinda' girl!

Check her blog out.

The Christian Carnival is up at Belief Seeking Understanding.

The Christian Carnival is up at Belief Seeking Understanding. I haven't had the chance to read many of the post yet but Doug has done a great job of hosting. Check it out.

A Voice to Speak for Others

You must read this. Dory has done a great job of interviewing a very remarkable woman, Kate Adamson.

Dory writes:
A sign hanging over Kate Adamson's hospital bed read,"THIS IS A HUMAN BEING LYING HERE, PLEASE TREAT HER AS A PERSON. SHE UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING YOU SAY." The sign spoke volumes about frustration, a tenacious will for survival,of love, and of hope...
...Kate was in an intensive care unit, totally aware of her surroundings, but unable to respond. As she laid there, she listened as doctors, assuming she could not hear them, discussed whether or not to treat her. Kate had suffered a double brainstem stroke and her life hung by a thread."If she lives," her husband was told,"she will be a vegetable." .

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HELP TERRI NOW!

Please, please, please, contact your congressman and voice your support for this bill as I have. Not only for Terri, but for all of the old and infirm who's lives hang in the balance.

LIFE AND DEATH TUG OF WAR

Federal bill introduced to save Terri SchiavoMeasure gives
incapacitated same due process as condemned inmates

Posted: March 8, 20052:54 p.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
Two Republican lawmakers from Florida introduced legislation in Congress today they hope will save the life of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged woman whose parents are battling a court order to remove her life-sustaining feeding tube.
Sen. Mel Martinez and Rep. David Weldon say the Incapacitated Person's Legal Protection Act will give Schiavo, and others in similar situations, the same constitutional protection of due process as death-row inmates.
Current law leaves the rights of disabled persons at the mercy of courts instead of the Constitution, the lawmakers argue.

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The Court and the evolving standards of decency.

For those that have chided me for not respecting the Constitution because I don't respect rulings of the Supreme Court and the inferior courts below them; I would like to present an excellent column by David Limbaugh that illustrates that the courts do not base their rulings on the Constitution. They base them on whatever their current beliefs are, what they "feel" is right or even on the constitutions and laws of foreign countries.

Limbaugh writes:

"Adding insult to injury, the Court doesn't even deny its staggering presumptuousness. In the words of the ever-disappointing Justice Kennedy, writing for the majority, "To implement this framework we have established the propriety and affirmed the necessity of referring to 'the evolving standards of decency that mark the progress of a maturing society' to determine which punishments are so disproportionate as to be cruel and unusual."

I am a strict Constitutional constructionist and believe it should be followed to the letter or should be amended through the legal legislative process rather than by judicial fiat. Once again, a judges ruling and the Constitution are not the same thing.

The column Limbaugh writes is pertaining to the case where the court ruled that anyone under 18 cannot be sentenced to death. My purpose here is not to debate the death penalty, but rather to highlight what the Courts are actually basing their rulings on. It is not on the laws or constitution of our country, rather, they base them on a political agenda. We the people must put our foot down and reign in these lawless tyrants.

Read the rest of Limbaugh's column here.

Bible Reading and Study Plan

I wanted to share what I use for my Bible reading and study. I hope it helps you out in your walk with the LORD.

Here is an excerpt from my Bible Reading Page:
I talk to guys all of the time who struggle with Bible reading. One problem I hear a lot is that the Bible is pretty exciting to read for the first couple of books and then things kind of get bogged down when they hit Leviticus, Numbers and so on. Several years ago, I ran onto this Bible reading plan by a fellow named Michael Coley that solves the problem! The plan consists of readings from a different part of the Bible for each day of the week (see the outline below). It makes the reading very interesting and you will be amazed how, even though the readings are from different parts of the Bible each day, God puts each days readings together to speak to you!

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Email From Bobby Schindler: Blogs Please Swarm Need For Habeas Corpus Protection For Terri

Hysience passes this along today. Please do your part and write your congressmen.

Email From Bobby Schindler: Blogs Please Swarm Need For Habeas Corpus Protection For Terri
- via Email received from Bobby Schindler minutes ago: Since this Bill is going to be introduced tomorrow in Washington, please ask Terri's bloggers to swarm the need of emphasizing the importantance of this legislation in saving her life.
The US Congress will consider a bill titled the Incapacitated Person’s Legal Protection Act on Tuesday, March 8, 2005 . This bill, if signed into law, would entitle incapacitated persons to the federal review of their rights (known as habeas corpus) and would help ensure that they have been fairly represented. You can encourage your representative to give favorable consideration of this act. Habeas corpus protections are currently available to the worst convicted criminals; this new law would make it clear that disabled Americans are entitled to at least as much legal protection.
Please contact your representative in the US House of Representatives immediately and plead for their support of this legislation on behalf of Terri and all incapacitated persons.
Cross posted at BlogsForTerri

Terri Schiavo: A New Motion to Correct an Old Mistake

Dory at Wittenburg Gate brings this on Terri Schiavo.
Terri Schiavo: A New Motion to Correct an Old Mistake

New Motion Filed
In February 2000, the courts ruled that there was a lack of clear and convincing evidence that Terri Schiavo had expressed her end of life wishes, and ordered her food and water to be withdrawn. In explaining this decision the judge discounted the testimony of one witness. A friend of Terri's had testified that in 1982 she had shared a tasteless joke about Karen Ann Quinlan, a comatose young woman whose parents had withdrawn life support. The friend reported that Terri did not find the joke funny, but responded with irritation, and went on to strongly say that the parents were wrong in not continuing life support for their daughter who had been on a respirator...
...On the basis of this error, the Schindlers this week filed a motion for relief from that 2002 decision of the court that ordered Terri's food and hydration terminated. You can read the motion here.

The court was presented evidence in 2000 that Terri disapproved strongly when Karen Ann Quinlan was removed from life support. A friend of Terri's testified that in 1982 she told Terri a tasteless joke about Quinlan and Terri didn't approve. Terri also relayed that she thought is was awful what Karen's parents were doing to her.

Since they were discussing Karen in the present tense using words such as "is" and "are" and the Quinlan case was decided in 1976 the illustrious "court" ruled that the conversation must have taken place when Terri was eleven or twelve rather than in 1982 when Terri would have been nineteen because Quinlan would have been "dead" in 1982. Pretty, sorry reasoning even if you ignore the fact that Quinlan didn't die until 1985 and the story was still very much in the news.

The fact is that the court wanted her executed so badly they just pulled anything they could think of out of the air. They didn't even bother to check out the actual facts, even though a woman's life hung in the balance.

I guess the courts motto should be, "Don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up!"

Shameful.

How America has become a multicultural madhouse

Great column from David Kupelian:

How America has become a multicultural madhouse


Posted: March 7, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
This is a true story about America, about how the magnificent Judeo-Christian culture of my youth – which represented the hope of liberty for the world's oppressed – was so easily turned into mush in my lifetime.
Let me begin with a brief story about my father. When he was only three years old, my dad was sentenced to death. That's right. The Turkish government was engaged in a deliberate campaign to force him, his mother and infant sister, along with hundreds of thousands of other Armenians, into the Syrian desert where they would die of starvation, disease, or worse – torture and death at the hands of brutal soldiers or roving bandits.

Read the rest...

The Problem of Death Before the Fall

Dory at The Wittenburg Gate has a very interesting conversation going on the topic of The Problem of Death Before the Fall.

Check it out here and here.

36 Christian Ways To Reduce Stress

Soldado at The LORD my Dad has some great advice in his post: 36 Christian Ways To Reduce Stress

B.C. not P.C. for students

B.C. not P.C. for students
Educators' move to change 'Before Christ' to 'Before Common Era' sparking outrage

Posted: March 3, 20051:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com
In what's perceived as a case of political correctness trumping history and everyday usage, students in Australia are now seeing the calendar term B.C. – which stands for "Before Christ" – being replaced with BCE, meaning "Before Common Era."
"This is political correctness gone mad," Shadow Education Minister Jillian Skinner told the Sydney Daily Telegraph. "You ask the average mum and dad out there how they refer to time and calendars, they will use Before Christ [B.C.]."

Read the rest of the story...

Funny though, the birth of Jesus is still what separates BCE from CE. A rose by any other name is still a rose!

The Christian Carnival is up.

The Christian Carnival is up at Crossroads. Diane has done it in a Soap Opera format. Pretty inventive! My particular entry is under the Guiding Light.

I thought I was more the Bold and Beautiful type. OK, if you've ever seen me, maybe not! :-)

49 great entries, check it out.

Update on Ten Commandments case

MY WAY News reports:

(AP) Christian Ministers from Kentucky demonstrate outside of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington while...
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Ten Commandments displays should be allowed on government property because they pay tribute to America's religious and legal history, the Supreme Court was told Wednesday, in cases that could render a new definition of the role that religion plays in the life of the nation.
"The idea of having a fence around the Ten Commandments to make clear the state has nothing to do with it, I think that is bending it too far," said acting Solicitor General Paul Clement, in arguing against a strict First Amendment wall between church and state.

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Oh no, we are doomed, DOOMED I tell you!

Cell Phone Use While Driving Increases

March 02, 2005 8:28 AM EST
WASHINGTON - More people than ever are driving under the influence of their cell phones, according to a survey released Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The survey showed 8 percent of drivers, or 1.2 million people, were using hand-held or handsfree cell phones during daylight hours last year, a 50 percent increase since 2002 and a 100 percent rise in four years.
All that talking is a potential safety issue, said NHTSA spokesman Rae Tyson.

Read the rest...

Maybe the folks at the NHTSA would prefer we eat a whopper while trying not to get any on our shirt as we drive. Maybe they would prefer we put our mascara on in the rear view mirror while we drive. Maybe they should make a law that cars can only have one seat so that the driver won't be distracted by talking to other occupants in the car. You know, you might look in the rear view mirror while talking to someone in the back or turn your head to look at the person in the passenger seat while talking.

If you can't talk and drive at the same time, as Brad Stine would say, "Put a helmet on!"

You will notice the article states that increased cell phone use is a "potential" safety hazard. Evidently, there is no evidence that it IS a safety hazard or they would have presentented it.

I guess we need to be protected from anything that is not a hazard but has the potential to be!

Here is another way you can help - from BlogsForTerri

February 28, 2005
BlogsForTerri Prepares For USA Today Ad

The BlogsForTerri ad compaign continues....
Having just completed our first fire across the bow of the mainstream media via our BlogsforTerri ad in the Tampa Tribune, we are now preparing to place an ad in the "USA Today" on Friday week. That day has been chosen for both maximum readership and also timing within the narrow window of opportunity to contribute to the growing grassroots campaign at the nation-wide level to save Terri.

Several groups have already expressed an interest in joining with BlogsForTerri by co-sponsoring the ad that is expected to cost almost $20,000. We have already contacted USA Today and are working with the Schindler Media office and others, to prepare the content and layout of the ad. BlogsForTerri expects to be prepared to raise about one-third of the total cost.
Blogs are encouraged to help get the word out. Pledges are requested immediately in order to be prepared for the placement of the ad next Tuesday for the Friday, March 15, just three days before Judge Greer has scheduled Terri's execution to begin. [click here]

In related news on the BlogsForTerri campaign to draw attention to Terri's plight, we were interviewed by a journalist with the New York Times over the weekend. Details will be released on the interview by the NYT sometime in the next two weeks when the article is expected to run that weekend in one of their weekend features.

PLEASE CONTACT JUDGE GREER - THIS IS REDICULIOUS

Terri Schiavo and her family flagrantly denied due process by probate judge

Clearwater, FL – On February 28, 2005, the parents of Terri Schiavo were informed, through their Attorney David Gibbs, III that Judge George Greer of Pinellas-Pasco’s Sixth Judicial Circuit has denied, without access to hearing, motions filed by Terri Schiavo’s immediate family for
Updated neurological evaluations based on new MRI testing protocols;
A motion to compel the deposition of Michael Schiavo;
A petition for extraordinary authority to provide Terri Schiavo with updated rehabilitative protocols;
A petition for divorce, citing open adultery on the part of Terri Schiavo’s husband and guardian;
An objection to the guardian’s annual guardianship plan ;
A motion to remove Michael Schiavo as guardian, citing his failure to comply with Florida Law mandated guardianship requirements. This motion dates back to November of 2002, but the court has never ruled on it.
Judge Greer has stated that he will only consider motions from Terri’s family as they relate to the death process, which include but are not limited to a motion to allow Terri Schiavo to die at home instead of a Hospice facility, a motion for a Florida burial, and a motion allowing her immediate family uninterrupted access to her throughout the death process.
The Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation finds the actions of Judge Greer reprehensible and a clear denial of the due process rights afforded to Terri Schiavo under Federal and Florida law.

Here is this guys contact info.
Contact him and tell him what you think of him and his rulings

George W. Greer
Rm. 484, 315 Court Street
Clearwater, FL 33756
(727) 464-3933

email: courts@jud6.org

Don't sic the Blogs on us!!!!

This is interesting. It shows a couple of things; one is that the blogs are making a difference for Terri and that the main stream media are realizing they can't get away with the usual propaganda without the blogs exposing them. You guys really are becoming pretty powerful. Just remember, as the great philospher Spiderman said, "With great power comes great responsibility".



February 25, 2005 BlogsforTerri Pulls Ad After Censorship - Updated
Source: BlogsforTerri
Update 2(by Richard)
At 5:30 PM this afternoon, after earlier attempts had failed to reach me at a time that I that I could speak with him, I received a phone call from Mr. Eric Myers, National Sales Manager for the St. Petersburg Times. Mr. Myers told me that the St. Petersburg Times was prepared to run the BlogsforTerri ad exactly as it was originally presented, without the changes that they had earlier insisted upon(I received the required changes by email as did the Schindler's press office). I was told that they were not censoring the ad and that they didn't want the blogs using the word censorship when in fact they were now willing to run the ad, and definately wanted to run the ad this Sunday as originally requested by BlogsforTerri.
Continue reading "BlogsforTerri Pulls Ad After Censorship - Updated"

Case may overturn the Lemon test

I just found this over at The LORD my Dad. Soldado reports that there is a case to be heard by the Imperial, oops, I mean the Supreme Court that will seek to clarify that a display of The Ten Commandments is not a law establishing a religion but mearly an acknowledgement of religion. This is precisely the point I was trying to make (probably not very well) in my last post. Please pray over this and I will try to find out more.

What is the Christians responsibility in government?

"But you must remember, my fellow-citizens, that eternal vigilance by the people is the price of liberty, and that you must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessing. It behooves you, therefore, to be watchful in your States as well as in the Federal Government." -- Andrew Jackson, Farewell Address, March 4, 1837


"LK 12:42 The Lord answered, "Who then is the faithful and wise manager, whom the master puts in charge of his servants to give them their food allowance at the proper time? 43 It will be good for that servant whom the master finds doing so when he returns. 44 I tell you the truth, he will put him in charge of all his possessions. 45 But suppose the servant says to himself, `My master is taking a long time in coming,' and he then begins to beat the menservants and maidservants and to eat and drink and get drunk. 46 The master of that servant will come on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he is not aware of. He will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the unbelievers.
LK 12:47 "That servant who knows his master's will and does not get ready or does not do what his master wants will be beaten with many blows. 48 But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows. From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked." -- Jesus Christ

What is the Christians responsibility in regards to his involvement in government? The answer to that question depends on in which country you live in. Let me try and explain.

Christians are like about anyone else, they have certain paradigms they have grown up with they just don't question. I have a curse, I didn't grow up in church so when I came to Christ I didn't have any idea what church and the Christian life were supposed to look like. I would read the Bible, compare that with what we actually did and wonder why the difference. We have an unfortunate habit of reading the Bible as a collection of individual sentences (verses) that one may pick and choose from, pasting them together to "show" what the Bible says on a particular subject, instead of as a whole, in context like one would read any other book.

For example, look at the way we do church. We build huge buildings, hire pastors and staffs and require that people be at that building every time the doors open. If anyone questions why we do so one will commonly hear two things quoted. Do not muzzle the ox and do not forsake the gathering together of the brethren. Even if those verses aren't taken out of context I don't really see how they equate to "Thou shalt build a building, hire a staff and attend the services faithfully".

When I look at the New Testament I see churches who met in homes, had no paid staff, didn't necessarily have one pastor and they didn't consider the people they met with as distinct from the church at large. Now, I am not trying to insinuate that any pastors or denominations have any less than honorable intentions, I am suggesting that things like this are done the way they are done because we have always done it that way and it doesn't even occur to anyone to question it.

A verse that is commonly quoted to discourage Christians from being involved in government is:
ROMANS 13:1 Everyone must submit himself to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except that which God has established. The authorities that exist have been established by God. 2 Consequently, he who rebels against the authority is rebelling against what God has instituted, and those who do so will bring judgment on themselves."

As Paul wrote these words his "governing authority" was the Roman Government and ultimately Caesar. The Roman empire started out as a Republic much the same as our country but by paul's time it had pretty much deteriorated into a dictatorship. Another interesting thing is that Paul spent a great deal of time in Roman prisons, wrote many of his epistles from prison and was eventually executed by the Roman government. So, in the above passage do you think Paul intended for us to passively go along with anything the government tells us to do?

Lets look at the United States, who are the governing authorities here? Is it the President? Maybe Congress? How about the ultimate authority, Supreme Court Justices? I think that is what our paradigm tells us. Lets look at the truth.

We live in a country that started out as a republic, evolved into a quasi-democracy and is fast approaching an oligarchy (an oligarchy is rule by a group of dictators). The dictionary definition of a republic is, "A political order in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who are entitled to vote for officers and representatives responsible to them. "

You and I are the governing authorities in America, the "supreme power" if you will. As Abraham Lincoln said, we have "government of the people, by the people and for the people". As the first three words of the constitution state "We the people". The next time you question God's wisdom in putting Clinton or Bush or whoever in the White House remember; God put you and I in charge and WE put the President in office. I believe that we, like other leaders, are going to be called to account for what we did with the power He entrusted us with.

We need to let remind our leaders who the boss is. When they get out of line and do things that are unconstitutional we need to let them know that they serve us, not us them. We, as Americans have been dropping the ball for quite a long time. The first big fumble happened in the Supreme Court case Marbury vs. Madison. The Court bestowed the power of judicial review on themselves in the case, effectively setting themselves up as the supreme legislators of this country. This power was not bestowed on the Supreme Court by the constitution. The Constitution actually gave them a very narrow set of powers and purposely made them the weakest branch of the three. I can't quite figure out how the court got by with this coup, especially since the Madison in the case was none other than James Madison, the man who wrote the constitution. Nonetheless, they did and we the people did nothing to stop it.

I think Thomas Jefferson's response to Marbury vs. Madison is quite instructive:

"To consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions [is] a very dangerous doctrine indeed, and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy. Our judges are as honest as other men and not more so. They have with others the same passions for party, for power, and the privilege of their corps. Their maxim is boni judicis est ampliare jurisdictionem [good justice is broad jurisdiction], and their power the more dangerous as they are in office for life and not responsible, as the other functionaries are, to the elective control. The Constitution has erected no such single tribunal, knowing that to whatever hands confided, with the corruptions of time and party, its members would become despots. It has more wisely made all the departments co-equal and co-sovereign within themselves."

"But the Chief Justice says, 'There must be an ultimate arbiter somewhere.' True, there must; but does that prove it is either party? The ultimate arbiter is the people of the Union, assembled by their deputies in convention, at the call of Congress or of two-thirds of the States. Let them decide to which they mean to give an authority claimed by two of their organs. And it has been the peculiar wisdom and felicity of our Constitution, to have provided this peaceable appeal, where that of other nations is at once to force."

Just to illustrate the evils of this power grab, the next time they overturned the legislature, was the abominable Dred Scott case. If you are not familiar with the case, the illustrious court determined that blacks were "beings of an inferior order" and as such could never be citizens of the United States and were not included in the "all men" of the Declaration of Independence and had no rights under the Constitution.

In our time, in Roe vs. Wade they declared the unborn sub-humans who could be killed for any and all reasons because of some phantom "right to privacy" which I have yet to find in the Constitution. The courts are in the process of declaring the handicapped non-humans with no right to life as in the case of Terri Schiavo.

Judge Roy Moore has rightly noted in his travails with the courts that case law is nothing more than fiats that amount to judicial legislation. The rule of law requires we adhere to laws made in the legislature and given in the US Constitution and the various state constitutions.

So what can we do? Most Christian leaders propose amending the Constitution to prevent judges from legalizing same sex marriage or other ficticious "rights" they "find" in the Constitution. I believe this is an unwise trend to start. Besides, they are ignoring the Constitution as written, what makes anyone think they won't ignore anything else added to it?

The constitution provides methods of controlling judges. One is impeachment. We need to put the pressure on the legislature to impeach these usurpors for bad behavior and illegal conduct. The legislature can also just ignore the courts edicts and tell them to try to enforce them without the aid of money and resources that must be given to them by the legislature.

We must also put pressure on these judges ourselves. When the courts rule that some child cannot mention God in a commencement speech because of the First amendment we need to inundate them with letters demanding they explain how they came to this conclusion. The First Amendment states: "Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion; nor preventing the free exercise thereof...". Ask the judges what in the blue blazes congress had to do with the child's speech. The justification for this in their alleged minds is that through a misuse of the 14th Amendment "Congress" can be applied to state and local governments, school boards, etc.

Fine, my next question to them would be who made a law? The child, the school board, the principal? Think of the absurdity of such a ruling. The courts arguments hold absolutely no water and we need to let them know that we are not stupid enough to fall for it and we will hold them to account.

Even if we lived in a totalitarian government we still have an obligation to put God before the Government no matter the consequences. As followers of Christ we must follow the example of the Apostles, Daniel, Shadrach, Meshach, Abednego and many others. If the government mandates that we follow other gods or even no god at all, we must follow God rather than man. Even if we must pay a price.

Whom do you fear, God or man?