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WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama declared the national economy was "bad and getting worse" Monday as he began crisis talks with congressional leaders on emergency action. He predicted lawmakers would approve hundreds of billions of dollars in new spending and tax cuts within two weeks of his taking office.

 

"The economy is very sick," Obama said before meeting with Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid. "The situation is getting worse. ... We have to act and act now to break the momentum of this recession."

 

Obama, whose inauguration is two weeks from Tuesday on Jan. 20, said he expected quick approval of rescue legislation by the new Congress.

 

 

 

"I expect to be able to sign a bill shortly after taking office," he said. Pressed on the timing, he said, "By the end of January or the first of February."

 

Obama's proposal to stimulate the economy includes tax cuts of up to $300 billion, including $500 tax cuts for most workers and $1,000 for couples,as well as more than $100 billion for businesses, an Obama transition official said. The total value of the tax cuts would be significantly higher than had been signaled earlier.

 

New federal spending, also aimed at boosting the moribund economy, could push the overall package to the range of $800 billion or so.

 

Obama met earlier in the day with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as he set a tone of urgency for dealing with a financial situation that he described as "precarious."

 

"The reason we are here today is because the people's business cannot wait," Obama said as he arrived on Capitol Hill for talks with Pelosi. "The speaker and her staff have been extraordinarily helpful in working with our team so we can shape an economic recovery plan and start putting people back to work."

 

The tax cuts for individuals and couples would be similar to the rebate checks sent out last year by the Bush administration and Congress in a bid at that time to boost the slowing economy. A key difference is that the tax cuts this time around may be awarded through withholding less from worker paychecks. That provision would cost about $140-150 billion over two years.

 

For businesses, the plan would allow firms incurring losses last year to take a credit against profits dating back five years instead of the two years currently allowed.

 

Another provision brought to the negotiations by the Obama team would award a one-year tax credit costing $40-50 billion to companies that hire new workers, and would provide other incentives for business investment in new equipment.

 

"We've got an extraordinary economic challenge ahead of us," Obama said. "We're expecting a sobering job report at the end of the week."

 

 

Washington lawmakers are drafting a large economic stimulus package to help create jobs and rebuild infrastructure. They want to include a nationwide scrappage program which would give U.S. tax dollars to consumers who turn-in older cars to have them crushed, as a misguided attempt to spur new car sales. The lawmakers need to scrap this idea.

The stimulus package is being drafted right now. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) wants to introduce the bill on January 6 and have it approved by Congress by January 20, so that President Obama can sign it into law after he is inaugurated.

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Well hope you all are now happy!!!

 

I say good riddance dumb azz(OJ) and to my brothers like I always say leave those white women alone peace!

 

61+15= 76 I say some skin head will end it for OJ.

The law by which a thing comes into existence determines its nature.

When I was little my grandparents had these plates on the wall with pictures of JFK, MLK, and Jesus with slogans that said why do the good die young and God gave his only begotten son so that ye shall have everlasting life. I never liked those plates and I as gained more knowledge  and began to study ancient civilizations and cultures I learned that Jesus didn’t have blond hair and blue eyes and I learned this long before it was widely known and unacceptable to say in an academic setting, it got me on the bad side of some of my professors.  But as time went on with much duress so-called scholars had to come clean and admit that the pictures on the plates and stained glass windows of churches was not a true representation of Jesus, and the cry was “why does it matter what color Jesus was”? Well it mattered the moment the likeness was portrayed as fact. The ignorant quickly contoured well Jesus was a Jew and not a black man! Now as the reality sets in on the new president the cry of the ignorant is well Obama is not a black man, even though this man calls himself an African American, as I read over the post on these blogs it starts with race doesn’t matter and oh by the way Obama is not an African American and to take the words of some of your more righteous people why does it matter?  Your hatred is so deep it is in your subconscious and you just can’t help it as long as it isn’t black it makes the pill of reality easier for you to shallow why do you fear the black man so? We have made tremendous progress in this country in regard to race but some of us well have to wonder in the wilderness for over forty years until that mindset of fear of the original man dies out! If Obama was Ronald McDonald as long as he was not a republican he’s alright with me!

 

One thing that stands out on these blogs when it comes to politics is how many people believe the president has no power over congress when that congress is of an opposing party, thus the cry is its all congresses fault when things go bad.

Nothing can be further from the truth article I, Section 7 of the Constitution gives the president the power to veto any bill passed by congress, the President of the United States of America has the power of the veto, which means he can stop legislation from becoming law. The president's veto power is just one of the many separations of power, or "checks and balances" of the United States government.  

The veto power has two functions, a) preserving the exe­cutive as a power separate from the legislature, and b) providing the citizens with a defense against pressure groups in the legis­lature. This second function, which has been expanded, effectively sets the President up as the third house of the legislature.

By giving the President Veto power, he is given the means with which to defend himself and his office from being reduced to a pawn of the legislature veto powers provide the citizens with a defense against special interests if used properly.

In fact two types of veto exist. The first is the regular veto in power, through which the president returns the legislation to the Congress unsigned, usually with a message setting out reasons for this action. The second is a quieter, more discreet form of the veto known as the "Pocket Veto," in which the president fails to sign a bill within the ten days allowed by the Constitution before Congress adjourns. This pocket veto generally attracts less publicity, in part because it does not need to be accompanied by a message from the president giving reasons for the veto.

The power of the regular veto results from the considerable difficulty of overriding it. It is not easy to assemble a two-thirds majority in both the House and the Senate on a contentious issue. Most vetoes are successful, much is made of the fact that Reagan had to deal with a democratic congress yet of the seventy-eight vetoes cast by President Reagan, only nine were overridden. Clinton had to deal with six years of a republican congress of the seventeen vetoes he cast, and only one was overridden.

This is why I’m so critical of G W Bush he had six years of control of both the senate and House of Representatives from 2000 to 2006 yet we are supposed to believe that the minority in congress was able to stop all his plans it just doesn’t work like that!

Ronald Reagan            78 vetoes        9 overridden

Gerald Ford                 66 vetoes      12 overridden

George H. W. Bush     46 vetoes        1 overridden

Jimmy Carter               31 vetoes        2 overridden  

Bill Clinton                  17 vetoes        2 overridden  

Franklin D. Roosevelt   635 vetoes      9 overridden

George W Bush           12 vetoes        4 overridden  

What this shows is that in nearly 8 years in office GW Bush only disagreed with congress 12 times and you want to blame congress for the economic mess we are now in?

 Many comments are of the nature that if only 12 more democrats would have voted with the republicans Bush could have stopped the mortgage loan fiasco but what about the majority of republicans Bush had the numbers to do the right thing he just wasn’t willing!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

Data Sources:
• House Partisan Divisions adapted from the Office of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives.
• Senate Partisan Divisions adapted from the United States Senate Historical Office.
• 1789 - 1945 vetoes data obtained from "Presidential Vetoes, 1789-1988" (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1992).
• 1945 - present vetoes data compiled by Gerhard Peters, The American Presidency Project.

 

 

 

 

Now my intentions here are not to step on anyone’s feelings but to share something about this website that would make it better. First off I like this website that’s why I continue to come here for over a year but this website needs a more frequent maintenance plan. It is very slow and has a lot of files that need to be archived or down right deleted also Roy’s folks should have its own folder and not be included in the news section don’t get me wrong I like Roy’s folk’s but it has so many graphics to load it slows down page loading. You have numerous double posts because your site is blogged down trying to load things that should be deleted, many folks think their posts didn’t go through and post again when the real reason is there is so much clutter on the site their original post was still trying to load. Now in fairness this site gets a huge amount of traffic and I don’t know if you have a dedicated admin or not but there are things that can be done to make this site more efficient, I have access to numerous networks some with dedicated servers so I have ruled out my broadband access. One thing I have noticed is that the religious page gets very little clean up I have pages a year old I can’t delete because it is still featured on your site even though they have had little interaction. To start with pages like these can be deleted. Some pages error out because of the clutter the entertainment section especially. Let me end by saying again I like the site and you may well be very busy and can’t maintain the site as well as you would like, but it is becoming annoying just to visit these boards.

White Americans no longer a majority by 2042

 

Immigration, higher birth rates among minorities to speed up diversity

 

 

updated 7:23 p.m. CT, Wed., Aug. 13, 2008

 

WASHINGTON - White people will no longer make up a majority of Americans by 2042, according to new government projections. That's eight years sooner than previous estimates, made in 2004.

 

The nation has been growing more diverse for decades, but the process has sped up through immigration and higher birth rates among minority residents, especially Hispanics.

 

 

By Jason Whitlock.

So I'm reading the New York Times Magazine piece on Rush Limbaugh and trying to figure out what's the difference between Limbaugh and the stereotypical professional athlete.

 

It was quite a struggle.

 

• Overpaid? Absolutely. The remarkably talented radio gabber just received a new contract that will pay him $38 million a year and includes a $100 million signing bonus. It's a $400 million deal that makes Alex Rodriquez feel underpaid.

   

• Sexually vain? Of course. Limbaugh, 57, is dating a 31-year-old blonde party planner, Kathryn Rogers, who is a treat to admire. At first glance, she could pass for the little sister of Roger Clemens' HGH-enhanced wife.

   

• Uninterested in formal education? You bet. Limbaugh hated school, was solely interested in radio as a teenager and declared for professional broadcasting after one half-hearted year of college. Yep, Derrick Rose and Michael Beasley are just as educated as the leader of the right-wing moral majority.

   

• In love with material possessions? Without question. Limbaugh's fleet of Maybachs could serve as a limo service for rap stars vacationing in Florida, Rush's home state. The writer of the Times Magazine profile stated that Limbaugh's Palm Beach estate, which features five different homes, screamed "Look what I have."

   

• Insecure and starving affirmation? Yes, sir. When the writer brought up Rush's right-wing teammate, Sean Hannity, the heir to Rush's throne, Limbaugh stopped just short of rapping, "How does my @#!$ taste?"

   

• Resilient? Check. Limbaugh's battle with chemical dependency isn't as heart-wrenching as Josh Hamilton's, but I'd put it on par with Doc Gooden's. And Limbaugh's illegal method of obtaining pain killers could easily be spun into a dope-dealing ghetto tale if Mitch Albom needed another award-winning column.

   

Don't get it twisted. I'm not some rabid Limbaugh hater. The man is an exquisite broadcaster and entertainer, arguably the best of all time. And I don't view Limbaugh as some sort of flaming bigot or sexist. He's a comedian. No different than Dave Chappelle or Richard Pryor.

 

Limbaugh's short stint as an NFL broadcaster on ESPN didn't expose him as a racist. His comments about Donovan McNabb exposed Limbaugh as completely overmatched talking sports. He couldn't translate his outspoken, provocative views on race to the sports world.

 

No, what has always fascinated me about Limbaugh is the way his followers view him — beacon of American virtue and victim.

 

I wonder how America's Dittoheads perceive, for instance, Barry Bonds, the Rush Limbaugh of baseball. And please, do not focus in on Bonds. He is not the point of this column. I simply used him as an example because of his unmatched talent and the fact that he can't find a baseball job due to a rather large bat-swing conspiracy.

 

Now, Barry is no beacon of virtue or victim. Neither is Rush.

 

He's the typical American man who followed his dream, worked extremely hard, caught the right breaks and achieved great fame and financial success. And, just like everyone else, Limbaugh's flaws were accentuated by fame and fortune.

 

Unlike professional sports, we were not privy to the contract haggling. We have no idea if Limbaugh took his shirt off and did sit-ups in his driveway. Columnists and radio talk-show hosts did not pontificate on Limbaugh's level of greed. Callers did not flood talk shows complaining that it's ridiculous to pay a broadcaster $400 million.

 

Rush Limbaugh will never go across the middle and face Ray Lewis. Limbaugh's most difficult opponent is pillowy-soft Al Sharpton. I'd rather confront Shallow Al than Ray Ray.

 

It infuriates me when I hear someone argue that athletes are overpaid. Compared to what other profession? Teachers? Yes. Entertainers? Hell no.

 

It also infuriates me when someone states that white men such as Limbaugh and Imus pay a terrible price for discussing race in politically incorrect fashion. What a joke. They're paid handsomely to talk about race in a controversial way.

 

Limbaugh has more in common with Barry Bonds, Alex Rodriquez, Shaquille O'Neal, Terrell Owens, Dave Chappelle, Al Sharpton and yours truly than he does with his 20 million Dittoheads.

 

 

A long time ago, a man was born of a virgin in the likeness of God. After spreading messages of love and peace in his early life, he was betrayed by his friends and slain on a slab of wood. He was then resurrected on Earth before returning to heaven.

The man’s name isn’t Jesus. It’s Osiris, the god-man of ancient Egypt.

Didn’t hear this in Bible study? No wonder; Osiris is thought to have lived a good 2,500 years before Jesus’ birth. Although the significance of Osiris, who was considered “god of the dead,” paled in comparison to that of Christ’s, the two men’s stories are strikingly similar.

It’s not by accident, said Lisa Ann Bargeman, author of a new book, “The Egyptian Origins of Christianity.”

Bargeman asserts that many Christian rituals and beliefs, specifically Roman Catholic ones, may have come from ancient Egyptian tradition. Her book juxtaposes the Bible with the Egyptian sacred text, The Book of the Dead, using specific themes and ceremonial practices to argue that Christianity directly evolved from the Egyptians.

One telling piece of evidence, Bargeman says, is the Christian use of the word “Amen,” which is a derivative of Amon, the Egyptian god of reproduction and life.

“For literally an eternity, human beings have been addressing their gods in the same way.”

Although others, most notably the religious scholar and theological historian Martin A. Larson, have made the same connection between Christianity and ancient Egyptian myths, most Christians are unaware of the similarities. While there are many clues to suggest Christianity’s roots can be traced to Greek, or Hellenic times, which began about 300 years before Christ’s birth during the development of Judaism, stories about Egyptian influences and other perceived “pagan” legends make some Christians uneasy.

“The reason for such denial is that Christianity is always presented as the only true religion, the only way to salvation, and as such, it could not have borrowed anything from a religion they have dubbed heathen or pagan,” Harrison Ola Akingbade, an Anglican Christian himself, wrote in the foreword of Bargeman’s book.

Bargeman first recognized the correlation between Christendom and Egyptian history when she heard a college professor suggest that Christianity was rooted in a ritual more ancient than popular culture believed. The story of Adam and Eve’s fall from grace, for example, has correlations to the Egyptian legend of Re and Sekhmet, another couple prideful in the face of God who punished them for their sins.

Other links between Egyptian religious practice and Christianity include the Trinity. When Christians say “In the name of the Father, the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” they mean, according to Bargeman, “in the name of Khnum-Atum/Aten-Re-Ptah, Osiris-Horus, and of Min/Amen.”

Not quite as catchy, but the ancient Egyptian gods assumed the same identities — father, son and spirit — that Christians worship.

The Kemetic Civilization was the first and remains the most prosperous civilization in history and the present.  Preserving the Earth for over 140,000 years, it provided the origins and humanity's most advanced forms of astronomy, time division, mathematics, geometry, geomancy, medicine, architecture, etc.  Most importantly It also provided humanity with the original and most advanced spiritual system. 

The Kemetic Spiritual System is the basis of all indigenous spiritual systems around the world and all of the world's deities can be found within the original Kemetic Spiritual System.  The Kemetic Spiritual System has still survived intact and authenticity to the modern day, preserved by the elders of the traditional priesthood from the initiation system of the Niger Valley.  These priests, after their ancestors were ordered by the Pharaoh to relocate from the Nile Valley to escape the invasions of the Hyksos, Persian and Greek/Roman empires watched as the descendants of these invaders achieved political power and have used it to destroy the Earth and human values for the past 2,000 years.

NAFTA was initially pursued by politicians in the United States and Canada supportive of free trade, led by Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney, U.S. President George H. W. Bush, and the Mexican President Carlos Salinas de Gortari. The three countries signed NAFTA in December 1992, subject to ratification by the legislatures of the three countries. There was considerable opposition in all three countries. In the United States, NAFTA was able to secure passage after Bill Clinton made its passage a major legislative priority in 1993. Since the agreement had been signed by Bush under his fast-track prerogative, Clinton did not alter the original agreement, but complemented it with the aforementioned NAAEC and NAALC. After intense political debate and the negotiation of these side agreements, the U.S. House of Representatives passed NAFTA on November 17, 1993, by 234-200 vote (132 Republicans and 102 Democrats voting in favor; 43 Republicans, 156 Democrats, and 1 independent against),[7] and the U.S. Senate passed it on the last day of its 1993 session, November 20, 1993, by 61-38 vote (34 Republicans and 27 Democrats voting in favor; 10 Republicans and 28 Democrats against, with 1 Democrat opponent not voting -- Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND), an ardent foe of NAFTA, missed the vote because of an illness in his family).[

  Now here are the facts republicans have destroyed this country they have been in control of this country 20 of the last 28 years, but all you see and hear is how Clinton gave us NAFTA when in fact more republicans supported NAFTA then Democrats so stop the lying and stop with the selective memory! NAFTA did not take jobs to China the greedy rich are taking jobs to China.  Good night John boy!

 

 

In 1961, a young African-American man, after hearing President John F. Kennedy's challenge to, 'Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country,' gave up his student deferment, left college in  Virginia and voluntarily joined the Marines.
 

 

 In 1963, this man, having completed his two years of service in the Marines, volunteered again to become a Navy corpsman.  

 

(They provide medical assistance to the Marines as well as to Navy personnel.)  

 

The man did so well in corpsman school that he was the valedictorian and became a cardiopulmonary technician.  

 

Not surprisingly, he was assigned to the Navy's premier medical facility, Bethesda Naval Hospital, as a member of the commander in chief's medical team, and helped care for President Lyndon B.  Johnson after his 1966 surgery.
 

 

For his service on the team, which he left in 1967, the White House awarded him three letters of commendation.
What is even more remarkable is that this man entered the Marines and Navy not many years after the two branches began to become integrated.
 

 

While this young man was serving six years on active duty, Vice President Dick Cheney, who was born the same year as the Marine/ Sailor, received five deferments, four for being an undergraduate and graduate student and one for being a prospective father.
Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, both five years younger than the African-American youth, used their student deferments to stay in college until 1968.  

 

Both then avoided going on active duty through family connections.
Who is the real patriot?  

 

The young man who interrupted his studies to serve his country for six years, or our three political leaders who beat the system?  

 

Are the patriots the people who actually sacrifice something or those who merely talk about their love of the country?
After leaving the service of his country, the young African-American finished his final year of college, entered the seminary, was ordained as a minister, and eventually became pastor of a large church in one of America’s biggest cities.
 

 

This man is Rev. Jeremiah Wright, the retiring pastor of Trinity United Church of Christ.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Being a drug addict is a moral failing and a crime, unless you're a conservative radio host. Then it's an illness and you need our prayers for your recovery.

2. The United States should get out of the United Nations, and our highest national priority is enforcing U.N. resolutions against Iraq.

3. Government should relax regulation of Big Business and Big Money but crack down on individuals who use marijuana to relieve the pain of illness.

4. "Standing Tall for America" means firing your workers and moving their jobs to India.

5. A woman can't be trusted with decisions about her own body, but multinational corporations can make decisions affecting all humankind without regulation.

6. Jesus loves you, and shares your hatred of homosexuals and Hillary Clinton.

7. The best way to improve military morale is to praise the troops in speeches while slashing veterans' benefits and combat pay.

8. Group sex and drug use are degenerate sins unless you someday run for governor of California as a Republican.

9. If condoms are kept out of schools, adolescents won't have sex.

10. A good way to fight terrorism is to belittle our longtime allies, then demand their cooperation and money.

11. HMOs and insurance companies have the interest of the public at heart.

12. Providing health care to all Iraqis is sound policy. Providing health care to all Americans is socialism.

13. Global warming and tobacco's link to cancer are junk science, but creationism should be taught in schools.

14. Saddam was a good guy when Reagan armed him, a bad guy when Bush's daddy made war on him, a good guy when Cheney did business with him and a bad guy when Bush needed a "we can't find Bin Laden" diversion.

15. A president lying about an extramarital affair is an impeachable offense. A president lying to enlist support for a war in which thousands die is a solid defense policy.

16. Government should limit itself to the powers named in the Constitution, which include banning gay marriages and censoring the Internet.

17. The public has a right to know about Hillary's cattle trades, but George Bush's driving record is none of our business.

18. You support states' rights, which means Attorney General John Ashcroft can tell states what local voter initiatives they have a right to adopt.

19. What Bill Clinton did in the 1960s is of vital national interest, but what Bush did in the 1980s is irrelevant.

20. Trade with Cuba is wrong because the country is communist; but trade with China and Vietnam is vital to a spirit of international harmony.

Pagan origins of Easter:

 

Many, perhaps most, Pagan religions in the Mediterranean area had a major seasonal day of religious celebration at or following the Spring Equinox. Cybele, the Phrygian fertility goddess, had a fictional consort who was believed to have been born via a virgin birth. He was Attis, who was believed to have died and been resurrected each year during the period MAR-22 to MAR-25. "About 200 B.C. mystery cults began to appear in Rome just as they had earlier in Greece. Most notable was the Cybele cult centered on Vatican hill ...Associated with the Cybele cult was that of her lover, Attis (the older Tammuz, Osiris, Dionysus, or Orpheus under a new name). He was a god of ever-reviving vegetation. Born of a virgin, he died and was reborn annually. The festival began as a day of blood on Black Friday and culminated after three days in a day of rejoicing over the resurrection." ₃

 

Wherever Christian worship of Jesus and Pagan worship of Attis were active in the same geographical area in ancient times, Christians "used to celebrate the death and resurrection of Jesus on the same date; and pagans and Christians used to quarrel bitterly about which of their gods was the true prototype and which the imitation."

 

Many religious historians believe that the death and resurrection legends were first associated with Attis, many centuries before the birth of Jesus. They were simply grafted onto stories of Jesus' life in order to make Christian theology more acceptable to Pagans. Others suggest that many of the events in Jesus' life that were recorded in the gospels were lifted from the life of Krishna, the second person of the Hindu Trinity. Ancient Christians had an alternative explanation; they claimed that Satan had created counterfeit deities in advance of the coming of Christ in order to confuse humanity. ₄ Modern-day Christians generally regard the Attis legend as being a Pagan myth of little value. They regard Jesus' death and resurrection account as being true, and unrelated to the earlier tradition.

 

Wiccans and other modern-day Neopagans continue to celebrate the Spring Equinox as one of their 8 yearly Sabbats (holy days of celebration). Near the Mediterranean, this is a time of sprouting of the summer's crop; farther north, it is the time for seeding. Their rituals at the Spring Equinox are related primarily to the fertility of the crops and to the balance of the day and night times. Where Wiccans can safely celebrate the Sabbat out of doors without threat of religious persecution, they often incorporate a bonfire into their rituals, jumping over the dying embers is believed to assure fertility of people and crops. I next consulted my American
Heritage Desk Dictionary, in order to see what it had to say
regarding the word 'Easter'. I was informed that 'Easter' is
derived from the Middle English word 'ester', which in turn
is derived from the Old English 'eastre'. From my previous
research regarding ancient gods and goddesses, I strongly
suspected that with some additional work, I would eventually
find a sexual link to this pagan goddess of the Saxons. It
was at this point that I recalled a word which I had come
across before: 'estrus'. Derived from the Latin 'oestrus',
(one meaning of which is 'frenzy'), and the Greek 'oistros',
the American Heritage Desk Dictionary states that 'estrus'
refers to 'a regularly recurrent period of ovulation and
sexual excitement in female mammals other than humans'. In
American English, we commonly refer to this as an animal
being 'in heat'.

The next step of my investigation took me online, where I
consulted the Encyclopedia Mythica. Upon putting the word
'Eastre' into the search engine, it provided me with the
following results which clarify the issue for us even
further:

----- Begin Quote -----

Ostara

In ancient Anglo-Saxon myth, Ostara is the personification
of the rising sun. In that capacity, she is associated with
the spring, and is considered to be a fertility goddess. She
is the friend of all children; and to amuse them, she
changed her pet bird into a rabbit. This rabbit brought
forth brightly colored eggs, which the goddess gave to the
children as gifts. From her name and rites the festival of
Easter is derived. Ostara is identical to the Greek Eos and
the Roman Aurora.

----- End Quote -----

In a side column, the search engine results also informed me
that alternative names for this pagan goddess are Eostre and
Eastre. It is plain to see then, that just as I suspected
all along, this false pagan goddess of the Anglo-Saxons is
associated with sex and fertility. She is a sex goddess,
plain and simple. A sex goddess has been associated with the
day of the Resurrection of our Lord. How does that make you
feel as a Christian? Does it make you want to continue using
such a word? With the above definition, we have also now
discovered the origin of the so-called 'Easter Bunny', as
well as the origin of the practice of presenting colorful
eggs to young children.

 

Inflammatory

1. Tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.

 

There are many truths in life and all truth does not shine all in the best of light but does that make it any less the truth? Now the attacks are heating up in the presidential race and Obama has had to denounce his Pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright I heard this man speak on Family drama several years ago and must say he is a powerful speaker and he laid out the hard truths sort of like Bill Cosby did awhile back which many in the black community thought was Inflammatory while others did not but was there truth in what Bill said, of course there was. In January my Friend Cook made known his dislike of the MLK holiday and posted some inflammatory facts about the life of MLK was it true yes.

 

 

"We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye," Wright said. "We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America's chickens are coming home to roost."

 

 

The above is a comment by Rev. Wright; now tell me what is not true in the statement above? Do we want truth or that good old time feeling, do we want to close our eyes bury our heads in the sand during the week and then make a joyful noise on Sunday? Some complain that our leaders will tell us anything to get our vote or support yet when ever there is a voice of truth we attack it. They attacked Jesus to and sought to kill him! I say stand on TRUTH good bad right or wrong the truth is always best. What do you say?

Many have questioned Obama’s commitment to Israel as he makes his presidential bid and he has stated many times he is loyal to Israel and has worked well with the Jewish community. My question is this as I study the bible are there impostor Jews and should we question just who are the Children of Israel?

 I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan. Revelation ch. 2 vs9.

 Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee. Revelation ch. 3 vs. 9

 Now we know from the bible that the children of Israel were in bondage in a strange land to a strange people for over 300 years and that those in bondage did not know their original names.

Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him. If ye continue in my word, then ye are my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in bondage to any man how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free. John ch. 8 vs. 31-33.