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wvflyersfan@gmail.com—Jan. 22, 2010—Editor's Note: You have to either be from West Virginia or a frequent visitor to the State to truly appreciate the following. I'm an adopted "native" which means both of my legs are the same length—write and I'll explain—jcr)
And God Created West Virginia
God was missing for six days. Eventually Michael, the Archangel, found
Him resting, on the seventh day. He inquired: "Lord, where have
you been?" God smiled deeply, and proudly pointed downwards through
the clouds. "Look, Michael. Look what I've made." Archangel
Michael looked puzzled and said: "What it is?"
"It's a planet," replied God. "And, I've put life on it. I'm going to call it Earth, and it's a place where I'm going to test balance."
"Balance?" inquired Michael, "I'm still confused."
God explained, pointing to different parts of Earth. "For example, northern Europe will be a place of great opportunity and wealth, while southern Europe is going to be poor. Over here, I've placed a continent of white people, and over there is a continent of black people. Balance in all things." God continued, pointing to different countries. "This one will be extremely hot, while this one will be very cold and covered with ice."
The Archangel, impressed with God's work, then pointed to a land area and said: "What's that one?"
"That's West Virginia," God said, "the most glorious place on Earth. There are beautiful mountains, rivers and streams, lakes, forests, hills and plains. The people from West Virginia are going to be handsome, modest, intelligent, and humorous, and they are going to travel the world. They will be extremely sociable, hard working, high achieving, carriers of peace and producers of good things."
Michael gasped in wonderment and admiration, but then asked: "But what about balance, God? You said there would be balance..."
God smiled. "Right next to West Virginia is Washington, DC. Wait til you see the idiots I put there..."
robert_morningstar@yahoo.com—Jan. 18, 2010—A German's view of Islam. This is one of the best explanations of the Muslim terrorist situation. His references to past history are accurate and clear.
A man, whose family was German aristocracy prior to World War II, owned a number of large industries and estates. When asked how many Germans were true Nazis, the answer he gave can guide our attitude towards fanaticism. "Very few people were true Nazis," he said, "but many enjoyed the return of German pride, and many more were too busy to care. I was one of those who just thought the Nazis were a bunch of fools. So the majority just sat back and let it happen. Then, before we knew it, they owned us, and we had lost control. And, the end of the world had come. My family lost everything. I ended up in a concentration camp. The Allies destroyed my factories."
We are told again and again by 'experts' and 'talking heads' that Islam is a religion of peace and that the vast majority of Muslims just want to live in peace. Although this unqualified assertion may be true, it is entirely irrelevant. It is meaningless fluff, made to make us feel better, and meant to somehow diminish the specter of fanatics rampaging across the globe in the name of Islam. The fact is that fanatics rule Islam at this moment in history. It is the fanatics who march. It is the fanatics who systematically slaughter Christian or tribal groups throughout Africa and are gradually taking over the entire continent in an Islamic wave. It is the fanatics who bomb, behead, murder, or honor-kill [their own family members]. It is the fanatics who take over mosque after mosque. It is the fanatics who zealously spread the stoning and hanging of rape victims and homosexuals. It is the fanatics who teach their young to kill and to become suicide bombers.
The hard, quantifiable fact is that the peaceful majority, the "silent majority" is cowed and extraneous. Communist Russia was comprised of Russians who just wanted to live in peace, yet the Russian Communists were responsible for the murder of about 20 million people. The peaceful majority was irrelevant. China's huge population was peaceful as well. But Chinese communists managed to kill 70 million people.
The average Japanese individual prior to World War Ii was not a warmongering sadist. Yet Japan murdered and slaughtered its way across Southeast Asia in an orgy of killing that included the systematic murder of 12 million Chinese civilians, most killed by sword, shovel and bayonet."
The letter, which was purported in this email to be have been composed by Dr. Emanuel Tanay, MD may have actually been composed by Paul E. Marek, a second-generation Canadian whose grandparents fled Czechoslovakia just before the Nazi takeover of that country. I found the article under his byline dated in Feb., 2006. The first attribute to Dr. Tanay appears on April 7, 2008. Dr. Tanay is a respected clinical psychiatrist at Wayne State University in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Since the original version may have been written months or years earlier by either gentleman, I have no intention of debating authorship.
For the purpose of my dissertation and its inclusion here, who actually wrote it—Marek or Tanay—is irrelevant. Because the comparison I wish to draw from it has nothing to do with either of them, or for that matter, fanatical, extremist Islam. Rather, it has everything to do with the logic of his argument as it applies to the interloper who kidnapped the United States on Nov. 4, 2008 and the lackadaisical attitude of the American people that an illegal alien who is equally as dangerous than Hitler, Stalin and Mao; and more dangerous than Castro and Chavez has, by fraud and deceit, been allowed to steal the reins of the government of the United States of America. Have 'we the people" become as stupid as the peoples of Europe who allowed their nations to be stolen by corrupt tyrants? Sadly, yes. And as the people of Europe and Asia tolerated the interlopers that only a minority of them wanted, they quickly learned—but much too late to save themselves—that these men had also seized the right to end their lives on a whim—and did so without hesitation in order to strengthen their grip on power through political and economic terrorism.
We have made the same life-threatening blunder by placing absolute power within the hands of a small cabal of hardcore communists posing as patriotic Americans. When Obamacare—even without the "public Option"—is signed into law, the elderly of American will discover they have given their government the right to euthanize them if they have any terminal, chronic or catastrophic illness. Listed among the terminal illnesses that can trigger the denial of life saving surgeries or medications is a chronic condition all elderly people suffer from: old age. When the US Senate, without a single GOP vote, bribed their members to vote for the America's Affordable Health Choices Act of 2009, Barack Obama announced, in his press conference that Social Security and Medicare had just been saved. How does passing Obamacare save Medicare and Social Security? Because when the old are euthanized for being "terminally ill," the government is spared the expense of sending them their monthly Social Security checks, and no longer has to bear the cost of their medical care. Kill enough old people and Social Security will be "saved" for another generation.
measter@innercite.com—Dec. 1, 2009—Received this from a guy in Corpus who was diagnosed with cancer last year. See what his doctor is saying...
I was at the doctor whom I have been going to since we moved down here (he is the one who discovered my cancer). I have to get a very expensive shot every three months ($3,000) that is designed to keep the PSI down and help to prevent the recurrence of the cancer...He asked me who old I was, and when I replied 70, he said that if this legislation goes through as intended by the powers that be, that I probably would not be able to get (the treatment) next year, as that would be money better spent on someone with greater longevity.
In England, anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stents or bypass because it is not covered as being too expensive and not needed. Obama wants to...[fashion his healthcare system after]...England's.
Editor's Note: Under Obamacare, just as it is under the healthcare systems in Europe and Canada, once you are denied a procedure or lifesaving medications, no healthcare provider will be allowed to treat you—even if you are willing to pay 100% of the cost. if they treat you, they risk losing their medical license. So much for the Hippocratic Oath. The purpose of denying healthcare to seniors is to deliberately end the lives of the elderly because government believes they are financial parasites who serve no beneficial purpose to society. On top of that, they will unnecessarily drain the limited financial resources of the State. When President George W. Bush warned the American people that Social Security was broke and needed to be taken out of the hands of the bureaucracy and privatized in order to save it, the Democrats and the AARP screamed that he was lying, and that he was using scare tactics in an election year. The AARP endorsed socialist Sen. John Kerry who also favored national healthcare. America's seniors voted against their own best interest. They voted Democratic. In 2007 when the Democrats tried to gut Medicare, McCain railed against it. In 2008, with Obama talking about socialized medicine, America's seniors once again voted against their own best interest. They voted for the man who will kill them. They voted for Obama. Why will whatever healthcare plan enacted deprive seniors of lifesaving medical care? Because Bush-43 was right. Social Security is bankrupt. Since the left used abortion to destroy 49 million babies as unnecessary, and killed an additional 20 million live births from happening due to the lack of children which those aborted babies who would have grown up, married and conceive children of their own, we are faced with the reality that none of the industrialized nations in the world have enough people in their work force to support their own retirement systems. Thus, forced euthanasia. Since the Baby Boomers began to retire, we don't have enough people paying into Social Security to keep the program from collapsing. The collapse of Social Security here will trigger a domino effect that will collapse the Federal Reserve, taking down all of the central banks of the world except China and the Muslim world. This will collapse the monetary systems of all the nations of the world and bring global chaos instead of the utopian prosperity promised by the architects of world government (who, by the way, were also the architects of legalized abortion in the 1960s. Thus, killing a few million old people seems to them not to be a high price to pay to save the world. Sadly, the politicians and the wealthy elite made certain when these plans were enacted around the world, they were exempt from the penalties of growing old in a world which could no longer afford them.
JezRell@aol.com—Nov. 25, 2009—Outstanding letter! This venerable and much-honored WWII vet is well known in Hawaii for his 70-plus years of service to patriotic organizations and causes all over the country. A humble man without a political bone in his body, he has never spoken out before about a government official, until now. He dictated this letter to a friend, signed it and mailed it the (White House). His letter appears below (after the Editor's Note).
(Editor's Note) On Nov. 21, 2009 a soon-to-be 95 year old WWII veteran purportedly wrote a scathing letter to Resident Obama. Snopes.JezRell@aol.com—Nov. 11, 2009—com and Fact or Fiction.com are "checking" to ascertain whether or not a 95-year old could have written such a letter. One Snopes.com blogger wrote: "...Given the general tone of this missive, it definitely strikes me as not coming from the kind of person who's never spoken up about politics before in their life." Half of the Letters-To-The-Edtor letters you read in your local paper are from first time writers. Particularly now. The American people are mad. And, for the first time, they are speaking out—in droves. The common working class stiff (or retiree who understands that the Obama Death Board was created in HR-1 just for them. They write because they are mad; and because they are angry what they say usually resonates well with other likeminded Americans. Many of the advertorals you read in the Washington Times National Weekly Edition came from "first time angry advocates." If you remember Bill Barnstead who passed away last July he was, to many, an angry old man mad at the Bush-43 White for screwing the American people. He decided to run a full page ad to "talk to the President." Before he passed on, Bill had written 80 such full page ads. The same can be said for the 90-year retiree who prefers to be known only as "SimonSez." Again, he wrote because the Bush-43 and Obama Administrations are raping the wealth of the middle class. What angered SimonSez is that those being gang-raped by the Fed, the Securities Exchange Commission and Wall Street don't realized they have been financially assaulted. Don't discount those angry seniors. They write some pretty cogent stuff. At the end of the Harold Este's letter is a list of all 14 nursing homes/and or rest homes in or around Pearl Harbor, Hawaii—with their phone numbers. If you live in Hawaii and want to check them out and see if an Old Salt named Harold B. Estes lives there...have at it. I'm sure a lot of our raders would like to know. Myself, I'll accept this letter on face value believing that whomever Harold dictated it to polished up the words a little bit to add a little more sting. While the author's name may turn out not to be correct, the essence of the message is 100% dead-on accurate.
Dear (Resident)
Obama:
My name is Harold Estes, approaching 95 on December 13 (the first
clue that the nurse or orderly who penned the words was not military,
since a military person would likely refer to the date as "13 December)
of this year. People meeting me for the first time don't believe my age
because I remain wrinkle-free and pretty much mentally alert.
I enlisted in the US Navy in 1934 and served proudly before, during and after WWII, retiring as a Master Chief Bos'n Mate. Now I live a "rest home" located on the western end of Pearl Harbor, allowing me to keep alive the memories of 23 years of service to my country. One of the benefits of my age—perhaps the only one—is to speak my mind, blunt and direct, even to the "head man." So, here goes.
I'm amazed and angry and determined not to see my country die before I do. But you seem hell bent not to grant me that wish. I can't figure out what country you are the president of. You fly around around the world telling our friends and enemies despicable likes like: "We're no longer a Christian nation," [or] "America is arrogant." Your wife even announced to the world, "America is mean-spirited" Please tell her to try preaching that nonsense to the 23 generations (should have been 230 years) of our war dead buried all over the globe who died for no other reason that o free a whole lot of strangers from tyranny and hopelessness.
I'd say shame on both of you. But I don't think you like America, nor do I see an ounce of gratefulness in anything you do for the obvious gifts this country has given you. To be without shame or gratefulness is a dangerous thing for a man sitting in the White House. (Speaking about) 9-11, you said, "America hasn't lived up to her ideals."
Which one did you mean? Was it the notion of personal liberty that 11,000 farmers and shopkeepers died for to win independence from the British? Or maybe the ideal that no man should be a slave to another man that 500,000 men died for in the Civil War? I hope you didn't mean the ideal when 470,000 fathers, brothers, husbands and a lot of fellas I knew personally died for in WWII, because we felt real strongly about not letting any nation push us around because we stand for freedom. I don't think you mean the ideal that says equality is better than discrimination. You know the one, that a whole lot of white people understood when they helped to get you elected.
Take a little advise from an old geezer, young man. Shape up and start acting like an American. If you don't, I'll do what I can to see you get shipped out of that fancy rental on Pennsylvania Avenue. You were elected to lead, not to bow, apologize, and kiss the hands of murderers and corrupt leaders who still treat their people like slaves.
And, just who do you think you are, telling the American people not to jump to conclusions and condemn that Muslim major who killed 13 of his fellow soldiers and wounded dozens more? You mean you don't want us to offend Muslim fanatics by calling them what they are: terrorists.
One more thing: I realize you never served in the military and never had to defend your country with your life, but you're the commander-in-chief now, son. Do your job. When your battle-hardened field General asks you for 40,000 more troops to complete the mission, give them to him. But if you're not in this fight to win, then get out. The life of one American soldier is not worth the best political strategy you're thinking of...You're not going to restore American greatness by bringing back our bloated economy. That's not our greatest threat. Losing the heart and soul of who we are as Americans is our big fight now. And, I sure as hell don't want to think my president is the enemy in this final battle.
Sincerely,
Harold B. Estes
It is most likely, since Estes said he was on the most western part of Pearl Harbor that the nursing home he resides in is the Kulana Malama Rest Home. Or the Pearl City Nursing Home. Beginning with those two, the phone numbers of all are:
Kulana Malama Rest Home • (808) 681-1203 (Most likely)
Peal City Nursing Home • (808) 453-1919 (Likely)
Avalon Care Center • (808) 847-4834
Maluhia Rest Home • (808) 832-3000
Liliha Heathcare Center • (808) 537-9557
Kuakini Geriatric Care Details • (808) 547-9357
Convalescent Center of Honolulu • ((808) 531-5302
Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific • (808) 531-3511
Hawaii Medical Staff East SNF • (808) 547-6011
The Queen's Medical Center • (808) 547-4455
Nuuanu Hale Nursing Home • (808) 595-6311
Hale Nani Rehabilitation and Nursing Center • (808) 537-3371
Hale Ola Kino • (808) 983-444
Arcadia Retirement Residence • (808) 941-0941
Island Nursing Home • (808) 946-5027
SDFittal@aol.com—Nov. 25, 2009—A very good article! You make the point well that there are too many Obamas, Soros and other useful idiots like Rebecca Peters that wish to destroy the rights we enjoy here in America for ludicrous reasons like "...we shouldn't have those rights because nobody else in the world has them..." Keep up the good writing.
LavenderBlue39@aol.com—Nov. 21, 2009— This following is a copy of an article by Spanish writer Sebastian Vilar Rodrigez and published in a Spanish newspaper on 1-15-08. It doesn't take much imagination to extrapolate the message to the rest of Europe—and possibly to the rest of the world.
I walked down the street of Barcelona and suddenly discovered a terrible truth—Europe died in Auschwitz. We killed six million Jews and replaced them with 20 million Muslims. In Auschwitz we burned a culture, thought, creativity, talent. The contribution of this people is felt in every area of life: science, art, international trade, and the conscience of the world. These are the people we burned.
And, under the pretense of tolerance, and because we wanted to prove to ourselves that we cured the disease of racism, we opened our gates to 20 million Muslims who brought us stupidity and ignorance, religious extremism and lack of tolerance, crime and poverty due to an unwillingness to work and support their families with pride.
They have blown up our trains and turned our beautiful Spanish cities into the third world, drowning in filth and crime. Shut up in the apartments they receive free from the government, then the murder and destruction of their naive hosts. And thus, in our misery, we have exchanged culture for fanatical hatred, creative skill for destructive skill, intelligence for backwardness and superstition.
We have exchanged the pursuit of peace of the Jews of Europe and their talent for hoping for a better future for their children, their determined clinging to life because life is holy, for those who pursue death for themselves and others, for our children and theirs.
What a terrible mistake was made by miserable Europe.
A lot of Americans have become so insulated from reality that they imagine America can suffer defeat without any consequences. So, to ensure that we Americans never offend anyone, particularly fanatics intent on killing us, airport screeners are not allowed to profile specific peoples. They must conduct random searches..( not on those who fit the geographic and demographic characteristics of those who have sworn Jihad against American but on)...80 year old women, little kids, airline pilots with proper identification, an 85-year old Congressman with metal hips, and Medal of Honor winner and former Governor Joe Foss, but leave Muslim males between the ages of 17 and 40 alone lest they be accused of racial profiling.
(Editor's note:) Shortly after the formation of the Transportation Safety Administration [TSA], passenger screening was initiated to avoid the potential of terrorists hijacking more US passenger planes which could then become human-occupied guided missiles, former US Congressman B-1 Bob Dornan and his wife were traveling from Dulles International Airport to visit family members in California. Waiting to board their flight, Bob told me at the time, there were two Muslim man sitting within hearing proximity of him. They were speaking in an Arabic dialect. At times their voices became whispers. They appeared to take note of Dornan and other American passengers waiting to board that, or other flights, which were using that boarding area. When the boarding call for the Dornans' flight was announced, the two Muslims rose as well. But instead of walking to the boarding line together, they separated and entered the boarding line with several other passengers between them, creating the illusion that they were not traveling together. Dornan told me he identified himself to the uniformed TSA guard and reported the strange activity of the two Muslims standing in line to have their boarding passed verified. The Security guards told Dornan they could not arbitrarily check passengers who acted suspicious. What he meant was, political correctness dictated that they not single out anyone who looked like they were Muslim for scrutiny. Their checks, the TSA agent said, had to be completely random. So, instead of searching the Muslims, they searched Bob Dornan's wife.
JezRell@aol.com—Nov. 11, 2009— This was written by a Metro Denver physician: I was driving home from a meeting this even about 5 .m., stuck in traffic on Colorado Blvd., and the car started to choke and sputter and die. I barely managed to coast into a gas station, glad that I would not be blocking traffic and would have a somewhat warm spot to wait for the tow truck. It wouldn't even turn over.
Before I could make the call, I saw a woman walking out of the Quickie Mart. It looked like she slipped on some ice and fell into a gas pump, so I got out to see if she was okay. When I reached her, it looked more like she had been overcome by sobs than that she had fallen. She was a young woman who looked really haggard, with dark circles under her eyes. She dropped something as I helped her up. I picked it up and gave it to her. It was a nickel.
At that moment, everything came into focus for me. The crying woman, the ancient Suburban crammed full of stuff with 3 kids in the back (one in a car seat) and the gas pump reading $4.95..
I asked her if she was okay and if she needed help. She just kept saying, "I don't want my kids to see me crying." So we moved to the other side of the gas pump out of their direct line of sight. She said she was driving to California and that things were very hard for her right now. So, I asked: "And you were praying?" That made her back away from me a little, but I assured her I was not a crazy person and said: "He heard you. And He sent me."
I took out my credit card and swiped it through the card reader on the pump so she could fill up her car completely. And, while it was filling, I walked next door to McDonald's and bought 3 big bags of food, some gift certificates for more, and a big cup of coffee. She gave the food to the kids in the car who attacked it like wolves, and we stood by the pump eating fries and talking a little.
She told me her name, and that she lived in Kansas City. Her boyfriend left two months ago and she had not been able to make ends meet. She knew she wouldn't have money to pay the rent on January 1, and finally, in desperation, called her parents with whom she had not spoken in about 5 years. They lived in California and said she could come and live with them, and try to get on her feet there.
She said she packed everything she owned in the car. She told her kids they were going to California for Christmas, but not that they were going to live there. I gave her my gloves, a little hug and said a quick prayer with her for safety on the road. As I was walking over to my car, she said: "So, are you like an angel or something?"
Her words made me cry. I said, "Sweetie, at this time of the year, angels are really busy, so sometimes God uses regular people."
It was incredible to be a part of someone else's miracle. And, of course, you guessed it. When I got into my car, it started right away and got me home with no problems. I'll put it in the shop tomorrow to check, but I suspect the mechanic won't find anything wrong. Sometimes the angels fly close enough to you that you can hear the flutter of their wings.
EDITOR'S NOTE: All of us, at one time or another, have been visited by angels. Sometimes they are the human kind—like the doctor in Denver. Sometimes they are the Heavenly kind. But whether they are simply Heavenly sent or Heavenly divine, the miracles are just as real This email from JezRell reminded me of something that happened to my wife and I back in the mid-1970s. We had just been promoted and moved from Frankfort, Kentucky (an inexpensive place to live) to Charleston, WV (with a cost of living more than double that of Frankfort) The "raise" I received in the promotion didn't even come close to offsetting the cost-of-living difference. After a few months in a rented home in Teays Valley, we ran short and after struggling for a couple of months, we couldn't pay one month's rent. The landlord didn't come knocking on the door for the money, so we struggled as best we could, putting aside a few dollars each payday so we could catch up the month we missed. Surprisingly, he never said anything about the missing month's rent.
When it came time to move, we had scraped together enough to pay him for the missing month. When we gave him the money, he got a puzzled expression on his face, and said, "You've never missed a month." He went into his bedroom and came out with his account ledger. "And, when was it," he asked, "that you missed a month?" The month was etched into our minds. We told him. He opened his account book, and said: "You paid that month with cash. I remember because you always pay by check. We came home one evening and found an envelop in the door with a note telling us it was your rent money."
The rent on that house was $275.00. Not much today, but in the 70s when you're running behind and trying to catch up, $275.00 was like a million. Since we were ashamed of being behind in our rent, we never mentioned it to anyone. Yet, someone paid it for us. Over the years, we've wondered who our angel was. Who paid it? Were they like an angel or something? We think so. All of us have angels guarding us. It's just that when we need them, sometimes we simply don't think to ask for help. You know, when you come right down to it, I expect there's a whole big bunch of guardian angels spending the whole day sitting around doing nothing, waiting for you to ask Jesus to send them to help you when the going gets too tough to do it alone. But how many people ask? I suspect the single mom on her way to California asked. JezRell: Thanks for the story about the doctor in Denver. It reminded me, again, that I don't talk enough about my angel in Hurricane, WV. God does deserve the glory. We need to praise Him daily.
etalbott@qroidaho.net—Nov.
7, 2009—Your
latest article on the euthanasia plans imbedded in the so-called
health care bill is outstanding. Not only have you done your research,
but you provide insights and discernment which most articles on the subject
are missing. I continue to read each article you post with great interest
and forward to my list and save them for future reference. Heaven knows
the current health care industry suffers multiple deficiencies in all
areas. Now the government wishes to make the failure total, a minus quantity
in our lives. This is why I never go to hospitals, clinics or doctors.
I use natural supplements, the best diet I can acquire in my circumstances
and pray for health. Thanks for writing such a great article that I can
share with my list.
syman@jamadots.com—Oct. 16, 2009—A holy man was having a conversation with the Lord one day and said, "Lord, I would to know what Heaven and Hell are like." The Lord led the holy man to two doors. He opened one of the doors and the holy man looked inside the room..
In the middle of the room was a large, round table. In the middle of the table was a large pot of stew which smelled delicious and made the holy man's mouth water. The people sitting around the table were thin and sickly. They appeared to be famished even though each held eating utensils. They were holding spoons with very long handles that were strapped to their arms. And while each found it easy to reach into the pot of stew and take a spoonful, the handles of the utensils attached to their arms were simply so long they could not get the spoons anywhere near their mouths. As a result, none of them could eat.
The holy man shuddered at the sight of the misery and suffering of the starving people who, even with an ample supply of food, were nevertheless starving to death.
The Lord said: "You have now seen Hell." They went to the next room and opened the door. The scene was the same as the first one—almost. There was the same large round table. There was that large pot of stew which made the holy man's mouth water. The people were equipped with the same long-handled spoons, but here the people were well-nourished, plump, laughing and talking friendly amongst themselves..
The holy man said, "I don't understand."
"It's simple," said the Lord. "It requires but one skill. You see, in Heaven, they have learned to feed each other. The greedy think only of themselves. When Jesus died on the cross, He was thinking of you." The lesson of Philadelphia is that a man who helps his brother and the woman who helps her sister will find the love of God among them. And, when man shares this love with his fellow man, all men prosper in the eyes of God.
Jezrell@aol.com—Sept. 24, 2009—Asparagus—who knew? My Mom had been taking the full-stalk canned style asparagus that she pureed and took 4 tablespoons in the morning and 4 tablespoons later in the day. She did that for over a month. She is on chemo pills for Stage 3 lung cancer in the pleural area, and her cancer cell count (her CA-125) went from 386 to 125 as of this past week. Her oncologist told her she does not need to see him for 3 months.
Several
years ago, I knew a man who was looking for asparagus for a friend who
had cancer. He gave me a photocopy of an article entitled ASPARAGUS
FOR CANCER that was printed in the Cancer News Journal,
Dec., 1979. I will share it here, just as it was shared with me.
I am a biochemist, and have specialized in the relation of diet to health for over 50 years. Several years ago I learned of the discovery of Richard R. Vensal, DDS that asparagus might cure cancer. Since then I have worked with him on this project. We have accumulated a number of favorable case histories. (Which also suggests they had an equal amount of failures.) Case #1: Male patient with Hodgkins Disease (cancer of the lymph glands) who was completed incapacitated. Within one year of commencing asparagus therapy, his doctors were unable to detect any sign of cancer, and he was back on a schedule of strenuous exercise. Case #2: a 68 year old businessman who suffered from the results of bladder cancer for 16 years. After unsuccessful radiation treatments for a year, the patient went on asparagus. Within 3 months, examinations revealed his bladder tumor had disappeared and that his kidneys were normal. Case #3: Patient had inoperable lung cancer on March 5, 1971. Be began a regime of asparagus in April. By August, X-rays revealed that all signs of the cancer had disappeared.
Editor's note. There were a couple of additional examples given and the type of canned asparagus the patients theoretically used. I stopped short of using all of that email because the much forwarded email suggests the article is a reprint from an article in the CANCER NEWS JOURNAL If you have ever read a medical journal, you know you pretty much have to be a Ph.D to understand it. The language in that email did not come a from a medical journal. That is not to say the Journal did not write an article in 1979 and that the content of this email is paraphrased from those case studies. I opted to cite the email for two reasons. First, there are scores of home remedies that are as curative and, perhaps, more curative (and safer) than some of the pharmaceuticals used today. Just remember, God would not put us on this planet and then unleash a horde of vicious diseases to wipe us out without providing natural cures to eliminate every scourge that can take our lives. Second, I honestly believe the cure to every disease known to man will be found in natural ingredients we use every day in every walk of life. If you recall, in 1535 when Jacques Cartier was exploring the St. Lawrence seaway, his ship got locked in ice for the entire winter of 1534. His crew began dying of scurvy. Unlike previous sailing masters who many times lost their entire crews to scurvy, a friendly Indian (probably a Chippewa since the Iroquois were at war with the white-eyes) taught them how to make a tea out of white cedar (Anneda) bark and pine needles. The brew saved the lives of those members of Cartier's crew who had not already succumbed to scurvy. Cartier brought samples of the bark and cuttings back to Europe. His botanist isolated a compound in the bioflavonoid and patented it as "pycnogenol." How did that save Cartier and his crew? Because it was 50 times stronger than Vitamin E and 20 times more powerful that Vitamin C. Vitamin E is an element that acts as a transporter to carrying other nutrients to their needed destinations in the body. Do I think asparagus cures cancer? I'm not a doctor. I have no idea. Do I think asparagus may retard cancer growth by retarding cancer cell development? There seems to be a growing concensus in the medical community that it might. I suspect that various researchers around the world would not be spending vast amounts of money analyzing asparagus if they thought asparagus had no potential curative benefits. One India government report cites a study done by Dabur Research who is working on a peptid-based anticancer drug for the treatment of colorectal cancer includes a patent application for a "...oligospirostanoside from Asparagus racemosus." Their research convinced them that asparagus contains ellagic acid, and that the vegetable is a potential anticancer agent that is a potential immuno-dulatory agent. Oh, and by the way—for you drinkers out there—eating asparagus the "morning after," may get rid of your hangover.
gknapp@tx.rr.com—Sept. 12, 2009—Note the comments made by Michael Connelly, a retired attorney and constitutional law instructor from Carrollton, Texas—Well, I've done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied it with particular emphasis on my area of expertise, constitutional law. I was frankly concerned with parts of the proposed law that were being discussed (that) might be unconstitutional. When I found was far worse than what I have heard or expected.
To begin with, much of
what has been said about the law and its implications is in fact true
despite what the Democrats and the media are saying. The
law does provide for rationing of health care, particularly where
senior citizens and other classes of citizens are involved, free health
care for illegal immigrants, free abortion services, and probably forced
participation in abortions by members of the medical profession. The bill
will eventually force private insurance companies out of business and
put everyone into a government run system. All decisions about personal
health care will ultimately be made by federal bureaucrats—and most
of them will not be health care professionals. Hospital admissions, payments
to physicians, and allocations of necessary medical devises will be strictly
controlled. As scary as all of that is, it just scratches the
surface. In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no
intention of providing affordable healthcare choices. Instead, it is a
convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the Executive
Branch of government that has ever occurred, or ever been contemplated.
If this law, or one similar, is adopted, major
portions of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have
been destroyed...The first thing to go will be the masterfully-crafted
balance of power between the Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches
of government. Congress will transfer to the Obama Administration authority
in a number of different areas over the lives of the American people and
the businesses they own. The irony is that Congress
doesn't have the authority to legislate in most of those areas to begin
with. If you decide not to enroll in Obama's healthcare plan,
or you keep insurance deemed not "acceptable" to the "Health
Choices Administrator," there will be a tax imposed on you. (They
can't call it a fine since that would violate the 5th Amendment's due
process clause.
Michael Connelly,
Retired Attorney,
Constitutional Law Instructor
Carrollton, Texas
etalbott@groidaho.net—I want to let you know that I went to your website, read your testimony, and was blown away. It was marvelous. I have some pretty awesome experiences with that same Jewish Rabbi, Yeshua (Jesus), and I am always thrilled to hear or read something as powerful as your testimony. Thank you for all the great articles you post on NWV. Blessings, Erlene Talbott. (Note: if you want more understanding of the Jewishness of the Holy Bible, or if you simply want to visit a very unique website, you need to spend a little time here: http://www.navigatingthroughprophecy.com.)
mmahoney@60plus.org (From Jim Martin: 60 Plus Association)—SUGGESTION FOR HEALTHCARE DEBATE: (...) OBAMA SHOULD FOLLOW THE ADVISE OF CANDIDATE OBAMA. Presidential candidate Barack Obama repeatedly stated on the campaign trail that any overhaul of healthcare should be negiotiated publicly and televised for all to see. In his stump speech he would say it should be televised with a big table and seats filled with doctors, nurses, insurers, and other interested parties. Then he would joke...he would get the biggest chair. Not behind closed doors, candidate Obama said, but he would bring all parties together and broadcast those negotiations on CSPAN. We suggest the President keep his pledge.
Mr. Obama, deep six this unread, misunderstood piece of gobbledegook that scares seniors, and start over. Send a message that you are going to live up to (your) oft-repeated campaign promise.
teresa_tickner@yahoo.com—Sept.
6, 2009
(From
a friend in Australia)—Hey, There: to be honest, most
of us didn't notice (the outage). The
shutting down was explained to be "technical difficulties" with
the gateway from Australian to International connection. Those of us smart
enough to still have dial-up weren't affected. Well, I wasn't, anyway.
A few of us suspected from the start that they were adding or taking something
to (or from) the mix, but we really are all over the censoring and the
"we know all you do" state of mind. The new "terrorism
laws" were broken the minute they existed. Conveniently enough, most
were in capital cities. We, who are "out in the sticks" can't
really be bothered to take over this country. It has gone down hill so
fast that we wouldn't have much to take over. The government is doing
nicely enough, undermining a country that many people died sweating and
slaving to make.
mayers4004@yahoo.com—Aug. 26, 2009—As a proud member of the Lakota tribe, I can hardly begin to describe how angry it makes me to have any native peopled used to bolster your arguments. (http://www.jonchristianryter.com/Video/090820.html) The truth about Indian health care has nothing to do with socialism; it is all about genocide and an uncaring non-Indian population. You sir, are as full of bull-sh*t rhetoric and opinions as any politician I know. You are just another liar, just another undesirable in what was once a free country—before 1637. Go back to the land of your ancestors, who couldn't even get along with each other; and take your superstitious, poisonous religious views with you.
My reply:
Since I made no unsubstantiaed claims, and used two government reports
and two videos made by a native American to show what happened to the
promise of health care for the Six Tribes, I'm puzzlede by your anger.
Must be you think the "Great White Father" in Washington really
is all things to all people. If you want a preview of what Obamacare will
be like, ask an Indian...that is..except you, apparently.
kathy@***.com—Aug.
22, 2009
By now you have
probably heard that Resident Obama came to Montana last Friday. However,
there are many things that the major news did not cover. I feel that
since Bill and I live here and we were at the airport on Friday I should
share some facts with you.
Whatever you decide to do with the information is up to you. On Wednesday, August 5th it was announced locally that the [Resident] would be coming here. There are many groups here that are against his healthcare and huge spending. Those groups began talking and deciding on what they were going to do. The White House would not release ANY details other than the date.
On about Tuesday Bill found out that they would be holding the "Town Hall" at the airport. (This is only because Bill knows EVERYONE at the airport.) Our airport is actually located outside of Belgrade(tiny town) in a very remote location. Nothing is around there. They chose to use a hangar that is the most remotely llocated hanger. You could not pick a more remote location, and you cannot get to it easily. It is totally secluded from the public.
FYI: We have many areas in Belgrade and Bozeman which could have held a large amount of folks with sufficient parking—gymnasiums/auditoriums. All of which have chairs and tables that would not have to be SHIPPED IN!! $$$$$
During the week, cargo by the TONS was being constantly shipped in. Airport employees could not believe how it just kept coming. Though it was our [Resident] coming several expressed how excessive it was, especially during a recession. $$$$$
Late Tuesday/early Wednesday the 12th, they said that tickets would be handed out on Thursday 9 am at two locations and the [Resident] would be arriving around 12:30 Friday. Thursday morning about 600 tickets were passed out. However, 1500 were printed at a local printing shop per the White House request Hmm...900 tickets just DISAPPEARED.
This same morning someone called into the radio station from the local UPS branch and said that thousands of dollars worth of Lobster were shipped in for Obama. Montana has some of the best beef in the nation! And it would have been really smart to help out the local economy. Has Obama or his people heard of the Recession? Just think—with all of the traveling the White House is doing. $$$$$
One can only imagine what else we're paying for. On Friday, Bill and I got out to the airport about 10:45 am The groups that wanted to protest Obama's spending and healthcare had gotten a permit to protest and that area was roped off. But that was not to be. A large bus carrying SEIU (Service Employees International Union) members drove up onto the area (illegal)and unloaded right there. It was quite a commotion and there were specifically 2 SEIU men trying to make trouble and start a fight. Police did get involved and arrested the one man. But they said they did not have the Êmanpower to remove the SEIU crowd.
The SEIU crowd was very organized and young. About 99% were under the age of 30. And, they were not locals! They had bullhorns and PROFESSIONALLY mad signs. Some even wore preprinted T-shirts. Oh, and some Planned Parenthood folks were with them—professing abortion rights with their T-shirts and preprinted signs. (BTW, all these folks did have a permit to protest in ANOTHER area)
Those against healthcare/spending moved away from the SEIU crowd to avoid confrontation. They were orderly and respectful. Even though SEIU kept coming over and walking through, continuing to be very intimidating and aggressive at the direction of the one SEIU man.
So we had Montana folks from all over the state with their homemade signs and their dogs with homemade signs. We had cowboys, nurses, doctors—you name it. There was even a guy from Texas who had been driving through. He found out about the event, went to the store, made a sign, and came to protest.
If you are wondering abou the press...Well, all of the major networks were over by that remote hangar I mentioned. They were conveniently parked on the other side of the buildings FAR away. None of these crowd were even visible to them. I have my doubts that they knew anything about the crowds.
We did have some local news media around us from this state—and Idaho. Speaking of the local media, they were invited. However, all questions were to be turned into the White House in advance of the event. Wouldn't want anyone to have to think off the top of their head.
It was very obvious that it was meant to be totally controlled by the White House. Everything was orchestrated down to the last detail to make it appear that Montana is just crazy for Obama and government healthcare. Even those people that talked about their insurance woes. The White House called our local HRDC (Human Resource and Development Committee) and asked for names. Then the White House asked those folks to come. Smoke and mirrors. EVERYTHING was staged!
I am very dismayed about what I learned about our current White House. The amount of control and manipulation was unbelievable. I felt I was not living in the United States of America—more like the USSR. I was physically nauseous. Bill and I have been around when other Presidents have visited. It has NEVER been like this. I am truly very frightened for our country.
America needs your prayers
and your voices. If you care about our country please get involved.
Know the issues. And let Congress hear your voices again and again!
If the Obama White House is willing to put forth so much effort to BULLY
a small town, one can only imagine what's going on in Washington, DC
. Scary!
Kathy
Bozeman
Montana
woodrowcox@hotmail.com—Aug.
6, 2009
Government Healthcare
Fraud— On Wed., Aug. 5, 2009, I got a phone call from a very upset
senior citizen who is a client of our insurance agency. He wanted to
know how to report MEDICARE FRAUD by a local medical service provider.
The client is from Munster, Indiana. The client's wife dropped something
on her foot. He took her to a local medical service provider. An X-ray
of the wife's foot revealed nothing was broken.
A few days later, the client and his wife got a bill from the medical service provider which included a charge for a chest X-ray. The medical service provider's representative insisted that a chest X-ray was ordered and done, and that the couple owed for it. The couple asked which doctor ordered the chest X-ray. They got no response. The couple refused to pay for the chest X-ray. The medical service provider's (billing) representative threatened to sue the couple to force payment.
A few weeks later, the couple got a MEDICARE SUMMARY NOTICE which shows that the medical service provider submitted the chest X-ray charge to Medicare, and Medicare paid the false charge.
Because I write a column about Medicare and VA claim billing problems, I get tips from around the country. One tip came from a computer expert in California who worked for a company that did billing services for a medical service provider who bills California's medical system.
He noticed a pattern of questionable or clearly fraudulent charges. He developed a program to spot such charges. In one seven month period that he tested, he found over TWO MILLION DOLLARS in questionable, if not fraudulent, charges. There are probably a few thousand billing services in California like the one where the computer expert works. If California is paying about TWO MILLION per year times 3,000 such billing services, that's about SIX BILLION DOLLARS PER YEAR IN FRAUDULENT CLAIMS.
You can visit Woody at www.woodrowwilcox.com
jdarnall@social.rr.com—July
11, 2009
If you're ready for a laugh, you'll love this one.
Dearest Redneck Son:
I'm writing this slow because I know you can't read fast. We don't live where we did when you left home. Your dad read in the newspapers that most accidents happen with 20 miles of home, so we moved. I won't be able to send you the address because the last West Virginia family that lived here took the house numbers when they moved so they wouldn't have to change their address.
This place is really nice. it even has a washing machine. I'm not sure about it. I put a load of clothes in and pulled the chain. We haven't seen them since.
The weather isn't bad here. Itr only rained twice last week. The first time for three days and the second time for four days.
About that coat you wanted me to send. Your Uncle Billy said it would be too heavy to send in the mail with the buttons on, so we cut them off and put them in the pockets.
Bubba locked his keys in the car yesterday. We really worried because it took him two hours to get me and your father out.
Your sister had a baby this morning, but I haven't found out what it is yet, so I don't know if you are an aunt or an uncle.
Uncle Rat fell into a whiskey vat last week. Some men tried to pull him out, but he fought them off and drowned. We had him cremated. He burned for three days.
Three of your friends went off a bridge in a pickup truck. Butch was driving. He rolled down the window and swam to safety. Your other two friends were in the back. They drown because they couldn't get the tailgate down.
There isn't much more news at this moment. North much out of the normal has happened...
Your favorite aunt,
Mom
tmcaputo@comcast.net—July
4, 2009
Here's another "goodie" from Ms. Stupid (Nancy Pelosi). Just
add this one to the list—Pelois said this one TWICE (when the Democratic
leadership was attempting to pass their "stimulus bills.")
"If the Stimulus (Spending) Package is not passed quickly, then
500 million people will lose their jobs." Since there are approximately
280-300 million people currently living in the US, total, I would assume
the remainder she is referring to are illegal Mexicans. (To Pelosi:
Hey stupid, there are approximately 304 million people living in the
USA!")
Grnjllybn@aol.com—June
30 , 2009
The actress Natasha Richardson died (at 45 years of age) after falling
while skiing in Canada. It took eight hours to get her to a hospital.
If Canada had our healthcare, it is felt that she would be alive today.
We now have helicopters that would have gotten her to a hospital in
30 minutes. Obama
wants to make our healthcare just like Canada's and England's. In
England, anyone over 59 cannot receive heart repairs or stints or bypass
because it is not covered as being too expensive—and not needed.
I bet if Obama's parents needed the best of healthcare, they would damn
well get it. (Editor's note: Obama's mother, father,
suspected father and step-father are all dead.)...If Obama's
plans in other areas don't scare you, this should since everyone who
doesn't die young gets old. (Editor's note:
Buried in one of the stimulus bills that has been enacted was a provision
to create a healthcare czar and a commission that will establish the
guidelines which determine when surgical procedurres and medical treatment
will be deemed to be not cost-productive and refused to patients seeking
medical attention. Procedures which are denied to recipients covered
under government healthcare plans will not be allowed to them even if
they agree to pay 100% of the costs themselves. The Democrats' best
solution to cut Social Security and Medicare costs is to eliminate the
recipients of benefits under those plans.)
Looks like Obama is keeping his word—CHANGE. We better have our funerals paid up. We may be needing them sooner rather than later with no doctors on our side to keep us healthy. What will this world be like in another 20 years when our kids are ready for retirement? Sad. Although with such a miserly healthcare system, they may never reach retirement age. Please...do not let Obama, this enemy of America, sign senior death warrants. Everyone on this mailing list is either a senior citizen, is getting close, or know someone who is.
Most of you know that the Senate version of the stimulus bill includes...extensive rationing of health care for senior citizens. The author of that part of the bill, former Senator and tax evader Tom Daschle is credited by Bloomberg with the following statement: "Healthcare reform will not be pain free. Seniors should be more accepting of the conditions that come with age instead of treating them. That means the elderly will bear the brunt." That's really of a lot of gall since his "conditions" will be treated as though he were royalty no matter how old he gets. I think he means we should drop dead and get out of Obama's way.
Editor's Note: The seniors in States like Florida, New Mexico, Arizona and California that vote for Democrats because the AARP (which receives about $85 million per year in taxpayer dollars to lobby on behalf of the US government's position on aging) has been brainwashed to believe that Democrats advocate on behalf of the elderly. They advocate for senior votes and legislate against the seniors they profess to help. If America's seniors actually took the time to read the legislation that will affect what's left of their lives instead of believing the Democrats who are voting to end their lives in order to save Social Security and Medicare by eliminating the drain caused by those seniors, they would never vote for another Democrat.
frank.netti@gmail.com—May
25, 2009
The interest and almost craving to do business in an old-fashioned manner
is overwhelming. And I have been in business, despite the government's
lame attempt for otherwise for 34 years. Big biz and big gov have spawned
this bastardized off spring that is morphing into a third world, fascist
state, with the grim reaper and a Al Jolson wannbe a the helm.
But what's new? Same old song and dance in a different music store.
But the majority of Americans have bought into this left Marko-commie
crud. But, what can you expect? Look at what they have been fed and
graze on daily. I agree, the fed is totally out of control, with a few
really good people, like you and I, that have to work for a paycheck.
The rest are just plain evil. I don't think, however, that Christians
or the like will save this country. It will take more than the big religion
to combat the likes of an apathetic Congress, a two-faced Fed and a
groping, money hungry media that are all fighting for first place in
the public feeding trough. I read your articles regularly, but almost
never reply. But this one got my attention (American
Capitalism...gone without a whimper). Keep stirring them up, Jon.
This ain't no time to fall asleep at the wheel. Pour on the coals.
Best Regards
franknetti@gmail.com
bobjen3@optimum.net—Apr.
22, 2009
(Passing this along from an email I received.) "Whether you're
an Obama fan or not, EVERYONE IN THE U.S. needs to know...By executive
order, [Resident] Barack Obama has ordered the expenditure of $20.3
million in 'migration assistance' to the Palestinian refugees and 'conflict
victims' in Gaza. The 'presidential determination' which allows hundreds
of thousands of Palestinians with ties to Hamas to resettle in the United
States, was signed on Jan. 27 and appeared in the Federal Register on
Feb. 4..."
While there are many factual elements in the report received by this recipient, the story itself is false What is true is that Obama did issue Presidential Determination 2009-15 authorizing the Treasury to release $20.3 million in Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund money in accordance with the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962. That part of the story is true. What is not true is that PD 2009-15 allows hundreds of thousands of Palestinians (with or without ties to Hama) to come to the United States. The funds pay for food, etc., and for the relocation of these Palestinians within Gaza.
m******r@*****.com—Apr.
19, 2009
AN OPEN LETTER TO [RESIDENT] OBAMA
(From Lou Pritchett to the New York Times)
mmDear [Resident] Obama
You are the 13th [national leader] under whom I have lived. Unlike all of the others, you truly scare me. You scare me because after months of exposure, I know nothing about you. You scare me because I do not know how you paid for your expensive Ivy League education and your upscale lifestyle and housing with no visible signs of support.
You scare me because you did not spend the formative years of your youth growing up in America and, culturally, you are not an American. You scare me because you have never run a company or met a payroll. You scare me because you lack humility and "class," and always blame others. You scare me because for over half your life you have aligned yourself with radical extremists who hate America, and you refuse to publicly denounce those radicals who wish to see America fail.
You scare me because you are a cheerleader for the "blame America crowd" and you [do not hesitate to] deliver this message abroad.
You scare me because you want to change America into a European-style country where the government sector dominates instead of the private sector. You scare me because you prefer "wind mills" to responsibly capitalizing on our own vast oil, coal and shale reserves. You scare me because you want to kill the American capitalist goose-that-lays-the-golden-egg which provides the highest standard of living in the world.
You scare me because you have begun to use "extortion" tactics against certain banks and corporations. You scare me because your own political party shrinks from challenging you on your wild and irresponsible spending proposals. You scare me because you will not openly listen to, or even consider, opposing points of view, from intelligent people.
You scare me because you falsely believe that you are both omnipotent and omniscient. You scare me because the media gives you a free pass on everything you do.
You scare me because you demonize and want to silence the Limbaughs, Hannitys, O'Reillys and Becks who offer opposing, conservative points of view. You scare me because you prefer controlling over governing. Finally, you scare me because if you serve a second term I will probably not feel safe in writing a similar letter in 8 years.
LOU PRITCHETT
sblicharz@sbcglobal.net—Apr.
18, 2009
In a stunningly clever move, [Resident] Barack Obama, speaking from
Mexico, announced support for an international firearms treaty that
could have far-reaching effects on US gun ownership—without needing
to pass legislation and deal with normal congressional representation.
See item #1 in the Page Nine report below. If ratified by the Senate,
the Treaty, which is already written, would become law and supersede
even the US Constitution itself (Article VI). I
had intended to simply email this response, but thought it better to
reply here since this is an important issue and, I suspect, it's going
to haunt all of us in a very bad way very soon..
A Global Gun Ban Treaty was proposed during the 9th Annual UN Conference on Crime Prevention in Cairo in 1995. From that conference came UN Resolution 9, a 137-page piece of rot designed to justify outlawing the private possession of firearms by honest people throughout the world. The Resolution would become the Universal Declaration of Principles on Firearm Regulation that was ultimately agreed upon in Vienna, Austria between April 28 and May 9, 1997. The measure was referred to newly-elected UN Secretary-general Kofi Annan to structure it into the UN Global Gun Ban Treaty. Annan promised to have the Treaty in the hands of all member nations in the summer of 1998.
As Congresswoman Helen Chenoweth-Hage [R-ID] prepared for her third and final campaign for the House in early fall of 1997, she feared that if the Democrats regained control of the US Senate, they would ratify the Gun Ban Treaty without hesitation and she knew that Bill Clinton, who very much wanted to become Secretary-general of the UN himself, would sign it.
Chenoweth knew that the federal courts already had a precedent dating back to 1937 in which the courts held that international treaties superseded the Constitution. She knew if the GOP lost control of the Senate the anti-gun Democrats would ratify it in a heartbeat. In the waning days of the 105th Congress Chenoweth proffered a Constitutional Amendment—the American Sovereignty Amendment—that would have stopped any treaty which provides language that implied or established that any foreign power or international organization as legally superior in matters of domestic jurisdiction. Even though the GOP controlled both the House and Senate, Chenoweth's American Sovereignty Amendment never saw the light of day. Even in 1997 nationalism and US sovereignty were already losing its congressional appeal.
A complete and total global ban on guns—but only on honest people—is just around the proverbial corner. In June, 1997 British Labor Party Prime Minister led his party to a 384 to 181 vote victory over the private ownership of handguns. Britishers were given 120 days to surrender any and all handguns in their possession. During that 4 month period they would receive fair market value for their guns. When the grace period expired they would be charged with a felony possession for possessing what they legally owned a day earlier. The penalty was a prison sentence. One by one, the nations of the British Empire caved, and their parliaments ratified the Treaty. Approximately one hundred of the world's 185 nations—most of which never allowed their citizens to own guns—signed the Treaty. A small group of us that included Larry Pratt from Gunowners of America, his best friend, Ron Paul, Chenoweth and a couple other PAC leaders in DC waited for the arrival of the UN Global Gun Ban Treaty as it marched across the world. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, who endorsed Resolution 9 publicly stated that "...the UN does not dictate domestic gun control policy..."
As nation after nation signed the Treaty we waited. It never showed up at the doorstep of the US Senate. Which was strange. Even the Kyoto Protocol, which 98 Senate members told the Clinton White House not to sign, showed up for a vote. By the fall of 1998 I was getting an uneasy feeling that that someone had surreptitiously slipped the Treaty into the Senate through the backdoor with only a carefully culled handful of senior level globalcentric partisans from both parties knowing it had arrived. And, without absolutely no fanfare, and no vote or even a "how-do-you-do," the Global Gun Ban Treaty was buried in some innocuous piece of legislation in joint conference, and it now awaits discovery by some Congressman or Senator who will immediately challenge the Treaty in federal court and, to his or her dismay, learn that since the "law" has been on the books for over a decade without it ever being contested, the Treaty is legally binding on the United States.
Pratt asked Ron Paul and I asked Chenoweth if their staffers could dig through legislation that had been signed into law since August, 1997 year to see if someone had buried the Gun Ban Treaty in some obscure, boring bill that no one would have been inclined to read. They found nothing. IN 2006 National Rifle Association President Wayne LaPierre authored the book The Global War on Your Guns. LaPierre was one of those PAC leaders watching the progression of the Treaty across the globe. Because almost half of the world's nations have yet to sign the Gun Ban Treaty, the UN launched a new PR push on July 4, 2006 to complete the task they started in 1995.
But don't be too surprised if we get a nasty surprise when we least expect it.
Dfscbkwg@aol.com—Apr.
7, 2009
Forward from list: I just wanted to remind everyone that we only
have until Thurs., April 9 to call the White House or email...[Resident]
Obama to keep in place the Conscience Clause which protects health workers
who do not want to participate in abortions. [Resident] Obama, if not
persuaded otherwise, is set to eliminate this protection on April 9,
2009.
Phone number: (202) 456-1111
email: proposedrescission@hhs.gov
or online through: http://www.Regulations.gov
(check "Select to find documents" and then enter "Rescission
Proposal."
Thanks
Pat
champ908@aol.com—Apr.
1, 2009
Note: This is NOT an April Fool's Day joke.
ACORN groups are "gate crashing" Tea Parties pretending
to be anti-Obama, and asking people to sign petitions so they can get
your names and addresses. Please do not sign anything at the Tea Parties
unless you are sure where the peititons have come from and they are
legit. ACORN tried to come into the Tea Party in Orlando and they were
escorted out.
tmohr13@comcast.net—Mar.
13, 2009
Thank you many fold. I have been on a very long search for the truth.
You just gave it to me. Talk about insight into the truth. I research
for information all the time to get a great understanding of the people
I am going to meet. You are great. Thank you.
T.Mohr
tasgardson@yahoo.com—Mar.
13, 2009
Fascinating, riveting! I always look forward to reading the genuis contained
in your brilliant works of journalistic art. You are a diviine inspiration
to fledgling writers such as myself, who look to you for guidance. Keep
up the good work. With admiration bordering on discipleship.
Thor H. Asgardson
From
the Mailbag—Mar. 3, 2009
Breitbart.com reports that "...the stately East Room,
where portraits of George and Martha Washngton adorn the walls, was
transformed into a concert hall as President Barack Obama presented
Stevie Wonder with the nation's highest award for pop music on Wednesday..."
The award, the
Library of Congress' Gershwin Prize for Popular Song was presented
to the blind singer in an East Room ceremony. I have a question.
Why does this nation need a "highest award," or any kind of
award, for pop music? Is the White House now socializing entertainment?
Oh wait, Roosevelt did that in the 1940s to drum up support for America's
entry in World War II. And, Commujnist Hollywood and the political far
left have been in bed together since the 1930s. I guess that answers
the question about the award for the best pop singer. I wonder who Obama
has picked for "best actor this year? This year's Oscar winner
Sean Penn, who championed Saddam Hussein? Or would it be last year's
Oscar winner for An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore?
It all makes sense now. Our presidents are no longer world leaders.
They are celebrities whose teenie-brained fans think they walk on water.
well...never.
Subject: Noise Complaint at Luke AFB, AZ
Noise Complaint at Luke AFB, AZ Luke AFB is west of Phoenix and is rapidly being surrounded by civilization that complains about the noise from the base—and its planes—forgetting that the air base was there long before they were.
"A four-ship fly-by
is a display of respect the Air Force gives to those who give their
lives in defense of freedom. We are professional aviators and take our
jobs seriously. On 15 June what the letter writer witnessed was four
officers lining up to pay their respects. The letter writer asks, 'Whom
do we thank for the morning air show?' The 56th Fighter Wing will make
the call for you, and forward your thanks to the widow and parents of
Capt Fresques. And we will thank them for you, for it was in their honor
that my pilots flew the most honorable formation of their lives. Only
2 defining forces have ever offered to die for you—Jesus Christ
and the American soldier. One died for your soul; the other for your
freedom.'
Lt. Col. Grant L. Rosensteel, Jr. USAF
dennis@psalm23camp.com—Nov.
14 , 2008
Thanks for the informative
article today about "No
Bailout For Detroit." A few months ago I was farm-tractor shopping
here is WV. I had visited dealerships like Kabota and Zetor, that obviously
sold foreign made products. I was at a dealership where Massey Ferguson
and New Holland tractors were sold. I told the salesman I had a preference
for one of these American made tractors. He said, "They are
all foreign made now, every tractor at these dealers around here (Lewisburg,
WV) are foreign made." I have since learned that perhaps some
of the large (150-200 hp) John Deeres may be made in America, but nothing
else. Pitiful!
Dennis Rowan
Author of the book "Sheep Tracks
Biblical Insights from a Sheepherder"
www.HisSheepTracks.com
www.psalm23camp.com
Humor—"Honestly Officer, this is how the fight started. I rear-ended the car in front of me. I admit that. It was my fault. So, we both pull over to the side of the road. And slowly, the driver of the car I hit gets out of his car.
"And I don't know what possessed me, officer, but I look down at him and said, 'Well, if you're not Happy—which one are you?' And that's when the fight started "
I use foil under the rack, I wonder, that must be bad too? (This piece of mail came across Jezrell's mailbox. Get trade secrets for amazing burgers. Watch "Cooking with Tyler Florence" on AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/tyler-florence?video=4?&NCID=aolfod00030000000002)
And so it went in this fashion for quite some time; that is, until I just yesterday came across a study from Ondokuz Mayis University in Turkey, highlighting the danger involved with cooking food in aluminum foil. Researchers found that baking meat in foil increases its aluminum content by 378 percent. What's more, when other, more acidic foods are also cooked -- such as certain types of vegetables -- causes an even greater degree of corrosion. Suddenly I don't feel like chicken tonight
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS GUY?? PLEASE SEND THIS TO AS MANY PEOPLE AS YOU CAN! Obama Explains national anthem stance hot on the heels of his explanation for why he no longer wears a flag pin.
This man does not respect our symbols of pride and freedom and respect. This man proposes to be the Commander-in-Chief of our Armed Forces who fight for our flag and our veterans who have fought, died, been maimed, over the last 200+ years? I suspect that he also does not believe in the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag, but yet when you see him making a speech on television (like the recent Philadelphia race speech) he is surrounded by a backdrop of 10 or more American flags! He likes those props! You can assume from all this that he is a fake and a hypocrite. Something is wrong and frightening here. AND SOME PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY STILL THINK HE IS THE GREATEST... WHAT IS WRONG WITH THEIR HEADS?
The latest edition of "Who Said It" in Rush Limbaugh's monthly newsletter is a withering assault on the Democrats' handling of the war against Al Qaeda. In Limbaugh's characteristically poignant way, he prints a series of quotes, some from Al Qaeda and some from defeatist Democrats, challenging readers to determine who said what.
(2)—George W. Bush will go down in history as the President who embroiled his nation in a series of unwinnable and bloody conflicts.
(3)—After several years of the tragedies of this war, the vast majority of Americans want it stopped. Thus, they elected the Democratic Party.
(4)—The public spoke at the last election, very overwhelmingly, and they said they want the US out of Iraq.
(5)—President Johnson did not want a war loss on his watch. And so he surged in Vietnam. After the surge was over it added to 34,000 more dead Americans to the 24,000 already killed.
(6)—The Soviet Union was overtaken by pride and arrogance and refused to look at the facts on the ground in Afghanistan. The mistakes of Brezhnev are being repeated by Bush.
(7)—We know the cost of the war is going to exceed $2 trillion. We know that the US military is almost at its breaking point.
(8)—The spending of tens of billions to continue the killing and war in Iraq has led to the vast majority of [Americans disappointment.
(9)—Victory is elusive. Victory is subjective. What does President Bush mean by "victory?"
(10)—Today, nearly four years after Bush hastily declared victory in Iraq, things aren't going too well for the coalition. In fact, things are going really bad.
(11)—The image of President Bush standing in front of the "Mission Accomplished" banner is a metaphor for the Bush White House's misleading and dangerous incompetence.
1—Democrat: Hillary Clinton, 6/3/07
2—Al Qaeda: Azzam al-Amriki, 5/29/07
3—Al Qaeda: Osama bin Laden, 9/07
4—Democrat: Jack Murtha, 11/20/07
5—Democrat: Harry Reid, 4/19/07
6—Al Qaeda: Osama bin Laden, 9/07
7—Democrat: Harry Reid, 12/3/07
8—Al Qaeda: Osama bin Laden, 9/07
9—Democrat: Nancy Pelosi, 11/8/06
10—Al Qaeda: Azzam al-Amriki, 5/29/07
11—Democrat: Harry Reid, 5/1/06
Think about this. If the Democrat leaders are this in synch with our enemies, do we really want them running our country and "protecting" America from thm?
This is the most reassuring message I've received all year. Read and moan all ye bleeding heart liberals. If more illegal as well as home-grown criminals were given the same treatment....maybe there will be less break-ins and assaults in the good old U S of A—and maybe those illegals might just migrate back to their country of origin.
It was later discovered that Resindez was armed with a stolen 45 caliber handgun he took from another home invasion robbery. That victim, 50-year-old David Burien, was not so lucky. He died from stab wounds to the chest. Ever wonder why good stuff never makes NBC, CBS, PBS, MSNBC, CNN, or ABC news. Thought for the day—calling an illegal alien an "undocumented immigrant" is like calling a drug dealer an "unlicensed pharmacist."
lamacher@comcast.net—Nov.
29 , 2006
Once again, you
have outdone yourself and said it just like it is. You have boldly taken
out all of the kinks and exposed the hidden things that mess us up.
I am so proud of you and hold you in high esteem that you tackle the
hard road and are consistently speaking the TRUTH and exposing the hidden
treachery lurking behind the media face.
curtgomes@comcast.net—July
7, 2006
Great
July 6th article on Real Estate. I live in San Jose, Calif. and
it's totally crazy here. Our home, purchased in 1995 for $315,000, is
now appraised at well over a million. Insanity! We were lucky, but what
about others? We could never afford to live in our home town if we had
to buy now. So many people with their finger in the money pie. Don't
forget the realtors. Them and NAR have worked to drive prices increasingly
higher. I hope the whole thing collapses. Some people act as if homes
were play toys to be bought and sold. Someone's going to get left holding
the bag. People are starting to get worried around here as reality slowly
sets in. Its going to get interesting. Curt
KmaMedPR@aol.com—Apr.
3 , 2006
As usual, we
only get the whole story from you—and what a story it is! I met
Tom
Tancredo last year in D.C. (FAIR meeting), and was immediately impressed
by his refreshingly honest attitude on all political matters. Over time
I have come to realize that my respect for this man is not only due
to his position on illegal immigration, but more so because he is one
of the very, very few in Congress who consistently stands up for our
Constitution, established laws, and the American people versus "the
Party," big business donors, or other sources that ensure their
self-serving need for power (remaining in office). So happy to see
that my favorite writer endorses my favorite candidate!
Get out if you want Sharia law, Australia tells Muslims...CANBERRA—Muslims who want to live under Islamic Sharia law were told on Wednesday to get out of Australia, as the government targeted radicals in a bid to head off potential terror attacks.
Asked whether he meant radical clerics would be forced to leave, he said those with dual citizenship could possibly be asked to move to the other country. Education Minister Brendan Nelson later told reporters that Muslims who did not want to accept local values should "clear out." "Basically, people who don't want to be Australians, and they don't want to live by Australian values and understand them, well then they can basically clear off," he said. Separately, Howard angered some Australian Muslims on Wednesday by saying he supported spies monitoring the nation's mosques. Editor's note: Finally—a nation which understands that Islam in the hands of Wahabbists poses a threat to every man, woman and child in the world—including moderate Muslims. The people of the United States should follow Australia's lead and let the Islamists know that America is a diverse nation built on a Christian foundation. If Jesus irritates them, they need to go back to the nation of their roots where everyone points their prayer rugs to Mecca at noon each day.
I directed Dom Giordano, a talk show host on 1210AM (also features Limbaugh and Hannity) and included the question as to why this administration's (and previous) globalization quest is kept secret from the public. With the exception of die-hard John Birch Society members and those who read your articles, the majority of people are unaware of the ulterior motives of elected officials. Kathleen M. Appell Medical PR Consultancy
tpeck49@cableone.net—Oct.
16 , 2005
I was reading
your very interesting two part article about cronyism and ran upon your
May 2004
article about my old friend John F. Kerry. After reading
the piece I want to respectfully point out some errors in your facts.
My name is Tedd Peck and I too was a Officer in Charge of a Patrol
Craft Fast (Swift Boat). I served in country from April 1968 until my
medical evacuation in February 1969.
Most importantly, I knew John Kerry and what I knew about him was unsavory at best. In November 1968 I was transferred, along with my boat (PCF 57) and crew, to Cam Ranh Bay (CRB). The riverine war was starting up and boats from I Corp and II Corp were being sent south to replace boats that were being sent down to the Delta from CRB. Kerry arrived on 17 November without a crew, and subsequently began conducting indoctrination patrols with other officers in order to qualify for patrol status. You mention that Kerry did in fact volunteer for action in the Mekong Delta. This is not true. Prior to late October 1968 Swift Boats were assigned inshore patrol areas along the coast of Viet Nam.
The Navy implemented a three tier barricade around Viet Nam consisting of USN destroyers seaward, Coast Guard WP's (80 foot patrol boats) closer to shore and Swift Boats inshore. While I tried to penetrate rivers in the summer of 1968 I was forbidden to do so by my superiors. The reason being that Swifts were not designed for river warfare.
Officers requesting duty to Swift duty prior to November 1968 knew this and had high expectations of serving in country with out the fear of loss of life or limb. In fact only two officers had died up to that time. One death was caused by a gunnery accident in October 1968 and the other was the result of a booby trapped mine detonation. Kerry must have volunteered prior to August 1968 with this assurance of safety. Swift Boat training was three months long, therefore he was in training during August, September and October 1968. The Swift Boat mission had changed just weeks prior to his successful completion of training and subsequent arrival in CRB. Kerry was shocked when he heard the news.
That night Schachte, Kerry and one unknown enlisted man crewed the boat into Nha Trang Bay. Lt. Schachte thought he saw some movement on the breach and opened fire with a machine gun followed by salvos form Kerry's M16. Both guns jammed and Kerry turned and picked up the M79 grenade launcher. He fired the weapon and the shell detonated close aboard. Schachte realizing that there was no enemy present returned to the awaiting Swift a few miles away. Kerry had indeed felt the burn of a shrapnel in his arm but to all accounts did not seek medical treatment.
The next morning Kerry approaches LCDR Hibbard the division commander in CRB and requests the Purple Heart citation. Schachte had already informed Hibbard about the mistaken sighting and recommended that there was no need of a "after action report" since there was no enemy present. Hibbard rejected Kerry's request out of hand and all was silent for a day or so. I actually asked to see the scar since it was not in a private part of his body but Kerry turned down my request. I immediately smelled a rat because, as I told Lisa Myers in an interview last year, when a young combatant receives his first "red badge of courage" he tells everyone and proudly displays the wound, when in good taste, to all concerned. Kerry, aside from requesting the citation, refused to brandish his wound.
On 2 December I conduct a patrol south of CRB. Aside form the rough seas and heavy rain all was quiet about the deck. No radio transmissions or any other sign that trouble was brewing for JFK. I notice this day because it was on this day that, the non-qualified, JFK claims to be hit by shrapnel according to his medical records and reports from the medical officer LCDR Lew Letson. Kerry could not have been in Nha Trang Bay that night because the seas were heavy and foul weather. He did indeed go to sick bay and report his wound, however, the incident occurred one week earlier while on the patrol with Schachte. John F. Kerry did not go on his secret mission on 2 December for three obvious reasons.
First, JFK was not qualified to take a Swift Boat on patrol let along requisition two enlisted men and a covering Swift Boat for his acts of daring. Second, JFK would have been required to write an "after action report" describing the action and giving finite details of the time and location. There was no such report ever written. Third, I conducted the identical spec-op on the night of 4 December in the same location that is stated in the second paragraph. Not one word of caution was ever given to me regarding hostile fire in Nha Trang Bay. There was no mention due to the fact that there was no action. Kerry must have kept the shrapnel from the 25/26 November and stuck it in his arm prior to seeing Dr. Letson. Yes, I am speculating but how else could he have maneuvered a medical report substantiating his would?
In addition if you read his "Tour of Duty" you will read about his mission but there are no details such as the names of his crew, the date or location of the action and mention of the cover boat officer. This contrasts with what Kerry said to Tim Russert on Meet the Press on 18 April 2004. He says that it was the "scariest night of his life". He must have been so scared that he suffered amnesia. I remember all of this information as if it happened yesterday. Then again I had a higher GPA than he did in college.
On 5 December the division skipper calls a special briefing at 1600 hrs. All patrol officers are present except two. Ltjg. Don Droz is still returning from patrol and Kerry is visiting the Navy Exchange. In fact this is where Kerry purchased the infamous 8mm Kodak camera that he used to film his combat footage seen in his campaign commercials. Hibbard and Schachte inform us that there is order that calls for two boats and crews to transfer to An Thoi for further duty in the Mekong, U Minh forest and Ca Mau peninsula. Dangerous place to be working in and a far cry from the safety of Cam Rhan Bay. Not one officer volunteered for this assignment, including me because my Mother did not raise a fool, leaving Hibbard with no alternative but to pick the two officers who were absent. Kerry found out and complained to all of those who would listen but there were few interested parties. He did not volunteer for the Delta, he was ordered to go and he groused about his fate. Later that evening Don Droz came to me and begged me to take his place. See the award winning documentary "Be Good, Smile Pretty". This is story about Don's plight and why he asked me to volunteer in his place. In the short haul I did agree to take his place on 6 December for three bottles of Johnny Walker Black scotch. I packed my bags and Droz and I consumed a third of a bottle "neat". He drove me down to the pier at approx 1730 in time for the 1800 departure. I walked up to Kerry, on the 44 boat, and warned him not to come within 1000 yards of me while we transited to An Thoi.
This vignette is defined in "Unfit for Command" but in a PG rating. Being a sailor I gave the wimp a good piece of my mind in the saltiest of language. Kerry and I left CRB on that day and arrived in An Thoi at 0800 on 8 December. He stayed the mandatory 1000 yard behind me throughout the journey. If you care to waste your time reading Kerry's autobio by Doug Brinkley you will see an entirely different version describing a midnight departure and arriving in An Thoi on 7 December.
This error in his written memoirs demonstrates how loose Kerry played with truth. In closing I want to assure you that Kerry was not in possession the Purple Heart when we left CRB. It wasn't until after Hibbard and Schachte left Viet Nam in late December and I was wounded on 29 January 1969 while in charge of the 94 boat did Kerry submit his medical record and request for the PH to someone other than Hibbard or his current division C.O. George Elliott.
The award materialized without recommendation from anyone in his chain of command. That's why Hibbard was so confused when questioned by the press. I have since talked to Hibbard and he totally agrees with my explanation of how Kerry manipulated the system for his own glory. I was medivaced to St Albans Naval Hospital the first week in February by way of Saigon, Yokohama, and Andrews AFB. I spent 89 days in a hospital recovering from my wounds and Kerry spent approximately 89 minutes in sick bay which consisted of 80 minutes in the waiting room.
When he approached me I bellowed "What the hell are you doing here?" Mr. Kerry dressed in his summer dress khaki uniform informs me that he received his third Purple Heart and the Navy sent him home. I recoiled at him and asked "Did they count the first one, John?"
My question went unanswered. He did not end up in Washington, DC as you article asserts. He was assigned to an Admiral who at the time was Commander US Naval Service Atlantic located in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. It was the equivalent of today's Military Sealift Command. Kerry came to the Hospital twice a day bringing the Admiral his messages and occasionally pop into my room located next door to the Admiral's room. He was insistent on talking to me but I always told him I was busy. Recovering from wounds is a full time job.
Finally, I agreed to meet him in an upper eastside tavern in Manhattan on 4 May 1969. It was here that he informed me of the status of my crew (the stiffs standing with Kerry during the campaign). He followed up with a dissertation regarding the war and an invitation for me to join the Veterans Against the Viet Nam War. I looked him the eye and asked him about the men (supposedly his friends) who were still in country fighting. Kerry showed no concern for these men as he told me he was a leader in the VAVW.
Mind you, we were on active duty and he is propositioning me to side with the enemy. The distinction I want to make is that Kerry was involved with miscreants long before he was discharged or resigned from the Naval Service. Thank you for your time and I hope I have enlighten you about some to details in Kerry's ruse. Tedd Peck Capt. USNR-R
I've replaced reading the daily horoscopes with reading your Website. Much more accurate prediction of what the future holds!
to: snyman@jamadots.net—July
3, 2005
This
is a departure from me, since the question here was raised during a
phone call with my kid sister. Since I feel this is a general interest
question, I thought it might be one that scores of people might have
found puzzling and want to read the answer.
The question you raised when we spoke yesterday was why Acts 8:37 was missing from the New International Version of the Bible, but not from the "standard" traditional versions. More aptly, the question should have been framed as "...why are Matthew 17:21, 18:11, 23:14; Mark 7:16, 9:44. 9:46; 11:26, 15:28; Luke 17:36, 23:17; John 5:4; Acts 8:37. 15:34, 24:7, 28:28, Romans 16:24 and 1 John 5:7 missing from the NIV text?
My first point of reference for an answer to this puzzling question was the Greek-English New Testament which was based on the Literal English Translation © 1958. (It should be noted that Zondervan purchased the text in 1975 and published their first version of the Greek-English New Testament in 1978.) The Greek-English New Testament is missing the same scriptures as the NIV. THE REASON: Some of the deleted verses in the NIV were omitted because they were not found in the ancient Alexandrian codices, and did not appear in most of the texts used up until the 7th century AD.
However, those verses were all found in what is known as Codex E (in the 8th century AD). Some of them are found as early as the Vulgate of Jerome (4th century). Some of the passages deleted from the NIV were found in texts cited by Iranaeus (202 AD) and Cyprian (258 AD).
Keep in mind that the Bible was not divided into verses until 1448 AD. The first Bible to use the chapter and verse format was the Geneva Bible, printed in 1560. The question remains unsettled today which verses, chapters and/or books of the Bible are "canon," and which are construed by church leaders throughout the world today as apocryphal. Because the most popular bible in the world is the King James Version, it is viewed as proper canon, and all other versions are judged by it.
It should be noted that, of the Old Testament, 4% of the KJV Old Testament text comes from the Wycliffe Bible; 18% from the Tyndale Bible; 13% from the Coverdale Bible; 19% from the Geneva Bible; 4% from the Bishop's Bible; and 3% from lesser known translations. Only 35% of the King James Old Testament came from copies of the Hebrew manuscripts.
In the New Testament, 85% of the King James Version of 1611 was taken, word for word, from the Tyndale Bible. The remaining 15% came from the other versions listed above. None of it came from the original Greek text (which did not arrive in England until 1628—17 years after the KJV was printed. The original 1611 text contained some 4,765 marginal notes and references concerning the literal meanings of many of the Greek and Hebrew words used in the text.
By 1760, an additional 30,000 marginal references were added. Most of the more recent Bibles—the NIV included—were transcribed from the original Greek and Hebrew texts. While I personally prefer the KJV, I would be in error if I did not acknowledge that few of the ancient texts contain the verses excluded from the NIV. it is interesting that when the New King James Version was published in 1982, it used footnotes to point out that the above referenced verses did not appear in the earliest texts.
My husband and I are great admirers of your writing. I just read your excellent piece on identity theft, and thought you might be interested in the letter I recently sent to the Arizona Republic regarding an article they had published on the same subject. The article was written by Andrew Thomas, who is the Maricopa County attorney.
Keep up the great work, and God bless you, sir!
MikeyRVP@aol.com—June
25, 2005
Great
article. Living in Tennessee, people still rely on their good ole
mailbox for their pickup service. My financee is one of them. I hope
this article will open her eyes, and a few others I passed it along
to. Good read. Mike
df44az@cox.net—June
9, 2005
Jon, you
are giving me so much knowledge as to the legislative operation. I just
love it and I thank you for it. I am retired and have coffee every morning
with retirees from around the country and being a little polish boy
from Albany N.Y. I AM STARTING TO SHINE. Thanks to you. Jon, thank you
again—Dan
jbramlett@earthlink.net—June
7, 2005
Thanks so much. I enjoyed
our chat immensely and found you most interesting and informative. I
am still chewing on some of the things you said. Your Web site is fascinating,
and your graphics amazing. I attended the NRB some years ago and helped
a ministry friend with a booth, but not lately. Let us stay in touch.
God bless you, Jim
Sir: I see that on your home page you express a strident policy of only promoting the truth. In light of that, you need to update the following paragraph which is devoted to the death of Pat Tillman:
Author'S NOTE: A one sentence correction was added to the article at the time it was revealed that that Tillman was killed by friendly fire. A more noticeable correction has been made to the article.
c.e.lovell@worldnet.att.net—April
22, 2005
Property rights are seriously threatened
by these Globalist secular socialists in Congress and state legislatures—what
with "no smoking" laws, the Homosexual Agenda to accomplish
recognition and acceptance., etc. Privately I have a right to discriminate
—a mark of good breeding and good taste—to refuse association
with those or that which offends my moral conscience. This is a good
reason to pass the Marriage Amendment between one man and one woman
and to stop this so-called marriage substitute called "civil union."
Please circulate. Thanks, Clarence Lovell; Jewish World Review
April 20, 2005 / 11 Nisan, 5765
robert_morningstar@yahoo.com—Mar.
21, 2005
Mr. Ryter: I am very proud
of the Congress and the President tonight. Both have affirmed once again
that "America stands for Life." Can you imagine what our country's
enemies around the world would have done with this issue if the Congress
had not made its position clear? I am sure that this story is far from
over and I would like to share with you some ideas which I have pondered
in regard to this subject a few days ago in an effort to move Congress
to action, if only "symbolic action", an action which may
yet be reversed by Federal courts. Warm regards, Robert Morningstar
RE: The Thrift Savings Plan...Great article, very informative. I've sent it on to my other senior friends. Some of them need a hard look in the mirror. One factoid you didn't mention, I'll share with you in case you didn't happen to know this already: The majority of the Board of Directors of AARP are former union bosses of the NEA or the AFT (American Federation of Teachers).
The key concept for a viable immigration reform is to incentivize voluntary compliance. Any immigration and undocumented worker policy based on punitive or coercive means requires curtailing everyone's—citizens and non-citizen resident alike—civil liberties and privacy, and giving the INS more powers. In the real world, this will lead inevitably to abuse, corruption, and capricious enforcement. An idea I have is to make residency permits automatically renewable on an annual basis, for a $500 fee and presentation of the past years state and Federal tax returns. A second idea is to create a system of tax-free Federal savings accounts parallel to Social Security for them (requiring more documents). The key is to give immigrants an incentive to be in documentary compliance with our laws, which will help the INS and Homeland Security to keep track of them. The coercion comes from instituting a confiscation penalty for non-compliance. If we can get 95% of the non-citizen population to register voluntarily, it will make it possible for the INS and the Border Patrol to actually accomplish their missions. Anyone who remains non-compliant in this system should have their motives for being in this country scrutinized carefully before expulsion/imprisonment. Daryl
segroves@hotmail.com—Feb.
22, 2005
Re. your News and Views piece: very well done, easy to understand,
and shocking. I hope that you continue with such explanations. And,
if you have more ideas on what we can do to turn it around, they will
be appreciated. Thank you. Kenneth L. Segroves, Ph.D.
I have just finished reading your report of the demise of the American Labor force and while I agree with most of what you imply, I think you are misguided by blaming the American consumer for this problem. Put the blame where it belongs. Do not deride the hapless consumer for buying a product from abroad when he can't get it from America. My job was lost to Mexico when my employer decided that it was in his best interest to pay slave wages to Mexican nationals rather than an honest wage for the high tech job that was (Note from JCR: Don't reward your former employer by purchasing the stuff your former job is now producing in Mexico. If there is no penalty to US manufacturers for sending US jobs to Mexico...or China...what reason do they have to stop?)
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