Ouch.....

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In The Twilight Zone??

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T E A

What’s this tea bag thing all about?

In 1773, a handful of men dumped tea into the Boston Harbor. That one act set in motion a chain of events that birthed the greatest nation on earth. But today, many Americans feel helpless as they watch an imperialistic government destroy our Constitution and 237 years of liberty.

The first American Tea Party birthed a nation. The second tea party could help save it.

Just like our Founding Fathers, we're tired of the way our government is behaving. Lawmakers are refusing to listen to our complaints, so we must make a statement. That's why this April 15th we're heading to the nation's capital to dump 1,000,000 tea bags.

Thought that this was cool - check out their site: www.millionteabags.org

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So I said....

That I voted for the lipstick and then he said, "Obama wears lipstick??" Uhhhh...maybe, but that wasn't the point....




nataliedee.com

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Slipppiinnnnn

I am sorry, maybe I misunderstood what you said....what exactly IS your faith??

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Let it be known...

I'm voting for Palin. NOT McCain or Obama. It's all about # 2. Sorry cuz....had to jump on the bandwagon!

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Pastor Bike has been Freed!

Pastor Bike

Petition being delivered

From Voice of the Martyrs:


Thank you for adding your name to the online petition asking the Chinese government to free Pastor Bike. Your voice was heard! Pastor Bike is FREE! On Friday, August 29, prominent Chinese house church leader Zhang Mingxuan, affectionately known as "Pastor Bike," his wife and a co-worker were released from Chinese custody. Pastor Bike was arrested along with his wife and co-worker August 6, two days before the Olympic Games began in Beijing. An outspoken evangelist, Pastor Bike has travelled on his bike to many places in China, handing out Christian literature and Bibles and preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ.
Instead of being held at a prison or a detention center Pastor Bike and his wife, Xie Fenglan, and their co-worker were taken to resort hotels on a "forced vacation" designed to ensure that they couldn’t talk to any foreign media. Pastor Bike was scheduled to do an interview with the BBC the day of his arrest.
All three believers are in good health and spirits and praising God for their release, according to our co-laborers at China Aid Association. The detainees said during their confinement they had opportunities to witness to guards and even high-ranking government officials staying at the hotels where they were held.
On August 26, The Voice of the Martyrs and China Aid Association launched an international online petition drive advocating for Pastor Bike, his wife and co-worker to be released. On September 4, China Aid Association delivered the petition — which had more than 57,000 names printed on 619 pages — addressed to Ambassador Zhou Wenzhong at the Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Washington, D.C. Included was a letter thanking the Chinese government for releasing these house-church Christians.
We are thankful to you and the thousands of others who logged on and signed the petition. Christians in free nations often wonder if we can really make a practical difference for Christians in persecuted countries. Pastor Bike’s release shows that WE CAN!
Continue to pray for Pastor Bike, his wife and their co-worker and for other believers in China.

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Pastor Bike

Free Pastor Bike! Sign the Petition Now! Pastor Bike standing with Anna, an orphaned

Christian girl also persecuted by the Chinese government.


Pastor Bike, as he is affectionately known, is considered to be one of the most outspoken evangelists in China. He is a bold believer willing to cross borders, hand out Christian literature and Bibles, share Christ with those under age 18 and lead thousands to Christ. All these actions are considered "illegal" in communist China.
On August 6, just two days before the Olympics began, Pastor Zhang "Bike" Mingxuan was arrested, along with his wife and a coworker.
In response to these arrests, The Voice of the Martyrs and China Aid Association have launched a petition drive to free these three Christians and to let the Chinese government know that the world is aware that these Christians are being detained.
Together, our voice can make a difference. Please follow the link below to learn more, and please forward this email to your friends.
Go to FreePastorBike.com to sign the petition now.

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Pastor Bike

I received the following email from VOM and wanted to share it with you.

Inspiration for Olympic Prayer Band Arrested

Pastor Zhang “Bike” Mingxuan, known for traveling across China on a bicycle to evangelize, was arrested by Chinese police just two days before the Olympics began. Pastor Bike was the inspiration for the recent partnership between The Voice of the Martyrs and China Aid Association to create the Olympic Prayer Band.
Learn More about the Olympic Prayer Band here
Pastor Asks for Prayer BandEarlier this year, Pastor Bike pleaded with VOM staff to ask Christians to pray for persecuted Christians in China during the Olympics. The pastor voluntarily preaches the gospel openly in China despite being persecuted. He has asked for his identity to be revealed to bring continued attention to the persecution of Christians in Communist China.
Thanks to Pastor Bike’s inspiration and the commitment of concerned Christians across the United States, more than 800,000 prayer bands have been circulated. On Aug. 6, Pastor Bike was arrested while trying to deliver medicine to his ailing wife. His wife and another pastor were also arrested. We have also learned this week that Chinese officials are opening a full investigation of the Olympic Prayer Bands that were distributed to house church members within China. Despite this increased pressure from Chinese authorities, Chinese Christians continue to ask for prayer and to make their plight known.
Order your Prayer Bands today!As the Olympics goes on, the harassment of Chinese evangelists continues to increase. Please help remind others to pray for persecuted Christians like Pastor Bike by ordering your prayer bands today!
More about Pastor BikePastor Bike, president of the Chinese House Church Alliance, rode his bike more than 10,000 miles, visiting 24 Chinese provinces to introduce nonbelievers to Jesus Christ. Armed with a Bible and his business card, which declared “Believe in Jesus, Earn Eternal Life,” Pastor Bike brought the gospel to thousands of people. He and other Chinese evangelists have been repeatedly harassed by Chinese officials during this Olympic year. Please pray for the release of Pastor Bike and his wife.
Order Prayer Bands
To order resources about the persecuted church or to donate to VOM, visit www.VOMBooks.com.

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ABC News: Is America Addicted to Porn

Just got through watching the above on ABC's site. Check it out: FACE OFF I really appreciated the entire debate - there is honor on both sides for the other. Much nicer than the debates that you might see between candidates for the presidential election. Gonna call it a God Factor - because I think that since we are in a LOVE WAR - the Porn Pastor is doing an excellent job of calling sin what it is and loving without judgement those involved. Also offering help rather than just leaving some one out there to struggle. Check out XXX Church and Heart Support. Subscribe to their news letters!!

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The Screams That Only God Hears

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Dear Mrs. Clinton

a photo by Kansieo

Don't let my vote for you yesterday fool you. Yesterday, pressing the big red "cast ballot" button was very difficult for me. I comfort myself by knowing I will be voting for McCain in the Presidential Election this November. By crossing my party line and voting for you - I helped to ensure that you would be the one facing McCain a strategy that was followed by many in my town. I know that you think that your campaigning here in Tom Green County is what got you elected - it's not. So you might have won this battle Mrs. Clinton, but we will win the war.

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And The Price Keeps Going Up...

I bet you thought that I was talking about gasoline....but I'm not. I am talking about the POSTAGE STAMP. It's currently at .41 but in May will go up to .42. I guess its not a LOT of money - but it IS insulting...I would think that the fact that people pay their bills online would be evened out by the fact that more people are SHOPPING online. Getting a package mailed to you costs way more than a letter but evidently my theory is not the case because they keep raising the price. I will not complain if the raise it to .50 a stamp if they would get their stuff together....get mail to the people I send it to on time, hire more employees so that I don't have to wait ALLLLL day in line to mail something....I don't know about you, but somehow I get the feeling they are just gonna keep raising the price and our service won't get better. The only bill I do NOT pay over the internet is the water bill and that is only because they don't have that service available. In fact, last month I took my payment TO the water company....I may just keep doing that...you know in protest of the whole thing.....here is a link of the article I read that informed of the impending doom STAMP.

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Pull Your Pants Up

You are gonna laugh when you watch the following clips from youtube. Basically this guy wrote a song about pulling your pants up - telling all these kids to quit wearing their pants all saggy. In Dallas, they even attempted to put it into legislation and FINE people who wear their pants like that. They spoke about how a big store isn't gonna come in to Dallas because people wear sagging pants...lol...yeah right..money is money whether you pull it out of your skinny jeans or saggy jeans, it all spends the same. Wow. And it has soo much attention paid to this because people don't like the way sagging jeans look - that is a personal oppinion, not something that you should legislate. Can you believe that the government was gonna TELL someone how to DRESS????? Pull your pants up! Ha! Pull 'em down ya'll!! If you are gonna spend your time fighting a style of dress I don't even wanna waste my time with you - how about spending all that time and money and get some real stuff done in Dallas - If you click on the link below the videos you will see the web page on it....ahhhhh, I am tired. I better stop before I get ugly. In a nutshell - the government as NO right to tell me what to wear or how to wear it. Pull em' down!









http://hiphopgovernment.org/

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I Can't Help It!!!! Dumbledore and The Golden Compass

I resist for the most part getting involved in any kind of controversy like this - so much so that the emails that I have gotten regarding the movie The Golden Compass have been deleted with out reading them.

Starting this morning though, I was really hit with it - myspace is covered in The Golden Compass and I got yet ANOTHER email telling me how evil the movie was - honestly it really just made me want to throw up.

Don't get me wrong, I don't LIKE movies where evil is prevalent and made to some how appear right and good and heroic. It's sooo typical of Christian groups though, to get on this band wagon - just for "certain" things and talk and talk and talk - they put the people that create these things down and treat them like dirt. I don't think that these people for the most part are TRYING to be evil, but even if they are, can you "correct" them in love?? Could you possibly deal with an issue in love instead of looking down on them??

Try this: if you are going to be that hurt and upset over all of that "evil" stuff, hold yourself to that standard in everything!! It's always those that are the loudest in attacking something that usually have something to hide...you look like a fool and those that produce the movies and write the songs and books know just what you are going to say. THEY CALL YOU OUT!!

How about this?

One fan asked whether Albus Dumbledore, the head of the famed Hogwarts School of Wizardry and Witchcraft, had ever loved anyone. Rowling smiled. "Dumbledore is gay, actually," replied Rowling as the audience erupted in surprise.

and then

Not everyone likes her work, Rowling said, likely referring to Christian groups that have alleged the books promote witchcraft. Her news about Dumbledore, she said, will give them one more reason.

Of course she was totally right and about two hours after that article was out, Carlos sees a post on a Christian artists website about it....

I know I am ranting and that I am making that much sense....I would like to see some REAL people stand up for what is right - all the time. Not just when something huge like this comes along. This movie didn't jump up out of nowhere. (the guy wrote the BOOK in 1996) We have been prepared and courted and groomed for this movie in thousands of different ways for YEARS. It's kinda like trying to say that being "gay" is sooo wrong, and you lying on your taxes is OK. So today or yesterday or last week, if you lied to someone don't say a WORD about that movie. No one wants to hear it. When your life reflects Christ and you can talk to someone in love and explain to them why the movie or the books might be negative then you can say something but till then, hush and please please please, don't embarrass me....don't call yourself a "Christian" and scream and yell and get stupid about this....because there are a million other things that need to be dealt with before you attempt to take a stand about a freaking MOVIE.

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How could this happen in my neighborhood?

Wall across from San Jacinto school before

Big government: The term is mainly used to evoke criticism of a government which is believed to be excessively large and costly, with too many programs that interfere on too many areas of public life.

http://www.gosanangelo.com/news/2007/aug/22/council-plans-will-curb-graffiti-vandals/

“I was so devastated,” she said. “I actually became physically ill. I felt nauseated. My first question is, ‘How could this happen in my neighborhood?’”

Physically ILL?? How could this happen in my neighborhood? The worst part of that statement is that its focusing on PAINT. Not on the root issues that are causing and allowing someone to go and paint someones fence with “gang related” graffiti.

So the real issue is that there is gang activity in San Angelo. After several years of it being down, it is starting to resurface. I would say that is where you target all your time and energy.

Instead, there are LAWS that are trying to be passed like, “anyone without legal guardianship who provides aerosol paint to a minor — whether it’s a retailer making a sale or a friend passing a can — faces the same fine.” and “Under the law, private-property owners must sign the form and let the city clean the vandalism or clean the graffiti themselves within the 10 days. Otherwise, the city can declare the property a nuisance, levy a fine of $200 to $500 against the owner, and abate the graffiti anyway.”

Those are laws that make me as a private citizen nervous. What is considered graffiti? When is it ART? What is legal graffiti? What if I get permission to paint something on a wall and I choose to paint in a graffiti style?? I am now in trouble, I get fined, and my art is painted over. And why is it going to be against the law to allow someone under the age of 18 to use an spray can???? As a property owner if I choose to have something on my property I can be fined for not “cleaning” it up.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t like bombings on buildings anymore than the next person, but I think that instead of trying to deal with it in that manner, we need to attempt to deal with it in another way.

Also, ask yourself this, what are you so afraid of? Fear of anything gang related has already given them power. Become a force in your neighborhood. What kind of neighbor are you? Are you the type that peeks out your window all day and watches those little “thugs” walk past your house? Do you shake your head at them in disgust? Are you the kind who looks the other way when they walk past you in the mall? Be a positive force in you neighborhood. Here is an idea, go by a 12 pack of sodas and put them in your fridge. The next time those kids walk by, ask them if they want a soda. Then ask them their names. Wave at them as they walk by. Let them know that you see them and are watching them. SMILE at the kids that you pass in the mall. Rather than disgust, why don’t you think about what they must be dealing with at home if they are out running the streets. Make a difference in a positive life changing way instead of being a whiner.

Before we start making rules and regulations lets make an effort to curb this stuff with different tactics like paying attention to the things that going on around us. And yes, by all means, PAINT OVER any vandalism on your property and remember: Darn kids?! Were you never a “darn kid”??

Wall across from San Jacinto school after

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The Home of the Brave

http://www.michaelyon-online.com/wp/bless-the-beasts-and-children.htm

I just really appreciate the honesty and true reporting that is happening on the website above. We don't really hear of the atrocities that are going on in Iraq except if they are done by the hands of the US military. Many of our men and women are serving our country in a way that we never would. Yet all we do is talk bad about them and since its not their fault that they are over there we shouldn't be taking our anger out on them. How sad...we just recently said good bye to a friend of ours that is going on his first tour of duty to Iraq. He is so young, but he is so brave and is PROUD to serve our country. When we asked him what he was going to go do, he said that he was going to help rebuild and help the citizens. He said that the citizens help them out too, and then he said that the media over here never shows all of that. It's true.

al Quaeda is killing innocent people and all we can talk about doing is leaving the Iraq.....we the people of America don't here accurate stories. I am going to make an effort to become more informed and learn the TRUTH about what is happening in Iraq and not rely on the American media to tell me whats going on.

I love my country. I am proud to be an American. I believe that America is the greatest country in the world. I believe that ANY fight for freedom is worth the fight.

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Woooowwww....this is a good blog

http://newsbloggers.aol.com/2007/07/13/its-a-girl-im-having-an-abortion/

It's A Girl? I'm Having An Abortion

Posted Jul 13th 2007 10:58AM by Dinesh D'SouzaFiled under: Gay and Lesbian, Abortion, Cultural Left
The effort by Western groups like Planned Parenthood International to promote legalization of abortion throughout the world has produced a strange side effect: the mass-scale killing of female fetuses. Several years ago the New York Review of Books published an article on the tens of millions of women "missing" around the world because they were killed off before being born.
In India, the practice of female feticide has eliminated approximately 10 million women. The country has a preponderance of men over women--1000 women for every 927 men. Recognizing the growing problem, the government is now taking steps to monitor abortions based on sex selection. Health minister Renuka Chowdhury says she wants to make sure there are "valid and acceptable reasons" for abortion. Ah, yes, but the moment you admit that, you abandon the logic of abortion-on-demand, which is that abortions should be entirely the decision of the person having them.
In the West, a new issue looms on the horizon. If homosexuality has a genetic component, technology is making it more likely that pregnant women will be able to tell whether their unborn child is going to be gay or not. Once this happens, it's quite possible that we will see lots of people opting to abort homosexual fetuses. Anti-gay prejudice need not be the reason; many parents may simply not want a son or daughter to go through the difficulties of being gay in a largely heterosexual society. We can expect to hear things like, "I'm doing this for its own sake."
Today the safest place for unborn girls in India, China, and many other countries is in the womb of religious women and women who oppose abortion. Similarly the cultural left may soon discover that the safest place for gay fetuses in America and Europe are the wombs of evangelical Christians and prolife women.

Ok, WOW! I have never read this guy's blog before and I don't know how to link it other than what I did, copying the link and pasting it, but what a thought....and what a new way to protest abortion...good argument too. I was thinking as I read it that its so true about the huge impact our decisions make that we don't think about the future, but we just think about the NOW and how do I feel NOW. I think that is what we all do most of the time anyway, think selfish thoughts and how I feel about my choice for the moment. Here China only wants couples to have two kids. Obviously its better to have only boys because they can make money and support you later on....so everyone kills the baby girls and not necessarily in utero...and so 20 years later there aren't any girls to marry all those boys...and so what happens? Unrest in the villages and all the men in the cities who can afford it LEAVE. Sounds like a choice that is going to bite that country in the butt. As for America and killing homosexual fetus'....mmmm, I can see that being a problem...sooo, now we care though, didn't care back in the day, but now that it is a problem we want to change our policy and views.....

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Poo on being alone and women's rights!

I absolutely hate the fact that Carlos is gone. I have 4 more days alone. Yesterday right after he left I went to our old house and mixed paint for him. He now has nine 5 gallon buckets of paint. It only took one can of exploding pink paint and 2.5 hours. Then I went home and ate. I slept for 2 hours, got up drank an energy drink and mowed the lawn. It was like 200 degrees outside and the lawn mower I used was scary. Now I need a weed eater, but I think that will wait. As I was mowing, I asked myself. Really. Who in their RIGHT mind WANTS to mow the lawn? As a female, if a guy will do it for you, WHY would you want to do it? To prove a point? Heck no. You gotta be crazy...knowing that I can do it is about as close to being a femenist and I am going to get. I certainly can handle being inside making dinner while Carlos mows the lawn than the other way around. My hands are bruised today, my nail polish is ALL jacked up, I am sore and my shoes have stickers all in them....no...I think God made me to be married and a girly girl...I will get my physical activity from working out in an air conditioned gym and just stay curvy...wearing make up, getting my hair done...and as for getting "dirty" I think my garden is about all the dirt and OUTSIDENESS that I want. Somebody buy me the ROBO lawn mower!!!!




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Are YOU my mother??

After Ashley came over 3 times, I wasn't sure what she could possibly need. After all, she had gotten a band aid, brought me her sprinkler, and something else when she rang the door bell yet again. I opened the door and she had a horrified look on her face. I was like, whats wrong??? She told me that the baby bird was dead. (WHAT baby bird is she talking about???) I told her that I was sooo sorry. Then I asked her what we should do. She didn't know, so I said I would give her a box. Then she told me it was still alive. (hmmm...) Ok, have a box anyway and bring it to me. Well, it wasn't dead, and she didn't want it, so, who best to take it? I, the I Don't Like Animals girl...(I fed their dogs yesterday). So I bring it in, Google how to take care of it, and have now fed it four times and its pooped. Yes. I am going to name him Herman. And I am giving him up for adoption if he survives the night. So here are some pics depicting life as Herman's mommy. I feed him a mixture of dog food, milk, water, cracker and boiled egg. It stinks. But he likes it and I guess in the end that is what counts. Oh yeah, and he makes the cutest little peeps when you are feeding him....gotta go, I think I hear him.

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