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"There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state; the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people."

--Commander William Adama, Battlestar Galactica, quoting Jefferson while commenting on the unrest in Egypt.

Atheists are the saddest lot there is.

While he yet talked to the people, behold, his mother and his brethren stood without, desiring to speak with him. Then one said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to speak with thee. But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren! For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.

Behold my brethren...

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0050 GMT: We've all heard of the religious harmony displayed during protests in Cairo. But now we have images showing the chivalry displayed by Christians of Egypt, during this time of crisis: @nevinezaki has this photograph, showing Christians, forming a human chain around their Muslim countrymen to protect them while they pray in Tahrir Square, Cairo:

You and every other American, past and present, who did not stand up for the only known source of goodness in our society-- namely; God.

Consider the thoughts of Dr. Michael Youseff...

It came as no surprise to me that, immediately after the shooting, the liberal media jumped on the bandwagon with accusations. Because the congresswoman was a Democrat, members of the press surmised that the shooting had to be an act of "right-wing extremist groups."

Why didn't they wait to comment until they had examined the psychological history of the young gunman? What about evidence of occult worship found in his home? Why was it okay to immediately and emotionally target a group of people without all of the facts?

There is something else they have overlooked. Those who are fighting so strongly to have God removed from our culture do not realize that when God is kicked out of public life, He will not be replaced with "nothing." Instead, Satan and his demons are hard at work and are waiting with baited breath for the vacuum created by God's name being evacuated from a society. The void that remains will not be empty; it will be occupied by Satan and his minions.

Attributed to Spinoza is the oft quoted phrase, "Nature abhors a vacuum." And, since nature is the product of a loving God, it must therefore be true that God Himself abhors a vacuum. I imagine God sees the vacuum as waste, whereas evil views it as an opportunity. What does that say about those who saw in the Arizona shooting an 'opportunity' to strike out at those they hate? Namely, all those who offer an alternative to Liberal ideology, and whom the Left deems a threat to their social agenda.

Dr. Youseff is correct; you cannot kick God out of education and the public square and expect nothing to fill the void. We are reaping what we've sown. Nothing more, nothing less.

Only an idiot points his finger at any one person-- Sarah Palin, for instance --for purely partisan reasons, to assign personal blame. This is the same mentality behind the Obama administration's steadfast refusal to appoint proper blame to radical Islam for the Fort Hood shooting, the Underwear Bomber, and the Time Square Bomber; all adherents to the religion of Islam.

This is the rub for many honest thinking Americans-- how can one group (specifically progressives) deflect blame for the religion of Islamic perpetrators of crime, despite overwhelming evidence against their faith, and yet blame anyone and everyone conservative without the slightest scintilla of evidence? How? Because the Left isn't interested in honest-to-goodness Truth. What they're interested in is ideology-- their own.

And it's an ideology void of God.

Want someone to blame? Take a good hard look at yourself. What have you done to defend rightness and goodness in your world? What did you do to defend God, and the right of everyone to freely worship and teach Him in public?

The reason so many people want God expunged from the public square is because they want to be able to do as they please without any fear of social guilt. If God is banished, who can tell them that what they choose to do, and how they choose to live, is wrong?

Jared Laughner is to blame. He pulled the trigger. If anyone else is to blame it is we who stood by and allowed the godless to strip us of our Constitutional right to freely worship the only true God... YHWH, Jehovah, Hashem, the LORD G-d Almighty, to whom each of us owes our very existence.

What was it Edmund Burke said?

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.

Stand up for God, and fight back against those who hate Him-- and PRAY! Nothing else can push back against the growing tide of violence.



After Thought:

I have to wonder if the Left, Media and Democrat Party included, has abandoned commonsense. Do they think they can win votes by abandoning sound, logical reasoning? Fomenting hatred toward their political foes is going to sweep them back into power, how? The unprecedented level of death threats against Sarah Palin since last Saturday's shooting helps their cause, how? It was right and good that Obama took the stance he did last night against apportioning blame unduly and unjustly. He should have said as much, publicly, days ago... his words appear to have sounded upon deaf ears among his base. And, I have to wonder, had he spoken out days ago, would it have made any difference?

Pardon my language folks, but the very sound of this man's voice makes me want to projectile vomit.

It's not illegal to have an opinion. But neither is it illegal to be a complete and utter moron. If this is what passes for enlightened thinking on the Left, then let's hope the Left is quickly relegated to defunctory status-- the sooner the better. I'm not sure how much more idiocy I can continue to take from men like Maher. I think I'd rather gouge out my ears than have to listen to the likes of this buffoon. Praise God the Left was dealt that embarrassing defeat last November.

This man isn't going to like hell one bit.

How's this for an interesting dichotomy? Our president insists:




There's something wonky with our president's priorities, not to mention a bit self-serving.

But have it your way, America. After all, this nation resembles more and more the neighborhood Burger King than the America our Constitution describes. Yes, the Constitution is ALWAYS good, but when you can add or remove-- at will --any ingredient that doesn't tickle your palate, is it still the same advertised burger? Or have we, by adding and subtracting the things we do and don't like, created an altogether new burger?

President Obama does seem to enjoy a good burger, but then there's nothing wrong with that... unless your name is Michelle.

I'm coming out of a week-long illness/fugue. On the 23rd I helped a co-worker carry a number of cases of printer paper to "the dungeon," and that night I thought I was on my way to the emergency room. Sitting in an office all day doesn't offer much in the way of exercise, and so, I ended up over-exerting myself.

I felt uncomfortable all Christmas weekend while visiting with my family, and it only got worse upon returning home. But last night... FINALLY, after some prayer at church Thursday evening, I seem to be out of the woods.

I literally thought I was going to die. Without going into specifics, I hurt something in my neck and chest while carrying those boxes, and that hurt kept me light-headed and heavy-chested, with muscle spasms up both sides of my neck.

I didn't go to the hospital... don't have the money for it. So I relied on prayer, fasting, and a number of healthy cocktails. I'm feeling so much better, but not entirely out of the woods.

I give God all the credit, with kudos to sensible 'natural' applications, for getting me to a new year. Whether I live or die, it's all in His hands anyway, but it's nice all the same to still be here.

It is my wish that everyone have a rich (spiritually speaking) and prosperous 2011.

--Dick Morris


Moving to the center is not a two-dimensional process. It has a third dimension-- the difference between strength and weakness. In the course of coming in from the cold of his extreme far-left positions, the president looks like a wimp, abandoning his long-held views in the face of electoral defeats, adverse court rulings, recalcitrant Democrats and strong, united Republican opposition.

And wimps don't win.

When Bill Clinton moved to the center, he arrived in triumph. After vanquishing the Republican Congress during the government shutdown of 1995-96, he agreed to a balanced-budget deal with Newt Gingrich and Trent Lott. But it was his deal, along his lines, on his principles. When he signed a welfare reform bill, he did so after beating back and vetoing two Republican bills that coupled reform with harsh cuts to Medicaid. After he got a bill on his own terms, he signed it.

Barack Obama's "compromise" with the Republicans over the Bush tax cuts is no more of a compromise than was the deal Emperor Hirohito cut with Gen. Douglas MacArthur on the deck of the battleship Missouri after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It was a surrender, not a compromise. It was submission, not triangulation.

Obama is checkmated as long as Republicans hold firm, challenge him on solid grounds anchored in public opinion and remain united. He can either lose the election of 2012 because he is an obstinate ideologue who won't compromise and won't abandon his socialist principles or he can lose it because he does surrender and is too weak to be president.

He does not have a third option -- winning the budget fights and winning reelection-- as long as the Republicans properly mount their challenge, because public opinion, the essential element for victory, is not with him.

• Americans want spending cuts, not tax increases

• Americans believe that cutting spending is more important even than cutting the deficit (see Rasmussen)

• Americans oppose ObamaCare

• Americans are against letting the Environmental Protection Agency impose carbon dioxide restrictions without consulting Congress.

• Americans are against unilateral National Labor Relations Board action to eliminate the secret ballot in union elections.

• Americans oppose earmarks

• Americans do not want the Federal Communications Commission to limit or censor talk radio.

These are the grounds for our battles in 2011-2012. It is on this turf that the Republican House majority must fight. The fearful "moderate" Democratic senators will cave in. And then Obama will be forced to surrender because the Force-- public opinion --is not with him. You can govern by ignoring what Americans think if you have a majority. But not if you don't.

And with each surrender-- over his desire to raise the debt limit without mandated spending cuts, over his support for bailing out states in trouble, and over his demand to raise taxes in the 2012 budget --Obama will get weaker and weaker.

His inability to fight and win the war on terror and his choice to become mired in Afghanistan with no real plan for winning will contribute to the image of weakness.

In 2012, he will face America denuded of all the programs he passed in 2009-2010, with an economy only slightly improved but with at least 7-8 percent unemployment, and with a manifest inability to measure up to the job of president.

Most presidents face a challenge of weakness. With Eisenhower, it was his refusal to stand up to Joe McCarthy. With Kennedy, it was his inability to pass legislation. With Nixon, it was his inability to get ahead of the Watergate scandal. With Ford, it was his helplessness in the face of inflation. With Carter, it was the hostage crisis. With Reagan, it was his failure to control the Iran-Contra affair. With Bush-41, it was his passivity on the economy. With Clinton, it was the flip-flopping early in his presidency. With Obama, it will be his retreat in the face of the Republican counterattack of 2011.

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Curiously, in that last paragraph Mr. Morris left out George W in his list of presidential blunders/signs of weakness. No doubt liberals could dredge up any number of subjective 'weaknesses,' but the only one that would really fit here is George Junior's steadfast refusal to defend himself against the press who, beat him incessantly over the head with, primarily, lunatic objections to the man they zealously despised-- which had nothing to do with the man's policies, but rather the 36 days following the 2000 elections which ultimately decided the presidential race against their guy, vice-president Gore.

Bush allowed the liberal press and democrats to carry the ball-- he was not in control of the message. On many occasions Bush allowed the press to accuse him personally, and his administration, of out right lies and fantasies, without any rebuttal from the White House. That, undoubtedly, was a major contributing factor to his dismal poll numbers toward the end. But however dismal his poll numbers congress' numbers were abysmal.

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As to the man of the hour, president Barack Obama, moving to the center has never been his strong suit, and I have to agree with Morris: Obama's moving to the center is done not out of strength, but weakness. The liberal press and democrats will undoubtedly say otherwise-- they have no real choice if they have any hope of retaining the White House in 2012 --but the electorate that trounced his party last month won't be buying it. Furthermore, any democrat Senators with a modicum of desire to be reelected next round will, in all likelihood, abandon their democratic positions to vote with Republicans against anything that smacks of drawing too much Tea Party ire... they'll be job scared.

So Reid may have retained his majority leader status, but his party will not control the senate, in any larger sense. Republicans will be the de facto leaders in the senate.

There are 21 democrats up for reelection in the senate in 2012 :

• Dianne Feinstein, California
• Tom Carper, Delaware
• Bill Nelson, Florida
• Daniel Akaka, Hawaii
• Ben Cardin, Maryland
• Debbie Stabenow, Michigan
• Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota
• Claire McCaskill, Missouri
• Jon Tester, Montana
• Ben Nelson, Nebraska
• Bob Menendez, New Jersey
• Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico
• Kirsten Gillibrand, New York
• Kent Conrad, North Dakota
• Sherrod Brown, Ohio
• Bob Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
• Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
• Jim Webb, Virginia
• Maria Cantwell, Washington
• Joe Manchin, West Virginia
• Herb Kohl, Wisconsin...

All Democrats, plus Independents Bernie Sanders of Vermont, and Joe Lieberman of Connecticut.

There are, obviously, some pretty safe seats on this list. The question is: how many democrats will lose in 2012 because of Obama's weakness? Republicans will only have to pick up, what? 4 seats? Anyone?

Not a question, but a statement...



What is wrong with disease (not 'health') care in the U.S. is our rejection of commonsense basics. We glibly recite the mantra 'You Are What You Eat,' but we reject everything it implies... or at least the most important parts. It's not enough to eat 'health' foods. What we should be eating are 'healthy' foods. And the only truly healthy food is one that comes in its original raw state.

I own this DVD and it is an eye-opener, to say the least. I've been moving toward a raw diet for a year now, and believe me, it hasn't been easy. But I'm almost to the 50% raw point (currently 40-45%). The goal is not to make sure each week or month's intake is 51% raw foods; the goal is to make sure each MEAL consists of at least 51% raw. And trust me, that is a very tall order for someone who was raised on cooked food, and lived by cooked food for near 50 years. But this is the answer to disease and illness. It's not a pill, or an injection, or a shot of radiation. It's fresh, organic, nutrient rich, foods. Your body has the amazing capacity to heal itself, even of cancer, if you give it all the nutrients it needs.

I highly recommend this video. And, if you act before the end of this month (Dec 2010) they have a half price deal going on... you can get this video for 10 - 12 bucks. That's not a bad deal at all.

With Washington:

I'm not at all expecting Republicans to turn 100% back to the American people, but they better make more than a half-hearted move in that direction. Democratic arrogance of monumental proportions was what swept them out of power in such a dramatic historical fashion. But Republicans, if they have any hope of being allowed to stick around beyond the end of their terms, had better make more than lip-service toward the wishes of the majority of voters. Obama's policies-- specifically Obamacare --are far too radical to be allowed to live much beyond his one and only term.

I spoke with a man today at my favorite Indian restaurant. He described his "ascension" to the American way of life as a frog in a well. He said one rarely recognizes the climes one inhabits when it is all one has ever known. It is only when one climbs out of the well of his life and sees beyond the rim of sky, that he learns to appreciate what he has attained, and from what he has come. America was an eye-opener for him. He knew things here were different, but it took coming here and spending time to really grasp the differences between living in India and living in America. I understood all too well what he meant; I've spent time in foreign countries, albeit many years ago. But I've recently come to learn there is another kind of well... the kind we can fall into.

I've never been rich, but neither have I been so poor that I feared for where I might sleep at night, or if I could keep my dog with me. I know I have a home in Panama City-- my family would take me in --but I never considered how important it was to save for a rainy day. I, like too many others, have spent the money as it came in on the 'necessities' of living in America. I never thought I could ever be homeless, but now I find myself tipping on that very edge. I am that frog... on the edge of an abyss, with the forces of economics (among other things I'll not speak of) pushing me closer to the edge and into darkness. I need money. Lots of it. Or the cart throws a wheel; the horse, its shoe, and the frog leaps free-fall into obscurity.

I still have my job, though it has never really paid enough. I still have my car, though it is twenty years old and in constant need of repair. I still have a roof over my head, though new circumstances threaten to strip even that away. I've been in the well before, though I never saw it as such and, I'm sad to say, never thought to catalog its lessons, let alone remember them. But this is new. I spent the last two decades climbing out, in pursuit of riches-- those things I thought declared loud enough that I lived above the earth (though beneath the sky) --and even they seem to have eluded me.

One man climbs out, another falls in. I could blame partisan politics for the current state of the economy (and do) but that does nothing for my present predicament-- I could blame myself and be closer to the mark, but who truly thinks such things could come to harry them back into obscurity? The economy is not getting any better, unemployment is still too high, and inflation is still right around the corner. And I may also be there soon, just around the corner... me, my dog, a guitar, and every scrap of dignity I have left in a small canvas bag.

That may seem an image worth hanging like a Rockwell, but it's frightening as hell to be the one on the other side of the lens. I don't know what's going to happen in the months ahead. But this I do know... my job will still pay me less than I need. My car will still need repairs. I will still need a place to live. My dog will still need all the love and care he currently gets from me. And if that's all I'm ever able to manage, I guess it will have to be enough. Because, to my eternal shame, I have never been good at trusting Him.

What’s So Special About The Hallelujah Diet?

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The world’s approach to physical problems is a symptomatic approach! Rather than seeking out the cause of a physical problem, and eliminating the cause so that the symptom can go away, the world continues to treat the symptom.

The medical community has a different drug for every symptom. The problem with this approach is that the drug merely covers or masks the symptom, while never dealing with the cause. The patient never gets well. Oh, they can drug the symptom into submission and thus reduce the symptoms manifestation, but once the drug is stopped, the symptom returns.

At Hallelujah Acres we teach that the symptom is not the problem! Rather, the symptom is merely the outward manifestation of a broken down immune system or organ not functioning properly.

Rather than trying to rid the body of the symptom through the use of a drug, at Hallelujah Acres we say that if you want to get well, "stop putting into the body that which is causing the symptom."