Archive for October, 2008

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Timely Halloween Advice

October 31, 2008

 

*When it appears that you have killed the monster, NEVER check to see if it’s really dead. It isn’t.

*If you find that your house is built upon or near a cemetery, was once a church that was used for black masses, had previous inhabitants who went mad or committed suicide or died in some horrible fashion, or had inhabitants who performed satanic practices in your house move immediately.

*Never read a book of demon summoning aloud, even as a joke.

*Do not search the basement, especially if the power has just gone out.

*If your children speak to you in Latin or any other language which they should not know, or if they speak to you using a voice other than their own, shoot them immediately. It will save you a lot of grief in the long run. NOTE: It will probably take several rounds to kill them, so be prepared.

*When you have the benefit of a group of people, NEVER pair off and go it alone.

*As a general rule, don’t solve puzzles that open portals to Hell.

*If you’re searching for something that caused a noise and find out that it’s just the cat, leave the room immediately if you value your life.

*If you find a town that looks deserted, it’s probably for a reason. Take the hint and leave NOW!!
Don’t fool with recombinant DNA technology unless you’re sure you know what you are doing. Even then, don’t do it.

*If you’re running from the monster, expect to trip or fall down at least twice, more if you are of a female. Even though you may be faster than the monster, you can be sure that it WILL catch you.

*If your friends suddenly begin to exhibit uncharacteristic behavior such as hissing, fascination for blood, glowing eyes, increasing hairiness, and so on, get away from them as fast as possible.

*Stay away from certain geographical locations, some of which are listed here: Amityville, Elm Street, Transylvania, Meskatonic University, Camp Crystal Lake, Haddonfield, Illinois, one gas station desert towns or any small town in Maine.

*If your car runs out of gas at night, do not go to the nearby deserted-looking house to phone for help.

*Beware of strangers bearing tools such as chainsaws, staple guns, hedge trimmers, electric carving knives, combines, lawnmowers, butane torches, soldering irons, or band saws. This is especially true if they are wearing a hockey mask or one made of human skin.

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Thinking About A Purpose

October 29, 2008

I’m one of those (more or less) omnivorous TV movie watchers.  If it’s worth watching once, my movie mantra goes, it’s worth watching every time it comes on, whether I have the disk or not.  Flicks like “Hellboy,” “The Grinch,”  ”Fantastic 4,”  “X-Men,” etc., are always guaranteed an audience of at least one when they come on. 

I was thinking of  “I, Robot” as I meditated at prayer this morning.  In it, Sonny, the robot who is the apparent “suspect” in the death of the old inventor who built him, expresses something to the detective who pursues him and the scientist who tries to protect him.  “I believe my father made me for a purpose,” Sonny says. 

Our Father, God the Creator, made all of us with a free will.  This was necessary, so that we could choose to LOVE God for Himself, and not because we had no choice in the matter.  Because of this free will, though, we can also choose evil.  We can choose to sin.  Or not.  We can choose to pray because we feel called to do that thing at that time.  This is part of our purpose as Children of God.  He gave us each a free will, and He does not violate that will.  If we use it to choose sin, He does not arbitrarily step in and cancel our choice (although it is possible that if someone else is praying for us, the intervention might come).

As I thought on this, it occurred to me that there are a lot of people praying and fasting for this election.   Among other things, I believe we have been created to be the people who pray now, for the outcome.  I began to see that perhaps my existence, my faith, my love and desire for prayer, could have all been seen by the Father to be necessary in this time and in this place, for this reason.  And, if that would be applicable to me, could it not be applicable to all of us who have undertaken to pray diligently for this election?  

A couple of things helped bring me to this point.  The first came as I prayed several months ago:  “Lord!  Send us a LEADER!”  I had no way to know at the time what God had in mind. 

We need to know that God is a “perfect gentleman.” He doesn’t go where He isn’t invited.  But, it wasn’t too long after that heartfelt prayer that Senator McCain selected Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate.  She stepped up to the plate, suffered incredibly vile attacks from the Left, and survived to pull the Conservative electorate together behind the Republican ticket.   Voters find themselves enthusiastic about voting for her, and letting the presidential candidate ride HER coattails.

For people of faith, these matters are no strange and esoteric fields.  We all  say, “I believe My Father made me for a purpose,” and mean it.  We know we can never fathom the thoughts of God, but it’s a reassuring meditation.

The next thing that happened followed this prayer:  “Father, we need a miracle here!”  I believe that miracle appeared dressed as Samuel Joseph Wurzelbacher, the Ohio plumber who accidentally trapped Barack Hussein Obama into telling the TRUTH about his real plans for the United States of America, not to mention the incredibly revelatory blunders that seem to spurt from the mouth of Joe Biden, which always seem to underline not just his ineptness, but to show the truth about Barack Hussein Obama.

I plan to act as though I had received my marching orders directly from the Commander in Chief of all the Legions of prayer warriors across the country.  Who knows?  Stranger things have happened

P.S.  “Hellboy” was on again the other night, and, yes, I watched it, start to finish.

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How It Really Got This Way

October 28, 2008

Our country has become like a large band of sheep without a shepherd. When we have no obvious, authoritative leader, we stray, become frightened, lose our ability to make decisions, and we often panic. Our shepherd is a crippled duck who seems to have lost interest in keeping us together and moving in a purposeful direction. It’s natural for us to be anxious when we have been left to more or less fend for ourselves.

There are some things we can do, and the first one I thought of was blogging. I, and many like me, have little blogpages that get small circulation. But, they DO get circulated. If each of the readers of these blogs sends the links on to several others, or is inspired by the blogs to think of what they can do; perhaps even starting their own blogpages, it can amount to a lot of information getting out to a lot of people, witness the “viral” popularity of some “YouTube” videos.

We are realistic enough to understand that we aren’t going to achieve national or international success or importance with our little pages, but there are enough important blogsites out there to take up that banner in our place, and we little guys can rally the local troops to vote, to talk, to encourage, and to educate.

The mixed messages the sheepy people are receiving have come, obviously, from the mainstream media. These venues are 99% solidly behind the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama, and seldom report anything favorable to his opponent, Senator John McCain. All part of the plan.

This election, as you know, is a lot about racism. I know, there will be people who will accuse me of it, simply because I mention it here. Just last week, for instance, a Black preacher said that anybody who called Barack Hussein Obama a Socialist was a racist, by definition. But it’s not hard to see that Obama’s main desire is, and has always been, to achieve reparations for Blacks in America, at the expense of Whites. As a Communist organizer, he has the expertise of radical agitators like Saul Alinsky to show him how to go about it, and mentors like Frank Marshall Davis to encourage and teach him. As more of his past comes to light, we can hear him on tape, delivering the kinds of pronouncements that leave little or no doubt that he desires to bring about the kind of social change that would provide reparations to Blacks at the expense of Whites.

The people who stand to lose the most– small business owners, middle-class executives, engineers, etc.– don’t need anybody to tell them how much is at stake. They recently saw their savings go up in puffs of smoke because of the recent disastrous banking scandals. Since the inception of 401K accounts, profit-sharing, employee stock options, etc., we have become a nation of investors. Even people like myself, a retired grandmother in rural Alaska, have investments, however small, and need to be able to look to a voice of authority as we navigate the hazardous waters that used to be everyday life in American investment and finances.

We now understand that Barack Hussein Obama really is “out to get us.” We finally realize that he and his fellow-travelers are just the most recent, visible parts of a long-term concerted effort on the part of the Marxism that flowered in the universities in the Sixties. The goal of that movement was (and still is) to destroy America’s Capitalist economy, to force it to submit to the control of the Socialist government that Barack Hussein Obama wishes to put in place.

First, through their operatives in the colleges, they undermined the authority of old-fashioned teachers in public schools, which at the time, were local schools, and had no Federal oversight. That was changed with the institution of the U.S. Department of Education. Then they gave the new teachers thinly disguised Marxism to teach in the classrooms, just a little at a time, perhaps disguised as a child’s “right” to defy the authority of his parents. Then there was “values clarification,” which brought about the forced conformity (disguised as self-esteem) of the student to the rest of the class, and a systematic loosening of grammatical, mathematical and scientific requirements.

Then there was the devaluation of sex and sexuality, always a winner with young people. Abortion, first touted to be rare, has by now become legal under all circumstances, throughout the entire nine months of pregnancy and even beyond. Babies who survive this search-and-destroy policy are either killed or left to die, and Barack Hussein Obama has voted repeatedly against laws that would have saved these little lives, called “Born-Alive” legislation. (Senator Obama, can you explain to me why the large majority of abortions performed in this country are done on Black and minority women?)

Then came political correctness, and all the evils that it dragged in behind it, with activist and socialistic judges forcing political correctness, and eventually legislating from the bench. Soon after that, The press–having now become the propaganda wing of this invisible but real shadow government–used their influence to enforce the “dumbing down” of their audiences, until much of America was turned into the band of leaderless sheep, desperate for an authoritative voice to tell them what to do. ACORN and its subsidiaries were formed to manipulate the election process and undermine the ability of a White majority to pass laws and elect lawmakers that did not meet socialistic or Black requirements of political correctness.

And into this mix rides Barack Hussein Obama, who, we now know, was involved in the behind-the-scenes manipulation of the minds of all those sheep, and steps up as THE ONE. He insists that he is the only one who can save us from our evil capitalist government, the one whose Constitution, in his own words is a “charter of negative liberties,” a “flawed document” that is out of date and needs to be replaced by his own, “living” version; presumably the version that will close the loop, and bring reparations and “financial justice” to who else? The Black citizens of the United States, who, he is quick to relate, didn’t get what they were entitled to from the “Great Society,” so now they have to TAKE it.

I realize that this post sounds inflammatory. Perhaps the world has reached the point where the TRUTH IS INFLAMMATORY. But if you take the time to think about it, this is all part of the Marxist plan: Make the TRUTH sound like a lie, so that their LIES will sound like the truth.

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WHAT…

October 26, 2008

…IN THE EVER-LOVIN’, BLUE-EYED HELL IS THIS?????

Oh…sorry…it’s only something cooked up by that lovable little lefty, Dennis Kucinich. Nothing to see here. Move along…

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Cheerleaders and Bystanders

October 26, 2008

Barack Hussein Obama does not believe one word of what he preaches. He is a doctrinaire, experienced, lifelong Marxist Socialist and and all he cares about is acquiring the most power possible over the largest number of individual lives it is possible to obtain, in order to bring down the last nation on earth dedicated to freedom and prosperity.

His speeches are full of buzzwords, bumbling, and hypnotic stuff the crowds think they want to hear. Blacks think he is going to give them reparations for the slavery their ancestors endured at the hands of some American plantation owners in the period between the 16th and 19th centuries in the South, that they will suddenly be the ascendent group in the country, and in positions to lord it over Whites and make them suffer. Whites think he is going to make all the wars go away, all the trees be forever green, turn all the cars into bicycles, close all the factories, give everybody a fat check every week, and spread his benevolence across the world.

It’s interesting to see how many people from socialistic (or nearly-so) countries weigh in on OUR elections. “Please!” they implore. “You must elect Barack Obama! He is the Messiah, don’t you UNDERSTAND??” They cite their hatred of George W. Bush and his policies as their reasoning, as if he is the candidate of the opposition; as if they are much wiser about these things than we benighted American dolts and rubes are.

We are in the fight of our lives here. It’s nice to have cheerleaders from other countries interested and checking in every once in a while, but they need to understand something: THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT LIKE EUROPE. IT IS NOT LIKE ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON EARTH, AND WE WANT TO KEEP IT THAT WAY!! That is why we are fighting so hard to oppose Barack Hussein Obama’s candidacy. People from other countries think they understand American politics. What they “understand” is what they get from CNN, NYT, ABC/CBS/NBC/MSNBC: the sycophantic, in-the-tank-for-Obama mouthpieces that pass for news agencies in this country, which they think must be the “truth.” If they only knew…

We Patriots are beleaguered in the United States. Onlookers think we are in the minorty, but they are wrong. All the propaganda has us as good as whipped. Nobody has taken the time to run an unweighted poll of regular people. East coast newspapers poll their Democrat readership. Zogby/Gallup and other polls always spot the Democrats an extra four to six points “just to make it fair.” We, the people who WORK, and make this country work, are ignored. Television and cable news and national newsmagazines all run their own polls. They poll their viewers and their subscriber lists. We little guys out here in flyoverland have not a chance. Those of us who get polled and who answer the questions “wrong,” get their answers thrown out.

But, in a nutshell…there are a lot of us out here that are being ignored. We are the ones who believe that John McCain, while not a perfect candidate, is still a a far, far better choice than Barack Hussein Obama, the messiah (pronounced officially so by Louis Farrahkan). And, anybody who knows the differences between boys and girls knows that Governor Sarah Palin is a much better VP candidate than the botoxed, hairplugged, and befuddled blunderer Biden.

In an unrigged, honest election, there wouldn’t be any reason to worry. We know that John McCain would win, even if those who vote for him are really voting for Sarah Palin.

But this is not an unrigged and honest election. The fraud is massive. The intimidation has begun. The disqualification of absentee and overseas military ballots is ongoing. ACORN operatives are in place, along with Obama lawyers, ready to slip their manufactured and fraudlent Obama ballots into the boxes.* Only a massive, landslide-on-the-order-of-Reagan/Mondale turnout for the Republican candidate is going to keep this country out of the clutches of the Marxists who are lined up and waiting for their cabinet appointments from The One.

(*Fraudulent ballots are those ballots which are registered to Mickey Mouse, I.P. Standing, and Rufus J. Labrador. They are the purchased registrations held ready in the event of an apparent tie or loss to a Republican candidate. If the “right” candidate stands to be defeated, sufficient spurious ballots are marked in his favor by operatives and slipped into the ballot pool.)

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Dracula’s Candidacy

October 25, 2008

I am almost sixty-six years old. NEVER in all my long, illustrious (albeit somewhat checkered) life, have I EVER seen anything like this campaign and the utter malevolence of the Leftist candidate and his minions. As the facts come out about his hidden life, we see more and more of his true colors. Instead of being the innocent, ignorant youngster arriving in Chicago to be corrupted, it turns out that he, the seasoned, lifelong Socialist, arrived in Chicago to turn the last shreds of decency there into fanatics for the Marxist cause.

It’s not bad enough that virtually his entire campaign has been one baldfaced Leftist lie after another, but hundreds of millions of dollars of his financing is illegal, pouring in from overseas, from middle-East countries, and nobody is saying a WORD about it. The malignant mainstream press is sold out for his campaign, giving him all the favorable press and his opponent all the negative news reports. (I guess you could call that “fair.”)

The plans of the Left for this country would make you sick to know. There are cynical Leftists manipulating the market, even as I write, by putting in and pulling out large sums of money and huge blocks of stocks. There are plans already being discussed in committee in Washington to not just rifle your 401K accounts, but to remove any tax-exemption that might be attached to them. As if that isn’t enough, there are well-developed plans to nationalize all those 401K’s; to sequester them into the social security fund, then pay you a pittance from them after you retire. Upon your death, 50% of those accounts would be doled out to your heirs, while the other half remains in the government coffers.

Socialism has as its banner cause the “equalization of the classes.” Barack Hussein Mohammed Obama speaks openly and repeatedly of “financial equality,” a Socialist buzzword for redistribution of wealth. The problem with this is that the “equality” won’t be achieved by bringing you and your income UP to his level, but by dragging you and all those “above” you down to the lowest levels, crippling your businesses, destroying the companies that provide the jobs and innovation that up until now have kept the American economy humming. He would rather spread MISERY than stand back and allow prosperity to be available to everybody who wishes to get their personal share of the American Dream.

And, never, in all those checkered years littering the trail behind me, have I ever FEARED for this country like I do now. Nothing in a long time has scared me like the candidacy of Barack Hussein Obama. The more we learn about him, the more frightening he becomes. If there was ever a candidate for the Presidency who did NOT have the best interest of this country at heart, it has to be him. Having gone from the slightly flaky, weak-kneed and hapless young upstart, he has shown his true nature. He is Dracula, Frankenstein’s monster, zombies and werewolves, all rolled in to one. How appropriate that his fangs are being seen just as we are approaching Halloween.

American economic vigor is teetering on the brink, thanks to fears that this creepy individual and his doctrinaire wife will actually make it to the White House. The stock market falls daily. People have the painful experience of standing by helplessly, to watch their home equity being sucked dry, and their carefully-accumulated nest eggs being bled white, with no end in sight.

Barack Hussein Obama did not get where he is by himself. Like a post turtle, he had to be put there by willing, wealthy, and committed Marxist True Believers: Frank Marshall Davis. George Soros. William Ayers. Bernardine Dorhn. Jeremiah Wright. Rashid Khalidi. The list is long and illustrative, and it contains devoutly-America-hating, true-believing Marxists who have dedicated themselves and their entire lives to achieving the ultimate prize of Communism: Seizing control of the United States of America and sucking the life out of her robust economy.

As I write this, I hear on the radio that the Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating the uncharacteristic volatility of the stock market. There is enough going on there that is untoward that the Commission has decided to look for investing bodies that might be attempting to manipulate the market. I hope they check out the Soros-owned entities. I also hope they take along their garlic, wooden stakes and their silver bullets, just in case.

Please commit yourselves to deep and frequent, sacrificial and repentant prayer that this EVIL can be defeated. Pray that this Marxist plan, with its jaws wide open, and which is about to puncture the neck the freest, most benevolent nation that was ever formed, can be sent back to the nether regions of its origins.

If you haven’t already done so, I again recommend that all of you turn to news sources that haven’t drunk the Dracula/Obama Kool-Aid. America needs our help right now. It’s been a long time since we little old grammies and our like-minded friends have had a chance to do something REAL to save American freedom. But this time, we may get that opportunity. Do not let us go down without a fight.

GOD BLESS AMERICA! and, God bless all the courageous and patriotic citizens whose prayerful votes will help keep us free. America deserves our support.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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Want To See The End?

October 23, 2008

There isn’t much evidence that any Obama deed has ever actually helped a single poor person, but there is a whole heap of evidence that he is a whole-hearted, unreserved champion of the Culture of Death. The abortion genocide has already claimed the lives of 48,000,000 innocent human beings.

Want to see the end of this nation as a force for good in the world? Look no further than THIS.

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Making Things Equal

October 23, 2008

The Socialists on the left decided when the campaign first began to make a “push” this year for power. The field of candidates was “struck” like a wolf attacking a band of sheep, and the candidates were scattered until there was only one left, the apparent weakling. The left’s candidate, the most far-left and experienced Socialist ever to run, consulted his Gramschi/Alinsky handy-dandy book of directions and devised a plan whereby the only plausible course would be to vote for the left’s candidate. They had a secret weapon they knew would blast every opposition out of the water.

The ruse they chose is racism. By use of this handy tool, they thought they would be able to manipulate the outcome of the campaign without actually having to be caught actually doing anything obvious, simply by “shaming” white voters into voting for the left’s candidate out of “White Guilt.”

There are about two weeks left in this 2008 presidential campaign. It has been the longest, most interesting and exciting campaign in a long time, after starting out looking like it would barely make a ripple. John McCain has made a couple of intersting moves, not the least of which was his selection of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Of all the things a candidate might have done to electrify a campaign, this was it. Of course, the left, having thought they had the race in the bag, had to do some more zigging and zagging in order to regain their high ground. (Have you noticed lately that the press photos of Obama’s speeches never show the vast crowds any more?) “Hope” and “Change” have been co-opted by the Right, and the difference is glaring.

Now, as we head for the wire, the stakes become even more apparent and important. But something ugly is happening. We were warned by Rush that this would happen, and most of us remember it, but some of us simply forgot it. It’s this: THE LEFT IS GOING TO USE RACISM TO DEFINE EVERY MOVE/WORD/EFFECTIVE PHRASE used by the Republican candidate that the left doesn’t like. The entire election has become a referendum on racism. If you don’t vote for Barack Hussein Obama, you will be a racist. If John McCain wins the election, it will be a sign of racism nationwide (even though most average Americans don’t have much feeling on the race of their associates and friends, readily marrying across racial lines without problem).

First, it was McCain’s selection of Sarah Palin, then it was the way Sarah Palin delivered her speeches, and the white jacket she wore. Then it was Joe Wurzelbacher, of “plumber” fame. Today, it’s the word “Socialist.” Suddenly, after all these years, the word “socialism,” and its use by wise and educated alike, who had always defined it simply as: “So”cial*ist\, Socialistic \So`cial*is”tic\, a. Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.” (Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.) were discovering a whole world of new meaning for the term.

Now, suddenly, two weeks from the election, anyone who mentions Barack Hussein Obama’s avowed Socialism is a racist, because we all know that “socialist” is just a thinly disguised term for “blackness.”

Be that as it may, the shoe fits, and Barack Hussein Obama is not just sort of Black, he’s a SOCIALIST. An avowed Socialist, and his rotten old bomb-throwing college-years cronies are being lured out into the open and shown for what they were (and still are, in many cases) and he plans, as he explained to Joe last week, to not just raise all our taxes, but to redistribute as much of the national income as he can possibly tax away from us, the achievers in America. They will surely keep some for themselves, a la Bonnie Fwank and his ilk, and pass what is left on to their supporters in the low income tax bracket (the takers), personified by ACORN. No matter what happens, if Barack Hussein Obama manages to steal this election, the first thing that will happen will be a massive, across-the-board tax increase.

Once upon a time, it was possible to trust what you read in a newspaper or heard on the radio news. Nowadays, it has become more than obvious that these venues are wholeheartedly in the camp of the left.

If you have eyes to see, ears to hear, you have noticed that there IS racism in the political arena today, and it’s virtually ALL on the left. But they are “entitled” to it, they believe, because at one time, some Americans owned slaves. This is their sole mantra.

The secret weapon is RACISM. The camouflage for it is SOCIALISM. The goal is the complete subjection of the United States to Marxist Socialist rule. They will not be satisfied until they have removed all the achievers, given their income/wealth/infrastructure to the takers, eliminated the middle class, and performed their magic of making us all equal…Equal in poverty and misery.
If there was ever an election that held America’s fate in the balance, this one is that election. Do not fail to vote.

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Open Letter To Obama

October 21, 2008

Ordinarily, I don’t post whole pages for the obvious reasons. I would post a link for this to the original website, but it is all in Vietnamese, so this translation by Aloha Ronnie at Free Republic is what I give to you. Please don’t give up on it, even though it is somewhat lengthy, because the payoff is at the end. God bless this writer, whoever he was.

After a long and serious thought, One Viet decided to endorse Senator John McCain for President. We Vietnamese always voted for the person and not voted for anyone because some political party was telling us who we should vote for.

We all know the choices by now and, that said, we Vietnamese do believe that the process of selecting the President of the United of America is deeply flawed. The words ‘money’, ’special interests’, and ‘leftist’ come to mind, among many others. Here’s how we Vietnamese-Americans see it: Senator Barack Obama, you are a great public speaker. You are also an extremely liberal and leftist Senator from the State of Illinois, which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude like ACORN. You are indeed a child of that system. Your mentor, Frank Marshall Davis, was a communist. He was publicly identified as a member of the Communist Party USA.

You have finally insulted our intelligence far beyond our capacity to tolerate your insults. It has nothing at all to do with your skin color because we are colored people just like you. As a matter of fact, it would be so COOL to finally have a minority, an African-American for President. What a great statement that would be to the entire world that the USA indeed is the greatest country on earth! But, unfortunately, YOU are NOT the man for this job! Senator Barack Obama, you want us to believe that you have never heard the sermons of your own pastor, the Reverend ‘God Damn America’ Jeremiah Wright. It is a matter of record that you had been going to this church for over 20 years. It is a matter of record that you were married there by this very pastor, and that your children were baptized there.

The good Reverend saw fit to visit Khadafy in Libya with you and to give a lifetime achievement award to Louis Farrakhan, of all people. We have all now seen excerpts of his sermons all over the airwaves by now. And you have publicly stated that this man IS your ’spiritual mentor’. BUT, your pastor is NOT the reason we are NOT voting for you. His words were disturbing enough, but it is your socialist view and association with Frank Marshall Davis, a member of Communist Party USA that disturbs us the most. And please don’t tell us you attended church there and never once heard a ‘discouraging word’ in the 20 years you attended there. Don’t tell us, that in addition to the good reverend, that you are now not having anything to do with all those other people seen hooting and howling tirades. Even Oprah Winfrey got disgusted and walked out. We are no Oprah fan, but still she did the right thing. Now YOU look us in the eyes and ask us to believe that you never heard such language in all the years you attended this church! This is like you telling us that communist Vietnam is good for our people. Yep. And Bill Clinton ‘did not know Monica Lewinsky’ either.

Yes, Senator Obama, we all have friends who have said stupid things that embarrassed us, but NOW you have asked us to believe something that is so incredibly stupid that you are telling us that we are just stupid enough to believe you. THAT is one of the main reasons we will never vote for you. We are deeply sorry, that in a country teeming with enormously talented African Americans who would make a good President that the American liberal media and political systems have chosen YOU. Senator Obama, you are a pathetic and plastic excuse of an American, who will not even salute the America Flag during the Pledge of Allegiance. God forbid you ever get near the Oval Office?

This leaves us with John McCain.

Senator John McCain, you are a flawed man. You are old, loony, and you have a notoriously bad temper.

You even supported communist Vietnam when you hosted Phan van Khai in at Washington DC’s Mayflower Hotel on June 21, 2005. But in comparison with Barack Obama, you qualify, in our desperate opinion, to lead us for a few years until Palin becomes our President. We WANT your trembling hands on the nuclear button. Think about it.

We have communist Vietnam, Russia, and China blustering and rattling their sabers at the USA. We have Kim Jong IL, Chavez and Ahmadenijad all running around like lunatics, threatening America and threatening to plunge the world into nuclear Armageddon. We want you, John McCain in the Oval Office and we want you to be really pissed off at all these other nut jobs around the planet.

Senator John McCain, once you are elected, we want you to go into the Oval Office and throw one of your perfect FITS. Jump up and down and throw something through a plate glass window. Rip the drapes down and foam at the mouth a bit. And we want the whole thing on camera so that communist Vietnamese and Chinese and Ahmadenijad can see it. We want ALL of these ‘world leaders’ to lay awake at night and to break out in a cold sweat every time they think of messing with the United States of America.

We want the nuclear button sitting right next to the alarm clock on your night stand every night. We want pictures of this to be sent to Vietnam, China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, Cuba, Libya, Syria, Pakistan, and those other idiots in the sheets, the Saudis.

On our domestic front, you did try and reach across the aisle to the opposition in a desperate effort to compromise and to get the Congress to do something. People may not agree with your efforts, but at least you TRIED. For all these efforts, all you got was your head in a basket. The leftist media and liberals are ticked off at you and the conservatives are also ticked off at you. You are just our kind of guy.

John McCain knows on a most personal level what it is to suffer horrible torture for years and to see friends die, in communist Vietnamese prisons, for their love of America. When you ask him about it, he will tell you that what he did was ‘nothing special’. Even more incredibly, he states that ANY American who truly loves his country would do exactly the same as he did in that situation.

Most people will have a hard time believing that, but the real point is that John McCain believes that about the ‘average American’, and that, dear fellow Vietnamese-Americans, is why we will cast our poor ballots on Election Day for John McCain — warts and all.

With McCain, there’s more HOPE for a Free Vietnam. God Bless America!!!

www.oneviet.org

. NEVER FORGET

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Called Eastward

October 20, 2008


St. John Chrysostom

I’ve always loved icons. To know them is to love them, and to love them is to pray with them. My first opportunity to do this came when I lived in Valdez, and received a copy of Behold the Beauty of the Lord, by Henri Nouwen. The book contained fold-out pictures of three of the most famous icons, and meditations and prayers to guide the pray-ers as they gazed at the images.

Since that time, my interest in icons has only grown. I purchased them whenever I could, tore them out of magazines and saved them, and gradually built a little collection of inexpensive representations that drew me to prayer. In Minnesota, I inherited a beautiful collection of icon pictures and books, and was drawn even deeper into the spirituality of prayer with icons. I found myself intrigued by the St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic Church, in Anchorage, even before the icon collecting even began.

We moved back to Alaska in 2005, and found most of the parishes so changed by the “Spirit of Vatican II” that they hardly felt Catholic. Years ago, I was intrigued and drawn to the little St. Nicholas of Myra Byzantine Catholic church in Anchorage, but it wasn’t until my return that I was able to actually enter its doors.

By that time, our search for a parish had led us to the Wasilla outreach mission of St. Nicholas, and we fell in love with the beauty, mystery, and the formality of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. Now, my icons are as much a part of my spiritual life as Sunday church is.

There is something about the power of a well-written icon to draw the viewer into the scene depicted that I have never been able to explain, but that power seems to purify my prayer time and make it more fruitful.

And, I thank God for not only enticing me into a love of icons, but putting me into one of the very few places in the country with a Byzantine parish. I didn’t have to make a choice between my Catholic life and my growing love for prayer with icons. The Byzantine Catholic Church has filled those needs and others, as well, in a deep and wonderful way. God the Father does love to bless his children.