School kids taught to praise Obama
The cult pf personality, brainwashing or just kids overflowing with love for The One? You decide.
h/t: DRUDGE
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg1- Frank and Conyers Want Report to See if ACORN Rights Violated
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg2- Tides Foundation Gave ACORN Missing Embezzled Money
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg3- Story of Stuff. Some School Children Who Saw the Film
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg4- Glenn Explains Katie Couric Interview About John McCain
Glenn Beck Clips 09-23-09 Seg5- John Bolton: Obama Speech to UN Most Radical Ever by Pres.
Interpreting climate data can be hard enough. What if some key data have been fiddled?
By Patrick J. Michaels, NRO:
Imagine if there were no reliable records of global surface temperature. Raucous policy debates such as cap-and-trade would have no scientific basis, Al Gore would at this point be little more than a historical footnote, and President Obama would not be spending this U.N. session talking up a (likely unattainable) international climate deal in Copenhagen in December.
Steel yourself for the new reality, because the data needed to verify the gloom-and-doom warming forecasts have disappeared.
Or so it seems. Apparently, they were either lost or purged from some discarded computer. Only a very few people know what really happened, and they aren’t talking much. And what little they are saying makes no sense.
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All of this is much more than an academic spat. It now appears likely that the U.S. Senate will drop cap-and-trade climate legislation from its docket this fall — whereupon the Obama Environmental Protection Agency is going to step in and issue regulations on carbon-dioxide emissions. Unlike a law, which can’t be challenged on a scientific basis, a regulation can. If there are no data, there’s no science. U.S. taxpayers deserve to know the answer to the question posed above.
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Persecution & Prayer Alert
The Voice of the Martyrs, Canada
http://www.persecution.net
Wednesday, September 23, 2009
A weekly news digest on the Persecuted Church and how you can
respond.
Follow The Voice of the Martyrs on Twitter at
http://www.twitter.com/vomc.
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In this week’s edition: reports from Egypt, Somalia, Eritrea and
China
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1. Christian murdered, others wounded in Egypt
A Coptic Christian man was murdered and three others suffered severe
stab wounds when a Muslim man, Osama Araban (35), attacked three
villages in northern Egypt on September 16, according to a September
21 report from Assyrian International News Agency. Abdo George Younan
(63) was stabbed nine times and his head severed from his body in the
village of Bagour. Araban then travelled to the nearby village of
Behnay and attacked Adib Boulous, a Christian shoemaker. Boulous
suffered a broken skull and lung hemorrhage. An eyewitness was able
to stop Araban, who then went on motorcycle to the village of Mit
Afif where he stabbed a third man, Sobhy Barsum. Barsum’s brother,
Hani Barsum, was also stabbed and sustained severe wounds to his
neck. Araban was arrested the following day. Thousands of Copts
joined in Younan’s funeral procession, carrying banners calling for
justice in this case and protection for Egypt’s Christians.
Pray for the families and friends mourning the loss of Abdo George
Younan. Pray for healing for those injured. Pray that God will bring
to repentance those who afflict His people (Psalm 83).
For more information on God’s suffering children in Egypt, go to
http://www.persecution.net/egypt.htm.
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2. Christian transporting Bibles killed in Somalia
A 69-year-old Somali Christian man was shot dead by members of
al-Shabaab, a Muslim militant group, on September 15 when Bibles were
found in his possession, according to a September 18 report from
Compass Direct. At approximately 10:30 a.m., a bus that Omar Khalafe
was riding was stopped by militants at a checkpoint near the city of
Merca. When the militants discovered 25 Somali Bibles in one of the
bags — Bibles that Khalafe was hoping to deliver to an underground
fellowship — they demanded to know who owned them. The passengers
remained silent. The assailants then used photos they found in the
bag to determine if they could match the faces to any passengers.
When they noticed a resemblance to Khalafe, they asked if the Bibles
were his. He did not respond and was shot and killed. Khalafe’s body
was brought to Merca and the Bibles were placed on him as a warning
to others. Later that day, a militant reported Khalafe’s death on a
radio program. Khalafe, who had been a Christian for 45 years, was
active in sharing the Good News and baptizing converts from Islam. He
is mourned by his wife and seven children.
Thank God for the life and testimony of Omar Khalafe. Pray that his
family will know that God is the defender of widows and a Father to
the fatherless (Psalm 68:5). Pray for peace in war-torn Somalia. We
invite you to post a prayer on behalf of the Khalafe family on our
Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
Find out more about the persecution Christians are facing in Somalia
at http://www.persecution.net/somalia.htm.
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3. Imprisoned Eritrean Christian dies of meningitis
A Christian man detained in Eritrea’s Wi’a Military Camp for the
past year died of meningitis on September 3 following an outbreak of
the illness at the prison, according to reports from Open Doors.
Mesfin Gebrekristos, an evangelical Christian, is the fourth known
believer to have died in detention this year. He is survived by a
wife and two children.
Meanwhile, authorities in the country continue to pressure
Christians who do not belong to the state-approved Lutheran, Catholic
or Orthodox churches. At a September 6 meeting entitled “Working along
with the police to prevent crime in the country,” the government
called on citizens to report any “illegal” gatherings of Christians
in their neighbourhoods.
Pray for the wife and children of Mesfin Gebrekristos as they mourn.
Pray that Eritrea’s government will cease their campaign against
evangelicals and respect freedom of religion for all. Stand in
solidarity with the Gebrekristos family by posting a prayer for them
on our Persecuted Church Prayer Wall at
http://www.persecution.net/prayerwall.
To advocate for religious freedom in Eritrea, download VOMC’s
“Eritrea: Time to Act” petition at
http://www.persecution.net/download/eritrea-petition.pdf. Encourage
your friends and family to join you in supporting Eritrean
Christians.
Go to http://www.persecution.net/eritrea.htm to learn more about the
persecution of Eritrean Christians.
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4. Prominent Chinese pastor detained by officials
Pastor Hua Huiqi was seized by Chinese officials in Fengtai District
in Beijing on September 17, according to a September 17 report from
ChinaAid. At approximately 5:30 p.m., Pastor Hua called his wife, Ju
Mei, on his cell phone and told her that he had been forced into a
Public Security Bureau vehicle while on his way to a dinner meeting.
Less than half-an-hour later, Hua phoned his wife again and told her
that officials had taken him to an unknown location. The phone line
then went dead. When VOMC partners inquired about Hua, officials told
them he was in their custody but refused to disclose his condition or
location. A week before Pastor Hua’s arrest, a vocational training
ministry that he is involved in was raided by officials. To read more
about this attack, go to http://www.tinyurl.com/chinaaid-hua.
Pray that Pastor Hua will be released. Ask God to give comfort and
strength to his family in this time. Read a letter from Pastor Hua’s
family calling for his release and requesting prayer at
http://www.tinyurl.com/hua-blog.
To find out more about China’s suffering Christians, go to
http://www.persecution.net/china.htm.
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5. Not Abandoned: Pray for the persecuted
Christians around the world face abandonment for their faith in
Jesus. Some are expelled from their homes. Others are rejected by
family and friends. Converts are sometimes even viewed with suspicion
and fear by fellow Christians.
Stand with your brothers and sisters. Show them they are not alone.
On November 8, demonstrate the unity of the Body of Christ by
joining believers from around the world in the International Day of
Prayer for the Persecuted Church. To find out more and to download a
special kit including resources such as prayer points and a
devotional, go to the IDOP International website at
http://www.idop.org. In Canada, go to http://www.idop.ca.
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6. In this week’s VOMC weblog
(http://www.persecution.net/weblog.htm)
VOMC’s Persecuted Church Weblog continues to be the place to go for
commentary on Christian persecution around the world.
a) Read three powerful testimonies by Vietnamese Christians who are
standing firm in the storm of persecution: “Prison Bible revival,”
“Waiting with hope,” and “My husband didn’t come home” (posted
September 15, 16, 21).
b) Read an excerpt from the upcoming book by Eritrean gospel singer
Helen Berhane as she asks “Is it worth it?” in the face of hardship
and torture in prison because of her faith (posted September 20).
c) Take a walk through history in our weekly “This week in
persecuted church history (September 20-26)” (posted September 20).
These are some of the many posts that you can find online at
http://www.persecutedchurchblog.com. This site is a vital way that
you can stay connected to persecuted Christians worldwide and your
input is always encouraged.
Religious Left Targets Conservatives
By: Mark D. Tooley, FrontPageMagazine.com:
For decades, the Religious Left has vilified conservative politicians it loathed, especially when they cited their religious faith. It also demonized religious conservatives, who were especially infuriating because their churches were larger and causes more popular than the Religious Left could ever imagine for itself.
Now, enraged over the faltering of Obamacare, Jim Wallis’ Sojourners is lashing out at conservative and populist commentators who dared question the high sacrament of socialized medicine. Wallis has organized pro-Obamacare conference calls for his Religious Left supporters, including one joined by President Obama himself, seemingly to little avail. So Sojourners now is urging its Religious Left supporters to target Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly and Rush Limbaugh with mass emails demanding: “Tell the truth.” Meanwhile, emails directed at Glenn Beck more graciously offer to “pray” for him, until he recants.
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Religious Left is an oxymoron.
Get the state out of our bed and breakfasts
Lorne Gunter, National Post:
One morning last March, a guest at Ben and Sharon Vogelenzang’s small Bounty House hotel near Liverpool, England, came down to breakfast wearing a hijab. This surprised the Vogelenzangs, since the woman, who was receiving treatment at a nearby hospital, had been with them several days and had not before worn the traditional headscarf of Muslim women.
A debate ensued among the trio during which the guest allegedly insisted Jesus was just a minor prophet, to which Mr. Vogelenzang is alleged to have responded that Mohammad was a warlord. The guest’s complaint to police also claims Mrs. Vogelenzang described the hijab as a form of bondage.
Police questioned the Vogelenzangs in April and again in July. Following this second visit, they charged the couple with using “threatening, abusive or insulting words” which were “religiously aggravated.”
They are to stand trial in December and if convicted will have criminal records and could face fines of up to $2,500 each.
The Vogelenzangs claim already to have lost their business as a result of the clash. The hospital at which the woman was being treated had referred her and many other guests to the Bounty House. But after the hospital learned of the woman’s complaint, they stopped recommending the guest house. Bookings dropped by 80% and the couple say they have had to sell.
They have apparently lost their livelihood and face criminal charges for sticking up for their beliefs. In a free country, such consequences are unbelievable.
But political correctness, backed by human rights commissions and hate-crime laws, have given crusading bureaucrats, activist special interest groups and aggressive minorities powerful weapons to use against those they accuse of offending them — in this case, a middle-aged couple with a large bed and breakfast.
[...]
Ten suggestions
David Warren:
Because I am a bit of an anomaly in the Canadian “mainstream media” — because I am, to put no finer point upon it, not only rather conservative in my political outlook, but what is called a “social conservative”; and as one of my critics once patiently explained, “not just conservative, but Christian; and not just Christian, but Catholic” — because of this I get many e-mails.Many of them are just rude; some offer criticism that borders on the constructive; but a surprising number show agreement, amity, encouragement, even praise. And not a few ask me very difficult questions, which I regret I can seldom answer adequately, or at all. Among the most frequent are those who ask Lenin’s old question, namely, “What is to be done?” Or as one inquirer this week put it, “What can ‘normal’ people do to fight stuff like political correctness, and help win back a little order, decency, freedom and sanity in our society?”
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ACORN and the AGs
By Mark J. Fitzgibbons, AT:
ACORN being called a criminal enterprise. Despite years of warning signs that ACORN was violating the law, many state attorneys general have not investigated the organization or brought enforcement actions. State attorneys general, besides being the chief enforcement officers for violations of state laws, claim unique law enforcement authority over nonprofits.The reasons for inaction by state attorneys general may explain why ACORN is such a problem. ACORN has developed close ties, to put it mildly, with many state attorneys general as well as others deep in the Democrat establishment. The relationship between ACORN and Democrats may be described as symbiotic.
[...]
Barack Obama, College Administrator
By Victor Davis Hanson, NRO:
If you are confused by the first nine months of the Obama administration, take solace that there is at least a pattern. The president, you see, thinks America is a university and that he is our campus president. Keep that in mind, and almost everything else makes sense.
Obama went to Occidental, Columbia, and Harvard without much of a break, taught at the University of Chicago, and then surrounded himself with academics, first in his stint at community organizing and then when he went into politics. It shows. In his limited experience, those who went to Yale or Harvard are special people, and the Ivy League environment has been replicated in the culture of the White House.
Note how baffled the administration is by sinking polls, tea parties, town halls, and, in general, “them” — the vast middle class, which, as we learned during the campaign, clings to guns and Bibles, and which has now been written off as blinkered, racist, and xenophobic. The earlier characterization of rural Pennsylvania has been expanded to include all of Middle America.
For many in the academic community who have not worked with their hands, run businesses, or ventured far off campus, Middle America is an exotic place inhabited by aborigines who bowl, don’t eat arugula, and need to be reminded to inflate their tires.
[...]
Germany declares economic war
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, TELEGRAPH [UK]:
If there are any German readers of this blog, I would like to know what they think of the latest breath-taking provocations of German finance minister Peer Steinbrück.
Remember that Herr Steinbrück is not a journalist, pundit, or back-bench maverick. He speaks officially for the German government and for the German nation on the international stage.
Every assertion that he made about Britain in his interview with Stern is either factually wrong, or such a serious distortion of events that it amounts to a smear. Furthermore, it was quite threatening.
What he said, in effect, is that Germany will marshal its forces to ensure that a chunk of the British economy is shut down – whatever the social consequences. This is the closest thing I have seen to a declaration of economic warfare in Western Europe in my lifetime.
[...]
Now here’s a war the Germans might actually be able to win against the British.
Bolton: Obama Speech Puts Israel on ‘Chopping Block’
Jim Meyers, NEWSMAX:
Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said President Barack Obama’s address to the U.N. was “unprecedented” and “unpresidential” as he sought to distance himself from the previous administration.
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Bolton also said that in his address Obama “put Israel on the chopping block. I don’t think there’s ever been a speech by an American president, let alone one at the United Nations, that was so critical of Israel.”
Will the US join Canada in A’jad walkout?
by Ed Morrissey, HOT AIR:
Our friends to the North have heard enough from Iranian “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, thanks to his Holocaust-denying rants and virulent anti-Semitism. Canada plans to protest his presence today at the United Nations, with their entire delegation walking out of the chamber when Ahmadinejad takes the podium. The big question will be whether other nations join Canada’s protest of this hate-spewing oppressor, including the US:
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