R.I.P. James Arness

RIP: I'll miss Gunsmoke star James Arness; dead at 88

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History as a guide?

I think that Gandhi’s commitment to non-violence was admirable, but it's impractical today. Non-violence as a response to today's Islamo-terrorism would be disastrous. 

Gandhi was dealing with rational men; we are not.

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Coalition of the Lukewarm

I think this very odd Libyan campaign that we’re immersed in will soon reveal the spiritual dangers of a half-hearted war. Obama has ceded leadership to NATO. Furthermore, just look at NATO's half-baked bombing campaign to stop Gadhafi --all in the name of preventing civilian deaths! Spiritual lesson: there is no good outcome when your leadership is lukewarm. This is Obama's Coalition of the Lukewarm.

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The masculine Jesus

I've always been enamored by how Christ always swam against the current, as it were. Indeed, Christ would get under the skin of the Pharisees by healing poor souls on the Sabbath, and He even needled the so-called 'righteous' Pharisees by calling them whitewashed sepulchres full of dead men's bones, to their faces! --what a riot! Jesus was a man's man.

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Snow Leopard

I was just thinking, the deaconess and I have Apple Inc.'s newest Macintosh operating system, Snow Leopard — which is smaller, faster, and cheaper than anything else on the market. Apple Inc. continues to wow the world with its culture of innovation. So, let's conduct a thought experiment, shall we?

What would happen if the Federal government took over Apple?

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Mass murders

 What did the US learn from the Muslim Fort Hood mass murders? … Not much. Just last week, the US Senate confirmed that the Muslim shooting at Fort Hood in 2009 could have been prevented! It gave President Obama a complete pass on his reverse-profiling orders that prevented authorities from acting on information they knew about the dangerous killer before his attack. :-(  :-(  :-(
http://blogs.abcnews.com/thenote/2011/02/painful-conclusion-senators-say-fbi-dod-could-have-prevented-ft-hood-shooting.html

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Land of the Pharaoh

There's rebellion in the land of the Pharaohs! Egypt's tyrant (Mubarak) finally became the target of all his subject's discontents. What we are witnessing in Egypt is a clash between reformers who want free elections and free markets and radicals who want to overthrow the Mubarak regime and install a violent Islamist government. History majors, pay attention.

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If guns...

Let the reader understand...

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NFL's crime

 I like stories of redemption. But I simply cringe when I think of Michael Vick's crime. He didn't just participate in the illegal activity of dog fighting; he tortured and killed dogs with his own hands and paid others to do the same. Oh that the NFL would explain why torturing and killing animals is an offense that the NFL forgives.

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He's baaaaack!

He’s baaaack:
Pres. George Bush’s memoirs sell as many copies in only two months --as Bill Clinton’s memoirs sold in six entire years! --GWB's terrific memoir has sold 2 million copies to date, and it's not even in paperback!

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Santa Claus

 Is it a coincidence that all one hears about and sees this time of year (on television, and in other places) is not God but Santa Claus --who magically brings presents for everybody? .... No wonder so many Americans believe in Santa-Claus government, too.

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Lessons on Leadership 1

As a deacon in my local church, I'm always on the lookout for examples from spiritual (or national) leaders whose lives I can glean and apply leadership ideas. Make no mistake, all have spiritual application in the kingdom of God regardless from where they come. 

I'm always amazed at how the previous president of the United States (George W. Bush) shed so much light on what it meant to be a leader. On the other hand, our current president of the United States, Barack Obama, sheds light on the fact that community organizers are not leaders. Community organizing appears to have been Barack Obama's only real 'leadership' training. But if one thinks about it: the job of a community organizer is to focus other people on their problems and empower those people to change their own lives.

Regarding leadership skills, we have a President of the United States who was not only a community organizer, but a failed community organizer; simply look at his former Chicago community today. For example, president Obama is so focused on who to blame for a problem that he cannot corral the resources to fix the problem. And, there are so many examples from which I can choose in current events! Remember BP's Clear Water Horizon oil rig blowout in the Gulf of Mexico? The Netherlands offered their expertise to scoop up the surface oil, but Obama turned them down because of US laws prohibiting foreign flag vessels in American waters. (President GWB suspended those laws during Hurricane Katrina!)

To cap it all off, Obama went on morning television, and used a word inappropriate around children, and people were so distracted by his word choice they failed to pay attention to what he really said: he's talking to experts not about solving the problem, but about who to blame!

“I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers so I know whose ass to kick.”   -Obama, June 2010
 

He is talking to experts not to find out how to solve the problem but to find out whose _ss to kick? Seriously?
 

This man Barack Obama needs an enemy to operate. And it explains every step that he takes in addressing a problem. He is his own worst enemy. :-o  

president Obama shows how not to practice leadership. 
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All grace and class

OGUNQUIT, Maine – Former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura surprised everyone in the 3rd annual “Run for the Fallen” on Sunday.

Dozens of runners took part in the event to remember the 65 servicemen from [Maine] who have died overseas since 2001.

George & Laura Bush are all grace and class. I love the way Pres. Bush is spending his post-presidency. 
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Intentions

If the intent of the Ground Zero mosque is "to bring Muslims and non-Muslims together,"... it is already a failure on its own terms.

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Freedom of religion!

Wow! I can't believe the American Left's new-found discovery of freedom of religion! (It coincides with Obama's latest pratfall over the Ground Zero mosque in New York) :p

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Christian charity to Muslims

Did you hear? Seven million Pakistanis are in urgent need of aid after devastating floods from several weeks ago. And the United States Marine Corps has answered the call! Today, Marines are are providing emergency assistance and airlifts to those in need. What do you know? --more Christian charity to Muslim victims courtesy of the USMC! Osama bin Laden, pay attention.

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Barbarism

The barbarity of Islamo-terrorism has become commonplace, --but the murder last week of 10 international aid workers in Afghanistan is especially notable. It's an education in the nature of civilization's worst enemy.

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What's happening to my country?

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The dawn of understanding

I love this icon. The colors are incredibly lush. The waves, look at them! --they're almost hypnotic! Even the shore invites this California missionary to trek into God's wilderness. But, I'm afraid sometimes.

Instead of apostle Peter, that is my face, open, with the advent of understanding.

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My favorite Rocketman

My favorite rocketman, Sir Elton John, is actually a brave knight; he's willing to dare the swamp of political corruptness. First he played at Rush Limbaugh's wedding, now he's gonna perform a concert in Israel, where other artists are too cowardly to deploy:

“Ain’t gonna stop me from coming here, baby,” he told the crowd in Tel Aviv, saying he believed music should spread peace and bring people together: “That is what we do. We do not cherry-pick our consciences, OK?” he added, in an apparent swipe at the artists who have canceled concerts in Israel . . . “I have always believed that music inhabits a world set apart from politics, religious differences or prejudice of any kind.”

A renegade to the end!

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