A curious distinction

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Problems in spiritual formation

The (Georgia) Pastor Eddie Long story this weekend reminded me of the sanctification gap, --i.e., what is it in the history of Protestantism to explain why evangelicals have so many problems with focusing on spiritual growth? (Church history majors, pay attention.)


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Light and darkness

“Light shines in the darkness; the darkness comprehends it not.”

This is something to think about, shadow and light, which moves around us and within us. The more we understand about how we house dark and light inside our own souls, the more we can understand its movement throughout the world.

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Stephen Hawking

Did you hear? --that super-cool physicist Stephen Hawking says the Big Bang was the result only of the laws of physics and did not need God to spark the creation of the Universe.

/God-to-Stephen Hawking: "Really? That's all you've got?" :D

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7976594/Stephen-Hawking-God-was-not-needed-to-create-the-Universe.html

Moral authority

America needs a president with the moral authority to denounce Koran-burning in the United States. /Pres. George W. Bush.
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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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Miss me yet?

President George W. Bush surprise-greeted the troops returning home from deployment yesterday, at DFW Airport; priceless!

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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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5 million barrels

Have you heard? --BP finally seems to have halted the flow of oil from their well, putting an end to a gusher that dumped about 5 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico; the world's largest accidental oil spill .... However, cleanup crews are having a hard time finding any more oil on the water! >>Chemistry majors, pay attention.

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Car sick

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Speed racer

He already controls the automobile industry, banking, and health care. Why then do American voters lack faith in Obama's economic decision-making? ..... Because he's failed.

/Econ majors, pay attention.

Time ran out for Lindsay Lohan

Here in California, time finally ran out for Lindsay Lohan.

She doesn't have the maturity to carry on a decent life. *verbigsigh* I think that she'll need a lot more than government control to get her life in order. I hope Lindsay Lohan encounters God in prison. Meanwhile, civil authorities are administering mercy, at the hands of the People of California.

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What's happening to my country?

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Ask an atheist

Wondering how to sell Christianity?

Asking an atheist is a good start. A look at our religion through the eyes of the unpersuaded can be a revelation; or not.

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Bear arms

Did you hear? --the U.S. Supreme Court just voted on (in McDonald vs. Chicago) and upheld the "right of the people to keep and bear Arms cannot be infringed by the States".

God, Guns, and Jesus; American tradition is still sacred!

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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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"The buck stops with me."

I notice that the President likes to continually use that phrase, "The Buck Stops… with me.” I wonder if he realizes that it makes him look like a narcissist? The president uses that phrase in every occasion to argue that while bad things that happen under his watch are always his responsibility, --they’re never his FAULT.

Remember the Nigerian panty-bomber (last Christmas) who got on board that jetliner? Obama said it was the fault of the watch list system. *sigh* That's a far cry from "The buck stops here." Failures in policy are the fault of the men who are ultimately responsible for them. Then again, our boy-president is far from being mature, or a leader for these trying times.

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Nobility and suffering

Looking at these beautiful birds struggling to survive, covered as they are, in oil, just brought to mind, "nobility in suffering."

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Susana Martinez

She's a woman. She's Mexican. She's a Republican. Some brains are seizing up all across America, --and Susana Martinez is running for Governor of New Mexico. [PoliSci majors, pay attention.]

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Where'd all that oil come from?

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If only we would elect a democrat president and a democrat Congress, they would put the screws on those greedy corporations, and disasters like that big BP oil spill would stop happening.

Um, what's that you say? We did elect a democrat president and a democrat Congress? By golly, you're right, we did! ... So where'd all that oil come from?

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Memorial Day query

Why so few Medals of Honor? ..... Despite its importance, --the Medal of Honor has been awarded only 6 times for service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

By contrast, 464 Medals of Honor were awarded during World War II, 133 during Korea, and 246 during the Vietnam War. Our military is just as courageous today as ever before. Something is very wrong here.

The stories of valor in Iraq/Afghanistan must be made public. (You only need to go to Borders bookstore and camp out in the history section to marvel at the books that are published practically every month on the courage of our boys in today's wars.)

There is something very wrong with our national leaders who are not recognizing the valor of our men with the Medal of Honor, --only 6?
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Protestant reformation

First, Billy Graham's son (Franklin) gets stiffed by the Pentagon. Then President Obama pencils in Elena Kagan as his nomineee for the Supreme Court and guess what? --another non-Protestant.

Things seem to be looking gloomy in Protestant reformation land.

America's religious identity is shifting so far from the legacy of the Plymouth Rock pilgrims. Sadly, the loss of Christianity's exclusive grip could cost our nation its soul. May it never be, Lord!

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Arizona pinata

Oh, sure, the prizes inside are indeed very real, --potential democrat voters! This is why democrats are sympathetic to Arizona's illegal aliens. *sigh* Mexican president Calderone, for his part, knows that his economy improves each time the millions of aliens send monies back to their families in Mexico. It's a terrific symbiotic relationship!

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President Calderone

Uncivil, and rude; Mexican President Calderon certainly wore out his welcome in my country. *verybigsigh*

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Arizona

I find it disturbingly strange that Pres. Obama sided with the president of Mexico --against the people of Arizona! :-0
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NYC car bomber

Sadly, it takes a lot for our Commander-in-Chief to admit that these terrorist attacks are indeed terror-attacks.

Behold: were it not for technical problems by Faisal Shahzad in NY (pictured), and were it not for the technical problems by the Nigerian panty-bomber (in the air last December 2009, remember him?), we’d now be talking about two successful terrorist attacks on Americans, in the last 6 months. /History majors, pay attention.

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Drill, Baby, Drill

I wish we could cap Obama's spending --the U.S. into bankruptcy. :^(

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Homes, bombs

Why does the president act as if Jewish homes are a bigger threat than Iran's bomb factories? *sigh* (History majors, pay attention)

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Animal farm

It seems that with the passing of the new Obama healthcare plan, the president's aim is to make America more equal --and some Americans more equal than others. *verybigsigh*

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Fatigue? --Lead!

Why am I getting Obama-fatigue so early on? ... If you think about it, our current law teacher president shares the same academic background as our former law teacher president Bill Clinton, —minus the amorality. (Remember our current president is a good family man and not sullied by personal corruption.) But what made... the brainy Clinton a more competent president was his ability to work with his republican Congress.

Maybe the same may happen for our current brainy president. Today's health care reform must be a compromise to be a genuine effort, but right now neither party wants to work with the other! The president and his democrat Congress will be hurt if a health bill with no popular mandate is forced upon the American people. Let's hope that our president can muster a better effort at leading.

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Tiger's clintonian behavior

He finally took ownership of his clintonian behaviour. Today, Tiger Woods became a man.

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JVC Ecosystem

During an altar call (with prophet Peter Kumar) little Moiselle showed me a pretty hand-drawing, emblematic of herself, that she made during the Sunday morning's Sunday School class. In the center, it contains a red paper heart that can be swung open to reveal the word of God, inside.

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Toyota

Toyota apologized Saturday for faulty gas pedals on about four million cars that they just recalled. When you press the pedal down it stays down and the car accelerates out of control.

Whoever designed the gas pedal is probably the same guy who's Obama's Treasury Secretary. :p

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What went unsaid last night

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The actual State of the Union:
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Sadly, this is the actual State of the Union (unmentioned last night):

>Unemployment between 10-18%

>'Stimulus' will tax the yet unborn

>Millions of jobs lost, you now, the ones that weren’t ‘saved'.

>KSM, the terror-master who plotted 9/11 has a government lawyer in a criminal court.

>The Nigerian panty bomber has a government lawyer in a criminal court.

>North Korea is thumbing its nose at us.

>Russia is thumbing its nose at us

>Iran is thumbing its nose at us. They are doubling-down on their nuclear reactors.

>Venezuela and Cuba are thumbing their noses at us.

>Obama bought GM and gave it to his auto union supporters.

>The USA is drowning in debt. D-r-o-w-n-i-n-g!

Our president must have a spiritual epiphany moment, else he risks being a very bad one-term president.

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Walk and chew gum

I found this headline on the web:

It appears our president cannot go to an American primary school without the need for a teleprompter! Is this man indeed an empty suit? The events of his first 12 months on the job bring this observer to no other conclusion. *sigh*

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Failure to learn from history

It is January 25, 2010.

Sadly, President Obama's legacy after serving only one year in office is: failure to learn from history.

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One brief year

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Jubilee Vietnam Church | We prayed for Haiti

SUNDAY JAN. 17, 2010 In the JVC Ecosystem on the campus of Jubilee Christian Center, Pastor Bui discussed Haiti and ideas related to some causes of human suffering. Before the 11:00 am service, Esther Bui, (Ps. Bui's youngest daughter) preps for Praise & Worship. Later, joining Esther will be her mom, Mrs. Lan Bui (soprano), Neil Nguyen (guitar), David Bui (drums), and Miss Jenny Tran (soprano).                                                 → → → Pastor Bui announces the plight of our Haitian neighbors, after having suffered a 7.0 earthquake. Pastor walked us through fundamental ideas about God's goodness to all men on earth, found in the gospel of Luke and in James. But it was in Genesis that Pastor alluded to an idea that could explain how tragedies like Haiti's earthquake happen. Gen 3:17 essentially states that because Adam disobeyed God, "...cursed is the ground because of you."  Hmmm, interesting, I immediately thought of shifting plate tectonics! Two Playful Primates in the JVC Ecosystem :: Afterwards, we all retired downstairs to the Jubilee galley. We were served Vietnamese curry chicken with white rice. Here, little Moiselle Huynh and I find time to play whilst all the grown-ups talk. I have known Moiselle for all of her brief 3-year life. Moiselle understands both Vietnamese & English. Of all the deacons in Jubilee Vietnam Church, Moiselle likes me the best. The deaconess and I wish we could keep her. Sadly, we cannot. Jenny Tran Photographs | Jubilee Vietnam Church Powered by   We're in the heart of California's Silicon Valley

Missionary implications

On Christmas Day, a 23-year-old Nigerian named Umar Farouk Abdula tried to detonate a homemade bomb (in his underwear!) onboard a packed Northwest Airlines flight headed for Detroit. But because of a faulty detonator and brave passengers, the terrorist's knickers failed to go off.The security system failed miserably. The explosives he used are easily detected. What's more, Umar's father warned the U.S. Embassy in Nigeria about his boy. A simple screening process (that's already in place) would have prevented him from boarding any aircraft. But citizens on board saved the day! Many days later, President Obama finally announced that Umar has links to al Qaeda.

What took so long? Obama didn't need a top secret briefing to learn this. He could have picked up most of it on the Drudge Report, or merely by bothering to read the morning papers.

I could see the confusion on Obama's face during his leadership failure. Sadly, it was the look of someone who has been convinced for all these years that terrorism is something President Bush cooked up. Now that it is patently obvious that President Bush knew what he was talking about, Obama will need some time to regroup and figure out what to do. I don't think he knows anybody in his world who can help him. He must humble himself and finally learn from the experiences of the previous administration. This is not a good pattern. The president has failed to lead the country following two very serious attacks on our Homeland: 13 people murdered at Fort Hood, Texas, and another Muslim who tried to blow an American jetliner out of the sky by detonating a bomb in his underwear.

What's worse is that this terrorist is now lawyered up and has the right to remain silent; this, a present from Obama himself!

Had Umar been spotted getting trained in Yemen he would have had an encounter with a Hellfire missile. Instead he was caught in the air while attempting to kill several hundred innocent people, and now his 'rights' are read to him! These rights were given to him by President Obama. *sigh*

The missionary implications for my wife and I are escalating. First, the shoe-bomber — remember him? — Richard Reid, was found with explosives in his shoe; as a result the deaconess and I have to trod barefoot through airport security. But wait! --after explosive underwear are uncovered, how will we now be treated by airport security? And what happens when the first exploding suppository occurs?

The implications are very serious indeed. Sadly, I'm too embarrassed to discuss these missionary implications --with my own pastor!

"Mr. Obregon, place your knickers on the conveyor and step away from the machine" ...... Oh, the humanity!

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Not a butler, but responsibility

2010 advice (gleaned from 2009):

Rational profiling at airports is premised on probabilities. The elderly Buddhist nun is perceived to be less likely a Muslim terrorist than an Arab. That is simply common sense.

Our politically correct elites, however, refuse to face reality. President Bush the Younger was bad enough in this regard. Øbama is far worse. Americans are in such serious danger, and we still have 3 more years to endure this impotent leadership. Will America survive? /Poli Sci majors, pay attention.

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Christmas Day 2009

Wavy gravy

On Thursday, the deaconess and I contemplated our national day of Thanksgiving (at the home of our nephew Greg and his wife Jennie in Rocklin, CA), and were in gratitude for our immediate family blessings.

We water-boarded our turkey in gravy, and promptly ate it; yum.
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Job creation is not the president's goal

I found a curious headline on the web:

"Obama: Job Creation Not Goal of Dec.3 Jobs Forum" --headline, Associated Press, Nov.18

► Talk about setting low expectations! :-0

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Divergent effects of sin and grace

I went on my contemplative walk as I am wont to do in the afternoon. I sighed and blurted out, "Why is there so much evil in the world."

But instinctively I immediately caught myself with the reply that there is so much more good in the world. I knew this was so. I know this to be a fact; I know it to be so scientifically, and I know it to be so spiritually. I was simply venting inside.

I mean, look at the obvious things that show this to be so: all of the equilibrium that is maintained in the world through the laws of nature. And in the spiritual realm; as a missionary I know first-hand that there are more good people in the world than there are evil ones. I find this to be an empirical truth.

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JVC Ecosystem

Two playful primates in the JVC Ecosystem | Silicon Valley, CA.

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College campus

I wonder how these Tees would sell on campus; would any college students get the irony?

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Climate change keeps changing!

"Arctic Ice to Last Decades Longer Than Thought." --headline, National Geographic Web site, Sept. 21, 2009

Climate change keeps changing!

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Afghanistan

Did you hear? —50 Afghans who are drug traffickers with ties to the Taliban have been placed on a Pentagon target list to be killed or captured. What?!!

President Bush's third term!

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It's axiomatic

Hey everybody! --we're looking to drill off Santa Barbara for some cold hard cash! It seems that Governor Schwarzenegger is aggressively pursuing a way to open a section of California waters to offshore drilling.

Schwarzenegger has finally learned an important axiom: Freedom is profitable, Liberalism starves... :p

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Faster drop

I found a curious headline on the world wide web:

“Obama Drops Faster Than Bush or Carter” --headline, RealClearPolitics.com, July 30

Can this be explained by Newtonian physics?

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Who would you rather have a beer with?

Who would you rather have a beer with? --the conscientious guy concerned with helping others around him?

/Or, the oblivious guy, striding majestically alone?

(Left-to-right: Sgt. Crowley, Professor Gates, Pres. Øbama)

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White House Beer Summit

"They always make me sit at the kids table."

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Wrong on life's big decisions

It's amazing to behold. President Barak Obama has a knack for getting all of life's big decisions wrong. Two weeks ago, he refused to meddle in a country where peaceful demonstrators were getting shot dead by a dictatorship (Iran).

BO explained that he didn't want to choose sides.

Today, however, he is eager to meddle on behalf of the Honduran president, i.e., BO is annoyed that the Honduran people have the nerve to hold their president to the rule of their Constitution.

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The world is a stage

Once, all the world was Michael Jackson’s stage.

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Superior intellect over the animal kingdom

Did you know that baby goats have a natural dislike for humans? Yes, they run away as you approach them.

Therefore, I had to use my superior intellect over the animal kingdom in order to catch this little goat, (Auburn, CA.) He was bleating real loud, until my sister-in-law moved closer to take this Facebook picture of us.

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Disappearing without notice

It’s hilarious! --but South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford actually seems to believe he can remain in office despite his disappearing without notice and lying about the reasons.

That behavior is very clintonian!

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Information without reporters

In the world of electronic communication, it's hard to overstate how much has changed recently (Twitter, Facebook, et al). Now even Iran's dictatorship can't control the flow of information out of its country—even after it expelled reporters!

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Axis of evil

North Korea vows to weaponize its plutonium; indeed, NoKo is warning the world of nuclear war. Will we listen?

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Harmonic motion

The basic function of harmonic motion is the sine wave. (Reminds me of my life)

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Anti-feminism

Does anyone suppose that David Letterman will teach his son to talk about women and girls the way he talks about Governor Sarah Palin and her young daughters?

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60% ownership in G.M.

The Obama administration said today that it would give the bankrupt General Motors an additional $30 billion of our taxpayer money —in exchange for 60% ownership in the car company.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

Following the humiliating defeat of every budget measure he tried to push on us hurting Californians, Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced that California’s top elected officials will get a salary cut of 18%... in ... uh ... 7 months...

Nice to see the Governator springing into action to help our bankrupt state. :^(

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California is bankrupt

Too bad California isn't a world leader in technology, tourism, agriculture, or entertainment.

If we had all of these things going for us, state bankruptcy could have been avoided.

Man, if we had all that going for our state, it would take a real bunch of morons to botch it up...

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Notre Dame

Liberals were awestruck by Obama's statesmanlike speech at Notre Dame the other day, but whatever he says about abortion is frothy nonsense because we cannot to vote on abortion policy in America!

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L-Team is serving in Vietnam

L-Team is currently serving in Vietnam.

We are fielding a small 5-man team of missionaries from both Jubilee Christian Center, including missionaries from two other churches.

L-Team's primary area of operation is Da Nang, hosting a pastor/leader conference. Thank you for your prayers...

The set of rational numbers

Most may not be aware, but much of the activity in the JVC Ecosystem may be properly understood in light of rational numbers. Rational numbers are a subset of the real number system.

For example, rational numbers consist of those numbers that can be written as a ratio of two integers, a/b. Everyday examples of rational numbers include: 2/3, 3/4, 4, 1/2

In the halls of Jubilee Vietnam Church, we make use of rational numbers when we divide one bowl of rice equally among two people, since Geo and Moiselle (sharing) each then gets half, or, 1/2 bowl of rice.

Indeed, in the JVC Ecosystem even rational numbers have spiritual implications; --open your heart to rational numbers!

Converting the primitives on the mission field

As we make preparations for a missionary deployment to Vietnam, I wish that there was some way that I could print money.

I wish I had a money machine.

What? --you think that's silly?

The U.S. Congress is at the moment, on a missionary enterprise of its own, trying to convert us primitives--on the mission field of America--on the only way to end our national recession. Congress' solution? --an orgy of spending.

President Obama, who's the front man for this idea, has preached a message that failure to pass the economic stimulus package (read: spending orgy) will result in a “catastrophe”--those are his words.

Since he’s about to be handed one trillion dollars, I wonder what will happen if the stimulus bill (spending orgy) does pass? For example...

Why are hundreds of billions in this bill being spent on frivolous stuff?

I wonder why most of the spending is slated to occur after the recession will likely be over?

Since the U.S. doesn’t have the money in the spending bill, how much money will the Government have to print? (This is the part I wish I could do!)

And, since the U.S. Congress is fond of throwing the phrase "exit strategy" in the faces of our military planners--what's Obama's exit strategy if the spending orgy actually does harm?

*Sigh* I, guess I should help convert primitives on the mission field, so...

...I'm going to tell my nieces and nephews, "Get a government job!"

Obama's tax-dodgers

Note to the democrat party: Taxes are not voluntary.

Missionaries and aid workers

As we make preparations for a missionary deployment, we just learned Monday that an American worker for the United Nations has been kidnapped in Pakistan.

YAHOO! News | Quetta, Pakistan – Authorities searched for an American U.N. worker kidnapped Monday in southwestern Pakistan in an attack that underscored the security threats in the country as it battles al-Qaida militants.

The government called the abduction a “terrorist act,” but police said it was not clear whether it was Islamist militants, or criminals seeking a ransom payment who were responsible.

Gunmen seized John Solecki, head of the U.N. refugee office in the city of Quetta, as he traveled to work Monday morning, and shot and killed his driver, U.N. and Pakistani officials said.

Does he count as an American if he is working for the UN? Well, yes, I suppose he does.

But the lowest form of human is to attack a missionary or an aid worker who's there in-country to help the locals.

Did you notice the second paragraph, above? --it's a sick world when you have to hope that the American was kidnapped by criminals, rather than Islamic clergy. The criminals might let him live.

*Sigh* this may be a pop quiz for Obama, before the big test...

Obama can talk, but can he walk?

Huh? ... Wha? ... I'm sorry, did I, --did I --miss something?

Omigosh, the Inauguration!

One of my readers ... well ... she had to remind me!

On Tuesday, Barak Hussein Obama was inaugurated President of the United States of America.

Has President Obama had a chance to accomplish anything for our nation?

No. Well, after all, he's just getting up and running.

Therefore, I'll just have to review what has been accomplished for our nation especially in light of recent American history.

After all, how shall we grade the new President of the United States without the yardstick of history, --or, is there another standard that should be applied? Nay, history is our only reliable standard.

I normally don't like to rehearse the manifestly obvious, but the man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another mass-terror attack on our soil for 7 years will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents, uh, after Ronald Reagan.

Can anybody produce one American citizen who believed on Sept. 12, 2001, that there would not be another attack for the next 7-years-and-4-months?

United States of America: 100-percent al-Qaeda free since 2001.

While President Bush made many mistakes at the helm his successes will be appreciated (like Reagan's) in the years that follow. President Bush laid out a doctrine to guide us in our war with Islamo-terrorism. President Bush signed into law the Patriot Act which broke down the wall (created by Bill Clinton) between the CIA and FBI, (before, neither agency could share intel with the other regarding America's external threats).

President Bush also created the terrorist-surveillance program, i.e. we can wiretap the bad guys making phone calls into the United States.

President Bush directed the CIA to capture and interrogate terror leaders who kill Americans.

President Bush fought a very unpopular war of liberation in Iraq, and yes, made many mistakes. But it will one day be clear that our liberation of Iraq was essential to victory in the global war on terror. And the success in Iraq is more complete than, say, the stalemate we're still sitting on, on the Korean peninsula.

President Bush assumed that our Coalition forces would find mass graves, torture chambers, evidence for immoral abuse of the UN's food-for-oil program, and WMDs: President Bush was right about each, save one, the last, --but he was still on the mainstream of Western and Arab thinking on these matters.

Today, Iraq's gross national product is 30 percent higher than under Saddam Hussein, and it is free of a brutal despot and his rape-happy sons.

Iraq is a free country, and now an ally. Furthermore, al-Qaeda was decimated and driven from their sanctuary in Afghanistan. Let's hope these victories are not squandered.

President Bush has of course the best record on judges. President Bush appointed conservative Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito--what a godsend these two common-sense justices are.

*Sigh* history will also place President Bush's verbal fumbling into light, but don't forget, George W. Bush was the first MBA president, and he had a higher grade-point average at Yale than John Francois Kerry, his opponent in 2004. George Bush is smarter than Senator John Francois Kerry!

Let's not forget the women of Afghanistan whom George Bush liberated from Taliban degradation and abuse.

Women's liberation is alive and well in Afghanistan!

When Abu Ghraib is mentioned, may history remind us that it was President George W. Bush who imprisoned those scumbags responsible for the horrors. When water-boarding is brought up, may history remind us that it was only used on 3 terrorists, one of whom was Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, al-Qaeda's chief operator, who coughed-up vast amounts of intel that saved hundreds of innocent lives.

When extraordinary renditions are mentioned, Natural Exponent asks, how else should the world's most dangerous terrorists have been transported, business-class on United Airlines?

History will not listen to Hollywood "filmmakers" Michael Moore or Oliver Stone, but instead to Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India, who told the President last week: "The people of India deeply love you"; this, from the world's largest democracy.

Our new President Obama has some pretty big shoes to fill--because Obama can talk the talk, but can he walk the walk?

Hellfire and due diligence

I uncovered an interesting story, per the Washington Post:

A New Year's Day CIA strike in northern Pakistan killed two top al-Qaeda members long sought by the United States, including the man believed to be behind September's deadly suicide bombing at a Marriott hotel in Karachi, U.S. counterterrorism officials confirmed.

The CIA ascertained that Osama al-Kini, a Kenyan national who was al-Qaeda's chief of operations in Pakistan, was killed in the Jan. 1, 2009 missile strike, along with his lieutenant, Sheikh Ahmed Swedan. Both men also helped plan the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in East Africa.

Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University, said the CIA's tactics appear to be cutting dramatically into al-Qaeda's top ranks with strikes deep into a lawless border region that insurgents long regarded as a sanctuary.

"It is a stunning testament of the accuracy of intelligence that the United States is obtaining," Professor Hoffman said. "Either we have built up an impressive network of sources that facilitates such precision targeting, or the Pakistani authorities are cooperating big-time."

Natural Exponent believes this is a very good development in combating Islamo-terror. We hope that it continues in the Obama administration, because Obama doesn't strike us as someone who would take the offense toward high-value targets.

But, um, where were the anti-war protesters? If the U.S. had arrested these bad guys, and made them stand for long periods of time while being questioned, or turned down the a/c in the interrogation room, there would be a huge outcry about their treatment.

And yet when our operators blow them to smithereens--out of the blue--with a subsonic Hellfire missile fired by a controller thousands of miles away, there's no complaining from America's leftists.In any case, I'm certain our CIA took great care to make sure it had the right targets in their crosshairs. But you can't get a much better outcome of due diligence than a bulls-eye. But still, no outrage? from any Lefty?

Due diligence, --yes, and yet nothing says "Due Process" like a Hellfire missile.