Aimee Semple McPherson was born too early to be called a televangelist, but she was radio’s equivalent. Join Steve Eastman as he tells us about the rise and fall of the Broadway musical Scandalous, based on the ups and downs in the life of Aimee Semple McPherson.
Chinese Government Condones, Assists Cyber-war Against The U.S.
February 23, 2013 by 2 Comments
“For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the acme of skill. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the acme of skill.” –Sun Tzu
Sun Tzu would love cyber warfare. The master of the Chinese board game of Go enjoyed the idea of defeating his enemy without a battle. China is conducting cyber war on the United States. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) have a group of highly trained hackers (Hēikè) whose sole purpose is to attack American companies in order to steal information to enhance the Chinese Military. This hacking group is working with the full knowledge and blessing of the Communist’s Government leadership. It’s time America acknowledges that the Chinese are conducting a full-scale cyber war against the west.
Who
“All war is deception.” –Sun Tzu
The PLA “Unit 61398“ is believed to be launching cyber-attacks against the United States from a nondescript 12- story building in Shanghai. Most of the hacking is performed by the unit using the names Comment Crew or the Shanghai Group. The groups are most likely elements of Unit 61398. The actual manpower or capability of the PLA unit is unknown; but most of the cyber-attacks have been traced back to this building in a dilapidated area, a location that would certainly be preferred by hacker groups. The actual operation of the unit is considered a state secret, and the government will deny its existence; in fact, they have ridiculed such accusations.
Targets
“Your aim must be to take All-under-Heaven intact. Thus your troops are not worn out and your gains will be complete. This is the art of offensive strategy.” -Sun Tzu
Unit 61398 is one of most prolific hacking group in the world and has been operating since 2006. This PLA Unit has been targeting defense businesses and organizations as well as power and water companies. Their favorite target is Government agencies, especially the Armed Forces. Their goal is simple:
1. Disrupt the military and strategic infrastructure to greatly diminish America’s ability to fight a war.
2. Steal all military and manufacturing secrets.
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Majority Of U.S. Citizens Say Illegal Immigrants Should Be Deported
February 23, 2013 by 12 Comments
The Debate We HAVE To Win; Otherwise, We Lose The Country
February 23, 2013 by 10 Comments
Recently, a discussion of this story about DC Comics being pressured by homosexual activists to fire one of its writers because he’s on the board of the National Organization of Marriage prompted vigorous debate on my Facebook wall. While perusing through the various comments, it was obvious there still exists much confusion in our country today about the term “rights.”
There are two types of rights: unalienable and contractual.
Sometimes referred to as a natural right (i.e. “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God” reference from The Declaration of Independence), an unalienable right is a right that comes from God and thus can be accessed in your natural state without consent from another party because it existed before you were born and will still exist in nature after you die. It’s inherent to being made in the image of God.
Should another party attempt to stop you from accessing your unalienable (or natural) rights, they are guilty of a crime, oppression, tyranny, or all of the above. For example, I do not require anyone’s consent to breathe air; for it is foundational to my natural state of being. However, should you attempt to stop me from breathing, then you are guilty of assault, battery, manslaughter, or murder if you’re ultimately successful.
If it requires consent from another party to access it, then it is not an unalienable (aka natural) right because you have to impose upon someone else’s unalienable (aka natural) rights in the process. Taking someone else’s person or property without their consent is what we call a crime.
Nowadays, some are claiming unalienable (or natural) rights that don’t exist.
For example, you do not have an unalienable (or natural) right to marry or have sex with whomever you want because partaking of each of those activities requires consent from another party. We call people who believe they can have sex (aka “physical intimacy”) with whomever they want rapists and put them in prison whenever we can. We call people who believe they can marry whomever they want cult leaders, sultans, kings, and tyrants because they’re acquiring harems and concubines.
Likewise, you also don’t have a natural right to live where you want, as I’ve heard some claim on issues like immigration. To believe that requires you to believe that private property doesn’t exist. You can’t have it both ways. If you believe I have the right to defend my own property (which our founders absolutely did), then you also have to believe that “we the people” have the right to defend our own property as well. In a “government by the consent of the governed,” that property in this case are the borders and lands of these United States of America. We own them, and they are our private property. Therefore, we have a right to possess and police them accordingly.
Rights that require the consent of another party are contractual rights.
A good example of contractual rights would be the U.S. Constitution, which begins with the words, “We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union.” Immediately, the parties involved in the contract are established: the people, the states, and the federal government (or union). From there, each party states in the contract the terms, jurisdictions, and liabilities each are responsible for and permitted to perform. Some of the rights in the Constitution are unalienable (natural) rights like the freedom of speech and the freedom of worship because you don’t require consent to access them. That’s why the Constitution says “Congress shall make no law” prohibiting or establishing those things because Congress has no power to either establish or take away that which “the Law of Nature and Nature’s God” alone bestows.
However, other rights in the Constitution are purely contractual; but where people get confused here is they fail to understand that this language is intended to bind the government and not the individual. For example, the government consents to saying it has no right for “unlawful search and seizure” as other governments in human history have indulged. It is not saying you as a private person have a right to therefore store crack cocaine in your locker or illicit pictures of children on your computer. This is the government contracting with its citizens to limit its own means, not the other way around. In fact, that is the theme of the entire Bill of Rights. Just because the state promises not to exceed its authority over the individual does not give the individual the right to exceed his authority over “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God.”
That is always the highest authority.
For example, should the U.S. Federal Court hear a civil suit between two murderous drug cartels because one failed to deliver the promised narcotics to the other and thus violated the contract? Of course not, because their very activity violates “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God”; therefore, the proper response is to arrest them as criminals instead.
Similarly, just because someone consents to having sex with you doesn’t mean that suddenly you have a contractual right to have sex with them. Is the person just a child and therefore unable to make a mature decision? Is that person mentally unstable or disabled, and thus unsure of what it is they’re really consenting to? Is that person married to someone else?
In conclusion, it comes down to this: if our rights first and foremost come from “the Laws of Nature and Nature’s God,” then anything we do to indulge or claim those rights that violates that law isn’t a right. It’s a transgression—even if the other party consents to it. That simply means they’re just as guilty as you are.
You have no right to do that which God says is wrong. Never have, never will; and should an earthly authority contradict this and permit your fallen nature to manifest itself, the God the “father of the Constitution” James Madison referred to as “the Governor of the universe” will ultimately adjudicate your case in eternity.
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Students To Face Punishment For Opposing Transgender Lifestyle
February 23, 2013 by 8 Comments
The left unabashedly advocates the forced acceptance by millions of traditional Americans of behavior they feel is immoral.
When it comes to transgender individuals, progressives are exceptionally adamant they be afforded any and all courtesies – even when it obviously violates the freedom of others.
This trend was highlighted in graphic detail when a transgender man was allowed to disrobe in a locker room often frequented by young girls. More recently, the Massachusetts Department of Education released an 11-page guide for treating transgender students.
In addition to permitting students to decide which restroom they wish to use and allowing them to play on sports teams designated for a gender other than theirs, the document also allows for the punishment of noncompliant students.
Should a young female student not wish to be in a restroom with a male schoolmate who calls himself a girl, she must pay the consequences under the directives set forth by the agency.
“It should not be tolerated and can be grounds for student discipline,” the document states.
Other suggestions included in the guide are no less disturbing.
Under one proposed rule, parents would not be privy to their own child’s gender choice at school. Boys attempting to dominate a girls basketball team or simply wishing to enter a girls locker room with impunity could feasibly present themselves as a female while at school without alerting their parents.
The agency also wants to put a stop to any requirements that boys and girls dress according to their respective genders. Additionally, any activities that specify one’s gender, such as forming separate lines for boys and girls, are out under the new directives.
These extreme measures are being proposed under the guise of ending discrimination against transgender students but are so broad they actually result in the discrimination of students with traditional values.
Once again, while all other special interest groups and minorities are protected at all costs, conservative Americans are told they are fueled by intolerance and deserve the constant hate of their more enlightened counterparts.
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Carry Thy Gun, Love Thy Neighbor
February 23, 2013 by 3 Comments
A gun in the hands of an evildoer troubles me. My hope is that in times of trouble and disarray, there will be just, responsible, God-fearing men who may rise up to slay those who seek to destroy.
I do believe that every individual has the right to carry a gun for protection and defense. But please, let’s pray we never have to use it. And let’s love our neighbor before and above our guns!
If we need to use our weapons, let’s understand what it means to take a life and not do so recklessly without caution or just cause…. that an accidental, unintended, unwarranted death not be the final outcome!
May we carry our guns and love our neighbors!
God Bless America! Land of the free and home of the brave!!!
Immigration: So What Exactly Is It Again That We Are Trying To Fix? (Part 1)
February 23, 2013 by 6 Comments
If you want to fix something, you first have to know what it is supposed to look like when it’s not broken. That goes for immigration as well.
But I wouldn’t call what is going on now fixing anything. They are trying to clean up a mess years in the making through neglect, political expediency, and willful disregard of the laws of the land. That same moral rebellion that was energized when the courts found religious and moral instruction and prayer and talk about God not proper in public schools and then later in public life at all found it hard to keep a lot of laws. It turned a blind eye to illegal immigration, probably because it was easy to exploit people with secrets to hide; and besides, if we threw off all those restraining personal rules, why should we strictly enforce rules on others, especially if no one is being hurt?
The real problem with immigration is that a rule (the 14th Amendment) made after the Civil War to give freed black slaves citizenship was transformed into free citizenship for anyone who could be born within our borders by any means. Now our politicians know, or should know, that this isn’t really the case because the children born here of foreign diplomats aren’t given citizenship. And even the Native Americans didn’t receive citizenship until the next century with an act of Congress.
So to say that children born here to illegal immigrants automatically become citizens is an abuse of our Constitution, wishful thinking, and an act of pandering to Hispanic voters. This is like telling people it is wrong to rob banks; but if you do, you can keep the money. Just pay taxes on it, of course.
We are providing a strong incentive for people to come here by whatever means because it is worth the risks they take to give their children the privileges of citizenship. That’s why people rob banks. They weigh the risks against the potential benefits and find it worth it.
And why do I get the impression that the major impetus behind immigration ‘reform’ today is that the Democrats feel they will have a lock on the votes from all these new voters? And why would that be? I would venture to say that the mere matter of not being citizens is not a stumbling block to Democrats for getting immigrants to vote. This is certainly the main reason they oppose voter ID laws.
What is being touted as immigration reform is really nothing of the sort. The children of illegals, brought here through no fault of their own, are given legal status. But then who will have the heart, or the gall, to send their parents back to their country of origin? So the parents get a pass as well.
This ‘reform’ will only try to clean up the mess of years of intentional indifference, only to let the problem reoccur down the road. I don’t believe them if or when they say this will be different. We’ll be back here again in another generation. If any legalization occurs before the borders are secure, the borders will never become secure.
And as long as we provide the incentive of free citizenship, we will always have an abundance of illegal immigrants.
Those who turn a blind eye to illegal immigration are strong on pointing out all the benefits of immigration, even illegal immigration. Indeed, there are benefits; but we need to look a little more closely at what is going on here.
The primary reason we need large numbers of immigrants today is that the people already living here are not reproducing in sufficient numbers to replace the population. So our populace would be gradually aging with fewer younger people to support the elderly. In the past, families supported their aged, but now we need more taxpaying workers to pay for our ever expanding government. So we should not be surprised that our government is in no hurry to slow down any form of immigration.
We’ve have been teaching our daughters to pursue careers more than families, so we should not be surprised that families are shrinking.
We are told of the need for immigrants because of their entrepreneurial spirit. But I see no reason to see the current crop of immigrants as more entrepreneurial than the rest of us. With promises of free medical care and citizenship for new born children, it is not just the entrepreneurs that we are attracting.
We used to favor immigrants who had qualities we were looking for. Now we seem to have little say in who comes in, though I have read that white Europeans are having a real hard time.
Some say that diversity is our strength. Well, yes and no. Diverse minds can bring new perspectives on solving common problems. But diverse minds can also have different goals, different values, and different ways of approaching life.
In the first case, they are united around a common goal. In the second, they are irremediably divided. Look at Washington D.C. today.
Our government is divided over two diametrically opposed views of how to run our country. There is no way to compromise on most issues. If one side says that we are taxed too high and spend too much, any compromise will have higher taxes and more spending. Just less of an increase.
We used to have more of a consensus on what America stands for, what it means to be an American. Our nation has lost its sense of what it is we actually stand for. The more diversity we have sought, the more we have cast aside our values to find the lowest common denominator. And that seems to be merely the fact that we all live in the same country. And that’s about it. So the more diverse our immigration base, the less we share of common values, common interests, and common identity.
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NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo- A Wolf In Sheep’s Clothing
February 23, 2013 by 11 Comments
Being a resident of New York state all of my life, I have seen my share of corrupt, liberal governors from Rockefeller (who died while in the company of a prostitute) to Elliot Spitzer and his client number nine moment to the abject failure of David Patterson. But, this time around, we now have the smooth and crass Andrew Cuomo.
Cuomo, when asked to run for Governor by the Democrat party, seemed very reluctant to give up his post as New York State attorney general. But in the end, he decided to run against Tea Party candidate Carl Palidino. It was a grueling campaign; and as usual, the Democrats pulled out all of the stops right down to going after Carl’s family. The tide turned on the election when Carl was nearly engaged in a physical altercation with journalist Fred Dicker over his children being exploited. Ultimately, Carl was then framed as a hothead for doing what any father would do to protect his children. Well, we ended up with Cuomo.
Upon Cuomo’s arrival in Albany, he came across as very fiscally conservative (for a liberal, that is), engaging in a fight with the public sector unions in order to reduce their impact on the New York economy. He also pushed for a two percent tax cap on all local budgets. These things made him look more like a moderate, and people were starting to warm up to him. Up until his draconian New York Safe Act gun law, he enjoyed an approval rating of 73 percent. Since that time, he still enjoys a 59 percent approval rating.
Now, he is saying that amendments will be made to the Safe Act. Such as, removing the restrictions on police officers as to magazine sizes and bullet quantities. I believe that while these amendments are done, he may try to sneak a version of AO 3908, the assembly bill requiring that firearms owners purchase 1 million dollars of liability insurance, into law.
Now, a history lesson on Cuomo. Before he was the attorney general for New York, he served as the Housing and Urban Development secretary under Bill Clinton. As HUD secretary, he was responsible for pushing the banks to give mortgages out to low income people, whom they knew could not afford to pay them back. I hold Cuomo partially responsible for not only the banking, but also the housing crises that put America into her downward spiral. Now why would he have done this, you ask? Because Andrew Cuomo has been instrumental in implementing the UN’s Agenda 21, right after Clinton signed the executive order on “sustainable development”. Cuomo is a key player in this.
Agenda 21 is the UN plan to turn ALL private property over to the government sector, thus creating a loss of US sovereignty. What better way to do this than to sell private homes to people who can’t afford them and to have the mortgages guaranteed by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, 2 government insurers who refuse to be audited? The sad part of all of this is that Fannie and Freddie currently hold 98 percent of all US mortgages. Upon foreclosure, the federal government becomes the owner of the property. Quite an elaborate scam, huh?
The bottom line to all of this is that Cuomo hasn’t just damaged New York State with his draconian gun law; he has helped with destroying the entire US economy all for the sake of a UN agenda. We must all now do our best to remove this traitor from office before he even has a chance to run for POTUS in 2016. He doesn’t need the White House; he needs the BIG HOUSE for his crimes against America. As always, my fellow Patriots, stay safe and be aware of your surroundings.
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Prayer, Adam Lanza, And The Old Deluder Act
February 23, 2013 by 20 Comments
I wonder if Adam Lanza ever prayed?
Was this disturbed young man so obsessed with guns and violence that he couldn’t see anything else? Was he so self-isolating that he became unreachable? Did he know anything about the peace and mercy that can only be found in Jesus Christ? Or was Adam Lanza one of many children who are raised in a day that offers little true exposure to the Gospel of Christ?
We were once a Godly nation!
It’s time we stop and take a look at where we are, where we’re headed, and where we’ve been, especially for the sake of our children, who have to grow up in a country and a world where God is no longer welcome.
“It being one chief project of that old deluder, Satan, to keep men from the knowledge of the Scriptures……It is therefore ordered that every township in this jurisdiction, after the Lord hath increased them to fifty households shall forthwith appoint one within their town to teach all such children as shall resort to him to write and read….And it is further ordered, that when any town shall increase to the number of one hundred families or householders, they shall set up a grammar school” – The Old Deluder Act (1647)
“The Congress of the United States recommends and approves the Holy Bible for use in all schools.” (1782)
“Let every student be plainly instructed and earnestly pressed to consider well, the main end of his life and studies is, to know God and Jesus Christ, which is eternal life, (John 17:3); and therefore to lay Jesus Christ as the only foundation of all sound knowledge and learning. And seeing the Lord only giveth wisdom, let every one seriously set himself by prayer in secret to seek it of him (Proverbs 2:3).” – Harvard University Student Handbook, Rule No.1
“Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence upon Thee, and we beg Thy blessings upon us, our parents, our teachers and our Country.” – New York Regents Prayer (1951)
“We think that by using its public school system to encourage recitation of the Regents’ Prayer, the State of New York has adopted a practice wholly inconsistent with the Establishment Clause (First Amendment)” – the first of many rulings deeming (voluntary) group prayer in public schools unconstitutional. (1962)
Did Lanza ever have any knowledge or impression of God, or had Satan already taken hold of his soul?
“The Sandy Hook gunman worshiped the devil and had an online page dedicated to Satan, a former classmate revealed. Lanza’s worshiping page had the word ‘Devil’ written in red, Gothic-style letters against a black background, Trevor L. Todd told The National Enquirer, something which he said was ‘weird’ and ‘gave him the chills’.” – The Daily Mail
Now I realize there are other issues at play here, including disability, divorce, parenting, and community support; however……
Evil is alive and well in the world today. How many more tragedies do we need to endure before we finally open our eyes and see the world we’ve made, the world we’ve embraced, for ourselves and for our children?
Early reports seemed to indicate all the factors involved in the Columbine shooting: self-isolation, psychotropic detox, violent video games, Satan worship, possibly poor parenting, community rejection, etc., that led Adam to snap. I wonder if he had ever heard the Gospel? The Gospel can get you through all types of physical and mental torment. And atheists want to outlaw it!
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The Second Amendment Is Not Up For Debate
“Never trust a government that doesn’t trust its own citizens with guns.”– Benjamin Franklin
After the president (with help from his fraternizers in the deceptive state-run media) somehow won his re-election campaign, I thought it was important to note the first thing Obama and his administration did was turn its attention to the United Nations gun treaty talks.
Hmm, I wonder … If he really had the support of the American people, why is he so busy trying to disarm those who supposedly love him so much?
And all the while, Obama and his administration are busy trying to disarm the American people by conjuring up criminals guilty of some sort of gun crimes as an excuse for new gun legislation.
Well, then, let me help: This administration need not look any further than within its own ranks.
And this, friends, is the very reason we are an armed people.
Fast and Furious
As you know, Attorney General Eric Holder is guilty of putting thousands of assault rifles (AK-47s) into the hands of Mexican drug lords in an attempt to blame the American people for the crimes administration officials are guilty of contriving and committing. As a result, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry was killed, along with hundreds of Mexican civilians, including teens at a birthday party and a Mexican beauty queen.
The state-run media conveniently pulled a media blackout on Fast and Furious, and some Americans gave them a pass and have “forgotten” the atrocities committed upon them by their own government, therefore strengthening tyranny so it might assault the people again on a later date.
Benghazi
The “later date” occurred in Benghazi, when Ambassador Chris Stevens, two Navy SEALs, and another U.S. citizen were killed on Sept. 11, 2012.
The Blaze reported:
The Business Insider stated:
So, America, was Ambassador Stevens gun-running to extreme jihadists? Was Eric Holder responsible for putting guns into the hands of Mexican drug cartels? You decide.
Long-time gun grab attempt
Holder has been contriving a gun grab for years. For those who didn’t know, it recently came to light that Holder encouraged the media to “brainwash” the youth about how bad guns are when he was a part of Bill Clinton’s anti-gun administration.
What is interesting here is that the young, through Hollywood and video games, are conveniently taught a “thug” mentality and how to commit crimes. In the meantime, corrupt politicians await to trample the Constitution and legislate new policies to disarm the American population, leaving them defenseless when the crimes are committed.
Just look at Sandy Hook, Aurora, Columbine, etc.
Thomas Jefferson stated that the whole purpose of government is to “ensure your rights,” not to take them away.
What this administration is attempting to do is exactly what Hitler, Stalin, Mao, or any other dictator has done. They blame the weapon rather than the person committing the crimes and all the while subtly encourage criminal activity.
Friends, this is not about guns; it is about control. And this issue is not to be overlooked because gun rights stand between a free country and an enslaved, possibly an exterminated, people.
The Second Amendment:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a FREE State, the Right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed (violated).” (emphasis added)
According to Federal Statute Title 10, Chapter 13, Section 311 (a), all males between the ages of 17 and 45 who are either citizens of the United States or have declared their intent to become citizens are members of the “unorganized” or reserve militia.
It is time for America to get out of the debate because there is no debate.
We have rights given unto us by our Creator. Period.
President George Washington, when arming the people of the United States of America, said:
We would do well to heed President Washington’s warning, since over 56 million people in the 20th century were exterminated by their own governments under the guise of gun control.
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