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TOP TEN “PREDICTIONS” FOR 2008
1. The Bible will still have all the answers.
2. Prayer will still work.
3. The Holy Spirit will still move.
4. God will still inhabit the praises of His people.
5. There will still be God-anointed preaching..
6. There will still be singing of praise to God.
7. God will still pour out blessings upon His people.
8. There will still be room at the Cross
9. Jesus will still love you.
10. Jesus will still save the lost.
God whispers in your soul and speaks to your mind. Sometimes when you don’t have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at you.
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More On Ron Paul
Need more information about Ron Paul and his positions? Go read this — it’s a commentary by someone who doesn’t even support Ron Paul. The article does point out quite a few of the lies that are being spread by those who oppose Paul, however. It’s a VERY good read, especially if you don’t know a lot about Ron Paul.
(Hat Tip to Raven)
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Santa Bush
Wouldn’t it be neat if no politicians in Washington tried to use our money to buy votes?
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A Short Break
So, while I’m taking a break from work, apparently I’m taking a short break from blogging, too.
This wasn’t planned, it just sort of happened. But it’s nice ignoring the news and spending time with family. I know the first presidential primary election is coming up soon. I sure hope Ron Paul wins. In the meantime, my posting here may be rather sporadic over the next week or so.
Thank you for stopping by and do feel free to leave a comment just to say, “Hi” if you’d like — and do stop by on occasion — I’ll probably post at least some silly stuff each day!
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Carnival of Christmas
So, you’re wandering algore’s internets and forgetting about Christmas, are you? Well head on over to Cathouse Chat where you can find this year’s Carnival of Christmas — with lots and lots of stuff about, well, Christmas! Yay!
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Snowman Army
So, do you ever find yourself doing the same thing year after year? For example, when you haul out all those boxes of Christmas decorations, do you find everything going in the same place every year? Maybe it’s comforting to you to dig out that same stuff and put it in the same place.
That’s me, I usually do that. But the other day as I was walking past the blinding lights that is my front yard during the Christmas season, I had a weird idea. And I made a couple changes. I’m sure this has nothing to do with why the homeowners’ association has been writing me letters…
Here’s the view of the nice, innocent, blow-up snowman from the front:
And here’s the side view:
Now I just need to find about 100 more of those little snowman lights… no, really, do you know where I can find more?
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Terror Cat
Beware train riders! The giant cat appears about to attack!
Well, as soon as his nap is over with, he might attack…
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Friday Feast/Christmas Meme
Well I headed on over to the Friday Feast to get my weekly share of, well, the feast, only to find that there’s no feast this week! However, in the comments I found Logtar had posted A Christmas Meme. Now it’s a bit long, at 25 questions, but I’ll see what I can do…
1. Wrapping or gift bags?
Ugh. I think gift bags are tacky, classes, and lazy. If I’m going to give someone a gift in a bag, it’s going to be the Wal-Mart bag. If I’m going to bother wrapping, it’s going to be wrapping paper. The only exception is when you get a really odd size present — then a bag might be okay.
2. Real or artificial tree?
Now Bou just put up a post discussing real vs. fake. Nearly everyone there went for fake. I think it’s a Florida thing. 
I had a fake tree one year and absolutely hated it. I go for the real tree every time. Heck, if I can, I’ll go chop the bugger down myself, too — using a real axe, not a chainsaw!
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Huckabee’s Endorsement
Folks, Huckabee scares me. Not as much as Hillary, but he will increase spending more than Bill Clinton and Bush I did — and in less time.
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Woman Flees Government… in America
I can’t say I’m surprised. Instead, I have to say that I expect to see more of this as government in America continues. In the story, a woman and her family have been literally forced to flee from the government. She had to abandon her home and run out of the state or she may have been sent to jail and had her children taken from her. Her crime? Homeschooling.
Go read the linked article, if you have time. It outlines all the details. The brief version goes like this: a piece of paper granting her “permission” to home school her children for 2006 is missing. Therefore the judge wants to throw her in jail. That’s really about it. The woman was going to jail because of a paperwork error — it’s as simple as that. And her children were going to be taken away from her.
This is government in America today. Those in the black robes honestly believe they have to answer to no man or God for their actions and they will do as they please. This is a horrible abuse of the system. But this is also the only defense today — fleeing. This is why I strongly suggest all parents of young children should always have a small bit of money put away and a plan to escape your state. Once your department of “child” services attacks you, you cannot win.
As this case clearly illustrates, it’s not about being right or wrong. Claiming that if you aren’t doing anything wrong that you don’t have anything to worry about is clearly not true. The state will do what they want with you and your children no matter what you want. The state already has made it quite clear that once your children have entered the public school, parents have absolutely zero rights. And since the state wants control, they will do anything in their power to force your children into those schools.
Crossing state lines won’t completely solve the problem, but it does at least give this woman a chance to keep her children. If she chose to fight in Utah, she would be fighting only after the state kidnaps her children.
If you are ever in this situation, do drop me a line. I will offer sanctuary to political refugees from other states. I would help Denise Mafi in this case, but she’s got to remain hidden or the state will arrest her, throw her in jail, and steal her children — because of a paperwork error. Welcome to America today.
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CA Schools: For Gays Only.
Know what I’d like to see? I’d like to see a place where people are free. I’d like to see a place where people can make their own decisions. I’d like to see somewhere where people aren’t judged simply on their sexual behavior. I’d like to see a place where people can exercise their own religion without fear of being arrested and jailed. But you’re not going to see that in California any time soon.
Instead, in California, your TWO-year old will be told that any sexually perverted act or choice is perfectly normal and acceptable, bar none. And they will be told that by the government of California.
Isn’t that great? Don’t you see the need for four-year olds to be told that it’s perfectly okay if that man over there puts his ______ up your _______? Won’t it be great when 5-year old girls are told that if they think they have a penis, then they really have one?
And don’t worry, when they get home from school, they won’t yell out “MOM” because that word is forbidden in the government schools of California now, and you could in fact be jailed for using that term in the school system.
The message is clear: if you are NOT performing some perverted, abnormal sex act with many others, in front of young children, you are NOT welcome in the California schools. Heterosexuals, flee the state before they make that against the law, too.
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On A Flagpole
I found myself driving past this site a few days in a row. I really didn’t pay much attention, as I was more worried about where I was going and watching out for other cars. However, I eventually got curious about what that was. Take a peek:
Can you tell? Yes, it’s a flag on a flag pole. And yes, the flag IS drawn all the way to the top of the pole (despite the bottom being way down the pole). Can you tell what flag it is? I figured it out eventually. It’s a North Carolina State Flag.
Obviously, it’s in horrible shape. It’s incredibly faded, almost beyond recognition, and it’s torn nearly in two. My first thought was that I needed to buy these people a new flag so they can fly a nice flag and not be embarrassed by the sight of this flag. So I walked around the side of the building to check it out. Know what it was?
It was a government school. Yes, the very same school system that needs billions of dollars every year to pay six-figure salaries to the principals and administrators. The same Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system that always wants to raise taxes “for the children.” The same school system that is getting millions of dollars from the state-run lottery. And they cannot afford to replace a horrible, torn, faded state flag flying outside — or at least have the decency to take it down.
I’m embarrassed for them. Your government has it’s priorities straight. Paying government workers obscene amounts of money for doing nothing is clearly #1.
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Cold War, Part II
So, have you seen the recent news regarding the new cold war with Russia? Vladamir Putin is threatening to point missiles at American bases in Europe.
On it’s face, it seems rather silly. The US is saying that they want to put up a missile defense shield — in response Russia says that if the US puts up a shield, Russia will point missiles at the shield… think about it…
In reality, it’s more simple than that. Russia currently does not trust the US and the words that come out of the US state department (you’d be crazy if you did). So Russia is reacting to the American presence in Poland and the Czech Republic. In other words, this is ONLY happening because the US is building up our military presence in Poland and the Czech Republic.
Go ahead, claim it’s because of Iran, or North Korea, or something else. Blame ANYONE but the US. But the basic fact of the matter is that this is ONLY happening because of the US military presence.
Want to stop it? We can. Elect Ron Paul. Seriously. He will REDUCE the US presence in Europe! He will show the Russians that we’re not any threat to them (as long as they’re not a threat to us). It’s not surrender, it’s leaving countries alone!
Or we can elect any of the other Republican candidates — every last one of which will continue and expand the US military presence there — making more and more enemies with countries like Russia.
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New Energy Bill
So, did you read all about the wonderful new energy bill that passed yesterday? In case you missed all the news conferences, let me provide a few choice quotes from Congress. And while these may not be quite the exact words of the Congressmen, they’re factually correct:
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.:
This is a choice between yesterday and tomorrow…It’s groundbreaking in what it will do.
Because yesterday we had freedom and free markets. Tomorrow we will have total government control of ALL markets, not just a few of them. Yesterday government was smaller. Tomorrow government will be much larger because this bill will create new government departments and new dependents. We’ll spend tens of billions of dollars on giveaways to farmers, so more farmers vote Democrat so we can take from working people to give you more while calling it “alternative fuel.”
“This legislation is a historic turning point in energy policy,” said Majority Leader Steny Hoyer of Maryland because it will cut demand for foreign oil and promote nonfossil fuels that will cut greenhouse gases linked to global warming.
It’s a turning point because government has never before given so much cash to farmers and punished car manufacturers so much. It’s a turning point because this will ensure a massive increase in the costs of making a car — which translates to huge price increases. It’s a turning point because we’re going to make sure you can’t have SUVs and instead we will force you into smaller, less safe vehicles, whether you like it or not. And we can do all this while claiming to the world that we’re now full members of the global warming religious cult.
“What we have here is a mandatory conservation bill,” said Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas.
And we will use the massive monopolistic force of government to make you conserve oil, no matter what you want to do. We can certainly expect the price of oil and gas to rise as a result of this because this might just annoy the oil-producing nations. And this is also conserving foreign oil instead of letting Americans pump the oil we already have out of the ground because Congress is just stupid.
Democrats said the fuel economy requirements eventually — when the fleet of gas-miser vehicles are widely on the road — will save motorists $700 to $1,000 a year in fuel costs.
And the fact that it will likely drive the costs of those vehicles up by thousands of dollars, that’s okay because the peons (that’s you) will pay less for fuel, at least in theory. And the increase in medical costs because more people will be injured by accidents in smaller, lighter, less safe cars will be absorbed by the government because we should have completely socialized medicine by that time, anyway.
The bill requires a massive increase in the production of ethanol for motor fuels, outlining a rampup of ethanol use from the roughly 6 billion gallons this year to 36 billion gallons by 2022.
And the fact that ethanol costs MORE than gasoline per gallon doesn’t matter because the government, as a part of this act, will just give the farmers literally billions of dollars to make the ethanol. That way more farmers will continue to vote for big government. And the artificial market created by government for corn will ensure that the corn you want to buy at the grocery store WILL increase drastically in price.
Translating government-speak — just another service here at Ogre’s Politics and Views — at least until it’s outlawed as “hate speech” or regulated by John McCain as “campaign speech.”
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