"Apocalypse Now" [based on "Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad] starring Homer Simpson as Colonel Walter E. Kurtz
Homer Simpson just heard the Obama platform in its entirety.
"THE HORROR . . . THE HORROR . . . THE HORROR . . .THE HORROR"
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What's wrong with Liberals?
Liberals are children: unprepared for critical reasoning and contextual comprehension. "Making RICH people POOR does not make POOR people RICH."
Liberals are the most IMPRACTICAL people on earth. Therefore, they should NEVER be allowed to participate in the FORMULATION and IMPLEMENTATION of Public Policy. Liberals are a disaster waiting to happen.
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"The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?" [Jeremiah 17:9]
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"I am who I am." (Exodus 3:14)
"His sovereignty rules over all." [Psalm 103:19]
"I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness..." (John 1:23)
"For we are the temple of the living God." (2 Corinthians 6:16)
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you; before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations." (Jeremiah 1:5)
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Benjamin Netanyahu (Chairman of the Likud Party) believes that "the president of Iran intends to exterminate Israel." He said that the most important thing is to stop Iran from getting nukes.
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The United States is the only country that has the combination of military, economic, and political power required to lead the world in "defending and extending freedom and in deterring and resisting aggression." [Richard M. Nixon, Beyond Peace]
"America must lead." [Richard M. Nixon, Beyond Peace]
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"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival." [Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill]
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Hebrews 9:27
". . . it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgement. . ."
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Job 7:1-3
Is not all human life a struggle? Our lives are like that of a hired hand, like a worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid. I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
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How frail is humanity! How short is life, how full of trouble! We blossom like a flower and then wither. Like a passing shadow, we quickly disappear.
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Job 19:25
I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.
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Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorant words? Brace yourself like a man, because I have some questions for you, and you must answer them. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you know so much. [Job 38:2-4]
You asked, ‘Who is this that questions my wisdom with such ignorance?’ It is I—and I was talking about things I knew nothing about, things far too wonderful for me. [Job 42:3]
VOTE REPUBLICAN. Life is better in a RED state.
In his Second Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said that "the judgments of the LORD are true and righteous altogether." (Psalm 19:9)
"Remember Lot's wife." (Luke 17:32)
"Whoever acknowledges me before men, I will also acknowledge him before my Father in heaven. But whoever disowns me before men, I will disown him before my Father in heaven." [Matthew 10:32-33]
"Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever." [Hebrews 13:8]
The more I listen to Liberal Democrats, the more I like Conservative Republicans.
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- - -LIBERALISM, SOCIALISM, AND COMMUNISM BELONG ON THE TRASH-HEAP OF HISTORY.
Making RICH people POOR does not make POOR people RICH .
Since 1965, we have spent five trillion dollars waging a war on poverty. But yet, we have more poor because we pay people to remain poor.
Patrick Jake O'Rourke said: "You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money." However, Jesus advised us further that we can't get rid of poverty by any means whatsoever when He said: "You will always have the poor among you..." (John 12:8)
Thomas Jefferson: "I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
ENTITLEMENT policies are diametrically opposite to the concept of BUDGETING. Entitlement policies are completely incompatible with the principles of representative government.
The Liberal Democrats have employed consistently a dual-strategy of LEGISLATIVE INCREMENTALISM and JUDICIAL ACTIVISM to impose their immoral agenda upon an unwilling conservative majority.
James Madison: "I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations."
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GOP: God Ordains Policy.
Newton Leroy Gingrich served as the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 1999. In 1995, Time Magazine selected him as the Man of the Year for his role in leading the Republican Revolution in the House, ending 40 years of Democratic majorities in the House. During his tenure as Speaker he represented the public face of the Republican opposition to Bill Clinton.
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Raconteur of Conservative Talk Radio
Rush Hudson Limbaugh III described the recent rape prosecution against the Duke University lacrosse players as an "abomination" that exemplifies the abuse that occurs when Liberals possess "unassailable" power. [Tuesday 16 Jan 2007]
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Liberals
They’re freedom-plucking Liberals. It’s a freedom-plucking fad. They’re plucking all our freedom. Freedom-plucking’s bad. They’re freedom-plucking Liberals in a freedom-plucking bout. They’ll continue plucking freedom till the people pluck them out.
The Liberals fleece the flock. It’s a flock-fleecing crime. They’re a fleecing bunch of flockers, flocking all the time. They’re flock-fleecing Liberals. They like to shear the sheep. They’ll fleece the flock forevermore if the flock remains asleep.
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Attention Liberal Democrats. (AKA Lemmings of the Loony Left)You are getting very sleepy. Your eyes are getting very heavy. In the 2008 election you will vote a straight Republican ticket. When I clap my hands you will wake up. You will not remember our conversation today. CLAP CLAP CLAP.
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Meet the 2008 presidential nominee of the "Quisling" Democrats.
The 2008 politically-correct, secular-progressive presidential nominee, Curly Howard, is shown receiving advice from two ranking members of the DNC regarding the best way to appease the socialist kook-fringe.
THREE BLIND MICE
Disorder in the court
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Bill O'Reilly asserts that secular-progressive (SP) politicians do not state their goals openly because voters do not accept the following tenets of the secular-progressive agenda:
1. redistribution of wealth via a progressive income tax which disproportionately burdens the wealthiest members of society2. less school discipline to promote "their so-called liberties"3. hostility towards religious values and expression via support of legal organizations that remove religious icons from publicly-owned spaces4. one-world approach to foreign policy because American interests are not considered first5. furtherance of individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility- - - - -
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS is a corrosive movement that condemns the panorama of western civilization as the sexist, racist product of 'dead white males.'
The Conspiratorial Network
The Secret Truth about DNC Political Theater: "If you don't read, watch, or listen to the Liberal Media, then you are UNINFORMED. If you do read, watch, or listen to the Liberal Media, then you are MISINFORMED."
“DUCK SOUP†LIBERALS
The word “canard†(French for duck) refers to a deliberately false story. It seems to apply aptly to the preposterous reporting by a Liberal, “Duck Soup†Media known for ethical disregard, intellectual buffoonery, and political cynicism in time of crisis. A very famous quote by Rufus T. Firefly [Groucho Marx] in “Duck Soup†(1933) accurately represents the public policy position of Liberals on National Security. As the movie quotation indicates, “Duck Soup†Liberals have no respect for the heavy sacrifice required of military personnel.
"And remember, while you're out there risking life and limb through shot and shell, we'll be in here thinking what a sucker you are!"Most Liberals attempt to conceal their left-wing extremism. They pretend to be humane and moderate, but advocate an insane, radical agenda. Fortunately, Liberals can’t fool all of the people all of the time. As a practical matter, how does one identify members of the extremist, lunatic fringe while they pretend to be reasonable and respectable? James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916) offered the best advice.
"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."- - - - - - -
A politician is defined as a person primarily interested in political office for selfish or other narrow and usually short-sighted reasons.
On the LEFT-Coast, radical politicians who purportedly represent in Congress the "Socialist Republic of TAXifornia" continue to erode the constitutional rights and freedoms guaranteed to the citizenry of the United States.
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DNC Literary Style: "Purple Prose" which is a style that is characterized as overly extravagant, ornate or flowery. In addition, it includes writing that employs certain RHETORICAL effects such as EXAGGERATED SENTIMENT or pathos in an attempt to MANIPULATE the response of a reader or voter.
Pernicious Princess of Purple Prose: Feminazi Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) who wrote her first Purple Prose novel in 2005 entitled "A Time to Run." If the book had been about Senator Boxer herself, then the book would have been entitled "A Time to Run From Islamic Fascism."
During Senate hearings in Jan 2007, Boxer attempted to DISQUALIFY Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as a credible witness rather than DEBATE foreign policy issues. TO WIT: Feminazi Boxer riduculed the personal life of Secretary Rice insofar as Rice does not have children. Boxer concluded that Rice doesn't have a personal stake in the outcome.
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Prissy Pelosi played some pranks of prickly pretense, Some pranks of prickly pretense Prissy Pelosi played. If Prissy Pelosi played some pranks of prickly pretense, Which prickly pranks of pretense did Prissy Pelosi play?
Nancy Pelosi: Tooncinator of the House
Joe Sixpack and Vicki Voter discover that "Toonces" Pelosi is the "Speaker Who Could Drive an Agenda," just not very well. Meanwhile, Lyle and Brenda discover on SNL that "Toonces, The Cat Who Could Drive A Car," doesn't drive very well either. To research the results of her legislation, refer to your CLIFF NOTES.
- - - - - - - - -Official 2008 DNC "Double-Speak" Reference Manual: "The 21st Century Marxist-Leninist Manifesto Vocabulary Guide for Useful Idiots," printed originally in 1848, updated and reprinted by "Party Line Publishing" located in the socialist republic of Tax-achusetts. Use this guide to research terms such as "politically correct."
DNC Diva of Double-Speak: Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton, a Senator representing the "VAMPIRE STATE," New York. As a devious, deadly, black-widow politician, she could be considered as the "Madame Thérèse Defarge" of the Democrats. While First Lady, she purported herself to be the victim of a "vast right-wing conspiracy." Her allegation was reminiscent of the Salem Witch Trials of 1692 when the main evidence used against the accused was "spectral evidence," or the testimony of the afflicted who claimed to see the apparition or the shape of the person who was allegedly afflicting them.
Hillary Clinton said: "I want the Iranians to know that if I'm the president, we will attack Iran . . . ." Islamic Fascists worldwide are rejoicing because she was an UNSUCCESSFUL "Tooncinator" candidate of the DEMOCRAT (ic!) Party. She could drive an agenda, just not very well.
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George Soros (AKA DR Evil) is the PUPPETMASTER.
DNC Godfather of Greed: György Schwartz (AKA George Soros). On Black Wednesday (September 16, 1992), the Bank of England was forced to withdraw the currency out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism and to devalue the pound sterling, and Soros earned an estimated US$ 1.1 billion in the process. He was dubbed "the man who broke the Bank of England." In 1997, during the Asian financial crisis, then Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad accused Soros of using the wealth under his control to punish ASEAN for welcoming Myanmar as a member. Later, he called Soros a moron. Thai nationals have called Soros "an economic war criminal" who "sucks the blood from the people".
A Marionette, not a Messiah
Proposed 2008 DNC Interpretation of Campaign Finance Reform: All Republican contributors are "Fat Cats" in a culture of greedy corruption and all Democrat contributors of the same monetary amount are "Public-Spirited Philanthropists" demonstrating great integrity and deserving high esteem.
Proposed 2008 DNC Legal Basis for Challenging Election Results: "We liberals have a legal right to be angry, snobby know-it-alls. However, we don't acknowledge any responsibility because we're smarter and better than everyone else. The Pro-Life people in red states are hopelessly dumb and pathetically religious. If they had been born in a smarter state, then they would have voted for a very rich, Ivy-League, Liberal Democrat. Therefore, the court should reverse the results of the election." Credit: Law Firm of Dewey, Cheetem, and Howe.
Proposed 2008 DNC platform: "The abandonment of all beliefs, principles, values, and policies."
Proposed 2008 DNC Motto: "Let's put some lipstick on this pig!"
Proposed 2008 DNC Analogy for Mass Persuasion: Drinking the Kool Aid
Proposed 2008 DNC Nickname for Supporters: Lemmings of the Loony Left
DNC Ambassador of Appeasement: James Earl Carter, Jr. (AKA Jimmy Peanut), misguided idiot and one of Israel’s harshest critics. As a notorious author, "...he is a liar and the father of lies" (John 8:44). In his detestable diatribe, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid," Jimmy Carter blames "powerful political, economic and religious forces†inside the United States of America for "submissive" pro-Israel policies. He disregards the self-evident fact that America’s continuing bipartisan support of Israel is not a result of pressure from “powerful political, economic and religious forces.†It is based on U.S. interests. Israel is a democracy whose citizens share common values with the American people.
Jimmy would like to apologize to all of the tinhorn tyrants of the world. It's a wonderful day in the neighborhood. Won't you be my neighbor? (If not, then the United Nations will protect us.) Hold hands and repeat after me twelve times: "OH WA, TAH GU, SI AM."
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1 Kings 3:24-28
The Wisdom of Solomon
Abortion - Infanticide
24 Then the king said, "Bring me a sword." So they brought a sword for the king. 25 He then gave an order: "Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other."
26 The woman whose son was alive was filled with compassion for her son and said to the king, "Please, my lord, give her the living baby! Don't kill him!" But the other said, "Neither I nor you shall have him. Cut him in two!"
27 Then the king gave his ruling: "Give the living baby to the first woman. Do not kill him; she is his mother."
28 When all Israel heard the verdict the king had given, they held the king in awe, because they saw that he had wisdom from God to administer justice.
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The Feminazi Doctrine
Feminazi: Woman whose ideas are vehemently MISANDROUS; i.e. - having an irrational and extreme hatred of men.
DNC Mistress of MISANDRY: Bettye Naomi Goldstein (AKA Betty Friedan). This famous MISANDRIST promoted her twisted, MISANDRIC worldview in a 1963 book entitled "The Feminine Mystique." However, a more accurate title would have been "The Feminazi Mistake." This GYNOCENTRIC GURU co-founded the US National Organization for Women with 27 other women and men. When young, she was active in Marxist and Jewish radical circles.
The Gorgons of Gynocentrism
DNC Secular Scripture: The GYNOCENTRIC GOSPEL (AKA MISANDRIC GENDER FEMINISM). This rabid, extremist dogma designates men as society's official scapegoats for all evil, and women as society's official victims responsible for all good. It asserts that men must pay reparations to women collectively for the crimes against women throughout history. Men as a class are considered irreformable and 'all' men are considered rapists. Marriage, rape and prostitution are seen as the same things. It has joined hands with "political correctness" which is a corrosive movement that condemns the panorama of western civilization as the sexist, racist product of 'dead white males.'
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THERE IS NOTHING DEMOCRATIC ABOUT THE "DEMOCRATIC" PARTY.
In the "Democrat" Party, every vote does NOT count. Barack "Insane" Obama will have gained the "Democrat" nomination due to the blatent VOTER FRAUD perpetrated by the DNC against the voters who participated in the "Democrat" primaries for Michigan and Florida.
Democracy is a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised by them directly or indirectly through a system of representation usually involving periodically held free elections.
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Official DNC Theology: SACRAMENTAL SECULARISM.
DNC sacraments are "outward, visible signs that convey an inward, spiritual grace" that are conferred exclusively to Liberal Democrats or Enemy Combatants, not by God, but by the Judicial Activists on the Supreme Court. The seven sacred sacraments of the DNC include:
1. Gestational "Baptism" performed by a pagan high priestess from Planned Parenthood during any procedure involving abortion, infanticide, or embryonic stem-cell research;
2. Entitlement "Eucharist" (AKA Communion) requiring the consumption of environmentally friendly Kool-Aid and global-warming wafers in order to commemorate the establishment of income redistribution;
3. Televised "Confirmation" during an "Anita-on-the-Hill" Senate hearing politicized by slanderous and/or libelous charges concerning issues of race and/or gender;
4. Matriarchal "Ordination" by the National Organization for Women (NOW) of practicing homosexuals, lesbians, transsexuals, cross-dressers, and members of any other unusual category deemed eligible as a "victim" group by virtue of being disadvantaged in a patriarchal society;
5. "Reconciliation of a Penitent" Liberal Democrat or Islamic Fascist (AKA Confession), as expressed and conveyed by Spin-Doctors of the Liberal Media, for unethical misconduct such as perjury following impeachment or having published or uttered an extremely scurrilous, anti-Semitic diatribe;
6. Judicial "Anointing of the Sick" or elderly prior to court-ordered euthanasia; and
7. Civil "Matrimony" between two or more members of the same sex, different species, or both regardless of age.
Tinky Winky and the Teletubbies: A moral menace corrupting the hearts and minds of young children
Hidden Homosexual Symbol: In the February 1999 issue of his magazine, National Liberty Journal, Jerry Lamon Falwell, Sr. stated that the creators of the TV program intended for Tinky Winky to be a gay role model. "He is purple -- the gay-pride color; and his antenna is shaped like a triangle -- the gay-pride symbol," he wrote. He noted also that Tinky Winky carries a purse-like bag.
Children are vulnerable to television propaganda because they are unprepared for critical reasoning and contextual comprehension.
A Depraved Mind [Romans 1:26-32 NIV]
God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done.
They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
Although they know God's righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.
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If a man lies with a man as one lies with a woman, both of them have done what is detestable. They must be put to death; their blood will be on their own heads. [Leviticus 20:13 NIV]
Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor practicing homosexuals nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. [1 Corinthians 6:9-10 TNIV]
They have sunk deep into corruption, as in the days of Gibeah. God will remember their wickedness and punish them for their sins. [Hosea 9:9 NIV]
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Patron Saint of the DNC: Joseph P. Kennedy, Sr., a self-serving, double-dealing, bootlegging Democrat of Defeatism. While assigned as the U.S. ambassador to England, he was fired by FDR in Nov 1940 for having made defeatist statements considered to be extremely disloyal to the national interest. (I guess that Ted Kennedy had a good teacher.) Harvey Klemmer served as one of Kennedy's embassy aides. When Klemmer returned from a trip to Germany and reported the pattern of vandalism and assault on Jews by Nazis, Kennedy responded: "well, they brought it on themselves."
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The Civil War complaint of Confederate General Robert E. Lee seems applicable today to Liberal Democrats. President Bush must deal with the same dilemma.
"I have been up to see the Congress and they do not seem to be able to do anything except to eat peanuts and chew tobacco, while my army is starving." [Robert E. Lee]- - - - - - -
Giving money and power to Liberal Democrats is like giving whiskey and car keys to Ted Kennedy.
Chappaquiddick Island MA on Saturday July 19, 1969 at 0930: License plate # L78 207 had been issued to Edward M. Kennedy, Room 2400, JFK Building, Government Center, Boston, Massachusetts. Antone Bettencourt confronted Kennedy. "Senator, do you know there's a girl found dead in your car?" The girl was Mary Jo Kopechne.
"Senator Kennedy killed that girl the same as if he put a gun to her head and pulled the trigger" - George Killen ~ State Police Detective-Lieutenant
"Do we operate under a system of equal justice under law? Or is there one system for the average citizen and another for the high and mighty?" - Senator Ted Kennedy, 1973
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Jane Fonda: Hollywood Whore
On November 21, 1970, Jane Fonda told a University of Michigan audience of some two thousand students, "If you understood what communism was, you would hope, you would pray on your knees that we would some day become communist." At Duke University in North Carolina she repeated what she had said in Michigan, adding "I, a socialist, think that we should strive toward a socialist society, all the way to communism." [Washington Times July 7, 2000]
Jane Fonda referred to the returning POWs as being "hypocrites and liars."
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The Triumph of Capitalism
Mikhail S. Gorbachev wrote that his Perestroika program would be “the final argument in the historical dispute as to which system is more consistent with the interests of the people.†He said that the Soviet Union [USSR] would become “the living embodiment of the advantages that are inherent in the socialist system.â€
George Herbert Walker Bush said: “Growth and prosperity are enhanced by strengthening and extending the scope of market forces, not by substituting government dictates for the free choices of workers, consumers, and businesses.â€
Eastern Europeans used to say: “There is no unemployment, but no one works. No one works but the plan is always fulfilled. The plan is fulfilled but there is nothing to buy.â€
Eastern Europeans used to say that Communism was “the longest road from capitalism to capitalism.â€
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Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue . . . it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.' (Second Inaugural Address of Abraham Lincoln on Saturday 04 Mar 1865) / (Psalm 19:9)
"America must win this war. Therefore I will work, I will save, I will sacrifice, I will endure, I will fight cheerfully and do my utmost, as if the issue of the whole struggle depended on me alone." (Martin Treptow, who left his job in a small town barbershop in 1917 to go to France with the famed Rainbow Division. There, on the western front, he was killed trying to carry a message between battalions under heavy artillery fire.) Inaugural Address of President Ronald Reagan on 20 Jan 1981.
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The Global Warming HOAX
There is absolutely NO empirical evidence to support the Global Warming thesis. In a speech given to the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works on July 28, 2003, entitled "The Science of Climate Change", Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) concluded by asking the following question: "With all of the hysteria, all of the fear, all of the phony science, could it be that man-made global warming is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people?" Inhofe has suggested that supporters of Kyoto (e.g., Jacques Chirac) are aiming at global governance.
Phony Science - Follow the Money
Scientists have a vested financial interest in lying. They want to receive Research Grants. In the spirit of Willy Sutton who robbed banks, Scientists have concocted the Global Warming HOAX and created mass hysteria because that's where they keep the money.
The late George Carlin didn't believe in "going green."
For by now I could have stretched out my hand and struck you and your people with a plague that would have wiped you off the earth. But I have raised you up for this very purpose, that I might show you my power and that my name might be proclaimed in all the earth. [Exodus 9:15-16 NIV]
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We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.
Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said, "Because it is there."
Well, space is there, and we're going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there. And, therefore, as we set sail we ask God's blessing on the most hazardous and dangerous and greatest adventure on which man has ever embarked.
Thank you.
Wednesday September 12th, 1962
JFK speech delivered at Rice University
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=8862
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COSMOLOGY
A SPACEFARING AGE OF DISCOVERY HAS BEGUN. WITH THE SOLAR WIND WE WILL RUN FIRST TO MARS. THEN TO THE STARS WE WILL SAIL THE GREAT COSMIC OCEAN ON WAVES OF MIGRATION NOW IN MOTION.
"Lift your eyes and look to the heavens: Who created all these?" [Isaiah 40:26] Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, the view represents the deepest portrait of the visible universe ever achieved by humankind. The snapshot reveals the first galaxies to emerge from the so-called "dark ages," the time shortly after the big bang when the first stars reheated the cold, dark universe. The new image should offer new insights into what types of objects reheated the universe long ago.
This historic new view is actually two separate images taken by Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and the Near Infrared Camera and Multi-object Spectrometer (NICMOS). Both images reveal galaxies that until now were too faint to be seen by ground-based telescopes, or even in Hubble's previous faraway looks, called the Hubble Deep Fields, taken in 1995 and 1998.
"Hubble takes us to within a stone's throw of the big bang itself," says Massimo Stiavelli of the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore, Md., and the Hubble Ultra Deep Field project lead. The combination of ACS and NICMOS images will be used to search for galaxies that existed between 400 and 800 million years (ranging from redshift 7 to 12) after the big bang. A key question for astronomers is whether the universe appears to be the same at this very early time as it did when the cosmos was between 1 and 2 billion years old.
The Ultra Deep Field contains an estimated 10,000 galaxies. In ground-based photographs, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is so empty that only about seven stars within the Milky Way galaxy can be seen in the image. - - -
Mars and Acidalia
Taking advantage of Mars's closest approach to Earth in eight years, astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have taken the space- based observatory's sharpest views yet of the Red Planet. The telescope's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 snapped these images between April 27 and May 6, when Mars was 54 million miles (87 million kilometers) from Earth. From this distance the telescope could see Martian features as small as 12 miles (19 kilometers) wide. The telescope obtained four images, which, together, show the entire planet. Each view depicts the planet as it completes one quarter of its daily rotation. In these views the north polar cap is tilted toward the Earth and is visible prominently at the top of each picture. The images were taken in the middle of the Martian northern summer, when the polar cap had shrunk to its smallest size. During this season the Sun shines continuously on the polar cap. Previous telescopic and spacecraft observations have shown that this summertime "residual" polar cap is composed of water ice, just like Earth's polar caps. These Hubble telescope snapshots reveal that substantial changes in the bright and dark markings on Mars have occurred in the 20 years since the NASA Viking spacecraft missions first mapped the planet. The Martian surface is dynamic and ever changing. Some regions that were dark 20 years ago are now bright red; some areas that were bright red are now dark. Winds move sand and dust from region to region, often in spectacular dust storms. Over long timescales many of the larger bright and dark markings remain stable, but smaller details come and go as they are covered and then uncovered by sand and dust. This image is centered near the location of the Pathfinder landing site. Dark sand dunes that surround the polar cap merge into a large, dark region called Acidalia. This area, as shown by images from the Hubble telescope and other spacecraft, is composed of dark, sand-sized grains of pulverized volcanic rock. Below and to the left of Acidalia are the massive Martian canyon systems of Valles Marineris, some of which form long linear markings that were once thought by some to be canals. Early morning clouds can be seen along the left limb of the planet, and a large cyclonic storm composed of water ice is churning near the polar cap.
http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/subject-all.html
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Current NASA chief Michael Griffin has identified space colonization as the ultimate goal of current spaceflight programs, saying:
"...the goal isn't just scientific exploration... it's also about extending the range of human habitat out from Earth into the solar system as we go forward in time. . . . In the long run a single-planet species will not survive... If we humans want to survive for hundreds of thousands or millions of years, we must ultimately populate other planets. Now, today the technology is such that this is barely conceivable. We're in the infancy of it... I'm talking about that one day, I don't know when that day is, but there will be more human beings who live off the Earth than on it. We may well have people living on the moon. We may have people living on the moons of Jupiter and other planets. We may have people making habitats on asteroids... I know that humans will colonize the solar system and one day go beyond."
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