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We got a puppy last week. It was not an easy decision -- we lost our ol' pal, Droopy Dawg, to cancer in 2002 after nearly fourteen years of constant companionship. We weren't even planning to get a puppy -- it just sort of happened. About all we had agreed to was to walk through a couple of pet stores and see how we felt about it. Besides, if nothing else, we'd get to pet a lot of puppies -- is there anything more fun than being accosted by a passel o' puppies?...Read More
On Christmas Eve, Tracey Hermanstorfer died during childbirth in Colorado. It was tragic. But it happens. That's just how it is. Death during childbirth is rare; its estimated to claim less than a million lives globally, but it is not unheard of. When the body dies, it automatically shuts down non-essential operations first as a last-ditch effort to preserve the blood supply for the critical organs, sort of like a drowning man trying to grab that last breath as he slips below the surface. ...Read More
Blog: HI. I'm from Interpol. Obama Sent Me.
SUBJECT: Transparency and Open Government My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government. -- Source: President Barack Hussein Obama. The New White House under the Change Regime was to be the most transparent ever. The only thing transparent was the promise. ...Read More
I have to tell you -- I'm darned surprised to be writing this New Year's Eve column. I half-expected we'd have been Raptured by now. Yet here we stand, on the threshold of the second decade of the 21st century. How did that happen? If ever there were a year that seemed Rapture-ready, it's been the last one. Ten days after being sworn in, Obama rammed through an almost trillion-dollar 'stimulus' bill that not one member of the House admitted to having read. ...Read More
Blog: The Decade Without a Name
The interesting thing about the first decade of the 21st century is that even as it draws to a close, nobody really knows what to call it. The British called it 'the Noughties' but that was way too cute to catch on Across the Pond. The 'two-thousands' is too cumbersome and the 'oughts' seems too archaic. There is none of the easy nostalgia of the '50s or the '60s. One can write about the nuttiness that characterized the 70's or label the '80s the Microsoft Decade...Read More
Blog: There'll Always Be An England
When the 20th century dawned the phrase, "The sun never sets on the British Empire" was a patriotic expression that had been in use for centuries. The expression was a reference to the fact that British colonies circled the planet like the sun. By 1922, the British Empire controlled almost a quarter of the Earth's land area and governed a quarter of the world's population. In 1939, an Englishman...Read More
Blog: Closing the Books on a Decade of Woe
We're just days from saying goodbye to the first decade of the 21st century. If one wanted to summarize the first ten years of the 21st century, it would be the Decade of Fear. The decade opened with the threat posed by the Y2K Bug to bring about the instantaneous destruction of Western civilization. Ahmed Ressam intended to ring in the New Year with a bomb attack...Read More
Special Report: "Is Christmas a Christian Holiday?
I know a lot of Christians who refuse to celebrate Christmas. And a lot more who do, but feel guilty about it before the Lord, whether they want to admit it or not. It is difficult to really identify Christmas as it is celebrated in our culture with a Christian holiday. There's a reason for that. Although a majority of Americans polled identify themselves with Christmas, the greeting "Merry Christmas"...Read More
I was thinking that they've come a bit early this year, but, no, they are right on time. Every year the legions of atheists, agnostics, animists, pagans and other assorted malcontents come together as one to launch a concerted attack against what they claim is a Mythical Baby. Not one of these groups or individuals believes that the Mythical Baby has any supernatural power or authority...Read More
Blog: The Last Action Has Started...
According to a report from the Iranian news site, Tabnak, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad accused the United States of blocking the Mahdi from coming to Iran. Of course, the charge is laughable. The United States can't even block illegal aliens from coming to Texas. While the charge may be laughable, the story is not. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not merely a religious nut. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a religious nut...Read More
Blog: The Manhattan Declarations
Last year a group of climate scientits and researchers assembled at Times Square in NY City to participate in the 2008 International Conference on Climate Change. It was at that particular conference that a number of scientists, economists, policymakers and business leaders issued the first 'Manhattan Declaration' of the 21st century under the subtitle' "Global Warning Is Not a Global Crisis."...Read More »
Over 12 years ago we warned about it in FINAL WARNING. Daily Headlines now reveal it. The evidence is ALL around us. And it's not just one thing – it's all of it together. All leading us to a new: SHADOW GOVERNMENT. RFID chips being used in everything from clothes to food packaging to National ID and credit cards. Detailed, private information about you (from an RFID chip) can be picked up from a distant...Read More »
For most of the course of human history, mankind has been burying clues about his existence in the places that he lived, the hieroglyphics that he drew, the inventions he left behind. And for almost all of human history, it was ignored, if not plowed under or used for building materials by the generations that immediately followed. Who came before and who and what they were was less...Read More »
Blog: At Such an Hour as Ye Think Not...
For the first time, Federal Reserve officials are using the word 'deflation' in their discussions about the economy and where it is headed. The word has also enjoyed a growth in usage among business reporters: "Federal Reserve officials on Thursday downplayed the consequences of the falling U.S. dollar, underscoring that deflation is still a threat, especially with commercial real estate prices...Read More »
MSNBC's Nancy Snyderman Lobbies for Rationing, Justifies: 'You Ration What Food You Eat'
MSNBC's Dr. Nancy Snyderman appeared on Wednesday's Morning Joe and justified reducing the number of women in their 40s who get mammograms. "No, it is rationing. Let's be clear," she admitted. Confusing private actions by American citizens and the government, the Dr. Nancy host compared, "But, you ration what food you eat. You ration how much sleep you get. And this is saying we should question about how we spend our health care dollars." Of course, the government doesn’t control how much food and sleep Americans get....Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - The Tyrants of Tolerance
The Southern Poverty Law Center is the self-appointed champion of civil rights and self proclaimed leader in advancing tolerance in America. There is an entire section on the website devoted to the subject of 'teaching tolerance'. I watched Bill O'Reilly interview the director of the SPLC on his program last night -- it was utterly chilling. He had J. Richard Cohen on the program as a followup to a segment earlier this year in which Cohen vowed to pressure CNN until it fired anchor Lou Dobbs. O'Reilly bet Cohen it would never happen and later invited Cohen back after Dobbs stepped down to acknowledge Cohen won the bet and to ask him how he did it....Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - Special Report: PA To Unilaterally Declare Statehood?
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat's accused Israel on Saturday of stalling the implementation of the "two-state solution" and said the Palestinians would consequently declare statehood unilaterally and then seek recognition from the UN. "Now is our defining moment. We went into this peace process in order to achieve a two-state solution," Erekat said. "The endgame is to tell the Israelis that now the international community has recognized the two-state solution on the '67 borders."...Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - Lies in Hypocrisy
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron..." (1st Timothy 4:1) This is one of several places in Paul's letters where Paul emphasizes the importance of the point he is making by attributing it directly to the Lord, as if dictated rather than inspired. Another example of this Divine dictation is found in 1st Thessalonians 4:15 where Paul is talking about the Rapture...Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - What Politics Has To Do With Prophecy
Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano announced on Friday that the administration intends to grant amnesty to some fourteen million illegal aliens now inside the country. How many of them are terrorists? The government can't know. How many of them are criminals? The government can't know that, either. How many of them have infectious diseases? Don't know...Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - Waterboarding America
In prepared remarks this morning from Japan, President Obama referred obliquely to the Fort Hood Massacre as a 'tragedy'. One can forgive the President. English is not his mother tongue. Maybe he doesn't know what it means. But the press corps does -- or should -- yet that is the universally-preferred adjective of the mainstream media, suggesting that they have been instructed by the White House to repeat it at every opportunity...Read More »
The Omega Letter Intelligence Digest - It Ain't Easy, Being CleanAmong this morning's emails was one from an OL member asking me to comment on Matthew 12:43-45? It wasn't any more specific than that, but the first words that came to mind as I was re-reading the verses became the title of today's brief. Because it ain't easy, being clean. "When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest, and findeth none. Then he saith, I will return into my house from whence I came out; and when he is come, he findeth it empty, swept, and garnished... Read More »
There is No Dog - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestOftentimes the first objection raised by the skeptic when introduced to the God of the Bible is the argument that God is not fair. It is an argument for which I can offer no rebuttal. God isn't fair, which is a good thing for the rest of humanity. But that isn't something that the carnal mind can understand because it is spiritually discerned. So to them, God isn't fair because a loving God wouldn't send people to hell. A petulant, angry and unfair God could not simultaneously be the loving God of Christianity - therefore God cannot exist... Read More »
The Strange Case of Major Nidal Hassan - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestI was examining the strange case of Major Niidal Malik Hassan. Major Hassan was an Arab-American of Palestinian descent whose devout Muslim beliefs had already come to the Army's attention. Hassan was an Army psychiatrist, assigned to counsel returning war veteran's at Walter Reid Army Hospital in DC. Some of Hasan's patients complained that he was engaged in proselytizing for Islam, a grave breach of both medical ethics and Army policy. Had Hasan been proselytizing for Christianity, he would probably have been cashiered. Even Army chaplains are forbidden to proselytize -- especially Christians..... Read More »
The Third Element - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestThe Fort Hood Massacre has re-ignited the debate about the inherent dangers of religious fundamentalism -- not just Islamic fundamentalism, but religious fundamentalism in general.... Read More »
Why Christianity Has No Respect from Intellectuals, It is not Issuing FATWASLast October, I did a blog about the cowardice of Yale Intellectuals concerning their attitudes toward Islam. I also included FAMILY GUY and CNN commentators in that cowardice. Click here to read the blog That cowardice seems to be endemic. My point being, if you are going to trash one religion, Christianity, have the integrity to trash them all, including Islam. If, however, you are afraid to trash Islam, refrain from trashing any religion...Read More »
The Public Option - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestThe Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta is confirming what almost everybody in America already suspected. There is nowhere nearly enough H1N1 vaccine for everybody. And there won't be. The H1N1 flu season is at its peak, with state-wide heavy outbreaks in 49 of fifty states – an unprecedented level. The CDC estimates that as many as 5.7 million people have been infected so far...Read More »
Be Careful What You Pray For - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestPresident Barack Obama's approval rating has fallen further and faster than any president since Richard Nixon. Republicans are resurging in the off-year elections; Virginia is all but certain to elect the GOP candidate for governor whereas reliably blue state New Jersey is a toss-up. Third-party conservative candidate Doug Hoffman is favored to defeat his Democratic opponent; Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava pulled out to watch from the sidelines...Read More »
The Goldstone Report - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestThe United Nations Human Rights Council has formally endorsed the conclusions of the UN-commissioned "Goldstone Report" that accuses the government of Israel of war crimes during the Operation Cast Lead assault on Gaza Strip terrorists. The 574-page report included accusations that Israeli forces indiscriminately attacked universities, mosques and civilian areas. Its pages are full of testimony from witnesses, or partial witnesses or, more accurately, non-witnesses who heard stories from their brother-in-law who knows someone who was almost there. ...Read More »
"Then They Came for Me..." - The Omega Letter Intelligence DigestLutheran pastor Martin Niemoller was initially a strong supporter of both Adolf Hitler and of national socialism. Neimoller served as an officer of the Imperial German Navy during WWI. His daring exploit as as submariner in action against the Allies earned him the Iron Cross First Class. After the war, Niemoller resigned his commission to protest post-war Germany's new democratic government following Kaiser Wilhelm's abdication. The son of a Lutheran pastor, Niemoller eventually attended seminary and was ordained in 1924...Read More »
FIRST AMENDMENT/HATE CRIMES LEGISLATION UPDATE WASHINGTON NEXT WEEKWhat comes to mind when you hear the words "public interest"? Right now, health care is one of the most hotly debated political issues in the United States. Everyone is talking about the so-called "public option," which is a euphemism for government-run health care for the public. One would assume that such an option might be "in the public interest," yet whether or not that's really true is the crux of the ongoing debate. Then there's law enforcement. Speed limits are ostensibly created because it's in the public interest for everyone to drive at a "safe" speed. If you've ever driven on a long trip covering multiple state borders, however, you realize that each state defines that speed limit differently. Speed limits considered to be in the public interest in Massachusetts differ greatly from the speed limits in the public interest if North Carolinians....Read More »
