Let’s just say, I’m a runner. Most of these are true for me…

You roll your eyes when people talk about low carb diets.

You say you’re going out for a short run and come back two hours later.

You think high 40s/low 50s and overcast sounds like perfect weather.

You get up earlier on weekends than you do during the work week.

You tell your wife you want a marathon entry as a birthday present.

When someone asks you how far you are planning to run, you say “I’m ONLY doing 10 today.

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We live in a world today where one person or one blanket organization can own and control many different companies under different names. This could be good, or this could be bad.

Let’s say a company that publishes books for men wanted to publish a book for women. They would create or buy a new company and publish the women’s book under the new name. Sounds like a good idea.

But what if you own a publisher of Christian books like Zondervan and wanted to produce pornographic material? Well, you would also own Harper Collins which published the book How to Have Sex Like a Porn Star. This isn’t speculation. This is a real life case.

How can the owner of a well known publisher of Bibles and Christian books also have his hand in the porn industry - not just books, but also hard core television stations? Here’s my theory.

Because the sacred is treated as a gimmick, because it’s just another market, because “Christians” are too soft to make a stand. It’s this type of behavior that give followers of Christ a bad name. I am sick of people and churches that are afraid to speak the truth because they’re afraid of offending someone, churches that won’t confront a person’s sin, and churches that preach a crossless, Christless, and hell-less gospel. I am sick of people who would pollute the truth with a little bit of a lie for personal gain.

In Leviticus, something that even touches an unclean thing was deemed unclean. So it goes, I believe, in this case. By embracing both sides, the clean and unclean, we are introducing flies into the ointment. The ointment may be mostly clean, it may kinda sorta work, but it’s contaminated. If you had 100 gallons of water and knew that there was a single drop of cyanide in it, would you drink it? I wouldn’t.

It’s time for the church to rise up and separate itself from the world, not ostracize it, but to be a light, different and standing out in the darkness, because in the dark, everything looks the same. It’s time for people to quit going to church for a fix and start going to collide with Christ. It’s time for a church reformation, for people to stop sticking thier fingers in the dirt and then in the ointment, it’s time for a clean ointment that can heal our people, not an ointment filled with flies.

Source Article: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55616

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I wonder if Nancy Pelosi will now wake up to herself and realize that she doesn’t have a clue what she is talking about and that the democrats stance on the War on Terror is fundementally and utterly flawed becasue they have no idea of the depths of hatred that the muslims have towards Christians and Jews.

read whole article here.

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3 killed in Turkey Bible attack

By BENJAMIN HARVEY
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER

	An injured man lies on the ground outside a publishing house in Malatya, southeastern Turkey, Wednesday, April 18, 2007. Assailants killed three people Wednesday at a publishing house that distributed Bibles, in the latest attack apparently targeting Turkey’s tiny Christian minority. (AP Photo/Burhan Karaduman, Ihlas News Agency)

ISTANBUL, Turkey — Assailants on Wednesday slit the throats of three employees of a publishing house that distributes Bibles, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Turkey’s small Christian minority.

The attack added to concerns in Europe about whether the predominantly Muslim country - which is bidding for EU membership - can protect its religious minorities. It also underlined concerns about rising Turkish nationalism and hostility toward non-Muslims.

The three victims - a German and two Turks - were found with their hands and legs bound and their throats slit at the Zirve publishing house in the central city of Malatya.

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WW II cost the United States an amount equal to approximately a full year’s GDP — adjusted for inflation, equal to about $12 trillion dollars. WW II cost America more than 400,000 soldiers killed in action, and nearly 100,000 still missing in action.

The Iraq war has, so far, cost the United States about $160,000,000,000, which is roughly what the 9/11 terrorist attack cost New York. It has also cost about 3,000 American lives, which is roughly equivilant to lives that the Jihad killed (within the United States) in the 9/11 terrorist attack .

The cost of not fighting and winning WW II would have been unimaginably greater — a world dominated b y Japanese Imperialism and German Nazism.

This is not a 60-Minutes TV show, or a 2-hour movie in which everything comes out okay . The real world is not like that. It is messy, uncertain, and sometimes bloody and ugly. It always has been, and probably always will be .

Read complete article by : Raymond S . Kraft below

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by Kerby Anderson

The last week in February started out with an incredible announcement. James Cameron (director of the film “Titanic”) and Simcha Jacobovici announced that they have found the bones of Jesus! At their news conference, they promoted their Discovery Channel special “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” that will air on March 4th and also promoted the book by Simcha Jacobovici and Charles Pellegrino entitled The Jesus Family Tomb: The Discovery, the Investigation, and the Evidence That Could Change History released by Harper­Collins.

The foundational claim is that they have discovered the family tomb of Jesus Christ. But is this really the tomb of Jesus or his family? There are many good reasons to believe this tomb has no relationship at all to Jesus and his family. Many are asking what to think about these claims. Therefore, I put together a quick two-­page summary of some of the criticisms and concerns that surfaced in the first few hours after the announcement. Before we look at those criticisms, let’s first review the history of this tomb.

We have known about this tomb since it was discovered in 1980. Back then, Israeli construction workers were digging the foundation for a new building in a Jerusalem suburb. Their digging revealed a cave with ten limestone ossuaries. Archeologists removed the limestone caskets for examination.

When they were able to decipher the names on the ten ossuaries, they found: Jesua, son of Joseph, Mary, Mary, Mathew, Jofa and Judah, son of Jesua. At the time, one of Israel’s most prominent archeologists (Professor Amos Kloner) didn’t associate the crypt with Jesus. He rightly argued that the father of Jesus was a humble carpenter who couldn’t afford a luxury crypt for his family. Moreover, the names on the crypt were common Jewish names.

All of this hasn’t stopped James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici from promoting the tomb as the family tomb of Jesus. They claim to have evidence (through DNA tests, archeological evidence, and Biblical studies) to prove that the ten ossuaries belong to Jesus and his family. They also argue that Jesus and Mary Magdalene might have produced a son named Judah. However, a number of biblical scholars say this is a really just an old story now being recycled in an effort to create a media phenomenon that will sell books and guarantee a large audience for the television special.

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Apparently, New Jersey has just issued a warning to its Ringwood residents regarding the hunting of squirrels…. yep, you read right… squirrels. According to the state, the Ringwood area has a toxic waste dump that is right next to a popular hunting ground for squirrels. In recent weeks, researchers found a dead squirrel that was contaminated with lead and they have been deemed a health risk.

Are you laughing yet? Oh, trust me… it gets better.

The Department of Health, along with the Department of Environmental Protection, sent out letters to warn its residents to “eat squirrel no more than twice a week and even less for children and pregnant mothers.” (Yes, eat… as in these people are hunting the radioactive suckers and then deep-fat-frying them.) Some sources are saying that these wildlife are undergoing changes due to the toxic nature of the area and are warning residents that the squirrels are contaminated with lead, and consuming them can cause health defects.

One of the greatest quotes (in my opinion) comes from Myrtle Van Dunk, who stated “we’ve known for a long time something was wrong here, we just didn’t know what it was.” Not sure, Myrtle, but I’d guess that the squirrels shouldn’t be glowing. Heck, maybe what was wrong was that you were EATING squirrels in the first place…

So for those of you planning a trip to New Jersey, take caution… If your squirrel is glowing, has two tails, three heads, and comes pre-nuked, you may want to consider having the Caesar Salad instead…

oh, for those interested, here is a link to one of the articles about this.
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/1182678018278752136308043974640667544681

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The Washington Post has published the winning submissions to its yearly contest, in which readers are asked to supply alternate meanings for common words.

The winners are:

1. Coffee (n.) the person upon whom one coughs.

2. Flabbergasted (adj.) appalled over how much weight you have gained.

3. Abdicate (v.) to give up all hope of ever having a flat stomach.

4. Esplanade (v.) to attempt an explanation while drunk.

5. Negligent (adj.) describes a condition in which you absent-mindedly answer the door in your nightgown.

6. Lymph (v.) to walk with a lisp.

7. Gargoyle (n.) olive-flavored mouthwash.

8. Flatulence (n.) emergency vehicle that picks you up after you are run over by a steamroller.

9. Balderdash (n.) a rapidly receding hairline.

10. Testicle (n.) a humorous question on an exam.

11. Rectitude (n.) the formal, dignified bearing adopted by proctologists.

12. Pokemon (n) a Rastafarian proctologist.

13. Oyster (n.) a person who sprinkles his conversation with Yiddishisms.

14. Frisbeetarianism (n.) (back by popular demand): The belief that, when you die, your Soul flies up onto the roof and gets stuck there.

15. Circumvent (n.) an opening in the front of boxer shorts worn by Jewish men.

The Washington Post’s Style Invitational once again asked readers to Take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are this year’s winners:

1. Bozone (n.) The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

2. Cashtration (n.) The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period .

3. Giraffiti (n) Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

4. Sarchasm (n) The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

5. Inoculatte (v) To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

6. Hipatitis (n) Terminal coolness.

7. Osteopornosis (n) A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

8. Karmageddon (n) It’s like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it’s like, a serious bummer.

9. Decafalon (n.) The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.

10. Glibido (v) All talk and no action.

11. Dopelar effect (n) The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

12. Arachnoleptic fit (n.) The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

13. Beelzebug (n.) Satan in the form of a mosquito that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

14. Caterpallor (n.) The color you turn after finding half a grub in the fruit you’re eating.

15. Ignoranus (n): A person who’s both stupid and an butthead.

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We can’t say “Merry Christmas,” we can’t have ads for The Nativity in Chicago, we can’t sing Christmas carols in school programs, and now even Santa Claus is being attacked as a religious figure. If the American Civil Liberties Union had their way, we may even see some of the following nativity characters begin to grace front lawns.

AUSTIN, TX – The Young Conservatives of Texas - University of Texas Chapter announced today that they will be displaying an “ACLU Nativity Scene” on the West Mall of the University of Texas campus on Monday and Tuesday, December 4th and 5th. The group’s intent is to raise awareness on the extremity of the ACLU, and bring to light its secular-progressive efforts to remove Christmas from the public sphere. The display, the first of its kind in the nation, will feature characters that are quite a bit different than the standard crèche.

“We’ve got Gary and Joseph instead of Mary and Joseph in order to symbolize ACLU support for homosexual marriage, and of course there isn’t a Jesus in the manger,” said Chairman Tony McDonald. “The three Wise Men are Lenin, Marx, and Stalin because the founders of the ACLU were strident supporters of Soviet style Communism. The whole scene is a tongue-in-cheek way of showing the many ways that the ACLU and the far left are out of touch with the values of mainstream America.”

The scene will also display a terrorist shepherd and an angel in the form of Nancy Pelosi.

“The ACLU and other left-wing extremist groups are working diligently to destroy American’s rights to the free expression of religion,” said Executive Director Joseph Wyly. “We’ve already seen in Chicago an attempt to censor the nativity by a city government this week. It’s just more evidence that there is a War on Christmas being waged by the far-left in this country…”

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