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Post-journalism.. Blog Administrator — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 08:00:00 -0600 In the 3rd book of his history, Thucydides has some insightful thoughts about destroying institutions in times of zealotry—and then regretting their absence when there is a need for refuge for them. The mainstream press should have learned that lesson, once they blew up their credibility in the past election by morphing into the Team Obama press agency. There will come a time in the year ahead when either Obama's unexamined past will come back to haunt him, or his inexperience and tentativeness in foreign affairs will be embarrassingly apparent, or his European-socialist agenda for domestic programs simply won't work. Homosexuals begin campaign of terror and violence against Churches MASS Resistance — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:00:00 -0600 Almost immediately after Proposition 8 – the anti-gay “marriage” amendment – was overwhelmingly passed by California voters, homosexual activists began threatening to burn down churches and other acts of violence. Lesbians parked a van with a big sign "Bigots" in front of a Mormon family's house. A Sacramento theater director was forced to resign from his job after it was revealed that he had given a $1000 donation to the Yes on Prop 8. Writer Linda Harvey received an email threat from a Houston lawyer who brazenly identified himself. He told her: "You are very much being watched! All you jeebus-lovin-christers rights will slowly be taken away one by one." Submarine History - Part 4 Blog Administrator — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:00:00 -0600 When I wrote the original column ending this series on the U.S. Navy’s submarine force, it was dated on a day that “lives in infamy,” the attack on Pearl Harbor ... Submarine History - Part 3 Blog Administrator — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500 The U.S. submarine force paid a high price for its success against the Japanese in WW II. Fifty-two boats and 3,131 men and 374 officers were lost. The loss of submarines and their crews did not end with the end of WWII. In 1949, the USS Cochino (SS345), a diesel boat... Oswald Chambers - Christian Perfection First Voice — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. It is a snare to imagine that God wants to make us perfect specimens of what He can do; God’s purpose is to make us one with Himself. The emphasis of holiness movements is apt to be that God is producing specimens of holiness to put in His museum. The thing that tells for God is not your relevant consistency to an idea of what a saint should be, but your real vital relation to Jesus Christ, and your abandonment to Him whether you are well or ill. Christian perfection is not, and never can be, human perfection. In the New Testament, “world” means the system of things which has been built on God’s earth, the system of religion or of society or of civilisation that never takes Jesus Christ into account. Submarine History - Part 2 Blog Administrator — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:00:00 -0500 U.S. submarine operations in WW II illustrate well the reason why we have set aside a special holiday to honor those who serve in the armed forces. In WW II, the submarine force, representing but two percent of the U.S. Navy, destroyed 30 percent of the Japanese Navy, including eight aircraft carriers, one battleship, and 11 cruisers. They also destroyed about 55 percent of the Japanese merchant fleet, strangling the Japanese war effort. The USS Sculpin, a sister boat, was the boat that found Squalus on the ocean bottom in 1939. In 1943, the Sculpin was sunk by a Japanese destroyer when it caught the Sculpin on the surface. Twenty-one sailors were rescued by the Japanese. While they were being transported to Japan in a Japanese aircraft carrier, the carrier was torpedoed and sunk by the Sailfish, ex-Squalus. Only one member of the Sculpin crew survived. Submarine History - Part 1 Blog Administrator — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 08:00:00 -0500 In 1776, David Bushnell built an egg-shaped submarine, about seven feet in height, manned by one person. It had ballast tanks, pumps, and a depth control mechanism. The internal volume provided a 30-minute air supply. On September 6, 1776, Erza Lee took the Turtle into New York harbor to attack the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. Its torpedo was a flask of gun powder to be attached to the hull. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle’s rudder, lost depth control, and surfaced before the gun powder could be planted. Lee and the Turtle escaped. Oswald Chambers: The Law And The Gospel First Voice — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 07:00:00 -0500 To be an Uncommon Believer….Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning….Be the Voice of the LORD. The moral law never alters, either for the noblest or for the weakest, it is eternally and abidingly the same. The moral law ordained by God does not make itself weak to the weak, it does not palliate our shortcomings, it remains absolute for all time and eternity. Conviction of sin always brings a fearful binding sense of the law, it makes a man hopeless - "sold under sin." I, a guilty sinner, can never get right with God, it is impossible. There is only one way in which I can get right with God, and that is by the Death of Jesus Christ. McTique II...are you listening Topeka? TRACKSIDE — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 08:00:00 -0500 The New Zealand educational system was failing. More and more money was poured into the system while achievements headed south. McTigue said "It cost us twice as much to get a poorer result than we did 20 years previously with much less money." They found that only 30 cents of every education dollar reached the classroom. (The educrats were well fed.) They eliminated all Boards of Education, and placed each of 4,500 schools under the control of a board of trustees elected by the parents of students at the school. They gave each school a bag of money based on the number of students with no strings attached to the bag. Private schools got the same bag of money, allowing parents to choose which schools got the money for their children. Within 18 months, the large achievement disparity between public and private schools evaporated as teachers were empowered to teach - and realized that without students in their classrooms, they would be without employment. Within three years, New Zealand students went from being 14 or 15 percent below their international peers to 14 or 15 percent above them in academic performance. In Topeka, are you listening? Amazing Grace...why must I suffer? Blog Administrator — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:35:00 -0500 Blessings arrive in unexpected packages, - in my case, cancer. Those of us with potentially fatal diseases - and there are millions in America today - find ourselves in the odd position of coping with our mortality while trying to fathom God's will. Although it would be the height of presumption to declare with confidence "What It All Means," Scripture provides powerful hints and consolations. The first is that we shouldn't spend too much time trying to answer the "why" questions: Why me? Why must people suffer? Why can't someone else get sick? We can't answer such things, and the questions themselves often are designed more to express our anguish than to solicit an answer. But despite this, - or because of it, - God offers the possibility of salvation and grace. We don't know how the narrative of our lives will end, but we get to choose how to use the interval between now and the moment we meet our Creator."

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Homosexuals begin campaign of terror and violence against Churches

Submarine History - Part 4

Submarine History - Part 3

Oswald Chambers - Christian Perfection

Submarine History - Part 2

Submarine History - Part 1

Oswald Chambers: The Law And The Gospel

McTique II...are you listening Topeka?

Amazing Grace...why must I suffer?

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