Drug Testing For Welfare Recipients

I’ve long been an advocate for mandatory drug testing for anyone getting government aide. And yes all of the liberal civil rights people claim it’s an invasion of privacy and all that other garbage. But where are these same civil rights activists when millions of Americans are required by their employers to have drug tests done first to qualify for a job and then to keep it?

If honest hard working Americans are required to take drug tests in order to earn their wages and pay their taxes, then shouldn’t those trying to live off of those taxes also have to take drug screening tests?

One Alabama state congressman feels the same way. Kerry Rich, newly elected to the Alabama State House of Representatives, is planning on introducing a bill that would require drug testing for all Alabama welfare recipients. Rich was part of a group of Republicans that took control of the Alabama legislature for the first time in 136 years, indicating a growing trend among voter dissatisfaction with Democratic performances.

In a statement made by Rich, he said, “I’m fed up with being politically correct. We’re at a point in this country where we need to start telling it like it is and not worry if it hurts somebody’s feelings…I know it’ll be controversial, and I’ll be called every name in the book. They’ll say I’m mean and I don’t like poor people. But I promise you this: We’re trying to help these people so much that we’re actually hurting them. And that is completely upside down.”

According to Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard: “We wanted the people of Alabama to know that there were new sheriffs in town, and things were different…Why should the taxpayer be required to give money to somebody to go out and buy drugs with? “I’m sorry, I’ve just got a problem with that.”

And to no surprise, one of the local liberal Democrats, Rep. Napoleon Brady said: “We’re singling out certain groups of people, particularly the poor and powerless, and punishing them. Sadly, not much has changed since the civil rights days.”

Yes they’re singling out a specific group of people – drug users. What has trying to stop illegal drug users from using taxpayer dollars to buy their drugs, to do with the civil rights days or how is it punishing poor people? With this type of logic, no wonder the Dems lost control of the Alabama legislature.

This author applauds Rep. Rich and his fellow GOP House members and prays that they prove successful in this long overdue piece of legislation. I also hope and pray that GOP politicians in every state follows suit and helps to clean up part of the abused welfare system.

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Just very interesting.

THE PRESIDENTIAL IMPOSER-----a must readAugust 23, 2010 Just who exactly is this man posing as President of the United States? That’s a question being asked by a growing number of Americans.In fact, a recent poll by CNN — a news organization that has been downright gushing in its praise of Barack Obama — showed that six out of 10 people are uncertain the President was even born in the U.S. And that includes about one-third of all Democrats.It’s troubling that so many question Obama’s eligibility to hold the office of President but that so few of the elected class and those of national prominence will even broach the issue. It demonstrates what a superb job Obama’s team and the Democrat party have done in casting those who question his status as a natural born citizen as the lunatic fringe.In fact, if you are a “birther” — a term coined by the mainstream press to disparage those who doubt Obama’s eligibility to hold office based on his citizenship — even so-called conservative icons like Ann Coulter and Glenn Beck consider you a nut.All this proves is that the elitists who shape messages are a clique interested not in seeing that the U.S. Constitution is upheld, but in maintaining their power and protecting their own. This was demonstrated once before, when the House of Representatives voted to impeach Bill Clinton for lying to a grand jury, but the Senate voted 100-0 not to remove him.When was the last time the Senate was unanimous on anything? Democrats and Republicans never agree unanimously. The fix was in from the beginning.So, too, is the issue of Obama’s citizenship and eligibility. The fix is in, even though the evidence that he is not a natural-born citizen, and therefore ineligible to hold the office, far exceeds evidence that he is.The Republican governor in Hawaii says a birth certificate exists but she has sealed access to it, thereby eliminating one avenue of determining whether he was born in Hawaii, as he says, or in Kenya, as Michelle Obama, several of Obama’s Kenyan relatives (his paternal grandmother, half sister and half brother) and a couple of Kenyan officials have said. And for you Obama sycophants, don’t even bring up the certificate of live birth (COLB) posted online as proof. The COLB was available to anyone. It is not a legal document, does not list the attending physician, does not include his fingerprints or footprints, could not have been used to obtain his passport and is only a diversion to a weak-minded press and public.Earlier this year a senior Honolulu elections clerk went on local television and said that it was common knowledge among election officials that no official birth certificate — he called it the long-form birth record — exits in Hawaii, despite what Governor Linda Lingle has said.The whole situation remains a muddle, just as Obama and his handlers want it. Documents disappear. Other documents crop up — some that cast more doubt on his story and some that seem at first glance to support his claims but simply serve to send the discussion on a tangent. And Obama fights disclosure at every turn, sending agents from the U.S. Justice Department out to block all efforts at obtaining his records.Thankfully, one news organization is doggedly pursuing the story. Joseph Farah and his reporters at WorldNetDaily (WND) hammer on the Obama eligibility story relentlessly, slowly chipping away at the facade. Some other conservative, fearless publications and websites are also digging for the truth and opining on the eligibility question.Yet despite a total blackout from the main stream media on the subject of Obama’s citizenship, 60 percent of the American public still doubt Obama’s story that he was born in Hawaii. As Farah says, that means the birthers are winning.There are some things we do know — or can surmise — about Obama, thanks to WND, some other publications and Obama’s own book, Dreams From My Father.The man who would ascend to the Presidency in 2009 was born to Ann Dunham on Aug. 4, 1961. The father is purported to be Barack Hussein Obama, a Kenyan student in Hawaii who married Dunham on Feb. 2, 1961.Some have speculated that Barack Obama II’s (this is how Obama’s name is listed on the COLB) biological father was actually Frank Marshall Davis, a black friend of Ann Dunham’s parents and the man the young Obama would later claim in his autobiography was his mentor. The speculation about Davis — a radical communist — as possibly Obama’s biological father stems from a book Davis wrote under a pseudonym in which he describes having sex with an under aged white girl. The idea is plausible, as Davis was a good friend of Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, Ann Dunham’s parents.The irony is that this is one nativity story that would cement Obama’s claim to be a natural-born citizen. If Obama Sr., a Kenyan citizen, is Obama’s father, Obama is not a Constitutionally described natural-born citizen because one parent is a non-citizen and the other was a minor and therefore unable to bestow citizenship on the child — if Obama was born in Kenya, as many believe.As lawsuits have claimed, there is no evidence — beyond the afore-mentioned COLB — that Obama was born in Hawaii. Both Obama and a half sister have named two different Hawaii hospitals as his birth place, no records exist that Dunham was hospitalized in Hawaii and no physician or nurse has stepped forward to claim they assisted with the birth.Obama’s supporters have pointed out that newspaper articles published in August 1961 in the Honolulu Advertiser and the Honolulu Star-Bulletin prove Obama was born in Hawaii. The address listed was the address of Madelyn and Stanley Dunham, Ann Dunham’s parents. WND has reported that official documents show Obama Sr., had a residence at another address at the same time. And neighbors of the Dunhams told WND they don’t recall a white woman with a black baby ever living next door. College transcripts indicate Dunham moved with her new baby to Seattle within days of Obama’s birth and enrolled in the University of Washington for classes that began on Aug. 19, 1961.These birth announcements prove only that someone submitted information to two newspapers to herald the birth of a baby. They document the timeframe of the birth, not the location. The baby could have been born on Mars and these announcements could have still run in the newspapers.Another problem Obama faces is found in his mother’s trip to Indonesia with her second husband, Lolo Soetoro, in the late 1960s. WND has reported that several lawsuits challenging Obama’s eligibility hinge on this time in Indonesia, which does not allow dual citizenship. Documents released by the U.S. State Department under two Freedom of Information Act requests indicate he may have given up his citizenship when he moved there.Those documents show that Obama’s mother sought to have “Barack Obama II (Seobarkah)” removed from her passport, possibly as a prelude to obtaining Indonesian citizenship for him. If she did this it was more than likely for the child’s safety, as it was a turbulent time in Indonesia and there was a strong anti-American sentiment there.While in Indonesia Obama was enrolled in school under the name of Barry Soetoro, as proven by school records photographed by an Associated Press photographer in 2007. Those school records list Soetoro as an Indonesian citizen, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on Aug. 4, 1961, and records his religion as Muslim.According to WND, Obama was either 5 or 6 years old when he traveled to Indonesia. This is important because if Lolo Soetoro adopted him at age 5 then he would have automatically become an Indonesian citizen. The law differed for children aged 6 and up and an adoption for a 6-year-old would have had to take place through legal channels.Another puzzle uncovered by WND revolves around a photograph of Obama — or Soetoro, whoever he is — with another child at a school in Hawaii at the same time he was enrolled in school in Indonesia. The photo is marked has having been taken in 1969, and there is no good explanation as to how he was attending school in two different places at the same time.The Obama camp has also refused to explain why Obama/Soetoro is using a Social Security number issued in Connecticut. WND has reported that two private investigators discovered the Social Security number anomaly and filed documents in an eligibility lawsuit showing the number was issued in Connecticut between 1977 and 1979, yet Obama’s/Soetoro’s earliest reported employment was at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream shop in Hawaii in 1975.The Social Security website confirms that the first three numbers of Obama’s/Soetoro’s Social Security number are reserved for applicants with Connecticut addresses. That Social Security number corresponds with Obama’s/Soetoro’s Selective Service registration, according to WND.Finally, questions surround a trip Obama/Soetoro has admitted he took to Pakistan in 1981, WND reports.“I traveled to Pakistan when I was in college — I knew what Sunni and Shia was [sic] before I joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee,” Obama/Soetoro reportedly stated at a fundraising event.Pakistan in 1981 was under military rule. It was difficult for U.S. citizens to travel to the country without assistance. It would have been easier for someone to enter Pakistan on an Indonesian passport, WND reports.Obama/Soetoro could easily clear up the confusion by releasing his birth records, his school records, college records and other official documents. Instead, he is spending millions of dollars to fight all attempts to obtain documents that most public officials release by habit. That begs the question: What is he hiding?Some brave souls are fighting the good fight in trying to get to the bottom of the mysterious background of the 44th President. Some military people are putting their careers on the line in an attempt to get proof that any orders Obama/Soetoro issues are legitimate.However, the court system seems hell-bent on covering up any efforts at discovery. It consistently throws out lawsuits on standing and is frequently hostile to plaintiffs. Several judges have threatened lawyers and plaintiffs with stiff fines if they continue to pursue the matter.Meanwhile, the only logical conclusion is that Obama/Soetoro is not Constitutionally eligible to hold the office of President. Any other view is only based on hope — Obama’s/Soetoro’s favorite theme.A Constitutional crisis is in the offing and when the truth finally gets out about Obama’s/Soetoro’s citizenship, the legitimacy of orders signed by an illegitimate President will be called into question. Expect mass chaos to ensue.That very well could be the culmination of the whole plan by Obama/Soetoro and those pulling his strings

Obama a man without a country.

"We're no longer a Christian nation." - President Barack Obama, June 2007 "America has been arrogant." - President Barack Obama "After 9/11, America didn't always live up to her ideals."- President Barack Obama "You might say that America is a Muslim nation."- President Barack Obama, Egypt 2009 Thinking about these and other statements made by the man who wears the title ofpresident, I keep wondering what country he believes he's president of. In one of my very favorite stories, Edward Everett Hale's "The Man without a Country," a young Army lieutenant named Philip Nolan stands condemned for treason during the Revolutionary War, having come under the influence of Aaron Burr. When the judge asks him if he wishes to say anything before sentence is passed, young Nolan defiantly exclaims, "Damn the United States ! I wish I might never hear of the United States again!" The stunned silence in the courtroom is palpable, pulsing. After a long pause, the judge soberly says to the angry lieutenant: "You have just pronounced your own sentence. You will never hear of the United States again.. I sentence you to spend the rest of your life at sea, on one or another of this country's naval vessels - under strict orders that no one will ever speak to you again about the country you have just cursed." And so it was. Philip Nolan was taken away and spent the next 40years at sea, never hearing anything but an occasional slip of the tongue about America. The last few pages of the story, recounting Nolan's dying hours in his small stateroom - now turned into a shrine to the country he fore swore - never fail to bring me to tears. And I find my own love for this dream, this miracle called America , refreshed and renewed. I know how blessed and unique we are. But reading and hearing the audacious, shocking statements of the man who was recently elected our president - a young black man living the impossible dream of millions of young Americans, past and present, black and white - I want to ask him, "Just whatcountry do you think you're president of?" You surely can't be referring to the United States of America , can you? America is emphatically a Christian nation, and has been from its inception! Seventy percent of her citizens identify themselves as Christian. The Declaration of Independence and our Constitution were framed, written and ratified by Christians. It's because this was, and is, a nation built on and guided by Judeo-Christian biblical principles that you, sir, have had the inestimable privilege of being elected her president. You studied law at Harvard, didn't you, sir? You taught constitutional law in Chicago ? Did you not ever read the statement of John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and an author of the landmark "Federalist Papers": "Providence has given to our people the choice of their rulers - and it is the duty, as well as the privilege and interest of our Christian nation - to select and prefer Christians for their rulers"? In your studies, you surely must have read thedecision of the Supreme Court in 1892: "Our lives and our institutions must necessarily be based upon and embody the teachings of the Redeemer of mankind. It is impossible that it should be otherwise; and in this sense and to this extent our civilization and our institutions are emphatically Christian." Did your professors have you skip over all the high-court decisions right up till the mid 1900's that echoed and reinforced these views and intentions? Did you pick up the history of American jurisprudence only in 1947, when for the first time a phrase coined by Thomas Jefferson about a "wall of separation between church and state" was used to deny somespecific religious expression - contrary to Jefferson' s intent with that statement? Or, wait a minute . were your ideas about America 's Christianity formed during the 20 years you were a member of the Trinity United Church of Christ under your pastor, Jeremiah Wright? Is that where you got the idea that " America is no longer a Christian nation"? Is this where you, even as you came to call yourself a Christian, formed the belief that " America has been arrogant"? Even if that's the understandable explanation of your damning of your country and accusing the whole nation (not just a few military officials trying their best to keep more Americans from being murdered by jihadists) of "not always living up to her ideals," how did you come up with the ridiculous, alarming notion that we might be "considered a Muslim nation"? Is it because there are some 2 million or more Muslims living here, trying to be good Americans? Out of a current population of over 300 million, 70 percent of whom are Christians? Does thatmake us, by any rational definition, a "Muslim nation"? Why are we not, then, a "Chinese nation"? A "Korean nation"? Even a "Vietnamese nation"? There are even more of these distinct groups in America than Muslims. And if the distinction you're trying to make is a religious one, why is America not "a Jewish nation"? There's actually a case to be made for the latter, because our Constitution - and the success of our Revolution and founding - owe a deep debt to our Jewish brothers. Have you stopped to think what an actual Muslim America would be like? Have you ever really spent much time in Iran? Even in Egypt? You, having been instructed in Islam as a kid at a Muslim school in Indonesia and saying you still love the call to evening prayers, can surely picture our nation founded on the Quran, not the Judeo-Christian Bible, and living under Shariah law. Can't you? You do recall Muhammad's directives [Surah 9:5,73] to "break the cross" and "kill the infidel"? It seems increasingly and painfully obvious that youare more influenced by your upbringing and questionable education than most suspected. If you consider yourself the president of a people who are "no longer Christian," who have "failed to live up to our ideals," who "have been arrogant," and might even be "considered Muslim" - you are president of a country most Americans don't recognize. Could it be you are a president without a country?

Obama has lost it

Since when have those of us with a different approach or opinion become enemies of the state? In this case enemies of Obama! Mr. Obama, you are an enemy to the people of the United States. You are not our king nor do we even think you are close to beign a friend of God. You are trying to destroy the Constitution of this great land. This one document has made more people free, and created more happyness and prosperity than any other in the history of the world. Now you are trying to tell me, a loyal patriotic citizen of the this country that I am the enemy because I disagree with you. Who do you think you are anyway. You are nothing but a piss-ant in my book.
I have disagreed with many presidents in the past and have not been told that I am an enemy of the state. Never were Union Goons sent after me the push back double to shut me up. You are out of your mind mr. president. (lower case intentional). What are you afraid off sir. Maybe you are not afraid at all, maybe it has been your intention to destroy this great land of freedom. You have never held a job in all your life. I have busted my but since I was 13 years old and always paid my own way. I love this country with all of its flaws. But you are the greatest mistake we as a nation have ever allowed to come upon us. We will continue to protest all the policies and programs that take away our freedoms. Go ahead and throw me and the majority in jail. We will gladly go, because we know that God is on our side. We do not want Cap and Trade, We do not believe that we caused global warming, we like our healthcare system, we like the pledge of allegiance, and we love the Constitution and The Bill of Rights.
I hope you listen to the people. No more beer summits, You are the one who should have apologized to the Cops. You blew it sir.
I hope you will listen to the people. We have read the documents and we know what you are up to. Clean up your act.

I am just an average, hard working proud American, trying to take care of his family. Stop trying to destroy everything you jerk.

Mr. President

Your desire has poisoned you mind,
You have mistakenly thought you were saving your people,
Your discontent is enslaving a generation of Americans,
Your pride has fouled your bed,
You have begun to believe your own lies,
You will never be satisfied, you will be filled with sorrow and discontent.

FOR THE LEADER WHO WOULD BE GOD

When the Tao is present in the universe,
The horses haul manure.
When the Tao is absent from the universe,
War horses are bred outside the city.

There is no greater sin than desire,
No greater curse than discontent,
No greater misfortune than wanting something for oneself.
Therefore he who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Tao Te Ching 46

THE BUDDA'S REMEMBERING

'In recollection all former births passed before His eyes. Born in such a place, of such a name, and downwards to His present birth, so through hundreds, thousands, myriads, all His births and deaths He knew.'
Ashvaghosha's Life of the Budda

Thanatology

"Strive after the Good before thou art in danger,

before pain masters thee

and thy mind loses its keenness"

Kularnava Tantra, I.27

Losing Your Way

It is a rare being who can cross the ocean of existence without a boat. Few of us are ready to see through ego's illusions and thereby achieve instant liberation. So we use methods, we use a boat, with the understanding that when we get to the other shore, we'll leave the boat. We're not going to portage; we needn't carry the boat on our heads. We'll be finished with boats. But the boat can entrap or liberate. Whether you end up as a boatman or as one liberated depends on your original motive for spiritual work. You can become a connoisseur of boats, collecting the very best. Or you can go to the far shore, beyond beyond: "Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha," beyond even the concept of beyond.Ram Das,,,Journey of Awakening

God

I don't know what sort of God we have been talking about.

The caller calls in a loud voice to the Holy One at dusk.
Why? Surely the Holy One is not deaf.
He hears the delicate anklets that ring on the feet of an insect as it walks.

Go over and over your beads, paint weird designs on your forehead,
wear your hair matted, long, and ostentatious,
but when deep inside you there is a loaded gun,
How can you have God?

Kabir

President Spencer W. Kimball

"Warlike peoples pervert patriotism. We are a warlike people, easily distracted from our assignment of preparing for the coming of the Lord. When enemies rise up, we commit vast resources to the fabrication of gods of stone and steel--ships, planes, missiles, fortifications--and depend on them for protection and deliverance. When threatened, we become anti-enemy instead of pro-kingdom of God; we train a man in the art of war and call him a patriot, thus, in the manner of Satan's counterfeit of true patriotism, perverting the savior's teaching: 'Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you and persecute you;' we forget that if we are righteous the Lord will either not suffer our enemies to come upon us--and this the special promise to the inhabitants of the land of the Americas--or he will fight our battles for us."

J. Reuben Clark

LDS Church News of February 20, 1952

Every engagement with a foreign nation which, if met, deprives us of the power to determine our own course at the moment of implementation, impairs our sovereignty.
Every treaty of alliance, bipartite or multi-partite (the United Nations Charter is of the latter class,) impairs our sovereignty, because every alliance requires a surrender of rights,...

World Government...NO THANKS!!!!

"Today, America would be outraged if UN troops entered Los Angeles to restore order. Tomorrow they will be grateful. This is especially true if they were told that there were an ouside threat from beyond, whether real or promulgated, that threatened our very existence. It is then that all peoples of the world will plead to deliver them from this evil. The one thing every man fears is the unknown. When presented with this scenario, individual rights will be willingly relinquished for the guarantee of their well-beign granted to them by the World Government."

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. (a true american) Ha Ha.

This was part of his speech to the Bilderberger Conference held in Evians France, in 1991.
There is a plan to take away our God given rights. We must be alert.

Do we want a World Government?

"In the next century, nations as we know them will be obsolete; all states will recognize a single global authority. National sovereignty wasn't such a good idea after all..."

Time magazine July 20, 1992 Strobe Talbott, former deputy secretary of state.

Black Elk

Grown men may learn from very little children, for the hearts of little children, and, therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

The Sacred Pipe

Within You

All that you seek is already within you. In Hinduism it is called the Atman; in Buddhism, the pure Buddha-mind. Christ said, "The kingdom of heaven is within you." Quakers call it the "still, small voice within." This is the space of full awareness that is in harmony with all the universe, and thus is wisdom itself...Time and time again your attachments may veil this truth from you. Your attachments lead you to seek outside of yourself for answers that can only come from the heart. Each time you lose contact with that inner awareness, you need only meditate...Listen to your heart.

Ram Das---Journey of Awakening

Ram Dass

Quotes: "If you think you're free, there's no escape possible."

"When you are already in Detroit, you don't have to take a bus to get there."

"The most exquisite paradox as soon as you give it all up, you can have it all. As long as you want power, you can't have it. The minute you don't want power, you'll have more than you ever dreamed possible."

Facing Weaknesses

We have all been enchanted with getting high, having a free awareness, and so we have tried to repress or deny lows when our awareness once again gets caught in this or that. We love the illusion of being high but are afraid of coming down. As your journey proceeds, you realize that you can't hold on to your highs and deny your lows. Your lows are created by the remaining attachments that blind your awareness. Facing your lows--your anger, loneliness, greed, fears, depressions, and conflicts--is the most productive fire of purification you can find.

Ram Das---Journey of Awakening

The Practice of the Presence of God

The time of business does not with me differ from the time of prayer, and in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.

---Brother Lawrence

Mount Analogue

I had heard about a superior type of man, possessing the keys to everything which is a mystery to us. This idea of a higher and unknown strain within the human race was not something I could take simply as an allegory. Experience has proved, I told myself, that a man cannot reach truth directly, nor all by himself. An intermediary has to be present, a force still human in certain respects, yet transcending humanity in others. Somewhere on our Earth this superior form of humanity must exist, and not utterly out of our reach. In that case shouldn't all my efforts be directed toward discovering it? Even if, in spite of my certainty, I were the victim of a monstrous illusion, I should lose nothing in the attempt. For, apart from this hope, all life lacked meaning for me.

---Rene Daumal

Finding a Guru

Seeking one's guru is like going on a pilgrimage. It is a useful journey, but you don't have to take it to finish the path. There is a good possibility you will never meet your guru. But because you do not meet your guru does not mean you do not have one. Any person that reaches toward God, toward liberation, toward the spirit, is noticed, and a contact is made with the vehicle or form that will ultimately draw one home. You needn't know your guru. It is only necessary that your guru know you.

Ram Das---Journey of Awakening

Finding God

Before a man can find God....all his likings and desires have to be utterly changed...
All things must become as bitter to thee as their
enjoyment was sweet unto thee.

--John Tauler

He who contemplates the Lotus Feet of God
Looks on even the most beautiful woman as
mere ash from the cremation ground.

Sri Ramakrishna

The dark night of the soul is when you have lost the flavor of life but have not yet gained the fullness of divinity.

Ram Das-- Journey of Awakening

From: St. John of the Cross

That thou mayest have pleasure in everything,

Seek pleasure in nothing.

That thou mayest know everything,

Seek to know nothing.

That thou mayest possess all things,

Seek to possess nothing.

That thou mayest be everything,

Seek to be nothing.

Losing Your Way

It is a rare being who can cross the ocean of existence without a boat. Few of us are ready to see through ego's illusions and thereby achieve instant liberation. So we use methods, we use a boat, with the understanding that when we get to the other shore, we'll leave the boat. We're not going to portage; we needn't carry the boat on our heads. We'll be finished with boats.
But the boat can entrap or liberate. Whether you end up as a boatman or as one liberated depends on your original motive for spiritual work. You can become a connoisseur of boats, collecting the very best. Or you can go to the far shore, beyond beyond: "Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgate, bodhi svaha," beyond even the concept of beyond.
Ram Das,,,Journey of Awakening

Different horn on the same cow!!!!

There is no truth from our government. The Republicans and the Democrats answer to the same people and put in place the same programs. We the People of the United States have God given rights and responsibilities. The government is trying to tell us that they are smarter than God. Have we all given in to the relinquishing of our God given Freedoms? Look to the Constitution, an inspired document from God. Our founding fathers declared that the Constitution would bind the government, It needs binding today. We the People need the stand up and risk it all to take back our God given freedoms and declare this nation to be one nation under God.

A New Direction For America

The Democrats' new promise "A New Direction For America - Vote >Democratic" >
>The stock market is at a new all-time high and America's 401 K's are back. >A >new direction from there means,what? >
>Unemployment is at 25 year lows. A new direction from there means,what? >
>Taxes are at 20 year lows. A new direction from there means what? >
>Federal tax revenues are at all-time highs. A new direction from there >means, what? >
>The Federal deficit is down almost 50%, just as predicted over last year. >A >new direction from there means what? ** >
>Home valuations are up 200% over the past 3.5years. A new direction from >there means, what? >
>Inflation is in check, hovering at 20 year lows. A new direction from >there >means, what? >
>Not a single terrorist attack on US soil since 9/11/01. A new direction >from >there means, what? >
>Osama bin Laden is living under a rock in a dark cave, having not surfaced >in years, if he's alive at all, while 95% of Al Queda's top dogs are >either >dead or in custody, cooperating with US Intel. A new direction from there >means, what? >
>Several major terrorist attacks already thwarted by US and British Intel, >including the recent planned attack involving 10 Jumbo Jets being exploded >in >mid-air over major US cities in order to celebrate the anniversary of the >9/11/01 attacks. A new direction from there means, what? >
>Just as President Bush foretold us on a number of occasions, Iraq was to >be >made "ground zero" for the war on terrorism -- and just as President Bush >said they would, terrorist cells from all over the region are arriving >from the >shadows of their hiding places and flooding into Iraq in order to get >their >faces blown off by US Marines rather than boarding planes and heading to >the >United States to wage war on us here. A new direction from there means, >what? >
>Now let me see, do I have this right? I can expect:
>a. The economy to go South
>b. Illegals to go North >
c. Taxes to go Up >
d. Employment to go Down >
e. Terrorism to come back to the U.S. >
f. Tax breaks to go Out >g. Social Security to go away >
h. Health Care to go the same way gas prices have gone >
>But what the heck! I can gain comfort by knowing that Nancy Pelosi, >Hillary >Clinton, John Kerry, Edward Kennedy, Howard Dean, Harry Reid, and Barak >Obama have worked hard to create a comprehensive National Security Plan, >Health >Care Plan, Immigration Reform Plan, Gay Rights Plan, Same Sex Marriage >Plan, >Abortion On Demand Plan, Tolerance of Everyone and Everything Plan, How to >Return all Troops to the U.S. in The Next Six Months Plan, A Get Tough >Plan, >adapted from the French Plan by the same name and a How Everyone Can >Become as >Wealthy as We Are Plan. Oh, and I almost forgot the No More Katrina Storm >Plan. >
>Now I know why I feel good after the elections. I am going to be able to >sleep soooooo much better at nights knowing these dedicated politicians >are >thinking of me and my welfare.= >

Illuminati Murdered at least Two Other Presidents

May 04, 2007
By Henry Makow Ph.D. "The bane of our civil institutions is to be found in Masonry, already powerful and daily becoming more so. I owe to my country an exposure of its dangers." - Captain William Morgan, murdered Sept 11, 1826 A curious but very credible Internet document called "The Mardi Gras Secrets" states that Illuminati agents poisoned and killed Presidents William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) and Zachary Taylor (1784-1850). They also poisoned James Buchanan in 1857 but he survived. All three were obstructing Illuminati- House of Rothschild plans for the US Civil War (1860-1865). The document also describes the Illuminati role in the murders of Abraham Lincoln and Senator Huey Long. We know they also killed Presidents Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy and probably Warren Harding and possibly FDR. If George W. Bush wasn't doing such an awful job, he probably wouldn’t be alive today. The Mardi Gras Secrets website was created in Dec. 2005 by Mimi L. Eustis, the daughter of Samuel Todd Churchill, a high level member of the secret New Orleans Mardi Gras Society called "The Mystick Crewe of Comus." This Society, which reorganized the Mardi Gras festivities in 1857, was a chapter of the Skull and Bones. It began as a front for the activities of Masons Albert Pike, Judah Benjamin and John Slidell who became leaders of the Confederacy. This information is based on Samuel Churchill's deathbed confessions, when he was dying of lung cancer. Mrs. Eustis later decided to make them public after she also contracted the terminal disease.
The Illuminati ringleader was Caleb Cushing (1800-1879), the partner of William Russell, the opium smuggler who founded the Yale Skull and Bones Society in 1832. In order to rise in this society, one had to participate in a "killing of the king" rite of passage. According to Eustis, the Skull and Bones (or Brotherhood of Death) is "nothing more than a political assassination hit team against those United States politicians who do not fall in line with the House of Rothschild's plans for a blood elitest domination and control over the world's economy...For example Caleb Cushing was involved in the arsenic poisoning deaths of United States presidents William Henry Harrison on April 4, 1841 and Zachary Taylor on July 9, 1850. These two Presidents had opposed admitting Texas and California as slave states." William Henry Harrison was the first President ever to die in office, serving only 31 days. According to Wikipedia he died of "pneumonia." On July 3, 1850, Zachary Taylor threatened to hang those ``taken in rebellion against the Union.'' The next day the President fell ill, vomited blackish material, and died July 9. (Kentucky authorities recently dug up Taylor's body looking for evidence of arsenic poisoning.) THE ASSASSINATION OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN I paraphrase Mrs. Eustis: During the Civil War (from 1861-1865), President Lincoln needed money to finance the War . The loan shark-bankers wanted 24% to 36% interest. Instead, Lincoln got Congress to authorize the printing of 450 million dollars worth of "Greenbacks" debt and interest-free money. It served as legal tender for all debts, public and private. The House of Rothschild recognized that sovereign governments printing interest-free and debt-free paper money would break their power. Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was a member of Pike's Knights of the Golden Circle. He was in New Orleans during the winter of 1863-64 and conspired with Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and Admiral G.W. Baird to assassinate Lincoln. Baird later identified the body of Captain James William Boyd as Booth's. (Boyd was in fact a Confederate spy who resembled Booth and was used as a patsy. His body was dumped into an Arsenal Prison sinkhole used to dump dead horses.) Eustis says her father emphasized that most Masons below the 3rd degree were good hardworking people. The Illuminati-Skull and Bones used the Masons as a disguise. Those who rose past the 33 degree level did so by participating in the “Killing of the King” ritual. The lower levels did as they were told without realizing their part in the “Killing of the King”. For assassinating Abraham Lincoln, Pike, Benjamin, Slidell and August Belmont (Rothschild's Northern agent) were made secret Kings of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. Andrew Johnson Vice -President became President and pardoned Albert Pike. Albert Pike awarded Andrew Johnson the thirty-third degree rite of passage. " Doctors were an essential part of the Illuminati plan to kill U.S. political leaders [who] hindered the take over of the U.S. Republic by the international banking elite," Eustis writes. " Illuminati doctors eventually did in both U.S. President William Henry Harrison and Zachary Taylor. They also played a death role in the shooting assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865 (died April 15, 1865), James Garfield on July 2, 1881 (died September 19, 1881), and William McKinley Jr. on September 6, 1901 (died September 14, 1901)." "Teddy Roosevelt became President after William McKinley was shot. Roosevelt received passage into the 33rd. degree and became a secret king of the Mystick Krewe of Comus. During his presidency, the Skull and Bones became firmly entrenched and controlled the U.S. Republic." HUEY LONG Huey Long ("Kingfish") was a populist who mounted a powerful challenge to FDR from his power base as Governor of Louisiana and later as US Senator. Unlike FDR, he was not a Mason and not a shill for the bankers. His "Share Our Wealth" program represented a genuine threat to the Illuminati. An Illuminati member, Dr. Carl Austin Weiss shot Long Sept 8, 1935 and Dr. Arthur Vidrine ensured that Long did not recover. According to Eustis, Weiss was supposed to hit Long in the face, and Long's bodyguard Murphy Roden was supposed to shoot both Weiss and Long.This may indeed be what happened. Roden was a "spy for J. Edgar Hoover." Roden pumped 60 bullets into Weiss'body. Dr. Weiss was told his baby would be killed if he reneged on the mission. Both FDR and J. Edgar Hoover won their 33 degree rite of passage for their participation in this murder. "Franklin Delano Roosevelt was made King of Comus in 1937. When J. Edgar Hoover came down to New Orleans to act out his reign as King of Comus, he was involved in a sexual revelry of homosexuality and cross-dressing with various elitist bloodline members of the Mystick Krewe of Comus." LINDBERG AND HARDING "Agents of Skull and Bones with blessing and involvement of J. Edgar Hoover FBI Director and 33rd level executioner-cover up specialist for the elitist bloodline of the House of Rothschild murdered Freemason Charles Lindberg’s son. This killing of Freemason Charles Lindberg’s son was to set an example that the isolationist stand was not the will of the Illuminati." Mrs. Eustis doesn’t touch upon the poisoning death of President Warren Harding (1865-1923) but this is how Wikipedia describes it: "At the end of July, while traveling south from Alaska through British Columbia, [Harding] developed what was thought to be a severe case of food poisoning. At the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, he developed pneumonia. Harding died of either a heart attack or a stroke at 7:35 p.m. on August 2, 1923, at the age of 57. The formal announcement, printed in the New York Times of that day, stated that 'a stroke of apoplexy' was the cause of death.' He had been ill exactly one week." For FDR, see Emanuel Josephson, "The Strange Death of Franklin D. Roosevelt." (1948) CONCLUSION The "Mardi Gras Secrets" suggest that, given the depth of corruption, the US political system cannot be taken seriously as a democracy. There is a pattern of Illuminati-Rothschild control throughout US history. People who deny this are living in a fantasy. The United States was created to advance the Illuminati New World Order based on Rothschild control of credit. American ideals were designed to dupe the masses, not to be realized. The founders and heroes of the US were mostly Masons including Paul Revere, John Paul Jones and Benjamin Franklin. Francis Scott Key who wrote the national anthem was a Mason. John Hancock and most of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence were also Masons. More-than-half the Presidents were Masons. These include Washington, Madison, Adams, Jefferson, Monroe, Jackson, Van Buren, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Pierce, Buchanan, Johnson, Garfield, McKinley, TR, Taft, Harding, FDR, Truman, LBJ, Ford, Reagan, Clinton and Bush I and II. Some of these really thought Masonry was about "making good men better" and had to be assassinated. Other Presidents who weren't Masons, like Eisenhower, Nixon and Carter, were still controlled by the same dark forces. Throughout its history the United States has been in the clutches of a satanic cult empowered by the Rothschild central banking cartel. Many courageous Presidents and other politicians tried to free their countrymen and died unrecognized, their killers unpunished and triumphant. The US is a nation decapitated, a headless giant led by demons. --------

Which path?

Today in the west some people are drawn to fundamental Christianity because of an intense emotional relationship with Jesus, others are drawn to the simple austerity of Zen Buddhism, and some to the intermingling of energy and love in Sufi dancing. When you work with a particular lineage, commit yourself totally to it. Hear it, see it, smell it, taste it, totally surrender into it. Don't worry about your final path. Let the inner guru call you. Through meditation you learn to listen quietly, until the call comes, clear and unmistakable.

Ram Dass,,,,Journey of Awakening

Gita 4:11

In any way that men love me in that same way they find my love: for many are the paths of men, but they all in the end come to me.
Bhagavad Gita 4:11

Water is for fish
and air for men
natures differ, and needs with them.

HEnce the wise men of old
did not lay down
one measure for all.
Thomas Merton

The way of Kaballah

In time, and always just at the right moment, a teacher or maggid arrives. He may manifest in many ways, as old Kabbalistic documents indicate. One may not see him more than once, or realize one has known him all his life. It can be one's grandfather or a fellow student, the man crossing the sea with you on a boat, or someone you thought a fool. He may arrive at your front door or already be in the house.
Z'evben Shimon Halevi

Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

There is a pleasure in the pathless wood,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where none intrudes
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Lord Byron

Mantra

A mantra must connect you with the sacred. A mantra provides a boat with which you can float through your thoughts unattached, entering subtler and subtler realms. It is a boat that steers itself to the threshold of God.

Ram Das,,,Journey of awakening a meditator's guidebook.

The Gospel according to Zen

If you wish to know the road up the mountain,
Ask the man who goes back and forth on it.

Zenrin

The Cloud of Unknowing

And look that nothing remain in thy working mind but a naked intent stretching unto God -- not clothed in any special thought of God in himself or any of his works, but only that He is as He is...

One Day The People

"One Day The People Of America Will Get The Government They've Always Wanted.....And They're Not Going To Like It!"
Quote by Huey Long.  Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932.
 Taxes!     At first I thought this was funny...Then, I realized "How True it is!!"    Tax his land,  Tax his wage,  Tax his bed in which he lays.   Tax his tractor,  Tax his mule,  Teach him taxes is the rule.   Tax his cow,  Tax his goat,  Tax his pants,  Tax his coat.   Tax his ties,  Tax his shirts,  Tax his work,  Tax his dirt.   Tax his tobacco,  Tax his drink,  Tax him if he tries to think.   Tax his booze,  Tax his beers,  If he cries,  Tax his tears.   Tax his bills,  Tax his gas,  Tax his notes,  Tax his cash.   Tax him good and let him know  That after taxes, he has no dough.   If he hollers,  Tax him more,  Tax him until he's good and sore.   Tax his coffin,  Tax his grave,  Tax the sod in which he lays.   Put these words upon his tomb,  "Taxes drove me to my doom!"   And when he's gone,  We won't relax,  We'll still be after the inheritance TAX!!   Accounts Receivable Tax  Building Permit Tax  CDL License Tax  Cigarette Tax  Corporate Income Tax  Dog License Tax  Federal Income Tax  Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)  Fishing License Tax  Food License Tax  Fuel Permit Tax  Gasoline Tax  Hunting License Tax  Inheritance Tax  Inventory Tax  IRS Interest Charges (tax on top of tax),  IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax),  Liquor Tax,  Luxury Tax,  Marriage License Tax,  Medicare Tax,  Property Tax,  Real Estate Tax,  Service charge taxes,  Social Security Tax,  Road Usage Tax (Truckers),  Sales Taxes,  Recreational Vehicle Tax,  School Tax,  State Income Tax,  State Unemployment Tax (SUTA),  Telephone Federal Excise Tax,  Telephone Federal Universal Service Fee Tax,  Telephone Federal, State and Local Surcharge Tax,  Telephone Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax,  Telephone Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax,  Telephone State and Local Tax,  Telephone Usage Charge Tax,  Utility Tax,  Vehicle License Registration Tax,  Vehicle Sales Tax,  Watercraft Registration Tax,  Well Permit Tax,  Workers Compensation Tax.  COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and there was prosperity, absolutely no national debt, the largest middle class in the world and Mom stayed home to raise the kids. What THE HELL Happened!!!!!!!!?????
 
Blame years of PC, Liberal, Socialist Politicians.  They know how to spend your money better than you do.  You of course, are too STUPID!
 
I'm not too stupid...not to vote you out of office.

Buddhas are human

Buddhas are human, they are not devas, they are not gods. They are enlightened men and women. But the point is that they are not afraid to be human, they are not afraid to let themselves participate in the pains, difficulties and struggles that naturally go with human existence. The only difference is--and it's almost an undetectable difference--it takes one to know one.

Zen...Alan Watts

the fish of reality is more like water--it always slips through the net. And in water you know when you get into it there's nothing to hang on to. All this universe is like water; it is fluid, it is transient, it is changing. And when you're thrown into the water after being accustomed to living on the dry land, you're not used to the idea of swimming. You try to stand on the water, you try to catch hold of it, and as a result you drown. The only way to survive in the water, and this refers particularly to the waters of modern philosophical confusion, where God is dead, metaphysical propositions are meaningless, and there's really nothing to hang on to, because we're all just falling apart. And the only thing to do under those circumstances is to learn how to swim.

Clementine Recognitions

Simon Magus asks Peter in the Simon Magus asks Peter in the Clementine Recognitions

Could not God have made us all good, so that we could not be anything else but virtuous? To which Peter replies with a statement of the ancient law of liberty; A foolish question, for if God made us unchangeably and immovably inclined to good, we would not really be good at all, since we couldn’t be anything else; and it would be no merit on our part that we were good, nor could we be given credit for doing what we did by necessity of nature. How can you call any act good that is not performed intentionally? In this world every man is given a fair chance to show his real desires.
Simon Magus then asks...@Did not the Creator know that those he created would do evil?
To which Peter replies; Certainly, He considered all the evil that would be among those whom he created; but as one who knew there was no other way to achieve the purpose for which they were created he went ahead. He did not draw back or hesitate, nor was he afraid of what would happen... Evil is forced on no one, it is only there for those who want it. No one comes under its sway save he who of his own free will deliberately subjects himself to it....We must bear wicked men with patience, brethren, knowing that God who could easily wipe them out, suffers them to carry on to the appointed day in which the deeds of all shall be judged...Why do we not bear with fortitude of spirit the wrongs they commit against us, when he who can do all things does not avenge himself for the wrongs they do Him?
Clementine Recognitions, II 23-25,
As Quoted in The World and The Prophets
Hugh Nibley

The Ancient Law of Liberty

Irenaeus said in the middle of the second century;

God made man free from the beginning. Now if God made some men good and some bad simply by nature, there would be nothing praiseworthy in their virtue or blameworthy in their vice,... God wants men to do good, but even the Gospel allows anyone who does not want to do good to do evil. To obey or disobey is in every man’s power...God forcing no man... The ancient law of liberty is, that God trusts men while on this earth to make their own choices while they trust Him alone to judge whether those choices have been good or bad.
Irenaeus, Contra Haereses IV, xxxvii, 1.
As Quoted in The World and the Prophets
Hugh Nibley

MUST READING

I agree 110% , and am passing on her sentiments because  it says all!
"Are we fighting a war on terror or aren't we? Was it or was it notstarted by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11,   2001?Were people from all over the world, mostly Americans, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan, across the Potomac from ournation's capitol and in a field in Pennsylvania ?Did nearly three thousand men, women and children die a horrible,burning or crushing death that day, or didn't they?And I'm supposed to care that a copy of the Koran was "desecrated" when an overworked American soldier kicked it or got it wet? Well, I don't. I don't care at all.I'll start caring when Osama bin Laden turns himself in and repentsfor incinerating all those innocent people on 9/11.I'll care about the Koran when the fanatics in the Middle East startcaring about the Holy Bible, the mere possession of which is a crime in Saudi Arabia.I'll care when Abu Musab al-Zarqawi tells the world he is sorry forhacking off Nick Berg's head while Berg screamed through his gurgling slashed throat.I'll care when the cowardly so-called "insurgents" in Iraq come out and fight like men instead of disrespecting their own religion by hiding in mosques.I'll care when the mindless zealots who blow themselves up in search of nirvana care about the innocent children within range of their suicide bombs.I'll care when the American media stops pretending that their FirstAmendment liberties are somehow derived from international law instead of the United States Constitution's Bill of Rights.In the meantime, when I hear a story about a brave marine roughing up an Iraqi terrorist to obtain information, know this: I don't care.When I see a fuzzy photo of a pile of naked Iraqi prisoners who have been humiliated in what amounts to a college-hazing incident, rest assured that I don't care.When I see a wounded terrorist get shot in the head when he is told not to move because he might be booby-trapped, you can take it to the bank that I don't care.When I hear that a prisoner, who was issued a Koran and a prayer mat, and fed "special" food that is paid for by my tax dollars, iscomplaining that his holy book is being "mishandled," you can absolutely believe in your heart of hearts that I don't care.And oh, by the way, I've noticed that sometimes it's spelled "Koran" and other times "Quran." Well, Jimmy Crack Corn and ---- you guessed it - - - I don't care ! ! ! ! !If you agree with this viewpoint, pass this on. Sooner or later, it'll get to the people responsible for this ridiculous behavior! Should you choose the latter, then please don't complain when more atrocities committed by radical Muslims happen here in our great country.--"Some people spend an entire lifetime wondering if they made adifference in the world. But, the Marines don't have that problem."-- Ronald Reagan"If we ever forget that we're One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under." also by... Ronald Reagan

Islam in Muhammads Own Words

Islam in Muhammad's Own Words
Islam is a caustic blend of regurgitated paganism and twisted Bible stories. Muhammad, its lone prophet, conceived his religion solely to satiate his lust for power, sex, and money. He was a terrorist. And if you think these conclusions are shocking, wait until you see the evidence.
Critics of Prophet of Doom claim it is offensive, hatemongering, and unnecessarily violent. We agree—but we didn't write those parts. They came directly from Islam's scriptures. Over the course of these pages, we quote from almost every surah in the Qur'an—many are presented in their entirety. But more than that, we put each verse in the context of Muhammad's life, quoting vociferously from Islam's most trusted sources.

GOTO     www.prophetofdoom.net

While America Slept

While America Slept
...Islam Attacked

Wednesday night, the 13th of January 2005, a loving Christian family was brutally murdered inside their Jersey City home by hateful Muslims following Muhammad’s example and Allah’s orders. The victims were innocent of any crime and yet their throats were slit in barbaric fashion. Their bodies were bound and savagely mutilated. Then, to add insult to injury, jealous American Muslims gathered in the street outside the church to lob insults at the Christian families attending the funeral. Mourners, too sad to be angry, had kind words for the deeply religious family, especially young Sylvia, who was murdered a day before her Sweet 16 party.
The victims of the kind of violence a good Muslim is expected to display towards Islamic critics, were a Christian Egyptian American man, Hossam Armanious, 37, his wife, Amal Garas, also 37, and their two daughters, Sylvia, 15, and Monica, 8. Their rotting corpses, soaked in pools of their own blood, were found in their Oakland Avenue home early Friday after relatives told police nobody had heard from them in days. A family member who viewed photos of the bloodbath said Sylvia seemed to have taken the most savage punishment. “When we saw the pictures, you could tell that they were hurt really, really bad in the face; especially Sylvia,” said Milad Garas, the high-school sophomore's great-uncle. “The heartless killer not only slit Sylvia's throat, but also sliced a huge gash in her chest and stabbed her in the wrist, where she had a tattoo of a Coptic cross.”
Look into Monica’s eyes and consider the demonic indoctrination and sadistic depravity required to murder and then mutilate this beautiful and precious girl. And while that is difficult, until every American can do this, and come to grips with the motivation for so many murders like this—Islam’s Satanic nature—holding the religion itself accountable for the acts of its most fundamental and jealous adherents, everyone who has died at the hand of a Muslim aboard planes, busses and ships, in hotels, nightclubs, office buildings and schools, will have died in vain. This may be another wake-up call, America. Are you listening, or are you going to push the snooze button on your alarm once again?
Investigators said each victim was bound, gagged, stabbed, and slashed in the neck and chest. Sylvia’s wrist was mutilated where she displayed a small Copt cross. This is indicative of an act of Islam. It is an act of terror. Members of Jersey City’s Coptic community—many of whom left Egypt like the Armanious family to escape religious threats—understand the connection between fundamental Islam and the murders of their friends and family. That sentiment was expressed loudly by one parishioner inside who began yelling at Muslims, including a sheik, who attended the service. “Islam is the killer,” he said over and over before he was dragged from the church by five police officers who hustled him into an unmarked police car and quickly drove away. Welcome to America where accountability and truth are now crimes.
Tensions were high even before the first copper-colored casket arrived, when, during a procession to the church from Journal Square, family members asked mourners to put away anti-Muslim protest signs. But emotions really boiled over in the moments after the wistful service when a skirmish broke out as the four black hearses adorned with the victims’ pictures were being loaded. Punches were thrown, people were shoved and police rushed in to break up the brawl that had moved up Bergen Avenue to a nearby parking garage.
Family friend, Henry Simon, 35, said of the tension, “The sheik came at the wrong time. It’s like spitting on their graves.” What Simon said was right. It is why I continue to be grieved by President Bush’s decision to have an Islamic Imam give the benediction at the National Cathedral ceremony to mourn the victims of the Islamic attack on September 11th. It was like asking Adolf Hitler to give the benediction for Auschwitz.
Note also this interesting detail buried at the end of the story: Investigators learned that a relative of the Armanious family had helped prosecutors in their case against Lynne Stewart, the lawyer charged with passing messages to followers of her client, blind Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, the convicted terrorist ringleader responsible for the assignation of Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and the initial car bombing of the World Trade Center. For those squeamish about blaming Islam for the acts of Islamic Jihadists, consider the fact that Sheik Rahman was Islam’s foremost authority on the Qur’an. He was senior professor of Qur’anic Studies at Islam’s most prestigious university, Al Azhar, inCairo, Egypt.

Complete and constant Integrity

“Complete and constant integrity is a great law of human conduct. There need to be some absolutes in life.”

President James E. Faust
Ensign, May 1982, 48

Old and Confused

Old and ConfusedFive million of our older Americans have not signed up yet for their Medicare, Part D, drug plan.  They are old and confused.  If they haven't signed up yet, the Government is not going to grant them an extension.However, 12 million illegal aliens are in our country; and we are going to allow them to stay, protest, procreate, receive support monies, attend schools, avoid paying income taxes, have our teachers take 300 hours ofESL (English as a Second Language) training at our expense, etc.   No wonder people in other countries think we are stupid as hell.

His Divine GraceA. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

Founder Acharya ofThe International Society for Krishna Consciousness

Ogata Kenzan wrote:

Ogata Kenzan wrote this poem centuries ago:
Those who seek fame and profitLittle know the peace of the hills.Morning and evening the clear air blows,Between heaven and earth my life exists.My lungs expand, my body functions at ease.If I think of other places, nowhere attracts.If I think of this place, nowhere distracts.The moon waxes full, the pure winds blow.

Monsters exist

:"Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be truly dangerous. More dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions . . . "Primo Levi

Pride

"And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts.
For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.
O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?
Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?
Yea, why do ye build up your asecret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?
Mormon 8:36-40

The fact

"The fact that there are countries in this world where the government can torture people in secret and without fear of courts is supposed to be a tragedy- not a convenience."Michael Kinsley

Fear thou not for I am with thee

1. Fear thou not; for I am with thee; be not dismayed; for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right


2. As much as ye shall put your trust in God even so much ye shall be delivered out of your trials, and your troubles, and your afflictions, and ye shall be lifted up at the last day. (Alma 38:5)


3. My God hath been my support; he hath led me through mine afflictions... O Lord, wilt thou encircle me around in the robe of thy righteousness! ...O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever.” (2 Nephi 4:20, 33, 34)

Neal Maxwell said

Neal Maxwell said,
God, who oversees the interfacings of galaxies, stars, and worlds, asks us to confess His hand in our personal lives, too (see D&C 59:21)...  God is in the details! Just as the Lord knows all of His vast creations, He also knows and loves each in any crowd — indeed, He knows and loves each and all of mankind! (see 1 Nephi 11:17). Consider His tender salutations to Moses — ”I know thee by name, and thou hast also found grace in my sight” (Exodus 33:12)...

I believe

I believe with all my heart that the Latter-day Saints, generally speaking, are good people. If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful and outreaching to those in distress. We can either subdue the divine nature and hide it so that it finds no expression in our lives, or we can bring it to the front and let it shine through all that we do.
There is room for improvement in every life. Regardless of our occupations, regardless of our circumstances, we can improve ourselves and while so doing have an effect on the lives of those about us.
– Pres. Gordon B. Hinckley, 6 October 2002, Ensign, November 2002, p. 99

interesting

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>>1. 40% of all workers in L.A. County (L.A. County has 10 million
people)
>>are working for cash and not paying taxes. This was because they are
>>predominantly illegal immigrants, working without a green card.
>>
>>2. 95% of warrants for murder in Los Angeles are for illegal aliens.
>>
>>3. 75% of people on the most wanted list in Los Angeles are illegal
>>aliens.
>>
>>4. Over 2/3's of all births in Los Angeles County are to illegal alien
>>Mexicans on Medi-Cal whose births were paid for by taxpayers.
>>
>>5. Nearly 25% of all inmates in California detention centers are
Mexican
>>nationals here illegally.
>>
>>6. Over 300,000 illegal aliens in Los Angeles County are living in
>>garages.
>>
>>7. The FBI reports half of all gang members in Los Angeles are most
>>likely illegal aliens from south of the border.
>>
>>8. Nearly 60% of all occupants of HUD properties are illegal.
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>>9. 21 radio stations in L.A. are Spanish speaking.
>>
>>10. In L.A. County 5.1 million people speak English. 3.9 million speak
>>Spanish (10.2 million people in L.A. County).
>>
>>(All 10 of the above facts are from the Los Angeles Times)
>>
>>
>>Less than 2% of illegal aliens are picking our crops but 29% are on
>>welfare. http://www.cis.org/ <http://www.cis.org/>
>>
>>
>>The cost of illegal immigration to the American taxpayer in 1997 was a
>>NET (after subtracting taxes immigrants pay) $70 BILLION a year,
>>[Professor Donald Huddle, Rice University].
>>
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>>29% of inmates in federal prisons are illegal aliens.
>>
>>LIKE THE WAY YOUR TAXES ARE SPENT????????????

"The Prophet” by Kahlil Gibran

Then Almitra spoke again and said.
And What of Marriage, master?
And he answered saying:
You were born together, and together you shall be for ever more.
You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days.
Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God.

But let there be spaces in your togetherness,
And let the winds of heavens dance between you.
Love one another, but make not a bond of love:
Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.
Fill each other’s cup but drink not from one cup.
Give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf.
Sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone,
Even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.

Give your hearts, but not into each other’s keeping.
For only the hand of life can contain your hearts.
And stand together yet not too near together:
For the pillars of the temple stand apart,
And the oak tree and the cypress grow not in each other’s shadow.

Kahlil Gibran in “The Prophet”

Bill and Hillary should not be your friends!

The number of people who knew the Clintons that were killed, (murdered) is staggering........look at the list...The following is a list of people who either have been killed or
are dead that are directly involved, with Bill Clinton or his wife Hillary R. Clinton

1. James McDougal - - - Clinton's convicted Whitewater partner - - - died of an apparent
attack, while in solitary confinement He was an important witness for the Ken Starr's investigation into to the Clinton involvement.

2. Mary Mahoney - - - A former White House intern - - - who was murdered in July of 1997 at a
Starbucks Coffee Shop in Georgetown. A murder that took place right after it was announced, she was going to go public with story and proof of sexual harassment in the White House and
again involving Bill Clinton


3. Vince Foster - - - Former White House Counselor, and former colleague of Hillary Clinton at
Little Rock law firm, Died of a gun shot to the back of the head, ruled a suicide

4. Ron Brown - - - Secretary of Commerce and former DNC Reported to have died on impact in a plane crash. However a pathologist report in the investigation, reported that there was a hole in the top of Mr. Brown's skull, not only resembling a gun shot wound, but in fact could of only be made by a gun shot. This report has never been made public and is in fact sealed, the
pathologist has since moved out of the country and is no longer accusable. At the time of his death, Mr. Brown was in the process of being investigated, and had spoken publicly of his 'willingness to cut a deal" with prosecutors.

5. C. Victor Raiser II & Montgomery Raiser - - - Major players in the Clinton fund raising . They died in a private plane crash in July of 1992. The crash was labeled as being very suspicious, and of this date still remains under investigation however all finding in this matter are private and the results have and will be sealed.

6. Paul Tulley - - - Democratic National Committee Political Director,- - - found head in a hotel room in Little Roc Ark, on September of 1992. He was described by Mr. Clinton as a " dear
friend and a close and trusted advisor". This death was listed has being 'suspicious and not a result of natural causes', again however this file was lost in transfer.

7. Ed Willey - - - Clinton fund raiser, - - - found dead on November of 1993, deep in the woods of Virginia, of a gun shot wound to the back day that his wife, Kathleen Willey claimed
"Bill Clinton, groped her in the Oval Office of the White House. Mr. Willey had been
involved in several 'Clinton' fund raising events.

8. Jerry Parks - - - Head of Clinton's gubernatorial security team in Little Rock.- - - was found gunned down in his car, at a deserted intersection outside of Little Rock Ark. Park's son said " that his father was and had been building a dossier on Clinton". After Mr. Parks death, those
files were mysteriously removed from his house and have never been seen or heard of again.

9. James Bunch - - - Died of a gun shot wound to the head, first ruled a murder then changed to a ruling of suicide. Only after it was reported, that he had a 'black book', containing the names of influential people who' often visited prostitutes' in the Texas and Arkansas area. Suggesting
not only personal use but the use of gaining or soliciting 'favor or funds' by Mr. & Mrs. Clinton.

10. James Wilson - - - Was found dead on May of 1993 from an apparent hanging, suicide. Known to have ties to Whitewater.

11. Kathy Ferguson - -Ex-wife of Arkansas trooper Danny Ferguson, - - - was found dead in her living room with a gun shot to the head. It was to later be ruled as a suicide even though there were several packed suitcases, as though she had been getting ready to go somewhere. Danny
was a co-defendant in the Paula Jones lawsuit. Kathy Ferguson was a corroborating witness
for Paula Jones

12. Bill Shelton - - - Arkansas State Trooper and fiancée of Kathy Ferguson. Who had been publicly critical of the so-called "ruled suicide of Kathy" . He was found shot to death in June of 1994 at the gravesite of his Fiancée. This was also ruled as a suicide even though the site of the gun shot was the back of his head.

13. Gandy Baugh - - - Attorney for the Clinton's friend Dan Lassater, - - - died by jumping out of a tall building in January of 1994. His client at the time was a convicted drug distributor, being investigated for drug smuggling into the the Mena Airport in Arkansas.

14 Florence Martin - - Accountant sub-contractor for the CIA related to the Barry Seal / Mena Airport Drug smuggling case. Died of gun shot wounds.

15. Suzanne Coleman - Reportedly had an affair with Bill Clinton when he was the Attorney
General for Arkansas. Died of gun shot wounds to the back of the head. This was reported as a suicide without a death report as the file is missing, but medical reports taken two week prior
to her death had determined that she was pregnant.

16. Paula Grober - - - - Clinton's speech interpreter of the deaf from 1978 until her death December 9, 1992. She died in a one-car accident.

17. Danny Casolaro - - -An investigative reporter, who at the time of his death had been investigating the Mena Airport and Arkansas Finance Authority. He supposedly slit his own wrists in an apparent suicide in the middle of his investigation.

18 Paul Wilcher - - - - Attorney investigating corruption at the Mena Airport with Danny Casolaro and the 1980 "October Surprise", He was found dead sitting on a toilet on June 22, 1993 in his Washington apartment, just three weeks after delivering his report to Janet Reno. His death was listed as 'unknown but not related to natural causes'.

19 Jon Parnell - - - - Whitewater investigator for the Resolution Walker Trust Corp. - - -jumped to his death from his Arlington, Virginia apartment balcony August 15, 1993. At the time of his death, he had been investigating the Morgan Guarantee scandal.

20. Barbara Wise - - -On staff with the Commerce, Department, and worked directly with Ron Brown and John Huang. She died on November 29, 1996. Her badly bruised and nude body was found locked in her office at the Department of Commerce. It is believed that she was sexually
molested and raped, but her death findings and records where accidentally lost or misplaced.

21. Charles Meissner - -Assistant Secretary of Commerce, who gave John Huang Special Security Clearance for investigation purposes. Died shortly thereafter in a small plane crash. The crash was never ruled on other than it was not an accident.

22. Dr. Stanley - - - - Chairman of the National Chiropractic Health Heard Care Advisory Committee. - - - Died with his Attorney Steve Dickerson in a small plane crash. Dr. Heard, in addition to serving on Clinton's advisory council, and personally treated Clinton's mother, stepfather, and brother.

23. Barry Seal - - - Drug running pilot out of Mena Airport in Arkansas. - - - His death was never declared but was no accident and was labeled as being very suspicious. All scene reports and findings were lost or stolen.

24. Johnny Lawhorn - Mechanic - - - died when his car hit a utility Jr. pole under very suspicious circumstances, however his death has never been ruled on. During the investigation, they found a check made out to Bill Clinton, in the trunk of a car left in his repair shop.

25. Stanley Huggins - Investigated the Madison Guarantee.- - - His death ruled as a suicide. The results of his investigation was never found nor released.

26. Hershell Firday - - Attorney and Clinton fund raiser.- - - Died March 1, 1994 when his plane exploded.

28. Kevin Ives & Don Henry- - - Known as the "boys on the tracks" case. Reports say the boys may have stumbled onto the Mena Arkansas, airport drug operation. A very controversial case where the initial report of death, claimed that the cause of death was due to the two boys
falling asleep on the railroad tracks. Later reports would indicate that in fact, the two boys were dead before being put on the tracks. And as many others, had died just before they were to testify before the Grand Jury.

29. The following six people not had information on the Ives/Henry case, but also were to testify before the Grand Jury
a. - - Keith Coney - - - died when his motorcycle slammed into the back of a truck. On July of 1988.
b.- - Keith McMaskle - died after being stabbed 113 times, Nov. 1988
c. - - Gregory Colins- - - died from a gunshot wound Jan. 1989
d. - - Jeff Rhodes - - - He was shot, mutilated, and found burned in a vacant lot. No ruling in
the case as the findings and records have never been located
e. - - James Milan - - - Found decapitated, the Coroner ruled that death was due to natural causes.
f. - - Jordan Kettleson - -Found shot to death in the front seat of his pickup truck in June of 1990'

30. Richards Winters - Was a suspect in the Ives/Henry deaths. - - - was killed in a 'set-up' robbery in July of 1989.

31. The following are or were bodyguards for Bill Clinton - - - they are all dead and died under suspicious and questionable circumstances...
a.- - - Major William S. Barkley Jr.
b. - - - Captain Scott J. Reynolds
c. - - - Sgt. Brain Hanley
d. - - - Sgt. Tim Sabel
e. - - - Major General William Robertson
f. - - - Col. William Densberger
g. - - - Col. Robert Kelly
h. - - - Spec. Gary Rhodes
i. - - - Steve Willis
j. - - - Robert Williams
k.- - - Conway Lebleu

"Where women are worshiped, there the Gods dwell

"Where women are worshiped, there the Gods dwell. Or where the women are happy, there will be prosperity. In fact the direct quotes from the Manu-samhita explains as follows: A Women must be honored and adorned by their fathers, brothers, husbands, and brothers-in-law, who desire their own welfare. Where women are honored, there the Gods are pleased." @ (Manu Smriti III.55-59)

SRI RAMAKRISHNA[1836-1886]

Sri Ramakrishna, who was born in 1836 and passed away in 1886, represents the very core of the spiritual realizations of the seers and sages of India. His whole life was literally an uninterrupted contemplation of God. He reached a depth of God-consciousness that transcends all time and place and has a universal appeal. Seekers of God of all religions feel irresistibly drawn to his life and teachings. Sri Ramakrishna, as a silent force, influences the spiritual thought currents of our time. He is a figure of recent history and his life and teachings have not yet been obscured by loving legends and doubtful myths. Through his God-intoxicated life Sri Ramakrishna proved that the revelation of God takes place at all times and that God-realization is not the monopoly of any particular age, country, or people.

The Essential Teachings of Vedanta

Vedanta designates the individual ego as maya. The role of maya is to soften the glare of Reality and to create a dream world where fact is diluted by fiction. Maya is not a peculiar concept of Vedanta. The Buddhistic tradition calls it Mara; the Taoist tradition says it is being "out of harmony with Tao;" the Judeo-Christian, Islamic and Zoroastrian traditions personify maya, calling it Satan, Iblis, and Ahriman; the Platonists refer to it simply as delusion. Things and beings in the realm of maya are not non-existent, though they are illusory. They are relatively real, that is, real for a short time. God as Pure Spirit is the Absolute Reality. The beings and things of the relative universe appear real because they reflect the light of the Absolute. The message of Vedanta has two rhythms: "All this is verily Brahman" and "That thou art;" that is, God is both the Absolute and the relative Reality. One represents the dizzy height of mystical realization, the other its counter part, its humanistic expression. One is Knowledge, the other intimate Knowledge.
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Tao Te Ching

The sage has no mind of his own. He takes as his own the mind of the people.
Those who are good I treat as good. Those who are not good I also treat as good. In so doing I gain in goodness. Those who are of good faith I have faith in. Those who are lacking in good faith I also have faith in. In so doing I gain in good faith.

Tao Te Ching

The whole world recognizes the beautiful as the beautiful, yet this is only the ugly; the whole world recognizes the good as the good, yet this is only the bad.
Thus something and nothing produce each other;
the difficult and the easy compliment each other;
the long and the short off-set each other;
the high and the low incline towards each other;
note and sound harmonize each other;
before and after follow each other;

Therefore the sagea keeps to the deed that consists in taking no action and practises the teaching that uses no words...

It gives them life yet claims no possession;
It benefits them yet exacts no gratitude:
It accomplishes its task yet lays claim to no merit.
It is because it lays calim to no merit
That its merit never deserts it.

Lau Tzu, Contentment

Know contentment
And you will suffer no disgrace;
Know when to stop
And you will meet with no danger,
You can then Endure.

He who knows contentment is rich.

There is no greater crime than having too many desires;
There is no disaster greater than not being content;
There is no misfortune greater than beign covetous.

Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching, by D.C. Lau Copyright 1963

Is not the way of heaven like the stretching of a bow?
The high it presses down,
The low it lifts up,
The excessive it takes from,
The deficient it gives to,
It is the way of heaven to take from what has in excess
in order to make good what is deficient.

Lao Tzu

Confucius told his diciples, ' I know a bird can fly, a fish can swim, and an animal can run...But the dragon's ascent into heaven on the wind and the clouds is something which is beyond my knowledge. Today I have seen Lao Tzu who is perhaps like a dragon.'

Lao Tzu cultivated the way and virtue, and his teachings aimed at self-effacement.

Confucius taught a way of life in which morality occupies a supreme position. Morality is shown to have no connexion whatsoever with self-interest. In fact the demands of morality on a man are categorical. If need be, he has to sacrifice even his life in doing what is right...A man is born into certain relationships and as a result has certain duties. for instance, he has a duty of loyalty to his lord, a filial duty to his parents, a duty to help his friends, and duty of common humanity towards his fellow beigns...It was Confucius' s belief that if everyone lived up to his duties according to his station political order would prevail.

Get US out! of the United Nations

World government through the United Nations is a serious threat to the freedom of all Americans. Imagine being held prisoner in a foreign land and tried in an international court with judges from such countries as Afghanistan, China, or Iraq.

The United Nations (financed by American taxpayers!) has long been a safe harbor for terrorist and oppressive regimes which target America as the enemy.

Even more alarming, the United Nations is beginning to take aim at the God-given rights enjoyed by Americans since our great nation was founded. The right to self defense, use your own property, or even the right to have children may all be trampled if the United Nations is allowed to have the power it seeks.

SADHNA - Communicating With Your Soul

Everybody has God's light and it must be lit by a person’s own discipline. And the glass to keep it lit and shining should be kept by the person's own courage, strength and grit. I believe it. I believe this is the love. I believe everybody has the chance to love one’s soul and every soul has the right to shine and every shine has to bring light and brightness, beauty and bountifulness to all, generation after generation.You love your children? You do. They are beautiful. Isn’t that innocent soul in you also your life child ? Have you kissed the soul? Have you hugged the soul? Have you communicated with the soul in the morning at the ambrosial hours when there is absolutely no disturbance? Sadhna is nothing but where a disciplined one, the love, talks to one’s own soul. is nothing but where one cleans his own mind. Sadhna is nothing but where one prepares for the day to become kind and compassionate for everyone, including the enemies.If you think you are poor, you are poor because you do not communicate with your soul, the source of prosperity, the source of reality. If you think you are desperate, you are desperate because you have no Sadhna. Desperation, depression, and a feeling of destitution comes only to those who have no discipline or Sadhna. Only a house which is not cleaned looks dirty and the mind which is not cleaned, stinks. sadhna is the most selfish act of every act, because it is a self-cleansing. Cleanliness is Godliness. It is good to wear good clothes, look good, be bright, beautiful. But when you want to be blissful and bountiful, you have to have a clear mind, a mind through which your soul, your spirit can shine.When you stand, take a stand, and stand tall. Walk tall and stand by the strength of your soul. Not the strength of your intellect, intelligence and your cowardice. If you want to speak to anybody, to deal with anything, to have any relationship, just have relationship by the strength of your soul. Otherwise you will miss the goal of life.
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Yogi Bhajan

"If you can't see God in all, you can't see God at all."

"It's not the life that matters, it's the courage that you bring to it." His challenge to students, "Don't love me, love my teachings. Become ten times greater than me."Although Yogi Bhajan has left his physical form, he asked that his students and those who knew him celebrate his Homecoming. The light of his spiritual essence continues to bless all those whom he loved, and that is the entire human race.

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Love means giving.

Self-Sacrifice means that you accomplish for someone at the expense of yourself. - Yogi Bhajan