RAVEN-is my name
MUSIC-is my game
and i do not know how to write about me...
my favorite songs are:
(they arent in any order)
coldplay-reighn of love(or lovers in japan? im not sure)
coldplay-viva la vida
coldplay-violet hill
coldplay-the scientist
coldplay-talk
coldplay-lost
system of a down-dreaming
system of a down-kill rock n roll
system of a down-mesmerize
slipknot-duality
slipknot-before i forget
disturbed- inside the fire
disturbed-10,000 fists
switchfoot-dare you to move?
breaking bengimin-never too late
sublime-pawn shop
the beatles-across the universe
the beatles-dear prudence
john lennon-imagine
nya jade-live
cake-rock n roll lifestyle
incubus-river
foo fighters-the pretender
bob marley-time will tell
bob marley-dont worry
serj tankian-empty walls
serj tankian-sky is over
my chemical romance-the sharest lives
ludo-love me dead
AdAm SaNdLeR-lUnCh LaDy LaNd!1!1!
europe-the final countdown
queen-champions
by the way, i do NOT like the following bands, only one song:
my chemical romance
ludo
swichfoot
DiVeRsE??? you judge:)
my THREE favorite bands...i cant decide what is really my favorite:
coldplay
system of a down
foo fighters
:)
i ALSO "study" movies AND actors!
some of the greatest movies in my eyes are....
#1!!!!! THE DARK KNIGHT!!!!I hAvE sEeN iT ThReE tImEs!!!
and everything else isnt in order:)
inside man
fallen
two hands
the partriot
a knights tale
the order
transformers
wedding singer
click
the ruins
dreamgirls
an inconvinient truth
shaun of the dead
the signal
tropic thunder
iron man
.....and a couple more
Some fantab actors ARE....
heath ledger
adam sandler
will ferrel
robert downey jr.
gwendeth paltrow
drew barrymore
and a few others that i kind like
i LOVE orange, purple, and green:)
ummmmm........i really dont know what else:) i love this site! it is so hardcore
and youtube
If you lived in La Habra, then you know more or less where I live. I'm up by Big Bear! My son and his family wanted to move here about 5 years ago so we sold our homes down below in La Verne and here we are. We love it. He and his family live a few blocks away. Walking distance if it wasn't for the steep climb up here on this mountain.
I honestly think that the Supreme Court will throw out that amendment and that gays will be allowed to marry again. It would never have passed in the first place if it hadn't been for the hate and fear tactics in those commercials that the Bushistisas and McCaniacs had put out on TV.
What puzzles me is that I just "don't get it." My last boss was gay and he wrote articles for the L.A. Times and was a college prof. Many of my best friends are gay. We've been friends for years and we have cried together, laughed together and been there for each other. I don't pretend to understand their attraction to the same gender but I don't need to understand. I know beyond any doubt that they love each other and they should have the same civil rights as everyone else. Allowing them to be married harms none and this situation is ridiculous! Once in a while we go to a movie and they sit there talking about how "hot" the female star is in the movie and I drool over Johnny Depp or something. They are in love and I really don't understand how anyone else is hurt in any way if they are alowed to marry. Fear and hate has no place in civil rights laws! They moved out of the state of a couple of years ago and now they are living back in the closet because, they do not live in a right to work state and they can be fired if it is found out that they are lesbians.
NOBODY has the right to judge them. NOBODY!! They are good, honest, caring and loving people and what they do in their private lives is nobody else's business.
I'm sure they will eventually get the same civil rights as everyone else. The religious nuts don't have to associate with gay friends if they think it rubs off or something. Not that long ago it was illegal for a black person and a white person to marry in many states. Those laws were dealt with and the laws about gays and lesbians will eventually go the same way. In the meantime, the gay-bashing and homophobia in this country make me sick.
I'm 100% convinced that nobody chooses to be gay or lesbian. They are born that way just the same as I was born straight and with brown eyes. It is not a choice and we have no right to take away their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to deny them their basic civil rights.
With any luck, Obama will appoint a couple of new Supreme Court justices and that will settle this issue once and for all and gays and lesbians will finally have the same civil rights as others.
In the meantime, I feel heartbroken for the gay and lesbian community. It isn't my right to judge them. I only know that they are 100$ in love with each other and that is all that matters. They come to visit several times a year and stay up here in my house with me. I have 3 bedrooms and it is just me and the dogs and they can once again be out of the closet for the little time they are here.
I'm with you! This discrimination, hate and fear has to stop! I'm sure the gay community must have a few petitions going so maybe you can find them and work with them in obtaining signatures. I'm afraid it won't do any good, though. It will take either the CA Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court to pass laws making it illegal to deny gays and lesbians as others and then it will finally be settled. Maybe then the gay bashing will end.
Good for you. Stick by your gay friends! I'm sticking behind my friends to the end. What has happened here in CA is just so WRONG!!! How can we do that to people just because they are different.
Hang in there, keep reassuring you friends and stand with them and one of these days they will have the same rights as everyone else. I cried my heart out when I watched Brokeback Mountain. It WILL happen and they WILL get the same civil rights as enjoyed by everyone else! Just keep believing and praying that the fear and hatemongers will not win forever.
I've been playing with graphics all day. Made one for you and it is awaiting mod approval so keep an eye on my latest uploads. Hope you like it.
What is the weather like up there by Sacramento? I'm down by L.A. high in the mountains near Snow Valley and it has been cool. No snow yet, though. Wish it would snow soon. I've had enough of summer. One of my friends says it is supposed to go back up to 100 degrees down below the mountains by Friday.
The McCaneiac will go away if you tell her to leave you alone. She posted on my page and I told her to stop posting and she did. That is one butt ugly page she has set up here. She needs professional help in a big way!!!
Next, James targets double-minded keeping of the law (James 2:8-13). For centuries the Christian world has been of two minds concerning God’s law. Its double-mindedness has resulted in the breaking of "the royal law according to the scripture" (verse 8). The Old Testament records God’s giving of the royal law, which is summarized in Leviticus 19: "You shall love your neighbor as yourself" (act).
How does one break this law of love? A common way is the breaking of even "one point" (verse 10) of the royal law.
James goes from discussing the royal law of Leviticus 19:18 to enumerating the Ten Commandments. He cites two of the Commandments: the seventh, "Do not commit adultery," and the sixth, "Do not murder" (Exodus 20:13-14). He calls the Ten Commandments "the perfect law of liberty" (James 1:25)
The royal law, the perfect law of liberty, shows mankind the way to express love. When we read the 10 points of this law as summarized in the Commandments, we notice that the first four reflect love toward God and the last six depict love of our fellowman; that is, the love of our neighbor as ourselves (Leviticus 19:18; James 2:8).
James shows the double-mindedness of embracing one point of the Ten Commandments while breaking another point of this law of love. Notice that the breaking of one point of the law is the same as breaking the "whole law" (verses 10-11).
Oh, my, you have a religious nutjob posting on your page. She posted to mine, too, and I told her to leave me alone. Why won't they just leave us alone. Obama won!!!! YIPPEEEE!!!!! I'm proud to be an American again after all those years of Bush.
By Pete Grasso
Last edited: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Posted: Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Do not kill the innocent or the righteous, for I will not acquit the guilty.
-Exodus 23:7
The Blood Guiltiness of AMERICA
Genesis 4:11
"Now you are cursed from the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother's blood from your hand.
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When Cain shed the blood of innocence by killing Abel, the Lord pronounced a curse upon the land, which “opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood for your hand”.
Today in America, every single one of us including myself is directly or indirectly responsible for murdering over 50,000,000 unborn babies in the name of “Choice”. We are presently slaughtering over 4,000 innocent victims each and every day within America at the altar of Satan. For 35-years we have been building up sin upon sin and judgment is at the door of this nation. Irrespective if we directly participated in an abortion ourselves or we have sat idle in our apathetic indifference to the policies of this nation to support these abortion mills, we are ALL guilty.
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..As with the citizens that lived near the concentration camps during WWII in Germany, observing the billows of smoke raised from the furnaces during the Holocaust, today a greater Holocaust goes on every day within our cities for the past 35-years.
As with German citizens that lived near these camps, they were made to walk through the concentration camps by the allies to view up front and close the sins of their leaders.
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..Some day each and everyone of us will stand before the Lord of the Universe – amongst the backdrop of over 50,000,000 slaughtered babies that we failed to rescue.
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..Ezekiel 22:4..
.."You have become guilty by the blood which you have shed, and defiled by your idols which you have made Thus you have brought your day near and have come to your years; therefore I have made you a reproach to the nations and a mocking to all the lands.
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..America is Living Under a Curse..
..Deuteronomy 8:20 ..
..Like the nations that the LORD makes to perish before you, so you shall perish; because you would not listen to the voice of the LORD your God.
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..We were once a nation blessed by God. We were once a nation that embraced a Biblical morality that set the foundations of our government’s leadership, our policies, our laws, and the acceptable norms by which we operated in within our society.
We have abandoned those principles of morality for a secular morality of lies and relativism that has blurred the lines of right and wrong and whose promises of freedom has resulted in the destruction our nation, our people, and our society. We have defiled ourselves before the Lord of the Universe.
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..The sin of relativism has given birth to Judicial Tyranny and Political Corruption whose false light of “Progressive Ideologies” have given fruit to sin, disease, death, and judgment upon our people. The compromise of sin is so prevalent within our nation that many churches have abandoned the foundational teachings of God and morality to a doctrine that is politically acceptable and non-offensive. Beware and Repent America!! The Lord is a loving God but is also one of great judgment and wrath.
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..Look around you and consider the following scripture very carefully…..
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..Isaiah 26:11..
..O LORD, your hand is lifted high , but they do not see it.
Let them see your zeal for your people and be put to shame; let the fire reserved for your enemies consume them.
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..What we are witnessing today within our land is parallel to the Biblical examples of ancient Israel when they departed from the moral principles and teachings of God. Read for yourself 1-Kings, 2-Kings, 1-Chronicles, and 2-Chronicles. The nation of Israel became so polluted in sin that the Lord could not distinguish them from their enemies.
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..Finally, within the rain of King Manasseh.....
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..2 Kings 21:9-16..
..9 But the people did not listen.
Manasseh led them astray, so that they did more evil than the nations the LORD had destroyed before the Israelites.
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.. 10 The LORD said through his servants the prophets: 11 "Manasseh king of Judah has committed these detestable sins.
He has done more evil than the Amorites who preceded him and has led Judah into sin with his idols.
12 Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I am going to bring such disaster on Jerusalem and Judah that the ears of everyone who hears of it will tingle.
13 I will stretch out over Jerusalem the measuring line used against Samaria and the plumb line used against the house of Ahab.
I will wipe out Jerusalem as one wipes a dish, wiping it and turning it upside down.
14 I will forsake the remnant of my inheritance and hand them over to their enemies.
They will be looted and plundered by all their foes, 15 because they have done evil in my eyes and have provoked me to anger from the day their forefathers came out of Egypt until this day.
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.. 16 Moreover, Manasseh also shed so much innocent blood that he filled Jerusalem from end to end —besides the sin that he had caused Judah to commit, so that they did evil in the eyes of the LORD.
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..A Prayer for National Repentance..
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..I humbly implore you to consider the following three scriptures very carefully and prayerfully in advance of this prayer.
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..2 Chronicles 7:14 ..
..If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.
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..James 4:4-10..
..4You adulterous people, don't you know that friendship with the world is hatred toward God? Anyone who chooses to be a friend of the world becomes an enemy of God.
5Or do you think Scripture says without reason that the spirit he caused to live in us envies intensely? 6But he gives us more grace.
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"God opposes the proud
but gives grace to the humble.
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..7Submit yourselves, then, to God.
Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
8Come near to God and he will come near to you.
Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
9Grieve, mourn and wail.
Change your laughter to mourning and your joy to gloom.
10Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will lift you up.
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..So you shall remove the guilt of innocent blood from your midst, when you do what is right in the eyes of the LORD.
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..Please forgive us. As I consider the moral condition of this nation, I tremble greatly at the thought of your righteous judgment and wrath. Your hand is held high to strike this nation, yet we are oblivious to that reality. We are reaping as a nation the sin that we have sown and are without excuse. We have rebelled against you and you only Lord by our iniquities and have added sin upon sin within our nation. We are guilty of embracing every form of deviant behavior in direct rebellion to your Word.
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..There is not one of us who could stand before you without the verdict of guilty being passed amongst us. Furthermore, we are just as guilty for sitting idle in lazy indifference and apathy as those who have orchestrated the actual actions of wickedness and iniquity within this nation.
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..Lord, the cries of the slaughtered unborn surround your throne. It is the innocent blood that continues to pour out amongst this land that cries out to you for justice. We are all guilty of this innocent blood and deserve your judgment. Hell would be too good a place for us Lord, as I consider this great sin.
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..Yet Lord, within all this corruption and wickedness, I know that you stand there waiting for the people of this nation to come to their senses and return to you.
Lord, as with King David, although our sins are scarlet and stench to high heaven in our filth, if you wash us, we would be whiter than snow (Psalms 51). Therefore I seek your face, your grace, and your mercy. We come before your throne Lord, without excuse, and without hope unless you have mercy on us.
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..Lord there is so many within this nation who is blinded to the judgment that is being exacted upon us by your righteous and holy hand. Lord, please remove the blindness of our heart so we may see you clearly and without obstruction. Lord, allow the reality of our sin to cut to hearts of our people.
I beseech you that those who are blinded by Satan’s lies would see sin at though your eyes.
I pray that they would be mortified and cut to their heart unto weeping, wailing, and repentance.
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..Lord we repent of our sins, individually and on behalf of our nation. Lord, forgive us for having one foot within the world and one foot within our religious pretenses. Kick the fence Lord!! Force those who are on the fence to fall into either side. I pray for those who are for you to stand with you, committed to the fight, with perseverance and steadfast obedience to your Word. Restore us with a pure heart of faithfulness and reverent fear as we consider your holiness. Open the doors of heaven and pour out the Holy Spirit to break down these strongholds of spiritual blindness and indifference throughout this nation. Redeem us from the pit of hell and establish your presence once again amongst your people.
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This I ask in JESUS name, AMEN.
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After reading this article I only said like Poncio Pilate:
24 When Pilate saw that he was getting nowhere, but that instead an uproar was starting, he took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. I am innocent of this man's blood, he said.
It is your responsibility!
25 All the people answered, Let his blood be on us and on our children!
26 Then he released Barabbas to them. But he had Jesus flogged, and handed him over to be crucified.
Those who vote and support Obama (and Obama himself) are under God's curse
Remember God always answer but sometime with a curse!
The Lord responded to their demands with a "taste" of His wrath.
Quail From the LORD
4 The rabble with them began to crave other food, and again the Israelites started wailing and said, If only we had meat to eat!
5 We remember the fish we ate in Egypt at no cost— also the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions and garlic.
6 But now we have lost our appetite; we never see anything but this manna!
7 The manna was like coriander seed and looked like resin.
8 The people went around gathering it, and then ground it in a hand mill or crushed it in a mortar. They cooked it in a pot or made it into cakes. And it tasted like something made with olive oil.
9 When the dew settled on the camp at night, the manna also came down.
10 Moses heard the people of every family wailing, each at the entrance to his tent. The LORD became exceedingly angry, and Moses was troubled.
11 He asked the LORD, Why have you brought this trouble on your servant? What have I done to displease you that you put the burden of all these people on me?
12 Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth? Why do you tell me to carry them in my arms, as a nurse carries an infant, to the land you promised on oath to their forefathers?
13 Where can I get meat for all these people? They keep wailing to me, 'Give us meat to eat!'
14 I cannot carry all these people by myself; the burden is too heavy for me.
15 If this is how you are going to treat me, put me to death right now— if I have found favour in your eyes— and do not let me face my own ruin.
16 The LORD said to Moses: Bring me seventy of Israel's elders who are known to you as leaders and officials among the people. Make them come to the Tent of Meeting, that they may stand there with you.
17 I will come down and speak with you there, and I will take of the Spirit that is on you and put the Spirit on them. They will help you carry the burden of the people so that you will not have to carry it alone.
18 Tell the people: 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow, when you will eat meat. The LORD heard you when you wailed, If only we had meat to eat! We were better off in Egypt! Now the LORD will give you meat, and you will eat it.
19 You will not eat it for just one day, or two days, or five, ten or twenty days,
20 but for a whole month— until it comes out of your nostrils and you loathe it— because you have rejected the LORD, who is among you, and have wailed before him, saying, Why did we ever leave Egypt?'
21 But Moses said, Here I am among six hundred thousand men on foot, and you say, 'I will give them meat to eat for a whole month!'
22 Would they have enough if flocks and herds were slaughtered for them? Would they have enough if all the fish in the sea were caught for them?
23 The LORD answered Moses, Is the LORD's arm too short? You will now see whether or not what I say will come true for you.
24 So Moses went out and told the people what the LORD had said. He brought together seventy of their elders and made them stand round the Tent.
25 Then the LORD came down in the cloud and spoke with him, and he took of the Spirit that was on him and put the Spirit on the seventy elders. When the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not do so again.
26 However, two men, whose names were Eldad and Medad, had remained in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but did not go out to the Tent. Yet the Spirit also rested on them, and they prophesied in the camp.
27 A young man ran and told Moses, Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp.
28 Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses' assistant since youth, spoke up and said, Moses, my lord, stop them!
29 But Moses replied, Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the LORD's people were prophets and that the LORD would put his Spirit on them!
30 Then Moses and the elders of Israel returned to the camp.
31 Now a wind went out from the LORD and drove quail in from the sea. It brought them down all around the camp to about three feet above the ground, as far as a day's walk in any direction.
32 All that day and night and all the next day the people went out and gathered quail. No-one gathered less than ten homers. Then they spread them out all around the camp.
33 But while the meat was still between their teeth and before it could be consumed, the anger of the LORD burned against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
34 Therefore the place was named Kibroth Hattaavah, because there they buried the people who had craved other food.
35 From Kibroth Hattaavah the people travelled to Hazeroth and stayed there.
Daniel 5
..The Writing on the Wall..
.. King Belshazzar gave a great banquet for a thousand of his nobles and drank wine with them.
2 While Belshazzar was drinking his wine, he gave orders to bring in the gold and silver goblets that Nebuchadnezzar his father had taken from the temple in Jerusalem, so that the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.
3 So they brought in the gold goblets that had been taken from the temple of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his nobles, his wives and his concubines drank from them.
4 As they drank the wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, of bronze, iron, wood and stone.
5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall, near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote.
6 His face turned pale and he was so frightened that his knees knocked together and his legs gave way.
7 The king called out for the enchanters, astrologers and diviners to be brought and said to these wise men of Babylon, Whoever reads this writing and tells me what it means will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around his neck, and he will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
8 Then all the king's wise men came in, but they could not read the writing or tell the king what it meant.
9 So King Belshazzar became even more terrified and his face grew more pale. His nobles were baffled.
10 The queen, hearing the voices of the king and his nobles, came into the banquet hall. O king, live for ever! she said.
Don't be alarmed! Don't look so pale!
11 There is a man in your kingdom who has the spirit of the holy gods in him. In the time of your father he was found to have insight and intelligence and wisdom like that of the gods. King Nebuchadnezzar your father— your father the king, I say— appointed him chief of the magicians, enchanters, astrologers and diviners.
12 This man Daniel, whom the king called Belteshazzar, was found to have a keen mind and knowledge and understanding, and also the ability to interpret dreams, explain riddles and solve difficult problems. Call for Daniel, and he will tell you what the writing means.
13 So Daniel was brought before the king, and the king said to him, Are you Daniel, one of the exiles my father the king brought from Judah?
14 I have heard that the spirit of the gods is in you and that you have insight, intelligence and outstanding wisdom.
15 The wise men and enchanters were brought before me to read this writing and tell me what it means, but they could not explain it.
16 Now I have heard that you are able to give interpretations and to solve difficult problems. If you can read this writing and tell me what it means, you will be clothed in purple and have a gold chain placed around your neck, and you will be made the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
17 Then Daniel answered the king, You may keep your gifts for yourself and give your rewards to someone else. Nevertheless, I will read the writing for the king and tell him what it means.
18 O king, the Most High God gave your father Nebuchadnezzar sovereignty and greatness and glory and splendour.
19 Because of the high position he gave him, all the peoples and nations and men of every language dreaded and feared him. Those the king wanted to put to death, he put to death; those he wanted to spare, he spared; those he wanted to promote, he promoted; and those he wanted to humble, he humbled.
20 But when his heart became arrogant and hardened with pride, he was deposed from his royal throne and stripped of his glory.
21 He was driven away from people and given the mind of an animal; he lived with the wild donkeys and ate grass like cattle; and his body was drenched with the dew of heaven, until he acknowledged that the Most High God is sovereign over the kingdoms of men and sets over them anyone he wishes.
22 But you his son, O Belshazzar, have not humbled yourself, though you knew all this.
23 Instead, you have set yourself up against the Lord of heaven. You had the goblets from his temple brought to you, and you and your nobles, your wives and your concubines drank wine from them. You praised the gods of silver and gold, of bronze, iron, wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or understand. But you did not honour the God who holds in his hand your life and all your ways.
24 Therefore he sent the hand that wrote the inscription.
25 This is the inscription that was written:
MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN
26This is what these words mean:
Mene: God has numbered the days of your reign and brought it to an end.
27 Tekel: You have been weighed on the scales and foundwanting.
28 Peres: Your kingdom is divided and given to the Medes and Persians.
29Then at Belshazzar's command, Daniel was clothed in purple, a gold chain was placed around his neck, and he was proclaimed the third highest ruler in the kingdom.
30 That very night Belshazzar, king of the Babylonians, was slain,
31 and Darius the Mede took over the kingdom, at the age of sixty-two
They are doing to the wolves is unbelievable. It isn't something they broadcast for the public to know.
Palin uses state-owned small planes and helicopters and they fly low and shoot the wolves. She also uses taxpayer money to pay $150 for the front leg of a wolf. Bounties!!! The reason given is that the wolves kill caribou and moose which means less game for the hunters. The other reason given is that, if they didn't kill them, the ranchers would have to build better fences to keep them out. Many states are desperate for wolves because they are nearing extinction. Capturing the wolves and relocating them to other states would help save the wolves. At one point, they were almost hunted to extinction in Alaska as well.
The only reason I know about it is because I'm an animal rights activist so I keep track of things. Palin also wants to kill polar bears in the same way.
On another subject, thousands and thousands of cats and dogs are literally being skinned alive in China and their fur is sold to designers who use the skin to make fur coats or trim winter garments. The people buying the garments don't know it is dog or cat fur. The labels say "fur of unknown origin" and that is the only info the consumer sees except that the label says the country that is the origin of the fur. I can send you the video of dogs being skinned alive and they are still alive when their skinless bodies are thrown on a truck filled with other dead and dying dogs and cats until they finally die in total agony. It is the worst video I've ever seen and when I saw it the first time I grabbed my dogs, cuddled them close to me and cried for hours and had nightmares for weeks. I've only watched the video once but I did bookmark it because some people don't believe it is really happening.
Here are some videos of the aerial hunting wolves as well as a couple of stories about how the kill the wolf pups in their dens after killing the mother.
I honestly think that the Supreme Court will throw out that amendment and that gays will be allowed to marry again. It would never have passed in the first place if it hadn't been for the hate and fear tactics in those commercials that the Bushistisas and McCaniacs had put out on TV.
What puzzles me is that I just "don't get it." My last boss was gay and he wrote articles for the L.A. Times and was a college prof. Many of my best friends are gay. We've been friends for years and we have cried together, laughed together and been there for each other. I don't pretend to understand their attraction to the same gender but I don't need to understand. I know beyond any doubt that they love each other and they should have the same civil rights as everyone else. Allowing them to be married harms none and this situation is ridiculous! Once in a while we go to a movie and they sit there talking about how "hot" the female star is in the movie and I drool over Johnny Depp or something. They are in love and I really don't understand how anyone else is hurt in any way if they are alowed to marry. Fear and hate has no place in civil rights laws! They moved out of the state of a couple of years ago and now they are living back in the closet because, they do not live in a right to work state and they can be fired if it is found out that they are lesbians.
NOBODY has the right to judge them. NOBODY!! They are good, honest, caring and loving people and what they do in their private lives is nobody else's business.
I'm sure they will eventually get the same civil rights as everyone else. The religious nuts don't have to associate with gay friends if they think it rubs off or something. Not that long ago it was illegal for a black person and a white person to marry in many states. Those laws were dealt with and the laws about gays and lesbians will eventually go the same way. In the meantime, the gay-bashing and homophobia in this country make me sick.
I'm 100% convinced that nobody chooses to be gay or lesbian. They are born that way just the same as I was born straight and with brown eyes. It is not a choice and we have no right to take away their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness and to deny them their basic civil rights.
With any luck, Obama will appoint a couple of new Supreme Court justices and that will settle this issue once and for all and gays and lesbians will finally have the same civil rights as others.
In the meantime, I feel heartbroken for the gay and lesbian community. It isn't my right to judge them. I only know that they are 100$ in love with each other and that is all that matters. They come to visit several times a year and stay up here in my house with me. I have 3 bedrooms and it is just me and the dogs and they can once again be out of the closet for the little time they are here.
I'm with you! This discrimination, hate and fear has to stop! I'm sure the gay community must have a few petitions going so maybe you can find them and work with them in obtaining signatures. I'm afraid it won't do any good, though. It will take either the CA Supreme Court or the U.S. Supreme Court to pass laws making it illegal to deny gays and lesbians as others and then it will finally be settled. Maybe then the gay bashing will end.
Good for you. Stick by your gay friends! I'm sticking behind my friends to the end. What has happened here in CA is just so WRONG!!! How can we do that to people just because they are different.
Hang in there, keep reassuring you friends and stand with them and one of these days they will have the same rights as everyone else. I cried my heart out when I watched Brokeback Mountain. It WILL happen and they WILL get the same civil rights as enjoyed by everyone else! Just keep believing and praying that the fear and hatemongers will not win forever.