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Tuesday, September 2, 2008
For those of you who are just dying to have conversation, PalinforAmerica has a discussion forum available.
Adam will be posting in a few hours. Exciting things are happening and you'll be hearing from him a bit more often. But I'll save that for him
43 comments:
- Unknown said...
This is a great idea! Thanks for moderating the comments! A bunch of us Palin supporters have really gotten sick and tired of the negative, bigoted and sexist comments by her opponents. Thanks again!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:03 PM
- Erin said...
FoxNews is reporting that Obama is saying his executive experience is greater than Sarah's because he as run his presidential campaign for 18 months, much more difficult than running Wasilla. My theory is that he's forgotten her current occupation. I know it's unbelievable, so I've included a link. UNREAL, people.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:06 PM
- Amanda said...
I saw that, Erin. It is so condescending and demeaning when they refer to her that way.
I guess it's crazy but I am taking these insults to Sarah so personally!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:16 PM
- Shimmy said...
"Don't be afraid of information," Sarah Palin said. "Healthy debate is so important, and it's so valuable in our schools. I am a proponent of teaching both evolution and the Babylonian account of creation, 'Marduk Creates the World from the Spoils of Battle.'"
- September 2, 2008 at 12:18 PM
- Erin said...
night owl, that interview was with Anderson Cooper, and it will supposedly air this evening at 10:00. I hope for all the world that this gets some attention at the convention, but I'm sure they'll decide that's not a good idea.
What it DOES say is that the "no experience" line of argument is still valid, what with Obama saying that THIS is his experience.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:24 PM
- Bob said...
This is the price of fame.
Best wishes to Adam for his perseverance in this cause, and to Governor Palin and her family as they enter the mud hole that is the American political arena.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:26 PM
- Unknown said...
Finally a VP candidate with a vocal Pro-Life position.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:32 PM
- Unknown said...
Re: "My theory is that he's forgotten her current occupation."
He apparently has, because he's been a senator for 4 years, but has only been in the Senate for like 143 days....
I'm sorry, Mr. Obama, running a campaign for President is simply not comparable to running a town and then running a state....
Re: I guess it's crazy but I am taking these insults to Sarah so personally!
Oh, believe me, I am too! Seeing the left-wing attack Sarah so harshly makes me sick to my stomach! It is not right and it needs to end!
We're with you through the storm to November 4th, Sarah!!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:34 PM
- Robert David STEELE Vivas said...
Idiot British--Bloomberg Against Palin
See the summary of the idiot British bookies by clicking on the title. I certainly don't mind them posting the odds, or Bloomberg summarizing the odds, but I do object to Bloomberg offering up something so platantly squishy without balanced reporting from the USA.
Register your views by emailing the author at firstname.lastname@example.com.
From Robert Steele,
- September 2, 2008 at 12:36 PM
- caem said...
Since when has a senator had more executive experience than a Governor! She has been managing a budget of Billions of dollars for 2years now. In addition she is commander in Chief in her state.
Anyway, I am wondering whether there is any volunteer drive to register voters in battle ground states [CORORAdo, ohio, michighan, Nevada PA, FL]. We shouldn't leave this to BO. How are the latest polls in PA and Michigan? If mccain can pick up one of these two states he will win even if he loses ohio or FL. But BO can't win if he loses one of them!!
The liberals have are fighting for their life now - we must do all we can to win this one especially now that we have a great Commander - SARAH. A lot is at stake in the next 4 yrs - 2 - 3 SCJs!!!!
Randy Scheunemann - is the one preparing Sarah for October 2! Does anyone know how we can forward our ideas to him/her on how best to deal with "BJ" who is going to talk like he created this world, despite the fact that his support for US allies is weak.
Heard someone on MSNBC predicting that by month's end SP will not be on the ticket - they are so determined to knock her off!! Even though she is a strong woman, we need to send her our encouragements and appreciations.
I hope she delivers a good one tomorrow!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 12:45 PM
- Patriot1776 said...
Sarah is really causing the left to run scared. They are resorting to a scortched earth policy now.
If she was just this total fool, why even waste the time trying to destroy her? I mean the MSM is in your pocket, why worry?
I think they are very very afraid of the prospect of her being the first woman elected nationally. But more than that, it shows the pure hatred and vitrol of middle America.
They don't like our large families, the cars we drive, the way we speak, the fact that we go to church every week etc. They sit in their towers and look down on the rest of society.
Sarah created her own story and political career. No family wealth, no father in politics, no husband to bounce a political career off. She did it all on her own.
We shall see how this plays out. But either way, she should become the new face of the Republican Party. Mother - facing issues we all have to face in our lives, business woman, and real LEADER.
- September 2, 2008 at 12:56 PM
- Mountain Mama said...
Thanks for monitoring the comments! Oh, what a relief that will be! Eventually, people will leave us alone to support Sarah Palin and share ideas for helping the campaign.
Can't wait to hear Adam's news! (wink, wink)
- September 2, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- Health And Fitness Geek said...
Please pounce on the media for their smears. See my post on my blog!
- September 2, 2008 at 1:10 PM
- Shay(zam) said...
Hi Adam-
Did anything ever come from your call to the Anchorage NAACP office?
- September 2, 2008 at 1:12 PM
- Unknown said...
Re: Sarah is really causing the left to run scared. They are resorting to a scortched earth policy now.
I know! It is clear now that her opponents are truly freaked out! We've gotta continue expressing our support for Sarah and let America know what a great person she really is!
Go Sarah Palin: the next Vice President (and the future President) of the USA!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 1:19 PM
- JOCOeveryman said...
Love Sarah Palin. Love her. Love her. We'll be working in Kansas to get her all the support we can. I profess my love for her on my blog at www.sojoco.blogspot.com
- September 2, 2008 at 1:24 PM
- Mountain Mama said...
Dr. Laura Schlesinger is stating on her show today that, while she'll vote for McCain, she opposes Palin's working when she has children in the home.
It was my understanding that Palin's parents, and often her husband, Todd, helped care for the children when Palin wasn't able to take Trig or Piper to the office.
And it was my understanding, based on years of frequently (no time for constantly) listening to Dr. Laura, that she didn't mind a father or grandparent's helping to raise children----she just wanted family members to do it. Her slogan, "Don't have children if you can't raise them," didn't exclude fathers or grandparents, I thought.
Furthermore, Dr. Laura has said many times that it's okay for mothers to work once their children were in school.
Piper goes to school this coming year, so it's Trig's welfare that is most at risk potentially here.
I admit I feel torn about this, because we have two special-needs children and they DO require extra care. I left my FT job in order to stay home with them until they went to school, then eventually started the syndicated column, which I could write as they slept at night.
I think America needs Palin's special People-Skills set. But I don't want to deprive little Trig of his Mommy.
Lord, help us find ways for Sarah Palin to be with her son most of the day, taking him with her to work in DC, just as she does in Alaska already----and work tons when he's napping. Help her work NEVER ruin her marriage or children's welfare: protect them with special angels!
(Btw, Palin's daughter, Bristol, probably carried Trig during the speeches last Friday in order to keep hidden her pregnant tummy. Obviously the Palin family wasn't willing to discuss that pregnancy just yet.)
Thank G-D that Dr. Laura will still vote for McCain/Palin! I am praying that somehow everything will work out just fine, and Sarah, Todd, Bristol, Willow, Track, Piper, and Trig will thrive!!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 1:25 PM
- Window4U (IL) said...
Anyone catch the insult to her by calling Wasilla "WaSilly"? How pathetic.
I am glad he thinks he has more executive experience than Palin because she only ran a small city.
I guess his advisors didn't tell him she is Chief Executive of a State about the size of the eastern United States. Either he is an idiot that he doesn't know she is a governor or he is afraid to admit that running a state gives her more qualifications than he has.
Can you imagine the idiocy to make the argument that he is qualified with executive experience because he ran his presidential campaign?
My God, what kind of goofball candidate is this guy?
- September 2, 2008 at 1:27 PM
- caem said...
Since when is having children a reason not to run for president. She has a spouse - who can become a stay home father - the campaign needs to emphasize that too. Yes men can also stay home and take care of children - why should it be women all the time. It is Country first.
The left and liberals media believe that a woman with children can not run for the highest office in the run!
Is this America anymore?
- September 2, 2008 at 1:51 PM
- Mountain Mama said...
Re. Obama's making that unwise statement re. "Wasilly:"
Obama and Michelle are both not that bright, in contrast to intellectuals or other professors. Sorry, but it's true, and U of C faculty know it. Read Michelle's papers: sentence fragments, run-on sentences, etc.----VERY sad. Some bright student got bumped so Michelle could attend Harvard, and what's horrid is that she has often expressed anger, not gratitude for it.
Anyway----Obama's statement (that he's run a huge campaign, whereas Palin has merely been mayor of a small town) betrays his middlebrow IQ. Here's why:
Making that statement automatically diminishes his own (heretofore a little TOO lofty) status. He's not contrasting himself with a peer: he's a presidential candidate, whereas Palin is a VP candidate!
Plus, as window4u(IL) notes, for the past 18+ months, Palin has served as a governor.
- September 2, 2008 at 2:02 PM
- Erin said...
CBS News has an article about the importance of Sarah's speech at the convention. They're basically saying it's too early to tell how this will play out, but that it's building interest in her performance tomorrow (or Thursday) night. They're even saying the audience could be in the 10's of millions of viewers. Wouldn't it be great if she got a larger audience than "The One"? :D I've included the last couple of paragraphs, but I think the entire article is well worth the read.
"But the mistake is to see the controversies and questions around Sarah Palin as damaging, they may turn out that way and John McCain may pay the price – but for now the interest they are creating in Palin may actually be building the moment and the opportunity John McCain and the GOP need to successfully turn the page.
Democrats should be vigilant against a scenario they may think unlikely – but none the less could easily occur if Palin surprises and is up to the task."
- September 2, 2008 at 2:07 PM
- MOPP 4 said...
I have been watching the news and blog reaction surrounding assumed Republican V.P. Candidate Gov. Sarah Palin's daughter Bristol and her pregnancy. The remarks are jaw dropping... ex.."..shows Gov. Palin is incompetent"...."..should not run due to the tragedy of her daughter's pregancy"... tragedy?!...are you serious?
Let me insert a caveat here... I am a registered Green Party voter. I tend to lean Libertarian, but feel renewable energy and care for our planet are the 2 most overriding issues facing this country and humanity.
That said..the anger and tiny mindedness from so many bloggers and news agencies is mind boggling. Is teenage pregnancy so unusual? These things happen. Sen. Obama's mother was 18 when she had him and un-married...he ended up being raised by his grandparents. Has this some how caused him to be any less of a person?...Any less of an American? I think not. Did this make his mother an idiot or somehow incompetent? His grandparents?...anybody?
Is teen-age pregnancy an unusual event in middle America or any place for that matter? Only in the context that it is surprising these days. One hundred years ago Mrs. Palin's daughter would be on her second child by now. Humans have been having kids for a while. When male and female of a species become sexually mature...you get the next generation (gasp!). For some reason we need to have some sort of proper social rule context surrounding this. Thank goodness the rest of nature doesn't operate that way.
The constant petty anger towards candidates, on subjects with no national bearing, shows a serious lack of understanding and perhaps care, of this Nation's issues. Does this pregnancy address/impact the energy issues of the US? ....does it address the threat of a resurgent Russia with USSR like tendencies?....does it impact the immediate need of thousands of Americans in the gulf coast region?...does it magically capture and/or destroy bin Laden?....does it alleviate pollution or collapsing fish stocks?....or is this story really on par with Brittany Spears not wearing underwear and Janet Jackson showing some boob at a football game? ......elevate thy mind...
As Eleanor Roosevelt said:
Great minds discuss ideas;
Average minds discuss events;
Small minds discuss people.
Come on America, let's get back to where we used to be...the Nation of ideas. News agencies and bloggers, you are in tabloid country...raise the bar please. If I want to dull my mind I'll stare at the headlines in the grocery store check out line....let's solve the real problems..... ELEVATE THY MIND!!!!!
- September 2, 2008 at 2:25 PM
- Erin said...
I requested tickets, and when the hubster went to pick them up, they were gone, so we got tickets ON STAGE!!!! I MUST get something for Sarah to sign!
- September 2, 2008 at 2:28 PM
- loki said...
just curious,
17 year old too old to marry? My maternal grandparents married when they were 15. and stayed married until they passed away some 60 years later.
Paternal grnadparents married at 17. Married for 55 years until they passed away.
My parents married at 18. marreid 44 years now.
My brother and sister-in-law married when they were 18....still married 25 years later.
- September 2, 2008 at 2:58 PM
- KestrelRose said...
I wished that I could be unbiased about this but I can't be.
I just love Sarah Palin and I want her to be everything that she appears to be.
To be honest, my view is not based on issues. It is based on her beautiful, open and honest eyes.
Time will show if she is up to the task. I am looking forward to her debate with Biden. Until then, all we have to go on is our own experiences and reactions.
We should wait until we see her in action to make a decision.
- September 2, 2008 at 3:21 PM
- Mountain Mama said...
In response to her new blog decrying Palin's VP candidacy, I just wrote Dr. Laura.
I wanted to emphasize that her current negativity conflicts with her earlier statements, made over the past two decades, in support of mothers who work outside the home----PROVIDED that their families help raise the young children.
Again, Sarah's husband and their parents all pitch in (as well as Todd and Sarah's siblings) to help manage the household.
And Bristol's becoming pregnant could have just as easily occurred if Sarah had been a full-time homemaker.
Sigh... It's sad that CONSERVATIVE women have to withstand such assaults, whereas men and liberal women NEVER do.
Nancy Pelosi has five children, and NO one to my knowledge has ever criticized HER for having a career.....
GLAD you're going to the convention, Adam!
Please remember to share about the APT tax with Sarah Palin and McCain! Thanks!
- September 2, 2008 at 4:51 PM
- loki said...
ooops...my comment should have been..."17 years old too YOUNG to marry?"
- September 2, 2008 at 7:11 PM
- Cynthia said...
I LOVE SARAH! She's an incredibly driven and smart woman. I don't like her because she's a woman, I like her for who she is and what she stands for. McCain FINALLY did something right and now the conservatives have someone to vote for!
I love listening to Glenn Beck and hearing the real statistics about how many people are employed and how much money she has worked with.
I am proud to hear that Bristol will be keeping her child, as we all know that Sarah doesn't want any secrets, and definitely doesn't want anything to "hurt" her family. Sarah is PROUD. Sarah is HONEST. Sarah will always stand by what is most important, her family, her freedom, her country, and her people. And I thank God for what Sarah believes in.
-Thanks Glenn Beck for the support and information-
- September 2, 2008 at 7:52 PM
- Chester Peake said...
I posted this from-the-heart letter elsewhere, but I thought you might like it:
An Open Letter to the Palin Family...
Dear Sarah:
I know you are aware, and I hope your family was as well, about how evil and ruthless some people can be in the dirty side of politics. You seem like a tough lady who can handle it, and perhaps that is why we need someone like you in the halls of power if we are ever to restore the notion of statesmanship and redeem public service as a noble profession. Just like you have seen in your home state of Alaska, there are people with axes to grind who will stop at nothing to destoy those not on their side of the aisle... and sometimes even those in their own party (Re: Hillary's treatment by the Obamamaniacs).
I know and have seen the dirty side of politics, and it tarnishes the (unfortunately few) good public servants who are in it for all the right reasons. The good ones do exist, I have seen a few of them as well. I am impressed that many bloggers, some in your state, are coming to your defense. As far as that so-called "Troopergate" non-issue, if a cop was threatening my family I'd want him more than fired. Such scum tarnishes the good name of the majority of the brave, hard-working police officers.
Don't let the dumbarses denigrate small towns or regular folks, they do so at their peril. Don't let the a-holes question your parenting, your life-affirming decision to carry a lovely downs syndrome child to term, or that ridiculous notion that you lack "experience", especially when you look at the top of the Dems ticket. News Flash- Every holder of the top job at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave gets on-the-job experience. It is not a job that any mere human can truly handle, without a lifetime of real-world experiences, coupled with tons of prayer, and a little thing called character.
I know when the attacks go after your family, that is the lowest blow possible and shows their desperation and fear of your success. I hope your family is also as tough as you, and will insist you soldier-on. We need you to do so, but you need their support to know that the effort is in their best interest as well.
Todd: Everything I have been able to learn about you shows you to be so much more than the stereotypical Alaskan Man. Yes, you are a man's man, a fisherman, snow machine racer, and work the oil fields, in addition to being blessed with rugged good looks. I guess you needed all that to win the heart of that fiesty beauty contestant! Lucky dude! Maybe that's why you are attacked, those other guys are so darn jealous! High Fives to you! (so much better than an Obama-like fist-bump)!
Oh, they'll try to paint you as an unwashed, uneducated rural yahoo... then try to convince people that you are secretly running the state. They will go to either extreme if it suits their shoddy purposes. Again, they do that at their peril, not only could you kick their arse (please don't- they will sue), but they risk alienating plenty of hard-working blue-collar men, and women, across the country. Don't sweat not having a college diploma, sometimes they are not worth the paper they are printed on. I'd choose regular-folks wisdom over degree-learnin' any day!
You seem like a confident man, assured in your own masculinity. The great thing is you are assured enough in your own skin to help your beloved wife in realizing her dreams for public service. In that sense, you are a modern man, not afraid to help raise the kids! A modern man, but with brawn. Sarah may run the state, but you are the man of the house.
For the kids: First of all, don't let anyone make fun of your names, they are actually quite kewl, and as unique as each of you! Be glad you don't have boring names!
Track: I cannot begin to tell you how grateful we are as Americans that you chose to serve your country in the U.S. Army. I hope the press will not endanger you or (like in England with Prince Harry) cause you to not be able to serve fully. I'm sure you don't want special treatment, but just to be allowed to serve like your collegues. Fight hard, but return home to your Mom and Dad!
Piper & Willow: You may not have been abused by the media and other hateful people yet, but be alert that it may happen. Be strong, and tell your parents honestly about any fears you may have. Don't be afraid to tell them what's on your mind.
Trig: Dear, dear Trig... do not let anyone ever tell you that your life is not worthy to be lived. You may not be exactly like other kids, but in your Mom & Dad's eyes, you are loved and cherished so very much! How sad that other special kids like you never are given the chance to live. You have been given life, enjoy every moment, I know your folks will enjoy you!
Bristol: Don't let idiots look down on you for your situation... though of course having sex outside of marriage is indeed a sin, it is not a "worse" sin than any other, and we all sin and fall short of God's Glory. That's where forgiveness and salvation comes in. The fact that you have chosen to bring this little child into the world, as hard as that is, and have not taken the so-called "easy" way out, is what speaks to your character now. Yes, it will be hard, but with your fine family, it will be worth it. Your folks are right, you will grow up quickly now. All the best to you!
Hey, Levi: What can I say man? Sure, you didn't want kids at this time of your life, what young guy does? Well, I take that back, some playas like to knock up the ladies and leave them, but I do not think that is you. You were dating this girl, raging hormones took over, and the next thing you know... Ya done messed up, dude... but you are doing the very hard, and responsible thing, in the public eye and with all the hard work that entails. You will need the same dedication you have for your beloved hockey to make this work. It may be hard, but it can happen. But you are not alone. The Palin family is welcoming you into theirs, and they seem as tough as you.
If you really, really love this girl... with a lot of help, prayer, and forgiveness, you two can actually have a good life together. And don't take no "stuff" from those who would dis your redneck, kick arse attitude. You might just need that.
Man, the more I think about it the more I see how similar you and Todd are. I know you are an individual with your own thoughts, wants, and needs. At the risk of perpetrating the stereotype, is it true that all Alaskan men are are such? Yeah, a Man you are fast becoming, embrace it! I'm sure that once you look into the eyes of your son or daughter, you'll want to cherish them and love them forever.
Future Johnston Kid: WoW! Who'd a thunk it, that you would be subject to all this malarkey even before you are born! With your genes, I have no doubt you can handle just about everything! You Family will help you every step of the way!
So there you have it... Palins (and the future Johnston family)...
You are a fine kick-butt group, and any who would cross you better watch out... you probably don't need it, but we've got your back!
- September 2, 2008 at 11:20 PM
- Jenny said...
I love how the Obamaniacs and the sexist, biased media are using the same tactics they used on Hillary. For all of you Obamaniacs who claim that Sarah will never win the Hillary Clinton votes, guess again! As a former Hillary Clinton supporter and Democrat, I will be voting for the McCain-Palin ticket. Sarah Palin is a courageous woman, and has the grace and open-mindedness that todays politicians (especially Barack Obama) can learn from. Despite her flaws, she is the epitomy of small-town America, and shame on all of you elitists Obamaniacs for suggesting that the experiences of small town Americans do not measure up to your experiences. It's time for all of you hateful Obamaniacs, along with Dean, Pelosi, and the rest of the corrupt DNC, to self-destruct and return control of the Democratic ticket back to us disenfranchised Clinton supporters in 2012. Obama's arrogance will be his downfall.
- September 3, 2008 at 1:13 AM
Oh thank goodness! I'm so glad the comments are modded now. :)
Y'all, I cannot WAIT for Gov. Palin's speech tonight!
Many pundits are expecting her to either fall flat on her face.
I however have the sense she's going to totally KNOCK IT OUT OF THE PARK.
I could be wrong I suppose. But nothing I've seen of her suggest she'll crush under the pressure.
In fact, EVERYTHING I've seen suggests the exact opposite...that she'll be a rip roaring success.
I guess those trading on Intrade for her to quit or be canned will be disappointed.
Too bad. NOT. :D
Go SARAH!!!
- September 3, 2008 at 3:43 AM
- Unknown said...
I'd like to comment to the poster about the pregnancy of Gov. Palin's daughter, Bristol. The poster stated that her inability to "lead her daughter to abstain" from sex is a reflection on her ability to lead a country. This is a bunch of crap. Children in this country are exposed to sexuality from a VERY early age via our freemarket media. A parent can only do so much before they have to let the child into the world and let happen what will happen. I do not see how this would reflect poorly upon Gov. Palin. On the contrary, Gov Palin has stuck to her core values and is supporting her daughter. Talk of abortion and the "punishment of a child - so said Barak Obama - never entered the picture.
I am elated that Gov Palin is the VP pick to run beside Sen. John McCain. I personally believe that she has FAR more experience from her time as a Mayor, City Council Member, and Governor than does Obama.
As has been cited by many right-sided media, give me a list of accomplishments that Obama has. Show me some areas where he hasn't flip-flopped his convictions in order to appease voters.
- September 3, 2008 at 7:40 AM
- wow said...
- September 3, 2008 at 8:00 AM
- rosariostrano said...
Boycott newspapers that are being bias,the opponent did not receive this treatment,best way to show your opinion is cut their check.
- September 3, 2008 at 9:22 AM
- 55withquestions said...
As a woman & mother myself it seems incredible that this woman would choose to accept this nomination with a 5 mo. old downs syndrome BABY, a pregnant 17 year old daughter & three other children. Like Edwards who disregarded his wife's breast cancer & ran for Pres. & Guliani who had prostate cancer recently - the stress related to these two executive jobs is incredible. People who think this does't impact their health & wellbeing of their loved ones are CRAZY. 55with questions
- September 3, 2008 at 8:16 PM
- 55withquestions said...
As a woman & mother myself it seems incredible that this woman would choose to accept this nomination with a 5 mo. old downs syndrome BABY, a pregnant 17 year old daughter & three other children. Like Edwards who disregarded his wife's breast cancer & ran for Pres. & Guliani who had prostate cancer recently - the stress related to these two executive jobs is incredible. People who think this does't impact their health & wellbeing of their loved ones are CRAZY. 55with questions
- September 3, 2008 at 8:18 PM
- Unknown said...
I just want to say as an Alaskan and a very proud one at that Sarah Palin is the best governor we have ever had. I had the pleasure of working with Todd in prudhoe before she got in the state government and we as a state got LUCKY she was our secret and now she is out to the whole US and please dont take her as a joke or a media blast she is a woman of her word everything she said she would do or will do she has done and Sarah Palin wont find a person in the state of Alaska that will say a word bad about her.
- September 3, 2008 at 10:15 PM
- SSquibb said...
Sarah Palin is a female version of President Ronald Reagan.
- September 6, 2008 at 7:29 AM
- Lee said...
How can Sarah Palin manage the country if she can not manage her own daughter? How can she claim Pro-Life, but she/republican agree and support her daughter that have baby before married? Is that so called conservative Christian? She can not manage her family, Alaska, how can she manage the country? Both Abortion and having baby before married is SIN according to the Bible.
- September 7, 2008 at 9:14 PM
- ltmonroe2 said...
Sarah Palin knows that most people don't know what a small-town mayor does - and doesn't do. So she has, so far, been allowed to show her best Rethug qualification - her ability to lie easily and completely without conscience - as she vomits forth her false and insulting claims of leadership credentials. (blue in NC's diary :: :: )Other diarists on dKos are right: we need to shift our foucs back to Barack Obama and Joe Biden and the positive direction our country must turn toward if we as a people are to survive the next four years.
We need to shift our focus away from Sarah Palin's daughter and her mooseburgers and her snowmobiles. But we can't let her get away with whitewashing her governmental failures: failures so abject, so major, so complete, that the fact that she accomplished so much failure in a 12-year political career is amazing in and of itself.
If she's going to use her stint as small-town mayor as a prop for her vice-presidential aspirations, then we need to remind the voters exactly what she did as mayor. Let's use her own words against her. As she said in that verbal spew that passed for a "speech" last night, as mayor she was "like a community organizer" but with "actual responsibilities".
The voters need to be reminded - every day - how badly she failed at exercising those responsibilities. Because we small-town mayors do have actual responsibilities. Chief among them is the responsibility to exercise fiscal responsibility with the citizens' money. Sarah Palin has demonstrated complete failure at that basic responsibility. She took a town of ~7,000 people that was debt-free in 1996 and ran it over $18 million into debt by 2003.
And, while we theoretically do not have sole authority to do such things - only the town council has such authority - a bad and dishonest and self-serving mayor can, and frequently does, accomplish such glaring misfeasance by either intimidating of misleading her town council.
Sarah Palin has done both.
She implemented a 25% increase in the most regressive tax possible - the sales tax - to finance her hockey rink project. Yes, the Queen of the Common Man sure likes to stick it to the common man...every man, woman and child in Wasila is still paying for her self-promoting delusional expenditures. She was taking a $68,000 per year salary in 1996 for her job as mayor, and yet used additional taxpayer funds to hire an "administrator" to do her job for her while she enjoyed her "regal" salary for a sinecure job. Most mayors of towns less than 10,000, nationwide, are practically volunteers with salaries generally below $10,000 per year. In fact, the job of the Wasilla mayor, according to the city code, is as follows (this is typical for most small-town mayors). The Mayor shall preside at Council meeting, act as ceremonial head of the city and sign documents on the city's behalf upon authorization by the council. Pretty easy work for $68,000/year, isn't it? In 2002, Pailn used city employees (on the clock), city equipment, and city facilities to work on her campaign for Lt. Governor. I mean, come on...this is small-town government 101: Thou shalt not use municipal assets for personal campaign purposes. By 2003, the city of Wasilla owned $741,599 worth of office furniture and equipment (from the city's own Comprehensive Annual Finance Report; I assume that is net of depreciation). Now that's a whole lot o' desks and staplers for a town of 7,000 folks. Well, the town only owned $342,449 worth of that stuff when Palin started in 1996. More than double! Word among locals has it that she had her office lavishly redecorated at least twice while mayor. So much for her stupid story about selling the governor's jet on ebay.
After our almost-sacred fiduciary responsibilty, we mayors are responsible for ensuring the safety of the people who have entrusted us with the office. Palin placed the financial success of campaign-donor cronies above public safety. She opposed an ordinance changing the closing time of bars in Wasilla from 5:00 AM to 3:00 AM. The Wasilla police chief at the time, Irl Stambaugh, supported the change as a public-safety measure. Palin, who had accepted numerous campaign contributions from local bar owners and the liquor lobby, fired Stambaugh immediately upon taking office.
Palin opposed adopting basic building codes within the city. In 1997, she broke a tie in a city council vote to kill building codes. Even some area homebuilders supported the building codes.The bottom line is: yes, we small-town mayors do have responsibilities...and Palin demonstrated a complete lack of ability or inclination to handle these limited responsibilities.
Meanwhile, I'd be the first to say that I don't consider my own experience as a small-town mayor to in any way qualify me to serve as vice president of the United States, much less serve in a situation where the president is a doddering old man bordering on dementia who may well cause invocation of the 25th amendment.We preside over council meetings...the VP theoretically presides over the Senate. There's a world of difference.Our responsibilities are limited. Very limited.And, we're not a mere heartbeat away from the US presidency. I have known small-town mayors like Sarah Palin and, trust me, it ain't purty. They exemplify ego-gone-wild, are uncannily susceptible to corruption and influence peddling, and are notorious for abuse of power. The Sarah Palins in the small-town mayors' offices are, unfortunately, all too common.
These United States of America do not need one in the office of the vice president.Palin is now, in true Rethug fashion, attempting to distort people's concerns with her lack of experience, accusing us of "insulting small towns" and being "elitist". Nothing could be further from the truth. We're not criticizing small towns; I've live d in one and serve as mayor in one and love and respect small towns.What we are criticizing is, first: Palin's lack of national experience and, second: her complete failures at exercising responsibility and integrity during what limited "executive" experience she has.
She is the worst of both worlds: she is corrupt and incompetent. The voters need to know that.
- September 7, 2008 at 9:47 PM
- Lee said...
If something happen to McCain, I don't think Palin can take over, since she only manage the smallest state in US with debt. She even can not manage her own family, how can she manage the whole country. If something happen to Obama, Joe Biden is a respectful person either in Congress or military that more capable than Palin. Even George Bush that has a dad 4 years with him 8 years total of 12 years experience in White House, still mess up the country. How can Palin that left a debt in their state with the least population can manage this country that fought 3 wars, over 54 trilliun in debt, mortgage crisis etc.? those problem was created by George Bush with his party include McCain. Palin has no vision, but a spectacular artist. I don't know why American people only fall on Abortion issue or Pro-Life, since getting baby before married also un-Biblical but so-culture in US. It is not a shameful act anymore in US but instead a proud. That kind of act create tendency of abortion, teenage that have s..e..x before married or at a very young age is the root of Abortion. This candidate says they are Pro-Life, but they are the root of Abortion, they do their example of life without shameful. I don't know why many American fall into that. They said they so-Christian Party? I don't think so. If McCain copy the theme of Obama campaign theme "Change", since he has been with George Bush for over 8 years, I think people just get fool with tradition lie in politic. I don't see any policy or previous act of both McCain and Palin change something. they just said it now, but no previous result. Everybody can say "Change". Does they prove it with their previous act? They got to be more creative not to copy people Theme campaign.
- September 9, 2008 at 8:50 AM
- JoPerry said...
My heart gos out to Sarah Palin, It is so sad that some women in this country(mostly Liberal) are so jealous of Sarah, that they have to make things up about her. Also,The hollwood crowd are so ignorant, none of them can even understand what a descent woman is, because people like Pam Anderson, who is so self absorbed, can only worry where her (next set of fake boobs are coming from.) We all laugh at her when she tries to say someting intelligent and fails miserably...All the hollywood crowd are like that.. Men and women. Woopi Goldberg said something so stupid on the viewI had to laugh. And Mat Damon, is so much a an air-head, I I could not stop laughing...I guess it is their hatefull attitute towards people in general.. They should stick to making their silly movies about nothing, and leave the intelligent things to people who do not have to play dress up,or pretend their something their not.
The far left are so terrified that someone who believes in God, will make them feel bad about themselves. God is light, and they will not be able to do the cheating and lying,back stabbing, and other things they do, if they have to realize God may be watching...
Of course, he is watching no matter what..
They can run, but they cannot hide..
- September 12, 2008 at 6:45 PM
- dgill said...
I am thankful for Sarah Palin and McCain. Our future depends alot on our president. I want to know our top people in Washington will make decisions that will protect us.Whose hands do you want to place your future in? Obama and McCain say they will change Washington and I think both would make changes, but not all changes are good changes. No one is as blind as those who do not wish to see, nor as deaf as those who not want to hear.Look at the "friends" of each canidate and remember birds of a feather flock together.
Obama should focus on McCain but one would think Sarah is running for President (in which I would vote for her!) as she seems to be the democrats focus.They can't find anything to build up the democratic nominees so they are trying to destroy Sarah. Go Sarah Palin and John McCain ! A mountaineer for McCain & Palin
- September 12, 2008 at 7:44 PM


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fmt::Display for a structure where the elements must each be
handled sequentially is tricky. The problem is that each
write! generates a
fmt::Result. Proper handling of this requires dealing with all the
results. Rust provides the
? operator for exactly this purpose.
? on
write! looks like this:
// Try `write!` to see if it errors. If it errors, return
// the error. Otherwise continue.
write!(f, "{}", value)?;
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try! macro, which works the same way.
This is a bit more verbose and no longer recommended, but you may still see it in
older Rust code. Using
try! looks like this:
try!(write!(f, "{}", value));
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use std::fmt; // Import the `fmt` module. // Define a structure named `List` containing a `Vec`. struct List(Vec<i32>); impl fmt::Display for List { fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result { // Extract the value using tuple indexing, // and create a reference to `vec`. let vec = &self.0; write!(f, "[")?; // Iterate over `v` in `vec` while enumerating the iteration // count in `count`. for (count, v) in vec.iter().enumerate() { // For every element except the first, add a comma. // Use the ? operator, or try!, to return on errors. if count != 0 { write!(f, ", ")?; } write!(f, "{}", v)?; } // Close the opened bracket and return a fmt::Result value. write!(f, "]") } } fn main() { let v = List(vec![1, 2, 3]); println!("{}", v); }
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Yesterday afternoon, I went to the Museum of Sex. Ok, I will briefly pause so you can get your giggling out of the way…ready? The entrance to the museum looks like a hip novelty store, and En Vogue's "Don't Let Go" was blasting from the sound system. The only difference? Instead of comic books, PEZ dispensers and other novelty items on display, tables and shelves are filled with almost any and every erotic pleasure you can think of: whips, feathers, vibrators, literotica (for those Fifty Shades of Grey fans out there), the list goes on and on.
The ticket booth is towards the back of the store and a sign warns patrons to not "touch, lick, stroke or mount the exhibits." Good to know. Besides the permanent collection, two exhibits are currently on display: Universe of Desire and F*CK ART. I started my journey with Universe of Desire, an exhibition that examines human desire as seen through the lens of digital behavior. This was really fascinating. I mean, think about it—with the advent of the Internet, people are more emboldened to say what they want and do what they want because they feel protected by a blanket of anonymity. Of course this translates to sexually explicit behaviors, including streaming, downloads, Google searches and sexting. One highlight? A large scroll sign, with electric blue neon lettering, which displays popular search engine terms for erotic content.
The second exhibit, F*CK ART, is a kaleidoscope of color executed by a group of 20 street artists. The exhibit showcases work that pushes the boundaries of our relationship to sexuality in a public space. Most works show the naked form and/or various sexual acts. The permanent collection is also worth a gander, with historical sexual aids and photographs, sex dolls and erotic drawings by Pablo Picasso and Keith Haring on display. The museum also has a bar in the basement, Oralfix, with some pretty interesting cocktail names.
For more information on the museum, click here.
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The government of Belarus last night extradited Alexander Lapshin to Azerbaijan, in a landmark case that has considerable legal and diplomatic ramifications.
Earlier Azerbaijan had requested the extradition of Lapshin, who holds dual Russian and Israeli citizenship, saying that he had violated Azerbaijan's state border by visiting Nagorno-Karabakh without its permission, and for making statements against the territorial integrity of Azerbaijan. The Belarus authorities finally agreed the extradition after legal battles that have lasted for several weeks, and despite representations from Russia and Israel who were against the extradition.
For a number of years Azerbaijan has taken exception to foreigners visiting Nagorno-Karabakh, as well as adjacent territories currently under Armenian control, without first securing its permission. The Azerbaijani Foreign Ministry regularly publishes a list of such persons, who are than automatically declared person non grata in Azerbaijan. This is however the first time Azerbaijan has tried to launch criminal proceedings against anyone travelling to Nagorno-Karabakh. Lapshin was a vocal critic of Azerbaijan and a supporter of the independence of Nagorno-Karabakh, so he was probably chosen because in his case there is no difficulty in proving that he was consciously defying Azerbaijani law. The case however also has implications for others who visit Karabakh either without being fully aware of the status of the territory as a non-recognised territory still recognised as part of Azerbaijan, or others who visit as part of non partisan work - be it humanitarian or as part of peace making efforts.
Having succeeded in this first test case Azerbaijan may decide to push the matter further, seeking the extradition of others.
This is for the moment unlikely. The timing of Lapshin's case was crucial for Azerbaijan's successful extradition bid. Relations between Russia and Belarus are at the moment at a very low point, and Belarus President Lukashenka may have used Lapshin's case to show Moscow, which has shown displeasure and discomfort with the case, that he will not be dictated to.
Russia and Israel both have very good relations with Baku. The two between them supply most of Azerbaijan's weapons. But their relations with Baku are also complicated, and Lapshin's extradition will not make them any simpler.
For Baku however, in the short term the extradition is a victory to its determined position to ascertain its territorial integrity. It will make others who want to travel to Nagorno-Karabakh more careful. The case adds a further wedge in relations between Belarus and Armenia, two countries that are technically allies as members of the CSTO, and partners as members of the Eurasian Economic Union.
But if Azerbaijan decides to initiate new cases against others, the situation can potentially embroil it in legal and diplomatic quarrels with an ever-expanding list of countries, making such a course counterproductive. For the moment however it is likely to put all its efforts in showcasing Lapshin's predicament, and managing the fallout with Moscow and Tel Aviv.
Source: commonspace.eu
Photo: Alexander Lapshin arriving in Baku after he was extradited from Belarus on 8 February 2017 (picture courtesy of news.az)
In a terse statement issued in Brussels on Sunday evening (9 August) EU Foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell described the situation in the Eastern Mediterranean as "extremely worrying".


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This blog started as a photo-a-day blog in 2006, October 2009 it become an official WHAT-NOT blog and/or random thoughts from a Filmmaker blog.
Friday, April 22, 2011
indeed grateful
I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
I love watching this Dave rock then seen so grateful for the chance to rock and blowing kisses to the audience.
There is so much to be thankful for.
Thursday, April 21, 2011
in a dark hall
I have been doing all my professional video work these day on a still camera.
I rarely use the camera for stills though, but this Canon 5d is amazing.
This photo in a dark hall during a piano recital.
Monday, April 18, 2011
Stephen's Rock
A very nice local guy at Boat Harbour, NSW Australia told us about Stephen's Rock. He told of a guy in their town that was dying of cancer and as part of his treatment he would take a rock to the point. After he died it become tradition for other take a rock to the point and put in on the pile and make a wish and tell no one of the wish. RIP Stephen.
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Random Flashback
Luis Ruiz on a hike in Southern Utah in maybe 1992.
Luis reps me in LA for commercials and stuff.
Luis film friend for life.
Check out Silo.
Saturday, April 09, 2011
WildFlower and Remix
The people that work at First Descents are as rad as the campers.
Wednesday, April 06, 2011
Flashback: Brad Ludden
Brad is the one on the right in the thumbnail.
He is awesome.
I am just finishing up a bit of TV about Brad and his camp for Young adults that are dealing with Cancer.
This has changed my view of cancer and my world view.
I am so happy to be involved with Brad and all the awesome campers.
Saturday, April 02, 2011
In Colorado
In Colorado now, Moab, Utah tomorrow. I am directing and shooting a TV show about folks with cancer that are going to camp, this week rock climbing. I met the guy that started this camp about 8 years ago on a shoot for Subaru and Dagger Kayaks that I directed for OLN. Brad Ludden is a goofball and a wise guy with a big heart. We did a very powerful interview with a beautiful woman from Colorado that was going to camp in the morning. Check out First Descents here.
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Experience the beauty and natural wonders of iconic Cape Town; get up close to animals in their natural habitat; and explore one of the "Seven Wonders of the World." Spend three nights in Cape Town, discovering its many treasures with visits to Cape of Good Hope, Boulders Beach and Table Mountain. You also have a choice to visit the renowned Cape Winelands, or tour famous Robben Island. Next, fly to Kasane, Botswana and cross the border to Namibia to embark on your Chobe River safari cruise through the wondrous Chobe National Park, home to one of Africa's densest populations of wildlife. Encounter elephants, giraffes, leopards, zebras and buffaloes on excursions by boat and open-air vehicles. Conclude your journey with two nights at the majestic Victoria Falls. You also have the option to extend your trip in Johannesburg, following in the foot-steps of Nelson Mandela.
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Situated amidst majestic mountains and lined with pristine beaches, Cape Town offers a rich culture and heritage with extraordinary attractions. After being greeted at the airport by an AmaWaterways Representative, transfer to the Cape Grace Hotel. Get to know your Tour Director at the Welcome Reception. (WR)
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Hawa Nyende försvarar sin doktorsavhandling Maternal Healthcare in Low Resource Settings: Investigations of IT as a resource. Disputationen kommer att genomföras på distans via Zoom: https://gu-se.zoom.us/j/67648698690?pwd=MFoyYWJOb1loZExPWFVSVlVxWDNDZz09
Maternal mortality is a major problem especially in developing countries. Maternal deaths are partly attributed to the limited access to healthcare and a shortage of medically trained health professionals who can provide maternal healthcare service. Approaches have been adopted to improve access and quality of healthcare. However, the approaches have been challenged by quality of care and limited infrastructure. The quality of healthcare can be improved through transforming healthcare, by managing and organizing care on a value-based system. Thereby, involving multiple actors who integrate resources to co-create value in order to benefit themselves and others. Information technology (IT) has been identified as a key driver of value co-creation in this transformation though, the way in which IT can drive value co-creation in healthcare has not been fully explored. The thesis aims to enhance our knowledge on how IT as a resource contributes to value-based maternal healthcare in low-resource settings. This thesis draws on service dominant logic framework and case study approach. The empirical foundation of the thesis comprises of four studies that are focused on the use and design of IT for maternal healthcare. Three studies were carried out in Uganda and one study was carried out in Sweden. Interviews, observations, focus group discussions and document reviews were used in data collection. Thematic analysis was used to analyze the data that was collected. The studies resulted into five published papers.
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So it is my 4rd day in Turkey. Flight was unpleasant because someone was pushing my seat from behind in a plane and behind me there were very noisy women. The first day was about reaching hotel, filling stomach and going to sleep. On the second day I explored a bit. First hotel grounds. So I spotted 2x Trachemys scripta elegans in an artificial pond which hosted also fish and Pelophylax bedriagae (only heard).
Trachemys scripta elegans
its habitat
Then, since it was sunny, I found Hatay Lizard on a palm tree in hotel grounds.
I left hotel. When I was going along edge of bush there were many Hatay Lizards scurrying to hide away under bush. I reached stony banks of river and I spotted young Platyceps cf. najadum but unfortunately it hid immediately among stone and I was unable to find him again the following day.
But there were also Hatay Lizards and Starred Agamas. At the opposite bank under trash I found Bufotes variabilis.
adult Hatay Lizard and young and adult Starred Agamas.
Then I left city and again heard Pelophylax bedriagae from a river. Tried to flip Lycian salamanders but they don't reach so east it seems.
The following day I tried to find Anatololacerta lizards so i left city and but I failed it seems. But I found tiny empty eggs under a stone. ID needed. EDIT: it is Mediodactylus kotschyi cf. danilewskii
Today I tried to find Lycian salamanders near Kemer, it was slightly raining but I did not find any! I only found a killed snake. Is it a Cat Snake? EDIT: it is Telescopus fallax syriacus


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|*November 6 - 12
|Daniel's History Lesson
Read for This Week's Study: Daniel 7.
Memory Text:
| "Let no one deceive you by any means; for that Day will not
come unless the falling away comes first, and the man of sin is revealed,
the son of perdition"
Thessalonians 2:3, NKJV).
The vision in Daniel 7 (given about 553 B.C., the first year of Belshazzar's coregency with his father, Nabonidus) is largely parallel to the vision in chapter 2. Some reasons for this repetition may be:
1. Fifty years had gone by since Nebuchadnezzar had received his vision in Daniel 2.
2. To repeat important matters is a good principle of teaching.
3. Daniel 2 gave a general survey of the future from Nebuchadnezzar's days until the Second Advent. Daniel 7 enlarges on the time period between the fourth empire and Christ's return to earth.
4. Daniel 2 portrays the worldly empires from a political and military viewpoint. Daniel 7 includes the spiritual power that plays an important role in the great controversy. Whatever the reasons for the parallel to the earlier chapter, Daniel 7 is a powerful prophecy, one filled with importantand relevanttruth for our time.
The Week at a Glance:
|What is the essence of the vision in Daniel 7? What is the fourth beast? What is the little-horn power that arises out of, but is still part of, the fourth beast? How did the medieval church justify its persecution of heretics? What does the time prophecy in Daniel 7:25 represent?
*Study this week's lesson to prepare for Sabbath, November 13.
|November 7
The Vision (Dan. 7:1-8).
In his vision Daniel sees the four winds of heaven stirring up the great sea. As a result of it, four wild beasts emerge from the water.
What explanations can we glean from Scripture for most of the symbols appearing in this vision?
The four beasts
Any history book about the ancient world will confirm that the great world powers following Babylon were Media-Persia and Greece. But what about the fourth power, the dreadful and terrible beast? Though not specifically named in Scripture, history confirms that the power that defeated Greece was Rome, the only sensible identification for the fourth beast.
What are the similarities between the expressions used to describe the fourth kingdom in Daniel 2 and the fourth kingdom in Daniel 7? Compare Dan. 2:40 and Dan. 7:7, 23.
World power may be said to have passed from the Greeks to the Romans at the battle of Pydna, in 168 B.C., where the Romans won a complete victory over Macedonia, which was divided into four confederacies that eventually became a Roman province. Thus, within another century of conquests, the world was united under Rome. History affirms, again, God's foreknowledge of world events.
|November 8
The Little Horn (Dan. 7:8, 23-25).
The Roman Empire did not succumb to another world empire, as had the previous kingdoms; instead, it disintegrated. From AD. 330 on, when Emperor Constantine moved the seat of government from Rome to Constantinople, a long decline began in the western half of the empire. Its authority slowly disappeared, its vitality evaporated, and its apparatus of government faded away. Into this void stepped the barbaric tribes from the north, who carved the empire up into many smaller pieces and in AD. 476 deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last of the Western emperors.
What happens to the fourth beast, as depicted in Daniel 7:19, 20, 24?
The prophecy does not treat the horns of the beast independently; on the contrary, they are presented as a continuation of its activities. The horns correspond to the mingling of the iron with the earthenware in the feet and toes of the image of Daniel 2.As in Daniel 2, the fourth empire, as a single power, broke apart; this was depicted in Daniel 7 as the activity of the ten horns. They represent the European nations that emerged from the Roman Empire and, to a large extent, maintained her civilization.
What are the specific characteristics of the little horn, and what power does it represent? Dan. 7:8, 24, 25.
Historians tell us that "out of the ruins of political Rome, arose the great moral Empire in the 'giant form' of the Roman Church."Alexander Flick, The Rise of the Mediaeval Church (New York: B. Franklin, 1959), p. 150, quoted in The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 9, article 1142, p. 878. Indeed, when the western half of the Roman Empire fell to the Germanic tribes, the Bishop of Rome became an important figure in the West, and soon he exercised not only spiritual but also political power. "The Roman Church in this way privily pushed itself into the place of the Roman World Empire, of which it is the actual continuation; the empire has not perished, but has only undergone a transformation."Adolf I Harnack, What Is Christianity? (quoted in The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 9, article 1359, p. 841, author's emphasis).
|Again, don't miss this point: The persecuting little-horn power arises out of the Roman Empireit never ceases to be a Roman power. Why is this point especially important for us to remember, particularly in the context of last-day events, when all sorts of wild speculation is made about the identity of end-time players?
|November 9
Persecution of the Saints (Dan. 7:25).
Jesus warned (in Matt. 24:9) that His followers would be persecuted. What do you read in Daniel 7 about the activity of the littlehorn power that fulfills this prediction?
Christians were persecuted during the time of the pagan Roman Empire (the fourth beast itself), but the persecution mentioned in Daniel 7:25 is a persecution of the saints by the little horn, which arose only after the pagan phase had ended. The best-known example of this persecution is the Inquisition. In the Middle Ages, the growing threat of so-called heretical groups led the church to use secular authority to repress what it deemed heresy. In today's climate, with all the talk about Christian unity, these atrocities are not talked about much anymore, but untold numbers perished at the hands of the little-horn power, depicted in Daniel 7.
It is difficult for us to comprehend how people who claimed to be followers of Jesus could torture and kill other Christians. How did they justify this horrible action, all in the name of Christ? See, as an example of this kind of thinking, John 16:2.
The theological justification for the Inquisition was based on Augustine's (AD. 354-430) understanding of Luke 14:23 where Jesus in the parable of the great supper, says, " ' "Compel them to come in" ' " (NKJV). Augustine took this to mean "Force them, if they do not come of their own free will."
The great Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas (AD. 1224-1274) responded to a question concerning the heretics by saying, "If forgers of money and other evil-doers are condemned to death at once by the secular authority, much more reason is there for heretics, as soon as they are convicted of heresy, to be not only excommunicated but even put to death."
|However horrendous, this thinking should serve as a warning: Those who believe that God is behind what they do are capable of great evil. Why, then, do we need to be so very careful in how we seek to justify our own actions, particularly when we do them in the name of God and for what we believe is His cause?
|November 10
Changing Times and Laws (Dan. 7:25).
Compare Daniel 2:21 and Daniel 7:25. In what specific way does the little horn seek to take upon itself what belongs only to God? How does this action parallel with what is written in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, 4?
The word for "times" in this text is the same Aramaic word rendered "seasons" in Daniel 2:21. God as the Creator of the times can change them, but the little horn arrogantly claims this power for himself by the attempted change of the "time" of the Sabbath, the one commandment that points to the Lord in His role as Creator-the role that makes Him, and Him alone, God.
Read the following texts (Gen. 2:1-4; Exod. 20:8; Isa. 40:28; 44:6-8; 45:5 ,6). Together, what message do they have for us, particularly in the context of today's study?
As Adventists, we love to circulate all sorts of quotes from early Catholic sources mocking Protestantswho claim the Bible as their rule of faithfor keeping Sunday, a day not commanded in the Bible but, instead, was formally instituted by the authority of the Roman Church.
What was the reason for this change? Both external pressures and internal pressures on the church forced many Christians to break radically with the Jews. The conflict between the Jews and the empire caused many of these Christians to develop a new identity, one that helped them avoid the repressive measures applied to the Jews under Roman dominion. Meanwhile, the Judaeo-Christians who insisted on the literal observance of certain Mosaic regulations helped push many others to sever their ties with Judaism in every way possible.
Christians of the first four centuries never confused Sabbath with Sunday but for a time celebrated both, as indicated in the Constitutions of the Holy Apostles (pseudonymous work, c. A.D. 375). "Keep the Sabbath, and the Lord's day festival; because the former is the memorial of the creation, and the latter of the resurrection."The SDA Bible Commentary, vol. 9, article 1414, p. 878.
|The change of the Sabbath didn't happen overnight. Slowly but surely, with one small step at a time, the apostasy from God's law began. But it can happen only as individuals, one by one, allow it to happen. Had the masses stayed faithful, the changes never would have come. What lessons are in here for us?
|November 11
A Time Prophecy (Dan 7:25).
This time period of three and one-half times, or three and one-half years, is again mentioned in Daniel 12:7 and in various ways in the book of Revelation. Though space doesn't allow for us to show why, all the texts below are talking about the same time period.
Look up these texts and write down the time prophecies given in each one. What can we learn by comparing them with one another?
A comparison of these texts shows that a prophetic year has 360 days, and thus three and one-half years is the same as 1,260 prophetic days, or 42 prophetic months. As Adventists, we have long believed, and rightly so, that these prophecies demand the day/year principle. Among the biblical reasons for the day/year principle are the following: (1) The visions are symbolic, hence the times indicated should also be symbolic. (2) As the visions extend over long time periods, the times specified, therefore, should also be seen as extending over long periods of time. (3) The peculiar way in which the time periods are expressed also indicates that they must apply symbolically; i.e., the fact that the word years is never used in any of the time expressions can be explained only on the basis of the year/day principle. (4) The pragmatic test of this principle in Daniel 9:24-27 indicates that, indeed, years are intended.
|November 12
Further Study:
|Read Ellen G. White, The Great Controversy,
Notice the parallel between Daniel 2 and Daniel 7. We clearly can see how the two chapters are dealing with the same events, though from different perspectives.
Discussion Question:
|As mentioned earlier in the week, Adventists love to quote Roman Catholic sources that blatantly boast of Rome's authority in changing the Sabbath to Sunday. In most cases, however, those are older quotes. Rome, today, appears to be taking a different tack on this issue. The best example is the apostolic letter, issued by Pope John Paul II in 1998, called Dies Domini (the Lord's Day), in which the pope admonishes the flock to be more faithful in keeping Sunday. What's interesting, however, is that instead of boasting about the church's authority to change the Sabbath day, as apologists for Rome and Sunday so frequently did in the past, the letter in some places sounds like our defense of the seventh-day Sabbath. The pope even goes back to the Genesis Creation account as part of the reason for keeping Sunday, even quoting Genesis 2:2. Why do you think Rome has changed its approach to its defense of Sunday? How does this change fit with our understanding of last-day events?
|God granted Daniel a preview of world history from the days of Babylon down to the time when the saints will receive the kingdom. After the four world powers (Babylon, Media-Persia, Greece, and Rome), there was to come a religio-political power that would continue until the time of the end.
|I N S I D E Story
|One Good Accident
Jin Long*
Brother Lee* is a Global Mission pioneer. He had been working in southern China for several months without any apparent success, in spite of his best efforts.
Then one day Brother Lee was involved in a serious accident that also involved another man. Both victims were sent to the hospital and placed in the same room. During their lengthy recuperation Brother Lee had plenty of time to become acquainted with his roommate. By the time the men were released from the hospital, the two men had become good friends, and Brother Lee had led his roommate to accept Jesus as his Lord and Savior. In fact, the two men decided to work together for God.
Brother Lee learned that his new friend's wife had been paralyzed by a stroke and was confined to their home. She could not walk or take care of herself. Brother Lee asked a kind Adventist woman to visit this man's wife. The Adventist woman gave her massage and other natural treatments. Before long the woman could stand and move slowly around using a cane. -
This woman's healing created interest in knowing more about God, and before long several people were meeting in a small group with Brother Lee. They meet for worship in a small room that they have rented. The little group is growing.
Brother Lee is happy that the Lord has used an unfortunate situation to bring him in contact with someone whose heart was searching for a better life. Through this unfortunate incident God continues to work in the lives of this family. Even his friend's mother-in-law, a lifelong Buddhist, began warming to the gospel as she saw the power of God to heal her daughter.
The wife's healing continued through patient massage and natural treatments, and eventually she was able to throw away her cane and even resume working. Her mother has accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and removed the idols from her home. A white sheet covers the wall where they once were encased, and today the little group of 11 believers meets in her home.
Recently Brother Lee informed church leaders that the local religious authorities have given his group of believers permission to build their own church. With permission to build a legal church, surely the group will continue to grow. Brother Lee thanks God for keeping His promise that "in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose" (Rom. 8:28, NIV).
* Jin Long (all names in this story have been changed) is a Global Mission pioneer working in China.
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The best and the worst, plus two catsSaturday, February 15th, 2014
I always forget, until I'm back in Key West again, how this little town expresses some of the very best, as well as the worst, of America. So in case you haven't already figured this out for yourselves I herewith insert a generalisation warning: here come a whole bunch of them, drawn from admittedly random specifics. Look away now if you can't deal with 'em.
The best, and it is a wondrously top of the range best, is the absolute sweetness of many local people. I don't know what energy is behind that: maybe it's being southern (although Key West is more about island life than a southern one: the weather's hot and life is slow, certainly, and I grant you that we eat grits, but not at every single meal). I suspect it's mostly down to being an island; an enclosed and self-referential culture. Residents on Waiheke (my other most favourite island) also tend to be easier and sweeter than most other New Zealanders. Or it could be that Key Westers are basically country folk with "time to stand and stare" as the poet W. H. Davies said: there's time to be sweet, so damnit – they are. (The country folk thing is also true on Waiheke.)
Whatever the reason, I have to tell you it's a joy. People smile and greet you in the street when they don't know you, and they wave their thanks to perfect strangers who have done no more than follow the road code and let them cross the road in front of their cars. They admire your clothes as they pass; they ask you what your chosen meal in a restaurant is like; they pull over in the (gloriously wide) supermarket aisles to let you pass with your trolley. At a birthday gathering in a restaurant they not only join in enthusiastically from other tables when "Happy Birthday" is sung: they do it without irony. They eagerly discuss the merits of the newest movie showing at the art cinema, or the latest best-seller, in the fish shop. If they can help you, they will, even if doing that is a bit of a faff for them. Their manners are startlingly and consistently excellent, which in turn encourages me to act out a matching set of good manners. Lots of please and thank-yous; lots of "no, after you", lots of "go for it", all abound. It's not only soothing, it's heartening.
But when I said I'd talk about the worst as well, I was lying: the worst of America isn't here at all. What is here isn't always fun: many tourists come here specifically to behave badly (specifically to drink, drug and party too much, and as a local friend says ruefully, "they do it in my backyard"). The bars don't close until 4.30 am, so drugged and drunken behaviour has lots of time to flourish in this end-of-the-road town. (Mile Marker Zero is emblazoned on a buoy at the end of the highway, and the next stop would be – and once was, maybe will be again – Cuba, which is much closer to Key West than Miami.) But to my mind the worst of America is the present expression of rightwing politics and its arrogant disregard for human dignity, and Key West is, happily, a small blue spot in an otherwise red state. So the worst doesn't really manifest itself here, and the rest of Florida seems a long way from the mahogany trees, the languid pelicans and the cluck-happy street chickens.
And that story I mentioned about two cats? Next time, I promise. If you have tears, get 'em ready: it's a sad story, but it ends with hope for the future. And meantime here's a taster – a photo of darling Minnie asleep on the path outside our house.


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The journey home was much less eventful than the outbound leg. I realise even more just how bad Heathrow Terminal 5 is.
At Houston, the Fast Bag Drop was actually a fast bag drop. There were about five parties in front of us, but it took us seven minutes to get served rather than ninety. The actual process at the counter was much faster and more efficient. Security was faster, even though they had a drill and shut everything down in the middle of our x-ray experience. Boarding the plane was simple and straightforward. We even left slightly ahead of schedule.
The food was marginally better this time, thanks to the lack of turkey and stuffing and mushy vegetables. I'm not saying it was great or anywhere near the standard we used to expect from British Airways, but better than the westbound flight.
The only bad thing was the woman sitting in front of The Woman. She insisted on reclining her seat back the whole time, even when she was actually sitting up, away from the back of the chair. This put her seat and The Woman's knees in constant contact. The Woman did kick her hard enough to get her to sit up during the meal, but before the lights were off for the overnight flight, she had fully relined again back into The Woman's lap, and as she had a bulkhead seat, she stretched out with her feet halfway up the wall. First-class leisure at cattle class prices. She intended to stay that way for breakfast in the morning, until the flight attendant made her sit up so The Woman could eat without her tray table pressing against her spine.
Terminal 5 is much better for arrivals than departures, though not necessarily for the distance to be covered before it's all over. After a long walk on various different levels, it is then necessary to take a train to another part of the building, then walk long distances on various levels to get to passport control. The actual immigration process was quite quick and the bags were already on the conveyer belt by the time we got there.
Now comes the jetlag recovery.


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I can't believe no one's made a thread about this, but what does the person in the cockpit of these machines actually go through when the car flips over? Surely they don't remain sitting 'upright'; being able to only see the ground from under your vehicle would be disorienting and nauseating as hell.
I thought for a time that maybe the interior of the cockpit was similar to a toy I had ages ago. The driver is in a cockpit with a weight on the bottom that rotates perpendicular to the vehicle. This would always orient the driver vertically in relation to gravity, except maybe in high speed turns.
Then I realized that this would cause issues when it came to driving upside down or sideways. The driver would be, for all intents and purposes, again stuck with a ground only view or worse yet, staring at part of the vehicle. Something more complex would need to be in place to orient the driver with respect to both gravity and the surface said driver is driving on.
I figure that perhaps the vehicle has proximity sensors in/on the 'top' and 'bottom', or perhaps pressure sensors near the axles, which interact with gyroscopes in the cockpit so the driver is always oriented with respect to the surface s/he is driving on. When the vehicle catches air, the vehicle takes into account which side is arguably the 'top' in relation to gravity and orients the driver so s/he is facing the proper direction when s/he touches down.
As for when the vehicle bounces around, a 'lethal centrifuge' as I remember someone calling it at some point somewhere in this forum, no doubt an onboard computer spins the cockpit along the aforementioned axis perpendicular to the vehicle in a way that cancels out the shock as best it can, while also keeping the driver from getting dizzy/nauseated.
I'd like to hear others' theories as to just what happens in the cockpit to prevent 'filling the vase' as I'm told the astronauts say.
Of course this is mostly theory, but perhaps the best theory, or theories, could be woven into GRIP Lore by the time the final version comes...? With an obvious hat tip to those who came up with said 'best theories', maybe defunct companies with names akin to the forum user who posted it, or perhaps the CEOs of said companies would be named similarly...?


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My Sunday column is from my annual win-a-trip journey, and looks at Mali in the aftermath of the fighting there to evict the Al Qaeda affiliate in north Africa. We found a fragile stability and the fighting over, although everyone is very tense, but starvation is now killing more people than warfare ever did. The problem, of course, is that the fighting and Al Qaeda generate news coverage, while there has been little global interest in the hunger in Mali.
We should also remember that while starvation kills some children–about one an hour now in Mali–it impairs the brain development of many more. When children don't get enough to eat in the first two years of life, their cognitive powers can be permanently impaired. So decades from now there will be Malians who won't be able to contribute as productively as they should because we're not able to get food to them now.
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"Why Me?" was the winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 1992, performed for Ireland by Linda Martin.
The result was also notable as the song was composed by Johnny Logan, who had previously won the Contest with "What's Another Year?" and the self-composed "Hold Me Now". Logan is, to date, the only person to win the Contest with a song composed for him, win the Contest with his own song and then compose another winner.
The song itself is a ballad, which builds in intensity towards the end. The singer describes her thoughts about her lover, and asks why she is the lucky one to have his love, as against anyone else.
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Nepalese women are playing a greater role in politics and economics these days, but their participation in politics is far from the 50 percent that would represent equal and fair representation. More than 95 percent of Nepalese women have been affected by the violence. Since the conflict started, rape and kidnappings have increased. Prostitution has increased. Kidnappings and torture still take place. The forced recruitment of young women into the criminal forces is another serious issue.
During the 1980s, participation of women in Nepal's political and economic sectors was very low. The United Nations' declaration of an International Women's Decade (1975-1985) started discussion and debate on women's rights. Yet the role played by women in the development of the country remained insignificant. The nation has yet to realize the importance of eradicating discrimination against women. Most women, especially in rural areas, are incapable of fighting for their rights.
Democratic reforms in 1990 provided an opportunity for some women to become active. Women's organizations arose and offered support to women who wanted to share their problems and experiences, but after a few years they disappeared. Nowadays women's organizations are satisfied with carrying out small programs for women, but they are not bringing any real change in the status of women in Nepal.


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Higher level processing of sensory messages in different pain states
In chronic pain states, pain can persist even after local recovery of damaged tissue and does not always reflect the degree of tissue damage. On the other hand, while nociceptive pain is elicited by stimulation of the sensory endings in the tissue, neuropathic pain (NP) results from injury or disease of neurons in the peripheral or central nervous system (Schaible and Richter, 2004). Despite the loss of input, peripheral nerve injury results in positive symptoms in a number of patients where central sensitization, related to channel and receptor changes within the spinal cord that increase the output of neurons within the nociceptive pathway and changes in top-down processing through descending pathways appear to be maladaptive compensations for the sensory loss. This type of pain usually occurs within days, weeks, or months after the injury and tends to occur in waves of frequency and intensity indicative of multiple processes of pain and modulation. The main signs of neuropathic pain (NP) are spontaneous pain, hyperalgesia and allodynia but other signs or symptoms that are usually present are mood disorders like depression and anxiety It is also known that pain is enhanced by unpleasant emotional states such as fear, anxiety, depression and insomnia and reduced by pleasant emotions The amygdala (AMY), as part of the limbic system, plays a key role in the affective and autonomic aspects of pain, the evaluation of the emotional significance of sensory stimuli, emotional learning and memory, fear, anxiety and depression.
Contrary to acute pain cases, analgesics can be inefficient in chronic pain conditions, and the use of drugs like antidepressants and anticonvulsants in pain control as become widespread Anticonvulsants have shown to be useful for chronic NP, and gabapentin and pregabalin are the two anticonvulsants that have the strongest evidence for the treatment of pain. They selectively bind to the alpha/2delta-subunit protein of calcium channels in various regions of the brain and the superficial dorsal horn of the spinal cord, inhibiting the release of excitatory neurotransmitters that are important in the first stages of pain processing. Their efficacy however is controlled by descending pathways from the brain.
Our first goal is to characterize the neurons of the AMY through extracellular in vivo electrophysiology, in the spinal nerve ligation (SNL) model, We also propose to analyze the effects of the systemic and spinal injection of pregabalin in the activity of AMY neurones. We then intend to link in with concurrent interests in the group and probe, using site ¡V specific neuronal ablation, the roles of defined spinal and brain stem populations of neurons, such as within the RVM to probe the input and modulating pathways to the AMY. Further studies would investigate other pain models to compare across different patterns of afferent and central activity.
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