Christian Entertainers Say 'Enough is Enough'

Full page ad in USA Today 9/17/07 paid for by The Miracle Thaeter in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee.
"We are the actors, singers, dancers, crew and managers...We, along with thousands of other Christians in the entertainmetn industry, know our talents come from God, and we take offense when His name is battered and bruised by people through the media."

What upset them was Kathy Griffin's acceptance speech for her Emmy award.
She said that, "A lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award. I want you to know that no one had less to do with this award than Jesus."

Then she uttered this blasphemy: S**k it, Jesus. This award is my god now."

"Over 2,000 years ago, Jesus was mocked and few stood up for Him. We at the Miracle Theater consider it an honor to stand for Jesus today. We may never win a national award. We may never be household names. We may never be seen in Hollywood. Although others may choose to use their national platform to slander our God, we are honored as professional entertainers to stande for Christ.

Beneath a large group photograph of four rows of the stalwarts, some clad in Biblical raiment, appears this identification.

"We are the Miracle Theater -- Pigeon Forge, Tennessee. The mission of the Miracle Theater is to present faith-based family entertainment through live theatrical productions revealing the person of Jesus Christ as The Living Word of God.

You can cheer them on at (865) 428-7469.

Vitamin B-12 gets nod to aid chemotherapy

In Jacob Goldstein's Health Journal column in the Wall Street Journal, he writes of medical science approval of some alternative treatments for cancer.
Vitamin B 12 and folic acid are recommended by medical science not to treat the disease itself but to treat the often debilitat ing effects of cancer and cancer treatment.
Acupuncture also gets the nod from oncologists as an alternative addition.

I take 5000 mcg of B-12 daily. A rasperry flavored sublingual lozenge that dissolves under the tongue. It has boosted my energy and improved my memory. Doctors give pregnant women B-12 shots. (I got them regularly for my four pregnancies.) I hear some socialites get B-12 shots from their medicine men. Masseur Paul Oleck, who also specializes in reflexology, is my twice-a-week massage therapist (He works on increasing mobility in my arms and tecommended B-12 in the higher dosage because he takes it himself.)
Paul declares that swallowing a pill is not nearly as effective as letting the tasty lozenge dissolve in the mouth. He says it goes right to the bloodstream.

My octegenarian and nonegenarian friends are now taking Solaray B-12 5000 mcg. every day and say they can feel some improvement. Paul gets it at the Vitamin Shoppe. Costs about $10 FOR A 30-DAY SUPPLY.

Seek more information from National Cancer Institute, National Center for Complementary
and Alternative Medicine and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.

Heed Paul Harvey on Iraq

Regardless of where you stand on teh issue of the U.S. ionvolvement in Iraq, here's a sobering statistic. THere has been a monhtly avreage of 160,000 troops in the Iraq theatre of operations during the last 22 months, and 2,867 deaths.



That gives a firearm death rate of 60 per 100,000 soldiers. The firearm death rate

in Washington, DC is 80.6 per 100,000 persons for the same period.



That means you are about 25% more likely to be shot and killed in the U.S. capital than you are in Iraq.



Conclusion: The U.S. should pull out of Washington.

Letterman cuts up on Oprah show

David Letterman, appearing Sept.10 on the season premiere of "The Oprah Show" brought a taste of his own show -- one of his top 10 Reasons I Love Oprah."

No. 10: She smells great.
No. 9: Without her, we would have never known that quack Dr. Phil
No. 8: She helped me start my wildly popular D magazine.
No. 7: We're yoga buddies.
No. 6: Oprah's incredibly busy, yet she always finds time to ignore my calls.
No. 5: She agreed to validate my parking.
No. 4: Taught me how to launder money in the Cayman Islands.
No. 3: Anytime I'm in Chicago, she lets me crash on her couch.
No. 2: Oprah gave me my first post-surgery sponge bath.
No. 1: She's giving everybody in today's audience a new house.

So much for their much-publicized rift. Manipulations courtesy of the Thought Police. Media management maneuvered by publicity agents.

Huge US Postal rates jump for SMALL publications

"For 63 years, we have brought invaluable news and information to our readers around the country. This rate hike threatens HUMAN EVENTS' future."

Editor Jed Babbin writes, "As closely as we watch Congress and the White House, the US Postal Service has hit us hard, with a huge and unexpected rate increase that --- wonder of wonders -- affects small publications such as HUMAN EVENTS but not big ones such as TIME magazine.
Just so you understand how large an increase we're talking about here, our per copy postal rate will shootup by 16.86%. Then, for kicks, the Board of Governors added a 'container fee,' which brings the total cost addition to 20.6&. It's a cost increase that only a liberal could love.'

It will cost him a whopping $120,000 extrar per year to deliver the weekly to its subscribers. The editor thinks this rate increase not only threatens the future of HE but any small publication risks going out of business.

"The clever executives from Time Warner and other big media companies are the ones who proposed the details of this new increase in the first place. Think of it as earmarks for them, taxes for us.

"Maybe they read the report on how conservative radio is unfairly popular, published by members of the Center for American Progress. Maybe they heard liberal New York Democratic Sen. Hillary Clinton's heartwarming speech about fighting the 'Republican machine.' Maybe they were bored."

HUMAN EVENTS always has sniffed for corruption, a meat-and-potatoes kind of national newspaper based in Washington, long before 'spin and sin'. Donations to help HE defray the cos of the rate hike are being sought in a very genteel manner. Mom-and-pop shops bit the dust to make way for the big guys. The liberal media echo chamber seeks to silence dissent.

Above the editor's column is a cartoon that captures the latest political headline grabber.
It shows a seated Demo donkey crying its eyes out. Across the table sits Karl Rove.
The Dem cartoon balloon says "I can't believe you're leaving, Karl. I hate you soooooo much.
I wanna hate YOU!!" Rove's balloon overhead says "There, there. I'm sure you'll find plenty of other decent people to hate."

Where black and brown collide

"In the rarified world of naitonal politiics (and in America's even more other-worldly universities) blacks and Latinos tend to be lumped togethr in what Nicolas Vaca, a California lawyer calls a 'presumed alliance'.



Last month Barack Obama assured a Hispanic conference that such a bond existed...On the streets of America's cities. Some rather less lofty attitudes seem apparent.



"We're being overrun," says Ted Hayes of Choose Black America, which has led anti-immigration marches in south-central Los Angeles. "The companeros have taken all the housing. If you don't speak Spanish, they turn you down for jobs. Our children are jumped upon in schools. They are trying to drive us out."



This I gleaned from The London Economist, which does not print news first viewed through a liberal looking glass.

It points out that one third of blacks believe immigrants take jobs from Americans -- more than any other group. A survey done in Durham, NC found that 59 percent of Latinos believed "few or almost no blacks were hard-working and a similar proportion reckoned few or almost none could be trusted."



Here's my take on immigration:

Every morning I awaken to thank the good Lord for being born in America and being a Christian. Those are major blessings.



An easy way: Decide which illegals stay and which go back home can be made in an interview. Simple. Only the ones who can speak English -- which shows they want to help America as well as their own family-- have the makings of future good citizens. Tell the others in their own language -- BASURA -- which means trash, to get the h--- out. What's the problem with Congress?



What's good for America should take precedence -- NOT politics as usual

My parents came from Copenhagen, Denmark and they wouldn't speak Danish to my brother Paul and me. They wanted to become fluent in English. My mother, who only went to the 10th grade, worked in the book department at Macy's in NYC. My dad, whom we lovingly called "the greenhorn" loved to make people laugh so he took delight in joking about his mistakes.



After he landed in Hoboken, NJ he attended a baseball game. The hawkers were going through the stands yelling "Anybody else?" My daddy apparently liked the flavor. So a week or so later, when he spied a sign showing that familiar bottle of soda pop, he went inside the store.



The clerk asked Daddy, "What would you like?" And Daddy said to him, "Anybody else." That went on and on like an Abbott & Costello routine, Daddy kept repeating the word he heard at the baseball stadium.. "Anybody else."



I still get the giggles remembering.

The Downside of Diversity

Harvard University political scientist Robert Putnam has found that the greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote and less they volunteer, the less they give to charity and work on community projects.

"In the most diverse communities, neighbors only trust each other half as much as they do in the most homogenous settings. The study found that virtually all measures of civic health are lower in more diverse settings." In a story written on 8/5/97, it appeared under the byline of Michael Jonas of the Boston Globe.

"Since Putnam is a liberal academic whose own values put him squarely in the pro-diversity camp, his findings have posed a challenge. Suddenly fiinding himself the bearer of bad news, Putnam has struggled with how to present his work."

Airline Crisis Solution (this is a funny)

How to solve the Airline Crisis



Dump the male flight attendants. No one wanted them in the first place.



Replace all the female flight attendants with strippers! What the hell -- they don't eve serve food anymore, so what's the loss? The strippers would at least triple the alcohol sales and get a 'party atmosphere' going in the cabin. And, of course, every businessman in this country would start flying again, hoping to see naked women.



Because of the tips, female flight attendants wouldn't need a salary, thus saving even more money. I suspect tips would be so good that we could charge the women for working the plane and have them kick back 20% of the tips, including lap dances and "special services."



Muslims would be afraid to get on the planes for fear of seeing naked women. Hijackings would come to a screeching halt, and he airline industry would see record revenues. This definitely is a win-win situation if we handle it right --a golden opportunity to turn a liability into an asset.



Why didn't Bush think of this? Why do I still have to do everything myself?

Sincerely,
Bill Clinton

How To Find Osama bin Ladenl

The FBI posted a description of the 9/ll nemesis, Osama bin Laden. Did you know that he is six feet, six inches tall and weighs 160 pounds? In a kingdom of virtual midgets by comparison, how is he eluding the USA search teams?
Either he's hiding in a cave or riding around in an ambulance.
So naturally, it was easier to find WMDs.
There are more Muslims in the USA than in Afghanistan. I hear it's the poppy-growing colussus of the world. Do you wonder why nobody ever writes about their lock on the huge opium market?

The Downside of Depression Captured

Natalia Martinez, SunSentinel editorial columnist

"My senior quote in the high school yearbook was by the 26th president of the United States, THeodore Roosevelt: 'Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.'

"I was refreshed and a bit surprised to find out that this belief, though much else had cahnged since high school, had remained true. It didn't matter that I was 21 years old or 23 or 19, for I had both roots and wings."

What Jews promise on the Day of Atonement

Benjamin H. Freedman spent his fortune to expose what he called the Jewish tyranny that enveloped the United States. Personally acquainted with Bernard Baruch, Samuel Untermyer, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Joseph Kenndy and his son, President John F. Kennedy, Freedman gave this speech at the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC in 1961, on behalf of the patriotic newspaper, Common Sense.
He began with "Here in the U.S., the Zionists and their co-religionists have complete control of our government. They rule...as though they were the absolute monarchs of this country."
(Here is one of the excerpts)
"There were about 80 to 90 million Germans, and there were only 460,000 Jewis. About one half of one percent were Jews. And yet they controlled the press, and they controlled most of the economy because they had come in with cheap money when the mark was devaluated and bought up practically everything.
"The Jews tried to keep a lid on this fact. They didn't want the world to really understand that they had sold out Germany, and that the Germans resented that."
Another excerpt: "The eastern European Jews, who form 92 percent of the world's population of those people who call themselves Jews, were orginally Khazars. They were a warlike tribe who lived deep in the heart of Asia...The Kharazar kingdom was the biggest country in all of Europe.
"...the kingdom so powerful that when other monarchs wanted to go to war, the Khazars would lend them 40,000 soldiers. They were phallic worshippers, which is filthy and I do not want to go into the details of that now. The Khazar king became so disgusted with the degeneracy of his kingdom that he decided to adopt a so-called monotheistic faith
By spinning a top, he picked out so-called Judaism. And that became the state religion.
TIMELY QUOTE FROM BEN FREEDMAN
"Do you know what Jews do on the Day of Atonement, that you think is so sacred to them? I was one of them. This is not hearsay. I'm not here to be a rabble-rouser. I'm here to give you the facts.
"When, on the Day of Atonement, you walk into a synagogue, you stand up for the very first prayer that you recite. It is the only prayer for which you stand. You repeat three times a short prayer called the Kol Nidre. In that prayer, you enter into an agreement with God Almighty that any oath, vote, or pledge that you may make during the next twelve months shall be null and void. The oath shall not be a pledge. The vow shall not be a vow. They shall have no force or effect.
"And further, theTalmud teaches that whenever you take an oath, vow, or pledge, you are to remember the Kol Nidre prayer that you recited on the Day of Atonement, and you are exempted from fulfilling them."






"How much can you depend on their loyalty? You can depend upon their loyalty as much as the Germans depended upon it in 1918. We are going to suffer the same fate as Germany suffered, and for the same reason."

Something fishy: global warming is a red herring

Who can predict weather accurately? Dangerous levels of carbon dioxide were present on our planet during the Ice Age. Climatologists in Exeter, England in search of accuracy, fed actual cliamte conditions -- the level of solar radiation and ocean temperature -- on 80 different start dates into their computer models, according to The Economist.
"The world will cool from February this year until 2009. After that, it will start warming up again, with at lealst half of the years between 2010 and 2014 being warmer than 1998, the hottest on recod so far."
Assumption based on probability is powering the phony scare campaign. So-called experts feed a plausible set of values for its parameters. Which sets of invented parameter values to use is a matter of debate. "Climate models have hundreds of parameters that might somehow be related. The way you pick the individual values to plug into the model can affect the outcome."
My own name for this is:: EMISSION IMPOSSIBLE.
We're "assuming" greenhouse gases will melt our glaciers and raise the sea level? Despite Al Gore's cry of alarm, Canadian scientists have written this campaign off as politics as usual.

Does anyone remember the mammoth marketing blitz to convert Americans to the metric system? Big business stirred that pot to revamp and sell new measuring devices. They did.
But we stayed in our cups.

In Parade magazine, Aug. 26, 2007, this headline:
What's REALLY Heating Up the Planet?" Their info tells us it isn't US that is firing up global warming.
China and India coal mine fires could be the culprits. "In China alone, up to 200 million tons of coal go up in flames each year -- which may be the equivalent to America's total carbon-dioxide emissions from gasoline. India's mine fires waste up to 10 million tons of coal annually. The pollution has made land in both countries uninhabitable and the problem is expected to worsen."
We get reports that China is prepared to "eliminate"pollution during the Olympic Games by any means possible.
If you think about it, global warming is a red herring summoned by the president and Congress when they couldn't solve the immigration debacle.
They had this "baby" waiting in the wings to make you forget the gravity of the continuing onslaught of Mexicans crossing the border. How come Congress can adjourn -- and announce they will take this up again AFTER the 2008 election? Who are they working for? GIve me a break.
By the way, National Review reports that 17 of the 100 employers who use undocumented illegals are Federal government agencies and their satellites.

Why no one can win in Iraq

From Washington, DC think tank:The Cato Institute; July/August Policy Report by Ted Galen Carpenter:
The war in Iraq is vastly more complex than a civil war.
This is a "struggle of all against all -- a fight among various factions within the Sunnis and Shiite communitise and criminal gangs that have no particular ideology but are taking great advantage of the violence."
This calls for USA to referee a multisided civil war. He writes, "I cannot think of a more utterly futile and thankelss task than that."
One allegation is that if we leave Iraq, al-Qaeda is going to gain a safe haven, and it will be just like Afghanistan before 9/ll. "That is actually the LEAST likely danger." Al Qaeda has a grand total of about 1,300 fighters in Iraq today, compared to the thousands it had in Afghanistan before 9/11. That friendly government protected them.
"In Iraq they will have nothing of the sort. The government is dominated by Kurds and Shiiites who are almost unanimous in their hatred of al-Qaeda." Citing a poll by the University of Marylalnd: "Better than 99 percent of Shiite and Kurdish respondents had a negative view of al Qaeda."
Al-Qaeda does not have a good reputation even among Sunnis,k is supposed allies in the country. That same poll found that 94 percent of Sunnis had a negative view of al-Qaeda.
"Where is al-Qaeda going to gain protection when the organization is so widely hated in Iraq?
At best, al-Qaeda would havea harried existence in a few isolated areas of Iraq, where it might find a handful of allies among Sunnis who are still willing to support the organization after its indiscriminate violence against Muslilm civilians."

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