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Togetherness: The Powerful Elixir of Home Schooling
- Zan Tyler Editor of the Crosswalk.com HomeSchool Channel
- 2004 12 Jan
Why do you think home schooling works? my educator-friend asked. It shouldnt work, you know. You moms dont have teacher credentials; you dont have expensive facilities; and you dont have enough resources.
Well, it works, I replied, because it is based on biblical principles.
Like what? she queried.
Like togetherness, I answered.
Togetherness is a biblical principle? she asked incredulously, waiting for a much more theologically sophisticated response.
As simple as it sounds, togetherness really is a biblical principle that unleashes a powerful force in the home. Jesus gives us the model of togetherness as He lived with His disciples for three yearstraining, teaching, exhorting, loving. Even His nameEmmanuel God WITH usbespeaks of His passion for togetherness.
As we study, learn, worship, work, and play with our children, we are following Christs example. We should also employ this example as we teach our children to serve others. Serving others fulfills Jesus command, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. As in academic training, the most powerful way to teach our children to serve is one-on-one. We teach service best by taking our children with us as we serve others.
Service is featured this week on the HomeSchool Channel. Three different articles give unique perspectives: Deb Bells article Make Room for Volunteering, Mike Farris article Humility: An Attitude Worth Seeking, and my article TutorAnd Make Community Service a Family Affair.
Back to academics As you prepare for standardized testing, I think you will be amazed and encouraged by the article, A Bright Idea for Learning. This one suggestion for raising test scores is very easy for home-schooling families to implement, but is costing millions for school districts around the country. Mike Farris also has a great article on teaching current events and media savvy, Why Christians Should Be Knowledgeable of Current Events.
May God bless our homes richly as we endeavor to follow His example in teaching and training our children.
Zan Tyler is co-author of the book Anyone Can Homeschool and senior education editor for Crosswalk.com. She and her husband have three children and have been home schooling since 1984.
Zan Tyler is co-author of the book Anyone Can Homeschool and senior education editor for Crosswalk.com. She and her husband have three children and have been home schooling since 1984.


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I have been researching my family genealogy since the early 1990's. As you can imagine I have gathered a mountain of documents, photographs and other family memorabilia. All of which requires organization of some kind. Over the years I have had many, many filing systems, but none was ever quite sufficient for my needs and data retrieval.
Last year I converted to a color coded system for all my paper hard copy records and let me tell you………….what a HUGE difference it has made in my genealogical research!! I can now easily find data I need when I need it and I can easily and quickly file any new data and documents I discover. I also have a computer filing system which I will discuss in a later post.
The purpose of this step by step post is to explain how my paper system works in hopes that it could help other genealogy hobbyist to get their paper documents and data into a streamlined organization system.
Step One: Assign colors
I assigned a color to each of my four grandparents, my step-father's family, and each of my husband's four grandparents.
v My Maternal Grandfather is Blue
v My Maternal Grandmother is Red
v My Paternal Grandfather is Green
v My Paternal Grandmother is Yellow
v My Step-father is Cream
v My husband's Maternal Grandfather is Purple
v My husband's Maternal Grandmother is Burgundy
v My Husband's Paternal Grandfather is Dark Blue
v My husband's Paternal Grandmother is Aqua
Step Two: Gather Supplies
v You will need colored file folders and colored hanging file folders in each of the colors you have chosen to represent your ancestors.
v Large plastic file storage box
v File Folder Labels. You can purchase labels with a colored line across the top in Red, Yellow, Blue & Green. Or simply use plain white labels.
v One binder for each of your color coded ancestors. I prefer the binders where you can slip a paper in the cover and spine. If you are color coding just your four grandparents, then you will only need four binders. Because I have color coded my step-family and my In-Laws I have a total of nine binders.
v Binder dividers with clear non-colored tabs. One 8-10 sheet set for each of your binders.
v Colored circle labels. Both large and small. You can purchase packages of primary colors (Red, Blue, Yellow & Green), our purchase just plain white circle labels and color in yourself. I did this with the other colors I chose to represent my step-family and in-laws.
v Sharpie pens in all the colors you have chosen to represent your ancestors.
v Pencil and blue/black pen
v Stapler
v Genealogy forms: Individual Record Sheet, Pedigree Charts, Family Group Record Sheets
v Colored construction/card stock paper (optional)
v Index cards (size of your choice)
v Index card storage box
v Alphabetical dividers for the index card storage box
Step Three: Assemble File Folder Box
v Start by putting the hanging folders into your box keeping like colors together
v Starting with the colored file folders you have chosen to represent your Maternal Grandfather; place a label onto each file folder.
v Write the name of your Maternal Grandfather on one folder and place into your box. Write the name in a Last, First Middle format.
v Continue writing the names of each ancestor connected to you through your Maternal Grandfather on each of the folders in the color representing you Maternal Grandfather.
v Continue the above steps for each of your other three grandparents until you have a folder for each known ancestor.
Step Four: Fill your folders
v Starting with your Maternal Grandfather's file; staple an Individual Record Sheet to the inside left cover of the folder
v Fill out the Individual Record Sheet with detailed information about your Maternal Grandfather.
v Using your colored circle labels; place a colored sticker on ALL documents you have pertaining to your Maternal Grandfather (birth record, census records, marriage records ect). I place the sticker in the lower right corner of all documents. If you don't want the sticker on the front of the document, place it on the back.
v Place all the documents into the folder with your Maternal Grandfather's name
v You will continue this process for each ancestor who you have created a file folder for being sure to place an appropriate colored circle on each document before placing it into a file folder.
Step Five: Assemble your Ancestor Binders
v Using your colored card Stock/construction paper, make a cover and spin label for each of your four binders using the colors you have chosen for each of your four grandparents. You can also create a cover using a word processing program on your computer.
v Place one set of binder dividers into each binder
v Label each divider with a surname connected to you through your Primary Ancestor. For example the surnames connected to me through my Maternal Grandfather are Bestor, Cyrier, Savoie, Hubbard, Chartier, and Force. I place the labels in my binder in order by generation. Therefore the Surname at the beginning is my Grandfather's, then his parents, then their parents and so on.
v In each Surname labeled section place your Family Group Record sheets. I make two copies of each family record so I have one filed under the husbands Surname and one filed under the wife's surname. I highlight with a yellow highlighter which person it is filed under (Husband or Wife). Within each section I file alphabetically by first name, then middle.
v In each Surname section I have a running Document Log for each ancestor in that surname. This allows me to quickly see what documents I have for an individual and what ones I still need to do research on.
v Within each Surname section I have a subsection labeled "Maps" This is where I place all maps pertaining to the locations of residence for that surname.
o I write on each map the first and last names of the ancestor it belongs to
Step Six: Assemble your Index Cards
Note: I keep my index card file box next to my computer for easy access when I'm researching online.
v On the top line of each index card write the full name of your ancestors (one card per ancestor) in a LAST, First, Middle format
v On the index card, write that ancestors' vital information: Birth date and Location; Death Date and Location; Marriage date and Location. Parents names, Spouses name, children's names, siblings names; Burial information; Occupation ect. Use both sides of the index card.
v In the upper right corner of each card place a color coded sticker indicating which Primary Ancestor connects you to the ancestor named on the card. For my four grandparents I was lucky enough to find index cards with a colored strip on the top that matched the colors I had chosen for each of them.
v File alphabetically in your index card storage box by Surname-----First name----- Middle Name
As I stated above, I started using this system about a year ago after years of using various other filing systems…..by document type, by surname ect, and truly LOVE my color code system. I am able to quickly find information and I know immediately how each ancestor is connected to me with a simple glance. I will never file my paper genealogy documents any other way!!

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A courtroom sketch shows U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Robert Bales, center, and his defense attorneys Emma Scanlan, second from left, and Maj. Gregory Malson, left, listen to witness Sgt. Jason McLaughlin (R) testify at a U.S. Courts Martial pre-trial proceeding, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington on Monday. Col. Lee Demecky, top center, is seen presiding over the hearing.
Sgt. Robert Bales, accused of carrying out a massacre of Afghan villagers in March, had been chosen for an especially challenging assignment in southern Afghanistan because he was deemed a top soldier, according to testimony on Wednesday by 1st Sgt. Vernon Bigham, the News Tribune reported.
"We needed to put our best guys" with a Special Forces team at Village Stability Platform Belambay, the Tribune said, quoting Bigham, who testified over a video teleconference link from Kandahar Air Field to the hearings at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.
Defense attorneys called witnesses Wednesday in hearings that mark the start of the military justice process for Bales, who is accused of slaughtering 16 Afghan villagers, mostly women and children, in a pre-dawn rampage on March 11.
Bales seemed remorseful after he was taken into custody and seemed to want to confess, but Bigham discouraged it, according to the testimony.
"He invoked his rights, so I didn't want him to talk about those things to me," said Bigham.
Bigham's testimony painted a picture of Bales as a capable soldier whom he was trying to groom for a promotion, according the the Tribune. He said that Bales missed the cut for 2011 sergeant first class promotion and was disappointed.
The mission he was on, as part of an attachment to Special Forces across southern Afghanistan, split up the company of men across 14 different sites, limiting normal oversight of the soldiers, he said.
"We gave up control of our guys" to the Special Forces teams, Bigham said.
In testimony later on Wednesday, Special Agent Matthew Hoffman said U.S. Army criminal investigators could not reach the scene of the alleged massacre for three weeks, because American and Afghan leaders considered the area too dangerous.
Focus on Bales' state of mind
The Article 32 hearing at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., where Bales is based, are to determine whether there is enough evidence to put Bales through a full court martial.
Proceedings started Monday with prosecutors laying out their version of the events. They said the sergeant acted alone and with "chilling premeditation," leaving his base in Kandahar province twice in one night and killing 16 people, mostly women and children in nearby villages as they slept.
Bales faces 16 counts of premeditated murder and six counts of attempted murder, as well as charges of assault and wrongfully possessing and using steroids and alcohol while deployed.
Military prosecutors are seeking the death penalty.
The defense team has not revealed its strategy, but lead civilian defense attorney John Henry Browne has suggested over the past few months that Bales may not have acted alone and may be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. Bales was on his fourth combat deployment in 11 years and suffered a concussive head injury in a previous deployment.
Bales has not participated in a medical evaluation known as a "sanity board," because his lawyers have objected to having him meet with Army doctors without them present.
The defendant has appeared in court wearing camouflage fatigues with his head shaved, but has remained silent except to say he understands the charges and his rights. Bales has not entered a plea, and is not expected to testify.
Conflicting accounts
On Tuesday, Bales' defense team began calling witnesses who gave testimony that appeared to cast doubt on the assertion that Bales acted entirely alone.
Testifying Tuesday, Private First Class Derek Guinn said he was told by Afghan guards that two U.S. soldiers were seen entering the compound in the early hours of March 11, and one was seen leaving again.
But Guinn, who spoke to the guards through an interpreter, said he personally did not see anyone leaving or entering Camp Belambay.
His testimony was at odds with the U.S. Army prosecutor's case — supported by several witnesses on Monday — that Bales, 39, left and entered twice on his own, and was solely responsible for the Afghans' deaths.
Witnesses from the Afghan villages where the alleged killing spree took place are set to testify on Friday via video link to the hearings, expected to last two weeks. Some villagers have said that more than one U.S. soldier was present during the attacks.
Guinn's testimony was the first notable discrepancy from the version of events laid out by military prosecutors on Monday.
Covered in blood
In the first session of the hearing, lead prosecutor Lieutenant Colonel Jay Morse said Bales alone was responsible for the deaths, in two premeditated attacks. He showed the court a video taken from a surveillance balloon apparently of Bales returning to the base for a second time, just before 5 a.m.
An Army medic testified on Tuesday that he saw Bales covered in blood and that he knew from experience that the blood was not his own.
The medic, Sgt. First Class James Stillwell, said he asked Bales where the blood came from and where he had been.
Bales responded with a shrug, Stillwell testified, and then said, "If I tell you, you guys will have to testify against me."
The shooting, which if proven at trial would be the worst civilian slaughter by U.S. forces since the Vietnam War, eroded already-strained U.S.-Afghan ties after over a decade of conflict in the country.
NBC News' Kari Huus, The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
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Not all the turkeys are in the oven
The night before Thanksgiving and all through the county, police were stirring and looking for bounty.
When the tractor beam of light surrounded our car on Interstate 64, we (along with three other cars) immediately pulled over. It was we they wanted.
After scanning the interior for leftover paraphernalia and trying to imagine what I possibly could have done, I peered at the young expressionless cop as he asked for my driver's license.
"Your registration's expired ma'am." Major bust. Returning with license, he shone his flashlight in my face and said, "Step away from the car, ma'am." My daughter, Lucy, and I clamored out and stood on the edge of the highway, lit up in the headlights like prisoners running for the barbed-wire, as passing drivers gawked and craned.
Policy be damned, it was a cold night. He let us sit in his patrol car as he explained that my license had been revoked a year and a half ago because I hadn't paid a speeding ticket. Lucy eyed all the shiny hardware and asked to play with the handcuffs but was quickly snarled down. When told I couldn't drive, I asked what would happen if I did.
"Only if I get caught," I grinned. Not a good idea. No grinning at cops or airport security.
He called my house, but no one answered. Maybe they were getting the turkey pan ready for the bird I was supposed to be bringing. My new husband's parents were...
In a barrage of indecipherable babble, the officer described the infraction to the station house as he drove us the rest of the way home. Another police car soon joined, and we pulled into the driveway with lights blaring and sirens wailing.
The collective consternation and confusion in the house was matched only by the look on my in-laws' faces as they (again) contemplated their son's choice of spouse. As my husband reached the front porch and realized that all was well, he remarked, "Jeez, honey, I only asked you to bring home one turkey."


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A veteran foreign correspondent for NBC News, Tom Aspell died Monday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. NBC's Brian Williams reports.
Tom Aspell, a veteran foreign correspondent for NBC News, died Monday after a two-year battle with lung cancer. He was 62 years old.
After beginning his career as a scriptwriter and cameraman with Visnews in 1970, Aspell joined NBC News in 1985 as a producer based in Cyprus.
He later became a foreign correspondent, and in this role covered events ranging from the fall of Saigon and the toppling of Saddam Hussein, to the Bosnian War, Beirut and Baghdad — all the while displaying what NBC's Brian Williams described as "an intense brand of cool under fire."
"From Southeast Asia to the Middle East… to the Balkans … to Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and dozens of other 'hot spots,' Aspell made his mark on behalf of NBC News for 28 years," said NBC News President Steve Capus.
"To a person, all of his colleagues will tell you Tom was great company in the field who loved sharing stories at the end of a day spent documenting history."
A native of New Zealand, Aspell's last posting for NBC News was in Cyprus, where he loved spending time on his sailboat.
Aspell leaves behind a wife and two sons.


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George's father, John Barclay, passed away on 25 December, 1897. I tried to find out if George attended the funeral but I did not have any luck with the newspaper gossip columns in Pine River and in Shakopee. He is barely mentioned in the obituary.
The last time I posted on my 2nd great-grandfather John Barclay, I talked about his Civil War service in several posts and caught up with the happenings in Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota.
There are many more posts on John Barclay that were done early in this blog so check on the Categories on the right side. These were the most recent.
1. Catching up with the Barclay's of Eagle Creek Twp., February 12, 2012
2. The 1890 Census and Veterans Schedules – John Barclay dated February 25, 2012
3. Rejected Claim: John Barclay's Civil War Pension!, dated March 11, 2012.
In 1894, John and his wife Ellen/Helen, sell land to a Charles G. Bowish of Shakopee, Minnesota. They receive $1 from this person which might imply some relationship?
For the sum of $1.00 convey the following land: The north half of the NE qtr of Section 23 in township 115 of range 22. Except a mortgage thereon and on their lands, payable to Henry Hinds. Witnessed by Charles G. Hinds and E. J. [Affolter] and signed by John Barclay and Helen Barclay etc.
Source: John Barclay & Wife to Charles G. Bowdish of Shakopee City, Minnesota, 21 June 1894, Vol. 39 pg. 227 Instrument #1304, Scott Co., Minnesota FHL#1255725.
In the Minnesota State Census of 1895 we find the family of John Barclay to be as follows:
Family #54: Barclay, John, age 94, male, white, born in Scotland, Resident of state 45 years, 45 years in enumeration district, occupation none, mother and father both of foreign birth. Barclay, Ellen, age 65, female, white, born in Norway, both parents of foreign birth. Barclay Charlie, age 35, male, white, born in Minnesota. In state and enumeration district 35 years, a farmer, employed 12 mos of the year. Both parents of foreign birth.
Source: Family of John Barclay, 1895 Minnesota State Census, Eagle Creek, Scott County, Minnesota, pg. 2, Schedule #5, Enumerated on the 10th day of June 1895. FHL#565810.
In 1898 the Every Name Index to the Scott Co. Atlas of 1898 has Barclay listed and we find Helen Barclay and William Barclay are the owners of the land.
John Barclay appears in the Vital Record and Indexes of 1853-1972 for Scott County, Minnesota – Death Records. Vols. A-C 1871-1907, FHL#1379418.
Index: Barclay, John, line 25, Dec. 25, 1897, Book B, pg. 24, line 146.
Register of Deaths in the Town of Eagle Creek, Scott Co., Minnesota
1897 line 6 Dec. 25, 1897 John Barclay, Male, White, married, 96 years old, born in Scotland, Name of parents John and [Mary], parents birthplace Scotland, cause of death old age, Date of record Jan, 3, 1898. Copies of the register at the Scott Co. Historical Society, June 2007.
Much to my delight I did find an obituary notice on John in the Scott County Argus newspaper for December 30, 1897 page 4 column 1. George is alluded to but not named like his brother Alexander.
BARCLAY – At the home of his son Charles , in Eagle Creek, Saturday, Dec. 25, 1897, of old age, John Barclay, aged ninety-six years. Deceased was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on the 18th day of March, 1801, and the first forty years or more of his life were spent in his native land. By his first wife seven children were born to him; and in the 40's the family, diminished by the loss of the wife and mother, came to America. All these children are still living, one, Alexander, being a resident of Dakota county, another lives elsewhere in this state, three live in Connecticut, and two in the far west. As early as 1848 John Barclay located at Fort Ridgely, in the then wilderness of the great Minnesota territory, and in 1853 he came to Eagle Creek and took up a claim. Some years later he married Ellen Iverson, who with four children survives him. These children are Charles, at home; William located at Pony, Mont.; Mary, at Butte, Mont.; and Annie, now Mrs. David Carter, of Marinette, Wis. Of these only Charles and Mrs. Carter were able to be at the funeral. This took place Tuesday afternoon from the Presbyterian church, Rev. J.B. Ferguson officiating, an the remains were followed to their last resting place in the Valley Cemetery by neighbors and may friends of the early pioneer days.
Note: There was also a funeral notice in the Dec. 31, 1897 Shakopee Tribune under Local
"Died: — John Barclay died at the home of his son Charles, in Eagle Creek township last' Saturday at the advanced age of 96 years. Funeral took place from the Presbyterian church last Tuesday; Rev. Ferguson officiating. "
In searching the court Probate records for Scott County, I did not find a will or probate/estate file for John Barclay. I did find one for his wife in 1907. John had sold land to his wife about 1867 and there are deeds in which he sold land to his sons. This means that he probably didn't have enough money to have a probate; however, there should be a court record of dismissal if that was the case. So I am not sure what happened?


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Staples used to run this commercial. I don't know if they still do.
They ran it before I even had kids. And now that I have 3 of them in various elementary school grades, the commercial just means SO MUCH MORE.
A Blog detailing the insanity of my medical practice and the stupidity of everyday life.
So true... Every June I'm happy to have the little buggers home. By August, I'm soooooooo ready to ship them back. I would be a happy parent if we quit with the long summer break & split it up throughout the year instead.
This is the most wonderful commercial EVER! Exactly how I feel! Countdown for us T-15!
They still run it, I saw it on the other day and smiled!
OMG, I do so remember this.
It needs to be brought back. One of the best back to school commercials. Thanks, Dr Grumpy.
oh yes, except for having to get son to water polo at 6am
What in the world State do you live in that kids go back to school in the beginning of August?
~It's the most wonderful time of the year~
Yes, they're still running it ( just mis-typed that as ruining, I'll have you know!)
Best. Commercial. Ever.
We start school Aug 13.. with no air conditioning on the buses.. in the deep south...........
I'll probably drop some water weight
Now that just seems unfair! Your kids go back on Monday, my three don't go back till 2nd week in September. Granted, they didn't break up until the middle of July, but still, the thought of them going back is bliss waiting to happen.
Moppie - My niece lives in Mesa, Arizona and will go back to school on August 10th.
I live in the deep south and we went back to school on august 3rd/
I love this commercial - it's just hilarious! The look on the kids faces while the dad is "gloating" is just precious.
I love our year-round school. We started back on July 7. :D
I love this Commercial and So ready for my son to go back to school that I was dancing the other morning when I started back up on the school routine of getting up early.. and going to bed early I got the same look from Him..
This is gonna sound really weird but I actually miss the whole "excited when she's off for summer and happy when she went back to school" routine.
Enjoy it while it last. It goes to quick.
Even though I moved to Australia 10 years ago, this commercial still runs through my head every time I do the back to school shopping.
Some of us don't feel QUITE the same way. Us school employees, for example.
Here, kids finish the end of June, (late may/early june for high school) and don't go back until the day after labour day (first monday of Sept - which is the 7th this year) Going back to school in August would seem so wrong to me.
When that first came out I had way younger kids in school (1 in college now and one half way through high school) - I saw that on tv and positively ROLLED! Love it! I bought my son's new backpack the other day - it's begun! :)
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Daniel and Jason Freeman are the authors of Paranoia: The 21st Century Fear. In the below article written for OUPblog, they examine how paranoia can even affect the health of our children.
Does your child come home from school complaining of aches and pains? Do they, perhaps, suffer from backache?
According to a report issued recently by the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), increasing numbers of children are running the risk of back problems caused by spending the school day jammed into ill-fitting desks and chairs.
And why is school furniture so uncomfortable? Well, according to BESA, it's because children are so much bigger now – taller, but also heavier. "Although our starting point was not a question of obesity, when we looked the average child today is very different to a child in the 1960s, which is the last time children were actually measured for determining measures of furniture", remarked BESA's director general.
We shouldn't be surprised. In 2003, 27 per cent of children under eleven in England were either overweight or obese. In the US, where different methods to measure obesity are used, nearly 20% of children aged 6-11 were classified as overweight or obese in 2004. The numbers have almost doubled in a decade.
How did so many children get to be overweight before they've even reached the ripe old age of eleven? The answer, of course, is a complex one. If adults are eating much less healthily than they used to, so are their kids. Instead of spending their evenings playing outside, children now have the delights of multi-channel TV, computer games, and the Internet to choose from. And then there's the fact that increasing numbers of us just won't let our children outside on their own.
More than 40 per cent of UK adults questioned in a recent survey thought that fourteen was the earliest age at which children should be allowed to go out unsupervised. Two-thirds of ten-year-olds have never been to a shop or the park by themselves, and fewer than one in ten eight-year-olds walk to school alone.
What are we so worried about? Well, it's partly that our children are going to be abducted by a paedophile. And who wouldn't be worried? All of us can call to mind horrific cases of child abduction and murder. The world seems a much more dangerous place today than it did when we were kids. It's a world, indeed, in which no sane parent should let their child out of their sight. And if that means our children adopting the sedentary lifestyle of so many adults, that's a small price to pay.
In fact, despite all our parental vigilance, the number of children murdered in the UK has remained pretty much constant over the past 30 years – around 60-80. In most of those cases, a parent is the principal suspect. In 2006, 55 children were killed in England and Wales; 12 were murdered by strangers. In the US, between 40 and 150 children are abducted and murdered per year (in around 14% of cases, the killer turns out to be the child's parent).
These are grim statistics, but they're a drop in the ocean compared to the risks our kids are running by not going out. The number of obese of overweight children in the UK and US runs to millions. The less we exercise, the more likely it is that we'll become overweight. And the more overweight we are, the greater the chances of us developing serious illnesses like cancer, heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and arthritis. So why, when the risks to our children of a sedentary lifestyle are so much greater than the risks of letting them out on their own, do we persist in ferrying them to school and allowing them to spend so much time in their bedrooms playing computer games?
Part of the explanation is simply that we're not good at comparing risks. We're more frightened of events that almost certainly won't happen (abduction) than things that quite possibly will (obesity).
Psychologists have a familiar word for the exaggerated or unfounded fear that other people (for example, paedophiles) want to harm us: paranoia. And over the past decade, a slew of research studies have suggested that it's much more common than anyone had previously suspected.
In fact, paranoia affects up to a quarter of us at any one time. It's as common as depression and there are good reasons for thinking it may be on the rise, not least the tendency of the media to over-report sensational but relatively rare dangers – such as the murder of a child. The way our minds function makes us particularly susceptible to the media. The more something is repeated, and the more graphic and emotional it is, the greater the impression it makes upon us. This is why people consistently tell surveys that crime rates are rising, even though for the last decade or so they've been falling. It's why they overestimate the chances of dying in a violent incident and underestimate the risk of dying from a stroke. And it's why rates of post traumatic stress disorder in New Yorkers after 9/11 correlate directly with the amount of TV coverage of the catastrophe they watched. Our perception of risk becomes skewed.
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Thisistwitchy / Twitchy: Effort to Akin-ize pro-life Republicans continues apace
Noah Rothman / Mediaite: Republican Pollster At GOP Retreat: Stop Talking About Rape
Melissa McEwan / Shakesville: Today in Perfect Solutions
Jennifer Bendery / The Huffington Post:
Joe Biden To Mayors: Obstacles To Gun Control Legislation 'Not Impenetrable' — FOLLOW: — Joe Biden , Obama Gun Control, Obama Gun Violence, Biden Mayors, Biden Mayors Gun Control, World Elections In 2013, Gun Violence, Joe Biden Gun Control, Joe Biden Gun Violence, Politics News
Discussion: Weasel Zippers
Reid J. Epstein / Politico:
Biden on guns: 'We're going to go around the country.'
Biden on guns: 'We're going to go around the country.'
Discussion: Weasel Zippers, The Hill and Washington Free Beacon
John Fund / National Review:
Gun Sales and Background Checks: Obama's Bogus 40 Percent Stat
Gun Sales and Background Checks: Obama's Bogus 40 Percent Stat
Discussion: Clayton Cramer's Blog, Outside the Beltway and The PJ Tatler
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: "Universal Background Checks" Likely Unenforceable
Bryan Preston / The PJ Tatler: Do 40% of Gun Purchases Really Escape Background Checks?
John Avlon / CNN:
GOP's surprising edge on diversity — Editor's note: John Avlon is a CNN contributor and senior political columnist for Newsweek and The Daily Beast. He is co-editor of the book "Deadline Artists: America's Greatest Newspaper Columns." He is a regular contributor to "Erin Burnett OutFront" …
Discussion: Prairie Weather
Gin and Tacos:
FOR WANT OF A NAIL — (January 16, 2033. A fire-lit cabin in the hills of Brezhnev City, Stalinton - formerly Boise, Idaho. A man sitting on a shattered milk crate looks older than his 53 years. His rumpled, malnourished grandson sits at his feet.) — "Grandpa?
Jim Hoffer / ABC 7 Eyewitness News:
Additions to be made to gun laws for law enforcement — new york city, albany, gun control, new york news, jim hoffer — More: Bio, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, Stories by Jim Hoffer, News Team — NEW YORK (WABC) — A troubling oversight has been found within New York State's sweeping new gun laws.
Discussion: Betsy's Page, Hot Air, The PJ Tatler, Weasel Zippers and National Review
Betsy Newmark / Betsy's Page: Cruising the Web — Look for an important ruling from the D …
Allahpundit / Hot Air: Oh, by the way: New York forgot to exempt cops from its new ban on high-capacity magazines
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: NYPD To Be In Violation Of Cuomo's New Anti-Gun Law After They Fail To Exempt Police Officers …
Michael Walsh / National Review: High-Magazine Clip Capacity
Brent Schrotenboer / Associated Press:
Lance Armstrong to Oprah: Story was 'one big lie' … Saying his "mythic, perfect story" was "one big lie," Lance Armstrong admitted that he cheated during most of his famed cycling career and that he bullied people who dared to tell the truth about it. — After denying doping allegations …
Discussion: msnbc.com, The Heritage Foundation and Infowars
Robert Gifford / msnbc.com: NOW Today: Belief to betrayal
Dave Itzkoff / ArtsBeat:
Biden Getting an Autobiography From The Onion (Whether He Wants It or Not) — "Hombre, you've just done Uncle Joe a real solid buying this book," begins the foreword to a new autobiography attributed to Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. "I ain't the kind of guy who forgets his debts.
Discussion: First Read, Mediaite and Politico, more at Mediagazer »
Meenal Vamburkar / Mediaite: The President Of Vice: Joe Biden's Autobiography To Be Published By... The Onion
Mackenzie Weinger / Politico: The Onion's Joe Biden 'autobiography' out Friday
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
I Have No Words — I'm not going to characterize this or say anything about it. But I had to share it with you. From TPM Reader PH ...
Discussion: Eschaton and CANNONFIRE
Michael Cooper / New York Times:
Recalling Pain of Guns' Toll, Mayors Urge Bills' Passage — WASHINGTON — Some mayors spoke about the bad feeling they got with each call that there had been another shooting in their city. Others described the pain of burying police officers who had worked for them.
Discussion: msnbc.com
Jim Forsyth / Reuters:
Y'all come to Texas, state official tells New York gun owners — (Reuters) - Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has a message for New York gun owners: Come to Texas, and bring your guns with you. — "Texas is better than New York, and New York just gave us another excuse to say that," …
Discussion: Runnin' Scared, Weasel Zippers and The Gateway Pundit
Greg Howard / Runnin' Scared: Texas AG Greg Abbott Wants You Gun-Owning, Freedom-Loving New Yorkers to Move to Texas
ZIP / Weasel Zippers: Texas Attorney General Runs Ads In New York Inviting Gun Owners To Move To Texas...


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By Kenneth Harney
Posted: Friday, Feb. 08, 2013
Kenneth Harney, who lives in Washington, D.C., writes an award-winning column on housing and real estate.
If you want to buy a house with minimal cash by using an FHA-insured mortgage, here's some sobering news: Thanks to an ongoing series of fee increases and underwriting tweaks – the most recent of which were announced Jan. 31 – FHA is getting steadily more expensive, and may not work for you.
FHA is the Federal Housing Administration, the largest source of low-down-payment mortgage money in the country. Its minimum down is just 3.5 percent, compared with anywhere from 5 percent to 20 percent or higher from conventional, nongovernment sources. For decades, FHA's affordable financing has made homeownership possible for first-time buyers with modest incomes and credit history blemishes.
But in the wake of losses tied to bad loans insured during the housing bust years, FHA has been raising its loan insurance fees and backing more loans to applicants with higher credit scores. With the latest increases, things have gotten to the point where some lenders wonder whether the agency is trying to move away from its traditional customers.
Dennis C. Smith, broker and co-owner of Stratis Financial Corp. in Huntington Beach, Calif., is blunt: "I think FHA is putting itself out of business with the moves they've made in the past couple of years."
While they wouldn't agree with that assessment, FHA's top officials readily admit that their priority is not growing market share but protecting the agency's multibillion-dollar insurance fund reserves and cutting losses.
Starting April 1, FHA's annual mortgage insurance premiums for most new loans will jump by one-tenth of a percentage point (10 basis points in lending parlance). This is on top of two previous increases since 2011. Other coming changes, but not scheduled to take effect until June 3, include: mandatory "manual" underwriting of applications by borrowers whose total household debt-to-income ratios exceed 43 percent and who have credit scores below 620; and mandatory 5 percent minimum down payments on FHA loans above $625,500 in high-cost areas such as California, metropolitan Washington, D.C., and others.
FHA also announced that as of June 3, it is rescinding its popular policy of canceling mortgage insurance premium charges for borrowers once their loan balance declines to 78 percent of the original amount. This will force FHA customers to pay premiums for as long as they keep their loans, and is in stark contrast to the private mortgage insurance market, where homeowners can request cancellation of premium payments once their loans hit the 78 percent mark.
"That stinks," said Steve Stamets, a mortgage officer with Apex Home Loans in Rockville, Md. "It's just a money grab" that will cause creditworthy borrowers to avoid FHA and seek out low-down-payment alternatives through Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, using private mortgage insurance.
Already, said Stamets, FHA is the more expensive option for many borrowers who have good credit but don't want to make hefty down payments. With FHA's new fees, for example, Stamets estimates that an applicant with a 720 FICO score making a 3.5 percent down payment on a $250,000 fixed rate 30-year FHA mortgage will pay $144.66 more a month than a borrower with the same credit score on a conventional loan of the same amount with a 5 percent down payment and private mortgage insurance. Even with a 680 credit score, the conventional loan is cheaper by $85 a month – based on FHA's new fee levels, said Stamets, and those monthly premium payments can be canceled at the 78 percent loan-to-value level whereas FHA will keep charging them for the life of the mortgage.
Steven R. Maizes, managing director of mortgage banking for Mortgage Capital Partners Inc. in Los Angeles, says FHA's new fees and policies are likely to cost the agency valuable, low-risk business on refinancings. Maizes recently ran a spreadsheet analysis for a client with a $460,000 FHA loan at 5 percent. Even with a 1.5-point rate reduction, the added fees caused the monthly payment to decrease by just $97.11.
"If you couple that small saving with the fact that the mortgage insurance payment can never go away," he said, refinancing an existing FHA loan for a creditworthy borrower into a new FHA loan will be tough to justify.
Bottom line for you: Make sure your loan officer runs the numbers comparing FHA with privately insured conventional alternatives. You may not want to be saddled indefinitely with higher payments – and no right to cancel.
Read more here: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/02/08/3839913/fha-fees-pack-a-bite.htm l#storylink=cpy


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The New York Times publishes stupidest story ever about papal infallibility
Pope resignation fever seems to have spiked at The New York Times, which today published its equivalent of a Glad You Asked (U.S. Catholic's q&a column about Catholicism): "When a pope retires, is he still infallible?" The simple answer, "no, and he never was infallible" doesn't really appear until the very end of the story, still lacking that last bit.
Instead we are treated to random people spouting off about what they think papal infalliblity is. "Benedict actually by resigning has introduced some cracks into that infallibility," said the normally careful and thoughtful historian of the church Diarmurd MacCulloch of the U.K. "It's bound to relativize doctrine." Which ones? The ones Pope Benedict declared invoking papal infallibility? Oh, that's right. He never did.
Another British historian, again usually on target, Eamon Duffy remarked, "He's thought the unthinkable, done the undoable. He's broken a taboo that had last[ed] 600 years, the last 150 of which presented the pope as a religious icon, the emblem of Jesus Christ, not the leader of a global church." Unthinkable? It was "thinkable" enough that the framers of canon law foresaw it back in the early 1980s. Get a grip!
Even someone who should know better, a historian at Catholic University (would somebody please ask a theologian?) got it wrong: "We have no rules about that at all," worried CUA's Ken Pennington. "What is his title? What are his powers? Does he lose infallibility?" His powers? Telepathy? Besides, there are plenty of rules for a retired bishop--the Roman Catholic Church is overrun with them, and there's this thing called canon law that governs what they can and can't do.
Luckily, in paragraph 5, journalist Rachel Donadio gives us the straight dope from papal spokesman Federico Lombardi: "The Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, has repeatedly said that Canon Law ensures the infallibility of Benedict's successor, and that once he retires, Benedict will no longer have the authority to promulgate dogma." Phew!
The best line, however, comes at the end, when a professor at an Opus Dei university, Philip Goyret of Rome's Santa Croce, says candidly: "If after March 1, Benedict XVI loses his head and writes that he declares in an infallible way that the Virgin Mary died before being assumed into heaven, this won't be an infallible decision, because he's no longer doing it as pastor of the universal church. . . . But he's a very intelligent person and will never do that." Thank God for Ratzinger's level head.
But it wouldn't make any difference if, after March 1, Joseph Ratzinger did lose his head and went on a campaign declaring infallibly that Jesus' eyes were blue: He won't be pope then, and infallibility is a character of the papal office, not the person who sits in the chair. (Not to mention that Jesus' eye color is not a matter of faith or morals.) No person has the individual charism of infallibility; it is a gift provided the church by the guidance of the Holy Spirit, more a guarantee that the church as a whole will not depart from the saving word found in the gospel. It's a charism, as the Second Vatican Council taught, shared by the all the bishops when they together speak with one voice on a matter of faith and morals. And, I kid you not, the council also taught that it is a charism shared by all the faithful--the whole church--when we are of one mind.
Indeed, papal infallibility is a special case of the infallibility of the church (not the other way around)--and it's not a character that sticks to a person after he has been pope. It's a gift of office. As for what to do with our brother Joseph, we know full well how to deal with a retired pope, which is the way we deal with any retired bishop who has been a good servant--with kindness, gratitude, and pastoral care. So everyone take a deep breath.
Flickr photo cc by Catholic Church England and Wales/M.Mazur/www.thepapalvisit.org.uk


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Lubrication using drilled channels through the guard rail
The wheel sensor in the track is counting wheels and is connected to the controller. Once the desired number of wheels is counted, the controller activates the pump until the piston detector from the metering device returns a signal. The metering device serves a certain number of drilled channels through the guard rail with the same amount of grease. The grease gets picked up by the wheel back faces when running along the guard rail.
In this way, the wear and noise on the so treated guard rail gets reduced, but also on guards rails further down the track.


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US 'War On Terror'
Oil Rush", By Liam Halligan, Channel 4 News - UK, 10-26-1.
"Freedom, justice, a world rid of terrorism, Operation Enduring Freedom has a whole range of stated objectives. But is there another, less well advertised motive to the bombing of Afghanistan? With worldwide demand for oil increasing and the Gulf States - in particular Saudi Arabia - vulnerable to instability the United States is desperate to tap the vast untapped fields of Kazakhstan and the other Central Asian states. And as Liam Halligan explains Afghanistan is central to trying to move oil from there to the west:
"The September 11th atrocities sparked a coalition - a 'crusade' said George Bush - for freedom and justice. But take a closer look. There's an important subtext to the struggle over Afghanistan. OIL. Over the last few years, you may have read that the West - and particularly the US - is becoming less oil dependent. But it's just not true.
"Back in 1970, the US used 16m barrels each day. Today that's ballooned to 22m - making America by far the world's biggest oil importer. The European Union used 12m barrels a day 30 years ago. Now it's 15m. And oil's not just used for petrol. Right now, you're reading off a computer monitor made of plastic, presumably in a warm room and probably wearing man-made fibres. All thanks to oil.
"So where does it all come from? Saudi Arabia, of course, is the biggest exporter - over 7m barrels per day. Iran, Iraq and Kuwait are big players too. But don't forget the Former Soviet Union to the East - which exports almost 4,500,000 barrels daily. Apart from Russia, it's these newly independent Central Asian states that are key.
"Already 20 BILLION barrels of oil reserves have been found in Khazakhstan - and there could be much more. The oil and gas so far discovered in these parts is worth THREE TRILLION dollars in today's prices. That's why Western oil companies are so interested this oil to world markets. It's the culmination of the Great Game. The struggle for influence in Central Asia is the last great oil rush, as the West tries to reduce dependence on the Gulf.
"Russia's already built a pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Black Sea and onto the outside world, earning billions in oil and gas exports. US oil companies could try and build from Baku through Georgia , or on to Turkey's Mediterranean coast. But it would be much, much cheaper to build pipes from Central Asia through Afghanistan, to the Gulf Coast in Pakistan. That's a major reason the US unofficially backed the Taliban in the mid-90s, when American oil men were planning such a pipeline. But when the Taliban turned it's back on Uncle Sam, Western oil money got scared.
"Afghanistan - once the stomping ground of Czars and commissars - is no stranger to the Great Game. As a pipeline route, this remote region is crucial if Western powers are to reduce their dependence on Saudi Arabia - itself potentially unstable. The Gulf War was largely about oil. You won't hear it said often but, inadvertently, this one is too."
This article succinctly states the majority thinking amongst people who understand that a conspiracy exists that is seeking to establish a global government, economy, and religion. Such people are called "conspiracy theorists", and they have fallen into the trap of thinking that "Big Oil" interests are driving the policies of the major countries of the world.
Certainly, the world does use a lot of oil.
Certainly, our current Industrial Civilization uses a lot of oil. And, "Big Oil" does make "Big Profits". And, Illuminist goals have taken a lot of money out of Big Oil to fund their globalist projects. Historian Anthony Sutton traces key American families who have been instrumental in ensuring that the Illuminist objectives driving the world into the New World Order are met. He lists the key American families, operating through the Order of the Skull and Bones:
Whitney Family -- 1635, Watertown, Massachusetts
Stimson Family -- 1635, Watertown, Massachusetts
Perkins Family -- 1631. Boston, Massachusetts
Phelps Family -- 1630, Dorchester, Massachusetts
Taft Family -- 1679, Braintree, Massachusetts
Wadsworth Family -- 1632, Newtown, Massachusetts
Lord Family -- 1635, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Gilman Family -- 1638, Hingham, Massachusetts
Rockefeller Family (Standard Oil)
Payne Family (Standard Oil)
Harriman Family -- (Railroads)
Davison Family -- (J.P. Morgan, Banking and Finance)
Weyerhauser Family -- (Lumber)
Pillsbury Family -- (Flour Milling)
Sloane Family -- Retailing
(Anthony C. Sutton, America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones, p. 19)
As you can see from this list of key families, every key component of American society is controlled by the Illuminati. Their control extended far beyond "Big Oil". After the Civil War, many people were arguing that the Railroad Interests were the most powerful lobbying group in America and that U.S. policy revolved around the interests of the railroads. "Big Oil" is very important, but so are the other parts of the economy represented by these families. It is interesting to note that intermarriage was definitely encouraged amongst these elite families as a way of perpetuating their control and the wealth.
This list of key families also is an excellent example of Generational Witchcraft, that is, Witchcraft that is consistently passed down from generation to generation [Exodus 20:5]. Key Illuminist families all over the world today are all generational witchcraft families, wielding great power and influence, far out of proportion to their numbers!
New Age adherents absolutely hate our Industrial Civilization! Further,
this hatred is so intense that they want to see it destroyed, to be replaced
by a civilization based upon primitive agricultural techniques, like that which
existed over 300 years ago! Only, then, they believe, can mankind truly live
peaceful lives that will fulfill our needs and desires.
New World Order Planners want to destroy this Industrial Civilization
is that we are consuming too much of the world's finite resources of oil, gas,
ore, and minerals. Following World War II, Planners were horrified to see the
explosion of both population and the Industrial Civilization. Both factors contributed
mightily to the unbelievable increase in consumption of the world's resources.
When the Illuminati finally takes control of the world, they do not want to
be in control of a world that has been emptied of its resources! They want a
world which will be able to support them in a very pleasant condition for as
long a time as possible; of course, they plan to continue their extravagant
lifestyle. Only the "common folk" will have to go back to a primitive
agricultural lifestyle. You see, in this coming New World Order, there will
be only two kinds of people left alive: the Masters and the Slaves.
Of course, the average New Age adherent knows nothing about this part of the Plan. They have been totally conditioned without them ever being aware of it. Today, we shall examine some of this conditioning, so you can understand how it is that New Agers, who today are participating in our present Industrial Civilization, can fervently desire that this entire way of life be destroyed and replaced with the most primitive existence.
First, let us examine this issue from the emotional and/or spiritual standpoint. New Age author, Susan Elaine, being written through by her "Guiding Spirit", in her book, "The Diary of a Walk-In", spews out unbelievable venom against our Industrial Civilization. Listen:
"Recognize that now is the time to stop thinking it is not necessary to do something proactive for yourself and this Earth ... We need to hear this call now and begin reversing the damage and neglect done, believe it or not, practically all in the last 100 years on this Earth, which has survived for billions and billions of years just fine, until man came along. At this rate of damage how much longer do you really think it's going to take before we are all living in a plastic dome, breathing man-made air, drinking man-made water, and eating man-made food? Not too much longer."Now, listen to the ultimate goal of the Guiding Spirits, spoken through Susan Elaine.
"We should be living among this Nature and not have to take a vacation to 'visit' it."
The New World Order Plan envisions just this kind of goal. They plan to force all peoples of the world, including Americans, to live in the kind of agricultural economy that existed over 300 years ago. And, you know what, they have several tens of millions of New Age adherents that are cheering them on in this goal.Further, let us examine some of the New Age hatred to our current Industrial Civilization from a completely different source, New Age scientists.
"Dr. Elizabeth Rauscher and William van Bise ended a scientific paper by pointing out that most of the recent technologies have stripped nature away from people. Too many technologists' aim seems to be to shield us from nature, to conquer and control her while designing ever more dangerous weapons systems with which to more efficiently strip all life from the planet ..." ["Angels Don't Play This HAARP: Advances In Tesla Technology", Dr. Nick Begich and Jeane Manning, Earthpulse Press, Anchorage, Alaska, 1995, p. 186.]
If you read carefully and closely in this statement, you will detect a belief on the part of these scientists that "Mother Nature" is a living, active organism, quite possibly a person. Indeed, throughout this book, these scientists believe just this, and the name of this Mother Earth is the occult name, Gaia. Also, can you see their intense desire to "roll back" current technology and current civilization? As Susan Elaine complained, above, that people need to get back to Nature, back to our primordial roots, so these scientists believe just that. They would love to roll back the clock, where our civilization would be more primitive and more 'in tune' with Nature. Thus, they mightily dislike our current Industrialized Civilization. Listen:
"As we look back at the messes humanity made while industrializing this world, leading-edge thinking has evolved beyond the goal of dominion over nature. Instead, an emerging outlook respects each form of life as having an integrity of its own while at the same time interrelated to all species."
Since man has made so many "messes" while we were industrializing our planet, from the turn of the 20th Century, it just makes sense to support a destruction of our civilization. And, since man is the most barbaric animal on the face of the planet, it also makes sense for "enlightened" men to control the other men who are not enlightened. This brings us squarely back to our New Age/New World Order Plan to set aside huge areas of America, and the rest of the world, that will be off limits to human living and commerce. This is the Plan.
As New Agers today live within our society, they feel guilty for cooperating with the "rape", "plunder" and "pillaging" of Mother Nature. As they drive down the road, they must feel guilty for burning precious, irreplaceable fuel and for polluting our air. They must feel guilty when they throw trash away, knowing it is going into a landfill. They must feel guilty for a million other nonsensical things they do as part of this current culture. And, they do feel a great need to have it all changed. Thus, New Age authors like Ruth Montgomery, reveal that the "Guiding Spirits" have told her that this civilization will rapidly change, as Mother Gaia one day quickly "cleanses" herself through natural disasters without end, until finally, all those who are guilty of the pollution are dead. The "Guiding Spirits" further reveal to Ruth that these changes will occur in the "Twinkling of an Eye", making one think of the Biblical prophecy of the Rapture of the Church.The time is coming soon, rapidly, when New World Order Plans will suddenly spring upon an unsuspecting world. Very soon, the majority of Americans will be beset with contrived crises that can only be "solved" by terribly Draconian measures, chief of which will be the destruction of our Industrialized Civilization.
Then, we will comprehend the awful meaning behind the words of New Age author, Elizabeth Van Buren, in her book, "The Secret of the Illuminati", page 150., published in 1982.
"We have arrived at a time when many an American, as a New Atlantean, is receiving the call: Go out! the time is short! Build your Ark and take in it as seed for the future age all that is worthy of a New World! Take the dream of a Brotherhood of Man with you, for it was your country [the United States of America] which took the first steps towards this ideal. Nothing is lost and not good thing can perish from this earth. There is only change. Do not fear this, for out of the ashes of New Atlantis will rise in many parts of the world a people who are conscious of their Oneness with Atlantis and America. They will help to create a democracy of world states under one government which will rule worldwide with Love and Wisdom. The Plan of the White Brotherhood proceeds!"
As you can see, New World Order planners hate our Industrial Civilization simply because it consumes so much the world's resources. They do not want to finally gain control over the entire world, only to discover that Earth is running really short of the precious non-renewable resources, like oil!
Further, with our economic system totally running on the fumes of the Fractional Banking System, which creates "money" out of thin air, I wonder how much the Illuminati really needs the money from Big Oil. The Illuminati would really like to shut this Industrial Civilization down so that they can live for many hundreds of years on this planet without having to go find another planet able to sustain life. They launched the open-ended Space Program largely to start looking for other planets able to sustain life, just in case this world is too short of resources once they get firm control of it.
Their concern over nonrenewable resources being depleted is another reason the Illuminati wants to reduce the population of the world by fully two-thirds! Such a reduction would stop the consumption of oil in its tracks. From the moment the "cleansing" of the earth is completed, only the Illuminati families would live well and consume oil.
So, please do not allow yourself to be stampeded into this talk that Bush and company are in Afghanistan simply because of their greed for oil. I have read their final plans, and know they want desperately to stop the consumption of all oil. Period.
A lot of war, rumors of war, and spilled blood will have to be shed before the Illuminati has achieved their goal of "cleansing" the earth and changing civilizations from a "high-entropy" Industrial Civilization to a "low-entropy" Agricultural Civilization. Truly, the events of the End of the Age are upon us!
Are you spiritually ready? Is your family? Are you adequately protecting your loved ones? This is the reason for this ministry, to enable you to first understand the peril facing you, and then help you develop strategies to warn and protect your loved ones. Once you have been thoroughly trained, you can also use your knowledge as a means to open the door of discussion with an unsaved person. I have been able to use it many times, and have seen people come to Jesus Christ as a result. These perilous times are also a time when we can reach many souls for Jesus Christ, making an eternal difference.
If you have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, but have been very lukewarm in your spiritual walk with Him, you need to immediately ask Him for forgiveness and for renewal. He will instantly forgive you, and fill your heart with the joy of the Holy Spirit. Then, you need to begin a daily walk of prayer and personal Bible Study.
If you have never accepted Jesus Christ as Savior, but have come to realize His reality and the approaching End of the Age, and want to accept His FREE Gift of Eternal Life, you can also do so now, in the privacy of your home. Once you accept Him as Savior, you are spiritually Born Again, and are as assured of Heaven as if you were already there. Then, you can rest assured that the Kingdom of Antichrist will not touch you spiritually.
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Big Jim wants to come back to the AL next year, hopefully Chicago:
"'I'll be honest, I would still love to come back. I still care about the city. I mean, we're going to live there. Chicago's very fond in my heart. The time that I spent there, [chairman Jerry Reinsdorf] treated me great. I guess we'll deal with that when this is all over with. … I want to come back to the American League. I guess you never know what's going to happen. Chicago is a great city. It's a great ballclub. The people there were great. If anything, I thank them for putting me where I'm at right now, giving me that opportunity."