Computer advice on forwarded mail

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The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Recently, I came across the following website. I suggest you check it out if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

I received the following in an e-mail. I am passing it on as a public service. I do not know if the information is valid. I never forward e-mail I receive although I do sometimes post it. I did not make changes to the content except for putting it into my format for the blog and obvious errors.

“A friend who is a computer expert received the following message directly from a system administrator for a corporate system. It is an excellent message that absolutely applies to all of us who send e-mails.

Please read the short letter below, even if you’re sure you already follow proper procedures.

Please share it with your e-mail buddies! Do you really know how to forward e-mails? Most of us do not know how. Do you wonder why you get viruses or junk mail? Do you hate it?

Every time you forward an e-mail, there is information left over from the people who got the message before you—namely their e-mail addresses & names. As the messages get forwarded along, the list of addresses builds, and builds, and builds, and all it takes is for some poor sap to get a virus, and his or her computer can send that virus to every e-mail address that has come across his computer. Or, someone can take all of those addresses and sell them or send junk mail to them in the hopes that you will go to the site and he will make five cents for each hit. That’s right, all of that inconvenience over a nickel!

How do you stop it? Well, there are several easy steps:

1) When you forward an e-mail, delete all of the other addresses that appear in the body of the message (at the top). That’s right, delete them. Highlight them and delete them, backspace them, cut them, whatever you know how to. It only takes a second. You MUST click the ‘Forward’ button first and then you will have full editing capabilities against the body and headers of the message. If you don’t hit the forward button first you won’t have full editing functions. I particularly dislike having to scroll through 200 e-mail addresses before I get to the e-mail.

2) Whenever you send an e-mail to more than one person, do NOT use the ‘To:’ or ‘Cc:’ fields for adding e-mail addresses. Always use the BCC: (blind carbon copy) field for listing the e-mail addresses. This is the way the people you send to will only see their own e-mail address.

If you don’t see your ‘BCC:’ option click on where it says To: and your address list will appear. Highlight the address and choose BCC: and that’s it, it’s that easy. When you send to BCC: your message will automatically say ‘Undisclosed Recipients’ in the ‘TO:’ field of the people who receive it. That way you aren’t sharing all those addresses with every Tom, Dick, or Harry.

3) Remove any ‘FW:’ in the subject line. You can re-name the subject if you wish or even fix spelling.

This one is very important. Please read and heed.

4) ALWAYS hit your Forward button from the actual e-mail you are reading. Ever get those e-mails that you have to open 10 pages to read the one page with the information on it? By forwarding from the actual page you wish someone to view, you stop them from having to open many e-mails just to see what you sent. These are the ones that often end up having picked up a virus from somebody. This is really important!

5) Have you ever gotten an e-mail that is a petition? It states a position and asks you to add your name and address and to forward it to 10 or 15 people or your entire address book. The e-mail can be forwarded on and on and can collect thousands of names and e-mail addresses.

A FACT: The completed petition is actually worth a couple of bucks to a professional spammer because of the wealth of valid names and e-mail addresses contained therein. If you want to support the petition, send it as your own personal letter to the intended recipient. Your position may carry more weight as a personal letter than a laundry list of names and e-mail address on a petition. (Actually, if you think about it, who’s supposed to send the petition into whatever cause it supports? And don’t believe the ones that say that the e-mail is being traced, it just isn’t so!)

6) One of the main ones I hate is the ones that say that something like, ‘Send this e-mail to 10 people and you’ll see something great run across your screen.’ Or, sometimes they’ll just tease you by saying something really cute will happen. It isn’t going to happen! (Trust me, I’m still seeing some of the same ones that I waited on 10 years ago!) I don’t let the bad luck ones scare me either, they get trashed. (Could this be why I haven’t won the lottery?)

7) Before you forward an Amber Alert, or a Virus Alert, or some of the other ones floating around nowadays, check them out before you forward them. Most of them are junk mail that’s been circling the net for years!

Just about everything you receive in an e-mail that is in question can be checked out at Snopes. Just go to http://www.snopes.com/.

It’s really easy to find out if it’s real or not. If it’s not, please don’t pass it on. If it sounds too good to be true it usually isn’t. So please, in the future, let’s stop the junk mail and the viruses.

Finally, here’s an idea. Let’s send this to everyone we know (but take my address off first, please). This is something that should be forwarded.

J”

The Bible is the Christian’s Standard

Hurry! Only three days left. “For four days only — April 28-May 1, 2008 — for every $95 of Vision Forum merchandise purchased, you will receive a free $50 in gift certificates (passport), redeemable between June 1 and December 31, 2008, good toward any items from our three Vision Forum catalogs….” Recommended: the CD “How to Think Like a Christian.” This CD is or should be a reminder to all Christians!


https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367


The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Recently, I came across the following website. I suggest you check it out if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/


Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/

http://www.childpredators.com/

http://www.lifedynamics.com/

http://www.libertylegal.org/

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

http://www.searchtv.org/

“Give Us a Standard
Judges 21: 25

Greetings to you, my friend, and welcome to our program of Bible study In Search of the Lord’s Way to become a Christian and to live the blessed Christian life. The other day I had my car radio tuned to a talk show as I was driving home for lunch. A caller was vehemently accusing the host of imposing his standard of morals on his listeners. As free people, he was saying, there should be no prescribed morality. Really! Let’s study about that.

It must be obvious to every thinking American that we do have a serious and rapidly growing moral problem in our beloved country. A four-year-old girl goes to pre-school intoxicated—drunk. She drank from her mother’s supply. A father sexually abuses his infant daughter and calls me for help. A trusted elected official admits to, or is found guilty of embezzlement of public funds, drunk driving and illicit sex. Shootings and killings on school and college campuses are reported almost weekly. One of every four teenage girls has a sexually transmitted disease. About half the babies being born are to unwed mothers. Well, we are smitten with addictions: with alcohol, drugs, sex, tobacco, pornography, gambling and others. The legal merciless killing of about a million little innocent, helpless pre-born (or being born) babies every year is our nation’s shame. There are daily reports in the news media of child-abuse, kidnapping and murder. No nation in history has survived the acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle, same sex marriages, along with acceptance of blasphemy, taking God’s name in vain—as we see it in the movies and even in the media. Well, you know that is only a partial description of the ugly American culture of the Twenty-first Century, don’t you? We simply must get to the heart of the problem, and I believe that’s where we are relevant. The solution is the Lord’s Way to live—and to treat each other. And that is what we do in these programs. We search the Bible for His way to live together and to treat one another. We sincerely believe the Lord’s way is the best way to live that mankind has ever known. Our program today is titled, Give Us a Standard.

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Our Bible reading today consists of one verse only. The children of Israel had entered the Promise Land, and the land had been divided to them by tribes, and God had ruled over them by judges; and now the book of Judges closes with this one verse, verse 25 of the 21st chapter. “In those days there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Now let us pray. Holy Father, we are thankful to You for Your revelation of these things in the Bible that can mean so much to us as we study them. They are examples to us, given to us to encourage us to be faithful; and we pray Your blessings on our study of this one verse today, and the things that relate to it. In the lovely name of Jesus we pray You, Amen!

William F. Buckley died a few days ago. The youth won’t remember him, but you parents and grandparents and great-grandparents will. Newsweek had his picture on the front page, the cover and two good articles about him in the March 10th issue. I’ve had an aversion to the use of the words “conservative” and “liberal” in my preaching. They seemed to be too divisive to be used in sermons. But, Buckley helped me with that. I’m a conservative. You knew that, didn’t you? Or did you? Buckley was a conservative and he did as much as anybody, I suppose, to give it respect. I like the way he said, “The goal of freedom” (In case you missed that now, let me say it again.) “The goal of freedom is to live an obedient man—but obedient to God, subservient to the wisdom of my ancestors; never to the authority of political truths arrived at yesterday—at the voting booth.” I like that.

Our country was founded by people who sought the freedom to be obedient to God. Now, as we said earlier, our once proud and mighty nation is in a state of decline, because we have rejected God and abandoned truth for the preconceived new freedom. Now in our days, freedom means everybody does what is right in his own eyes. And we are saying, “God give us a standard”

Imagine the confusion that would exist in interstate commerce, if we had no standards of weights and measures. Suppose a man bought a million bushels of wheat in one state and sold it in another whose bushel measure was somewhat larger. Oh, what a loss he would suffer! President John Quincy Adams, sixth president of the United States, called both Houses of Congress together for a Special Session. He walked in carrying two “bushel” baskets; one he said, “The bushel measure on my right hand came from South Carolina; the one on my left hand came from the city of New York. One of these bushel measures contains sixty-eight cubic inches more than the other.” He paused a moment to let that fall on the minds of the Senators and Representatives; and then he asked, as he walked up to a table and picked up two one-pound weights, he said, “This weight on my right hand came from Massachusetts; this one on the other came from Maine. One of them weighs nearly an ounce more than the other.” He gave them a little time to think about that; then he concluded, “Gentlemen, we need a standard measurement and a standard weight for the United States of America.”

Well, the result of that speech and demonstration was the establishment of the Bureau of Standards of Weights and Measures. Now, whether you live in South Carolina or New York City, a bushel of wheat is a bushel; and whether you live in Massachusetts or Maine, there are sixteen ounces in a pound, always.

Perhaps you have heard grandmother and granddad tell about “the good ole days,” when a person would go to the general store for a pound of coffee. The merchant would scoop up a scoop of coffee, a scoop full of it, and pour it slowly into a sack which he balanced carefully in the other hand until it felt about like a pound; then he would drop the remaining coffee and the scoop back into the barrel, tie up the purchase in a paper sack (or “poke,” depending on where all this was happening), and the customer would pay for a pound and go on his way. He may have paid for a pound and gotten fifteen ounces or, perhaps eighteen ounces.

A lady might have gone to the store to purchase some “yard goods,” they called them in those days, only to have the merchant measure it out between two notches which had been cut on the counter-top by the merchant’s grandfather who operated the business before he passed it on to his son, who in turn passed it on to the present owner. Well, they may have sincerely thought they were measuring out a full yard to their customers, but it might well have been only thirty-four, thirty-five and a quarter inches, or it could have been as much as thirty-six inches and three-quarters inches. Well, there was nothing dishonest about it; the old man who cut the notches there was as honest and sincere as he could be; and his son knew that and so did the grandson; so they never questioned the measurement.

But, there are differences now, aren’t they? A pound is sixteen ounces now—wherever you go—no guess work. When we pump a gallon of fuel into the tank of our vehicle, the pump is regulated so as to measure out a gallon. And a gallon is a gallon in every state in America. Well, President Adams was right. We sorely needed a standard of weights and measures.

And the need for a standard in morals and religious faith is just that critical today! We need a standard—a truth that will be truth everywhere and always, to all people—a standard by which all of us can determine what is right and what is wrong, and what will be right and what will be wrong everywhere and with all people wherever we go. The pluralism of the prevailing postmodern thought is just not working, friend. It’s wreaking havoc on our national faith and morals.

Like the merchant who carefully balanced the sack of coffee in his hand until it felt like a pound, many people do what they do in religion simply because, “it feels right to them” or they “feel led to do it.” They seem not to be aware of the truth of which the Bible speaks, “There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.” (Proverbs 16: 25) Chaos and confusion abound everywhere! Anarchy reigns! And we cry, “Oh God, give us a standard!”

Well, like the old-time merchant who measured out his yard of gingham between two notches cut in the counter by his grandfather or grandmother; he knew full well that his grandfather was honest and would never cheat a customer. Though really, he might have been doing it all along without even knowing it—so many people today are clinging to the religious beliefs and the practices of their honest and good fore parents. They have no reason for being what they are or doing what they do, but that their grandparents were that, and that is the way they did. Oh, how we do need a standard; something by which everyone can live and be certain he is doing and believing what’s right.

Just as it was before we had a Bureau of Standards of Weights and Measures, when each state had its own, in religion today, there is no standard. Each group has its own authoritative council or maybe it is a creed that defines truth for them. What is said to be right for one group is not right for others. Each one does what is right in his own eyes. The result is confusion and chaos—even unbelief just as Jesus said it would be in John 17, verses 20 and 21. Oh, how we need a standard!

Well, that one short verse we read for our text aptly describes, not only the conditions that existed in a period of some of the formative days of Israel’s history, but it just as aptly describes the conditions in our own period of religious and moral decline in America. It was during the reign of the judges, and the times were difficult because God’s will had been abandoned and the Scripture says, “Every man did that which was right in his own eyes.” My friend, God has given us a standard already. Yes, He has! Even as He had then, but the people scorned it then, as many do now. The Bible is God’s word. When man rejects it and sets his own rules for life, he is on a downward course to disaster. Jeremiah, the Old Testament prophet who wept over the sinful and condemned state of Israel cried, “O Lord, I know the way of man is not in himself: it is not in man who walks to direct his own steps.” (Jeremiah 10: 23)

It’s an awesome truth that God has spoken and revealed His way to man. It is awesome, I say, not only because it’s inspired and inspiring and wondrous, but because it’s fearful and appalling and it makes a dreadful demand on man for an appropriate response. The only such response is obedience to it. It is irreverent and even blasphemous, the way some people who profess to speak for God pretend such comradery with Him as to carry on casual conversations with Him at their own will and at their command. My friend, God does not come down and sit on the side of the bed and talk to these people like that. He never did. Even Moses was not permitted to do that. In Exodus 33: 20 God said to Him, “You cannot see My face; for no one shall see Me and live” (Exodus 33 and 20). Nor, does God speak to us through the traditions of our ancestry, not even through the councils of the best-of-intentioned men, neither in the creeds written by the most scholarly of them, but through His word, the Bible. There is our standard!

And it says, “All Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness: That the man of God may be complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work.” (2 Timothy 3: 16-17) The Bible, then, is here by the breath of God. And it's to be used for teaching doctrine, for reproving the erring, for correcting the course of a misled life, for instruction in the things that are right, so that the man of God can be completely, and is completely supplied by the Scriptures with everything necessary to every good work. There’s our standard. Oh my, we must get back to it!

Of course there have always been, in every generation, those who have given short weights and measures for ill-gotten-gain. They flourish and prosper in spite of the Bureau of Standards of Weights and Measures. And so it is in Christianity. There have always been, and always shall be I suppose, the Elmer Gantry’s, who prey upon the unlearned and unsuspecting for profit. That’s why the Scripture says, “Be diligent (King James says, “study”) to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth” (some versions say, “handling aright the word of truth.”) It is “the word of truth.” Let’s not forget that. Let us pray. Holy Father, thank You for the revelation, the translation, the preservation of Your holy word, a standard by which we can all live in unison. We pray Your blessings as we strive to walk in its light. In Jesus’ name we pray, Amen!

Corinth is said to have been the most important city of Greece when the apostle Paul went there to preach, as recorded in Acts chapter 18, verses 1 to 17. It was the capital of the Province of Achaia, and it was a city of political and commercial importance. It was known, as America is, for its luxury, its wickedness and its moral corruption. Paul preached the word of God and by doing so he established a church of God there. He later wrote them two letters. Listen to some of what he wrote them in the first letter: Hear him now: “Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But, you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.” That is 1 Corinthians chapter 6, verses 9 to 11. So, my friend, sinners— fornicators, idolaters, homosexuals, sodomites, thieves, the covetous, the drunkards can change. The word of God has the power to do that. And that’s why we preach the word.

What we have said, then, is that the Lord’s way of life described in the Scriptures is the solution to the loss of faith and the depraved state of our American morality. It’s the standard that we seek today. Oh! How we do need to get back to the Bible, friend. Some of us now living may yet witness the demise of our beloved nation, if we don’t do so and do it soon. When we open the Bible to study it, we must really and truthfully want to conform our faith and our lives to it as God’s everlasting and unchangeable standard. And, we must always be on guard against imposing our opinions and prejudices on the word of God, and of trying to use the Bible to justify our preconceived ideas and twisted views. It’s true! Faith is accepting everything God says in His word, and conforming our lives to it. Now, this is what the apostle Paul is saying in Galatians chapter 2, verse 20: “I have been crucified with Christ;” he said, “it is no longer I who lives, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.” Of course you couldn’t say that of yourself, if you hadn’t done as he did in complete obedience to God’s will. Read about that in Acts chapters 9 and 22 and 26. It will inspire you and it will encourage you to believe in Christ and to confess Him, to repent of your sins and to be baptized to have those sins washed away, just as he did. (Acts 22: 16) Oh, my friend, I hope you will do that today and then let us hear from you!”

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Blasphemy

Recently, I came across the following website. I suggest you check it out if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com



https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367


The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

On Monday, March 10, 2008 after a difficult day working on tax returns, I thought it was time for a short break. Since there was suppose to be a new lawyer TV program on Fox at 7 p.m., I turned it on to see if it might be any good. It was being aired during the alleged “Family Hour” so I was hoping it might actually be semi-good. It wasn’t.

In the first scene of the program, a woman was sitting on the edge of a bed. A man was lying on the bed with a sheet over his body.

The first sentence spoken on the program was from the woman stating that she had to leave now. The second sentence from the woman was “Oh God, I look like hell!”

The second group of words from the main character of the program was to BLASPHEME GOD—the CREATOR of the universe. Obviously, TV writers didn’t learn how to communicate without blaspheming GOD while on strike.

I turned off the TV. I will continue not watching TV until the characters can communicate without blaspheming GOD—the CREATOR of the universe. My TV may remain off for most of the rest of my life.

It is a dangerous event when GOD is blasphemed!!!

“You shall not misuse the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not hold anyone guiltless who misuses his name” Exodus 20: 7 (NIV) This is the third commandment in the Ten Commandments. The same Ten Commandments that libertines are trying so hard to remove from the public arena. It is as if they think that if the Ten Commandments are out of sight, the word of GOD will no longer apply to our lives. They are wrong!!!

“‘Who is it you have insulted and blasphemed? Against whom have you raised your voice and lifted your eyes in pride? Against the Holy One of Israel!’” II Kings 19: 22 (NIV)

“‘Because you rage against me and your insolence has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and I will make you return by the way you came.’” II Kings 19:28 (NIV)

“That night the angel of the Lord went out and put to death a hundred and eighty-five thousand men in the Assyrian camp. When the people got up the next morning—there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.” II Kings 19: 35-36 (NIV)

“‘But I tell you that men will have to give account on the day of judgment for every careless word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.’” Matthew 12: 36-37 (NIV) This is a quote from JESUS—the SON of GOD.

“‘To fear the Lord is to hate evil; I hate pride and arrogance, evil behavior and perverse speech.’” Proverbs 8: 13 (NIV)

“‘The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.’” Proverbs 9:10 (NIV)

“Now all has been heard; here is the conclusion of the matter: Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. For God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil.” Ecclesiastes 12: 13-14 (NIV)

“‘I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body and after that can do no more. But I will show you whom you should fear: Fear him who, after the killing of the body, has power to throw you into hell. Yes, I tell you, fear him.’” Luke 12: 4-5 (NIV) This is a quote from JESUS—the SON of GOD.

You WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE FOR EVERY CARELESS WORD!!!

Recession of 2001

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Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

Did the United States experience a recession in 2001? According to some radio newscasts, local TV news, and local newspaper reports, we did. (I don’t watch national TV news.) Even some economists seem to talk about the recession of 2001. So, did we have a recession in 2001?

NO!!! We have not had a recession in the 2000’s according to the accepted economic definition of a recession. That definition defines a recession as two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.

A chart published in the Wall Street Journal (October 28-29, 2006, page A3) provided the following information. The source for the chart was the Commerce Department. The heading for the chart says “Economic growth, at inflation-adjusted annual rate since President Bush took office.”

The first quarter of 2001 was slightly negative. The second quarter showed a growth rate of approximately 1+%. The third quarter, right after the 9/11 terrorist attack of 2001, had a negative growth rate of about 1.75%.
Since the third quarter of 2001, every quarter has had a positive growth rate. Therefore, by definition, the United States HAS NOT had a recession since President Bush took office because there has not been one instance of two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth.

Every newspaper article, every radio news report, every TV report, every economist, every politician who mentions the recession of 2001 is absolutely, unequivocally, positively WRONG!!! What conclusion can be drawn about those who discuss the “recession of 2001?” Could it be that they don’t know the definition of a recession? Could it be that they are they just plain lying?

Therefore, this post is ended. There is no economic recession of 2001 to discuss!!!

Record high temperatures for April

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The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

(I received two comments regarding my post “NIU murders and mental health nonsense.” I plan to respond to them on my Monday post.)

On July 6th, 2007, I posted for the first time on my blog the record high temperature for Peoria, Illinois for each day of the month of July with the year the record occurred. I began the post with this paragraph:
Anyone ever ask you, “Hot enough for you?” It seems like I hear that every summer. I was at a funeral recently. I can’t remember the age of the person but I think she was around 90 years of age. One of the individuals who talked about her life mentioned that she often talked about how hot it was in 1936. 1936? But global warming is a new phenomenon! How could it be hot in 1936?

First however, a reminder of some of the information posted about the record highs for July, August, September, October, November, December, January, February, and March.

For July:

01) The high temperature for every day in July was 100° or more.
02) There were 12 straight days of record high temperatures in 1936.
03) 13 of the record highs for July occurred in 1936.
04) There were 6 other days in July where record highs were recorded in the 1930’s.
05) The most recent record high in July occurred in 1988 at 102° on July 31st.

For August:

01) There were 7 dates in August 1936 that were record highs.
02) There was also another record high in 1930 giving a total of 8 for the decade.
03) There were 2 dates in the 2000’s where a record high was set.
04) 2000 had a record high of 96°.
05) 2003 had a record high of 98°.
06) 11 days were under 100°— ranging from 96 to 99°.
07) 20 days were 100° or more

For September:

01) 6 days in 1939 were record high temperatures.
02) 5 days in a row in 1939 had record high temperatures.
03) 4 days in 1933 were record high temperatures.
04) 2 other days in the 1930’s had record high temperatures.
05) For each day in September, the record high temperature was 90° or more.
06) 9 of the record high temperatures were 100° or more.
07) September 15th is the latest date for a 100° temperature which occurred in 1939.
08) 7 of the record high temperatures were in the 1890’s.
09) The most recent record high temperature in September occurred in 1953 (twice).

For October:

01) The record high temperatures for October ranged from 81° to a high of 93°.
02) 6 of the 31 days had a record high temperature of 90° or more.
03) The last 90° temperature occurred on October 15.
04) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1920’s with 8.
05) The decade of the 1930’s had 6 record high temperature dates with 3 in 1939.
06) The decade of the 1950’s also had 6 record high temperature dates.
07) The decade of the 1890’s had 5 record high temperature dates.
08) In all, four decades had 25 dates of record high temperatures.
09) 2 dates in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.

For November:

01) The record high temperatures for November ranged from 81° to a low of 62°.
02) There was one high in the 80’s, five in the 60’s, and twenty-four in the 70’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1930’s with 6.
04) The decade of the 1910’s had 5 record high temperature dates.
05) The first four decades of the 1900’s had 16 record high temperature dates.
06) No decade in the 1800’s had a record high date.
07) There was no record high date for the 1960’s.
08) Only one date in the 2000’s had a record high temperature.

For December:

01) The record high temperatures for December ranged from 71° to a low of 58°.
02) There were three highs in the 70’s, three in the 50’s, and twenty-five in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1980’s with 6.
04) The decades of the 1940’s and 1970’s each had 5 record high temperature dates.
05) The decade of the 1930’s had 4 record high temperature dates.
06) The decades of 1900’s, 1920’s, 1950’s and 1960’s had no record high dates.
07) The decades of the 1880’s and the 1890’s each had 2 record high temperature dates.
08) Two dates in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
09) The last record high temperature of 70° occurred on December 28, 1984.

For January:

01) The record high temperatures for January ranged from 71° to a low of 56°.
02) There were two highs in the 70’s, three in the 50’s, and twenty-six in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1890’s and 1950’s with 5 each.
04) The decade of the 1880’s was the only decade with no record high dates.
05) The decade of the 1930’s had 2 record high temperature dates.
06) Two dates in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 71° occurred on January 23, 1909.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 56° occurred on January 30, 1988.
09) The decade of the 1960’s had 2 record high temperature dates doubling the total for the decade from 2 (from July – December) to 4.

For February:

01) The record high temperatures for February ranged from 74° to a low of 54°.
02) There were eight highs in the 70’s, two in the 50’s, and eighteen in the 60’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1930’s with 8.
04) The decades of the 1880’s, 1960’s, and 1980’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 2000’s had record high temperatures.
06) The highest record high temperature of 74° occurred on February 10, 1932.
07) The lowest record high temperature of 54° occurred on February 2, 1920.
08) The year of 1930 had five of six straight days with record high temperatures.

For March:

01) The record high temperatures for March ranged from 87° to a low of 70°.
02) There were fourteen highs in the 80’s, and seventeen in the 70’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in 4 different decades—the 1900’s, 1980’s, 1990’s, and 2000’s—with four in each decade.
04) The decade of the 1880’s had no record high dates.
05) One date in the 1930’s had record high temperatures.
06) The highest record high temperature of 87° occurred on March 21, 1907.
07) The lowest record high temperature of 70° occurred on March 5, 1945.

The Peoria Journal Star on December 30, 2007, page S2 published “The Weather Month by Month.” According to the Peoria Journal Star, here are the record highs for Peoria for the month of April with the year of that record high.

“April 1……. 83 ……. 1946
April 2……. 84 ……. 1940
April 3……. 82 ……. 1978
April 4……. 86 ……. 1929
April 5……. 85 ……. 1929
April 6……. 85 ……. 1929
April 7……. 88 ……. 1893
April 8……. 84 ……. 1931*
April 9……. 84 ……. 1887
April 10……. 92 ……. 1930*
April 11……. 91 ……. 1930*
April 12……. 89 ……. 1930*
April 13……. 90 ……. 1887
April 14……. 85 ……. 2003
April 15……. 87 ……. 2002
April 16……. 88 ……. 2002
April 17……. 88 ……. 1894
April 18……. 91 ……. 2002
April 19……. 84 ……. 1985
April 20……. 89 ……. 1987
April 21……. 85 ……. 1985
April 22……. 88 ……. 1980
April 23……. 88 ……. 1886
April 24……. 85 ……. 1990
April 25……. 92 ……. 1986
April 26……. 90 ……. 1986
April 27……. 86 ……. 1986
April 28……. 91 ……. 1894
April 29……. 92 ……. 1899
April 30……. 90 ……. 1901

For April:

01) The record high temperatures for April ranged from 92° to a low of 82°.
02) There were nine highs in the 90’s, and twenty-one in the 80’s.
03) The most record high temperatures for a decade occurred in the 1980’s with seven in the decade.
04) The decades of the 1910’s, 1950’s, and 1960’s had no record high dates.
05) The 1930’s had four record high temperatures.
06) The 2000’s had four record high temperatures.
07) The highest record high temperature of 92° occurred on April 10, 1930; April 25, 1986; and April 29, 1899.
08) The lowest record high temperature of 82° occurred on April 3, 1978.
09) There were seven record high temperatures in the 1880’s and 1890’s.

As I’ve said before, no human can accurately predict what the weather is going to be like 50 years from today. We have difficulty predicting with 100% accuracy what the weather is going to be like seven days from now. This I do know. If GOD wants global warming as predicted by the “Al Gore gang” to occur, there is NOTHING man can do to stop it. If GOD doesn’t want global warming to occur, it won’t, no matter what man does. Of course, God could always let man proceed as they choose without HIS hand in it either way. I don’t know what will occur 50 years from now and NEITHER DOES any other human on this planet!

This I also know. If I were living a life of SIN, I’d be more concerned about what GOD will do today and tomorrow or what will happen to me after my death (none of us has a guarantee that we will live another fifty years) than what is going to occur in another 50 years!!!

“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6: 7-8 (NIV)

Marines from the Peoria Reserve center in Iraq

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Webmasters Earn Money Here!

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

Marines from the Peoria Reserve center in Iraq

I received the following email recently after having received permission to post the email on my blog. Thank you to all who made it possible for me to post it. I am posting it without comment. Read carefully!

“02/25/2008 12:22 PM

My Caterpillar Friends,

This may be the last email I send you from Iraq because I have a little more than a week left in Iraq. My extraneous gear has been mailed home and bags are packed. I’m a short timer. My journey from Fallujah to Peoria contains many stops and delays.

I think I’ve said this many times, but I’ll say it again. My previous tours in Iraq were very different from this one. In the past I was a Platoon Commander and always with the Marines. Leadership took place face to face on a 24x7 basis. This tour my efforts are coaching, mentoring, and teaching. To put it in Caterpillar terms, I am a Marine Combat Engineer version of an MBB.

You can be very proud of the Marines from the Peoria Reserve center. They have been quietly succeeding all across the providence. This is not the same war they left in ’03 and ’05. Arguably, there is no longer a war here. There is terrorism and violence, but reduced to military operations other than war. The Marines from the Peoria area have calmly accomplished every mission asked of them. Their contributions enable the success of others and further our cause here. They are a fine group of Marines and out perform their peers. Quiet professionals.

I ran into an old friend in Camp Fallujah. In Desert Storm* I served with Sergeant Jim Watson. Jim Watson left the Marine Corps and became Illinois State Representative Jim Watson. After a 16 year hiatus from the Marine Corps, Jim returned to the Marine Corps. I imagine being a State Representative helped him pull that off. Staff Sergeant Watson arrived here about a week ago. The Marine Corps is using him well. He’s the Governance Chief and spends his days and nights reviewing, advising, and assisting in the development of the new Iraqi Government. I sense that he is worth his weight in gold.

I will be back in Peoria in early April. There are some things that need to be taken care of and some leave (vacation) I need to take. I will likely be off of active duty near the end of May and will return to work at that time. I greatly appreciate the support I have received from Caterpillar and its employees. I can whole heartedly say that Caterpillar has enabled me to serve.

Thank you and best regards, Rod Richards Master Sergeant United States Marine Corps Aut viam inveniam aut faciam

* Since some of you were in Grade School in 1991, Desert Storm was a war that a US led coalition force liberated Kuwait from Iraqi aggressors.”

Mental health, SIN, NIU murders and a response to my post part 6

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Webmasters Earn Money Here!

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

This is the fifth post of my response to the following comment posted on my blog.

“Anonymous said:

Are you saying that there is no such thing as mental illness and that it is all made up to justify sinning? That must be one of the stupidest poorly informed thing that I have ever heard. To suggest that people should not seek treatment for there mental illness because it can not “save” them, is just plan negligent, it already hard enough to get people to seek treatment for their mental illness, treatments in many cases that can help them, and the last thing people need is some one running around telling them that it will not help.”

The post that “anonymous” is referring to was originally posted on February 28, 2008. I had to go back to it and reread it because I did not remember saying that “there is no such thing as mental illness.” I try to be very meticulous in what I write although I am sure I sometimes do not express my thoughts as adequately as I would like.

To make sure every one is examining the same material, I have copied the entire original post minus the Bible quotations I used to support my position. The original post reads as follows:

My recent posts have involved four news stories—two dealing with the NIU murders, one on John McCain, and one about a death at the U.N. What did these three distinct articles have in common? All reported “information” based upon the ubiquitous anonymous source.

The posts dealing with anonymous sources are complete. At this time, a few thoughts about the NIU murders and the “mental health” aspects of the situation as discussed in the stories of February 17 and 18, 2008. The original article on February 17 seemed to imply that the gunman had mental health problems. I would argue that, more than mental health problems, he had SIN problems.

The article stated “The 27-year-old Kazmierczak also had a history of mental illness and had become erratic in the past two weeks after he stopped taking his medication, said university Police Chief Donald Grady.” From the two articles, it seems that the “history of mental illness” was one stint in a “mental health” facility after graduating from high school.

This is what the article said about that situation: “A former employee at a Chicago psychiatric treatment center said Kazmierczak had been placed there after high school by his parents. He used to cut himself and had resisted taking his medications, she said.

Kazmierczak spent more than a year at the Thresholds-Mary Hill House in the late 1990’s, former house manager Louise Gbadamashi told The Associated Press. His parents placed him there because he had become ‘unruly’ at home, she said.

Gbadamashi couldn’t remember any instances of him being violent, she said.

‘He never wanted to identify with being mentally ill,’ she said. ‘That was part of the problem.’” (Peoria Journal Star, February 17, 2008, page A12)

The above information about his “mental health” problems come from three sources—university Police Chief Donald Grady, an unidentified former employee (WOW! That could be a janitor for all we know. I was wrong. Anonymous sources do play into this post too.), and the former house manager of the facility.

Some questions in relation to this “mental health” problem might include the following. How reliable are the identified sources? Why would the NIU police chief know his correct mental history and whether or not he “had become erratic in the past two weeks.”? How reliable is the testimony of an unidentified former employee? How knowledgeable is the medical information from a former house manager?

Come to think of it. What happened to doctor/patient confidentiality? Does that end at the death of the patient? Then again, none of the three sources are identified as actually being doctors.

Consider these two sentences from the former house manager. “His parents placed him there because he had become ‘unruly’ at home, she said.” “‘He never wanted to identify with being mentally ill,’ she said. ‘That was part of the problem.’”

What!!! When did becoming unruly at home become identified as a mental illness! Since he was placed there by his parents, it seems that this may have occurred while he was still a minor. I think there are many minors who, having been placed in a “mental health” facility because they were unruly at home, would not “identify with being mentally ill” under the given circumstances. I think many of these same people would also be resistant to taking medicine to “control” this supposed mental illness. Wouldn’t you under similar circumstances?

The Soviet Union used to declare that citizens of that nation who opposed the system were insane. Opposition to the system was rewarded with a stint in a “mental health” institution. Does being unruly at home constitute the new definition of mentally insane requiring being locked up in a “mental health” facility with a daily routine of drug therapy? Is that frightening?

The February 18 article had these comments from the girlfriend: “She confirmed that he had stopped taking an antidepressant about three weeks ago because ‘it made him feel like a zombie,’ but she denied that his recent behavior was unusual.

‘He wasn’t erratic. He wasn’t delusional. He was Steve; he was normal,’ said Baty, who had turned down Associated Press requests by phone and in person for an interview. (Peoria Journal Star, February 18, 2008, page A9)

If the only reason he was locked up in a “mental health” facility was because he had been unruly at home, I’m surprised it took him so long to stop taking his “medication.” The real problem in all of this is not a “mental health” issue. The real issue is SIN. When a society continually attempts to remove GOD from the public arena, when a society comes to believe that all problems can be identified as being caused by a “sickness” rather than SIN, the results are inevitable. Humanistic solutions to SIN will always lead to more and greater SIN. We as a people, we as a nation CAN NOT save ourselves from SIN!!!

Government CAN NOT save us! Mental health facilities CAN NOT save us! Humanists CAN NOT save us! Libertines CAN NOT save us! Hillary Clinton, Barrack Obama, John McCain CAN NOT save us! False gods and false religions CAN NOT save us!

Only the one TRUE GOD, HIS SON JESUS the CHRIST, and the HOLY SPIRIT can save us from ourselves. WE need to repent and turn to GOD. If not, welcome to our continued degradation and fall into oblivion!

First and most obviously, I NEVER said that “there is no such thing as mental illness.” The news stories, however, did not come close to establishing that Mr. Kazmierczak was mentally ill at the time of the murders. The three quotes given in relation to his alleged mental illness were from the NIU police chief, who obviously did not know if he was mentally ill, an anonymous source (identified in the article as “a former employee”) from the mental health facility where he was in the 1990’s, who as I pointed out could have been a janitor for all we know, and the former house manager, who was NOT identified as a doctor. I also pointed out that the reason why he was placed in a mental health facility as stated in the article was because he had been “unruly” at home. None of the information provided gives any conclusive evidence that Mr. Kazmierczak was, in fact, mentally ill at the time of the murders unless being in a mental health facility is established proof that he, therefore, MUST be mentally ill.

And, surprise, surprise, IT IS NOT!!! My exact statement was “MORE (My capitalization at this time—my addition.) than mental health problems, he had SIN problems.” He had SIN problems because, surprise, surprise, murder IS a SIN!!! It does not matter if psycho-babblers recognize the possibility of SIN or not, because GOD DOES!!! Ultimately, NONE of us answers to psycho-babblers. Ultimately, ALL of us do answer to GOD!!!

I do not know if Mr. Kazmierczak was mentally ill. The anonymous writer does not know if Mr. Kazmierczak was mentally ill. Probably, the psycho-babblers do not know if Mr. Kazmierczak was mentally ill. GOD DOES!!!

Whether or not GOD takes into account mental illness in the final judgment, I do not know. As far as I know, the Bible does not provide an answer to that question. I’m rather certain, that the anonymous writer does not know the answer to that question either. I’m certain that psycho-babblers, who do not recognize the concept of SIN, do not know the answer to that question. GOD DOES!!!

Secondly, the anonymous writer continued by declaring, “Are you saying that there is no such thing as mental illness and that it is all made up to justify sinning? That must be one of the stupidest poorly informed thing that I have ever heard.” The anonymous writer may believe that declaring something that I did not declare may be “one of the stupidest poorly informed thing that I have ever heard.” However, I can think of a number of items that I would consider more outrageous that the above if I had actually said the above.
For instance:

1) believing that by removing GOD from the public arena that GOD can be removed from our lives.

2) believing that there is a Constitutional right to murder your own unborn baby.

3) believing that any group of humans can give you the right to murder your unborn baby.

4) believing that homosexual behavior is acceptable behavior.

5) believing that you will not be held accountable for your unrepentant SIN.

Thirdly, the anonymous writer asserts “to suggest that people should not seek treatment for there mental illness … is just plan negligent….” Where exactly did I say or suggest that individuals who are mentally ill should not seek treatment? I have read and reread my original post and can find no such statement or suggestion. Is the anonymous writer trying to create a “straw man argument” to try to support the unsupportable? However, this is true. The ultimate problem for man is SIN not the momentarily fashionable definition of “mental health.”

Finally, the anonymous writer proclaims “the last thing people need is some one running around telling them that it will not help.” I’m afraid that the anonymous writer is trying to give me more influence than I possess. If I had that kind of influence, the anonymous writer, as well as all others who read these posts, would be or would become Christians since as JESUS, the CHRIST—the SON of GOD—declares, “… I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14: 6 (NIV)

In conclusion, the fact is that it seems that the anonymous writer believes that man can “cure” man through the process of “solving” mental health problems and I believe that the root cause of all man-involved evil is SIN. The fact is that most psycho-babblers do not recognize the concept of SIN and therefore, from my prospective, do not address the root cause of man’s behavior. The fact is that JESUS—the SON of GOD—clearly states that such SINS including murder come from the heart. The fact is that neither the anonymous writer nor I have any say in the final judgment of every person who has ever lived. The fact is that what we believe is irrelevant. The fact is that GOD DECIDES ALL THINGS IN THE FINAL ANALYSIS!!!

PRAY

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Webmasters Earn Money Here!

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

I received the following as an email and just began doing as suggested tonight. I am interrupting my comments on the NIU murders to post this tonight. I hope to conclude my comments on my next post. I thought this was important enough to post immediately.

“Subject: Fw: ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT

THIS ISN’T FOR ANY POLITICAL PARTY. IT’S FOR THE FUTURE OF OUR COUNTRY. ONE MINUTE EACH NIGHT—8:00 PM Central Time.

Received from a friend and it is true, this is the scariest election we as Christians have ever faced. From the polls, Christians aren’t voting Christian values. We all need to be on our knees.

Do you believe we can take God at His word? Call upon His name, then stand back and watch His wonders to behold. This scripture gives us, as Christians, ownership of this land and the ability to call upon God to heal it. I challenge you to do so. We have never been more desperate than now for God to heal our land. This election is the scariest I remember in my lifetime.

2 Chronicles 7: 14 (NIV) ‘… if my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land.’
During WWII, there was an advisor to Churchill who organized a group of people who dropped what they were doing every night at a prescribed hour for one minute to collectively pray for the safety of England, its people, and peace. This had an amazing effect as bombing stopped. There is now a group of people organizing the same thing here in America. The United States of America and our citizens need prayer more than ever!!!

If you would like to participate: each evening at 9:00 PM Eastern Time (8:00 PM Central, 7:00 PM Mountain, 6:00 PM Pacific), stop whatever you are doing and spend one minute praying for the safety of the United States, our troops, our citizens, for peace in the world, the up-coming election, that the Bible will remain the basis for the laws governing our land and that Christianity will grow in the U.S.
If you know anyone who would like to participate, please pass this along.
Someone said if people really understood the full extent of the power we have available through prayer, we might be speechless. Our prayers are the most powerful asset we have.
Thank you. Please pass this on to anyone who you think will want to join us.

GOD bless you!”

Responsibility and Accountability, NIU murders and a response to my post part 5

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https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367


The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Webmasters Earn Money Here!

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

http://www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com/

http://www.childpredators.com/

http://www.lifedynamics.com/

http://www.libertylegal.org/

http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/

http://www.searchtv.org/

This is the fourth post of my response to the following comment posted on my blog.

“Anonymous said:

Are you saying that there is no such thing as mental illness and that it is all made up to justify sinning? That must be one of the stupidest poorly informed thing that I have ever heard. To suggest that people should not seek treatment for there mental illness because it can not “save” them, is just plan negligent, it already hard enough to get people to seek treatment for their mental illness, treatments in many cases that can help them, and the last thing people need is some one running around telling them that it will not help.”


Responsibility and Accountability
“Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God. And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. The god of this age has BLINDED the MINDS of UNBELIEVERS (my capitalization—my addition), so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, ‘Let light shine out of darkness,’ made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus.” II Corinthians 4: 1-6 (NIV)

“Therefore we are always confident and know that as long as we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord. We live by faith, not by sight. We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it. For we MUST (my capitalization—my addition) all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad. (We as GOD’S creation have responsibilities and are accountable for our actions, our thoughts, and our attitudes —my addition.) II Corinthians 5: 6-10 (NIV)

I am repeating the Bible verses—the WORD of GOD—that I quoted on the original post that resulted in the anonymous comments.

“The acts of the sinful nature are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity and debauchery; idolatry and witchcraft, hatred, discord, jealousy, FITS of RAGE (My capitalization—my addition), selfish ambition, dissensions, factions and envy, drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.” Galatians 5: 19-21 (NIV)

“He (the LORD JESUS the CHRIST—my addition) went on ‘What comes out of a man is what makes him ‘unclean.’ For from within, out of men’s hearts come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, MURDER (My capitalization—my addition), adultery, greed, malice, deceit, lewdness, envy, slander, arrogance and folly. All these evils come from within and make a man ‘unclean.’’” Mark 7: 20-23 (NIV)

“Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: ‘If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and SINFUL (My capitalization—my addition) generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.’” Mark 8: 34-38 (NIV)
“Do not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows. The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.” Galatians 6: 7-8 (NIV)

Wisdom of God; foolishness of man; NIU murders and a response to my post part 4

Recently, I came across the following website. I suggest you check it out if you are a policy holder of Farmers Insurance Group or thinking about having them insure you in any capacity: www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com



https://affiliates.visionforum.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=367


The above link is for a company—Vision Forum—that provides unique products for the family. I am an affiliate for the company and receive a small commission whenever someone uses this link and then makes an unreturned purchase while using the link. Check it out. I think you might like the products offered. I do. See my more complete explanation on my post of February 1, 2008 entitled “Affiliate program with Vision Forum.”

Webmasters Earn Money Here!

Based upon past historical data: 3,287+ UNBORN BABY MURDERS have occurred in the last 24 hours in the United States. See my post “BABY HOLOCAUST” posted January 22, 2008.

Recently, I’ve been involved in a problem one of my clients has with Farmers Insurance Group. My previous posts in relation to this problem were:

September 10, 2007 post: “Beware of Farmers Insurance Group”
September 11, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group’s response”
September 18, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company received the requested list”
September 19, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Company’s response to the list”
October 16, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and my request for information”
November 27, 2007 post: “Farmers Insurance Group does not respond to my request”
January 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group latest stall”
January 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group is sent a response”
January 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group pays some money”
January 19, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group continues to be obstinate”
January 26, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group receives another request”
February 11, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group shows how low they will go?”
February 12, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group: If I were going to respond to the final letter”
February 13, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and associated companies”
February 14, 2008 post: “Farmers Insurance Group and how others rate the company”

I will not be continuing my Creationism posts today. I do plan to return to them soon.

Then, I plan to answer the response about Iraq. I am sorry for the change in plans. Plans, in reality, often are altered for one reason or another. “The best laid plans … often go astray.” Thank you for your understanding and patience.

How many unborn toddlers were murdered today because of the humanistic, paganish, barbaric decisions of the United States Supreme Court?

Stop the
Murder of
Unborn
Toddlers

“Anyone, then, who knows the good he ought to do and doesn’t do it, sins.” James 4: 17 (NIV)

www.farmersinsurancegroupsucks.com

www.childpredators.com

www.lifedynamics.com

www.libertylegal.org

www.alliancedefensefund.org

www.searchtv.org

This is the third post of my response to the following comment posted on my blog.

“Anonymous said:

Are you saying that there is no such thing as mental illness and that it is all made up to justify sinning? That must be one of the stupidest poorly informed thing that I have ever heard. To suggest that people should not seek treatment for there mental illness because it can not “save” them, is just plan negligent, it already hard enough to get people to seek treatment for their mental illness, treatments in many cases that can help them, and the last thing people need is some one running around telling them that it will not help.”


Wisdom of God; foolishness of man

“Where is the wise man? Where is the scholar? Where is the philosopher of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?” I Corinthians 1: 20 (NIV)

“For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.”

“Brothers, think of what you were when you were called. Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were influential; not many were of noble birth. But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things—and the things that are not—to nullify the things that are, so that no one may boast before him. It is because of him that you are in Christ Jesus, who has become for us wisdom from God—that is, our righteousness, holiness and redemption. Therefore, as it is written: ‘Let him who boasts boast in the Lord.’

When I came to you, brothers, I did not come with eloquence or superior wisdom as I proclaimed to you the testimony about God. For I resolved to know nothing while I was with you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. I came to you in weakness and fear, and with much trembling. My message and my preaching were not with wise and persuasive words, but with a demonstration of the Spirit’s power, so that your faith might not rest on men’s wisdom, but on God’s power.

We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. No, we speak of God’s secret wisdom, a wisdom that has been hidden and that God destined for our glory before time began. None of the rulers of this age understood it, for if they had, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him’—but God has revealed it to us by his Spirit.

The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God. For who among men knows the thoughts of a man except the man’s spirit within him? In the same way no one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God. We have not received the spirit of the world but the Spirit who is from God, that we may understand what God has freely given us. This is what we speak, not in words taught us by human wisdom but in words taught by the Spirit, expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words. The man without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him, and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned. The spiritual man makes judgments about all things, but he himself is not subject to any man’s judgment: ‘For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct him?’ But we have the mind of Christ.” I Corinthians 1: 25-31 and all of chapter 2: 1-16 (NIV)