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September 23, 2008 - Tuesday

11:45 PM - BAIL me the F*ck OUT
Current mood: betrayed
Category: News and Politics

Come on America call me lazy or call me crazy I really don't care! Some of you hebetudinous jokers out there need to get your heads out of your asses and wake up. Our government is privatizing earnings and socializing losses. You can't have it both ways or can you?

I have a better idea bail me out its much cheaper.

Rent:                                 1500 mo                 18000yr
Electric bill:                       130mo                    1560yr
Gas bill:                               55mo                      660yr
Car payment:                      475mo                    5700yr
Car ins:                              106mo                    1272yr
Gas car:                             320mo                    3840yr
Cable/phone:                       99mo                    1188yr
Food:                                600mo                     7200yr
Medicine:                         120/3mo                  840yr



Grand Total.......$40260yr

There are over 300million people in America

United States — Population: 301,139,947

Our Government could bail all of us out for less money then they loaned AIG, 85 billion dollar loan!!!!

Currently reading :
Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism
By Kevin Phillips

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September 14, 2008 - Sunday

7:04 PM - Does giving up some of your right, lead to losing all rights.
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

I was asked a interesting question from a new friend... 

How come gay women seem to be the loudest protesters of those who are pro-life? Gay women are the least likely to ever become pregnant, and if they do, it's because they've decided to HAVE a child. Is it really about THAT?

 

I feel its about rights period, Roe V wade was decided on the Fourteenth Amendment. The Supreme court decided that..  Jane Roe is embraced within the personal liberty protected by the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

 

Roe v. Wade was a landmark decision in which the United States Supreme Court ruled that many state laws banning abortions were unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable. As a part of this 7-2 decision, the court set up the "trimester system" which says that a state cannot interfere with abortions in the first trimester of pregnancy, that it can interfere in some abortions in the second trimester, and that it can interfere in most abortions in the third trimester. This system is based on the concept of vested interest: the court ruled that the state has no vested interest in early pregnancy.

So my question is if Roe v Wade is overturned will that allow a legal loop hole to overturn the 14th Amendment?

 


 

 

Currently listening :
Work
By Kelly Rowland
Release date: 2008-08-12

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September 5, 2008 - Friday

1:58 AM - What the hell or we doing in Pakistan?
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

Now we know why President Bush is not at the RNC

Pakistan Chides US on Deadly Ground Raid

Pakistan has lodged a formal complaint with the US over a deadly ground attack inside its borders. Pakistani officials say at least twenty civilians were killed after helicopters delivered a US-led unit into Pakistan. US forces are said to have fired inside three homes containing women and children. The attack marks the first time the US has used ground troops inside Pakistan. A Pakistani government statement condemned what it called a "gross violation of Pakistan's territory" and "a grave provocation." US officials have declined comment so far. The attack comes less than two weeks after a US air strike in Afghanistan killed as many as ninety civilians, including sixty children. The US has disputed the casualty toll.

Does anyone know anything about this? Liars trying to make us think they care about the Gulf Coast!



Currently reading :
The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder
By Vincent Bugliosi

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8:10 AM - That’s just EVIL!!!
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

Mr. Obama extends an olive branch to Mrs. Palin by stepping up and saying...

"Let me be as clear as possible," Obama said. "I think people's families are off-limits, and people's children are especially off-limits. This shouldn't be part of our politics. It has no relevance to Gov. Palin's performance as governor or her potential performance as a vice president.
" --Obama (courtesy of CNN)

(Mr. Obama did not have to do that, its not like anyone else has stepped up in his defense!!!)

What does this EVIL woman do? She bites his hand off, then turns around and says she is for change in washington while playing the same-o-same politics.

Mrs. Palin need I remind you that it was the media that kept it's mouth shut and didn't ask the hard questions about this war out of loyalty to the current administration and you stab them in the back.

Mrs. Palin a little suggestion for you if you plan on getting anything done you need  congress and yet you  bad mouth them, wow what a way to start out at a job you don't even have yet.

Mrs Palin, I see your true colors and they ain't pretty, really you didn't even say anything about womens rights I know I know how you feel about A/B/O/R/T/I/O-N, but what about equal pay for a equal days work?You do want to smash that glass ceiling right?

Mr. Huckabee you tell us a great story that was inspiring, and then turn around and take all hope away by saying that the presidency isn't a symbolic job! So what you are saying is that those same children in your story no matter their color that they should not dream to one day become president of the USA.

To the US Congress Mrs. Palin just called you a bunch of wimps and why do you think that is? Its because you have not stood to president Bush now its time you stood up, if you don't you are on your way to having another president and vice president that dosen't have a need for you.

Currently listening :
Evil Woman [CASSETTE]
By LOU RAWLS

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September 3, 2008 - Wednesday

5:57 PM - If you want less government, then why do you want government in your
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

  vagina???

Don't tell me I can't make the right choice about my life, I was 18 when my son was born. With the help of my Mother and sisters I made the choice to keep my son he is now 21. One of the proudest things I can think of my son saying to me is... Mom you raised us and still got your education so don't worry I will get mine.

Ladies you really need to think about that, if you are raising a daughter do you really need the government telling her what to do trading away your right to advise her? Young ladies do you really believe that you can't make you own choices based on your life so much that you need a 72 year old man telling you what is right for you, and then he will turn around and tell you now that you have a kid you need to pull yourself by your bootstraps I can't help you. Oh and by the way once you have raised the child I will send him to fight for his country!!!!

Come on I really want to know!!! 





Currently listening :
Having My Baby
By Paul Anka
Release date: 1995-04-17

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September 2, 2008 - Tuesday

9:29 PM - John McCain hates Americia
Current mood: argumentative
Category: News and Politics

The republicans like to say that they will keep America safe, they want us to believe that even if 911 did happen on their watch we should trust them now.

The republicans like to remind us that we have not been attacked since 911, no matter that president Bush was asleep at the time.

The republicans will say that look at what we are doing this time for the gulf coast, forget that we where having cake 3yrs ago while people drown (good job Brownie).

Now the republicans want us to trust them while they put another Brownie or Harriet Miers one heart beat away from protecting us.

You have got to be kidding me! Oh I forgot shes Hawt I am sure Russia, China, Iran, and anyone else would just love her.

Currently listening :
No matter how hot she is....someone somewhere is sick of her sh**

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August 30, 2008 - Saturday

6:48 PM - Disrespect for us women John McCain (update w video)
Current mood: awake
Category: News and Politics

Mr. McCain its one thing to call your wife a CUNT, and its maybe ok with the good old boys for you to make jokes about women being raped. However do you really think we are that stupid, The only reason you picked a female VP is because you think it will bring you the white women voters that supported Hillary Clinton.

Take my word for guys he has no plans on letting Sarah Palin do anything. Don't get me wrong it appears she has done some good and is a very smart lady, do you really think any of that has anything to do with why he chose her.



If you do then maybe he is right you are all CUNTS.


 






This video shows him cursing out that poor lady, just listen to the words he uses.<

Currently reading :
Bad Girls of the Bible and What We Can Learn from Them
By Liz Curtis Higgs
Release date: 1999-08-17

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August 28, 2008 - Thursday

5:30 AM - The Truth... Hillary knows the truth.
Current mood: energetic
Category: News and Politics

I have found my voice and last night Mrs. Clinton gave it back to me. Thank you!


I don't care how they spin it Karl Rowe you lose buddy, I mean you play hard and brotha you gots skills.... TODAY the democratic party stands united.

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Currently listening :
America, The Beautiful
Release date: 2002-04-30

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August 25, 2008 - Monday

1:39 AM - The Truth will set you free BLACK PEOPLE!
Current mood: awake
Category: News and Politics

Black people you are killing me here, always hollaring about equal rights, racist this, and racist that. However when it comes to one of you're own doing something wrong you say nothing. No wonder the white race won't take you serious, no wonder the white race sees a double standard with you and race.





 You are
in all likelihood sitting there thinking Ah hell NAW Benae done gone and lost her ever loving mind!!!



Nope, what am I talking about you ask? Let me break it down for you. We all agree that President Bush lied, and we all can stand around a bitch about him and Chaney. White and Black we got it down Bush= bad, Chaney= evil, both white man. Black people we will agree with all the white people about those two and write blog after blog, BUT WHY WON'T WE CALL OUT THE TWO BLACK PEOPLE THAT LIED RIGHT ALONG WITH THEM.

Well that ends today and I will start with Darling Condi, Mrs Rice you lost two close friends in the sixteenth street Baptist Church bombing on Sept 15th 1963. I am sure you have not forgotten, but just in case let me remind you Mrs. Rice.

On Sunday morning, September 15, 1963, the Ku Klux Klan bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, killing four girls. This murderous act shocked the nation and galvanized the civil rights movement.

Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were dressed in their "Youth Sunday" best, ready to lead the 11:00 adult service at the church, which since its construction in 1911 had served as the center of life for Birmingham's African American community. Only a few minutes before the explosion, they had been together in the basement women's room, excitedly talking about their first days at school. The bombing came without warning.


Mrs. Rice how then can you stand before the american people and lie us into a war that I am sure you know will cause the killing of little girls with bombs?



Wake up Black people.

Wake up white people.

Wake up America, join together for the truth well bring us all together and set US free.




Currently listening :
Freedom
By Santana
Release date: 1990-10-25

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1:02 AM - The Truth hurts
Current mood: awake
Category: News and Politics

I know you have all saw the video ..Abortion and Barack Obama. Bad huh? But the truth always  tastes bad and hurts on the way down when you swallow it.

 Late term abortion has been around for a very long time and you are right it is wrong on all counts. As a medical worker I know that you can see and hear a heartbeat as early as 7wks. So it is truly heartbreaking to allow abortions anytime after that IMO.

Please allow me if you will to clear up some of the lies this video says about Barack Obama, it is my opinion that everyone should be allowed to choose who to vote for on real facts so that you can really vote your heart.

Mr. Obama has stated: He strongly supports Roe v. Wade and a woman's right to choose. He believes that there is a moral and ethical element to this issue, and he believes that women do not make these decisions casually, but wrestle with them in consultation with their doctors, pastors and family. Senator Obama understands that some will disagree with him and choose not to support him, and he respects those with different opinions.

Mr. Obama has stated: That  Senator Obama's attackers don't tell you is that existing Illinois law already requires doctors to provide medical care in the very rare case that babies are born alive during abortions. They will not tell you that Obama voted against these laws in Illinois because they were clear attempts to undermine Roe v. Wade. 

Let me repeat THERE IS ALREADY A LAW EXISTING IN ILLINOIS THAT COVERS THIS when the pro life crowd tried to add the law that this video address.The bills Senator Obama voted against in Illinois were crafted to undermine Roe v. Wade or pre-existing Illinois state law regulating reproductive healthcare and medical practice, which is why Senator Obama objected to them.

• 21 Senators Opposed Senate Bill 1661. Senators Bowles, Geo-Karis (Republican), Hendon, Molaro, Radogno (Republican), Shaw, Smith, Trotter, Viverito and Welch voted present on Senate Bill 1661. Senators Cullerton, Del Valle, Halvorson, Jacobs, Lightford, Link, Madigan, Obama, Parker (Republican), Ronen and Shadid voted no on Senate Bill 1661. [92nd GA, SB 1661, 4/4/02, 3R P; 31-11-10 (BO: N)]

• 22 Senators Opposed Senate Bill 1662. Senators Bowles, Geo-Karis (Republican), Hendon, Molaro, Radogno (Republican), Shadid, Shaw, Trotter, Viverito and Welch voted present on Senate Bill 1662. Senators Cullerton, Del Valle, Halvorson, Jacobs, Klemm (Republican), Lightford, Link, Madigan, Obama, Parker (Republican), Ronen and Smith voted no on Senate Bill 1662. [92nd GA, SB 1662, 4/4/02, 3R P; 30-12-10 (BO: N)]

• Six Republican Senators Opposed One Or All Born Alive Bills. Republican Senator Kathleen Parker voted no Senate Bills 1661 and 1662. Republican Senator Christine Radogno voted present on Senate Bills 1661 and 1662. Republican Senator Adeline Geo-Karis voted present on Senate Bills 1661 and 1662. Republican Senator Dick Klemm voted no on Senate Bill 1662. [92nd GA, SB 1093, SB 1094, SB 1095, SB 1661, SB 1662].

As you can see Mr. Obama's fellow Senators Agreed.

The problem with the Born Alive Infant Protection Act:

1. This Bill Does Not Spell Out What Medical Care Doctors Must Provide When An Abortion Procedure Ends In A Live Birth.

2.The Legislation Also Specifically Says It Has No Impact On Illinois Abortion Laws.(so why did they need a new law)

3. For more than 20 years, Illinois law has required that when 'there is a reasonable likelihood of sustained survival of the fetus outside the womb, with or without artificial support,' an abortion may only be performed if a physician believes 'it is necessary to preserve the life or health of the mother.' And in such cases, the law requires that the doctor use the technique 'most likely to preserve the life and health of the fetus' and perform the abortion in the presence of 'a physician other than the physician performing or inducing the abortion who shall take control of and provide immediate medical care for any child born alive as a result of the abortion.'" [Chicago Tribune, 8/17/04]

Please I know this is just a small sample of the matter but if you would for me go check out the facts on this one, because I know how important this is to you my readers. Thank you again Benae.



Currently listening :
True Lies: Music From The Motion Picture
By Brad Fiedel
Release date: 1994-07-19

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August 12, 2008 - Tuesday

2:30 PM - The Truth
Current mood: animated
Category: News and Politics

I know it has been awhile since I have posted a blog, I have been spending time reading blogs but my health has kept me from writing. I am losing the feeling in my right hand and some days it hurts badly. However today I must post this....

Friday, August 8, 2008
By: Sam Holguin

Black youths called 'a violent bunch,' 'troublemakers'

On August 1, Judge J.P. Mauffray Jr. was removed from the Jena 6 trial due to his highly biased remarks about the defendants.


Mauffray revealed his racist inclinations by calling the six Black youths "a violent bunch" and "real troublemakers." Judge Thomas M. Yeager, who pulled Mauffray off the case, wrote, "The right to a fair and impartial judge is of particular importance in the present cases.
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Mauffray's rulings against the six Black youth charged with felonies over a school scuffle were so racist they were three times overturned. A Louisiana appeals court ruled that Mychal Bell had to be tried as a juvenile and not as an adult as Mauffray had intended. Yeager previously prevented Mauffray from closing the Jena 6 proceedings to the public and media.


Despite the overturns, Mauffray has presided over nothing less than the legal lynching of the Jena 6. He let the six be put on trial for murder-related charges over what amounted to a school fight. He set bails between $70,000 and $138,000 for the six youths—unaffordable sums to their families of modest incomes—keeping the defendants in jail for months.


Victims of hate crimes put on trial

The events that led up to the Jena 6 trial exposes the deep-rooted racism that still prevails in the South.


In September 2006, a Black high school student was given permission by the school principal to sit under a tree where only white students usually congregated. The following day, three nooses were hanging from the "white tree.
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The three white students responsible for this racist act of terror were slapped on the wrist—they were suspended from school for three days. The school's white superintendent explained, "Adolescents play pranks. I don't think it was a threat against anybody.
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On Dec. 1, 2006, a few weeks after the nooses were hung from the tree, Black student Robert Bailey attended an all-white party by invitation. He was attacked and beaten by a crowd, which included Matt Windham and Justin Barker. Police arrived and told Bailey and his friends to "get back to their side of town.
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The next day, Bailey ran into Windham at a convenience store. Words were exchanged, and Windham pulled out a sawed-off shotgun. Bailey and other Black men with him successfully wrestled the gun from Windham's hands and fled the scene. Windham was not arrested.


A couple of days later, Barker was on campus openly defending the white students who had hung the nooses, using the word "n****r" freely. In response, several Black students roughed up Barker, who was taken to the hospital and released the same day.


The Jena police did not proceed to arrest Windham, who assaulted Bailey with a gun. Nor were the students who hung the nooses ever charged with hate crimes for their racist act of intimidation. Rather, the police and the courts set out to persecute the six Black youth involved in the school fight.


Racist judge Mauffray's removal from the case is a positive development but does not undo the racism built into this case. The fact the Jena 6 continue to be on trial attests to this.


Furthermore, the removal of one racist judge does not address the continued systematic criminalization of African American communities throughout the country. The case of the Jena 6 is only a stark example of the racism embedded in the justice system, from the police to the courts, not only in the South but across the country.


Revolutionaries and progressives should continue to champion the case while building the movement that will challenge the racist character of the justice system.
Free the Jena 6!

http://www. pslweb. org/site/News2?JServSessionIdr011=3ngcxvw4w1. app5b&page=NewsArticle&id=9672&news_iv_ctrl=1261


Several months ago one of the top ten bloggers wrote a blog about the Jena 6 but she left out the part about the noose, needless to say that made me angry because her blog was wrote in a way as to anger her white readers, adding fuel and causing racist comments. I feel that we as bloggers have a responsabillty to our readers to provide not only the facts but we must be careful as to not cause harm. I belive thats just what she did, I wish race was not a issue in America sadly it is! For some strange reason if I or anyone attemps to discuss race relations and share our experience's with racism we are called playing the victim. I find this disheartening, how can this great country move past this dark time in our history if we cannot talk about such a shameful period and not be made to feel a shame?

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May 16, 2008 - Friday

7:30 AM - What is wrong with being typical ?
Current mood: amused
Category: News and Politics

 Its His Grandmother, I am sure if she had a problem with what he said then she could whip his skinny black behind lol.



typ·i·cal Listen to the pronunciation of typical
Pronunciation:
..ˈti-pi-kəl..
Function:
adjective
Etymology:
Late Latin typicalis, from typicus, from Greek typikos, from typos model — more at type
Date:
1609
1: constituting or having the nature of a type : symbolic2 a: combining or exhibiting the essential characteristics of a group <typical suburban houses> b: conforming to a type typical of the species>


typ·i·cal
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adj.
1. Exhibiting the qualities, traits, or characteristics that identify a kind, class, group, or category: a typical suburban community.
2. Of or relating to a representative specimen; characteristic or distinctive.
3. Conforming to a type: a composition typical of the baroque period.
4. also typ·ic (-k) Of the nature of, constituting, or serving as a type; emblematic.


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May 13, 2008 - Tuesday

2:33 PM - Christianity a religion of hate.
Current mood: awake
Category: News and Politics


 "Why is this man in the White House? The majority of Americans did not vote for him. Why is he there? And I tell you this morning that he's in the White House because God put him there for a time such as this": Lt Gen William Boykin, speaking of G. W. Bush, New York Times, 17 October 2003

Number Of Iraqis Slaughtered Since The U.S. Invaded Iraq "1,206,950"
Number of U.S. Military Personnel Sacrificed (Officially acknowledged) In America'sWar On Iraq 4,076

Iraqi Prisoners Being Beaten In Jail In Karbala

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 "God gave the savior to the German people. We have faith, deep and unshakeable faith, that he was sent to us by God to save Germany." Hermann Goering, speaking of Hitler!

 
"A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side": Aristotle

 John Hagee

Christian Zionists -- Christian evangelicals who avow support of Israel based on a belief in Biblical end-times scenarios -- are whipping their followers into a fervor in favor of an attack on Iran. In a related development, conservative commentators like former House Speaker Newt Gingrich have been beating the drum for a US attack on Iran, characterizing the current conflict in Lebanon as the start of "World War Three."
 Religious right groups typically support aggressive foreign policies because of their identification with the Republican Party and their interest in missionizing where the US intervenes. But CUFI, which recently brought 3,500 citizen-lobbyists to Washington, is advocating confrontation with Iran based on "cherry-picked" Biblical interpretations.
Sarah Posner, who reports on Hagee for the American Prospect, writes that, "[b]ased on his end-times prophecy, a supposed love of the Jewish people and the state of Israel, and false claims that Iran is just months away from a viable nuclear weapon, Hagee maintains that confrontation with Iran is necessary to fulfill God's plan for the future of the world."

 Pat Robertson

 
"I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you, This is not a message of hate -- this is a message of redemption. But a condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs; it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor." –Pat Robertson, on "gay days" at Disneyworld.

"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians." –Pat Robertson.

  "Maybe we need a very small nuke thrown off on Foggy Bottom to shake things up" –Pat Robertson, on nuking the State Department.

"You know, I don't know about this doctrine of assassination, but if he thinks we're trying to assassinate him, I think that we really ought to go ahead and do it. It's a whole lot cheaper than starting a war ... We have the ability to take him out, and I think the time has come that we exercise that ability. We don't need another $200 billion war to get rid of one, you know, strong-arm dictator. It's a whole lot easier to have some of the covert operatives do the job and then get it over with." –Pat Robertson, calling for the assassination of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez.

Patrick Buchanan

Our culture is superior. Our culture is superior because our religion is Christianity and that is the truth that makes men free. [US Presidential candidate Pat Buchanan, speech to the Christian Coalition, Sept. 1993, as reported in ADL Report, 1994]



What Geraldine Ferraro said is palpably true, and everyone knows it.

Was the fact that Barack is black irrelevant to the party's decision to give a state senator the keynote address at the 2004 convention? Did Barack's being African-American have nothing to do with his running up 91 percent of the black vote in Mississippi on Tuesday?

Did Barack's being black have nothing to do with the decision of civil rights legend John Lewis to dump Hillary and endorse him, though Lewis talks of how his constituents do not want to lose this first great opportunity to have an African-American president?

Can political analysts explain why Barack will sweep Philly in the Pennsylvania primary, though Hillary has the backing of the African-American mayor and Gov. Ed Rendell, without referring to Barack's ethnic appeal to black voters?

What else explains why the mainstream media are going so ga-ga over Obama they are being satirized on "Saturday Night Live"?

Barack Obama has a chance of being the first black president. And holding out that special hope has been crucial to his candidacy. To deny this is self-delusion -- or deceit.






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May 6, 2008 - Tuesday

2:30 PM - Romans 1:26-27
Current mood: confident
Category: Religion and Philosophy

Romans 1:26-27 (New International Version)

   

 26Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.


I think we should see what Paul was talking about by looking at the whole book of Romans, it is my understanding this was written for the Romans and at that time Paul was addressing thier pagan belifes.


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1 2 Paul, a slave of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle and set apart for the gospel of God,
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which he promised previously through his prophets in the holy scriptures,
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3 the gospel about his Son, descended from David according to the flesh,
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but established as Son of God in power according to the spirit of holiness through resurrection from the dead, Jesus Christ our Lord.
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4 Through him we have received the grace of apostleship, to bring about the obedience of faith, for the sake of his name, among all the Gentiles,
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among whom are you also, who are called to belong to Jesus Christ;
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to all the beloved of God in Rome, called to be holy. 5 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.
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First, I give thanks 6 to my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is heralded throughout the world.
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God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in proclaiming the gospel of his Son, that I remember you constantly,
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7 always asking in my prayers that somehow by God's will I may at last find my way clear to come to you.
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For I long to see you, that I may share with you some spiritual gift so that you may be strengthened,
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that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by one another's faith, yours and mine.
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I do not want you to be unaware, brothers, 8 that I often planned to come to you, though I was prevented until now, that I might harvest some fruit among you, too, as among the rest of the Gentiles.
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To Greeks 9 and non-Greeks alike, to the wise and the ignorant, I am under obligation;
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that is why I am eager to preach the gospel also to you in Rome.
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10 For I am not ashamed of the gospel. It is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: for Jew first, and then Greek.
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For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; 11 as it is written, "The one who is righteous by faith will live."
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12 The wrath 13 of God 14 is indeed being revealed from heaven against every impiety and wickedness of those who suppress the truth by their wickedness.
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For what can be known about God is evident to them, because God made it evident to them.
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Ever since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes of eternal power and divinity have been able to be understood and perceived in what he has made. As a result, they have no excuse;
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for although they knew God they did not accord him glory as God or give him thanks. Instead, they became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless minds were darkened.
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While claiming to be wise, they became fools
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and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for the likeness of an image of mortal man or of birds or of four-legged animals or of snakes.
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Therefore, God handed them over to impurity through the lusts of their hearts 15 for the mutual degradation of their bodies.
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They exchanged the truth of God for a lie and revered and worshiped the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever. Amen.
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Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Their females exchanged natural relations for unnatural,
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and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another. Males did shameful things with males and thus received in their own persons the due penalty for their perversity.
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And since they did not see fit to acknowledge God, God handed them over to their undiscerning mind to do what is improper.
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They are filled with every form of wickedness, evil, greed, and malice; full of envy, murder, rivalry, treachery, and spite. They are gossips
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and scandalmongers and they hate God. They are insolent, haughty, boastful, ingenious in their wickedness, and rebellious toward their parents.
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They are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
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Although they know the just decree of God that all who practice such things deserve death, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.
 Now in that context I think he means...

The complete passage describes how a group of Christians left the church, converted to Paganism, and engaged in orgiastic, presumably heterosexual sexual activities. This type of behavior was common among Pagan fertility religions in Rome during Paul's time. Paul writes that, later, God "gave them over" to something new: homosexual behavior. This implies that they had a heterosexual orientation and had engaged only in heterosexual sex throughout their lifetime. God influenced them in some way to engage in homosexual orgies. This was, for them, an unnatural, and thus sinful, activity.

Paul  criticized them because they were engaged in sexual activity which was unnatural for them. For a person with a heterosexual orientation, homosexual behavior is "shameful," "unnatural," "indecent," and a "perversion." The passage in Romans is not a condemnation of homosexual behavior. Rather, it disapproves of sexual behavior that is against a person's basic nature (i.e. homosexual behaviors by people whose orientation is heterosexual). 2

For the vast majority of adults, those who are heterosexual, it is indecent for them to engage in homosexual activities. One can interpret Paul's writing as stating that, for the small minority of humans who are homosexual, it would be indecent for them to engage in heterosexual activities. Any thoughts?


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