Clueless Emma

Carl Jung: Psychologist or Sorcerer?

If Burney's assertion is correct, and the human race isn't sinful, then the Bible is nothing more than myths and fables -- and Jesus was a nut job for declaring He was the Son of God who came into the world to die for the sins of all mankind. Jesus clearly taught that we are sinners, with a capital S, and "fall short of the glory of God." Sin was the reason Jesus went to the cross. His death was payment for mankind's sin debt. Thus He threw open the gates of heaven, and all who believe in Him will be reconciled to God. If it's true that we are merely "Spiritual Beings having a human experience" as Burney claims, the Son of God would have had no reason to leave His throne in heaven and come to Earth. Which is Burney's whole point! If we're not sinners, we have no need of a Savior! ~Marsha West

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Toby Keith and Trace Adkins in PNW--Countryfantabulistic!

Thanks to Moose's great tickets, I got waay up close to Toby and Trace--Moose even got a Toby knuckle bump! I was so excited, I forgot to take pictures and when I did, I forgot to quit jumping--hence the rather crooked, blurry images. I certainly got my "tall hawt country man fix" for at least a little while. The Oregonian does a good job of reviewing it, so I shall just offer my glorious memories:.

 

Ever Wish Life Had an Undo Button?

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Dept. of Justice Funding Luaus, Carnivals, and Film Festivals?

A review of recent activities sponsored by DOJ grantees identified luaus, a Mardi Gras party, block parties, a film festival, a carnival, skateboarding, dancing, fashion shows, and even a doughnut eating contest as among the recreational activities made possible with federal crime prevention funding.

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Waste in Washington? Say it ain't so!

Marsha West -- A subtle and dangerous shift in Christianity

A SUBTLE AND DANGEROUS SHIFT IN CHRISTIANITY

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The Bible does not teach that God’s people are to go into a self-induced altered-state of consciousness to commune with Him. Again, meditating day and night does not mean we are to look for the “God within,” as Eastern mystics and occultist do. For the Christian to be involved in any sort of pagan practice is strictly forbidden by God! This is because God opposes paganism's polytheism and blatant immorality. There is no getting around the fact that polytheism and immorality are the pagan way.

Michelle Malkin » Dealergate, social justice & the Obama job-killing machine; Update: The race factor

In sum, the inspector general found: “(A)t a time when the country was experiencing the worst economic downturn in generations and the government was asking its taxpayers to support a $787 billion stimulus package designed primarily to preserve jobs, Treasury made a series of decisions that may have substantially contributed to the accelerated shuttering of thousands of small businesses and thereby potentially adding tens of thousands of workers to the already lengthy unemployment rolls — all based on a theory and without sufficient consideration of the decisions’ broader economic impact.”

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Gunbattles paralyze Mexican city across from Texas - Yahoo! News

NUEVO LAREDO, Mexico – Late-night gunbattles with gangs who forced citizens from their cars and used the vehicles to block streets paralyzed a border city, sound of gunfire alarmed Texans on the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

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Morning Bell: The Obama Tax Tsunami is Here | The Foundry: Conservative Policy News.

The American people are already well aware of President Barack Obama’s historic expansion of government spending: his $862 billion economic stimulus that has completely failed to keep unemployment below 8% as promised; his still-expanding health care law which the Congressional Budget Office now admits will cost more than $1 trillion; and an Obama budget that increases government spending by $12,000 per household. But all that spending is just the first half of President Obama’s game plan.

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10 Common Errors “Spell Check” Won’t Catch

While we can rely on a spell checker to catch glaring errors, a computer can’t pick up on all careless mistakes, especially if the word could be correct in a different context. Often word misuse is our mistake. The English language is full of homonyms, or words that have different meanings but sound and look similar, which makes it easy to confuse proper usage. For instance, verbally, you might not even notice the difference between “your” and “you’re.” But in print, the error can lead the reader to perceive you as less intelligent than you are. For this reason, it's important to spell check and proofread your documents, especially for the following common misuses, which are so easy to make, you might even have to check your document a couple times to catch them.

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Please~ read and follow!!

» NAACP: ‘Useful Idiots’ of Liberal Racism

Liberal Racism does not believe in One Nation under God. They believe in a Nation of subjects organized into collective groups under which they shall rule, not govern, in a secular humanist based society.

Indivisible, Liberal Racism does not believe in “e pluribus unim”, they prefer a balkanized America where they can pit us against each other through their manipulated messages….such as Tea Party racism.

Liberal racism does not believe in Liberty and Justice for All, they believe in freedom defined by a ruling class elite while creating more victims who become dependent upon their dishonest benevolence. Justice in the world of Liberal Racism means social and economic justice rooted in a principle of leveling, which founding father Samuel Adams spoke against. Al Sharpton defined justice as everyone having the same in every home in America…..government engineering of results and outcomes.

The mid-term elections of 2 November 2010 comes down to “One Nation under God Indivisible with Liberty and Justice for All” or the concept of One Nation under the proprietor of victimization Al Sharpton, a simpleton crony of Liberal Racism. Which shall you choose?

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Confirmed: Obama authorizes assassination of U.S. citizen

Today, both The New York Times and The Washington Post confirm that the Obama White House has now expressly authorized the CIA to kill al-Alwaki no matter where he is found, no matter his distance from a battlefield.  I wrote at length about the extreme dangers and lawlessness of allowing the Executive Branch the power to murder U.S. citizens far away from a battlefield (i.e., while they're sleeping, at home, with their children, etc.) and with no due process of any kind.  I won't repeat those arguments -- they're here and here -- but I do want to highlight how unbelievably Orwellian and tyrannical this is in light of these new articles today.

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Townhall - Frank Gaffney - Kagan's Shariah Problem - Page 2

Kagan's association with and enabling of Shariah is flatly at odds with the Constitution's stipulation that it is the supreme law of the land.  If she thinks otherwise - or is willing to jeopardize our freedoms by helping a toxic rival legal code to take hold here - we better know it now, not after she gets on the Supreme Court for the rest of her life.

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Volunteer loyal to tending Minto-Brown park

When most of Salem is rolling over and hitting the snooze button, Floyd Roe is hitting the trail at Minto-Brown Island Park.

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For the Detective

Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014

All Americans, by 2014 will be required to have an individual obesity rating electronically recorded. It has been determined that under the new health stimulus law passed by President Barack Obama recently, that all Americans, by 2014, will be required to have electronic health records which will include their height, weight and body mass index (BMI).

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Really????

Government Wants Your Individual Obesity Rating By 2014

All Americans, by 2014 will be required to have an individual obesity rating electronically recorded. It has been determined that under the new health stimulus law passed by President Barack Obama recently, that all Americans, by 2014, will be required to have electronic health records which will include their height, weight and body mass index (BMI).

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Really????

5 Signs Sharia Law Is Coming to a Town Near You | NewsReal Blog

It was primarily Christians who sought freedom of worship by coming to the New World, but since then America has flourished with just about every hybrid of religion you can imagine. And we manage to get along pretty well. Of course we must ‘endure’ overly nice people with tracts and flowers or those who woo you with green Jell-O. But bottom line, if we don’t like it, we ignore it, we shut the door, we abstain. It’s our right as Americans because we’re free to worship…or not.

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EVERYONE MUST READ THIS!

Progress: Schools Teaching Your 10-Year-Old Child About Anal Sex | NewsReal Blog

Funny, but I always thought that schools should focus on teaching our children subjects like reading, writing and math. Not so, evidently! That’s for fuddy-duddy, old school philistines. Nowadays, with those things called Progress and hopeandchange ™, our children are being taught about oral and anal sex and “fisting.” Often under the guise of abstinence programs and without the consent, or even the knowledge of, their parents.

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Insidious and hideous. And the teachers who disagree will be forced to teach this evil anyway.

Morning Bell: Cap and Ban

Taking the full cost of wind and other renewables into account, the Heritage Foundation’s Center for Data Analysis has found that an RES would: 1) raise electricity prices by 36 percent for households and 60 percent for industry; 2) cut national income (GDP) by $5.2 trillion between 2012 and 2035; 3) cut national income by $2,400 per year for a family of four; 4) reduce employment by more than 1,000,000 jobs; and 5) add more than $10,000 to a family of four’s share of the national debt by 2035.

And that is just the “cap” half of President Obama’s Cap and Ban approach. The first Obama oil drilling ban already caused some oil rigs to leave U.S. waters entirely.

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Oregon is top state for teachers union political influence in 2008 (and now, I'm sure)

The state Republican party spokesman said the teachers' big-dollar contributions to campaigns pay off for them. "Teachers contribute a disproportionate amount of money in the political process in Oregon... It's out of line with other groups and citizens in Oregon. As a result, teachers have a policy grip on legislation and other kinds of administrative decisions at the state level."

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Not shocking.

Tea Party Preempts 'Racist' Resolution, Condemns 'Bigoted' NAACP

"When you look at the crime and poverty and family breakdown of the African-American community ... you see a half-century of failure by the NAACP," he wrote. "None of those persistent problems was caused by the Tea Party movement, yet the principles of the Tea Party are exactly what's needed to wind down the multi-generational destruction in the African-American community. 

"The NAACP was once a vital weapon in the war against segregation and oppression. All that's left is a bigoted and malicious shell that does far more harm than good for people who need a break,

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Is he the wrong man for you?

Trust your gut feelings about the men you date. If someone exhibits actions or behaviors that just don’t sit right with you, politely say, “It was nice meeting you” and leave. You might disappoint your date, you might get frustrated, but if you don’t walk away when you first get that feeling… you start making excuses. Then that second date turns into a third and a fourth. Suddenly, out of boredom or trying to be polite, you find that you’re dating the wrong guy.

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Ha! Coincidence this is the leading article on Yahoo, so that I have to see it every time I check mail? I think they were watching me...

Majority of Americans lack faith in Obama

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly 60 percent of American voters say they lack faith in President Barack Obama, according to a public opinion poll published on Tuesday.

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Historian Newt Gingrich Gives the Washington Post a Much-Needed History Lesson | NewsReal Blog

The Declaration does not assert that our rights come from a contract with one another. The Declaration explicitly affirms that our rights come from our Creator and are unalienable. Ironically, the article stated precisely the historic falsehood that is the basis of the modern judicial effort to create a secular America. This secular interpretation is simply historically false, and the facts are profoundly different.

This distinction is at the heart of Abraham Lincoln’s emphasis on the Declaration of Independence in arguing against slavery. If our rights come from God then sovereignty is personal and we the people lend power to the government. That is the most radical recentering of power in human history. It is the heart of American exceptionalism.

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New York City: More Blacks are Aborted than Born | NewsReal Blog

Racist eugenicist and Planned Parenthood Founder Margaret Sanger would be so proud: According to the city Health Department, 2008 saw 89,469 abortions performed in New York City — seven for every 10 live births. Among black women, abortions out number live births by three to two.

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Auschwitz – the Sequel: The Genocidal Nature of Islamo-Fascism | NewsReal Blog

We are at war. We are faced with a choice, now –today- between a life of freedom, or a life under Sharia. Information is the crucial element of the fight in its present stage. Clear ideas, devoid of pleasant self-excusing delusions, will cause effective action, particularly on America’s campuses and in the blogsphere. Every informed faculty member, student, and blogger can be an equal and opposite civilizing force pushing back against the barbarian force of Sharia.

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Fingerprints Now Required At Poway Skate Park - San Diego News Story - KGTV San Diego

After 6 p.m., however, a fingerprint scan will be required in order to enter the skate park. Skaters will have to register their fingerprints and have a photo taken in advance

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Wow. We can't even bring in drug dogs into our school.

Michelle Malkin » Whitewashing black racism; Shabazz: “Prepare for war”

My column today blasts the MSM for its silence over the black racial demagogues of the New Black Panther Party and its ilk.

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“I’m about the total destruction of white people. I’m about the total liberation of black people. I hate white people. I hate my enemy… The only thing the cracker understands is violence… The only thing the cracker understands is gunpowder. You got to take violence to violence.”

Racial, Gender Quotas in the Financial Bill? : New Patriot Journal

Section 342, which declares that race and gender employment ratios, if not quotas, must be observed by private financial institutions that do business with the government. In a major power grab, the new law inserts race and gender quotas into America's financial industry.

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Advice for the single ladies

I find this wisdom especially imperative to share after thoroughly enjoying a home-brewed ale.

Do not date a man who:

1) smokes, even if he says he's trying to quit. Well, unless you smoke, too. Mostly it's irritating to be left alone in restaurants and bars during smoke breaks. Who even smokes anymore in Oregon? And how many families do you know who all smoke? Try going out with them--they all end up outside, standing together socializing while you sit inside waiting alone. It's enough to make you take up the habit just so you can converse a little. You might as well--when they insist you join them so you don't feel left out, you'll end up stinking anyway.

2) says he is going to lose weight and get into shape. He most likely will not. Ok, we know he won't. He is in complete denial that he needs to lose 50 lbs. Those once-a-year uniform slacks have not shrunk, and the Starbucks lattes are not helping (but don't say anything or you will be accused of having negative thoughts! Yes, we know we get accused of that anyway, no matter what we say or do. Still. Don't point out the 5 bazillion fat calories. Trust me on this.) 

3) has a gambling addiction. Well, DUUUH. But he is cute with dimples when he smiles, and we want to think he is honest when he says he is "cured." Do not believe it. Hide your money.

4) acts more like a woman when communicating--ie--"I was so hurt when you didn't read the entire 5 page article I sent you last week, even though I didn't say I wanted you to read it. You don't care about me!" [[[Shudder]]] Trust me on this one. I think I just dated myself in a former, less self-aware life. Truly frightening.

5) is incapable of being alone and runs to stay with his adult kids or friends every single weekend if you can't be with him. And sometimes when you can. It is weird. Kids grow up and move away to start their own lives. Sleeping on their couches, especially when they have started their own immoral lives too early, living in sin at 21 with babies out of wedlock, encircled by cigarette smoke, is just....weird and not the life we want. And don't say anything. (See #2.)

6) It was always someone else's fault in his past, and it's yours when you are around. And also when you're not. And even when you exemplify what any other man would be thrilled to find in a woman. He is simply incapable of giving of himself. And remember--he is your bitchy past self. You'll never measure up. Set him free to criticize and whine about another woman. You really do not need this.

And, God forbid, if you find the man who personifies all these issues, I'm sure he will be quite polite. The only problem is you may prefer sincerity. 

Immigration is Abandoned, Not Broken | NewsReal Blog

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Constituting America » Blog Archive » July 8, 2010 – Federalist No. 52 – The House of Representatives, From the New York Packet (Madison or Hamilton) – Guest Blogger: Charles K. Rowley, Ph.D., Duncan Black Professor of Economics at George Mason Un

Let me commence this discussion with an important caveat.  There are two ways in which to evaluate the contributions of the Founding Fathers in drafting and pursuing the ratification of the various Articles and Sections of the United States Constitution.  The first way is by reference to the circumstances of the emerging nation and the knowledge available to the Founders.  The second way is by reference to the circumstances of our time and the accumulated knowledge that is now available.  I shall focus primarily on the first way, given the exigencies of space.

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Green religion movement hopes spill wins converts - Yahoo! News

NEW ORLEANS – Where would Jesus drill?

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Hmmm...I don't remember the Great Commission being anything like "Go ye therefore, and guard all beaches, protecting the trees , Teachingthem to observe all things natural and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen."