Okie Has the Sound!

Go to Okie's site and click on the Youtube link he has provided. - Then just listen to that deep throated rumble - Hmmmmm - That is real music! For a guy anyway...

http://www.okieonthelam.com/?p=1462

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Praying for Peace

A few days back Quantum Thought sent me on a journey that introduced me to someone on his blogroll. Someone who has been Norm's friend for quite a while from what I gather. I'm pleased to say he is now a friend of mine and I would like to share this post he presented to the world on July 18, 06 - What follows is verbatim cut and paste from Bill's Comments:

Tuesday, July 18, 2006
Sunday Notes--07/16/2006
Praying for Peace
Every Sunday part of the general prayers is a prayer for peace in the world and a cessation of war. This is a desirable state of affairs, but coupled with the prayer seems to be an attitude that simply stopping the fighting is a solution and that it will create peace.

I have a sense that most mainline protestant religions have been hijacked by a pacifistic attitude, that simply not fighting is a good in itself. They have gotten the wrong message from the gospel, elevating turning the other cheek to abject surrender, and sweeping Jesus cleansing the temple and saying he came to split brother from brother, etc., under the rug. In effect, what should be the bastion of unbending morality and rectitude, the church, has become a resting place for moral equivalencing and a sloppy "We are all brothers" [despite the fact that my "brother" will behead me or put me in servitude.]

What we should be praying for is VICTORY. A total conquest over the forces of Islamic Jihad. Praying for peace is a way of avoiding making the very moral judgments that are required, because the shape of the peace being prayed for is never explicitly defined, as if it were self-evident. If the world is saved from Islamic Jihad, it will be the fundamentalists and the Baptists who will do the job. Despite my various disagreements with their version of Christianity, they have one great strength--they make moral judgments unapologetically, and that is what is sorely needed here.

I would like to add to what Bill has stated with a bit of what a friend from a men's fellowship group I attend said today. -

"Mike", who was born and raised in Beirut, talked about what it will really take to end hostility. Mike claimed it will take the Gospel (Good news) of Jesus Christ and His ability to change men's hearts.

As Bill said, prayer will be needed, but with it the power of God to change men's hearts will have to be thrown into the mix. This goes beyond the physical use of force and the fight will have to be carried on in the spiritual realm. Military hardware will not end the hostilities.

Why is it the fanatical Muslims stand against anyone being converted and use the threat of death to keep people in fear of even hearing the gospel? Those Imams with any knowledge of Christianity know it is much more inviting than the teachings of Islam. To allow the people under them to even look at Christianity would undermine their power. So they take the commandment, "Thou shalt not kill" and change it to "Thou shalt not kill unless we give you the ok and we do!"

It is nothing more than men's desire to keep for themselves the power that belongs to the Living God. The only thing that can counter it is prayer and the Word of the Living God.

At this point I challenge any Muslims reading this to check out What Jesus said to his disciples on the last night of his sojourn here on earth. At the Last Supper the Apostle John recorded Jesus' word and put them into writing. Please click here and check out John Chapters 14 through 17. (Arabic) - If you sincerely want to seek the truth then please ask God to show you if these words are true! - (If you prefer English click here)

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Liberals Outraged! Terrorist Plot Foiled!

21 suspects have been arrested by British Police in a plot to destroy passenger jets flying between the United Kingdom and the United States. The plot involved carrying on liquid explosives made to appear as beverages and other common products and simple electronic devices as detonators.

All U.S. and British airports are banning passengers from taking ANY liquids onto planes.

More suspects may still be on the loose.

I managed to collect a few comments and observations concerning this news event:

"They were trying to help the environment", said Crystal Claire Waters of the Hug A Prickley Pine Endowment (HAPPE). "Those things polute the air and make it hard for trees to breath."

Forrest Green Agreed 100% with Crystal and anxiously added, "Don't forget the contrails! They are secretly poisoning the atmosphere with stuff that makes anyone who breathes air stupid!

Ileane Left was overheard at a foil hat botique to say, "Did they tap their phones? I bet they did! It is so unfair to tap peoples phones without telling them!"

Jay Walker who was helping her pick out the right shade of silver foil hat shouted, "Anarchy!" three times and then fell to the floor crying and mumbling about the wires in his head.

I called Francis Useless of the "Hate Bush Because He Exists Foundation" to get his take on the terrorists arrest. He had a prepared statement:

"President Bush is at fault here. We will show how the dots are connected as soon as we figure it out."

I understand that more quotes are out there and invite any readers to add them through the comments. I have to go to work...

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Another VA Computer Gone Missing

You may remember the May 3rd theft of a laptop from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs employee. - Jesus Alex Pineda, 19, and Christian Brian Montano, 19, of Rockville, Maryland, were charged with burglary and theft and Montano received an additional charge of conspiracy to commit burglary and theft. They apparently did not know what they were stealing when they broke into the home and at least five other burglaries in the neighborhood might have been linked to these alleged hooligans.

A juvenile may also have been involved. His name wasn't released because of his age. (I wonder why they did not release the parents names?)

Quite a HooDoo a few months back that had quite a few feds running around the neighborhood which I'm sure made Jesus and Christian very uncomfortable.
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This time it is a desktop computer stolen from the Reston, Virginia offices of Unysis a contractor for the VA.

The computer had veterans' names, addresses, Social Security numbers and birth dates, as well as insurance carriers, billing information and details of military service.

Affected are 5,000 patients of a Philadelphia VA Medical Center, about 11,000 from Pittsburgh, Pa., and about 2,000 deceased patients and perhaps as much as 20,000 more.

Unisys is fully cooperating with the investigation. The building was a fairly secure facility and the computer needed a password to boot up and another to access the files.

Unisys spokesperson Lisa Meyer said in a prepared statement."Unisys will be working with VA regarding the notification of potentially affected veterans and the offering of credit monitoring. The company will continue to work with the VA and law enforcement to address this incident..."

Hopefully it will be found out that some innocent tech took the machine to his dungeon workshop to switch out the video card. In the meantime if you are a vet in the PA area that has been to VA hospitals you might want to call 'em up and make sure your name is not on the list. And watch your bank/credit info.

For more on this story - Click here -

Keep up to speed on Fraud, Phishing and Financial Misdeeds! who posted on this story here.

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Castro Is Not Hiding - He's At Worth1000.com

Worth100.com had a "Where's Castro" contest. Some of the photo entries are real knee slappers - You might want to bookmark the site. Looks like a fun place to cruise on a Saturday afternoon.

For you Photoshop enthusiasts you might want to join some of their current contests.


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Click here to see the entries

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A Challenge to Lefties!

Clicking on the link below will allow you to download a 15 mb Trailer for a movie whose synopsis follows the link

Obsession (trailer)

Obsession is a film about the threat of Radical Islam to Western civilization. Using footage from Arab television, it reveals an 'insider's view' of the hatred the Radicals are teaching, their incitement of global jihad, and their goal of world domination. The film also traces the parallels between the Nazi movement of WWII, the Radicals of today, and the Western world's response to both threats. Featuring interviews with Sir Martin Gilbert, Professor Robert Wistrich, Dr. Khaleel Mohammed, a former PLO terrorist, and a former Hitler Youth Commander.

Here is the challenge - Watch the clip and then come back here and tell the world why and how we should try to reason with these people.

I look forward to your comments...

More anti terrorism clips available here.

Hat tip to AubreyJ for the website address.


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