Evil Spammers

Due to the evil spammers, I have had to take out my "Email Me!" link.

You will need to leave a comment instead, and I'll try to check in for them on occasion.

Sorry for this inconvenience......
c~b~n

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11 Things Students Will NOT Learn In School

by Charles J. Sykes
from his book, "Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves But Can't Read, Write, Or Add."

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Rule 1: Life is NOT fair~get used to it!

Rule 2: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4: IF you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a BOSS.

Rule 5: Flipping burgers is NOT beneath your dignity. Your grandparents had a different word for burger flipping~~they called it OPPORTUNITY.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about YOUR mistakes. Learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes, and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you "save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation", try de-lousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with WINNERS and LOSERS, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as many times as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING IN REAL LIFE.

Rule 9: Life is not divide into semester's. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you "Find Yourself". Do that on your own time.

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working FOR one.

Rule 12: Smoking does not make you look cool. It makes you look moronic. Next time you're out cruising, watch an 11-year-old with a butt in his mouth. That's what you look like to anyone over 20. Ditto for "expressing yourself" with purple hair and/or pierced body parts.

Rule 13: You are not immortal. (See Rule No. 12.) If you are under the impression that living fast, dying young and leaving a beautiful corpse is romantic, you obviously haven't seen one of your peers at room temperature lately.

Rule 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

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Rewarding Lawbreakers: Why Amnesty Won't Work

from Agape Press
by Bill Fancher

While President Bush continues to push for a "guest worker" program for illegal immigrants, analysts warn it could result in an economic crisis.

Critics of the president's proposals for immigration reform continue to call it an "amnesty" that rewards those who break U.S. law.

James Boulet of English First agrees with participants in recent pro-immigration demonstrations who claimed Christopher Columbus did not have a green card when he came to America.

"True enough," says Boulet. "But when Columbus arrived, the Indians didn't have a welfare state either.

Illegal immigrants are not somehow immune to the pull of the American welfare state -- they're simply legally excluded from it." {Not once a child is born on American soil....at least in Texas! They then qualify for EVERY program out there and believe me with their third world attitudes they KNOW how to work the system.

"Latest statistics indicate that one out of every three Hispanic births in the United States are to illegal immigrants. According to U.S. law, those babies automatically become American citizens. Phil Kent of the American Immigration Control Foundation says many illegal Hispanic women cross into the U.S. just to give birth so their children will be citizens and become eligible for governmental assistance programs." from Agape Press }

The English First spokesman expects that will change once "amnesty" is granted. "Once illegal aliens receive amnesty or become guest workers, they would become immediately eligible for many billions in taxpayer-funded benefits," he says.

"[We can] expect their vaunted work ethic to vanish once the first welfare check arrives -- and America will realize it has imported a brand new underclass."

And the cost of that new underclass, says Boulet, will be staggering -- both financially and politically.

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It means American born citizens do with LESS; less money, less benefits, less security, less respect from the greedy usurpers who think they are entitled to it because they are poor people from a poor country and all those rich Americans can just pay for them to live here.

Think this is too critical, then come on down and live on a border state and experience it for yourself.

Because they do have an air of entitlement; rather than being greatful or appreciative.

It is time to take care of our own citizens first. Too many live at the poverty level because of minimum wages; too many have NO health insurance; too many must work 2 or more jobs just to be able to pay the bills.

Remember: Charity begins at home America.

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Campus Leaders Squelching Free Speech

from Agape Press
by Jim Brown

A conservative columnist has announced the latest winner of an annual mock award conferred upon "the university president who does the most to look the other way when free speech is under assault on campus." U.S. News & World Report columnist John Leo has declared a tie in this year's Sheldon Award competition.

The top prize in 2006 goes to Washington State University president Lane Rawlins, who financed and organized an attempt to shut down a student play, and who also threatened to expel a student from the school's teacher education program because of his conservative religious and political views. However, Rawlins must share the honor with the other award winner this year, DePaul University president Thomas Holtschneider.

This top "honor" was conferred upon Holschneider for, among other things, having censored a campus protest against affirmative action and having suspended a teacher without a hearing for debating pro-Palestinian students on campus. Leo calls Rawlins and Holtschneider "the Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig of Sheldonism" this year.

The dubious award is named after former University of Pennsylvania president Sheldon Hackney, who did nothing about a major theft of student newspapers on his campus. In that incident, Leo points out, "minority students got so angry at an editorial in their paper [that] they stole 15,000 copies, and Hackney let them go, but he reprimanded the guard who caught them. I thought that was an amazing touch."

Now, the U.S. News & World Report editorialist notes, "every time a university president exceeds all boundaries by allowing unconstitutional speech codes or theft of newspapers, I give an annual award -- a mock honor -- to the failing university president."

According to Leo, the conservative viewpoint is nearly always the one that gets punished, censored, or silenced on campuses across the U.S. "Every year," he says, "I look for liberal and moderate victims of this, and they're very hard to find because, as you probably know, the university has been taken over by the 60s radicals, and they don't like dissent on the right."

Both of the latest Sheldon Award "winners" have repeatedly attempted to censor the expression of conservative students, Leo asserts, and both have failed to stand up for the constitutional rights of members of their campus communities. For that reason, he contends, both Holtschneider and Rawlins are equally worthy of the award for this year's most "spineless" university president.

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This is why I no longer support the main stream universities or public educational institutions.

I am an advocate of Christian schooling for all age groups. I also believe in the SBA calling our children out of the public schools. I don't want to see their "lights" extinguished by non-believers. It is foolish to think a 5 year old can stand up to an educator who advocates homosexuality, liberalism, anti-God and anti-Christian beliefs; much less an older student. Even God gave his prophets time to mature and grow in His wisdom before sending these MEN out into the world....MEN, not children.

The public school system just doesn't work any longer. They are becoming the holding cells for future inmates of the correctional facilities around this nation.

And too many teachers feel threatened while on the job. This is RIDICULOUS. An educator should not have to feel as if they are going into combat to teach school.

But mention God, Jesus, Christian principals and you can be sued.

You know, they can have their public schools. As for me and mine we will support the Christian institutions that do show a better way and provide a better education.

We also support the parents right to choose the school they want their children in....which means their tax money goes to the school they support!

sign me a Christian radical
c~b~n

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The dumbing down of America

Author: Americans Are Losing Their Critical Thinking Ability

from Agape Press
by Mary Rettig

An author and editor for the National Post in Canada says Americans are losing the ability to think critically, a problem he relates to the lack of objective reporting in the media.

Michael LeGault is the author of Th!nk: Why Crucial Decisions Can't Be Made in the Blink of an Eye (Threshold Editions, 2006). He says his book discusses why the premise behind Blink: the Power of Thinking Without Thinking, a best-selling book by Malcolm Gladwell, does not work.

Gladwell's Blink extols and even advocates "gut reactions" and snap judgments. But LeGault feels this is poor approach for reasoning minds, and he is concerned that increasing numbers of people in America seem to be moving away from thoughtful, critical decision-making, and turning instead to their emotions. {Be interesting to see the correlation to crime statistics as well....since so many are committed in the "hot" moment of passion or "gut reactions"!}

"The result of this has been, ultimately, that more and more people rely on received knowledge," LeGault says. They take their information and conclusions "from news media primarily," he asserts, or in any case, "from other people, rather than doing thinking on their own or asking questions -- hard questions." {Just lazy; inept; stupid?}

The author of Th!nk says this reliance on media for more and more information has caused the facts to be increasingly filtered through various biases. "Behind each one of these as it's presented in the media," he contends, "are other information and other sides to the story that are often not presented, and our general tendency is to believe these wholesale, without question."

Also, LeGault notes, this phenomenon has resulted in what he calls a "greatest hits" mentality, where news media outlets exploit hot-button issues in an effort to increase their ratings and bring in advertising dollars. As a result, he suggests, the public has come to rely on pithy pundits and appeals to passion instead of real, objective information.

Americans are buying into all kinds of media hype, LeGault asserts, because many {Ha! I'd say MOST} have lost the ability to think critically, weighing information
and separating opinion and
propaganda from actual facts.

He says this is why so many people tend to believe unfounded claims such as global warming theories or the idea that the Earth is running out of oil.

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Americans have become stupid. Shocking? Too bad. It's true. They don't think for themselves any longer.....the sheeple (sheep + people) syndrome.

They are too busy numbing themselves with the banalities of the tv sitcom or the movie of the week.

They no longer read. Beginning to think that most don't know how to read anymore.

They swallow hook, line and sinker the "news" offered by "commercial" television, which has been nothing but liberal slanted propaganda for years now.

They swallow all information from our own government without QUESTIONING it.

Prime example: THE PATRIOT ACT. Which is destroying the Constitution of the United States. Or go read some executive orders from recent years. That ought to scare you to death. But you WON'T. That might mean missing the next episode of "American Idol" or "Survivor" or "Joey"--pick your own numbing anesthesia.

You kill the constitution, you have no "guaranteed" freedoms. You have a despotic government. In essence, you have become the modern day USSR.

Maybe YOU don't care that this is happening....fine; just reinforces my belief that Americans have become stupid over the years.

But those of us who do care, do not wish to see our country DESTROYED from within.

Sadly, I believe it is already too late.

sign me.....a retired educator who couldn't beat the liberal public school system
c~b~n

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Insurance

I have always stated that "insurance companies" are just legalized loan sharks.....you pay and you pay and you pay and you pay, and when you need them to pay, they deny and deny and deny and deny.... and the result: YOU DIE.

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Study Shows Low Competition Among Health Insurers Is Costing Patients
by Mary Rettig

from Agape Press

The American Medical Association (AMA) says a study it conducted shows there is extremely limited competition between health insurance providers in many metropolitan areas of the United States, and this has heavy implications for Americans.

The AMA looked at nearly 300 metropolitan areas in the U.S. from 1995 to 2005 to determine what happened after a decade of unprecedented mergers and takeovers in the health insurance industry. The study found that in 56 percent of the markets, a single insurance company had a market share of 50 percent or greater.

{Competition is what keeps PRICES low; no competition = MONOPOLY = Total control = HIGHER PRICES}

Dr. Jim Rohack, the immediate past chairman of the AMA's Board of Trustees, says this lack of competition is very bad for the consumers. He says the researchers found that, under the kind of market consolidation they saw, patients had fewer insurance options and higher premiums. Also, due to those high costs, more people were uninsured.

"And the only one that was benefiting was the company itself, making record profits," {which is what a loan shark is after...PROFITS} Rohack adds. "Patients had less choice [in terms of] the health insurance that they could purchase, and we also found that the premiums had increased," he says, "yet the benefits provided to patients did not increase."

According to the former AMA Board of Trustees chairman, more competition among health insurance companies leads to lower costs for consumers as well as better healthcare, because it means patients have more choices. However, he says the recent study indicates that competition among the insurance carriers is on a steep decline, while health insurance premiums are rising quickly.

Rohack says the AMA's study will be turned in to the U.S. Department of Justice. That agency, he notes, will look further into the matter to determine whether any anti-trust laws have been violated by the insurance companies.

{Yet, EVERY time the government gets involved, things do not improve.....government regulation is NOT a good thing; not for the business, not for the consumer. When will businesses LEARN THIS?}


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Spirituality and medicine

from Agape Press
Original source Manmin News Service

More than 500 physicians from 20 countries are expected to gather to discuss how spirituality and medicine go together {About darn time too!} and to present medical data about the works of divine healing at the Third International Christian Medical Conference on June 1-2 at Grand Convention Center in Cebu City, the Philippines.

The conference -- with the theme "Spirituality & Medicine - III (Pursuit for Excellence)" -- will seek to enhance believers' faith while emphasizing the fact that God is indeed the Healer.

International delegates and some of the best in their medical fields will exchange notes on divine healing and present more than ten cases backed by medical data in which patients received healing by prayer.

Presented will be healing cases of first-degree disability, stomach cancer, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, tennis elbow tendonitis, Celiac disease, infertility, facial burn, intra-cerebral hemorrhage, quadriplegia, spinal tuberculosis, and many other healing cases of incurable and terminal diseases.

Keynote addresses will be delivered by Hon. Antonio Yapha, Jr., M.D., chairman of Committee on Health, House of Representatives, the Philippines, and Rev. Bishop Romeo Corpuz, Sr., president of All Creation Global Network Ministries, Inc.

On June 2, Dr. David Prentice, Ph.D. (senior fellow for life sciences at Family Research Council, a Washington, DC-based think tank) will give a special lecture entitled: "Stem Cells, Cloning, and Other Biotechnologies: What Value for Human Life?"

More information about the conference is available on the Internet through the World Christian Doctors Network.


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