Are You on Obama’s “Target List?”

Posted on October 29, 2011

Who’s he taking aim at next???
 

 
President Obama has spent much of the last three years venting his ire in so many different directions it’s hard to keep track. Victor Davis Hanson has helpfully compiled a list of the most frequent recipients of the verbal abuse: Obama’s Target List ~ While calling for civility, Obama demonizes everyone in sight.

Up-dated link MAY2013 (NRO article no longer available): Free Republic

 
Among the many Americans that he’s expressed disapproval, disdain and frankly, outright contempt for, are: bankers, border enforcement, “bitter clingers”, Granny, the Tea Party, the Supreme Court – even his own Democratic base.
 
And let’s not forget big oil, New York and, at one time or another, the entire U.S. business sector.
 

What is it with this dude? Thinly disguised hostility toward his opponents? An attempt to deflect blame from his own sorry record? Narcissistic personality disorder? Whatever the impetus, it’s definitely not “presidential,” and certainly no way to lead a nation.
As VDH points out, what sets him apart him from previous occupants of the White House, whatever their failings may have been,

…is the tendency of Barack Obama to lecture, talk down to, caricature, or even insult various people and groups — even as no other president in recent memory has reminded the nation so often of the need for civility, unity, and tolerance.

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So are you on the President’s “Target List?” The real question is, who isn’t?!
 

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Saturday Shorts 10-29-11

Posted on October 29, 2011

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Building a Better Ohio ~ Critical election for Ohio on Nov. 8th. Unions are battling the taxpayers on Issue 2; they’re opposed to common sense reforms for schools. Pass the link on to your Ohio friends and family.
 
Shadow Government Statistics ~ The government manipulates facts and figures to serve their own agenda? Who knew?
 
Guide for the Perplexed ~ Having trouble keeping up with the msm’s ever-changing terminology when it comes to the Middle East situation? Front Page Magazine helps clear up the confusion. For example;

• Arab Spring: Replacement of one dictatorship with another, with the help of Western money and media cheerleading.
• Jihad: The inner spiritual struggle for self-purification or the bloody military struggle for world domination depending on to which journalist and in what language one is speaking.
• Judeo-Christian Values: The credo of that civilization which has lost all its values, except for that racism is bad, and diversity is good.

 
Wind farms shut because it’s too windy (Scotland) and last month too: UK’s grid ‘can’t cope’ ~ Government inefficiency at its finest; not only is wind power erratic – the taxpayers get to subsidize the industry when it’s offline.
 
Profits Are for People ~ Econ 101 for the OWS crowd from the great Walter Williams:

They want us to think they’re in it for the good of society and not for those “evil” profits. If we gave it just a little thought and asked what kind of organization throughout mankind’s history has accounted for his greatest grief, the answer wouldn’t be a free market, private, profit-making enterprise; it would be government, the largest nonprofit organization.
 
The Occupy Wall Street protesters are following the path predicted by the great philosopher-economist Frederic Bastiat, who said in “The Law” that “instead of rooting out the injustices found in society, they make these injustices general.” In other words, the protesters don’t want to end crony capitalism, with its handouts and government favoritism; they want to participate in it.

 
Richmond Tea Party Sues City: Charge Occupy Protesters Or Refund $10,000 For Rallies at Plaza ~ Plain and simple; Tea Partiers obey the rule of law, OWS don’t. Reveals a lot about the Left’s integrity.
 

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To Tweet, or not to Tweet?

Posted on October 28, 2011

“All the world ‘s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

~ Shakespeare (As You Like It ~ Act II, Scene VII) ~

 
Hollywood types so rarely have anything worthwhile to say, I usually don’t pay them much attention. After all, how seriously can one take an industry that regularly delivers such edifying gems as “Knocked-Up”, “The Waterboy”, “Desperate Housewives” and “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy?” Still, once in a while a celebrity or two manages to escape the cultural rot of Tinseltown and stumble across a nugget of truth: Ralph Fiennes blames Twitter for ‘eroding’ language

“Our expressiveness and our ease with some words is being diluted so that the sentence with more than one clause is a problem for us, and the word of more than two syllables is a problem for us…
 
“I think we’re living in a time when our ears are attuned to a flattened and truncated sense of our English language, so this always begs the question, is Shakespeare relevant? But I love this language we have and what it can do, and aside from that I think the themese(sic) in his plays are always relevant.”

 
[Actually, Fiennes’ own weak syntax rather proves his point.]
 
Sorry Ralphie, as the suns sets on Western Civilization, we can hardly expect it to keep shining on Shakespeare’s genius.

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“On Our Own?”… Great!

Posted on October 27, 2011

Here we go again…more B.S. from B.O on the re-election trail this week:

“If you get sick, you’re on your own. If you can’t afford college, you’re on your own. If you don’t like that some corporation is polluting your air or the air that your child breathes, then you’re on your own,” he said.
“That’s not the America I believe in. It’s not the America you believe in.”

 
Wrong, Mr. President. That was the America that the pioneers courageously crossing the mountains, and conquering the wilderness with their bare hands, believed in. That was the America that the founding fathers believed in while they were fighting for freedom from British tyranny. We’re on our own? Great! We’ll stand or fall on our own, thank-you very much. And we’re grateful for the liberty that allows us to do that.
 
Why does the Left insist on demoralizing people? Implicit in Obama’s rant is; “You can’t survive without Benevolent Big Brother taking care of you,” “You can’t make it on your own.”
 
Not only does the President’s rhetoric foster the development of a permanent underclass, it runs contrary to the very nature of human beings. From the time we learn to talk, our inclination is toward autonomy – “ME do!” We encourage that innate drive by teaching our children to walk, to study, to drive, to be responsible, to grow up and be independent. We certainly don’t undermine their confidence by telling them they’ll never be able to support themselves.
 
But now Obama and his merry band of Leftists are trying to convince adults that they really aren’t capable of personal responsibility, autonomy or independence ~ “You’ve fallen, and you can’t get up without total support (and control) from my magnanimous regime.”
 
While they’re on a relentless push to control every aspect of our lives by creating a permanent welfare state, here’s an organization that’s truly dedicated to helping individuals improve their lives through – yes – self-sufficiency. Poverty Cure is comprised of individuals and international groups who are first-hand witnesses to what really helps people escape poverty.
 
Like Bishop John Rucyahana of Rwanda:

 

“Most Africans have been made so dependent on aid and the relief, and loans from IMF, from the World Bank. … They perpetuate your misery by giving you a loan, make you a slave, an economic slave, and you also end up paying the raw materials because you are chained by the loan. So it becomes a way of colonizing the economies of the poor nations. But if the African nations today agree together to say, ‘No more aid; we don’t want aid. If you don’t give us grants, we don’t want it,’ I tell you, they can grow slowly, but they can grow.”

 
Poverty Cure has over 30 different video clips, featuring individuals like Bishop Rucyahana, men and women from all over the world. Their experience, and in most cases their very lives, testify to the truths behind the organization’s mission:

We know there is no single solution to poverty, and good people will disagree about methods, but we have joined together to rethink poverty, encourage discussion and debate, promote effective compassion, and advance entrepreneurial solutions to poverty informed by sound economics, local knowledge, the lessons of history and reflections from the Judeo-Christian tradition.
 
Christ calls us to solidarity with the poor, but this means more than assistance. It means seeing the poor not as objects or experiments, but as partners and brothers and sisters, as fellow creatures made in the image of God with the capacity to solve problems and create new wealth for themselves and their families. At a practical level, it means integrating them into our networks of exchange and productivity.

 

Leftist policies invariably waste money, potential and lives. If the President honestly wanted to help people who are struggling, he’d spend some time listening to, and learning from, those who really know what’s effective. Instead of telling Americans they can’t do it on their own, he’d be advocating what truly works; a hand up – not hand-outs.
 

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More Stimulus Dollars Flushed Away

Posted on October 26, 2011

To paraphrase Ross Perot, that giant flushing sound you hear… is millions more of your tax dollars being flushed down the Hopper of Hopelessness. The latest SWOOOSH? – TR Auto Truck Plaza off Interstate 40, Tennessee’s first electrified truck terminal. As Fox News reports;

The Tennessee Department of Transportation (TDOT) handed out the $424,000 Environmental Protection Agency stimulus grant for electrical hookups so that truckers wouldn’t have to burn diesel fuel while resting.
 

 
Both the state and EPA were apparently unaware that owner Rick Lewis had a history of legal and financial problems and had filed for bankruptcy…
 
…in 2003, a year after a conviction on 31 counts of theft. And Lewis currently faces indictments for allegedly writing worthless checks, according to court records.

 
Hmmm…who wants to bet the odds that ole Ricky helped pad Democrat campaign coffers?

“It is Solyndra in miniature,” said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga., referring to a Silicon Valley solar panel manufacturer that filed for bankruptcy shortly after receiving a $535 million loan guarantee from the U.S. Department of Energy. “What I am questioning is the vetting and oversight and the fiduciary responsibility that the federal government — the people who run these programs — have to we, the taxpayer.”

[The Feds are supposed to exercise fiduciary responsibility? 🙄 Who knew?!]
 

Electric hook-ups for trucks aren’t necessarily a bad idea. They save on fuel costs and they’re better for the environment than idling a diesel engine for hours.
 
But – here’s a thought – how about letting the free market choose? And stop the SWOOOSH!
 

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“Definition of Insanity”??

Posted on October 26, 2011

Wasserman Schultz blasts Perry’s flat tax plan as ‘definition of insanity’ 😯
 
Sometimes it’s best if they just keep babbling…
 

 

“My reaction to Rick Perry’s new/old plan is that the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result,” said Wasserman Schultz on MSNBC Tuesday.
 
“This is not a new idea, this is not something that’s proposed for the first time. A flat tax has been introduced in the past and it’s been rejected because it blows a hole in the deficit,” she added.

 

Ummm… besides the fact that it hasn’t been tried, wouldn’t blowing a hole in the deficit be a good thing?!
[No wonder the poor thing’s never had a real job.]
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Related:
Meet the Woman Running to “Fire Debbie” ~ Karen Harrington, who operates her family’s three successful restaurants in the Ft. Lauderdale area, is challenging Wasserman-Schultz for Florida’s 20th Congressional District in 2012 –

One of Harrington’s most effective fundraising tools is simply repeating her opponent’s own words, which more than occasionally drift into the realms of blind Obama devotion, inflammatory attacks, and factual inaccuracy. “Debbie’s mouth is the gift that keeps on giving,” Harrington chuckles. 😆

 

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Ambitious Ignorance

Posted on October 25, 2011

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness…

 

 

which the ambitious call…

 

 

and ignorant believe,

 

 

to be liberty.

 

 

~ Fisher Ames, speech in the Massachusetts Ratifying Convention, 1788 ~

 
Quote credit: Patriot Post
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Related:
Occupy Chicago – Oct. 22nd ~ Protesters’ signs of confusion. “Liberal Fascism” (to borrow a phrase from Jonah Goldberg) on display.
 

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Benedictine Monks Stand for Economic Liberty

Posted on October 25, 2011

While attempting to organize my hard-copy archives this past weekend, I ran across a Big Government article that I’d saved from August 2010: Licensing Gone Wild: Monks Face Jail for Selling Caskets. Good grief!
 

 
I didn’t remember seeing a follow-up story, but was really curious about the outcome. Did a quick search and found that – Laus Deo…the monks won. A victory for economic liberty!
 
Saint Joseph Monastery, established over 100 years ago in southern Louisiana, had been making caskets for the members of their own community for decades.

For several centuries, monks have supported themselves financially by excelling at common trades such as farming and brewing beer. The monks at Saint Joseph Abbey have been able to preserve and maintain their quiet lifestyle through farming and harvesting timber.

 

 
Four years ago, in keeping with their founding philosophy of simple, self-supporting living, they started a new small business, “Saint Joseph Woodworks”, and began producing a line of cypress caskets for sale to the public.
 
Enter oppressive government overreach – in the form of the state Board of Embalmers and Funeral Directors. They sent a cease-and-desist letter threatening the monastery with a lawsuit, fines, and even prison time. Seems a state regulation prevents anyone but a licensed funeral director from engaging in the retail sales of caskets in Louisiana.
 
The monks were in no position to set up shop as a fully-licensed funeral home, either fiscally or philosophically. But neither were they intimidated by the state’s funeral cartel.
 
The sole purpose of the law seemed to be economic protection of the funeral industry. So, aided by the Institute for Justice, the monastery filed a federal lawsuit against the restrictive legislation – and prevailed:
In July;

The court ruled that the Constitution does not allow the government to restrict the right to earn an honest living just to enrich government-licensed funeral directors. This is a victory not only for the monks, but for entrepreneurs nationwide, all of whom benefit from IJ’s strategic mission to guarantee economic liberty as an enforceable constitutional right.

More details are available HERE, HERE and HERE.

“We are absolutely thrilled that the court protected our economic liberty rights to provide caskets to willing consumers,” said Abbot Justin Brown. “This is a great day for the Abbey, the U.S. Constitution, and all Louisianians.”

 

Saint Joseph’s is now venturing into the artisan soap business. You can help them come up with a name for their new “monk soap” HERE. (Soul Suds? Purely Clean? Heavenly Lather? 🙂 )
Let’s pray that they don’t get sued by the State Board of Detergent & Cleansing Manufacturers.
 
 

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Keep Jesus off the Gridiron? Life in the “No-tolerance Zone”

Posted on October 24, 2011

If you’re an NFL fan, you know that Tim Tebow started as the Bronco’s quarterback for the first time yesterday.Trailing the Miami Dolphins for more than 3 quarters, Denver scored twice with only 5 minutes to go in 4th, and won the game in overtime. A shaky start – but quite a comeback. Not bad Tim!
 
Mark Kiszla in the Denver Post describes the victory:

From happy feet in the pocket to throws so errant you worried that a spectator in the stands might get hurt, everything that could ultimately cause Tebow to fail at the pro level was on display until he had no choice except to be great.

 
But, there’s just a little problem with Tebow that has nothing to do with his ability to play quarterback; he’s a Christian who’s not afraid to live his faith in the spotlight. And that makes some people, especially media types, really uneasy.

Like it or not, Tebow is more than a quarterback. Standing in a cramped interview room heated by television lights, the hero was asked if this type of game embodied what being a Christian is all about. How many other athletes can incite such fanaticism?

 
Still, he remains unflappable –

“It’s one of the great lessons you learn in football. When you get knocked down over and over again, you’ve got to keep getting up,” Tebow said.

 
No matter how successful he is on the field, right now Tim is simply the most polarizing figure in the NFL. George Weigel at First Things explained why that’s so earlier this month: Tim Tebow and Christophobia

…Tim Tebow is a target of irrational hatred, not because he’s an iffy quarterback at the NFL level, or a creep personally, or an obnoxious, in-your-face, self-righteous proselytizer. He draws hatred because he is an unabashed Christian, whose calmness and decency in the face of his Christophobic detractors drives them crazy.

 
Still, the opposition from the Left is not really surprising; we already know they’re anti-Christian.
What’s really disappointing are the small “c” christians who think Tebow should just keep the whole “Jesus thing” stuffed in his locker. These are the Peters of our time:
 

But he denied Him, saying “Woman, I do not know Him.” ~ Luke 22:57 ~

 

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Behind “the Mask”

Posted on October 23, 2011

Wondering what the deal is with those creepy-looking masks that keep popping up at the “Occupy” protests?
Well, beyond just being a rather cowardly way of saying “Look at me!”?
 

 
They’re actually an allusion to Guy Fawkes, the 16th century English Catholic, who, along with his fellow conspirators, planned to blow up Parliament in 1605. The failed “Gunpowder Plot” was an attempt to restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. When the conspiracy was revealed, Fawkes and several others were executed for treason.
Over time, Fawkes became a folk hero of sorts, and today the whole episode is celebrated by the British on November 5th as “Guy Fawkes Night”, with bonfires and fireworks.
 
It’s doubtful that the present-day protesters are aware of the centuries-old connection. They’ve adopted the Guy Fawkes’ mask from a stylized version made popular by the 2005 movie, V for Vendetta. The film features an enigmatic lone anarchist who, in the graphic novel on which it is based, uses Fawkes as a role model in his quest to end the rule of a fictional fascist party in the UK.
British graphic novel artist David Lloyd, who created the original image of the mask for a comic strip, apparently thinks the OWS masked miscreants are pretty hip. From BBC News:

“The Guy Fawkes mask has now become a common brand and a convenient placard to use in protest against tyranny (“tyranny”? 🙄 )- and I’m happy with people using it, it seems quite unique, an icon of popular culture being used this way,” he says.

 
Yeah, real cool Dave.
Sorry, but I can’t help feeling there’s something more sinister lurking behind these masks.
 
Earlier this month, Rob Taylor, at Pajamas Media, wrote about a specific group of lowlifes that have adopted the mask for their own purposes – purposes which aren’t exactly well-intentioned: ‘We Are Anonymous, We Are Legion’.
 
“Anonymous” is a loose-knit cyber-group of hackers who have been crawling around the darker corners of the internet for several years. Excessive pride in their techno abilities probably fueled the drive to exhibit their “talents” to us lesser mortals. Taylor describes some of the stunts they’ve managed to pull off (threatening innocent citizens, hacking an epilepsy support forum with malicious intent). “Anonymous” is clearly moving into the realm of cyber-terrorism.
 
Taylor’s article includes a creepy video of a masked goon with a menacing voice talking about taking out the “Banksters”. I’d rather not embed it – seriously bad vibes – but you can watch it HERE.
 

 
Evil? Or just a hacker hoax? Even Taylor, who states up front that he’s not a Christian, finds it unsettling…

Anonymous spends a little over eight minutes making the case for violence against bankers and the mass murder of Wall Street workers…
In the video you’ll notice that the speaker disparages the idea of freedom, which should surprise some of Anonymous’ more rabid fans. But what I found most chilling were the frequent allusions to homicidal mob violence being divinely inspired.
 
What divinity inspires mobs to lynch unarmed people?

 
These cyber-thugs recently announced that they were planning to “erase Wall Street from the internet” on October 10th. Although that date has come and gone, the threat remains:

Anonymous helped organize the Wall Street Occupation movement, encouraged hundreds of people who can barely care for themselves now to congregate in New York, and now wants to create a catastrophe there that members hope will cause untold chaos. This is not so much a protest as a plot to murder those people. The aftermath of a successful takedown of the markets by Anonymous will not look like the glorious revolution these protesters are imagining; it will be akin to a zombie apocalypse as panicked city dwellers find the intricate web of services that keep them alive disappearing with the malicious keystrokes of people watching and laughing from hundreds of miles away.

 
Many of the commenters posting after Taylor’s article think he’s blowing things out of proportion, and discount the possibility of any real danger. Secular skeptics tend to be dismissive of the existence of true evil:

Anonymous is a joke, people. It’s a little internet epithet that’s meant to say “hey, I know common web references”. There is no organization. People like that “we are legion” line because it’s fun and edgy.

 
“Fun?” “A joke?” Pardon me for not laughing. “We are Legion” (from Luke 8:26-37 and Matt.8:28-34) doesn’t elicit much humor from Bible Clingers like myself. That’s what the demons that Jesus exorcized called themselves.
 
Evil isn’t something to dabble in because it’s fun and edgy.

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Taylor asks What “divinity” inspires mobs to lynch unarmed people? None. The inspiration comes from a much darker place.
As Mikhail Bakunin, one of Karl Marx’ cronies, said;

“The Evil One is the satanic revolt against divine authority… Socialists recognize each other by the words, “In the name of the one to whom a great wrong has been done… Satan (is) the eternal rebel, the first freethinker and the emancipator of worlds.”
 
From: Progressive Satanic revolt: from “nothingness” to worship of Satan ~ Linda Kimball

 

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For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities,
against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age,
against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be
able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.
~ Ephesians 6:12-13 ~

 
Vade retro me, Satana!
 

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Saturday Shorts 10-22-11

Posted on October 22, 2011

Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Dennis Prager asks Why Is Class Hatred Morally Superior to Race Hatred? ~ Darn good question.
 
Homofascism and the Dark Days Brewing for America ~ “…we are watching a very bold monster of radical homosexualism pounding its way across our land seeking to devour our rights to freedom of speech and expression and freedom of religion.” Pushing the agenda with threats, intimidation and vandalism: Hate crimes — can Christians be victims?
And then there was the school play in Connecticut: Highschoolers horrified at gay male kiss in school play, while officials praise exposure. Whoa! Whatever happened to the “Music Man”?
 
Solyndra to Auction Assets, But Taxpayers Won’t See a Dime ~ The Department of Energy “has developed an unprecedented interpretation of the law to allow Solyndra’s private investors to recoup $75 million of their investment before taxpayers are repaid.”
Just a reminder, that’s over 1/2 billion we-the-taxpayers got fleeced for.
 
The Church and Disaster Relief: Shelter from the Stormy Blast ~ After the tornados… “With government assistance often bureaucratic and slow to respond, Christian charity and church organizations are a vital source of relief and comfort.”

It is of little wonder that a faith that believes that all healing flows from Christ is leading the restoration of communities, no matter how broken or barren these communities may appear from plain sight. It is, after all, simply a model of the Incarnation.

 
Crime Surging at “Occupier” Sites ~ 😯 You mean they’re not all a bunch of responsible, law-abiding citizens? Say it ain’t so!
Also, check out the 360˚ view of the OWS at Zuccotti Park. It’s kind of like a virtual visit to the zoo.
 

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Co-opting Jesus

Posted on October 21, 2011

According to the “Occupiers”, and numerous leftist clergy, Jesus would have been down for the struggle. So what the heck, what’s a little blasphemy when your cause is a righteous one?
 

False prophet at “Occupy London”*

 
I guess we shouldn’t be too surprised that in post-Christian England, Christ’s message of individual salvation would be deliberately misrepresented as collective salvation. Because they don’t believe in His divinity, they’re perfectly willing to hijack His persona to further their agenda.
 
Progressive (psuedo) Christians are also expressing support for the Occupiers here in the U.S. These are the “enlightened” ones who believe that, after thousands of years, scripture in suddenly in dire need of their revisionist interpretation. Apparently they feel that they’ve been called to turn the rich guy into a camel and force him through the eye of a needle.
 
These misguided souls aren’t willing or able to face the truth. The reality is that Jesus would NOT have been down for the struggle. He didn’t come to create a heaven here on earth; “My kingdom is not of this world.” (John 18:36). He came to “save that which was lost.”(Matt 18:11)
 
And, by the way, as J. E. Dyer at Patheos-the Optimistic Christian puts it, “Jesus is the very antithesis of an occupier.”
 
Her recent post – “What Would Jesus Occupy?” – clarifies;

Jesus never went anywhere uninvited. Even when he rebuked the money-changers in the Temple, he did not approach the institution as an antagonist, demanding entry on his own terms. He entered the Temple in obedience to the Father, as a Jew going to worship: exercising the privilege of a Jew under the commandments of God and the system of worship and priestly authority God had instituted. At no time did Jesus enter the premises of any person or institution on any but an orderly pretext.

 

The only place Jesus wants to “occupy” is our hearts.

 
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* London’s counterfeit Christ better beware the anti-Semitic element in the Occupier Movement – here and here.

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Related:
 
Rather than wasting resources and tax-payer dollars in cities that can ill afford the added expense of “occupations” right now, here’s how true Christians effectively help those in need ~ The Church and Disaster Relief: Shelter from the Stormy Blast
 
In a Dec. 2010 article, Herman Cain said Jesus was a perfect conservative who was condemned by a liberal court.
 

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