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He was a lousy presidential candidate and a lousy senator

I suggest you read this Executive Order carefully and ask, what is the endgame...

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2012-03-22/pdf/2012-7019.pdf#page=1

NOTE that it specifically declares that the president and his designated Cabinet and agency heads have authority to commandeer and control:

all water,

all human and animal food,

all transportation,

all energy,

all construction materials,

all “health resources,”

all farm equipment,

all fertilizers,

all fuels,

… and much more.

Why??

“Yet 100,000,000 of a billion is “bad”?”

I’d say so, assuming MSFT is in business to make a profit by reselling products to its customers. Compare the development cost to the net profit. As such, I would call it a lemon.

“Why is it assumed that the full complement of Windows machine are EXPECTED to be running 8?”

I would expect at least 10% to upgrade to a new, worthwhile product. Perhaps they saw no value to the upgrade. Or perhaps they were turned off by the McDonald’s Cash Register Interface approach. Who knows why. We only know they said, “no”. Maybe MSFT can salvage they development cost in the fix they are going to give away for free to victims.

I’m not so sure. I’ve read that 1 billion computers run windoze. I don’t know if that number is accurate, but let’s assume it is...

Sales of 100,000 units of Windoze 8 [code name: McDonald’s Cash Register 1.0] / 1,000,000,000 [Windoze system computers that could upgrade] = 0.0001

This does not seem like a home run... but then I don’t run a major corporation - or use windoze

um... how tall are you?

Four reasons

1. MSFT is one of the largest companies in the USA - one of the 30 largest companies - and is included in the Dow Jones Industrial Average.
2. Central Banks around the world are doing two things: a. adding stock to their balance sheets, and b. buying futures on the dow to prevent drops. MSFT is included in both.
3. The Fed is manipulating interest rates to drive money out of banks. Large dividend paying stocks are perceived as an alternative to CDs and bonds. MSFT has a HUGE amount of cash, so it is perceived as secure.
4. They have a stable business.

I don’t think this has as much to do with the actual business for their products as the manipulation by Central Banks.

Bottom line:

The administration is systematically overruling civil rights of Americans.

Where is Congress?
Why isn’t anyone introducing articles of impeachment?
Where are the loud-mouthed liberals who were so vocal about Bush?

Where rights are not guaranteed, you won’t find liberty.
If you are not secure in your person, your home and property, you do not have liberty.

God only has saints. Anything else is made up.

“If you shed you blood for Christ you are a saint.”

Actually, you are martyred.

If Christ shed His blood for you, and you entrusted yourself to His sacrifice, you are a saint.

“Assumes facts not in evidence. All Christians are called to be saints but many do not heed that call, which Scripture clearly teaches. Many who talk the talk don’t walk the walk.”

Corrections:

All Christians are called saints. Period.

“Do you fully understand the process that the Catholic Church uses in pronouncing a canonization? It is a long a tedious process.”

I certainly have read and understood God’s process. His process is as simple as the faith of a child, but was more costly than anything in history. He pronounces his saints instantly because of what He accomplished.

“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!”

“Assumes facts not in evidence. All Christians are called to be saints but many do not heed that call, which Scripture clearly teaches. Many who talk the talk don’t walk the walk.”

God calls all believers saints.

Can you imagine the blue screen of death locking your computer while hurtling through space? Or the MS support guy in india telling you it is time to reinstall the operating system, while you attempt to control a small living environment in space?

“Oh, yes! If you have not reinstalled the system in a year, it is most certainly time. I will walk you through it...”

Mr. K,
I think your comments are generally spot on.

Still, Windows is a target rich environment... I’m glad some of the money it generates goes to conservatives before Gates spends the profits on liberal causes. At least you siphon some off for good things.

I imagine they do have the support skills - and that there will be less support needed. Whole countries have switched over the years, so the way is certainly paved.

“At the end of this celebration, I wish to greet all of you who have come to pay homage to the new saints”

No such thing as a physically dead, new saint. All Christians are saints from the moment they entrust themselves to Christ’s completed work.

Nice these departed saints are finally recognized as saints though - assuming they were saints on earth.

placemarker

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable”

Sorry. I just had to post this quote again.

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable”

Yea. It felt good to post what I’ve always known...

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable”

heh, heh

Money Sentence:

“We migrated key functions from Windows to Linux because we needed an operating system that was stable and reliable – one that would give us in-house control. So if we needed to patch, adjust or adapt, we could," "

Placemarker

Still the wrong question...

Wrong question.

Still a category mistake.

“We aren’t talking about Passover here, sorry if you are Jewish; we are talking about The Last Supper of Jesus Christ with his apostles.”

Which was the celebration of Passover.

“The priest represent Christ at the Mass and is given the authority and power through the Sacrament of Holy Orders which he receives at his ordination.”

Of course, you believe this. It isn’t Biblical. For this reason, I do not accept it.

“Why? Isn’t your god powerful enough to be able to do this?”

Category mistake on your part.

Do you really understand the transubstantiation of the bread and wine to the Body and Blood of Christ??

trnas = transfer

substantiation = substance

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I think most do understand the concept. They examined those claims and the possibilities of the passages, the context and the parts of Greek and have come to a different conclusion, rejecting the Roman view.

While they may believe Christ performed this miracle celebration at the Passover Supper, they believe we are participating in a memorial to continue until the return of Christ, and not an identical miracle each time we celebrate the Lord’s Supper.

“I am as well, praise the Lord. Though I was born into the Roman Catholic Church, God opened my eyes and heart to the truth of the Gospel of the grace of God and I received His gift of eternal life.”

+1

Anne is a hoax as a Catholic, as an “apostle” and if she weren’t seeking fame, she wouldn’t be making public appearances as something not in her normal life.

Totally bogus as an Apostle.
Totally a hoax as someone who gets messages from God.
Totally a hoax as a practicing Catholic.

I only care about the first two. Catholics will care about the second.

You wrote: “Her messages of God’s love are beautiful and ring very true to me.”

They may be “beautiful” to you, but they are not messages from God.
Whether you feel they are true or not is irrelevant to whether they are true.

Any .com, .org, .net, etc. can be taken down by government agencies in the US.

This is why many companies are not relocating their servers overseas under a different extension that is not in the US jurisdiction.

The following information about Kathryn Ann Clarke should tell any observer that they should question her as a Catholic, as a source of truth and certainly as an Apostle.

This information comes from http://www.unitypublishing.com/Apparitions/anna%27name.htm - and contains much more than I’ve posted here. It also contains other links about this woman.

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“Anne, the Lay Apostle” Is “Kathryn Ann Clarke”

Richard Salbato – March 05, 2007

Kathy Jennings attended Mother McAuley high school (Evergreen Park, Chicago area) and married shortly after. By the time she was 20 years of age she was already divorced with a daughter. We do not know the name of her first husband. She then went to St. Xavier University in Evergreen Park, Chicago and received a BA in Criminal Justice and Counseling. For the next 20 years she worked in the domestic violence field and at South Suburban Family Shelter, Illinois.

During this time she married again and became Kathryn Ann Clarke. She had five more children. She became a Certified Law Enforcement Instructor, specializing in law enforcement liability issues, and then started writing a book on the subject because, as she claims, she was an abused wife in her first marriage. During the writing of this book she continued to do counseling in person, by phone and by email with anyone who felt they had marriage problems.

One of the people she gave marital advice to was a practicing Catholic woman, married to a practicing Catholic man and with five children. She was suffering from depression but there was no existence of domestic violence - no physical abuse, no threats of physical abuse, no adultery and no substance abuse. Their marital issues were minor compared to what most marriages suffer through and yet survive and thrive. She made questionable claims of verbal abuse against her husband as the reason for separation and ultimately divorce. Any expression of anger or frustration by her husband was summarily characterized as “controlling and abusive”.

Throughout the entire time of separation Kathy Clarke’s confidant/friend/business partner was suffering depression and was taking Paxil as an anti-depressant. Because of “Catholic” Kathryn Ann Clarke’s advice, this woman had her tubes tied immediately after her fifth child, (which is against Catholic law - surgical sterilization) so that she would have no more children. Within 8 months of the operation, Clarke’s advise led to filing divorce and later moving 4 of the 5 children over 100 miles away from their home town, father and brother. She is now seeking an annulment again at the advice of Kathryn Clark leading on to suggest that she plans to re-marry. I wonder of Clark told her that even if she was able (after 5 children) to get an annulment, she would have to have another surgery to reverse her sterilization in order to get married in the Catholic Church.

This woman now works with Kathryn Ann Clarke marketing and selling books and helping create and run her (now) two organizations. She is listed on the website’s “About Us” as Chief Executive Officer She is paid a salary of $50,000 plus insurance and expenses. Kathy and this CEO travel extensively throughout the United States and overseas. Over the past 5 years each of them has chosen to leave their children repeatedly for extended periods of time away from home, usually hiring nannies to watch the children and most of the time without even calling during these extended trips. The children say that they will not hear from them sometimes for up to seven days. As an outward sign that things are not quite right with this CEO, her language has become more like a truck driver than a humble Catholic.

As to Kathy Clarke’s advise to married women, her main message is that:

If the man has been verbally abusive [defined as the so-called victim sees fit], it is only so long before he becomes physically violent. So, you must leave him. This is the main message and teaching of Kathryn Ann Clarke.

THE BREAKABLE VOW

With the help of this sterilized and divorced Chief Executive Officer, Clarke published the book “THE BREAKABLE VOW” and started up an organization called, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION, INC. (DVP). The fictional character “Annie” in this book is the life story of Kathy Clarke’s first marriage but probably exaggerated to make the point of violence.

She then moved to County Cavan, Ireland, her second husband’s homeland, but kept DVP operating in the States. Mrs. Clarke currently resides in Ireland, with her husband and six children. The reason she and her family moved to another country and away from her DVP, Inc. company is not fully known. She continues to work with DVP in the United States, providing counseling, granting interviews and speaking at formal engagements. The main audience for DVP, Inc. is the public school systems of Chicago, Ohio and others. She started doing the same in Ireland.

Enter “Anne, the Lay Apostle”

However, on her 40th birthday something new happened that added a new dimension to her work. She went to Medjugorje with her oldest daughter for 5 days. In Medjugorje she got the idea or the spirit or whatever to expand her “counseling” with a much stronger tool, “God Said”. Using a secret name, “Anne”, she now claims to be having “messages from Heaven”.

Her new books are the same as DVP, Inc., giving advice on living the single or married life but now under a fictitious name, “Anne, the Lay Apostle” and with a more powerful selling tool, “words from Heaven”. She formed a new organization called “Direction For Our Times” and that is all that it is, an emotionally tainted woman’s views on living in our time, telling us how to live our lives in a modern society but pretending it comes directly from God. The office of “DIRECTION OF OUR TIMES? is not in Ireland but in the former home town of Kathy Clarke in Illinois and with the same staff of DVP Inc.

Both Kathy Clarke and her CEO are Medjugorje believers and devotees having gone there at least five times. Did they receive “the spirit” while on pilgrimages there? If so, it is the spirit of division, divorce, deception, disobedience and pride. This is not a Holy Spirit from God, His Son, the Blessed Virgin or Angels. If this is not fraud, as I believe, then it is a demonic spirit disguised as an angel of light to destroy families and cause division.

The picture above is Kathy Clarke on tour but when she goes out as the seer, Anne, the Lay Apostle, she pulls her hair back, takes off her makeup and dresses in conservative clothes. Study both as I have and you will see that it is one and the same person. I have also had other people who went to Anne talks and they say that it is Kathy Clarke. Strange that Clarke goes around publicly as herself and also goes around publicly as Anne, and until now no one noticed that she is one and the same person.

Since Kathy Clarke’s new bishop has always known who “Anne” is, we have to assume that he knows she wrote the book, THE BREAKABLE VOW, but he may not know that she advocates surgical birth control (sterilization) and divorce. If he does not know she is the author of a divorce book, then his investigation into her claims was deficient because he is required by Canon Law to look into the background of the claimant. The reason the bishop gives for keeping her name secret is to protect the family but she promotes openly breaking Sacraments and Church law. All he is doing is keeping the two names separate and not protecting her family at all. We must assume ignorance of her past but this is not an excuse for his approval of books claiming to be from God? I would like to know why he approved this and if he knows her background or even interviewed her ex-husband which I would like to do. If someone would like to ask the bishop these questions, write to him at bishop@kilmorediocese.ie and let me know what he says.

Study all her writings, both under Kathy Clarke and under Anne, and you will see that there is no real Catholic virtues like forgiveness, love, kindness, sacrifice, patience or any kind of love of the sinner. There is certainly no love of the Sacrament of Marriage or care and love of children, viewed as a burden rather than precious gifts from God. Don’t take my word for it, read her and her books. You will also see that it is the same writing style and writing personality but if it was “words from Heaven” the writing styles would be different. I have studied the style and personality of the True Virgin Mary and they are always simple, to the point and never cajoling.

When Pope Benedict XVI spoke of cleaning the filth from the Catholic Church, he was not only speaking of Clergy abuse but of laity abuse. This is psychological abuse in the name of God. Lord, clean our Church of these people.

More information about the woman who styles herself as "Anne the Apostle" - readers can make their own decision about her as a Catholic. My only point in posting is that she claims an office never given to anyone who was not personally with Christ and never given to a woman in the Church.

"For those who are not aware of this alleged prophet, “Anne” is actually Kathryn Ann Clarke, a secular Franciscan and mother of six from Illinois who is currently residing in Ireland. She claims to be receiving messages from Our Lord and Our Lady in prayer. Kathryn, who was married, had a child and was divorced by the age of 20, remarried eleven years later and had three more children before moving to Ireland with her husband who owned two cattle farms. They had two more children in Ireland."

"The Filipino edition of her works has an imprimatur from Bishop Emeritus Federico Escaler, S.J., although he was retired at the time he gave it which calls it into question under Canon Law.

"In 2004, retired Archbishop Philip Hannan of New Orleans wrote a letter of endorsement of the messages, which is included in each volume, and decided to involve his FOCUS Worldwide Television Network in spreading them. However, when he died earlier this year, the letter was revoked.

"The controversy surrounding Anne seems to have started with a posting on an internet forum by someone who had an e-mail exchange with a representative of DFOT who refused to give out the name of Anne’s bishop in Ireland. Although the matter was later cleared up, the exchange caught the attention of Richard Salbato of Unity Publishing who posted the text of the E-mail conversation on his site. It was Salbato who revealed Anne’s real identity as Kathryn Ann Clarke, a woman who once served as a counselor for abused women. Salbato later posted another e-mail exchange, this one between Kathryn and the woman who would later become the CEO of DFOT, which was laced with vulgarities. Because Kathryn began writing the volumes of her messages shortly after this e-mail exchange took place, it raised quite a few eyebrows in Catholic circles.

"The deeper I delved, the more apparent it became that something is definitely amiss with this organization. For instance, in August of this year, Sr. Briege McKenna and Fr. Kevin Scallon publicly withdrew their support for DFOT. Fr. Scallon claims he did so because “recent information has caused me to question the authenticity of Direction for Our Times” and he can “no longer support or encourage involvement with this organization.” Unfortunately, neither Fr. Scallon or Sr. Briege disclosed any more details.

Apostles were given to the Church and are the foundation of the Church and were all chosen by God. There were 14. Christ chose 12. The other Apostles chose 1 from among those men (not women) who was with Christ from the baptism of John until the resurrection. Christ chose Paul after the resurrection, appearing personally to him.

The foundation of Apostles was given to the Church and put in place thousands of years ago. They will sit on the 12 thrones.

Whatever else you can say about her, Ann is no Apostle.

“We are all called to be apostles. “

I’d like to see some Biblical references for that statement. Do you have any you can share?

There is no Biblical Church office of Lay Apostle. Totally bogus.

I’m still waiting to see a biker stop at a stop sign.

... Because they are clueless, ball-less and suffer from “Low T”

That is impressive. Usually, you don’t expect the French to work that quickly...

I suspect the number is more than 100,000 - given what we see in South America.

Here is the definitive book that shows how it is done...

http://www.thecoldreadingbook.com/index.php?p=hm

“I know it was my friend’s spirit by what was said and how the medium described him.”

Having read extensively about how Houdini traveled the world exposing mediums as FAKE, revealing their tricks, showing how they deceive, etc., I doubt it was him - regardless of how it felt or looked.

Read about the Budwig Diet Protocol

It is cheap, makes sense, and you can use it with any other treatment you receive. I you google your way around, you will find plenty of people who had cancer and now do not. I have no personal experience with cancer or the protocol, thankfully.

Talk is easy, lets see what happens...

Who knows why? The identical interface works great on every McDonalds cash register.

Ah, that makes using Apple products for conservative purposes even sweeter... take that Stevie!

Saundra,

“That is not an unusual greeting for Mormon Missionaries. It happens all over the world. Rock-throwing, spewing evil hate-filled language - and that’s from many so-called “Christians”.”

Even worse than all of that is CHRIST who also condemned false religions, like mormonism, in even WORSE language!!

Matthew 7:15 “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves.”
Matthew 15:8-9 “teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Matthew 24:4-5, 24, “See to it that no one misleads you. For many will come in My name, saying, ‘I am the Christ,’ and will mislead many. For false Christs and false prophets will arise and will show great signs and wonders, so as to mislead, if possible, even the elect.”

See Also...

Mark 13:21-22
Luke 11:52
Matthew 16:6-12
Matthew 23:15

..... worth reposting for continued discussion

Mormon Missionary Deception Method:

1. Convince you of their sincerity
2. Trick you into expressing faith first in the Book of Mormon by praying and asking for a sign (this takes you off the objective ground of Biblical truth and puts you into subjective ground of feelings)
3. Convince you that the Bible has errors in its translation
4. Trick you into expressing faith in the prophet Joseph Smith
5. Trick you into expressing faith in the Restoration of the “Gospel” (see Galatians Chapter one)
6. Get you all the way into the baptismal font...

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7. ONLY THEN... you will learn the true DEVIANT doctrines of
Mormonism. At this point, it is too late! You only have
feelings as a basis of truth! You will believe anything.

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Such as the following “truths” taught in mormonism ...

... God used to be a regular man, but became God.
... The Jesus of mormonism was a created spirit being who became one of the FOUR mormon earth gods
... Speaking of gods, there are trillions of mormon gods out there!
... Speaking of gods, you can be a God with your own planet!
... It will take work, lots of works to attain the god-level - not unlike any multi-level marketing scheme.
... Speaking of levels, heaven has three levels.
... Did we mention mormonism believes in a Mother God too? More than one often.
... SHE is eternally pregnant
... SHE pops out spirit children who will some day get a human body on earth
... SHE and the father god have celestial sex continually.
... All the trillions of gods in the mormon pantheon get together regularly over spring break in Kolob Beach to talk
... Did we mention one of the works you have to do is give 10%?
... Did we mention your bishop will audit you?
... Did we mention you will have to complete Masonic Temple rituals that involve strangers touching your private parts?
... Did we mention you will have magic underwear you must always wear?
... Did we mention we believe in eternally polygamy?
... Did we mention that in eternity, all single females will be assigned to a male god?

... and on and on...

Did we mention that swallowing all this may take swallowing
lots of prescription drugs (Utah has the highest usage of
prescription tranquilizers).

Once in, you have to accept it ALL to move up the chain
towards Godhood.

ampu

Deer Cleanup in Aisle 3!!

It is amazing that a thirty person church, mostly from one deranged family, can cause so much trouble.

Stop pretending two gay men are a married family.

There are over 9,000 different sales tax jurisdictions in America. This will drive many small businesses out of business.