Amen.

Well Spoken caww.

Amen.

Lord hear our prayers.

Have mercy on us and our nation.

Please watch over and protect and guide Sarah Palin.

Amen.

So true.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp_K8prLfso

Y2K is coming

And nothing happened because it was a technical problem that would occur on a certain date that was easy to identify and to fix. This will be different. It seems that we are now in a downward spiral that will not get better in our life times.

Suggestion -—> Go buy some bubblegum for today is NOT the day.

Don't worry. Today is not the day. Probably not tomorrow either. But that day is coming. I am just going to be busy preparing for it is all.

This would make sense if the American economy was picking back up and middle class people were working, but the economy has been shedding good jobs in favor of layoffs and jobless recovery (doing better but not hiring back anyone) and outsourcing to other countries.

People are going to need good paying jobs to pay for these houses, or if there are no good paying jobs to be had, the houses will continue to sit empty until the prices drop to where people can afford to make the payments for them.

The perversion does not work folks.

I am sorry that you lost your brother.

If I may ask - because I am curious - did your brother contract AIDS after he was married?

I am asking because I wonder if the circumstances were such that either he or the other man he was married or both of them were having sex outside of their marriage, indicating that for gay men at least, marriage doe not mean being sexually monogamous to your partner.

The perversion does not work folks.

I am sorry that you lost your brother.

If I may ask - because I am curious - did your brother contract AIDS after he was married?

I am asking because I wonder if the circumstances were such that either he or the other man he was married or both of them were having sex outside of their marriage, indicating that for gay men at least, marriage doe not mean being sexually monogamous to your partner.

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For all Eternity...

I know that each anniversary of his passing and his birthdays will be hard to bear.

But it was just not meant to be that he lived those years on earth.

He is now where he is supposed to be and he now has a perfect glorified body in Heaven. He is now with the Lord and is among the angels and all those persons who went before him.

The remaining job of us here who are still alive on this earth is to make sure that we will deserve to go to Heaven when we ourselves pass on one day so that we can one day meet up with him. May God Bless you and your family, and keep you strong in the knowledge that Odie will now be forever in Heaven and forever a Marine.

It is in your name we pray.

Amen.

And thank you Outlaw Woman for offering up this wonderful prayer .

Sarah Palin could take the Presidency from Obama in 2012

God bless Sarah Palin and may she be our next President of the United States.

Oh well, from what I can read here I can tell that the writer doesn’t have much of a clue whether we’re actually “winning” or “losing,” or why.

The article explains it pretty good. You need to read the whole article.

I don't see that it is a blog site. It looks like a web site to me. I copy and pasted it all together for you.

http://www.patheos.com/Resources/Additional-Resources/Five-Signs-the-Pro-Life-Cause-Is-Winning-Trevin-Wax-05-16-2011?offset=0&max=1

This is all very good news.

Evangelical Portal
Five Signs the Pro-Life Cause Is Winning
Interpreting polls and laws and cultural trends, the author finds five reasons to believe that we have reached a tipping point on the abortion issue.
By Trevin Wax, May 16, 2011

Editor's Note: The article below is published as a part of a symposium hosted by Patheos' Catholic Portal and Evangelical Portal, entitled, "For Life and Family: Faith and the Future of Social Conservatism."

The pro-life cause is winning. In state legislatures, in the media, and in grassroots efforts to reduce the number of abortions, pro-life activists have put abortion rights advocates on defense. The pro-life movement certainly has hurdles to overcome before the United States can become a place where all human life is legally protected. Yet the eventual outcome is certain. Here are five reasons I believe we have reached a tipping point in favor of the pro-life cause.

1) Public Opinion

A majority of Americans surveyed in a recent Rasmussen poll, including a large percentage of those who identified themselves "pro-choice," said they believe abortion is "morally wrong most of the time." Last year, for the third consecutive time, Gallup found that more Americans accept the pro-life label, a result that led the polling firm to acknowledge "a real change in public opinion."

One reason for this shift is the high-tech ultrasound machine that reaffirms what embryology textbooks have told us all along -- that the unborn child is truly a human being. In a recent Washington Post editorial, Frances Kissling, former President of Catholics for Choice, advised abortion-rights advocates to shift strategies: "We can no longer pretend the fetus is invisible." Yet few pro-choice activists seem to be listening to Kissling's advice. They continue to cast themselves as the defenders of "women's reproductive rights." This worn-out strategy fails to resonate with a large number of Americans because it ignores the point of tension. The debate has moved on from "reproductive rights" to the more perplexing question: "What are the unborn?"

Meanwhile, many people -- including some you would not expect -- are openly registering their unease with the procedure. Take the recently released autobiography of Steven Tyler, the "screamin' demon" lead singer of rock band Aerosmith. When he impregnated a teenaged girl in the mid-1970s, friends convinced them they could not raise the child and should seek an abortion. "They put the needle in her belly and squeeze the stuff in and you watch," Tyler recounted. "And it comes out dead. I was pretty devastated. In my mind, I'm going, Jesus, what have I done?"

Twenty years ago, many of those who considered themselves "pro-life" were a little hesitant to say so publicly. Today, the reverse is true. Even those who advocate a woman's right to abortion don't want to fight for that position too passionately.

2) The Media

In 1972, an episode of Maude concluded with the central character choosing to have an abortion. One would think that nearly forty years later, we would be past this debate. Not so. In fact, filmmakers and television writers have discovered that fictional abortion not only kills a fetus, but kills a story as well. Movie and television characters who wrestle with the decision (Dr. Abby Lockhart on ER, for example) almost always choose life.

That's why even pro-choice filmmakers choose life in the end. Juno is a good example. The pregnant teenage girl approaches an abortion clinic and meets a pro-life friend who informs her that the baby has a heartbeat, can feel pain, and already has fingernails. Juno chooses "to appreciate her miracle."

Similarly, in a 2009 episode of Law and Order ("Dignity"), a female attorney seeking justice for a murdered abortion doctor is shaken by a description of partial-birth abortion. "I grew up thinking Roe v. Wade was gospel," she says. Now, "I don't know where my freedom ends and the dignity of another being begins."

The media is not leading the way when it comes to the pro-life cause. It's only catching up to the sweeping pro-life sentiments of the majority of Americans. Yet the shift in popular culture reflects the progress the pro-life argument has made.

3) Young People

Sixteen-year-old singing sensation, Justin Bieber, was recently asked by Rolling Stone for his position on abortion: "I really don't believe in abortion," he said, since abortion is "like killing a baby." Bieber is not alone. The sea of young faces at this year's annual "March for Life" in Washington prompted NARAL (National Abortion Rights Action League) President Nancy Keenan to worry: "There are so many of them, and they are so young."

Bieber, ironically enough, was castigated by Barbara Walters for answering questions inappropriate for a person of his age -- even though girls can actually receive abortions, and not merely opine on them, at ages younger than 16. That a veteran journalist like Walters fails to see the inconsistency in her position is a testament to how entrenched are the ideas among the older generation of abortion advocates.

4) The Third Wave

John Ensor of Heartbeat International writes: "In the first wave, Catholics took the lead is declaring the inherent evil of abortion. Evangelicals then flooded in to help advance the pregnancy help movement. The Third Wave points to the victory of our movement and the downfall of abortion as a business, when Black and Hispanic Christians not only join this movement, but lead it."

A few months ago, a billboard in New York City featured a picture of an African-American girl with the message "The most dangerous place for an African-American is in the womb." Many found the ad "racist" and thought it condemned black women for having abortions. Lost in the controversy was the actual point of the advertisement: abortion clinics target poor minorities in the inner city. Although the billboard was taken down, it pointed to the troubling racial history of abortion. When YouTube videos began making the rounds, showing the overtly racist agenda of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger, some pro-choice advocates were forced to reconsider their assumptions.

5) Abortion Advocates on the Defensive

While Roe still stands, legislators in numerous states have begun chipping away at the implications of that decision. Supporting their efforts is increasing evidence of corruption at abortion clinics.

Planned Parenthood's advocates have sought to redirect the discussion by pointing to all the other health care services their clinics provide for low-income women. But implicit in Planned Parenthood's downplaying of abortion and emphasizing of other services is a stunning admission: abortion is a problem. Planned Parenthood's talking points indicate that fewer and fewer Americans can stomach the idea of "abortion as health care."

And then there is the admission that abortion is a "tragic choice." On a recent episode of The View, Whoopi Goldberg explained her reason for being pro-choice: the low-income woman who already has too many children. When confronted about women who simply get abortions out of convenience, she called them "idiots." Why does Whoopi have such a visceral reaction to abortion-for-convenience? Because she's an inconsistent advocate of abortion rights: she recognizes that the fetus is a human being and that abortion snuffs out this life. The fact that she (and others like her) sees abortion as a "tragic choice" implicitly speaks to the immorality of the procedure.

Conclusion

The tipping point in favor of the pro-life cause is not evident to all. Time magazine recently chose Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards for their 100 Most Influential List (a decision akin to choosing segregationist George Wallace over crusader Martin Luther King, Jr.). There is much work to be done.

The abortion debate will not go away. The fundamental issue at stake is not reproductive freedom but the desire to extend human rights to all -- even the smallest and most vulnerable human beings among us. Those who continue to ignore or deny the humanity of the unborn are increasingly on the defensive because new technologies are opening the window into the womb. What we find there are not tissues to be discarded, but human lives worth protecting.

The victim Jose Guerena was a former U.S. Marine. He was protecting his wife and child from what he thought was a home invasion.

Vanessa Guerena is the widow of Jose Guerena. She said her and her husband did not know that the men breaking into her home were SWAT officers.

I watched the video. If nothing else, the police lied about the victim firing the first shot.

This story makes me sick.

Amen.

Yes. Just like you said earlier about "no hate crime, just crime".

Just people who think and live like animals acting like animals.

It is sad that there are people who think and live and act like this.

Also, I get upset when I read here on this forum some otherwise intelligent and upstanding conservative people cheering on this person's beating because of how he somehow deserved it for being transgender.

Yes, if he was guitly of breaking the law or harassing a woman, he should be punished for it.

But this person did not deserve to be attacked because of who he is or how he was dressed or whatever transgender medicines or surgery he had.

To say he deserved this attack for being living like he was living is to support what the attackers did. I will not support crime, not even against someone whom I do not care for or even have strong nehgative feelings about.

Either we all have the same rights or none of us do.

When dealing with people who share my Conservative views, I think of a line from the movie Harvey. It is one of my favorites, “You can be oh so smart or oh so pleasant”.

Although many of us here on FR may disagree on different topics, I strive to be pleasant. Whatever our views, I understand that I could never find a group of such well informed and intelligent people to discuss the issues of the day. I know everyone here sincerely cares about our wonderful Country and the welfare of our fellow Citizens.

When it comes to dealing with Liberals, I can be oh so smart, but I prefer sarcastic. They are all lunatics IMHO and must be treated as such.

Thank you for being pleasant, even when you disagree with someone.

Not everyone here does that.

We are not merely animals. We are more than that.

Human individuals are created in the image of God and have rights endowed by their creator.

We live in a society that provides for social order and protects people's rights. These rules of behavior are enforced by law. Without these rules society descends into anarchy (like the situation which apparently exists in the urban areas where these kinds of attacks occur).

The same people who attacked this transgender person would likely just as soon attack you for your (assuming you are a white male) "white male privilege". Maybe you can fight pretty good. Well, they can get more people and grab baseball bats and so on, until they are able to finally beat you down. When later caught, they will say that you muttered the "N" word to set them off.

That by using this excuse they simply confirm by their own admittance that they are nothing but animals with no ability to think before acting and no self control seems lost on them...

But we are not like them. We are not human animals that deserve to be locked behind barbed wire and thick concrete walls and kept in cages for the safety of civil society. Don't be like them.

One day I hope to be in law enforcement, and then I will be an active part of protecting people and society. And I will protect ALL of those whom I am sworn to protect.

Thank you for your answer.