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“The Hope That Is In You . . . Comes Out You” (1 Peter 3:13-22)During this Easter season, we are hearing a lot about hope. A few weeks ago the Epistle reading from 1 Peter 1 told us that God “has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.” Last week’s sermon said that we in the church are “Living in Camp Hope,” that we have hope for an eternal future because our Lord Christ has gone to prepare a place for us. Hope--the hope that we have in...

Tonight is the 94th annual WH Correspondents' Dinner. Great stuff. Tune if if you can and enjoy!

Deadline moved for federal lacrosse suit By Ray Gronberg : The Herald-Sun gronberg@heraldsun.com Apr 26, 2008 DURHAM -- Lawyers on both sides of one of the three federal civil-rights lawsuits stemming from the Duke lacrosse case have agreed to move back a deadline for the city government and Duke University to file dismissal motions. Defense motions in the case filed by unindicted lacrosse players Breck Archer, Ryan McFadyen and Matt Wilson had been due Friday. But instead, lawyers for the players, the city, Duke and other defendants agreed to wait until July 2. The delay will give defense lawyers time...

The garden of liberal hate and paranoia is a lush one when left on its own, but sprinkle that with a little Operation Chaos® plant food and it becomes a Rush garden. As you know, for months now, Rush Limbaugh has been encouraging his listeners to prolong the Democrat primary by crossing over and voting for Hillary to keep her in the race. Whether this is actually happening is difficlt to say, but one thing is for sure: Hillary's campaign has experienced a resurgence, and it is becoming more and more apparent that the Clinton campaign intends to take...

LieStoppers Forum Hacked Someone hacked into the LieStoppers Forum and brought down the board. Be very wary of anything posted on LieStoppers Forum at this time. We expect false information to be spread. We will update you Posted by LieStoppers at 1:29 PM 6 comments Links to this post

Periodically people take a look at the plateauing of oil reserve discoveries and oil production and compare that to the rapid increases in demand – particularly as China and India become more industrialized. They then declare that “peak” oil supplies have been reached, and the world will soon be plunged into a struggle for the remaining supplies. I made this mistake a couple of years ago, when I also concluded that the “peak” was upon us. Now, we all know that something weird is going on in oil markets as the price of oil and gasoline is advancing in large...

Hillary Clinton's threat to "obliterate" Iran, in an ABC interview broadcast just as the voters of Pennsylvania prepared to head to the polls this morning, doesn't appear to have been particularly well received by anyone other than the hard right, which is somewhat telling as to where the former first lady is pitching her policies - or at least campaign pledges - these days. While one assumes that her campaign must have known what she was planning, it too seemed a little taken aback at just how belligerent and absolute her language was: it spent a large part of last...

Liestoppers, LIESTOPPERS, the blog dedicated to discussing and investigating the Duke Lacrosse case has been Hacked and is down and out. The attack was in two parts and I witnessed part of it myself in logs. In My Humble Opinion, aka, IMHO or Immy from Talkleft and Skakel murder sites, hacked the site. Her real name is YVONNE YVETTE YOCOM Y Y YOCOM YVONNE Y YOCOM 1/1/1956 (Age: 52) 8/1956 (Age: 51) 1/31/1957 (Age: 50) 758 LODGEWOOD CT SAN JOSE CA 95120-2221 Nov 93 - Oct 06 (408) 268-9276 - Active YOCOM Y Y 750 LODGEWOOD CT SAN JOSE CA...

The Death of Certainty -- Crime & Action in the Early American Republic A pattern is emerging in my reading of "then-versus-now." When a series of 1770 colonial newspaper thefts are discovered, the publisher of the paper, (not the 18th century equivalent of an anonymous email poster) calls the perpetrators "mean, low-lived fellows," whose "souls" were not "large enough to be at the trifling expense of a News Paper."When the British parliament lays an illegal tax on British North America, the little town of Exeter New Hampshire, in the officially stated will of the town, doesn't pull any punches in...

With evidence (that global warming is a hoax) finally starting to percolate into the MSM, eventually someone is going to break and admit that it's all been a fraud. Who do you think will be the first prominent Warmist to 'fess up to the Big Lie? Someone in the public eye -- politician, Hollywood-type, media whore, etc.

This video arrangement is of family pets and the love we receive from our every day life shared with our pets. The song is Southern Gospel, “Saved by the Hands”, sung by Ivan Parker. The pets in our family are cats, dogs, and parakeet. Also in the video, is my wife, some children, some grandchildren and myself.

No bear wants to be a perma-pessimist, ever waiting for the sky to fall. So, sunk in a deep armchair with an optimistic bottle of Rioja (Baron De Ley Reserva), I have tried to tot up reasons why the great credit smash-up of 2007-2008 may now be safely over, heralding sunlit uplands once again. 1) Ben Bernanke has carried out the most dramatic rescue since the creation of the US Federal Reserve. His emergency rate cuts - 125 basis points over eight days in January - was a "game changer", as they say in London’s American Quarter, Canary Wharf. By...

You know, with all of the hand wringing going on in the Mishblogha over Andy Hammond's capital idea of bringing Operation Chaos to Big Sky Country it's becomes instructive to look at what the batshit progressive asylum community planned for Mitt Romney during the Michigan primary. Meanwhile, poor Mitt Romney, who’s suffered back-to-back losses in the last week, desperately needs to win Michigan in order to keep his campaign afloat. Bottom line, if Romney loses Michigan, he's out. If he wins, he stays in. And we want Romney in, because the more Republican candidates we have fighting it out, trashing...

A "What If" parody asking what would happen if Christians acted like Muslims. Uses the blasphemous new Paul Verhoeven book about Jesus as a springboard. Excerpt: "In New York City, Mayor Michael Bloomberg declared a state of emergency this morning as factional fighting between Christian militants paralyzed the city. Elements of the Legion of Mary, Campus Crusade for Christ and the Salvation Army clashed in Manhattan and Queens, while members of the First International Holy Crusade Church of the Power of God in Christ, Inc declared Harlem an autonomous Christian state."

I have had a week from Hades and will be perfectly honest with you all.........I completely and totally FORGOT about this thread yesterday. And so you all have my heartfelt apologies. My brain is pretty much just mush at the moment and so I am just going to share some of my favorite links.Edible LandscapingYou Grow GirlNational Home Gardening Club

We understand that Barack Obama wants Albert Gore to serve as his environmental advisor. All the carnival barkers, medicine show proprietors, and rainmakers seem to be getting together in the same circus tent, and the price of admission is more than the American people can afford. For reference, a rainmaker was a charlatan who would visit desperate communities during droughts. He would display an impressive array of regalia, which might have included artifacts that he had supposedly obtained from Native American medicine men, and offer to make it rain–for a price. The desperate farmers would give him their money, and...

"Scooter Goes To Hell" April 25, 2008 Yonkers, New York OK, this was a weird week. Scooter was totally despondent over being recently fired by Senator Obama. Drinking wine coolers like they were water, he became so obnoxious and surly I was ready to knock the snot out of him. At Cracker Barrel the other night he knocked an old lady into the ceramic cookie jars as he tried to get in front of her. When she protested, he smacked her across the face with one of those big strips of taffy, and got both of us ejected. I decided...

Despite the fact that Laura Ashworth told family and friends she wanted to donate one of her kidneys to her mother, the United Kingdom’s Human Tissue Authority declared that the disposition of the deceased woman’s organs would be determined by normal protocol. “People may believe that their bodies and organs belong to them,” said Carl Marks, spokesman for the Human Tissue Authority. “But they’d be wrong. It is the collective well-being of the nation is the governing factor. The law has declared that bodies and organs are the public’s resources and appointed us to decide how they will be distributed.”...

The NYTs seems to be posed on the brink of a new crusade. They have "uncovered" the fact that the Department of Justice, has - in a time of economic uncertainly and possible contraction - decided to forgo proceedings that might prove as ruinous to companies now coping with the difficulties of the current economic circumstances as were the legal actions that closed the accounting firm of Arthur Anderson in 2002 - leaving 28, 000 of its employees without work as a consequence. Apparently - to the staff of the Times - another "fix" is called for. Perhaps a really...

Rarl Kove" Inventor of Democrat Super Delegate System