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A crack soldier who was an ultra-tough Navy Seal has done one of the bravest things of his life - had gender reassignment surgery to become a woman. Chris Beck sported a beard during his 20 years in the US Army and was detailed on an assortment of deadly missions as a member of the unit that took out terrorist mastermind Osama Bin Laden in a daring raid. But now the facial growth is gone and transgender Beck has started wearing skirts in his new life as a "warrior princess". It is quite a change for a person steeped in...

There was a buzz at the White House on Thursday when President Barack Obama announced the nomination of two top financial regulatory officials. A large fly interrupted the president as he presented his picks to head the Securities and Exchange Commission and a watchdog for financial consumer products. Under bright television lights, the fly darted around the president's head as he spoke in the White House's ornate State Dining Room, alighting briefly on the middle of his forehead.

Just how much do Obama supporters love the president? MRCTV was at the National Mall for the Inaugural celebration and asked attendees what position Obama would hold if they had to rank all U.S. president's from best to worst. Keep in mind, that Obama has only just started his second term. I'm sure if it goes as smoothly as his first, his legacy will shine even more brightly in the eyes of these supporters. http://mrctv.org/videos/where-will-obama-rank-presidential-history

President Barack Obama will be taking the oath of office for the second time on Jan. 21, 2013. And atheists want him to do so without mentioning "God" and without a Bible. The Freedom From Religion Foundation sent Obama a letter following his re-election, asking him to reject the way "this country politicizes religion." "When you stand to reaffirm your oath, do so using the language of the Founders. Eliminate the religious verbiage. While you're at it, why not place your hand on the Constitution instead of a bible?" FFRF attorney Andrew L. Seidel wrote in the letter. The words...

(CNSNews.com) – Figurines of President Barack Obama are being put in nativity scenes in shops in Naples, Italy for the Christmas season. Craftsman Marco Ferrigno told Reuters on Nov. 7 that Obama’s reelection sparked the production. "Every time a major event occurs we create a new figurine and today after Obama's victory, we have made a new figurine of Obama and will put him in our ideal nativity scene,” Ferrigno said. Reuters reported that the shop keepers said bargain hunters could get a “big discount” on figurines of GOP candidate Mitt Romney. Italian fans of Obama said his likeness in...

A week before one of the biggest natural disasters to ever hit the Northeast dissipated the New Jersey shoreline, state officials awarded Radiant RFID a five-year emergency management solution contract to assist with evacuation and emergency tracking during catastrophic events. Texas-based Radiant, which also has contracts with Texas, North Carolina and the city of Boston, will provide the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness (OHSP) with an RFID-based evacuation solution that tracks evacuees, pets, emergency transport vehicles, and commodities deployed at state shelters in preparation for and in the event of a hurricane, natural disaster or other incident...

They don't want to take their country back. They just want to leave it behind. As the dust settles in the wake of President Obama's decisive reelection last Tuesday, the White House petition website has been flooded by a series of secession requests, with malcontents from New Jersey to North Dakota submitting petitions to allow their states to withdraw from the union. Most of the petitions submitted thus far have come from solidly conservative states, including most of the Deep South and reliably separatist Texas. But a handful come from the heart of blue America - relatively progressive enclaves like...

At an interfaith conference bringing together Jewish leaders and Protestant Christian pastors outside Jerusalem this week, several of the Christian representatives painted a very worrying picture about the future of relations between Israel and the mainstream Church. While an estimated tens of millions of individual Christians around the world love and support the Jewish state, many of the mainline Protestant churches have been actively boycotting Israel, encouraging pro-Palestinian activism and demanding that Western governments stop sending aid to Jerusalem. One of the main Christian representatives at the conference was Rev. Paul Wilkinson, associate minister at Hazel Grove Full Gospel Church...

Dan 12:11 tells us plainly: "from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate SET UP, there shall be 1290 days." Elsewhere in the Bible we are told Israel (Daniel's people) are given 1260 days: OBAMA PROMISES A (COVENANT)TO MANY HOPE AND CHANGE Barack Obama 30 minute Infomercial Part 1 Oct. 29, 2008 www.chatroulettecam.com Watch Barack Obama TONIGHT WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 29, 2008 ON CBS, NBC, FOX television at 8 pm ! Half-hour paid political commercial. Barack Obama has purchased a 30 Minute Prime time tv spot on CBS NBC scheduled to air...

M7.7 - 139km S of Masset, Canada 2012-10-28 03:04:08 UTC Event Time 2012-10-28 03:04:08 UTC 2012-10-27 20:04:08 UTC-07:00 at epicenter 2012-10-27 20:04:08 UTC-07:00 system time Location 52.774°N 131.843°W depth=9.9km (6.2mi) Nearby Cities 139km (86mi) S of Masset, Canada 199km (124mi) SSW of Prince Rupert, Canada 288km (179mi) SW of Terrace, Canada 551km (342mi) NW of Campbell River, Canada 636km (395mi) SSE of Juneau, Alaska Related Links

Jews worldwide will simultaneously be part of a unique worldwide Jewish Prayer for Peace and Moshiach at 5 pm Sunday, 11 am EDT. Jews around the world will simultaneous be part of a unique worldwide Jewish Prayer for Peace and Moshiach, the Jewish term for the Savior, at 5 p.m. Sunday, 11 a.m. EDT, three days before Yom Kippur. The idea for Jews to pray together at the same moment is to add power to the prayer to G-d to bring the Moshiach and peace to Jews and to all of the world, explained rabbis. The event will take place...

GRAY STATE SYNOPSIS The world reels with the turmoil of war, geological disaster, and economic collapse, while Americans continue to submerge themselves in illusions of safety and immunity. While rights are sold for security, the federal government, swollen with power, begins a systematic takeover of liberty in order to bring about a New World Order. Americans, quarantined to militarized districts, become a population ripe for tyrannical control. Fearmongering, terrorism, police state, martial law, war, arrest, internment, hunger, oppression, violence, resistance -- these are the new terms by which Americans define their existence. Neighbor is turned against neighbor as the value...

Quite a bit of chatter on the Internet about this photo. Though it looks like it might be some kind of magic trick, the Associated Press photo happens to catch a light at just the right position during President Obama's speech Monday in Council Bluffs, Iowa. "President Obama is a wizard," proclaimed New York magazine. It adds: This photo was not Photoshopped. It was snapped by the AP's Carolyn Kaster while Obama was speaking in Iowa's Bayliss Park yesterday. Probably the part in the speech where Obama told the crowd, "Can Paul Ryan do this? Didn't think so." He then...

In a phone call with the team that brought Curiosity to a successful landing on Mars, President Obama is very clear that Martians, should they exist, would be a top priority. With the Olympics still in midstride, and with the arrival of the always exciting NFL exhibition games, you might perhaps have missed that a spacecraft landed on Mars a few days ago to express our human curiosity. President Obama, however, has made it very clear that, should little beings be found out there, they will immediately become his top priority. Indeed, in a phone call today with the Curiosity...

There's only one way the foreign DNA could have made it into modern human populations. "We're talking about sex," said Joshua Akey of the University of Washington, whose lab identified the foreign DNA in three groups of modern Africans. The human family tree just got another — mysterious — branch, an African "sister species" to the heavy-browed Neanderthals that once roamed Europe. While no fossilized bones have been found from these enigmatic people, they did leave a calling card in present-day Africans: snippets of foreign DNA. There's only one way that genetic material could have made it into modern human...

Saudi Arabia (MNN) ― Mission Network News hardly ever talks about ministry in Saudi Arabia. It's not because it's not happening. It is. But it's one of the most difficult places to be a Christian, let alone do ministry. That's what makes this next story so profound. "Maryam" is a Saudi woman, and she's done something so unusual she's taking the internet by storm. According to Mahabat News, she is the first modern day Saudi woman to announce her faith in Jesus Christ on YouTube. Todd Nettleton with Voice of the Martyrs is amazed. "To see a Saudi woman put...

Please watch this video! HAS ISRAEL ENTERED INTO A COVENANT WITH DEATH ON JULY 27, 2012 THE 9TH OF AV??? H.R. 4133: United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of 2012 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/hr4133/text Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves: Isa 28:15 BREAKING NEWS 7/27 Obama SIGNS bill to STRENGTHEN SECURITY cooperation with Israel H.R. 4133, the United States-Israel Enhanced Security Cooperation Act of...

PITTSBURGH — As weather disasters strike with more frequency, homeowners first get hit with the destruction or total loss of property. Many are then hit with the unexpected loss of homeowners insurance policies as insurance companies re-evaluate their financial liabilities. After a tornado ripped through Springfield, Massachusetts, last year, R. Paula Lazzari's home was badly damaged. The retired teacher found broken windows, missing siding and a damaged roof. Her insurer offered to fund repairs for one broken window and some of the siding. It took nine months -- and mediation services from an independent adjuster and the Massachusetts Division of...

Maariv reports Israeli rep at talks with PA said Israel would be content with security arrangements on eastern border. Israel does not demand sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and for all practical purposes cedes this sovereignty, according to a report in the daily Maariv about ongoing talks in Jordan between Israel and the Palestinian Authority (PA). According to an unconfirmed report by the paper's senior political writer, Ben Kaspit, the Prime Minister's emissary, Attorney Yitzchak Molcho, said at the talks that Israel does not demand sovereignty over the Jordan Valley and will be content with strict security arrangements along the...

A powerful solar eruption, the largest since May 2005 according to NOAA, is expected to blast a stream of charged particles toward Earth, which could force planes to be re-routed.