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Where is the Moslem Aid to Haiti?

By Steve on January 18, 2010 Leave a Comment

Hmmm. The largest emergency field hospital operating in Port au Prince is run by the Israeli Defense Force (IDF). “It has a staff of over 40 doctors, with different specialists, nurses, paramedics and features a maternity ward, ICU, pediatrics unit, internal medicine department, a pharmacy, and operating rooms. The hospital can treat up to 500 patients a day.”

Where is the millions of dollars of aid from the oil-rich Islamic countries? Anyone? Anyone? Could it be that islam doesn’t care for distressed infidels, while the West (and Israel) bend over backward to bring aid and comfort?

‘By their works you shall know them.’ Indeed.

(HT: Weasel Zippers)

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Has Google Grown a Conscience?

By Steve on January 12, 2010 2 Comments

The Chinese are HUGE cyber-terrorists.  Recently they launched yet another attack on western entities that may have had the aim of identifying and compromising human rights activists.  Google is ‘concerned’ and may be rifling through its own server farms in search of a backbone.  Or not. No word on whether their new approach to China will involve a stern letter – or just an email with frowny emoticons.

(HT: Matt Mullenweg)

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Mount of the Holy Cross

By Steve on December 31, 2009 1 Comment

Vanderleun has an excellent end of year piece on on a piece of the continent in my neck of the woods – the Mount of the Holy Cross. Interesting and maddening how its meaning and impact have diminished over time.

Read the whole piece, but this pretty well sums it up,

President Herbert Hoover finally designated the site the Mountain of the Holy Cross National Monument in 1929. This lasted as long as the Holy Cross on the mountain itself. Over the years both visitation to the Mountain and the right arm of the cross fell off and the Federal designation was revoked in 1950.

Mount of the Holy Cross

Mount of the Holy Cross postcard

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Heard at a Gas Station: Christ is Born

By Steve on December 18, 2009 1 Comment

Yeah, the country is going to hell in a handbasket. Congress wants to take over 1/6 of the economy, and what’s left will go the UN and a boatload of third-world nations in global warming reparations. Is there hope? You betcha – I heard it at a gas station. I was gassing up at a decidedly secular station when I heard,

“With the angelic host proclaim:
“Christ is born in Bethlehem”
Hark! The herald angels sing
“Glory to the newborn King!”

No biggie, it’s Christmas, right? The folks at the gas station may not have been believers; maybe the boss said to play some Christmas music and they played whatever was handy. It struck me that no matter how vigorously our culture shakes its collective fists at God, He will be heard. We can bemoan the sad state of society, with its petty debauchery and vice, or we can rejoice that the King of Glory is come and is in control.

Why do the nations conspire and the peoples plot in vain?

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together against the LORD and against his Anointed One.

“Let us break their chains,” they say, “and throw off their fetters.”

The One enthroned in heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at them.

Then he rebukes them in his anger and terrifies them in his wrath, saying,

“I have installed my King on Zion, my holy hill.” (Psalm 2:1-6, NIV)

God is king and lord of all that is seen and unseen. Even at the gas station.

Merry Christmas!

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