Thought Crime

Gracious Spirit dwell with me;
I myself would gracious be,
And with words that help and heal
Would thy life in mine reveal,
And with actions bold and meek
Would for Christ my Saviour speak.

Thursday, April 28, 2005

There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20




From Email Essentials


In the early days of the Internet, harmless fun could be had passing along a fun joke but these days it is generally considered a nuisance. And it can be more than a nuisance.

Part of the problem is that the 'jokes' are often forwarded without any editing. There's often many, nested quote marks from having been forwarded so many times. This makes the humor content much harder to read.

Worse still, each forwarding often includes the email addresses of all the previous recipients. If this message is seen on an infected computer all those addresses can be 'farmed' and become targets for virus infection.

A sure sign of a novice email user is the unedited subject line that has lots of Re: and Fw: tags in the front.

If you do send on jokes via email, be considerate to your fellow emailers.Change the subject line to just the original heading.Consider prefacing the subject with a word like JOKE: or FUNNY: some companies insist on staff doing this for non-business related messages and it seems a good way to distinguish these messages from 'normal' email.Edit the message down so only the main text of the joke remains.Remove all quote marks > etc Remove all mentions of previous senders and receivers.

And finally, be aware that some of these jokes are less than tasteful and might not be appreciated by some people who get your forwarded attempt at humor.

WorldNetDaily Commentary
Is the Pope Catholic?
Craige McMillan


The media's favored agenda isn't hard to discern if you can still rub two brain cells together. More abortions - better, faster and cheaper. "Choice" - as long as its a leftist choice - is what makes America great.

"Sex before eight, or it's too late," taught in the public schools with extra credit awarded for homosexual encounters. Socialized medicine, because somebody has to pay for all the sexually transmitted diseases and AIDS medicine - heaven knows, the participants can't afford it.

Schools, hospitals and universities forced to provide generous services to illegal immigrants as if they were legal citizens. While we're at it, let's make sure it's easy for these illegal immigrants to vote. We wouldn't want real Americans who have arrived here legally, "worked hard and played by the rules" to determine the outcome of our elections. They might not want to pay for the media's socialist agenda. And don't forget the "hate crime laws" to shield reporters from giving equal time to opposing views.
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Site Seeing:
-- PERL Programming resource: CPAN as in the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network.
-- I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.
-- Dru Blair's Art of Technology.
-- Hate the latest version and wishing you could go back?
-- Improve your graphics skills at graphics.com.
-- Magazine: Reformed Presbyterian Witness



Prayer Request:

  • For our Kenya team as we prepares for our short-term missionary trip in June. For health, financial, spiritual issues as well as team building.
  • Margi and Larry, who have significant issues of health, and for their family during this trial. (long term)
  • Tim and Debby, as Tim continues to struggle with his recovery, and for their family during this time of crisis. (long term)
  • Danny, a young man who recently made Eagle scout has stage one melanoma. Please keep him in prayer while he undergoes medical treatment (chemo/radiation). Also, please keep his family in prayer! (long term)


Thursday, April 21, 2005

I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile. Romans 1:16






"I have been a card-carrying Republican since 1963, when my candidate Barry Goldwater suggested cutting off the northeast and letting it float out to sea. It was a good idea back then, and it still has some merit. Too many Republicans up there are born without backbones -- which in the Republican Party is a communicable disease. Any other Republicans currently feeling their knee muscles turning to jelly should wrap their knees tightly, stick a ramrod up their dorsal side and get back in the fight. They should remember the political maxim that while the law will take care of the guilty, when a politician is innocent of the charges being thrown at him, he can only be brought down by his own side. ... Human sacrifice had been almost completely extinguished with the passing of the Aztecs -- until the Republican Party came along. ... If a party can be stampeded -- by phony charges and a run of shoddy stories in whorish newspapers -- into dumping their most effective congressional leader, I wouldn't give two cents for their near term future. A party that would voluntarily cut off its own [manhood] and FedEx them to their opponent as a trophy is not likely to manifest any regenerative powers. That's the thing about losing those organs." --Tony Blankley

Reminds me of the Wonderworks, downtown Orlando
Wes Pruden
Trying To Play The Jesus Card
But merely to speak of God, and particularly to speak of Jesus, sets atheist hair, where there is any, afire. Mocking faith, and particularly the faith of Christians, has become the sport of secularists. Writes Los Angeles Times columnist Burt Prelutsky, who takes pains to identify himself as a Jew: "Anti-Semitism is no longer a problem in society - it's been replaced by a rampant anti-Christianity."
...read article...


Newsworthy:
Rather sad! College taught her not to be a heterosexual


Words:
As Ravi Zacharias powerfully observes, sovereignty is not tyrannical when it is bounded by goodness. Holiness it is not tortuous when it is tempered by grace. Omniscience is not taunting when it is coupled with mercy, and immutability is not suppressive when it is certain of good will.


Prayer Request:

  • For our Kenya team as we prepares for our short-term missionary trip in June. For health, financial, spiritual issues as well as team building.
  • Margi and Larry, who have significant issues of health, and for their family during this trial. (long term)
  • Tim and Debby, as Tim continues to struggle with his recovery, and for their family during this time of crisis. (long term)
  • Danny, a young man who recently made Eagle scout has stage one melanoma. Please keep him in prayer while he undergoes medical treatment (chemo/radiation). Also, please keep his family in prayer! (long term)


Tuesday, April 19, 2005

For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. 1 Corinthians 15:3-5


Site Seeing:
==> Compelling! Twin Towers II Design
==> Fantasy Planes
==> World's ugliest car.
==> How Stuff Works

==> Childhood's end.
==> I been here before.
==> High-flying photography.


Must Reads:

Just a little over the top. Better to be red-inked now than pink-slipped later.
Ann Coulter on Food and Debate: It's only funny until someone loses a pie.
AP reported the conviction but not the connection: CAIR leader convicted on terror charges


WorldNetDaily Commentary:

The Watchman Tom Ambrose
Posted: April 12, 2005
From a strictly humanistic point of view, the homosexual community preaches tolerance to compel people to accept their deviant lifestyle, but they certainly don't practice tolerance when people exercise their choice to disagree.
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Prayer Request:

  • For our Kenya team as we prepares for our short-term missionary trip in June. For health, financial, spiritual issues as well as team building.
  • Margi and Larry, who have significant issues of health, and for their family during this trial. (long term)
  • Tim and Debby, as Tim continues to struggle with his recovery, and for their family during this time of crisis. (long term)
  • Danny, a young man who recently made Eagle scout has stage one melanoma. Please keep him in prayer while he undergoes medical treatment (chemo/radiation). Also, please keep his family in prayer! (long term)


Sunday, April 10, 2005

If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the Word that I said to you, ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My Word, they will keep yours also. John 15:18-20


From Weird Acronyms & Tech Term Oddities
Webopedia Definitions: BLOB | Blowfish | choke packet | color super-twist nematic | Cuckoo Egg | dummy | GoogleWhack | honeypot | jitter buffer | jitter buster | smurf | tarball | typosquatting | VoWiFi | Wi-Fi5 | Wolfpack | zombie
zombie: While many think the term zombie is in reference to one of the many 3D PC games out there, a zombie is actually a bit more serious than that. In the world of UNIX, a zombie refers to a "child" program that was started by a "parent" program but then abandoned by the parent. Zombie is also used to describe a computer that has been implanted with a daemon that puts it under the control of a malicious hacker without the knowledge of the computer owner. No matter what definition you choose for the word zombie, it is still pretty scary stuff!
Iraqi TV: Actors in the Insurgency Are Reluctant TV Stars
Important INFO: Right to Life Living Will site.


The Virtue Deficit
From Breakpoint: Stonecipher, Sex, and Business Ethics
As Rae puts it, "The founders of our nation believed that the democratic experiment would work only if the citizens are virtuous. Contrary to popular belief, total liberty was never their intent. Rather, their vision was one of ‘ordered’ or ‘restrained’ liberty—that is, freedom tempered by morals and character."
...more...

Prayer Request:

  • For the Athens Team who are now working in Athens with various groups of refuges.
  • For our Kenya team as we prepares for our short-term missionary trip in June. For health, financial, spiritual issues as well as team building.
  • Margi and Larry, who have significant issues of health, and for their family during this trial. (long term)
  • Tim and Debby, as Tim continues to struggle with his recovery, and for their family during this time of crisis. (long term)
  • Danny, a young man who recently made Eagle scout has stage one melanoma. Please keep him in prayer while he undergoes medical treatment (chemo/radiation). Also, please keep his family in prayer! (long term)

Sunday, April 03, 2005

Consider carefully what you hear," he continued. "With the measure you use, it will be measured to you -- and even more. Whoever has will be given more; whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him." Mark 4:24-25




FREDERICK HART
Thoughts:
==> President is out on the hustings - Differences in political libidos
==> Hmmm, sounds like another editorial masquerading as a question. To the history books! - The Iraq war - America's most unpopular?
==> Move history lessons: Remembering Okinawa: Dealing with suicide bombers - 60 years ago

How We Die: Choice and Chance
Along with all of its unexpected political implications, the Schiavo case has had the effect of exposing the enormous gap between what Americans imagine death should be like and what death actually is like for most people in the 21st century. A hundred years ago, when average life expectancy was 47, people who got sick either recovered or died quickly. Now that life expectancy is 75, most Americans will spend at least two years of their lives too disabled, one way or another, to care for themselves without help.
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Prayer Request:

  • For our Kenya team as we prepares for our short-term missionary trip in June. For health, financial, spiritual issues as well as team building.
  • Margi and Larry, who have significant issues of health, and for their family during this trial. (long term)
  • Tim and Debby, as Tim continues to struggle with his recovery, and for their family during this time of crisis. (long term)
  • Danny, a young man who recently made Eagle scout has stage one melanoma. Please keep him in prayer while he undergoes medical treatment (chemo/radiation). Also, please keep his family in prayer! (long term)