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I’d like to congratulate my brother Ben, for successfully starting his own company; Inland Empire Pool Guard. It’s, of course, located in the Inland Empire, and it specializes in installing removable pool fences around pools. With all the laws these days concerning drowning, its actually almost a requirement to install a pool fence around your pool, with removable pool fences, you save a lot of money being that they are made of mesh rather than rod iron. also they can be removed, hence the wording “removable pool fences”, so if you have a party or whatever, you wont have a fence getting in your way. Anyway, I’m not a salesmen so if you need a pool fence, check out his website: InlandEmpirePoolFence.com
I like the real story of Thanksgiving… as told by the right.
On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
“But this was no pleasure cruise, friends. The journey to the New World was a long and arduous one. And when the Pilgrims landed in New England in November, they found, according to Bradford’s detailed journal, a cold, barren, desolate wilderness,” destined to become the home of the Kennedy family. “There were no friends to greet them, he wrote. There were no houses to shelter them. There were no inns where they could refresh themselves. And the sacrifice they had made for freedom was just beginning. During the first winter, half the Pilgrims – including Bradford’s own wife – died of either starvation, sickness or exposure.
“When spring finally came, Indians taught the settlers how to plant corn, fish for cod and skin beavers for coats.” Yes, it was Indians that taught the white man how to skin beasts. “Life improved for the Pilgrims, but they did not yet prosper! This is important to understand because this is where modern American history lessons often end. “Thanksgiving is actually explained in some textbooks as a holiday for which the Pilgrims gave thanks to the Indians for saving their lives, rather than as a devout expression of gratitude grounded in the tradition of both the Old and New Testaments. Here is the part [of Thanksgiving] that has been omitted: The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store, and each member of the community was entitled to one common share.
“All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well. They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. Nobody owned anything. They just had a share in it. It was a commune, folks. It was the forerunner to the communes we saw in the ’60s and ’70s out in California – and it was complete with organic vegetables, by the way. Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace.
“That’s right. Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism. And what happened? It didn’t work! Surprise, surprise, huh? What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild’s history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering in the future.
“‘The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years…that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,’ Bradford wrote. ‘For this community [so far as it was] was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men’s wives and children without any recompense…that was thought injustice.’ Why should you work for other people when you can’t work for yourself? What’s the point?“Do you hear what he was saying, ladies and gentlemen? The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford’s community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result? ‘This had very good success,’ wrote Bradford, ‘for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.’ Bradford doesn’t sound like much of a…” I wrote “Clintonite” then. He doesn’t sound much like a liberal Democrat, “does he? Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? Yes.
“Read the story of Joseph and Pharaoh in Genesis 41. Following Joseph’s suggestion (Gen 41:34), Pharaoh reduced the tax on Egyptians to 20% during the ’seven years of plenty’ and the ‘Earth brought forth in heaps.’ (Gen. 41:47) In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves…. So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the ‘Great Puritan Migration.’” Now, other than on this program every year, have you heard this story before? Is this lesson being taught to your kids today — and if it isn’t, why not? — Rush Limbaugh
Word Press today announced the new multiuser version, named WordPress MU.
WordPress, the open source way to blog announced it’s new Multi-user blog software today. Named WordPress MU, for people like me who host and manage many blogs, as a writer and website consultant, the idea that I can easily manage multiple users is great. Check out more at WordPress.org - Jon Burgess
The guide has been a bit dry, but we’re back up to speed, check back soon.
Things that we have soon,
Atleast someone is making sense these days,
BAGHDAD — A thinner but combative Saddam Hussein said yesterday he would rather die by firing squad like a soldier than hang “like a common criminal,” as the defiant ex-president made his final appearance before the tribunal until it renders a verdict. - The Washington Times
Ever wonder what they really talk about on Al Jazeera? Well I came accross a site that translates it for you. Memritv.org aka the Middle East Media Research Institute. It’s fair to say, they hate us westerners, especially us Americans. Here are two videos that show an Arab American arguing with Al Jazeera about why they want to kill. There are also videos of clearics telling kids to be terrorists and such. It is clear that they dont want to kill us because we are encroaching on them, they want to kill us because we are infidels.
Johnny Cash…although old and has been around a long time, is a passing fad. He has all this popularity from the movie “Walk The Line” with Joaqin Pheonix and so it’s cool to like Johnny Cash right now. He’s really bad though. He doesn’t hit the notes at all. Maybe he’s a good songwriter, but seriously, his voice is weak and boring. Sadly, he would be laughed off the stage at American Idol. And ring of fire is not that good. Out.
As a person involved in starting discussions of the two things you’re not supposed to bring up (politics and religion) I feel it necessary to point out that while everyone involved in the dialogue has their own perspective, it’s important to listen to what the other has to say. A conversation with someone will be much more enlightening than spouting of facts that seem to prove one’s point. When discussing matters of disagreement, I ask myself, “What’s right about what the other person has to say?” None of us know everything. Let’s stop pretending that we do and try to learn something new.
The fact of the matter is that in the canonical gospels, there are many contradictions of stories. Some of the obvious ones are the time frames of the synoptics (Mark, Matthew, Luke) compared to John, the differences of the passion and birth narratives, even as technical as the genealogies of Jesus differ. Not only this, but theologically one must consider the differences between Hebrews, James, and Revelation compared with the rest of the New Testament. And then there’s the differences between the Hebrew Bible and the New Testament. The differences are endless. But does that mean that Christianity is based on lies?
NO!
First of all, most of the differences are insignificant compared with the broader message of the texts that are generally in agreement (mostly because if the texts had said something completely contradictory they would not have made it into the Bible at all), nevertheless, there are important differences - but that does not make the entirety of Christian Scriptures untrustworthy.
Something can be true and not historical. For instance, in the move Platoon, there is a really great scene where charlie sheen and tom beringer get in a fight over how to treat the vietnamese. This obviously is a fictional story, but it’s profoundly true in the sense that it shows the struggles of the soldiers and american society. In the same way, the texts of the Bible are not true because of their historical accuracy, although in some instances that is necessary, the majority of the stories about Jesus are important because they point to larger theological truths.
For someone to read Jesus’ resurrection of Lazarus as a guidebook for how to raise people from the dead would be foolish, that’s not what it is. The point of the story is not how to raise people from the dead, or even that Jesus did it, the point of it is to show Jesus’ compassion for those he loved. Truth is bigger than history.
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