Link to original article
June 11, 2010
by Steve Dennis
The Provincetown Massachusetts School Committee has passed a new condom policy that will allow both its high school and ELEMENTARY school to pass out condoms to CHILDREN who request them.
The vote was unanimous but it does come with some controversy within the school committee– although not for the reasons you would think. Those who voted for the policy, but voiced some concerns over the policy are upset that the new policy isn’t liberal enough.
Dr. Beth Singer, school superintendent, argued that since there is no age limit on the distribution policy, she wanted to ensure that younger students requesting condoms receive information on their use.
The quote above is what some on the committee have a problem with. Putting aside for a moment– if possible– the entire fact that it is absolutely ludicrous that the school committee voted to pass out condoms to anyone regardless of age, what is even more ludicrous is the fact that the concern raised about this policy was because students are required to see the nurse to get the condoms.
I don’t like that students can’t be discreet about this,” said school committee member Shannon Patrick. “They have to go and ask for it. I’d rather them not have the conversation [with counselors] and have the condom than not have the condom.”
“I can see some kids opting out because of the conversation. I’m not against [the policy]. I’m just trying to put myself in that teenager’s spot
The concerns raised about this policy center around the fact that a child would have to ask a nurse for a condom; the opponents feel that the condoms should be available without a child even having to ask for them. Asking for them will put too much stress on them and scare them away from getting a condom according to these people.
But this story does not end there; it gets even worse. Written into the policy is the statement that the schools will not honor a parent’s request that their child not be given a condom. The school knows better than the parent and the parent has no say in this matter, that is the message that is being sent by the Provincetown School Committee.
The idea that a twelve year old can go to the school nurse and request a condom even after the parents of that twelve year old have told the school that they do not wish their child be given that condom is unbelievable on its own. But when you couple it with the fact that there are school committee members who believe that the twelve year old should just be able to get the condom from a free condom dispenser in the bathroom– or some other means like this– without at least having to learn how to actually use it is astounding to me.
Somehow educating a CHILD before they give that CHILD a condom is wrong in the minds of those that are supposed to be educating our children. Even having a conversation about sex and condoms is wrong according to some members of the Provincetown School Committee; they believe our CHILDREN are better left in the dark as long as they can get their condom, that is the important thing in their mind. But it isn’t surprising considering that the Provincetown School Committee decided it was okay to hand out condoms to CHILDREN in the first place.
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JMC Ministries Response
Written by Miranda Caverley
Why are they wanting to hand out condoms to children that haven't even hit puberty yet? The reason for a condom is to practice safe sex, to in hope NOT Get Pregnant and NOT get an STD or HIV.
Children in elementary school have not hit puberty and so cannot actually use the condoms. So why do it? In my mind all you will be having is a bunch of little kids running around with these condoms throwing them at each other or going up to complete strangers and saying, "look what my teacher gave me today." (with a wide smile on their face)
Is this what you want your 5-10 year old running around with in their pockets? Then in turn the School is wasting money on giving condoms out to children who REALLY don't know what they are and can't even use them.
Why does Society feel a need to expose children to things that they can't do and really don't even understand? When I was a child I didn't even know what a condom was until I was 15 years old and I am now 29. I also wasn't taught anything about sex or the changes girls go through until I was 11 almost 12. It did me no harm in being taught about the birds and the bees later on. So why do schools feel they have to give these things to little kids?
I also feel that public schools today really are not there to teach today's youth a good education. They are there to push their own agenda and to push whatever "they" think our children should be taught. It's sad you can't hand out a bible to a child in school but you can hand out a condom. Oh how far our country has fallen.
Thursday, June 17, 2010
Ex-Porn Star Speaks at U.S. Capitol to Fight Porn Laws
CNSNews.com
Ex-Porn Star: ‘Porn Destroys Human Lives and is Destroying Our Nation’ Thursday, June 17, 2010
By Nick Dean
Poster illustrating that "pornography is modern-day slavery." (Photo courtesy of ShelleyLubben.com Web site)
Link to original article by CNSNews.com
(CNSNews.com) - Despite six federal obscenity laws currently on the books, illegal hardcore pornography is running rampant on cable television and the Internet -- and federal prosecutions are virtually nonexistent. That needs to change, says a group of researchers and anti-porn activists.
At a briefing held at the U.S. Capitol, researchers and activists, including a former porn movie actress, highlighted the finding of leading researchers on the harm and long-term effects that hardcore pornography has on its viewers -- especially children -- and called on Congress to make the Justice Department to crack down on those who make and distribute illegal pornography.
“We are asking that the prosecution of obscenity laws, which seems to be on hold in this administration, be given a high priority because of the widespread harm we now know hardcore pornography is causing to America,” Patrick Trueman, the group’s spokesman, said. “They’re not doing much at all. So we are asking them to make it a priority.”
The group, which calls itself the Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography, is calling on the Obama administration, Congress, and the Justice Department to elevate the enforcement of obscenity laws it says are being ignored.
"Our efforts today are not partisan because the protection of children, violence against women, addiction and sexual trafficking are not partisan issues. Nor are we here today to quarrel with Attorney General Holder," said Trueman, the former chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice.
Trueman said laws already on the books make it illegal to distribute hardcore pornography on the Internet, by satellite or cable television and in sexually-oriented businesses.
“We are not asking for new laws. We have enough laws. What we are asking is that those laws be vigorously enforced,” Trueman said.
Trueman said the Obama administration isn’t alone – the last s have not spent much time or effort enforcing America’s obscenity laws.
“Rather than aggressively enforcing the law, the Justice Department, through the Bush years and the Clinton years before that, has been prosecuting relatively minor producers and distributors and the impact of those prosecutions is very little,” Trueman said.
Still, he said, on those rare occasions when prosecutions have been made, the government has been successful. Trueman attributes that success to the “community standard” that he said has to “come into play.”
“A jury has to decide whether hardcore material is beyond community standards and every community wants to say that their community is better than that material,” Trueman said.
Though the laws make its distribution illegal, there has been plenty of study into what constitutes “obscene material” – and researchers no longer wonder what is obscene and what isn’t.
“Obscenity is graphic material that focuses on sex or sexual violence,” professor Donna Rice Hughes, the president of Enough is Enough and a lead spokeswoman on keeping Internet safety said during the briefing.
“(Obscenity) includes lewd exhibition of the genitals, close ups of graphic sex acts and deviant activities such as group sex, bestiality and excretory functions,” Hughes said.
Hughes said that the laws do not criminalize the “soft-core” pornography found in some movies and on TV for adults, but it is not legal for children.
“For 15 years, kids have been spoon-fed easy access to Internet pornography; right in the privacy of their own homes or through any electronic device,” Hughes said. “Because obscenity laws have not been enforced, illegal adult pornography has flooded and polluted the Internet.”
Hughes said the reach of adult pornography has grown and has extended to “epidemic proportions.”
Research has proven that 40 percent of first-time Internet porn views occur unintentionally while searching the Internet through a search engine. Another 12 percent come from misspelled words in Web site names. The average age when Americans first view pornography is now between 8- and 11-years-old, Hughes said.
Despite the unlawful nature of hardcore pornography, the coalition said obscene material has a severely negative affect on consumers – and on the actresses involved.
‘Porn destroys human lives’
Former porn movie actress Shelly Luben, founder and director of an outreach group to those working in the adult film industry offering a variety of support and a transition out of the industry, said that the adult film industry is a hostile and volatile industry for its performers.
Sixty-six (66) percent of actors within the porn industry contract herpes and 70 percent of the sexually transmitted infections contracted in the industry occur in women, she said.
Luben was a pornography performer for 12 years, during which she contracted herpes, Human Papilloma Virus and battled cervical cancer. She spent eight years recovering from her time in the industry and in 2008 founded the Pink Cross Foundation to minister to others still in the industry.
“I have suffered much at the hands of the porn industry,” Luben said. “Porn destroys human lives and is destroying our nation. And I am proof of that.”
Mary Anne Layden, a psychotherapist and director of education of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the Center for Cognitive Therapy of the University of Pennsylvania has treated several patients suffering from pornography addiction.
“They would watch things being done to women that they would not want done to the women they love. It psychologically destabilizes them to violate their own innate sense of justice, fairness and the golden rule and reduces their own self-respect,” Layden said.
Layden said the American Psychiatric Association has added hypersexual disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) used to diagnose psychiatric and psychological disorders.
“Pornography robs men of their masculinity, of their psychological health, of their self-respect, of their greatness. … It then robs their family, their community and their country of all that they could have offered,” she said.
The group, meanwhile, is asking every member of the House and Senate to sign a letter to be sent to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to make obscenity cases a priority for the Justice Department.
Other speakers at the briefing were: Dr. Sharon Cooper, a forensic pediatrician; Gail Dines, professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston; and Laura Lederer, an attorney and leading voice against human trafficking.
At a briefing held at the U.S. Capitol, researchers and activists, including a former porn movie actress, highlighted the finding of leading researchers on the harm and long-term effects that hardcore pornography has on its viewers -- especially children -- and called on Congress to make the Justice Department to crack down on those who make and distribute illegal pornography.
“We are asking that the prosecution of obscenity laws, which seems to be on hold in this administration, be given a high priority because of the widespread harm we now know hardcore pornography is causing to America,” Patrick Trueman, the group’s spokesman, said. “They’re not doing much at all. So we are asking them to make it a priority.”
The group, which calls itself the Coalition for the War on Illegal Pornography, is calling on the Obama administration, Congress, and the Justice Department to elevate the enforcement of obscenity laws it says are being ignored.
"Our efforts today are not partisan because the protection of children, violence against women, addiction and sexual trafficking are not partisan issues. Nor are we here today to quarrel with Attorney General Holder," said Trueman, the former chief of the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, U.S. Department of Justice.
Trueman said laws already on the books make it illegal to distribute hardcore pornography on the Internet, by satellite or cable television and in sexually-oriented businesses.
“We are not asking for new laws. We have enough laws. What we are asking is that those laws be vigorously enforced,” Trueman said.
Trueman said the Obama administration isn’t alone – the last s have not spent much time or effort enforcing America’s obscenity laws.
“Rather than aggressively enforcing the law, the Justice Department, through the Bush years and the Clinton years before that, has been prosecuting relatively minor producers and distributors and the impact of those prosecutions is very little,” Trueman said.
Still, he said, on those rare occasions when prosecutions have been made, the government has been successful. Trueman attributes that success to the “community standard” that he said has to “come into play.”
“A jury has to decide whether hardcore material is beyond community standards and every community wants to say that their community is better than that material,” Trueman said.
Though the laws make its distribution illegal, there has been plenty of study into what constitutes “obscene material” – and researchers no longer wonder what is obscene and what isn’t.
“Obscenity is graphic material that focuses on sex or sexual violence,” professor Donna Rice Hughes, the president of Enough is Enough and a lead spokeswoman on keeping Internet safety said during the briefing.
“(Obscenity) includes lewd exhibition of the genitals, close ups of graphic sex acts and deviant activities such as group sex, bestiality and excretory functions,” Hughes said.
Hughes said that the laws do not criminalize the “soft-core” pornography found in some movies and on TV for adults, but it is not legal for children.
“For 15 years, kids have been spoon-fed easy access to Internet pornography; right in the privacy of their own homes or through any electronic device,” Hughes said. “Because obscenity laws have not been enforced, illegal adult pornography has flooded and polluted the Internet.”
Hughes said the reach of adult pornography has grown and has extended to “epidemic proportions.”
Research has proven that 40 percent of first-time Internet porn views occur unintentionally while searching the Internet through a search engine. Another 12 percent come from misspelled words in Web site names. The average age when Americans first view pornography is now between 8- and 11-years-old, Hughes said.
Despite the unlawful nature of hardcore pornography, the coalition said obscene material has a severely negative affect on consumers – and on the actresses involved.
‘Porn destroys human lives’
Former porn movie actress Shelly Luben, founder and director of an outreach group to those working in the adult film industry offering a variety of support and a transition out of the industry, said that the adult film industry is a hostile and volatile industry for its performers.
Sixty-six (66) percent of actors within the porn industry contract herpes and 70 percent of the sexually transmitted infections contracted in the industry occur in women, she said.
Luben was a pornography performer for 12 years, during which she contracted herpes, Human Papilloma Virus and battled cervical cancer. She spent eight years recovering from her time in the industry and in 2008 founded the Pink Cross Foundation to minister to others still in the industry.
“I have suffered much at the hands of the porn industry,” Luben said. “Porn destroys human lives and is destroying our nation. And I am proof of that.”
Mary Anne Layden, a psychotherapist and director of education of the Sexual Trauma and Psychopathology Program at the Center for Cognitive Therapy of the University of Pennsylvania has treated several patients suffering from pornography addiction.
“They would watch things being done to women that they would not want done to the women they love. It psychologically destabilizes them to violate their own innate sense of justice, fairness and the golden rule and reduces their own self-respect,” Layden said.
Layden said the American Psychiatric Association has added hypersexual disorder to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) used to diagnose psychiatric and psychological disorders.
“Pornography robs men of their masculinity, of their psychological health, of their self-respect, of their greatness. … It then robs their family, their community and their country of all that they could have offered,” she said.
The group, meanwhile, is asking every member of the House and Senate to sign a letter to be sent to Attorney General Eric Holder asking him to make obscenity cases a priority for the Justice Department.
Other speakers at the briefing were: Dr. Sharon Cooper, a forensic pediatrician; Gail Dines, professor of sociology at Wheelock College in Boston; and Laura Lederer, an attorney and leading voice against human trafficking.
Bible ban Lifted from Boston Community Center
No longer banned in Boston: Church allowed to put Bible back into vacation Bible school
ADF letter prompts city community center to change unconstitutional meeting room policy banning religious contentTuesday, June 15, 2010, 12:00 AM (MST) |
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Link to original article from ADF
BOSTON — The Boston Centers for Youth and Families has notified Alliance Defense Fund attorneys that it will put an end to its problematic policy banning the use of religious content in its publicly available meeting rooms.
The city agency made its decision after receiving a letter from ADF on behalf of Calvary Chapel of the City, which has reserved space for its weekly after-school “Calvary Kidz” program, as well as an upcoming vacation Bible school. After providing biblical instruction to children for more than two years at the city’s Thomas L. Johnson Community Center, the program was told that the center’s policy no longer allowed religious teaching in its rooms that are open to the rest of the general public.
“Christian groups shouldn’t be discriminated against for their religious beliefs at facilities open to the public,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster. “The city has done the right thing in agreeing to no longer enforce its unconstitutional policy so that Christian groups can enjoy the same access that has been freely offered to everyone else.”
Since January 2008, Calvary Chapel in the City has used a meeting room every Friday afternoon at the community center to teach character development and virtues from a biblical perspective through lessons, games, and other activities to children between the ages of 5 and 12.
Even though the Johnson Center--like other facilities under the oversight of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families--is available to various outside organizations and out-of-school programming, an official of the center notified the director of Calvary Kidz that the church’s program at the center can no longer include religious content. The director was told that Boston Centers imposes this “city policy” for all events at the center, as it stated that groups “cannot teach religion inside of a community center.” Calvary Kidz complied and withheld religious content from its meetings for weeks until the situation could be resolved.
“The training and materials provided by ADF proved very helpful in this case,” said Philip Moran, one of more than 1,600 attorneys in the ADF alliance, who is serving as local counsel in the matter. “Being in a position to simply cite the relevant case law helped us assist the attorneys for the city of Boston to realize that the city’s position was untenable and saved everyone the time and expense of a lawsuit.”
On June 7, ADF attorneys sent letters to 151 government entities to end religious discrimination policies at more than 750 government-run facilities across the nation.
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
The city agency made its decision after receiving a letter from ADF on behalf of Calvary Chapel of the City, which has reserved space for its weekly after-school “Calvary Kidz” program, as well as an upcoming vacation Bible school. After providing biblical instruction to children for more than two years at the city’s Thomas L. Johnson Community Center, the program was told that the center’s policy no longer allowed religious teaching in its rooms that are open to the rest of the general public.
“Christian groups shouldn’t be discriminated against for their religious beliefs at facilities open to the public,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster. “The city has done the right thing in agreeing to no longer enforce its unconstitutional policy so that Christian groups can enjoy the same access that has been freely offered to everyone else.”
Since January 2008, Calvary Chapel in the City has used a meeting room every Friday afternoon at the community center to teach character development and virtues from a biblical perspective through lessons, games, and other activities to children between the ages of 5 and 12.
Even though the Johnson Center--like other facilities under the oversight of the Boston Centers for Youth and Families--is available to various outside organizations and out-of-school programming, an official of the center notified the director of Calvary Kidz that the church’s program at the center can no longer include religious content. The director was told that Boston Centers imposes this “city policy” for all events at the center, as it stated that groups “cannot teach religion inside of a community center.” Calvary Kidz complied and withheld religious content from its meetings for weeks until the situation could be resolved.
“The training and materials provided by ADF proved very helpful in this case,” said Philip Moran, one of more than 1,600 attorneys in the ADF alliance, who is serving as local counsel in the matter. “Being in a position to simply cite the relevant case law helped us assist the attorneys for the city of Boston to realize that the city’s position was untenable and saved everyone the time and expense of a lawsuit.”
On June 7, ADF attorneys sent letters to 151 government entities to end religious discrimination policies at more than 750 government-run facilities across the nation.
- Pronunciation guide: Oster (Oh-stir), Moran (More-ann)
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
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Bible Outlawed in Idaho Now in Court
ADF files appeal over Western Civilization book ban in Idaho public schools, universities
Commission bans use of any texts it deems ‘religious,' even if used solely for objective literary or historical reference
Monday, June 14, 2010, 12:00 AM (MST) |
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Link to original article from Alliance Defense Fund
BOISE, Idaho — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed an appeal Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, contesting a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the Idaho Public Charter School Commission’s across-the-board ban on the use of texts and documents deemed to be “religious.” ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of Nampa Classical Academy last November after the commission threatened to revoke the academy’s charter if it used the Bible or other religious texts on its classroom resource list for any purpose whatsoever.
“Censoring classical books, including religious books, does not improve a student’s education; it harms it,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman. “A wholesale ban on books with religious content conflicts with established U.S. Supreme Court precedent stating that even ‘the Bible may constitutionally be used in an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like.’ Nampa Classical Academy offered just this sort of complete education, which is what any child deserves.”
Cortman said that if the commission’s misinterpretation of the law is allowed to stand, all Idaho public school and university students will be subject to the ban. He explained that, contrary to the conclusion of last month’s ruling from the court, the local school district--not the charter school commission--is the entity allowed by law to make the ultimate determination on how to implement the state’s curriculum standards.
“And the curriculum it chose, in this case, is fully within what the U.S. Supreme Court has stated is acceptable and constitutional,” Cortman said. “On these grounds alone, we trust the decision will be reversed on appeal.”
After being in the development process for more than six years, Nampa Classical Academy recently completed its first year of instruction with more than 500 students. It received approval from the State Board of Education in 2008 and received positive responses from the commission at each stage of its development. Last year, however, the commission voted to prohibit the academy from using any “religious documents and text” in its curriculum or in its classroom, even if used objectively as a curriculum resource.
“Nampa Classical Academy is endeavoring to exercise its right to provide the best possible education for its students and has decided to include the Bible--along with dozens of other religious and secular writings--as resources in its curriculum to enrich instruction of literature, history, and culture, among other topics,” Cortman explained. “Schools have been doing this throughout American history.”
Attorney Bruce Skaug of Nampa is serving as local counsel in the lawsuit, Nampa Classical Academy v. Goesling, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
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Commission bans use of any texts it deems ‘religious,' even if used solely for objective literary or historical reference
Monday, June 14, 2010, 12:00 AM (MST) |
ADF Media Relations | 480-444-0020 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 480-444-0020 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
Link to original article from Alliance Defense Fund
BOISE, Idaho — Alliance Defense Fund attorneys filed an appeal Monday with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, contesting a federal judge’s decision to dismiss a lawsuit that challenges the Idaho Public Charter School Commission’s across-the-board ban on the use of texts and documents deemed to be “religious.” ADF attorneys filed the lawsuit on behalf of Nampa Classical Academy last November after the commission threatened to revoke the academy’s charter if it used the Bible or other religious texts on its classroom resource list for any purpose whatsoever.
“Censoring classical books, including religious books, does not improve a student’s education; it harms it,” said ADF Senior Legal Counsel David Cortman. “A wholesale ban on books with religious content conflicts with established U.S. Supreme Court precedent stating that even ‘the Bible may constitutionally be used in an appropriate study of history, civilization, ethics, comparative religion, or the like.’ Nampa Classical Academy offered just this sort of complete education, which is what any child deserves.”
Cortman said that if the commission’s misinterpretation of the law is allowed to stand, all Idaho public school and university students will be subject to the ban. He explained that, contrary to the conclusion of last month’s ruling from the court, the local school district--not the charter school commission--is the entity allowed by law to make the ultimate determination on how to implement the state’s curriculum standards.
“And the curriculum it chose, in this case, is fully within what the U.S. Supreme Court has stated is acceptable and constitutional,” Cortman said. “On these grounds alone, we trust the decision will be reversed on appeal.”
After being in the development process for more than six years, Nampa Classical Academy recently completed its first year of instruction with more than 500 students. It received approval from the State Board of Education in 2008 and received positive responses from the commission at each stage of its development. Last year, however, the commission voted to prohibit the academy from using any “religious documents and text” in its curriculum or in its classroom, even if used objectively as a curriculum resource.
“Nampa Classical Academy is endeavoring to exercise its right to provide the best possible education for its students and has decided to include the Bible--along with dozens of other religious and secular writings--as resources in its curriculum to enrich instruction of literature, history, and culture, among other topics,” Cortman explained. “Schools have been doing this throughout American history.”
Attorney Bruce Skaug of Nampa is serving as local counsel in the lawsuit, Nampa Classical Academy v. Goesling, filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho.
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
www.telladf.org facebook.com/AllianceDefenseFund twitter.com/AllianceDefense
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
JMC LIVE Reviewing President Obama's Speech About The Oil Spill
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JMC LIVE Show June 15, 2010 Reviewing President Obama's Address To The Nation about the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
President Obama Speech On The Oil Spill In the Gulf Of Mexico
Written By Miranda and Jeremy Caverley
This evening President Obama addressed the Nation to talk about the Oil Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico that has been spewing oil from a ruptured pipe 5,000 feet below the ocean for nearly 60 days now.
The first sentence he says,is how America will continue to fight against the war on terror we will go into any country or any place in the world. America will continue to fight against terrorism.
Now our first question is....What does this have to do with the oil spill. If in fact this was not a terrorist attack that caused the Oil Spill in the Gulf?
Our Second Question is....Obama made a public address in 2009 not even a year after being in office that "the war on terror is over" saying that America is not at war against terrorists but against and quote "We are at war with al Qaeda," he said. "We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda."So why then would he say tonight in his address that we will continue to fight against terrorism if we've not been at war with them since the beginning of 2009? Hmmmm it just boggles the mind.
Now President Obama says that he is going to be dispatching 17,000 national guard troops to the gulf to help with clean up and stopping the oil spill. Excuse us Mr. President, why have you waited nearly 60 days to send help? When just a few months ago when the Haiti earthquake happened you sent troops, planes, and goods to help the people of Haiti not even 2 weeks after the quake happened. But you make your own country wait nearly 60 days to send help? Something is wrong with that.
President Obama also never even mentioned sending aid or trying to get people to donate to the people living in the Gulf who because of the oil spill have lost their jobs, have no way to feed their families and hundreds of businesses who depend on tourists now have no business and are facing hard times. Where are the Big Concerts for the Gulf that they had for Haiti? Where are all the famous people donating money to help the people in the Gulf like they did for Haiti? Where are the Organizations sending teams of people to help the those like they did for Haiti? We haven't heard of any and President Obama never mentioned it.
The President did say they have a plan to stop the oil from pouring into the Gulf Of Mexico and it is to drill a relief well which will take months to finish. So until this is finished Oil will continue to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. 31 years ago when an almost identical oil spill happened in the Gulf that was the only thing that helped stop the oil from pouring into the Gulf and back then it took 9 months to stop the oil spill and then the pipe was just 200 feet deep. Now to stop this they have to drill 5,000 feet. How long do you think it will take this time to stop the oil spill? Longer than before that is for sure.
But to really sum up President Obama's speech it was to promote Green Jobs. Half his speech was how America will be spending more money (that we don't have) to stop our dependency on oil and fossil fuel. Yes America needs to start creating more green jobs and stop being so dependent on oil and other Countries Like Iran and Saudi Arabia who keep hiking up the oil prices on us. But during this recession we would like to know where he is going to get this money? When he has already borrowed millions and billions from China and who knows what other countries and put us in debt in the trillions. Trying to boost the economy in the past 2 years that hasn't worked. People are still losing jobs and are out of work.
It would be wonderful to have more green jobs. Not only to help the Earth but also to help put people back to work. But who is going to pay for all this is our question?
This is the worst oil Spill Ever and it is still not over, until they accomplish drilling this relief well and even then the affects of the oil spill will continue for years to come. We can only pray that God gives those working to stop this the wisdom to know what will work, and for the United States to reach out to their fellow man and help those affected by the oil spill.
This evening President Obama addressed the Nation to talk about the Oil Spill in the Gulf Of Mexico that has been spewing oil from a ruptured pipe 5,000 feet below the ocean for nearly 60 days now.
The first sentence he says,is how America will continue to fight against the war on terror we will go into any country or any place in the world. America will continue to fight against terrorism.
Now our first question is....What does this have to do with the oil spill. If in fact this was not a terrorist attack that caused the Oil Spill in the Gulf?
Our Second Question is....Obama made a public address in 2009 not even a year after being in office that "the war on terror is over" saying that America is not at war against terrorists but against and quote "We are at war with al Qaeda," he said. "We are at war with its violent extremist allies who seek to carry on al Qaeda's murderous agenda."So why then would he say tonight in his address that we will continue to fight against terrorism if we've not been at war with them since the beginning of 2009? Hmmmm it just boggles the mind.
Now President Obama says that he is going to be dispatching 17,000 national guard troops to the gulf to help with clean up and stopping the oil spill. Excuse us Mr. President, why have you waited nearly 60 days to send help? When just a few months ago when the Haiti earthquake happened you sent troops, planes, and goods to help the people of Haiti not even 2 weeks after the quake happened. But you make your own country wait nearly 60 days to send help? Something is wrong with that.
President Obama also never even mentioned sending aid or trying to get people to donate to the people living in the Gulf who because of the oil spill have lost their jobs, have no way to feed their families and hundreds of businesses who depend on tourists now have no business and are facing hard times. Where are the Big Concerts for the Gulf that they had for Haiti? Where are all the famous people donating money to help the people in the Gulf like they did for Haiti? Where are the Organizations sending teams of people to help the those like they did for Haiti? We haven't heard of any and President Obama never mentioned it.
The President did say they have a plan to stop the oil from pouring into the Gulf Of Mexico and it is to drill a relief well which will take months to finish. So until this is finished Oil will continue to pour into the Gulf of Mexico. 31 years ago when an almost identical oil spill happened in the Gulf that was the only thing that helped stop the oil from pouring into the Gulf and back then it took 9 months to stop the oil spill and then the pipe was just 200 feet deep. Now to stop this they have to drill 5,000 feet. How long do you think it will take this time to stop the oil spill? Longer than before that is for sure.
But to really sum up President Obama's speech it was to promote Green Jobs. Half his speech was how America will be spending more money (that we don't have) to stop our dependency on oil and fossil fuel. Yes America needs to start creating more green jobs and stop being so dependent on oil and other Countries Like Iran and Saudi Arabia who keep hiking up the oil prices on us. But during this recession we would like to know where he is going to get this money? When he has already borrowed millions and billions from China and who knows what other countries and put us in debt in the trillions. Trying to boost the economy in the past 2 years that hasn't worked. People are still losing jobs and are out of work.
It would be wonderful to have more green jobs. Not only to help the Earth but also to help put people back to work. But who is going to pay for all this is our question?
This is the worst oil Spill Ever and it is still not over, until they accomplish drilling this relief well and even then the affects of the oil spill will continue for years to come. We can only pray that God gives those working to stop this the wisdom to know what will work, and for the United States to reach out to their fellow man and help those affected by the oil spill.
6-story Jesus Statue Struck By Lightening in Ohio
Click to read full story from Yahoo News
MONROE, Ohio – A six-story-tall statue of Jesus Christ with his arms raised along a highway was struck by lightning in a thunderstorm Monday night and burned to the ground, police said.
The "King of Kings" statue, one of southwest Ohio's most familiar landmarks, had stood since 2004 at the evangelical Solid Rock Church along Interstate 75 in Monroe, just north of Cincinnati.
The lightning strike set the statue ablaze around 11:15 p.m., Monroe police dispatchers said.
The sculpture, 62 feet tall and 40 feet wide at the base, showed Jesus from the torso up and was nicknamed touch down Jesuse because of the way the arms were raised, similar to a referee signaling a touchdown. It was made of plastic foam and fiberglass over a steel frame, which is all that remained early Tuesday.
The fire spread from the statue to an adjacent amphitheater but was confined to the attic area, and no one was injured, police Chief Mark Neu said. The fire department would release a monetary damage estimate Tuesday, he said.
Travelers on Interstate 75 often were startled to come upon the huge statue by the roadside, but many said America needs more symbols like it. So many people stopped at the church campus that church officials had to build a walkway to accommodate them.
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JMC Ministries Response
This is just really strange news but it is true, you just can't make this stuff up. Over the past almost 2 weeks now, we have been having really severe thunderstorms, tornadoes all kinds of crazy weather. The lightening has been so bad, it has been striking so much when we've had storms that we are not surprised that this happened.
Our mom was in her home 2 days ago and it started to rain suddenly lightening struck. It struck so close to her house that it blinded her, made her body tingle all over, and it even made the magnetic kitchen alarm on her refrigerator go off. She said she's never experienced anything like that before.
Just north of Columbus last week a families home was struck by lightening and they didn't even know it until they saw smoke coming off their roof. It had caught their roof and attic on fire when it struck.
We are suppose to get more storms this week over the weekend so please pray for us here in Ohio that no more lightening strikes and kills Jesus or destroys anymore homes.
Monday, June 14, 2010
Reporters Being Told To Stop Filming Oil Spill Or Be Arrested
Written By Miranda Caverley
Over the past weeks many stories and rumors have been popping up all over the internet and news that BP is trying to keep the media from reporting and filming the oil spill and the devastation it has caused and continues to cause in the Gulf Of Mexico. The reason we haven't reported on this is because we couldn't find any proof of this happening until today.
We found a video from CBS News and anyone who lives in the U.S, knows that CBS is one of the biggest National News Reporting Agencies in the country. While they were filming on location at the Oil Spill in Louisiana, A Coast Guard Boat that also had BP Contractors on it told the CBS News Reporters, to leave the area and turn off the cameras or be arrested. You will also hear the U.S Coast Guardman say This isn't our rules, it's BP's...When did a company over ride the U.S Government and take away our Right Of Freedom of Speech And Freedom Of Press?
It is Clear that BP and the U.S Government are hiding what is really going on and will stop at nothing even violating our Rights to keep the World from finding out the truth. But, we know that the truth always comes out and the TRUTH SETS US FREE!
Americans and Citizens of this world we need to pray and fight against those who stop the truth from being exposed and stand up and share all we can find out from these brave reporters that are continuing to go down there to film the oil spill in the face of being arrested serving Jail time for reporting the truth.
We at Eternal Flame News Will Continue to share video and news about the oil spill as we find it and if you have videos or anything that you would like to see us share here send us an email at eternalflamenews@gmail.com
Over the past weeks many stories and rumors have been popping up all over the internet and news that BP is trying to keep the media from reporting and filming the oil spill and the devastation it has caused and continues to cause in the Gulf Of Mexico. The reason we haven't reported on this is because we couldn't find any proof of this happening until today.
We found a video from CBS News and anyone who lives in the U.S, knows that CBS is one of the biggest National News Reporting Agencies in the country. While they were filming on location at the Oil Spill in Louisiana, A Coast Guard Boat that also had BP Contractors on it told the CBS News Reporters, to leave the area and turn off the cameras or be arrested. You will also hear the U.S Coast Guardman say This isn't our rules, it's BP's...When did a company over ride the U.S Government and take away our Right Of Freedom of Speech And Freedom Of Press?
It is Clear that BP and the U.S Government are hiding what is really going on and will stop at nothing even violating our Rights to keep the World from finding out the truth. But, we know that the truth always comes out and the TRUTH SETS US FREE!
Americans and Citizens of this world we need to pray and fight against those who stop the truth from being exposed and stand up and share all we can find out from these brave reporters that are continuing to go down there to film the oil spill in the face of being arrested serving Jail time for reporting the truth.
We at Eternal Flame News Will Continue to share video and news about the oil spill as we find it and if you have videos or anything that you would like to see us share here send us an email at eternalflamenews@gmail.com
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