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		<title>Hey, do whatever it takes…God wills it!</title>
		<link>http://www.doyouagree.info/2010/08/02/hey-do-whatever-it-takes%e2%80%a6god-wills-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:17:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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Consider this, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in particular are noted for outright violence which they squared with Allah as being not only okay, but their holy duty. Thankfully, they are a small percent of the Islam population. Because of them, there is a large population of white American conservatives [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/R4GBR0Fd66i5NJ0bu6iFdT9f0oQ/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/R4GBR0Fd66i5NJ0bu6iFdT9f0oQ/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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Consider this, Al-Qaeda and the Taliban in particular are noted for outright violence which they squared with Allah as being not only okay, but their holy duty. Thankfully, they are a small percent of the Islam population. Because of them, there is a large population of white American conservatives who also hate them in much the same way they hate any colored American…especially white conservative Christians. </p>
<p>Where am I going with this…?</p>
<p>Well, in April, the Pew Research Center conducted a survey of 742 adults who were white non-Hispanic Catholics, Protestants and others who claimed to be religious but are unaffiliated. I’ll bet they were very surprised by what they found because nearly half of the 742 Christians surveyed agreed torturing someone can be justified. Of course a number of questions immediately flooded my brain as soon as I read what the report found. </p>
<p>The first was obvious:<br />
•	“Don’t the half that could support torturing another human being sound like conservative republicans to you”?<br />
•	“Does the law really protect us from white conservative Christians from conducting with hunts”?<br />
•	“Does the separation of church and state in our constitution prevent white conservative Christians from conducting ‘faith trials’ to determine who believes in God the right way and who does not”?<br />
•	“Could the United States of America be forced to live under a system of government controlled by conservative right-wing fanatics like those in congress”?<br />
•	“Aren’t these things a part of their political agenda?</p>
<p>How many people believe that we are a nation who trusts in God?  Do you believe we trust in God? If we do trust in him and we lied to the world about why we went into Iraq, was it because we have made Christianity what we want it to be like the Crusades? Do Tea Party Christians who can spit on a black person or call a gay person a derogatory name &#8211; trust in God? We already know that many Christians are capable of supporting torture.  </p>
<p>Are we becoming an ugly country?  Only the Defense Department knows how many of the staff at Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo who tortured Iraqi and Al-Qaeda prisoners were Christians. Why is there is no great outcry in the land as to how wrong it was for us to have gone into Iraq under false pretenses in the first place? Is it because people with money want to make sure they have more and more money no matter what it takes to get it.  And no…I am not referring to capitalism!  I am referring to human and often criminal greed. </p>
<p>Hasn’t anyone been paying attention to what the Republicans are doing? If they can win over the greedy rich – who cause daily survival pressure on the lower middle income and are now able to spend vast sums to sway elections by influencing votes through dubious claims that employ fear much like false advertising, they can literally own the United States of America and every living person living in it. The United States of America is in big trouble. Do you agree? Do YOU want to see this happen?</p>
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		<title>Hey, I know how to get elected, reduce the government…</title>
		<link>http://www.doyouagree.info/2010/07/23/hey-i-know-how-to-get-elected-reduce-the-government%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jul 2010 22:29:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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Here is rich wisdom brothers and sisters. If the Conservatives (and the Tea party) get a big enough majority in congress, they want to reduce the government…maybe by 50%. Then we can balance the budget. Below is a rationale of what I think they will do. They must be the only real “patriots” because they [...]]]></description>
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<p>Here is rich wisdom brothers and sisters. If the Conservatives (and the Tea party) get a big enough majority in congress, they want to reduce the government…maybe by 50%. Then we can balance the budget. Below is a rationale of what I think they will do. They must be the only real “patriots” because they seem to be the only ones who know that our government is too big.</p>
<p>I think these concerned religious Americans would do the things below and a whole lot more.</p>
<p>They would…<br />
•	Reduce customs inspectors &#8211; (only let in people from friendly countries we like)<br />
•	Reduce the number of federal border patrol agents &#8211; (tell those left to shoot to kill)<br />
•	Eliminate federal meat inspectors &#8211; (ecoli has only killed a few thousand)<br />
•	Reduce FDA inspectors &#8211; (our food is probably safe)<br />
•	Reduce the number of federal prosecutors and especially their staff<br />
•	Reduce the number of Supreme Court justices &#8211; (we don’t need 9 people)<br />
•	Reduce Supreme Court Justice staff by 90% &#8211; (they don’t need them)<br />
•	Keep the good Supreme Court Justices: Thomas, Roberts, Scalia and Alito<br />
•	Name Abramoff head of the all federal lobbyists &#8211; (goes with the campaign funding ruling)<br />
•	Pass all legislation on a simple majority<br />
•	Reduce legislative staff by 75% &#8211; (they’re either for something or against it)<br />
•	Reduce FAA inspectors by 50% &#8211; (let the pilots work most of it out)<br />
•	Eliminate the Department of the Interior &#8211; (no one I talked to knows what they do)<br />
•	Drill baby, drill &#8211; (what happened to BP could have happened to anyone…right?)<br />
•	Give K Street veto power &#8211; (that way they can come out of the closet)<br />
•	Require Congress to be 25% Tea Party &#8211; (because they sound the most patriotic)<br />
•	Eliminate food stamps to all who are not cleared by the birthers &#8211; (yes, even him)<br />
•	Review FEMA aid to places like the Ninth Ward &#8211; (clear with the birthers)<br />
•	Eliminate frivolous programs like Head Start &#8211; (it creates little competitors)<br />
•	Reduce minimum wages for certain zip codes &#8211; (more people will hire domestics)<br />
•	Eliminate taxes for everyone over $250K &#8211; (as a reward for getting there)<br />
•	Reduce minimum wage for anyone receiving any other form of aid &#8211; (no double-dip)<br />
•	Use above to reduce taxes for everyone earning over $50k in select zip codes<br />
•	Reduce Medicaid and Medicare by 50% because…. Just do it!<br />
•	Deregulate all small business (they have enough to worry about being small)<br />
•	For goodness sake, let Wall Street regulate itself &#8211; (they should be able to make a buck, too)</p>
<p>C’mon what d’ya say? Help us out here. It’s best for the country. These are the American things to do. Don’t you agree?</p>
<p>(by the way, if we become Conservatives and Tea Partiers and do this we will be closer to God too…like they are)</p>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A very rare photograph of two slave children was found in an attic in North Carolina that has the appearance of dating back to the early 1860s. Their clothing was vintage slave, by that I mean ragged and ill-fitting. There was a handwritten document with the photo from 1854 describing the sale of someone named [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XbxrnuYaZpoeJsV6UtT7XecYdPs/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XbxrnuYaZpoeJsV6UtT7XecYdPs/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XbxrnuYaZpoeJsV6UtT7XecYdPs/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/XbxrnuYaZpoeJsV6UtT7XecYdPs/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p></p><p>A very rare photograph of two slave children was found in an attic in North Carolina that has the appearance of dating back to the early 1860s. Their clothing was vintage slave, by that I mean ragged and ill-fitting. There was a handwritten document with the photo from 1854 describing the sale of someone named “John” for a whopping $1,150.</p>
<p>There was a lot of discussion in the article that disclosed the history of the find relevant to its value, who took the photo and its overall quality. To the credit of those who commented on such a remarkable find, they were taken back by the expression on the faces of the boys.  Will Stapp, a curator at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C, says the photograph puts a face on a horrific chapter in the country&#8217;s past.</p>
<p>Yes it does put a face on a horrific chapter of American history. More importantly it is a measurement of the progress America has made and the fathers of boys just like them in our society today. It very eloquently bears out the failures of our nation and African American fathers. Neither has made a dedicated effort to reverse the horrors children like them must endure every day in inner cities as well as upscale neighborhoods in which parents place more emphasis on their zip code than the love of their children. That’s a big part of why so many African American women in particular are raising children who have been abandoned by their fathers.</p>
<p>What is even more disturbing is the neglect of the overwhelming majority of well-to-do folks who will drive by children much like them on their way to grand churches. They do not hold their church liable for its disregard for the suffering of the children around them. After all, they have found their lives and they know their ministers well enough to know they are not going to jeopardize what their positions. So no one will do anything even though the effect of living in poverty in America is getting harder to deal with every day. Doesn’t the Bible say something about those “to whom much is given?” </p>
<p>So here’s the pitch, if there is anyone who would like to make something happen, call me and let’s do it before it’s too late….amen?</p>
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		<title>GOP, BP and Why Obama actually caused the oil leak!</title>
		<link>http://www.doyouagree.info/2010/06/18/gop-bp-and-why-obama-actually-caused-the-oil-leak/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:42:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[GOP, BP and Why Obama actually caused the oil leak!
&#8220;I&#8217;m speaking totally for myself, I&#8217;m not speaking for the Republican party &#8230; but I&#8217;m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,&#8221; said Joe Barton (R-TX), apologizing for the United States of America to a man who is personally responsible for nearly 3 millions [...]]]></description>
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<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m speaking totally for myself, I&#8217;m not speaking for the Republican party &#8230; but I&#8217;m ashamed of what happened in the White House yesterday,&#8221; said Joe Barton (R-TX), apologizing for the United States of America to a man who is personally responsible for nearly 3 millions barrels of oil contamination to our shores to date. </p>
<p>To begin with how does a person serving on a committee in the House of Representatives of the United States say in a public hearing he is speaking for himself with news cameras broadcasting what he says around the world. </p>
<p>I believe he was using the exposure to express his outrage that President Obama was elected President of the United States of America before the world. Why else would he tell Tony Hayward (BP CEO) that it was &#8220;a tragedy of the first proportion, that a private corporation can be subjected to what I would characterize as a shakedown, a $20 billion shakedown,&#8221; during opening statements before a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee.</p>
<p>It turns out that Barton’s personal excitement at the prospect of embarrassing President Obama in front of the world and win some Republican and Tea Party points by showing them how to hate in a sneaky way got him in trouble with the great whites in the pool. Minority House leader Boehner and company quickly jumped on him for being so public about what they were all discussing privately. </p>
<p>But impetuous behavior among relatively simple minded people close to power and money who are trying to stand out from the crowd is hard to keep in the jar. Rep. Michael Burgess (R-TX) said Thursday that he had “serious questions about the setup fund,” referring to the $20 billion escrow fund. Rep (GA) Tom Price who is chairman of a conservative House group also described the fund as a shakedown Wednesday. And of course the other school children in the little house on the prairie were moved to add their wisdom. </p>
<p>Dick Armey trying to maintain his apparent leadership within the Tea Party movement reportedly stated that the Constitution does not allow what Obama is trying to do. The beautiful and talented Michele Bachmann (R-MN), reportedly told the Heritage Foundation Tuesday that the fund was a “redistribution-of-wealth fund.&#8221; </p>
<p>In addition to these predictable like minded conservatives, there were those who defended Barton (you heard right)… The Heritage Foundation which clings to the hate doctrines of the likes of John Calhoun said on their website that Barton is right…there was a shakedown! And then they went on to enhance their ignorance by saying BP is not the victim of Obama’s evil, the real victim is the rule of law. Of course the National Review also got energized now that Buckley is no longer there. They pretty much agreed with what everybody and anybody in the party of &#8216;no&#8217; had to say. But these are patriotic citizens. Do you agree?</p>
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		<title>Suffer the little children to come unto me and forbid them not…</title>
		<link>http://www.doyouagree.info/2010/06/11/suffer-the-little-children-to-come-unto-me-and-forbid-them-not%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 22:15:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Institutes of Health recently released a study that concludes a deceptively simple finding: the higher quality the day care center, the higher the academic scores – albeit, just slightly. This is a very impressive study which USA Today noted was the largest and longest-running study of its kind. The researchers studied 1,364 children, [...]]]></description>
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CtWUbN4oZJL4Ved1CPvMdkGIRFY/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/CtWUbN4oZJL4Ved1CPvMdkGIRFY/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p></p><p>The National Institutes of Health recently released a study that concludes a deceptively simple finding: the higher quality the day care center, the higher the academic scores – albeit, just slightly. This is a very impressive study which USA Today noted was the largest and longest-running study of its kind. The researchers studied 1,364 children, regularly evaluating them from pre-toddlers. USA Today said the study began in 1991 out of concern about the growing number of children in day care. (Note to the researchers: I hope you also consider why the number is growing. What is the income threshold requiring both parents to work? What do the parents spend the money on?).</p>
<p>The other reason I would like to know about why the number of day care children is growing lies in  an interesting and potentially sinister dichotomy related to findings of the study. The study said the longer a child spends in day care, the more impetuous and impulsive they become causing them to take more risks than their peers. The study did not pursue whether these characteristics ultimately led to, or contributed to aggressiveness although they did conclude that these same teens were slightly less likely to act out as teens. Day care takes control of a child for almost 80% of the child’s waking hours. In other words, the center does more parenting than parents?</p>
<p>You can reference the study in the May/June issue of the journal of child development. &#8220;The fact that you have this persistent association is pretty remarkable,&#8221; James A. Griffin, a spokesman for the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, tells MSNBC.<br />
Griffin tells USA Today earlier that results from the study indicate that parents have &#8220;far more influence&#8221; on children&#8217;s development than day care. However, I strongly dispute this conclusion because the fact that there is not a wider gap in scores between higher and lower quality day care centers could be contain a mountain of undiscovered information when tracked year-by-year by neighborhood relevant to the economic differences between household incomes with regard to understanding the underlying psychology that occurs when children become more self-aware of where they live, how they live and their opportunities as they move from toddler to teen. </p>
<p>However, I am convinced that children, who attend day care and head start, are substantially ahead of their less fortunate counterparts because there is probably more self-esteem imparted to them by their providers compared to what they receive at school and at home. However, whether they are growing up with good values is directly related to the friends they make because they spend so little time with their parents. </p>
<p>The irony about the findings in their report is that there have been authorities saying that there is a need for oversight at every level of government of private and employer run programs to assure quality day-to-day care for our children. Sharon Landesman Ramey, director of the Georgetown University Center on Health and Education, told MSNBC; &#8220;I think it is shocking that we don&#8217;t have a much higher proportion of our children &#8230; in excellent, quality child care.&#8221; This is precisely why Obama and company should be measuring the basic care provided by every day care in the US. </p>
<p>There is one part of the study I have a problem with. It is the opinion that suggests day care &#8220;matters, but not hugely,&#8221; given by W. Steven Barnett, professor of education economics and public policy and director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University, tells USA Today. Frankly, I think he is very wrong! Do you agree?</p>
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		<title>Ready, aim, kill somebody!</title>
		<link>http://www.doyouagree.info/2010/05/20/ready-aim-kill-somebody/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 21:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ready, aim, kill somebody!
Boehner, McConnell, DeMint, Glenn Beck came into my backyard and started some more do-do. Of a lesser concern but worth noting, was the fact that about 10,000 members of the N.R.A. came to hear him. You’re not going to believe this but Glenn Beck, started out by saying no one is telling [...]]]></description>
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<p>Boehner, McConnell, DeMint, Glenn Beck came into my backyard and started some more do-do. Of a lesser concern but worth noting, was the fact that about 10,000 members of the N.R.A. came to hear him. You’re not going to believe this but Glenn Beck, started out by saying no one is telling ‘us’ the truth! In fact, he said that we can handle the truth. He was so convincing that my mind immediately shot back to Rupert Murdoch who he works for. Then I realized that Glenn was not spelling the word truth like the rest of us do.</p>
<p>But to his credit he did get out a couple pearls of wisdom (albeit, really small). One of them was that a failure of America will never happen due to an outside force because we will destroy ourselves. Frankly I never realized Glenn was that smart. Like so many rational people I tended to dismiss him as a one of the elephants in a one-ring circus. He completely surprised me that he knew that people like Newt, Boehner, McConnell, Bachmann, DeMint…to name a few…are in my opinion desperately trying to destroy America so they can rebuild it and install themselves as imperial leaders.</p>
<p>Nor did I expect him to know that the churches are a big part of the problem. He said the churches were losing people because they “don’t stand for anything anymore” and that God understands individual rights because he created them.” Then god…I mean Beck, made a remark about needing a well-regulated militia because the government is not doing its job. Sounds like Jeff Davis to me. I don’t know about anyone else, but I think he would make a good general…in the same way Sterling Hayden was in “How I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb.” After all he is younger and seems to be in better shape than Rush. But how did he know that churches like the ones the people I named above attend, preach hate your neighbor of color more so than love.</p>
<p>And lastly, he did not live up to his usual patriotic name-calling. Instead of coming out with his Sunday go to church stuff, he was almost civil; maybe because he was in Charlotte where I live. So, overall, I only gave him 2 out of a possible 10 because he his best was “Marxists.” In order to get the good scores, you have to bring out the heavy artillery. You have to go where Rand Paul and Newt went. You have to fire the ‘Hitler’ and ‘Stalin’ missiles! Keep in mind that we live in a country that supposedly trusts in God. Do you agree?</p>
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		<title>If you only get 3 outs and you own the bat, take it and go home!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 20:09:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You’re gonna love this. Almost all Tea Party members declare themselves to be Christians…right? After all, isn’t FreedomWorks about American patriotism and Christianity? If you are a Christian see if they follow the same Jesus you do because if they do&#8230; 
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tLG9jz6comZE6Qgat3KW3K44ekk/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/tLG9jz6comZE6Qgat3KW3K44ekk/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
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<p>Well, it seems FreedomWorks Tea Party members called Barney Frank a dirty name and also a man who was beaten for his part in the Civil Rights movement – a nigger! And it seems they also issue death threats or “Christian” fatwas against anybody and everybody that dares to say anything against them. Are you with me so far? (No, this is not the Taliban).</p>
<p>Their latest public spectacle involves the intentional destruction of just such an American citizen who dared to say something against them. He did what American citizens are asked to do. He stated his opinion on a matter close enough to him that he was compelled to speak up, so he called them to say how upset he was about the Tea Party harassment in particular. </p>
<p>It did not seem to matter to the organization which is one of the primary outlets for Tea Party ‘Americanism’ and an outfit with a rousing patriotic name could be wrong because they are fine upstanding Christians who are obedient to Christ’s teaching and love some of their neighbors as they love themselves!</p>
<p>So somewhere in the New Testament, they found the basis for teaching this sub-human a lesson. After all, it was clear by his saying that it was wrong to call Rep John Lewis a nigger and refer to Barney Frank’s sexual orientation in a derogatory way that he was not someone who loved his neighbor. Therefore, why should they be obligated to love him…right? And what is the opposite of love gang? That’s right…hate! </p>
<p>So the FreedomWorks Tea Partiers under Dick Armey went after his job. FreedomWorks sicced told the other Tea Party members on him. They were told to call GEICO and tell them they will not be buying their car insurance for employing this hateful man who has the effrontery to say they were wrong to call John Lewis a nigger and talk about Barney Frank and to ensure that other American patriots will also hate this despicable man, they posted his home phone number and web address in their blog. In fact, I think the president of FreedomWorks personally wrote the blog.</p>
<p>GEICO quickly got the message and they fired him out of concern that since they stopped running GEICO advertisements on the Glenn Beck show that the backlash could be big enough to cost them a lot of money.</p>
<p>Maybe FreedomWorks does have God’s ear. After all, they got a two-fer. They got the ugly American who said they should not call Rep John Lewis a nigger and talk about Barney Frank fired and they could smear some do-do on GEICO for leaving Beck.</p>
<p>All this has caused me to feel an urge to search my Bible. It seems I may have been wrong all along about which side Jesus is on because if these people are the way we should be according to Jesus, I need a new religion today! Do you agree? </p>
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		<title>For there is one God who has made us, each and every one…</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My religion is ChrisMusHinBudd.  The reason you have not heard of it is because I just invented the name. I am hoping it will catch on and become as well known as the other names coined by those before me. In each case, the members of these other religions worship a singularly powerful entity they [...]]]></description>
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<p>I chose to follow the teachings of Jesus because the things he said are common to every religion. This is the reason I contend that there is no such thing as religion. Faith…yes, religion…no! The theological dogma or tenets that religions hold to be true incorporate the most basic things that Jesus said we ought to be doing. Among these are feed the hungry, clothe the naked, suffer the children to learn to love their neighbor as they love themselves and so on. The power and passion of this kind of expression of love for one’s fellow human beings is ripe for charismatic and ambitious leaders to exploit. That’s why there are denominations in every major faith.</p>
<p>I pray that this message can open the eyes of the leaders of the world as well as the rank and file citizenry of every nation on the face of the earth. I pray that rituals and traditions will no longer be used as religious doctrine to separate us from one another. I pray that the vicious hateful acts of men led by self-serving despots such as the leaders of the Muslim terror groups and Christian hate groups are seen for what they are; ignorant men who worship personal power at the expense of innocent human life.</p>
<p>But regarding Christianity, O God, how long do we have to endure ministers who preach prosperity for their pockets at the expense of the true words spoken by Jesus? How long must we endure those who have come to power among the Muslims by rewriting the words written down by Mohammad? How long must we endure the belief that there is something holy in immersing someone in water to wash away their sins, or marching around a tower? How long before people come to realize that there is no priest given authority to bring the prayers and petitions of the people to God? How can a man kill another while he is praying to God because he is a ‘this’ and the man praying is a ‘that’? Is this not what is happening in the world today? Has a Catholic killed a Protestant? Has a Sunni killed a Shia or a Kurd? Oh God, who among us humans will hear me?</p>
<p>I pray that everyone who reads this message will join me to unite as we have never united before. I pray that we may learn to turn our faces to the sky and ask our common God to grant us the strength to become one people in one world in one accord before Him. I ask in God’s Holy name, who have I offended by asking? What faith do these words offend that ask us to join our hearts and our prayers to the same God as one human family.</p>
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		<title>Not the same Jesus I follow…</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 21:50:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel Reed</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most important items of the white Republican Conservative agenda seems to be to get rid of blacks in important places. If I am right, Michael Steele has to go and may have been set up. The threatening letter Governor Bobby Jindal received telling him to vacate his office in 3 days may [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b_nE5aaAi6Oe2IX5HiKZfEfyiIg/0/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b_nE5aaAi6Oe2IX5HiKZfEfyiIg/0/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a><br/>
<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b_nE5aaAi6Oe2IX5HiKZfEfyiIg/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/b_nE5aaAi6Oe2IX5HiKZfEfyiIg/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p></p><p>One of the most important items of the white Republican Conservative agenda seems to be to get rid of blacks in important places. If I am right, Michael Steele has to go and may have been set up. The threatening letter Governor Bobby Jindal received telling him to vacate his office in 3 days may mean that he is next but since he is a sitting governor, the strategy may be different.</p>
<p>Jindal was one of 30 other governors who received the same ultimatum by a band of crack pots that have no idea of how government works and do not care. Perhaps they have dreams of the spoils of conquest – women and money. However, does anyone out there believe the threats alone will cause 30 governors to walk away from their jobs? Did they really believe they could actually make them leave without pulling a trigger or planting an improvised explosive device convenient to ensuring they kill their target?</p>
<p>The pot is just beginning to boil. The FBI reports an increase in communications among all of the domestic extremists groups. These include militias that are supposed to be non-violent, white separatists and extreme libertarian and ‘sovereign’ citizens. All of these groups are armed and most of their members want the thrill of spilling human blood.</p>
<p>According to their rhetoric, they all want to define what America should be. And the first requirement seems to be that everyone of color must be brought under control by expulsion, enslavement or outright genocide. That includes tokens like Clarence Thomas, Lou Christie, Ward Connerly, Ken Blackwell and other African Americans who trusted those who made them honorary whites. Maybe they and others like them are under the illusion that their white conservative benefactors will put them in charge over all other blacks because I think they are certain leaders like Boehner, McConnell, DeMint, Beck, Limbaugh, Bachmann and the rest do not see them as n*****rs.</p>
<p>And regarding other hapless supporters of these misguided politicians, it never ceases to amaze me how so many educated people can so conveniently select out lessons of history that interfere with what they want to believe. I am referring to token blacks and ignorant whites who are being recruited as you read this that are unaware of the lessons of betrayal once they are no longer needed.</p>
<p>But what is most disturbing is that the radical white conservatives like those I mentioned above were born out of a religion based on unity and love for one another. They are clever in the way they use the sacrifice of Jesus to whip up sentiments of hatred and blood lust within zealots to get rid of anyone standing in their way. I think that good people like Bart Stupak fear for their lives because of what may very well be legitimate murderous threats. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, I keep wondering why others are not willing to express outrage about Rep. John Lewis being called a nigger after being beaten for his stand on civil rights, or Rep Barney Frank being called a faggot, or the death threats against others who supported the health care plan. It is sorta like not wanting to help in any way while your neighbors are being murdered because you never met them. We Americans are becoming some piece of work. We are a little bit closer to brown shirt wearers. Do you agree?</p>
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		<title>Hell no, we don’t want to know!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 19:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the deal on healthcare according to twisted minds that would rather see the country destroyed than an African American president do well and those who are deluded by special interest doctrine&#8230;and those who do not/cannot think for themselves so they listen to and buy into the other crazies in and out of congress:
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<a href="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/M7eXfNJdPdiBCmYkA1PtaGBoqTk/1/da"><img src="http://feedads.g.doubleclick.net/~a/M7eXfNJdPdiBCmYkA1PtaGBoqTk/1/di" border="0" ismap="true"></img></a></p><p></p><p>Here&#8217;s the deal on healthcare according to twisted minds that would rather see the country destroyed than an African American president do well and those who are deluded by special interest doctrine&#8230;and those who do not/cannot think for themselves so they listen to and buy into the other crazies in and out of congress:</p>
<p>Obama is setting up death panels</p>
<p>Healthcare that could save 45,000 lives and prevent bankruptcies every 8 seconds is socialism instead of the capitalists who will greatly benefit from it by not having to pay insurance or reselling foreclosed property!</p>
<p>Healthcare costs a huge amount of money. Everyone knows that these are bad economic times that are not the product of a do nothing administration that fought the wrong war for 7 years at a cost of trillions of dollars and more than 4,000 lives. Everything is Obama&#8217;s fault after all, he voted NOT to go into Iraq!</p>
<p>How many people know that some Republican conservatives are committed to seeing Obama fail regardless of whether there is harm done to the country or not. If it is true that they don&#8217;t care, how many people care that they will do harm to the country to insure that Obama fails?</p>
<p>How many people know that the insurance companies don&#8217;t want healthcare or a public option because they can collect premiums from people who they are going to cancel when they get sick and make the government pay for their treatment as indigents&#8230;meaning tax everyone else. Does anyone know what &#8216;racket&#8217; means?</p>
<p>The healtcare plan calls for federally funded abortions&#8230;psyche!</p>
<p>The healthcare plan degrades social security&#8230;psyche!</p>
<p>and so on&#8230;</p>
<p>Do you agree&#8230;if so stand up for what is right!</p>
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