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You've got my vote! Everybody else get in line..........

Boucher voted YES Here is a list of how everyone voted http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll477.xml check out the video below, only 1:26 long and pretty interesting......

I personally have a hard time believing that ANYONE is that ignorant, it may seem extreme, but it makes you wonder what their intentions really are..........

Contact your congressman ASAP, they will be voting sometime this evening. 202-224-3121 ask for your congressman, and leave a message with the secretary! If this passes we are ALL going to realize just how wonderful cap and trade really is.........$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$........

My point exactly, I agree with you 100000000%

This is how BIG GOVT. eliminates competition and merges with LARGE CORPORATIONS. This is how FASCISM WORKS! Phillip Morris, RJ Reynolds lobbied for the huge Tobacco Fines under the Clinton Regime. They did so because they knew that they could pay the fines and that the smaller corporations could not, this helped eliminate their competition. I explain it in more detail here http://newagepatriot.blogspot.com/2009/04/corporatism-and-left.html

Take my online poll...... Are you a Democrat, Republican, Libertarian or independent 16 days left to vote.... http://www.newagepatriot.blogspot.com

not up 50Cents but up for 50 consecutive days in a row, setting a new American record for most consecutive days with an increase in gas prices. I'm not blaming the president, but since the liberal media wanted to hang GW for the price going up, I only figured that it would be fair if they started hating on Obama as well. But that's not gonna happen, I actually had someone tell me 2 days ago that this was Bush's fault and they really meant it............................. Jesus could do no wrong and in the eyes of yellow dog liberals Obama is the same......

I have some info and opinion about this in my blog, (www.newagepatriot.blogspot.com)"team Obama" as the white house is now being called, has refused to allow anyone with a DISSENTING POLITICAL VIEW be in the "Town Hall" meeting. How is that for a "fair and honest" demographic? "Team Obama" fears that someone might ask a legitimate question about His proposals and that would just throw a wrench in their propaganda machine. Those crazy right wing nut jobs might try to sabotage the PROPAGANDA FILLED PROGRAM! By the way Gas prices have increased for 50 some straight days, setting a NEW AMERICAN RECORD! If Bush was in the White House this would be the closing monologue and opening story on just about every liberal trash heap in America. Instead........the sound of Crickets!

There will never be another president elected, that isn't considered handsome and or pretty and charismatic. The last election proved this beyond a doubt. Obama was what the people wanted, but if he had been fat ugly and stuttered a lot, it would not have mattered where he stood on the issues, CHANGE couldn't have been sold by someone without charisma and good looks.........

Usually within regions numbers may not play as big of a roll, with the two divisions. HOwever, when a Division 1 Region D school with 250 enrollment gets in the playoffs and has to play a Division 1 Region A or B school with 500 it DOES MAKE A DIFFERENCE! By permitting this system of play, in order to get close to even number of schools in each division, the VHSL is forcing schools from smaller regions to have to compete with the so called "small" schools in LARGE REGIONS. For example a school with the enrollment of Gate City would now qualify for D1 in Region A or B. Madison County recently dropped down to D1, with an enrollment of around 650 give or take, that would make them a BIG D2 in Region D Some people are making their argument on EXCEPTIONS TO THE RULE and not norms. Every now and then a small school with low numbers will be able to beat a larger school due to good coaching, good tradition, good program etc. But the numbers still have a HUGE impact.

Yep, during the 87-88 season. Grundy, Richlands and Tazewell all tied for 1st in District.

In this particular quote you seem to be blaming God for the problem, you are correct you didn't ask to be born a sinner, but it wasn't God that made you a sinner. It was the transgressions of our natural father Adam. Your beef is with Adam, not God! God is the one that delivers us from the situation that the free will of our father Adam got us into. Think of it like this; when Adam failed he foreshadowed exactly what everyone of us would have done, had we too been given the opportunity that he had. Therefore, God is saving us from ourselves and our sinful nature! God didn't place the limits on us, we brought them on ourselves, through Adam.

I can understand your confusion, there are so many intangibles to take into consideration. Your question is sort of like, why hold me accountable for something that I could not help? When Adam fell in the Garden, he passed on this terrible condition to his entire posterity. Therefore, the posterity of Adam is in a state of nature in which they cannot get themselves out of. This is where the grace of God comes into play, God is showing us how much we need him when he bestows his grace and mercy upon us. Here is an example. A man is brought to the realization that he has a massive debt that he cannot pay. The debt begins to burden the man something awful. He tries and tries to get out of the mess, but fails miserably every time. We will call this man Mr. X While he is sitting at home worrying over this debt, unknowingly to him another man goes into the local bank and says I would like to pay Mr. X's debt in full. The banker accepts the payment for the debt and Mr. X no longer owes the debt. Someone else came and paid it for him. Finally, Mr. X, overwhelmed with burden and grief of his staggering debt, which I remind you he cannot pay, goes to the bank and tries to work something out, hoping for one final reprieve. When he arrives at the bank, the banker tells him some "GOOD NEWS" your debt has been paid in full by someone else. Relief comes to the banker in hearing this good news and he realizes how merciful and graceful this person must have been for paying his debt for him when he didn't have to. ///// I believe that your problem Buzzsaw may be with reconciling the will of God to your understanding. Some folks think that God is unjust to punish them, and some are looking for justice because they believe that their good out weighs their bad. I can see where all of this would seem confusing to you and how it makes you ponder it's legitimacy. I have often made this comment to folks, God is Sovereign, that means that He has all power over everything that he created. He can do as He pleases, anything that God does is Just, because He is God! Whether we like it or not, whether we think it to be fair or not, it is His universe and He can do as He pleases with it...... Try this; Imagine yourself in a state of TOTAL HOPLESSNESS, you are lost, ruined and without ANY ability at all to deliver yourself from a poor fallen state. I sometimes liken this to a person on the sinking Titanic and all of the life boats have already left, death appears certain. By the way in this scenario it's your fault the Titanic is sinking! Then someone out of nowhere comes along and prepares to save you from this condition, would you cry loud and tell that person that you deserved to be saved? Would you cry out for JUSTICE? No, you would be at the Mercy of the one who is capable of saving, your cry would be have mercy on me, save me! This sort of demonstrates what I am trying to convey, it rather difficult to articluate such a difficult subject. best of luck

The subject of Free Will is often disputed and I would like to present my view of what the bible teaches regarding the will of man. In the garden, free will existed, and man chose evil rather than good. This happened and it proved a point, man will choose evil when exercising free will! (I am not implying that every decision that a man makes is evil, but rather that he is inclined to choose evil at times) God permitted Satan to be in the garden, Satan is not and was not eternal, he indeed was a created being. I do not understand why God created or permitted Satan to do what he did. But I believe that God permitted Satan to tempt man, when man CHOSE to follow Satan, it demonstrated to man what he would do with his free will. Therefore, Adam and Eve and their posterity to follow would have to be brought to the realization of their ABSOLUTE NEED of Gods mercy and not the ability of themselves to appease the wrath of God. Imagine it like this, the incident in the garden showed us that we could not keep ourself from sin and therefore let's us know that God is our only way out! By this happening, God gets the praise and honor from man that he justly deserves for being our only source of redemption. Some believe that man can still choose good over evil, but they fail to realize that in Adam we ALL died. When left to his ownfree will, man will ultimately choose evil over good. You may say that I am not giving man much credit, and you would be right, I don't believe that man has it in him to satisfy or appease the wrath of good. There is a difference in living right and choosing to serve the Lord. There are many atheists that are good moral and ethical persons. They support their family, help old ladies across the street, never curse, swear, drink or smoke. But they don't serve the Lord. The Law in the bible was given "because of transgression," it paints a picture of the helplessness of mankind. If it were possible for man to keep the law by exercising his own free will, then why has there never been a man do it? This is where so many fail to understand their situation. Mankind is by nature a sinful creature. He is born with in sin and it is condemmed in his flesh. Since he is a sinful creature, he sins! For example a pig wallows in the mud because that's what pigs do, a cat cleans itself because thats what a cat does, a sinner sins cause that's what sinners do. What people fail to realize is that if you break one part of the LAW, just one, you don't have anything to pay with, your free will does not trump the one sin that you have committed. Therefore, all it takes is one mistake, one sin and you are at the mercy of God. It doesn't mean that a lier is as a bad as a murderer, the law is like a chain, break one link, doesn't matter which one, you broke the law! This is what makes so many rejoice in the Grace of God. Were we (mankind) couldn't keep the law, Christ did. hope this wasn't too confusing.......

The problem with Atheist is that they do not understand that God is a loving God, but he is also a God of vengeance and wrath. People have this notion that the God of the bible is like Santa Claus, they forget that it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of living God! IN addition to this, they often fail to realize that when an adult or child dies of sickness that sometimes it is an act of Mercy by God. In sparing the suffering God takes the child away from the miseries of this life and blesses them, much to our sadness, to enter into eternal peace, rest and joy. Doesn't sound to me like prayers aren't answered. They just may not always be answered in the way that we want. But God knows whats best and we do not.

Well said, I think that you did a pretty good job explaining this. If nothing else, it could possibly show Lance that going it alone is not always the best when it comes to the bible. I pastor a church and I get great encouragement when someone tells me that I explained something to them that had been a stumbling block. I admit that I don't know everything about the bible, but I have yet to find a contradiction in it, I have been presented with several supposed contradictions, but through careful study everything works out perfect. If the apostle Paul was willing to make an argument over the preservation of one letter of the bible, (seed singular and not seeds plural) then I am convinced that it is flawless and that God has seen to it that HIS word has been divinely preserved. Sometimes, what many find confusing is the literal and spiritual connotation of a text. That is where rightly dividing the word comes into play and that is not always easy to do.

I think that the big problem with "religion" today is that it is NOT portrayed as much as a spiritual experience but rather a membership to a country club. Most people literally "shop" for a church that fits their wants and desires, kinda like looking for a new car. Never taking into consideration if what the church is doing is biblical or if it's members are leading a double life. Churches on the other hand have witnessed this and they have changed significantly in the past 50 or so years. I would argue that this has been ongoing rapidly in America since the early 1800's. Nonetheless, since folks are "shopping" for a church, the churches have began marketing like a business, adding this and that to their services, until they do not even look like their former selves. All of this marketing has led to a new mentality, if we are going to market for new clientel then we need to take a BUSINESS APPROACH. This, in my opinion, is the dominating theme in most large congregations in America today. Give the public what they want and they will show up in droves. This has led to a nation full of folks with HEAD RELIGION and fewer and fewer with HEART RELIGION. I view the Church like a ship in the water, as long as the ship is sailing on the water everything is fine, but just as soon as the water gets in the ship, it starts sinking! Unfortunately, in this case the water represents our worldly lusts.........

If it weren't for organized religion, how would you have been aware of the the religion to begin with?

It is important to remember that the world was cast into sin and sorrow, through and by the transgression of Adam in the garden. This explains our suffering, I know that you are probably troubled by the age old question, "Why does God allow this to take place?" It is important to understand that according to God's plan the suffering that we go through in this life is reason for us to praise and honor him. It sort of goes like this, having experienced the problems of this world, and knowing that in the world to come (Heaven) we will not suffer again, gives us reason to praise God for what he has done and will do for us in eternity. If I had never known sickness, pain, suffering and tribulations, I would not be made to rejoice in the truth that one day, one eternal day all things will be perfect and free from this type of suffering. In other words, without my knowledge of these things, I would not have a reason to believe that I have been saved from something. I know that you are confused and appear to be at a loss. Lance made the comment that organized religion had been a turnoff for him, because many have turned it into a money grabbing business. Although, this is true in many cases, it is not so in every instance. But, it does turn folks away and that is the sad conclusion. I hope that this particular cause is not your reason for doubt, if so perhaps a change in venue might help. If your concerns are based on a personal dilemma, I hope that you are able to reconcile your issues and come to a comfortable spot in your life.

Did anyone watch this piece of POLITICAL PROPAGANDA? I committed myself to watch this, regardless of how outrageous it would get. Trust me it was waaaaaaayyyyyy over the top. A few things that we learned from the film. 1. We are in a WAR to save the planet, you are either with "us" or not; evidently the us is ABC, NBC, GE, MSNBC, Obama and Al Gore 2. We all will be required to SACRIFICE to save Mother Earth; the evil things we do like eating meat, driving cars, using electricity, eating meat, playing video games, using the air conditioner, eating meat, will have to cease or we are ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3. There are some things that we can do to prevent this horrendous disaster from taking place; I swear these were used (Use energy efficient light bulbs, inflate our tires, stop eating meat, use solar and wind power more often, drive smaller cars, did I mention stop eating meat?) The entire premise of the program just shows you how far the media has went from unbiased reporting to regurgitating the subjective propoganda of the left. The "fictional account" is based on a future meeting in which the worlds powers decided NOT to do anything about climate change. Ironically, enough there will be a December meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark in which 200 of the worlds countries will try to get the U.S. to foot the bill for about 90 percent of this bullcrap. The film unfolds with the world gradually sinking under water, with food rationing, riots and ultimately the fall of civilization (I KID YOU NOT) In fact in the end mankind has become extinct, remember now we are talking 90 years from now! In the end, the go back and say that all of this misery could be prevented and the rehash a smiling group at the Denmark meeting and the world turns into this wonderful UTOPIA, where COLLECTIVE rights and freedoms outweigh individual liberty. I swear this is worse than some German propaganda films that I saw while in college. If I hadn't watched this myself, I would swear that this was something that I read in Orwells 1984. Instead it WAS very real and it scares the heck out me................ You know it's bad when the liberals, who made the film, didn't even think that the govt. could save us in the film!

I have had WILD BLUE for about a year and can't find anything bad to say about the service. Our service has never been down, we have had some slow delays due to some severe storms, but for the most at 500 we run around 490 most of the time. I have heard others complain about the service however, I suppose it has a lot to do with location. later..........

The current Progressives in Washington view the White Christian Male as being the root of most social problems. They fill guilty for being white and they honestly believe that they are righting our wrongs by promoting things like affirmative action, amnesty, "free" health care etc. Their intention is by no means EVIL they firmly believe that they are helping society out and it just happens to be at the expense of the target group mentioned above.

amen!

Check out the BIG BROTHER LIKE quote that Pelosi uses at the end of the piece below. /////////////// In answering a question from a student about how Pelosi was going to get Americans to cut back on their carbon emissions, the leading Democratic lawmaker said it was important to educate children on how to conserve energy and for citizens to build more environmentally friendly homes. "We have so much room for improvement," she said. "Every aspect of our lives must be subjected to an inventory ... of how we are taking responsibility."