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American Patriotism

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 03:00:29 +0000

In America, being patriotic is not merely saying you “love America ” or that you “care about your country”, but true American patriotism is embracing the original ideology of what makes America different from almost every other nation.

Before the penning of the Constitution, before the formation of the Bill of Rights as the first settlers came to these shores, the foundational principles of the American ideology were being formed. We see this at the pivotal point during the first colonies. The colonists brought the old world social & political ideology with them which was based on what was called Fiefdomism or Manorialism. Under that ideology, there was a sort of communal or socialistic system. As the American colonists tried to thrive in the harsh new world, this socialistic system was wreaking havoc. Some people would work while others sat around trying to reap the benefits of the community. It became apparent that some other system needed to be implemented. The colonists, being Christians looked to the Bible & from it they gleaned America ’s foundational ideology:

Curious about Caffeine

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:36:24 +0000

Well,
I'm trying to jump start my Monday morning. I'm not a coffee drinker but will drink hot or cold tea if it has been prepared (I'm too lazy to make it myself). So, I was curious as to which soda in the machine here at work contains more caffeine. I had heard rumor that Mountain Dew contains more than Coca-Cola. According to this website: http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database

On the U.S. Economy

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:51:51 +0000

With all of the negative financial news these days, I thought I might chime in with some potentially positive news. I work in the international freight logistics industry which is concerned with moving goods & products from an origin to a destination globally. Most goods & products are transported in huge 20ft or 40ft containers which resemble the trailer of a semi-truck & loaded into the hull & onto the decks of ships. (see example here) From there, the containers are loaded onto trains or trucks & carried further inland.

Opposition does not equal advocacy

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 23:18:12 +0000

Todd Dennis, long time proponent of "full preterism" (rightly called "hyper-preterism" because it goes beyond biblical definition) has begun a new blog site where he plans to work on refuting the teaching he had embraced for over 13 years. This is significant because Dennis is credited with being perhaps the "founder" of the online expression of full preterism. Other hyper-preterist sites that now enjoy prominence actually directly lifted materials from Dennis' work...often without even crediting him.

One thing that Dennis points out on the new site is very important to note. Opposition does not equal advocacy. What he means by this is, that while there have been many people that oppose hyper-preterism, there needs to be a better job done in advocating the correct position.

Ben Stein's new movie Expelled

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 19:35:15 +0000

I received this email & thought I'd pass it on...

We just finished seeing Ben Stein's new movie Expelled, No Intelligence Allowed, and we highly recommend it for your intellectual viewing pleasure. It is very well done as one might expect with Ben Stein involved.

Please take your spouse or a friend and go this weekend to view it: http://movies.yahoo.com/showtimes/movie?mid=1809995068&date=20080418

Matt

Darwin and Hitler: A Trumped-Up Connection? 04/16/2008

Microsoft Surface Computer

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:21:55 +0000

This is a really amazing presentation of a table-top computer with i-phone like abilities. This is the future. Take a look:

If you vote for a Democrat...

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 00:02:53 +0000

The reason why I cannot see how ANY Christian can vote for a Democrat is not simply because the entire ideological platform of the Democrat Party is anti-Christian but because the very essence of the Democrat Party is anti-Christian AND anti-American (& guess what? I can say this ALL I want because this site is not a 501C3).

But maybe I won't be allowed to say this for long in America because someone might complain that my words are "disturbing the peace" --

This is exactly what happened recently to one of Obama's delegates. It seems some children were climbing in trees next to her house. The woman was concerned for the safety of the children & for the ornate tree & advised the children to get down (it is unclear if the tree was on their children's property, however the parents were outside observing the children). The delegate told the kids that "the tree is not there for them to be climbing like monkeys". The children are black so it was assumed there was a racial element to the comment.

Asteroid Destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah?

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 04:11:16 +0000

A Fox News article reports how researchers have found a tablet that supposedly records the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah by an asteroid-like object. Even if this were true, it does not refute that such an event could have been caused by God, as depicted in the Bible. If anything, it only validates the Bible further as a book not of mere fables but of factual, historical events.

See the entire article here: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,343674,00.html

A Response to Abdul Ruff & Muslims & Jews

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 18:56:49 +0000

I have purposely allowed your blog postings to this site because it has been attracting an audience that needs to be reached with the message of Christ -- that message is not the message of Islam. That message is not even the message of "democracy" since even America which is considered by those outside of America as the "Christian nation", as the "democratic nation" -- even America is not a democracy but rather a REPUBLIC. It was not meant to be a "one man one vote" nation but rather a representative nation -- not necessarily representing EVERY person -- such as we do not let convicts vote, we are not supposed to count the votes of illegal immigrants & such.

A true democracy is merely one step away from anarchy & it seems the world is quickly lurching ever closer to that possibility. How does this tie in with your blog & me allowing you to write here?

The Obama Files

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 00:56:34 +0000

I thought this was funny. It depicts the implication that Obama wants to distance himself from Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton either because both Jackson & Sharpton represent the too "black" blackness or because both were failed candidates. You decide.

Even Christians laugh

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 05:53:47 +0000

If you didn't already know, TKC is collecting a base of good "feeds". Feeds are links to other sites. In this case I wanted to share a feed to a Christian humor site. Obviously I don't endorse everything coming from these feeds but we're mature enough to sort through it.

Take a look at the feed here: http://thekingdomcome.com/aggregator/categories/6

Or to see a listing of all the feeds we are collecting, check out this link: http://thekingdomcome.com/aggregator/sources

OpenOffice: A Microsoft Alternative

Sun, 23 Dec 2007 02:31:38 +0000

The company I work for is constantly increasing our workforce & with that is the need for more computers & with the need for more computers comes the need to license the software on those computers (unless you're the type that thinks it is ethical to hack everything).

This can quickly become expensive so our IT department came up with an alternative. OpenOffice is a freeware system comparable to Microsoft's Office package (Excel, Word, Access...).

As our office's unofficial Excel guru it is my job to help implement this portion of the package. At first I didn't think too highly of the package but now I've even downloaded it on my home computer & more than likely will remove my old Microsoft package.

Talk about Prophetic...

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 05:51:19 +0000

Watch what happens right after a Hillary Clinton press conference...

This will be what happens to our nation if we elect her.

She even comments "that the bases [of the flags] are not weighted enough" -- Yes Mrs. Clinton, when things have poor foundations they tend to fall over, & the socialistic America you are trying to construct is just like that -- no foundation.

How to become President

Sun, 11 Nov 2007 04:07:43 +0000

It seems the first rule in running for U.S President is to PANDER: Pander to everyone & offend no one. This is just another side effect of the "love wins" socialistic nicey-nice mentality not only infecting politics but every aspect of society -- including the Church.

A recent example of this pandering came during & after an interview with John McCain & his 95 year old mother. (source) During the MSNBC interview, McCain's mother showed open dislike of Mormonism saying about Mitt Romney & Mormons in general:

Perpetual Motion Machine

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 04:36:08 +0000

Ok so, I've always had a fascination with mechanisms -- especially how so-called ancient people were often able to perform feats that even today with all our "advanced" machines would be incapable to perform.

One such "ancient" known for his inventions was Heron (or Hero) of Alexandria. He actually had invented a steam-engine 2,000 years before it's official acceptance that ushered in our modern "industrial age".

Most of my young & adult life, I've given thought to energy sources & "perpetual motion machines". A perpetual motion machine is considered theorectically impossible because according to laws of physics -- it always takes energy to produce energy & the energy that is produced loses some quality in the process, requiring more of the outside energy source to keep the process going.

Think of it this way, imagine you had two generators. Generator #1 was gas powered & Generator #2 was being powered by the output of Generator #1 & in turn Generator #2 fed power back to Generator #1. Perhaps you might think that once Generator #1 ran out of gas, both generators would continue running because they were now feeding each other power -- but there is energy loss in the conversion & once the main source of energy (gas) ran out, both generators would stop working.