I received the following email from aBarbara Davis this morning. She is apparently also a member of the 2008 Presidential Blog group. Barbara wrote:
"The fact that the taxes are too high on American Companies is why they are leaving the US. The US will become a service nation soon if we raise their taxes more. This will cause even more crime and poverty. We have to lower their taxes in order to bring the companies back to the US and put people back to work.
You need to get your facts right before you place the blame."
Someone please explain to me how an "American Company" can relocate to a communist nation - like China - and make a profit? The tax rate there is suppose to be 100%.
If a democrat can believe the real problem is that companies are taxed too much then we certainly should not take victory in November for granted. No matter how silly the republican policies may seem to us.
Among the controversial issues which the council agreed to was permitting Christians to charge interest on loans. They agreed to this although the Bible expressly forbids it?
Why??? To gain worldly power.
An objective they continue in this day by hiding behind their 501-3-C tax exmpt - wealth enhancing -status which also permits them the luxury of not having to speak out against evil.
rjsnj wrote:
In my experience, many if not most mainstream Jews are deeply suspicious of Jews for Jesus - indeed, the group has been denounced by all four branches of Judaism - and it's easy to see why.
That link to wikipedia says:
On several occasions leaders of the four major Jewish movements have signed on to joint statements opposing Hebrew-Christian theology and tactics. In part they said: "Though Hebrew Christianity claims to be a form of Judaism, it is not ... It deceptively uses the sacred symbols of Jewish observance ... as a cover to convert Jews to Christianity, a belief system antithetical to Judaism ... Hebrew Christians are in radical conflict with the communal interests and the destiny of the Jewish people. They have crossed an unbridgeable chasm by accepting another religion. Despite this separation, they continue to attempt to convert their former co-religionists
To which I can only reply - none of that means that Mr Brickner is incorrect in his faith.
1. stripped of whatever "seniority" he has in the senate.
2. Removed from all committee chairmanship positions he holds.
3. Removed from all committees in which he is a member.
4. Barred from speaking in the senate.
5. Allowed to represent his state as long as they care to elect him.
6. Encouraged to join the republican party.
2. Palin's daughter is 17 years old and only a poltroon picks on a child.
For far too long right wing politicians and advocacy groups have been virtually unopposed while spewing their distorted form of Christianity across our nation. The recent flap over comments concerning rain on the night of Senator Obama's acceptance speech is only one example of their misguided theology.
The obvious assumption behind the words which sparked the flap is that God is on their side. Much of the theology that the right wing bases this assumption upon is derived from what has come to be know as, "The Prosperity Gospel."
This false theology is basically a Twenty-first Century version of the Dark Ages practice of "trial by combat." The idea being that if you win then God is on your side and if you lose then obviously God is not on your side. This is the false theology which is behind much of the right wing economic policies which have destroyed 80% of the value of the U.S. dollar. Link
One of the Biblical problems with this philosophy is that even if God does permit you to "win" that doesn't mean that they are actually favored by Him. One example of this can be found in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 9, verses 15 - 16. The LORD has Moses to tell Pharaoh, "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in every deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth."
It is obvious to anyone who reads this passage that the LORD permitted Egypt to prosper and to become great so that when He punished them people would know that only the LORD could have done these things to them. Being prosperous is, therefore, not and never has been an indication of the LORD's favor.
We must cintinually challenge the false theology of the right wing. They are wrong.
For far too long right wing politicians and advocacy groups have been virtually unopposed while spewing their distorted form of Christianity across our nation. The recent flap over comments concerning rain on the night of Senator Obama's acceptance speech is only one example of their misguided theology.
The obvious assumption behind the words which sparked the flap is that God is on their side. Much of the theology that the right wing bases this assumption upon is derived from what has come to be know as, "The Prosperity Gospel."
This false theology is basically a Twenty-first Century version of the Dark Ages practice of "trial by combat." The idea being that if you win then God is on your side and if you lose then obviously God is not on your side. This is the false theology which is behind much of the right wing economic policies which have destroyed 80% of the value of the U.S. dollar. Link
One of the Biblical problems with this philosophy is that even if God does permit you to "win" that doesn't mean that they are actually favored by Him. One example of this can be found in the Book of Exodus, Chapter 9, verses 15 - 16. The LORD has Moses to tell Pharaoh, "For now I will stretch out my hand, that I may smite thee and thy people with pestilence; and thou shalt be cut off from the earth. And in every deed for this cause have I raised thee up, for to shew in thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth."
It is obvious to anyone who reads this passage that the LORD permitted Egypt to prosper and to become great so that when He punished them peo