Islam Teaches

Here is a video that shows what Islam thinks of Jews and America and what is being taught to the people in general. Talk about rewriting history and lying.

http://switch5.castup.net/frames/20041020_MemriTV_Popup/video_480x360.asp?ClipMediaID=60227&ak=null

If I Were The Devil

If I Were The Devil -By Paul Harvey

I would gain control of the most powerful nation in the world;

I would delude their minds into thinking that they had come from man's effort, instead of God's blessings;

I would promote an attitude of loving things and using people, instead of the other way around;

I would dupe entire states into relying on gambling for their state revenue;

I would convince people that character is not an issue when it comes to leadership;

I would make it legal to take the life of unborn babies;

I would make it socially acceptable to take one's own life, and invent machines to make it convenient;

I would cheapen human life as much as possible so that life of animals are valued more than human beings;

I would take God out of the schools, where even the mention of His name was grounds for a lawsuit;

I would come up with drugs that sedate the mind and target the young, and I would get sports heroes to advertise them;

I would get control of the media, so that every night I could pollute the minds of every family member for my agenda;

I would attack then family, the backbone of any nation. I would make divorce acceptable and easy, even fashionable. If the family crumbles, so does the nation;

I would compel people to express their most depraved fantasies on canvas and movies screens, and I would call it art;

I would convince the world that people are born homosexuals, and that their lifestyles should be accepted and marveled;

I would convince the people that right and wrong are determined by a few who call themselves authorities and refer to their agendas as politically correct;

I would persuade people that the church is irrelevant and out of date, the Bible is for the naive;

I would dull the minds of Christians, and make them believe that prayer is not important, and that faithfulness and obedience are optional;

I GUESS I WOULD LEAVE THINGS PRETTY MUCH THE WAY THEY ARE

Three Things In Life

Three Things In Life

Three things in life that, once gone, never come back

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1. TIME

2. Words

3. Opportunity

Three things in life that may never be lost

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1. Peace

2. Hope

3. Honesty

Three things in life that are most valuable

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1. Love

2. Self-confidence

3. Friends

Three things in life that are never certain

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1. Dreams

2. Success

3. Fortune

Three things that make a person

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1. Hard work

2. Sincerity

3. Commitment

Three things in life that can destroy a person

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1. Alcohol / Drugs

2. Pride

3. Anger

Three things that are truly constant

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Father - Son - Holy Ghost

I ask the Lord to bless you, to guide you and protect you, as you go along your way.

Words Of Wisdom

An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist a calamity in every opportunity.
— Winston Churchill

When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the ones which open for us.
— Alexander Graham Bell

I make the most of all that comes, and the least of all that goes.
— Sara Teasdale

For U.S. Consumers, Broadband Service Is Slow and Expensive

Our fate is being left in the hands of the Bells for Broadband will the world pulls away. You would think with all the technology we have we would get a good deal. But you how it is when greed comes into play.

For U.S. Consumers, Broadband Service Is Slow and Expensive

By JESSE DRUCKER
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
November 16, 2005; Page B1

The good news for Web-surfing American households is that the cost of entry-level, high-speed Internet service is falling, thanks to competition between telephone and cable companies. The bad news is that even at these low prices you're not getting much for your money.

What passes for entry-level broadband service -- the most heavily marketed since summer -- is downright sluggish in the U.S. compared with that in many other countries; and not just in tech-crazed locales like Korea and Japan, but also in the likes of France.

The inferior value of U.S. broadband service becomes clear when you calculate the monthly "cost per megabit" of Internet access, or how much you pay to get a megabit's worth of download capability.

With Verizon, for example, entry-level broadband users pay $14.95 for download speeds of roughly 768 kilobits per second (three-quarters of one megabit), or a cost of about $20 per megabit.

In France, households can sign up for a $36 monthly service that promises download speeds of up to 20 megabits per second. Not only is that far faster than the Net access available to a typical American home, but it's also stunningly cheap at a cost of about $1.80 per megabit, or about one-eleventh that of Verizon's entry-level service.

What's more, says Taylor Reynolds, an economist with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, French users get unlimited Internet calling to domestic landlines and 100 TV channels for the fee. "Once you start comparing what's available in other countries, it starts to make you realize, 'Wow, some people have it really nice and pay really little,' " says Mr. Reynolds, adding he gets 7 mbps download speeds even in the countryside.

France has strict "unbundling" rules that force big carriers like France Télécom to make their networks available to other companies offering Web services. That means competitors install their own DSL equipment in the network, but can use the telephone company's copper wiring into people's homes. In the U.S., unbundling is a dead issue because of heavy lobbying by telephone companies.

While entry-level download speeds in the U.S. lag behind much of the world, the situation is worse with upload speeds. This has hit home in the Drucker household since I started sending pictures of my five-month-old son to his grandparents, waiting impatiently for the photos to leave my PC. Uploading digital camcorder movies of Hank would be even more annoying.

Sharing video is just one of the uses of faster upload speeds. Other applications include home health-care remote monitoring, which lets a doctor keep an eye on you in your house.

So what is the U.S. doing about all this? The White House and the FCC say they want universal, affordable broadband by 2007. But the policy is being left in the hands of the cable and phone companies that control at least 93% of the country's broadband market.

The very definition of broadband in the U.S. isn't keeping up with the increasingly sophisticated ways a consumer uses the Web. The FCC defines "high speed" as 200 kilobits in at least one direction. That may have been speedy in 1995, but it's pretty pokey in 2005, when speed should be measured in megabits -- at least five times as fast -- instead.

Michael Gallagher, head of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, the U.S. Commerce Department arm that advises the White House on policy, says the best way to get universal, affordable broadband is to leave things to the competitive market.

Defenders of this approach point to the fact that Bell telephone companies also offer faster DSL for more money, plus are rolling out new residential fiber offerings, led by Verizon's new Fios service. For $49.95 a month you get up to 15 megabits a second, download, or about $3 per megabit. That's a move in the right direction toward the overseas offerings.

The new service gets good reviews, and Verizon plans to make it available to six million homes by the end of next year. (SBC plans to have its fiber offerings available to 18 million homes by mid-2008.) Also, recent court and regulatory decisions unfavorable to Internet-service providers are prompting others, like EarthLink, to offer a wireless broadband alternative.

Some on Wall Street are skeptical: The aggressive fiber rollouts could suffer if Bell stocks continue to slide. And it would be hard to blame the companies if they did slow down. The Bells, after all, have a duty to shareholders to pursue maximum profits -- not necessarily to fulfill the goals of Internet advocates.

In the end, even talking about market forces in telecommunications is misleading. Phone companies, for example, get billions of dollars in federal and state subsidies for rural service; they also have teams of lobbyists and attorneys to influence policy. As cities try to introduce competing wireless networks, traditional telecom providers lobby to restrict such plans.

The U.S. needs some big-picture thinking by policy makers about broadband. The first thing they need to do is admit that U.S. broadband isn't keeping pace with the global market.

Beheading of Christian Schoolgirls Sparks Concerns About Religious Strife

These intial comments are from the person that sent me the article. My source "A" makes a very good point. Are we fighting the wrong group in the Middle East? I say this because regardless of the oil we get from Saudi Arabia, they spend the most money on anti-Jewish and anti-American terrorism in the world. Saudi Arabia is the the number ONE sponsor of terrorism in the world. Do we understand that??

This excerpt (full article below) is indicative of what is happening within Muslim countries throughout the world:

'Another campaign group, International Christian Concern, argued that behind the violence in Indonesia lay the funding of radical mosques, imams and religious schools by Saudi Arabia. "Although [Indonesian] Muslims and Christians had good relations for hundreds of years, since the advent of Saudi influence in Indonesian Islam there has been wave after wave of death and destruction," it said in a statement.'

Do you think that maybe we invaded the wrong country?

Beheading of Christian Schoolgirls Sparks Concerns About Religious Strife

By Patrick Goodenough

CNSNews.com International Editor November 01, 2005

(CNSNews.com) - Indonesian security forces remained on high alert and religious leaders appealed for calm in the nation's Central Sulawesi province following the beheading of three Christian schoolgirls at the weekend.

Community leaders sought to downplay religion as a motivating factor in the crime, although observers noted that the severed head of one of the girls had been found several miles from the scene of the attack, outside a church.

The timing of the attack may also be significant, coming just days before the end of Ramadan, the Muslim fasting month. Numerous previous attacks on Christians in Indonesia have occurred during Ramadan.

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono himself suggested that some elements in the Sulawesi city of Poso were bent on "maintain[ing] the hostility and conflict" of the past.

In Sulawesi and another province, Maluku, thousands of people died in clashes between Muslims and Christians between 1999 and 2002. (A minor dispute in Maluku at the end of Ramadan triggered the violence in 1999.) The two regions have sizeable Christian populations in what is otherwise a predominantly Muslim nation.

Government-sponsored peace agreements eventually were signed in a bid to end the violence, which was characterized by some as "sectarian" and by others as part of an orchestrated anti-Christian "jihad" by Islamist fighters shipped in from Indonesia's most populous island, Java.

Despite the peace deals, violence has occasionally flared since then in Sulawesi, where 22 people were killed in a market place bombing last May. Religious harmony has also been strained by the forced closure of scores of churches elsewhere in the country, and the jailing of several Christians.

Just last week a group called Indonesian Churches Together sent out an "SOS" message urging Christians around the world to pray for those in Indonesia facing an "escalation of terrorism, intimidation and persecution," the Assist news service reported.

Saturday's grisly murders happened as a group of teenaged girls were walking through a cocoa plantation to their Christian high school near Poso.

Men armed with machetes attacked them, hacking off the heads of three of them and severely wounding a fourth. The survivor, identified as 14-year-old Noviana Malewa, is in hospital.

Local reports cite unnamed police officers as saying the surviving witness said there had been six attackers, wearing black clothing and masks.

The chairman of the Indonesian Communion of Churches (PGI), the Rev. Andreas Yewangoe, urged the government to track down the perpetrators and discover their motives.

He said PGI officials were to visit Poso to appeal for calm, amid fears some Christians may be planning retaliatory attacks as Muslims prepare to end Ramadan with the holiday of Eid al-Fitr on Thursday.

Leading Muslim figures condemned the killings which Din Syamsuddin, chairman of the huge Islamic organization Muhammadiyah, sought to distance from religious rivalry, blaming them on a "third party."

Jakarta earlier sent in hundreds of extra paramilitary police and stepped up security patrols. Yudhoyono also dispatched senior security officials to Poso.

"Some Indonesian Christians are doubtful about how much will be achieved, given the security forces' record of reluctance to protect Christians or to bring their attackers to justice," reported the Barnabas Fund, a Christian organization which works closely with Christians in Indonesia and other Muslim countries.

It said the Rev. Rinaldy Damanik, a local Christian leader, served two years' imprisonment until his release a year ago after being indicted "on a trumped up charge, simply for trying to publicize the anti-Christian violence in Central Sulawesi."

Damanik, who denied the charges of owning weapons without permission, is currently touring Britain speaking on religious persecution in his homeland.

Another campaign group, International Christian Concern, argued that behind the violence in Indonesia lay the funding of radical mosques, imams and religious schools by Saudi Arabia.

"Although [Indonesian] Muslims and Christians had good relations for hundreds of years, since the advent of Saudi influence in Indonesian Islam there has been wave after wave of death and destruction," it said in a statement.

In an editorial published Tuesday, the Jakarta Post warned against what it called "acts of provocation to reignite conflict between Muslims and Christians."

It expressed concern that should violence erupt anew, it may not be restricted to Sulawesi and Maluku but spread to other parts of the world's most populous Muslim country.

"Already, we are seeing signs of uneasiness among non-Muslims because of the government's seemingly constant failure to protect them. And we are seeing signs of growing religious radicalism and even intolerance between religious communities."

The paper said recent developments had raised questions about the commitment and ability of the government "to protect the rights of religious minorities and to enable them to freely practice their faith."