Can You Say SCAM?

In order to get money to pay for their mounting bills, a Missouri couple came up with the idea they could have 'sextuplets'. Only thing missing was the woman's pregnancy.

Kris and Sarah Everson admitted they staged the pregnancy of multiple births in order to get money to pay bills. They were charged with stealing by deceit from workers, friends, and neighbors. They collected $3,500 from a local charity and from the place of business where Kris worked.

The Prosecutor said that the Midwest was very trusting, but I think the trust shown to this couple will be long in coming, if ever again.

The Examiner, a newspaper in Independence, printed the story after sitting on it for three weeks. They failed to get their own pictures of the babies who were supposed to have still been in the hospital. But, the story began to unravel after their report, since no area hospital had any multiple births as the Everson's had said. They finally had to confess it was all a hoax for money.

The couple is facing up to seven years in prison. Looks like their scam/hoax was a little flawed from the beginning. There are no babies, and, besides looking at years in prison still saddled with their debt, he is now out of a job.

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Heavy Rain Triggers Mudslides in Colombia

There have been heavy rains in south-western Colombia, causing many mud slides. This has resulted in at least 11 deaths, and as many as 40 missing people.

Not only have rescuers been hampered by the heavy rains, and cut off by mud slides; they have been attacked by Colombia's factions.

As many as 1200 tourists had to be taken to safety. But, a journalist, who was there to cover the disaster, was swept away after the new rains on Thursday produced more mud slides. He is still missing, but his camera man has been found, but with serious injuries. Hundreds of people have been left homeless in this latest disaster.

More than 40 people have been killed and thousands left homeless by floods and mudslides in this year's wet season, which has also seen thousands of hectares of crops destroyed.

The rainy season began in March and probably will continue until June, the article reports.

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Christian Carnival CXVII up at Cadmusings

The Christian Carnival is up at Cadmusings. You are going to be met with some great posts this week. My favorite is 'There Is Not Enough Pepsi In My Gas Tank'. Go on over to Light Along The Journey and read John's very interesting and enlightening blog. You will not be disappointed. Then, jump back over to Cadmusings and read all the others.


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Shuffle Faster, Please

82 year old Mayvis Coyle could not beat the red light on a busy five lane highway in Los Angeles. So, she was given a $114 ticket by a motorcycle cop for 'obstructing traffic'. She said she became to shuffle across with her cane when it turned green, but did not make it.

There have been many complaints that the lights turn too quickly even for college students. One person said it changed in 20 seconds from the time it turned green to red. The healthiest of people could not make that light!

Councilwoman Wendy Greuel said she has asked transportation officials to figure out how to accommodate elderly people.

"We should look at those areas with predominantly seniors and accommodate their needs in intersections" she said.

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WorldNetDaily: Google hosts ‘boy love’ site

World Net Daily interviewed marriage and family therapist intern, Stacy L. Harp, after she had tried to get Google to drop a site which promotes “boy love” sexual relationships, between men and adolescents. She had been contacted on her personal website, Writing Right, after a reader saw that she was writing about these kind of relationships. The person alerted her to the offending free weblog on Google’s blogspot.com.

Seems after Stacy reported the site, “Paiderastia’ The Boy Love Revival, to Google, the site removed some of the offending messages. But, this site seems to be one for pedophiles, since it is talking constantly, about ‘coming out’ to the public, or a friend, or family member, as a pedophile. They seem to think their ‘code of ethics’ makes it okay to engage in relations with a young boy. One person writes about the ‘war at home’, and dreaming of one day ‘coming out as a boy lover.’

The Google site has this at the top of their page:

Pederasty, as idealized by the ancient Greeks, was a relationship and bond between an adolescent boy and an adult man outside of HIS immediate family. This is modernized in today's culture as gender neutral by a relationship and bond between an adolescent child and an adult outside of their immediate family. In a wider sense this refers to erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults. Building Bridges!

Notice, it says, ‘in a wider sense this refers to erotic/mentor/spiritual love between adolescents and adults. And, they call it ‘Building Bridges’.

The American Heritage Dictionary defines erotic as

1. Of or concerning sexual love and desire; amatory.
2. Tending to arouse sexual desire.
3. Dominated by sexual love or desire.

U.S. Officials hunting pedophiles see web sites as these as low profile, since they aren’t explicit in details. But, Stacy Harp, who has recovered from child sexual abuse and spent the last 4 years as a therapist, thinks something should be done about them. We need more ‘Stacys’ out there, who are looking out for the welfare of all children!

"It plays into the normalization of it," she said. "The more you have it out there the more it's available for children to see. Children are easily influenced."

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. Stacy has picked a great time to bring this to our attention, and try to raise the awareness of what child abuse does to a youngster unable to fend for oneself.

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Growing Old Gracefully

Psalms 90:17, "And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us: and establish thou the work of our hands upon us; yea, the work of our hands establish thou it."

We’ve all heard the phrase, “Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder.” Each day we live, we grow a little older, wrinkles begin to show up more prominently, and grey hair becomes a truth. No matter how much we try with makeup, clothes, face-lifts or any of the many other ways to ‘look beautiful’, age will not escape us. Some just get around it better than others do!

The world tries to dictate how we should look. We are shown these beautiful, thin models in the magazines, or on television, modeling clothes that were only made to flatter the best of bodies. There are more of us with unstable flab that would look hideous in most of those fashions! Not too many people have a perfect size, and something looks a little different than it was supposed to on a different person. But, we still try and fit in some of those things, not because we want to, but because most fashions are geared at that perfect body. Lets admit it: most of us are way passed the 'wear anything' stage, with the bulging midriffs, the sagging arms, wrinkled hands, and legs laced with spider web veins!

While the world pines away to like those skinny models, those of us with the sense to know we could never look like those girls, will be doing the best with what we have. God gave each of a body with parts which wear out, a mind of which He wants to be the center, and a conscious to let us know when we are either ‘over the line’, or headed straight for the door. Life is not all about the beauty ‘without’, but the beauty ‘within’. When a person lives according to the dictates of the Word, and not the dictates of the world, their light will shine out to others – showing the greatest beauty of all! And, growing old will just be the ultimate culmination of life!

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Jesus May Have Walked On Ice?

That is what a team of scientists at Florida State University says. And, two of it's members also went into Bible research back in 1992, when they used mathematics to try and explain Moses' parting of the sea.

The researchers said it is not their job to determine whether the biblical story took place. That is a question for religious scholars, archeologists, anthropologists and believers, they write.

Well, tell me why they even took time to try and disprove it?

Be Prepared

Today, it has been a beautiful day. The sun has been shining all day, and the spring has brought in all kinds of birds. They are chirping, as though there is nothing but good weather in the air. But, if we had not heard the weather, we would not know what was in store for us later tonight. Storms have already hit other areas, devastating homes and lives.

But, these days, we have weather forecasters who keep us abreast of the weather that is about to happen in our respective areas. So, today, we know to prepare for a possible tornado, perhaps the worst of the spring season. We know the precautions to take, to get to shelter early, and not to feel like we will be okay, because the sky 'doesn't look bad.' Too many have lost their lives due to not listening to the forecasters and taking the needed precautions early enough.

Being prepared also means making preparations to meet the soon coming King. So many people take life so lightly. Some do not believe in a God who made us in His image, whose presence is with us constantly, who 'sees all things', 'knows all things' - an ever presence in our lives. Some, who do believe, nevertheless, take their own sweet time in making up their minds to serve Him. They want to do what they want to do, and go their merry way, not heeding the calling of the Holy Spirit. They seem to think they have all the time in the world to come to Him. Some never make it. Some believe they will do whatever they want, and then, on their deathbed, they will be able to repent and be saved. But, my question to them is this, "What happens if you aren't able to repent at the last moment? What happens if you are in a tragic accident and leave this world in the 'flash of an eye'?

The Lord says that 'whosoever believeth on me hath everlasting life.' John 6:47. But, we must make the first step to come to Him, to repent, and believe that He was sent by God to earth, born of a virgin, to die for us, that He was crucified, and rose again, and now sits at the right hand of the Father. God sent His only Son, Jesus, to be the supreme sacrifice for our sins that we might live eternally with him. But, we must be prepared.

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Cynthia McKinney: The Rep Who Cries Racism

The run in with the Capitol Police is not the first time McKinney has tried to make a racial issue out of something she's been caught in. There are articles all over the Internet about her and the things she's said or done.

Neal Boortz says it was "Cynthia McKinney Just Being Cynthia McKinney.

McKinney once said that the Bush White House had had prior knowledge of the 9-11 attacks.

Doug Gross, at Forbes.com, says that her softened image of 2004 took a blow during this last frenzy of hers, in which she hit a Capitol Police, when he tried to stop her because she wasn't wearing a badge, and he did not recognize her. She thinks everyone should know her; and perhaps they should recognize her from the mouth which spouts off all the time: racism!

"She's brought back the old Cynthia," said Merle Black, a political scientist at Emory University. "There won't be any more news stories about `the new Cynthia McKinney.'"

She once said that former Vice President Al Gore had a low "Negro tolerance level" and that officials in the Bush administration had advance knowledge of the Sept. 11 attacks but kept quiet to allow friends to profit from the bloodshed.

She denounced New York Mayor Rudolph Guiliani for refusing a $10 million donation from a Saudi prince for the families of Sept. 11 victims. She has been criticized for her outspoken support of the Palestinian cause in Israel. In 1996, her father, longtime state lawmaker Billy McKinney, called her Republican opponent a "racist Jew."

In Debbie Schlussel's piece, "Jihad Cynthia Strikes Again", at FrontPage Magazine, she says that Cynthia said the White House was full of latent racists. She was pushing for slavery reparations. Guess who the President was back then? You guessed it - Clinton!

The surprise is that she continues to be a respected member of the Democratic Party and House Democratic Caucus. In my column, I wrote that Jihad Cindy is the modern-day Hanoi Jane. But I was wrong.

Jane Fonda was only in film. Jihad Cindy is far worse: She's a Member of Congress.

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Carnival of Beauty

This week, the topic was Beauty of Technology. Visit MzEllen & Company and read the entries.

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Christian Carnival is Up Again!

The Bloke at In The Outer has done a good job in hosting the Carnival this week. But, the posters have out done themselves! There are so many great ones to read. So jump on over to In The Outer and get busy!

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Help! Mom! Hollywood's In My Hamper!

Book Review
Author: Katherine DeBrecht

This book is among the most hilarious of books I’ve read lately! Two young sisters set out to baby sit neighborhood children in order to buy themselves the new bike everyone is raving about. But, they get caught up in Hollywood’s “It’s the Rage”, with all the liberals jumping out of a hamper in their closet.

The young girls go through many changes, which is not ‘them’, and eventually never get anymore calls for babysitting. They realize they are better off being themselves, which is what their Mom had taught them. They get rid of the Hollywood rage items, become the young girls they were before, and get back to living the young life with others youngsters.

The book is a great teacher for children having a tough time being themselves, and wanting to be ‘like others’.

This book was given to me for review, for free, through Active Christian Media, by the publisher, World Ahead Publishing Company, Los Angeles, CA.

CREDO by Ray Prichard - Book Review

Credo, the Latin word for creed, means ‘I believe’. And, at the top of this book, there is this sentence: “Believing in something to die for”. Within Credo, the author has dissected the entire Apostle’s Creed, examined and explained every minute detail of the Creed. He has taken each part and given scripture to explain why each one is important to us, as Christians.

John 8:32 says, “You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” There is much more to the Christian life than the creed, but, we should know and believe those components within the creed. The world has changed throughout time, but the Word of has never changed. What was important thousands of years ago is still important today.

This is a great book for those who do believe in God, and belong to Him, and also for the unbelievers. Perhaps, upon reading, one would find God through these pages of truth. There is no better time than today to realize that there truly is a ‘living God’, one who is ever present, and knows us even before conception.

The very first chapter is entitled “You are what you believe”. And, if one’s beliefs are set on anything outside God’s truth, this book could be the one to strengthen the cause to come to Christ. For in Him, there is life everlasting.

This book was given to me for reviewing, free of charge, by Active Christian Media, published by Crossway.

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Top Ten Blogs

These are the blogs I consider today to be my top 10 - in no certain order. I read many more, and will certainly jump around. But, today, these receive the star!

1. She Lives
2. Adrian Warnock's UK Evangelical blog
3. Jay Adkins
4. Parable of The Blog-Net
5. The Narrow
6. Right Equals Might
7. Notes In The Key of Life
8. Michelle Malkin
9. Mr. Minority
10. Dan Surber

Update: I was just informed I missed Active Christian Media. Well, not entirely, since they supply me with all my free books for reviewing. So, I must say, Stacy, you are right - I left you out, but you are certainly NOT forgotten! Folks, go visit and become a Reviewer!

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Are Facts Obsolete?

Thomas Sowell is my kind of journalist, in that he tells it like it is!

What is more frightening than any particular policy or ideology is the widespread habit of disregarding facts. Former House Majority Leader Dick Armey put it this way: "Demagoguery beats data."

Sowell talks about how the media tells us things they want us to hear, but not the things we should be hearing. In other words, the news is always BIAS, and filtered. He talks about how we are given facts on the WHYS we should peruse certain areas, like gun control, or medical care in other countries on which to base our own laws, but seldom will you ever hear the reasons these should not be perused! Even our educators seem to filter out information that would balance out what they are teaching to our students. And, those very facts could be found in any library from an almanac or encyclopedia.

Crimes against homosexuals, blacks, or the homeless are big news to be dramatized, repeated, and denounced. Crimes committed by homosexuals, blacks, or the homeless are not — and are often passed over in silence by much of the media. The net result is that the public gets filtered facts, which can create an impression the direct opposite of the truth.

The result is the fact that yes, facts are becoming obsolete, but only in the minds of those reporting, teaching, or otherwise un-interested! I, for one, want to know the truth, as countless others around the country would, also. But, truth, as a whole, doesn't seem to be on the minds of some these days.

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'Tasting Technology' In A Personal Way

Technology has given us many things to enhance our lives. We have the washer/dryer, the air conditioner, cars, cell phones, and etc. But, the one that probably everyone loves more than that is the computer. It has brought us the Internet, a way to converse all over the world.

I became acquainted with the Internet in 1991, when we got our first computer. That was before it became as it is today. Back then, you could get on an ISP, talk on their online forums – download them to your computer, answer offline. Today, forums are through email, even though you can read comments online. They are run through Google or Yahoo groups, the most widely known.

The Internet brought me my first truly best friend through a Web site. She and I ‘met’ in 1996. And, we’ve been friends ever since. She lives 12 hours from me, but, through the years, we’ve met 3 or 4 times, going out to eat, when I would be on a bus tour. But, we constantly email or call each other long distance. We know each others troubles, our aches and pains, and often call on each other to pray for something in our lives, or someone we know. We laugh and cry together – along with a few other ladies to whom we both are well acquainted. We all 5 are prayer warriors for each other.

The Internet has made it easier to ‘take the gospel to all the world’. It literally can go around the world in a few minutes, simply by placing it in an email and hitting the SEND button! We find a common bond among the Christians that email all over the world. I’ve been privileged to get to know people in many countries: Canada, Australia, Africa, Thailand, New Zealand, Great Britain – to name a few. And, this would never have happened, had there not been Internet Email available.

I believe the Internet is ‘the sign of the times’ technology. Through it, our lives can be made richer by meeting people we would never have gotten acquainted with. Sometimes that person may be across town, in another state, or even in another country. But, life will never be the same, once you’ve ‘tasted technology’ in such a personal way!

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Mel White's Equality Ride Campaign

Most of us know Mel White as the person behind the Equality Ride campaign. The driving force behind this campaign is his organization called SoulForce.

The Soulforce Web site has this statement at the top of their site:

Freedom for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people from religious and political oppression through the practice of relentless nonviolent resistance.

Anita Fish, in the Edmond Sun, says that SoulForce "is taking the homosexual issue to the next level; hoping Christians and non-Christians alike will not notice a tweaking of the Bible to fit its agenda." She says that he is confusing scripture on homosexuality.

It appears a fierce need for approval spurred a literary resource available through Soul-force’s Web site. In defense of the homosexual lifestyle, Mel White, co-founder of the organization, has authored a 17-page document accusing several denominations and religious organizations of committing “spiritual violence,” and discriminating by wrongly using Scriptural passages. White somewhat holds himself out to be the ultimate authority on the Bible, then proceeds to dismember Scripture (i.e. Lev. 20:13, 1Tim 1:10, 1Cor. 6:9, Rom. 1:26-27) implying the Bible was not written to apply for all times — at least where homosexuality is concerned.

J. Lee Grady, editor for Charisma, says that White and his gay partner, Gary Nixon, are "waging a propaganda war from their California headquarters." They are taking their Equality Ride over the nation, to campuses where they are pushing for Christian college students to embrace homosexuality as a normal life style. And, they are being met with resistance! And, apparently, this rocks their boat!

Soulforce’s goal is clearly stated on its Web site: “Never before have young activists banded together to challenge homophobia at the institutions that are largely responsible for GLBT discrimination.” (GLBT, by the way, stands for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender

At Lee University, they had scheduled a concert with the duo of Jason and DeMarco. Jason Warner, part of the duo with his partner, DeMarco DeCiccio, is a graduate of Lee University. And, he goes around, talking freely of his Pentecostal upbringing, as though that it is okay to be 'gay and pentecostal'.

A 'Pentecostal upbringing' does not make a person a Christian, no matter what you claim to be - heterosexual, homosexual, gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. If you do not know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, then you are lost!

Scripture tells us that God made man and woman to produce and multiply the earth. There is no other union that can do this. Scripture tells us that it is an abomination to God for man to lie with man,as with a woman. (Leviticus 18:22). Apparently, this scripture has been ripped from their Bible.

He finally decided to divorce his wife and enter into a gay relationship, a process he described as “taking the first steps toward integrity” in his 1994 biography Stranger at the Gate: To Be Gay and Christian in America.

White's honesty, or his 'integrity', as he put it does not make homosexuality right. It doesn't give him or his followers the right to try and impress the Youth of this nation with their open, rightfully wrong, life style, and try and pass it off as "God loves me like I am." God loves the person behind the homosexuality, but not the act of homosexuality. He says we will become a 'new creature' - 'old things are passed away; all things have become new.' (II Corinthians 5:17) I would also say to White, "You are living a sinful life. You have put away your wife for a man, and, in the eyes of God, this is wrong." I believe going against the Word of God is spiritual adultery. White has embraced what the world is saying is okay, denying that his actions are offensive to the One who holds his fate in His hands.

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Domino's Founder To Create A Paradise On Earth

Domino's Pizza founder, Tom Monaghan, is trying to create his version of paradise on earth near Naples, Florida. He is building Ava Maria University, and it will share the town with the same name as the Pizza founder.

The new community will have strict Christian beliefs. It will be a town without adult bookstores, or topless bars. It will have strict family values. Monaghan is a devout Catholic. In keeping with the Catholic doctrine, he is asking doctors that set up shop there to offer no contraception. Also, pharmacies and convenience stores will be asked not to stock condoms or any type of pornography.

The town has some support from some prominet leaders in the state of Florida, even the President's brother is happy with the idea -- Governor Jeb Bush is thrilled with the idea.

"I think it will be a model for sustainable living, not just for Florida, but for the country."

Gabrielle Gilmore lives in nearby Naples and doesn't like the thought of the new city.

"I fear they will try to impose their religious and moral views on the rest of the community."

The ACLU has threatened to sue if they try and enforce any of their moral beliefs.

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Bill Cosby Speaks To Crime Problem in New Orleans

Bill Cosby has always been outspoken in the fight against crime within the black population. Saturday, he spoke to a crowd of around 2,000 people, encouraging them to cleanse the area of the culture crime, as it rebuilds after Katrina.

"It's painful, but we can't cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound," Cosby told the rally of about 2,000 people in front of the city's convention center.

"Ladies and gentlemen, you had the highest murder rate, unto each other. You were dealing drugs to each other. You were impregnating our 13-, 12-, 11-year-old children," he said.

"What kind of a village is that?"

Cosby has been outspoken before and denounced by some because he encourages his race to come out from under their problems, and make their priorities more on education and morality. I applaud him for the wisdom he has shown.

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There Are Rules To Follow

Rules even apply to Congress women, Rep. Cynthia McKinney. But, I suppose she didn't realize, "wear your badge" didn't mean much. After all, she is in Congress; everyone should know her. But, that is not the point. If you slack on one thing, what else will you slack on. Had the officer, whom she hit, had let her get by, then the next one would expect the same treatment.

We expect children to obey the rules. The same applies to all other rules. But, her lawyer used the statement "just a victim of being in Congress while black." I suppose any excuse is better than no excuse at all.

Several Capitol Police officials have said the officer involved asked McKinney three times to stop. When she did not, he placed a hand on her and she hit him, they said.

Capitol Hill police have a job to do, and that job is to protect all 535 members and all the workers on Capitol Hill. If many don't comply, then this makes their job harder.

The safety of its members became a sensitive issue after a gunman in 1998 killed two officers outside the office of then-Republican Whip Tom DeLay of Texas.

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