NYPOST.COM Regional News: CHURCH SUSPENDS BACKGROUND CHECKS Associated Press

Spokesman Joseph Zwilling said yesterday priests, teachers and other employees were concerned about how the information might be used.

And I wonder what they will do without checking if they are OK?

Just did a quick look through the stats provided by Bravenet and was interested to find that I am showing up in search engines. The last few links to here were from Google and Yahoo. Now, it was interesting what they were looking for. "Bagdad Bob" was one, and I found out that that name was given to the famous Iraq Minister of (dis)Information. The other interesting was "How many people has Sadam killed?" Seems one of my archive pages has an article I mention Sadam on, and then later a rant about the math teacher who had the students do calulation on how many football stadiums would the aborted babbies fill. I guess those comming by did not get what they were looking for, but I hope they do return and see what I have to say. Of course. you my faithful reader, are always welcome, whomever you are. Till later.

Bob M.

Reuters AlertNet - Methodists' Response to Iraq

Let me not repeat but add to what I have said on Iraq. I am compelled to speak on behalf of children and young people, and in my mind these are two groups whose portraits haunt me. More than half of the Iraqi population is under 18 years of age and many of the soldiers on both sides are but a few years older. Oh, God in heaven, we have set the young against the younger. For what? For oil? For glory? The children of Iraq will drink polluted water; many will starve. As the father of a four-year old and expecting a new-born in June, I have no trouble visualizing the under-five population in Iraq. I was horrified the other day when I read an NGO (Nongovernmental Organization) email description of an Iraqi father holding up parts of his baby following a bombing. And the young people of the invading forces. How I care for them. So essentially good: attempting to be humane even with weapons drawn.

Sir, I was shocked when I read about the brutal beating being given to a person simply because he did not like Saddam Husein, or better yet being killed and leaving his family orphans. You seem to think we did this for oil. Good, then you do not have to use that oil to drive your car or heat your house. In fact, sir, please go live in these places that would not let you practice your religion, that would shoot you for saying the name of Jesus. You think it was only about oil, no, it was for bringing freedom to a place that longed for it, the very freedoms you deserve. Sure, many died, and many died to bring you that freedom that you enjoy in this country. Do you decry those deaths, and say they were senseless? Or is it just because it is now?

NJ.com: NewsFlash

"When you politicize religion, you rob it of its integrity and power," he said.

I do not know why this one quote jumped out at me from a relatively balanced article. But I really feel the other way. When you take religion out of politics, it looses power. You see, government is there to make sure that good takes place over evil (think about it and you will see I am right, if you care to argue with me take it to the forum please, I would like to hear the other side). If we have no religion in government, we have no good, if we have no good, then we have no evil, and by default, all that is evil becomes OK. That is why we are where we are today.

Wired 11.05 UNWIRED: How to Hook Up
Looking to create a wireless network. I have thought of it a few times but price is the main obstacle right now. Well here is an article that gives hints on how to do it. Might want to bookmark it for later....

Bangkok Post Friday 11 April 2003 - Religious organizations join to help war-affected Iraqis

Chamlong Srimuang, an adviser to the prime minister, said yesterday that all religious organizations in Thailand representing Buddhists, Christians, Muslims, Sikhs and Hindus had set up a panel to collect and channel relief aid to Iraq.

Itis nice to know that religious people can work together to bring relief.

US democracy held up by computer virus, Sophos reveals

"Remember the rumpus about the hanging chads in Florida? This virus incident highlights the possible future dangers of e-voting," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus. "Countries considering opening up democracy to the online world in order to appeal to a younger generation need to take care not to open it up to internet-borne attacks too."

Virus writers, why?

WORM_AGOBOT.E - Description and solution
New virus, not much to worry about, if you use Kazaa or peer to peer file share pay attention.

Notes from my reading of the Book

The Total Man/ Exploring the Human Spirit, Soul & Body

by Lester Sumrall (ISBN 0-937580-57-0)

Lesson 2 The Total Man

Key Scriptures

(Gen 1:26) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

(Gen 1:27) So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(Gen 1:28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

1. Man was created, he did not evolve...(v.26)


2. Man was created to have dominion (v. 28a)


3. Man ruled planet earth. (v. 28b)


4. Man and God talked together, via the spirit, together in the Garden


5. Adam, of his own free will, rebelled against God.


6. He lost his heavenly clothes, fire, when he sinned.
   
   
   
   1. (Eze 8:1) And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixth [month], in the fifth [day] of the month, [as] I sat in mine house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord GOD fell there upon me.
      (Eze 8:2) Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.
      (Eze 8:4) And, behold, the glory of the God of Israel [was] there, according to the vision that I saw in the plain.
      
   
   
   2. God presented Himself much the same way from the burning bush to Moses
      (Exo 3:1) Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father in law, the priest of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside of the desert, and came to the mountain of God, [even] to Horeb.
      
      (Exo 3:2) And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush [was] not consumed.
      
   
   
   
   
7. We establishe last time, that man is a three part being, spirit soul and body. Part of Adam died. What part?
   His body continued to live, the Bible teaches that.
   His soul did not die, that is the thinking part of man
   The part that died was the spirit, the part that communicated with God.
   


8. Adam walked out of the garden seperated from God. He lost part of his triune nature. From this point forward, Adam and those that follow him will not be a total man.
   

UPDATE ON JOURNALISTS CAUGHT IN CROSSFIRE

The first incident involved reporters from Al Jazeera. According to commanders on the ground, Coalition forces came under significant enemy fire from the building where the Al Jazeera journalists were working and, consistent with the inherent right of self-defense, Coalition forces returned fire. Sadly, an Al Jazeera correspondent was killed in this exchange.
In the second incident, commanders on the ground reported that Coalition forces received significant enemy fire from the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad and, consistent with their inherent right of self defense, Coalition forces returned fire. Sadly, a Reuters and a Tele 5 (Spain) journalist were killed in this exchange.

I am sorry for these people's death. They were in an area that was declared for war, and there are going to be casualties in war. They were in a place that there was firing on our soliders and they were firing back. If they did not want to get killed they should have stayed home. While I am sorry for their death, do not blame it only on the Americans. Did not Sadam have a chance to step down as well. He is guilty as we are for their death, not just US.

Police Clash With Protesters at Oakland Port (washingtonpost.com)

"Oakland police are being the most aggressive of any department I've seen in the Bay area since the war began," said protester Damien McAnany, a database manager. "The San Francisco Police Department never used any of this stuff against us."

"Some people were blocking port property and the port authorities asked us to move them off," said Deputy Police Chief Patrick Haw. "Police moved aggressively against crowds because some people threw rocks and big iron bolts at officers."

While I agree that these people have the right to protest this war, I disagree that they have the right to break the law doing it. They threw things at police and then they complain about aggressive behavior. Seems like force begets force to me. He who lives by throwing "rocks and bolts" will die by the "sting balls, which send out a spray of BB-sized rubber pellets and a cloud of tear gas," to sort of paraphrase the Bible

Notes from CD



DateTaken: April 8, 2003

Date Recorded March 6, 2003

Church: Branson Victory Campaign - Kenneth Copeland Ministries

Time: 7:00 PM

Title:

Speaker:Kenneth Copeland

Notes:

Terrorism, the plan to use terror as a weapon. If there is no weapon it has not effect. We are in the place of the most high God.
The unreborn human spirit, what Adam became when he sinned, death came on him, and we have that death. Death, naturaly is the ceasing of life in a body. That is not spiritual death. Your body cannot live without your spirit but your spirit can live without your body. Spiritual death came on Adam when he sinned. Before that he had the fruit of the spirit working in him. All that made God God, was inside him. He was exactly like God. Spirtual death made love become hate, faith became fear, temperance became lust. Spiritual death is disconnection from God. That death made a fountain of fear instead of faith in the body. Fear is peverted faith. Fear of a dangerous animal is faith in the animal to hurt you.

The differenct between God and man, God is soverign, and has no spiritual head, man is created in His image and must have a spiritual overlord. If you are not under God, you are under Satan. We needed to cover this so we can have some basic agreement of what the Word says.

Any man in Christ is a new creature. Adam was not born, he was created. When you were born again, you were created, in Christ Jesus. What happened in your spirit being?

You died. Adam was the first person to ever be born again, but it was in the wrong way, he was born to death and put in a place he was not designed to be in. When we get born again it is from death to light. Sin came in the world, and death by sin. Righeousness came in the world (and you when you became born again) when Jesus came in the world. You died the death of the cross. All the fear and garbarge left when you died. You have a fountain of faith inside you.

Reverance is not properly translated in the Bible as fear. It ought to be a holy reverence. We are not afraid of God, we have a reverence of Him. The only way that fear can enter into you is to be fed into you. Love will flush it out of you.

Fear will contaiminate faith. If you have unforgiveness, you have fear (lack of power, or of what they are going to do if you forgive). Fear will kill out the faith in you. Job had fear. The things that he feared came upon him. He said they may have sinned. He was in fear of his children sinning, and he got him killed. God is not responsible for you not knowing any better. Instead of contious sacrafices wiping out his previous prayer, he should have said they are covered, and let it be. Do you get mad at the motor car company when the light goes off in your car and you ignore it, and then it stops on the freeway. NO, you get it fixed ASAP. So why, when the fear comes, don't you stop immediately and fix it. If you are developed in fear you are not developed in love. It is time to pay attention to that light blinking and get the fear out of your life. Get to the place where there is no fear. We do not need to manage fear, we need to cast it out.

(Luk 8:49) While he yet spake, there cometh one from the ruler of the synagogue's [house], saying to him, Thy daughter is dead; trouble not the Master.
(Luk 8:50) But when Jesus heard [it], he answered him, saying, Fear not: believe only, and she shall be made whole.

What did Jesus say? He said not to fear! That is a very strong statement to make. And then he said SHE WILL! That was a firm statement.Have things changed, did fear gain over Jesus in the past 2000 years.

(Luk 1:67) And his father Zacharias was filled with the Holy Ghost, and prophesied, saying,
(Luk 1:68) Blessed [be] the Lord God of Israel; for he hath visited and redeemed his people,
(Luk 1:69) And hath raised up an horn of salvation for us in the house of his servant David;

(Luk 1:70) As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

Things have been established from the begining of the world, what things?

(Luk 1:71) That we should be saved from our enemies, and from the hand of all that hate us;
We are saved from our enemies, those who hate us...

(Luk 1:72) To perform the mercy [promised] to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;
(Luk 1:73) The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,
(Luk 1:74) That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hand of our enemies might serve him without fear,
(Luk 1:75) In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

We have had Jesus go to the cross so that we can go through life without fear. There is no reason for us to live in fear.

A person who walks by faith, we are walking towards our victory, and it is inevitable. As long as we walk in faith, we have the victory. What if... is enough to kick in the fear and start failure, leading to disater.

CNN.com - Rivera: I'm sorry for breaking rules - Apr. 7, 2003

The Fox News Channel correspondent, now in Kuwait, delivered his apology on the air Sunday night. He said a review of his report while traveling with the 101st Airborne Division last week "showed that I did indeed break one of the rules related to embedment."

OK Geraldo, I still don't like you, but I forgive you.

F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: WorldCup
FYI Not to much to worry about here.

F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: VBSWG.AQ
moving up the charts, not new but keep up to date your antivirus software.

United Press International: Report: Spammers keep in touch with troops
I hat spam enough as it is. But this sort of garbarge should be banned and the distributors should be tried for treason. Our men and woman deserve better.