The Christmas Song

Yes this is one of mine. Merry Christmas, everyone!

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For The Troops At Christmas

I found this Christmas Tribute to our Troops on You Tube. I wish I had the idea to do this. It is great. But watching this, I got to thinking about how our troops are away from their families and what a good idea it would be to send Christmas Care packages to our troops. So here is a web site that you can go to find out how. But if you are going to do that, you will probably have to do it in the next day or two so it will have time to get there.

America Supports You

Christmas trees are going back up at Sea-Tac airport

By Janet I. Tu and Lornet Turnbull
Seattle Times staff reporters

The holiday trees that went away in the middle of the night are back.

Tonight, Port of Seattle staff began putting up the trees they had taken down Friday night after a local rabbi requested that a Hanukkah menorah also be displayed. Port officials said the rabbi's lawyer had threatened to imminently file a lawsuit, leaving them with insufficient time to consider all the issues.

A nationwide furor erupted over the weekend as news of the trees' removal spread, with a flood of calls to Port officials and harshly worded e-mails to Jewish organizations. Today, Rabbi Elazar Bogomilsky said he would not file a lawsuit and the Port, in response, said it would put the trees back up. (Read whole story here.)

The War against Christianity continues in this country and across the world, specifically the War on Christmas. First we are told we cannot exhibit our Nativity Scenes. Next we have been told we cannot say “Merry Christmas” and now the attack on our Christmas Trees. Are we going to allow our First Amendment right to Freedom of Religion to continue to be taken away from us? The last time I looked the First Amendment says:

CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF

It has not been changed YET as far as I know. It says that congress cannot prohibit the “free exercise” of our religion, but why are Christians slowing losing their right to practice their religion in this Country?

Ousted imams want airline settlement

United Press International

WASHINGTON, Dec. 11 (UPI) -- Five of six Muslim imams who were taken off a US Airways flight in Minneapolis last month want an out-of-court settlement from the airline for the ordeal.

After the Nov. 28 incident, the airline offered to meet with the group of clerics Dec. 4, but the men declined and instead sought legal help from the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Washington.

"With the hopes of reaching an amicable resolution to this matter, we would like to take this opportunity to ask for a formal meeting with US Airways executives and legal counsel," Arsalan Iftikhar, CAIR's national legal director, wrote to the airline.

There are conflicting reports of what happened after security agents escorted the men off the plane based on other passengers' complaints of suspicious activity, the Washington Times said Monday.
CAIR claims the men were handcuffed for several hours, but one of the imams told the Times he was only handcuffed for "10 or 15 minutes" and that the imams were not led off the plane in handcuffs.

An airline spokeswoman said the meeting request was received, but a date has not been set. (Read story here.)

This whole incident was obviously staged. This is just another example of how Muslims want to take over our country. They are trying to change our laws to give them special privileges. Are we going to sit back and allow Muslims to make Islam have more privileges in this Country and other Religions? This is so much against the Constitution and Freedom of Religion. But here we are seeing all reference to Judeo/Christian influence of the Founding Fathers completely removed from our History and yet Muslims are trying to gain Special Rights. We cannot allow this to happen. We also need to start taking a stand over all mention of the Founding Father’s belief in God being erased from our History. It is part of our History. How can we sit by and let this happen?

Dual Bombing in Central Baghdad Kills 57

Dec 12, 7:20 AM (ET)
By THOMAS WAGNER and QAIS Al-BASHIR
myway

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Two car bombs targeting day laborers looking for work exploded within seconds of each other Tuesday on a main square in central Baghdad, killing at least 57 people and wounding more than 150, police said.

Also Tuesday, a television cameraman working for The Associated Press was shot to death by insurgents while covering clashes in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

Aswan Ahmed Lutfallah, 35, was having his car repaired in an industrial area in the eastern part of the city when insurgents and police began fighting nearby and he rushed to cover the clash, police Brig. Abdul-Karim Ahmed Khalaf said.

Insurgents spotted him filming, approached him and shot him to death, Khalaf said, citing an initial report. Lutfallah had not reported any prior threats against him. (Read the rest of the story here.)

If we allow Muslims to get Islam to take hold of this Country, this is what we have to look forward to. For as much as Muslims like to claim that Islam is a Religion of Peace, we can see that anywhere Islam exists, there is always unrest and violence.

Christmas Shoes
by Newsong

Teen saved from forced conversion to Islam
Persecuted Christian given new opportunity by U.S. ministry
Posted: December 7, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

The intervention by a Christian ministry that focuses on persecuted Christians worldwide has saved a teenage girl in Pakistan from what probably would have been a forced conversion to Islam and mandatory marriage to a Muslim master, according to reports on the recent situation.

The Voice of the Martyrs confirmed in a new report that the teen, Azra Bibi, soon will be established in her own home through the assistance of a Christian pastor in the region, and the donations of Christians in the United States.

Such situations, VOM confirms, happen all too frequently. As Christians in a Muslim nation, the family was subjected to the ongoing persecution of the community. In the case of Azra, she and her mother were working in a brick kiln, under almost slave-like conditions, in order to earn enough for the family to eat.

She'd been working at the kilns since she was seven, and frequently endured the jeers and criticisms of Muslims working at the same plant, officials said.

Then one day, the verbal attacks that began with the work day increased, and several Muslim women turned violent, beating Azra's mother, officials said.

They were both taken to the brick kiln owner, where Azra's mom was murdered in the most horrific way," the report said, leaving the teen not only reeling from the loss of her mother, but now facing the responsibilities for her debts.

"The brick kiln owner had plans to force Azra to convert to Islam with the intention of marrying her off. But God had other plans," the VOM report said. "With the help of a courageous local pastor and support from Christians in the U.S., Azra was miraculously rescued with her debts paid." (Read whole story here.)

But we all know that this sort of thing is nothing new. Muslims have always persecuted and committed genocide against Christians and people of other faiths. Here is a video with more stories like this:

The (Ignored) Extermination of Iraqi Christians

I decided to spare you any more of my creations for a few days at least.

Christians in Iraq have suffered persecution at the hands of Muslims for centuries, but since the War in Iraq it has become worse. Here is a video I found on You Tube about just that. Also be sure to read the WND Article below this post which cites just a few of the atrocities the Muslims have committed against these gentle people just this year. Which includes the crucifixion of a 14 year old boy.

FAITH UNDER FIRE

Iraqi Christians plead for help from White House
Demonstrators at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. tell of 'ethnic cleansing'
Posted: December 5, 2006
1:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

Faced with growing repression by Muslims, Christians from an ancient tradition in Iraq are calling on American political leaders for help before their entire community is extinguished.

Christian Assyrians and some of their supporters demonstrated in front of the White House yesterday, highlighting an alarming trend reported by the U.N.: While representing just 5 percent of the Iraqi population, 40 percent of the refugees fleeing the country are Assyrians.

One of the speakers at the rally, Nina Shea of Freedom House's Center for Religious Freedom in D.C., told WND that because of the "ethnic cleansing," the Christians want an autonomous district in Iraq they can administrate.

The zone, called the Nineveh Plains Administrative Unit, would allow Assyrians and other Christians to practice their faith, speak and teach their language, and work their land without fear of persecution.

Unlike the Sunnis and Shiites, the Christians have no militia and are completely defenseless, Shea said.

"They need to administrate their own governmental unit to protect themselves," she said. "Otherwise, with the chaos and violence and persecution targeting Christians for religious reasons, which the U.N. has documented, they will disappear.

Shea insisted it's in the interest of the U.S. to take a stand.

With the loss of the highly educated and skilled Christians, she argued, Iraq is "experiencing a brain drain as well as sane drain – a force of moderation and a bridge to the West."

"They have served the U.S. in Iraq nobly, and they will leave a real vacuum," said Shea.
While the Christians in Iraq have been repressed for decades, Shea pointed out, they have suffered more since the war began, with kidnappings, crucifixions and dozen of churches bombed by jihadist terror.

Among the atrocities documented this year:

• Father Paulos Eskandar, of Mor Afrem Syriac Orthodox Church, was kidnapped Oct. 9 by Muslims and decapitated two days later. He was murdered despite Christians fulfilled a demand to post a text on the church doors condemning the pope's statement about Islam.

• On Oct. 4, a car bomb detonated in a Christian area and killed nine people, including Georges Zara, member of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac National Council.

• A 14-year-old boy was crucified and stabbed in the stomach, mimicking what was done to Jesus, in Albasra.

• On Oct. 21, in Baquba, a group of veiled Muslims attacked a workplace where a 14-year-old boy named Ayad Tariq worked. The men asked the boy for his identity card. After seeing he was Christian the men asked whether he was a "dirty Christian sinner." Ayad answered: "Yes, I am Christian, but I am not a sinner." The rebels yelled he was a dirty Christian sinner and continued to grab him and to scream, "Allahu, Akbar! Allahu, Akbar!" The boy then was decapitated.

• In August, 13 Assyrian Christian women in Baghdad were kidnapped and murdered.

• In January, churches were bombed in Basra and Baghdad.

Shea noted that the Kurds, who control the north, have been denying the Christian Assyrians many of the benefits that have come from U.S. largesse.

The electric grids created by the U.S., for example, are left to the discretion of local governments to distribute and manage, and the Christians say they aren't getting their fair share. They cite instances of Kurdish villages receiving electricity while neighboring Christian villages are denied service.

Shea said she has been raising the plight of the Iraqi Christians with the U.S. government for several years, including in a face-to-face meeting with President Bush in her role as a member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

She has not received a positive response.

"One of the issues here is that the Christians don't create trouble, they are just victims," she said. "They don't blow up things, so they don't get attention.

Some have told her the U.S. government doesn't want to establish a precedent of favoritism, by responding to special pleadings.

But Shea argues, "It's not favoring one group to make sure they get their fair share of U.S. construction aid.

The White House did not respond to WND's request for comment

Another Video I Made

This is another video I made. It is dedicated to all the women who watch it. Here are the words to the song:

THE REAL ME
Foolish heart looks like we're here again
Same old game of plastic smile
Don't let anybody in
Hiding my heartache, will this glass house break
How much will they take before I'm empty
Do I let it show, does anybody know?

CHORUS

But you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Unveil me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
There's no need to mask my frailty
Cause you see the real me
Painted on, life is behind a mask
Self-inflicted circus clown
I'm tired of the song and dance
Living a charade, always on parade
What a mess I’ve made of my existence
But you love me even now
And still I see somehow
But you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Unveil me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
There's no need to mask my frailty
Cause you see the real me
Wonderful, beautiful is what you see
When you look at me
You're turning the tattered fabric of my life into
A perfect tapestry
I just wanna be me
But you see the real me
Hiding in my skin, broken from within
Unveil me completely
I'm loosening my grasp
There's no need to mask my frailty
Cause you see the real me
And you love me just as I am
Wonderful, beautiful is what you see
When you look at me

We had a blizzard here for the last 2 days. I didn’t have internet yesterday for the most part. It went on and off for a while during the day, but was completely down last night. I didn’t get it back until this morning some time. Anyway, it looks like a winter wonderland outside right now. Since I didn’t have Internet and couldn’t get out, I made another video. This video is about how I feel these days.

A Video I Made

I have been posting videos from You Tube here for a while. I wanted to see if I could make a video. This is my attempt of doing that. I know I already posted this song this week and some of it seems the same. But, I just want to say that many times it takes great pain to close one door in your life and open a new better door. If any of you have ever hurt, you will understand what I am trying to say here. This video speaks on so many levels. Anyway I hope you like it. And since I know I can make videos now, look for more.

Racial Profiling or Suspicious Behavior?

How the imams terrorized an airliner
By Audrey Hudson
THE WASHINGTON TIMESNovember 28, 2006

Muslim religious leaders removed from a Minneapolis flight last week exhibited behavior associated with a security probe by terrorists and were not merely engaged in prayers, according to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials.

Witnesses said three of the imams were praying loudly in the concourse and repeatedly shouted "Allah" when passengers were called for boarding US Airways Flight 300 to Phoenix.

"I was suspicious by the way they were praying very loud," the gate agent told the Minneapolis Police Department.

Passengers and flight attendants told law-enforcement officials the imams switched from their assigned seats to a pattern associated with the September 11 terrorist attacks and also found in probes of U.S. security since the attacks -- two in the front row first-class, two in the middle of the plane on the exit aisle and two in the rear of the cabin.

"That would alarm me," said a federal air marshal who asked to remain anonymous. "They now control all of the entry and exit routes to the plane."

A pilot from another airline said: "That behavior has been identified as a terrorist probe in the airline industry."

But the imams who were escorted off the flight in handcuffs say they were merely praying before the 6:30 p.m. flight on Nov. 20, and yesterday led a protest by prayer with other religious leaders at the airline's ticket counter at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport.

The Muslim American Society Freedom Foundation, called removing the imams an act of Islamophobia and compared it to racism against blacks. First of all Islam is not a Race. But was this really a case of Racism or Suspicious behavior? The story continues


According to witnesses, police reports and aviation security officials, the imams displayed other suspicious behavior.

Three of the men asked for seat-belt extenders, although two flight attendants told police the men were not ovover sizedOne flight attendant told police she "found this unsettling, as crew knew about the six [passengers] on board and where they were sitting." Rather than attach the extensions, the men placed the straps and buckles on the cabin floor, the flight attendant said.

The imams said they were not discussing politics and only spoke in English, but witnesses told law enforcement that the men spoke in Arabic and English, criticizing the war in Iraq and President Bush, and talking about al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

The imams who claimed two first-class seats said their tickets were upgraded. The gate agent told police that when the imams asked to be upgraded, they were told no such seats were available. Nevertheless, the two men were seated in first class when removed.

A flight attendant said one of the men made two trips to the rear of the plane to talk to the imam during boarding, and again when the flight was delayed because of their behavior. Aviation officials, including air marshals and pilots, said these actions alone would not warrant a second look, but the combination is suspicious.

"They should have been denied boarding and been investigated," Mr. MacLean said. "It looks like they are trying to create public sympathy or maybe setting someone up for a lawsuit."

The pilot with another airline who talked to The Washington Times on condition of anonymity, said he would have made the same call as the US Airways pilot.

"If any group of passengers is commingling in the terminal and didn't sit in their assigned seats or with each other, I would stop everything and investigate until they could provide me with a reason they did not sit in their assigned seats."

The pilot said the airlines are not "secretly prejudiced against any nationality, religion or culture," and that the only target of profiling is passenger behavior.

"There are certain behaviors that raise the bar, and not sitting in your assigned seat raises the bar substantially," the pilot said. "Especially since we know that this behavior has been evident in suspicious probes in the past." (Read whole story here.)

No matter how the Imams are trying to spin this, the facts are by eye witness accounts that they exhibited suspicious behavior. I believe this was a ploy to get the Political Correct crowd and maybe even Congress and the Courts to relax security in our airports and on flights. We CANNOT let this happen, for once we do Terrorists will use that opening to attack us again.

Held
by Natalie Grant



Are there times when you just need to be held? If so, I hope this video speaks to you.

In The News...

Terrorists: Cease-fire means chance to reload
Militants say Israel-Palestinian downtime to be used
for weapons smuggling, training to attack Jewish state
Posted: November 27, 20061:00 a.m. Eastern
By Aaron Klein
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com

TEL AVIV – The cease-fire to which Israel and major Palestinian factions agreed yesterday will be used by Palestinian groups to smuggle weapons into Gaza, reinforce and train "fighter units," and produce rockets for a future confrontation with the Jewish state, the leaders of the four most significant Palestinian terror groups in Gaza told WND in a series of exclusive interviews.

The cease-fire offers a period of calm for our fighters to recover and prepare for our final goal of evacuating Palestine," said Abu Abir, spokesman for the Popular Resistance Committees, a Hamas-allied terror organization in the Gaza Strip responsible for many of the recent rocket attacks against Israeli communities.

"We will keep fighting [Israel], but for the moment we will postpone certain parts of the military struggle," Abu Abir said. (Read the rest of the story here.)

Gaza Truce Holding Despite Early Violations
November 27, 2006 6:57 a.m. EST
Ryan R. Jones - All Headline News Middle East Correspondent

Jerusalem, Israel (AHN) - News that Israel and the Palestinian Authority had agreed to a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and southern Israel on Sunday was met by an immediate terrorist missile barrage on the Jewish state.

Despite that early outburst of violence, for which the Islamic Jihad terrorist organization claimed credit, the truce appeared to be holding more than 24 hours after going into effect, thanks in no small part to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert's insistence that the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) maintain restraint in the face of the Palestinian violations. (Read story here.)

Letting suicide bombers speak for themselves
By TOM TUGEND
The Jerusalem Post

Sixteen-year old Hassan is deeply frustrated because he was caught by Israeli police before he could blow himself up among a crowd of Israeli civilians.

"If I had been killed, my mother would call it a blessing," he says. "My family and 70 relatives would have gone to paradise, and that would be a great honor for me."

Hassan is one of more than a dozen Palestinian suicide bombers captured before they could carry out their missions and interviewed in the documentary Suicide Killers by French-Jewish filmmaker Pierre Rehov.

The movie's subtitle, "Paradise is Hell," is a deliberate allusion and counterpoint to last year's Oscarnominated Palestinian drama Paradise Now, which some critics charged "humanized" and even glorified its two suicide bombers. (Read story here.)

More Quotes from the Palestinian Would Be Suicide Bombers:

"Our goal is to kill all enemies of Islam," says one young woman.

"Those who die for Allah are not dead but live in paradise," a young man proclaims.

"Jews have never obeyed God and are not part of mankind," adds another prisoner.

Beauty For Pain
by Superchick




This video is about Self Cutting. Self Cutting is the phenomenon when someone has so much emotional pain and they don’t know how to let it out, so they cut themselves to relieve the pain. But there are other destructive behaviors that people do when they cannot deal with the pain in their lives. Maybe it is overeating, or not eating at all, or drinking, or drug use. It is all done to numb the pain. I think this song could be for any of those things or even if you have been very hurt at some time. I hope the message speaks to you. And before someone thinks that is a video that I made, no it isn't. I just found it on You Tube.

"To console those who mourn in Zion,

To give them beauty for ashes,

The oil of joy for mourning,

The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;

That they may be called trees of righteousness,

The planting of the LORD, that He may be glorified."

-Isaiah 61:3

I know it is hard to see, but if you can magnify it; it has a strong message.

If We Are The Body

by Casting Crowns

A Lesson from Geese

Have you ever wondered why migrating geese fly in a V formation?
As with most animal behavior, God had a good reason for including that in their instincts.

As each bird flaps its wings, it creates uplift for the bird following.
In a V formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% more flying range than if each bird flew alone.


Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag and resistance of trying to fly alone…
…and quickly gets back into formation.

Like geese…
… people who share a common direction and sense of community can get where they are going quicker and easier than those who try to go it alone.

When a goose gets tired, it rotates back into the formation and another goose flies at the point position. If people had as much sense as geese, they would realize that ultimately their success depends on working as a team, taking turns doing the hard tasks, and sharing leadership.

Geese in the rear of the formation honk to encourage those up front to up their speed. It is important that our “honking from behind” be encouraging. Otherwise it’s just - well - honking.

When a goose gets sick or wounded, two other geese drop out of formation and follow it down to help and provide protection.
They stay with the unhealthy member of the flock until it is either able to fly again or dies.

Then they launch out again with another passing flock or try to catch up with their own.
May we be so sacrificial, that we may be worthy of such friends in our time of need.

YOU DON’T HAVE TO BE A SCIENTIST...
…To learn from God’s marvelous creation; you only need to stop long enough to observe and let God reveal His wonders to you.

“Ask the beasts, and they will teach you; and the birds of the air, and they will tell you; or speak to the earth, and it will teach you; and the fish of the sea will explain to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this?”
JOB 12:7-9