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		<title>When Police are Taught NOT to Hesitate&#8230; Bad Things can Happen</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;No More Hesitation&#8221; means &#8220;No More Safety&#8221; It&#8217;s Not NEW and it&#8217;s NOT just the DHS&#8230; Check out some of the OTHER organizations that have purchased these Paper Targets. Dept of Defense $3.12 Million worth. Hey, Don&#8217;t they fight Wars &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/when-police-are-taught-not-to-hesitate-bad-things-can-happen/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5669&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>&#8220;No More Hesitation&#8221; means &#8220;No More Safety&#8221;</strong></p>
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<p><strong>It&#8217;s Not NEW and it&#8217;s NOT just the DHS&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Check out some of the <strong>OTHER</strong> organizations that have purchased these Paper Targets.<span id="more-5669"></span></p>
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<li>Dept of <strong>Defense</strong> $3.12 Million worth. Hey, Don&#8217;t they fight Wars with <strong>other</strong> Countries?</li>
<li>Dept of <strong>Homeland Security</strong> $1.9 Million worth</li>
<li>followed by <strong>Dept of State</strong>&#8230; isn&#8217;t that supposed to be for <strong>&#8216;Foreign Relations&#8217;</strong>?</li>
<li>Dept of <strong>Energy</strong>&#8230;?  What would <strong>THEY</strong> be doing with guns and needing Training to shoot American Citizens? (Obama admitted Energy Prices are going up MORE)</li>
<li><strong>Veterans Affairs</strong>&#8230;? Really? Are they training to keep the <strong>Veterans</strong> like me out of the fight? What <strong>&#8216;Fight&#8217;</strong> are they expecting to have to keep them out of?</li>
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<p><strong>&#8220;But wait&#8230; there&#8217;s MORE&#8221;</strong></p>
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<li>TSA  almost <strong>$1 Million worth</strong>. But wait, I thought those guys were just <strong>Airport Screeners</strong>, Right?</li>
<li>Border Patrol <strong>$444,000 worth</strong>. Huh? Aren&#8217;t they just watching the <strong>Borders </strong>to keep people from<strong> entering Illegally</strong>? what would they be doing <strong>Policing the United States</strong>?</li>
<li><strong>Army, Navy and the Air Force</strong>&#8230; a combined<strong> $3 Million worth.</strong>  Training to Shoot with &#8220;No More Hesitation&#8221; Middle Class, Ordinary American Citizens&#8230; Mothers, Children, Senior Citizens defending their own Homes, Families and Property.</li>
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<p><strong>You see&#8230;</strong></p>
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<li>gone are the Targets with <strong>Gang Criminals, Robbers, and Murderers</strong>&#8230;</li>
<li>gone are the <strong>Training Backgrounds </strong>of the <strong>Urban Inner City</strong> where the Vast majority of All Crime and Gun Deaths occur.</li>
<li>Gun Violence <strong>isn&#8217;t Really about Race</strong>, but do you notice <strong>ALL</strong> these people are <strong>White</strong> and living in <strong>Rural</strong> or <strong>Suburban</strong> settings and <strong>Protecting</strong> Homes and Family Members?</li>
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<p><strong>They no longer care about that. They have an Agenda to Push</strong></p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Facts are stubborned things&#8221;- <strong>John Adams</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>The fact that these Cities, like Andrew Cuomo&#8217;s <strong>NYC</strong>, Rham Immanuel&#8217;s <strong>Chicago</strong> and President Obama&#8217;s <strong>Washington DC</strong>, already have the most <strong>Restrictive Gun Laws</strong> or outright <strong>Gun Bans</strong> in the United States yet with<strong> out of control Gun Violence</strong> just doesn&#8217;t fit into their Propaganda or Agenda.</p>
<p>They want <strong>YOU</strong> Disarmed and <strong>Unable to defend yourself</strong> against Intruders, Criminals, Theives, Murderers, Rapists, and <strong>THUGS</strong>&#8230; and Oh yeah, I forgot&#8230; <strong>THEM</strong>&#8230; when they start tightening up the <strong>Control Screws</strong> even tighter.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>WE are the Enemy</strong> they are <strong>Preparing to Engage</strong>&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<p>Wow, the Jig is Really Up, isn&#8217;t it?</p>
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		<title>From Naturalnews.com: These are who the DHS is Practicing to Shoot&#8230;. What the Heck?</title>
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		<title>Fake &#8220;Harlem Shake&#8221; Disrespects Harlem</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2013 16:20:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stupid People or Programming? Don&#8217;t they know that this is Cool and Hip? Who cares if they actually LIVE in Harlem and KNOW about their own Culture and History&#8230; Hollywood and POP CULTURE will tell them what They and US &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/fake-harlem-shake-disrespects-harlem/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5640&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Stupid People or Programming?</strong></p>
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<p>Don&#8217;t they know that this is <strong>Cool and Hip</strong>? Who cares if they actually <strong>LIVE</strong> in Harlem and <strong>KNOW</strong> about their own Culture and History&#8230; <strong>Hollywood and POP CULTURE</strong> will tell them<strong> what They and US</strong> should be doing, Right?<span id="more-5640"></span></p>
<p><strong>What in the World could be Behind This Garbage?</strong></p>
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<li>I mean, are people REALLY this starved for attention that they have to make some Ridiculous Video that doesn&#8217;t even represent what they say it represents?</li>
<li>As &#8216;Consumers of Entertainment&#8217;, are people REALLY this &#8216;hard up&#8217; to be 6yrs old again and shut down their Reasoning and Cognitive functions to let just Any Old Post-Alimentary Bovine Excrement thing into their minds?</li>
<li>Is this a Reverse of Orwell&#8217;s &#8220;Two Minutes of Hate&#8221;?</li>
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<p><strong>Or For a bit of Conspiracy Thrown in&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>Or&#8230; it could be another attempt by the Powers That Be <strong>(PTB)</strong> at Fomenting Racial Discrimination and Divisions?</p>
<p>Why would ALL these people actually <strong>FROM</strong> Harlem actually say that &#8220;Harlem Shake&#8221; is no more Harlem than <strong>Federal Reserve</strong> is &#8220;Federal&#8221; Government&#8221;?</p>
<blockquote><p>(oops, sorry for the <strong>Politics</strong>&#8230; if you didn&#8217;t know, The Federal Reserve actually <strong>IS</strong> a <strong>Private Central Bank</strong>, no more &#8220;Federal&#8221; than <strong>Federal Express</strong> is the<strong> US Postal System)</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>And what about the <strong>ONLY</strong> Words in the so-called <strong>Harlem Shake</strong> Videos?</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Con los Terroristas&#8221; Translation &#8220;We&#8217;re with the Terrorists&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Whuu&#8230;? <strong>Post 9/11 New Yorkers</strong> would <strong>NEVER</strong> say something as <strong>Offensive</strong> as This.</p>
<p>Why would they, the <strong>PTB</strong>, want <strong>Ordinary American Citizens</strong> saying repeatedly <strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re with the Terrorists&#8221;</strong> while Homeland Security is busy buying up <strong>2 Billion</strong> (yup, that&#8217;s Billion with a B) rounds of <strong>Hollow Point</strong> <strong>rounds</strong> in the last 10 months (Clue: they don&#8217;t do &#8216;target practice&#8217; and &#8216;Routine Training&#8217; with such expensive Ammunition) and the Military and Police have been flying <strong>Unannounced Helicopters</strong> and even <strong>LIVE Fire</strong> Training Exercises (thankfully with Blanks) in Urban areas and Cities around the United States? Might as well start shouting<strong> &#8220;Come and Shoot Me&#8221;.</strong> Next you&#8217;ll hear&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;Venga y Me Mata&#8221; Translation: &#8220;Come and Kill Me&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>What&#8217;s up with that? Could this Mind Numbingly Idiotic Video <strong>&#8216;Meme&#8217;</strong>, making the rounds on <strong>Youtube</strong> with over 60 Million Views and Multiple Copycat Videos be a elaborate attempt at <strong>Population Phsycological Programming</strong>? Or is it just <strong>Stupid</strong> People educated by a <strong>Stupid</strong> Public Education system being <strong>Stupid</strong>?</p>
<p>How Stupid&#8230; but by all means, go back to Sleep. Everything&#8217;s Fine.</p>
<p>-mike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Great article from http://davecapozzi.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/confessions-of-a-one-time-calvinist/comment-page-1/#comment-17 article on the Perils of Calvinism and &#8216;Systems&#8217; of Salvation rather than the Living Jesus Christ who is LOVE. (1 John 4:7-8) Enjoy the Day. -mike Confessions of a one time Calvinist Posted: February 18, 2013   &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/passing-on-a-post-confessions-of-a-one-time-calvinist/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5635&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great article from <a href="http://davecapozzi.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/confessions-of-a-one-time-calvinist/comment-page-1/#comment-17">http://davecapozzi.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/confessions-of-a-one-time-calvinist/comment-page-1/#comment-17</a> article on the Perils of Calvinism and &#8216;Systems&#8217; of Salvation rather than the Living Jesus Christ who is LOVE. (1 John 4:7-8)</p>
<p>Enjoy the Day. -mike</p>
<h2><strong>Confessions of a one time Calvinist</strong></h2>
<p><small> Posted: February 18, 2013</small></p>
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<p>  A<em>n abstract Christology, a doctrinal system, a general religious knowledge on the subject of grace or on the forgiveness of sins, render discipleship superfluous, and in fact they positively exclude any idea of discipleship whatever, and are essentially inimical to the conception of following Christ.</em></p>
<p>Dietrich Bonhoeffer, <em>The Cost of Discipleship<span id="more-5635"></span></em></p>
<p>When i was a young lad at Eastern Nazarene College, right down the street from “blue” Quincy Bay, I took a class called Philosophical Quest with a man named Dr. Thomas J. Oord (“the doctor of love”). During the course of the semester I came to the understanding that the God of Jesus of Nazareth IS Love and that we are creatures made in God’s image so that we can respond freely to God’s desire to be in relationship with us (creation). Not too far into taking this course, a friend of the family happened to be visiting from New York. This friend happened to be a newly converted Calvinist and he was after me like a heat-seeking missile. While I was sharing about the great freedom I has experienced from this new found truth about God, he began to quote scripture (Romans 8-10, Ephesians 2, John 3). ‘At this time I was a young, impressionable evangelical mind, and I began to think that this “doctor of love” had duped me with flowery language in order to lead me away from the truth! Indeed, I was told that this college professor was a wolf in sheep’s clothing.</p>
<p>Needless to say, I dove head first into the soteriological system known as “the doctrines of grace,” a.k.a Calvinism.</p>
<p>From that point on, I became one of two “Reformed” students in the class, ready and willing to stomp out the sea of heretical Arminians. What’s strange is that, to this day, I’m not sure what came over me. It’s as though simply believing in the “doctrines of grace” led me to become an attack dog for God. A quiet student before this, I began to raise my hand in defense of the faith so that my fellow classmates would have the chance to hear “the truth” before they spent too much time believing that God actually loved the people God made.</p>
<p>Over time I softened on my stance that there were some divinely elected before the universe was made to experience the joys of heaven, while others were predetermined to suffer in the fires of hell. I didn’t stop embracing Calvinism for another couple years, but I did relax on my defense of the system as time moved on. I just couldn’t reconcile all the suffering in the world with the idea that all was going according to God’s plan, and I didn’t feel like the sovereignty of God, as defined by Calvinists, provided an adequate or biblical explanation for the mess that is planet earth.</p>
<p>More importantly, I discovered that my embrace of the idea that God was willing all that came to be (rape, genocide, sex-trafficking, etc.) left me crippled. It was way too much to handle or even think about. Actually following Jesus became purely optional. I mean, I had been forgiven and any attempt to do good works would be like filthy rags anyway, so why should I get caught in the trap that the Catholic church had set before the time when Martin Luther and John Calvin set everyone straight! After all, in the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus was just showing us how sinful we were and in need of his substitutionary death. He certainly didn’t mean for us to pursue a righteousness that goes deeper than the law! You may be able to see why, at the time, I mustered very little resolve to enter into the lives of people who didn’t have the luxury of going to heaven when they died.</p>
<p>As Bonhoeffer said, when we allow man-made systems to guide us, even systems characterized by grace and forgiveness, we make discipleship superfluous. This means that not only do we suffer, not experiencing the life Jesus offered, but folks who are without any hope or faith are simply offered something other than a horoscope or the possibility of winning the lottery to believe in.</p>
<p>We spend more time debating matters that are out of our hands than we do sharing the good news of freedom from oppression with our lives. We offer a new belief system (often based on guilt and shame) rather than a living and breathing community patterned after the loving, triune God. Therefore, our churches have become splintered and impotent, allowing theological debate to rule the day when Jesus had already defeated all the arguments we continue to use against following him like a child.</p>
<p>That’s why I was a one time, never-to-be-repeated Calvinist. I can never again adopt a system of salvation, because I’ve been freed from the need to be caged in a prison of TULIPs. These systems paralyze us into thinking we have it all figured out and that our sole duty as soldiers in the army of God is to share that information with other people. Don’t let that happen. Let the mess we have made overtake the neat and tidy world we would like to embrace. It’s only when we allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by the pain we experience that we can find the Messiah who was emptied, leaving himself vulnerable for the whole world.</p>
<p>-dave-</p>
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<p><strong>Thou Shalt</strong> laugh uncontrollably,<strong> it’s Predestined</strong>. It is long, but <strong>Persevere</strong> with it to the end, I’m sure you will enjoy!!</p>
<p>— Mike</p>
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<p>A dictionary to help <strong>Arminians</strong> better understand <strong>Calvinist</strong> terminology. (Don’t take this too seriously, this is meant in good fun)</p>
<p><strong>All, Any, Anyone, Everyone, Kosmos, Whosoever, World, etc…  </strong>Only The ‘Elect’</p>
<p><strong>Altar Call</strong>: An insult to God</p>
<p><strong>Arminianism:</strong> Man centered theology</p>
<p><strong>Assurance: </strong>Hoping that you’re ‘Elect’</p>
<p><strong>Augustine: </strong>The first church father.<span id="more-5626"></span></p>
<p><strong>Calvinism: </strong>The gospel</p>
<p><strong>Call (effectual):</strong> to be irresistibly dragged</p>
<p><strong>Call (general): </strong>God’s justification to condemn the reprobate.</p>
<p><strong>Compatiblism:</strong> We are free to do whatever the Potter decrees us to do.</p>
<p><strong>Contradiction: </strong>a mystery</p>
<p><strong>Doctrines of Grace: </strong>Term that helps illustrate how God has given us Calvinists superior insight. Usage example: “I was an Arminian before being illuminated by the Doctrines of Grace.”</p>
<p><strong>Doris Day: </strong>Singer of truth</p>
<p><strong>To Draw: </strong>To drag</p>
<p><strong>Easy believism:</strong> The false idea that you can believe in Jesus Christ and be saved. Can a rotten corpse believe? Nope, neither can you.</p>
<p><strong>Eisegesis</strong><strong>:</strong> Any Arminian interpretation of a difficult passage</p>
<p><strong>Emergent:</strong> Synonymous with “heretic”, unless your name happens to be Mark Driscoll.</p>
<p><strong>Esau:</strong> Someone God hated, not for any reason though.</p>
<p><strong>Exegesis: </strong>Any interpretation by James White, after all he’s a Greek scholar.</p>
<p><strong>faith (1):</strong> Something that the ‘Elect’ are zapped with after regeneration.</p>
<p><strong>faith </strong><strong>(2):</strong> A work that gives pride to Arminians.</p>
<p><strong>Fatalism:</strong> Nothing to see here, move along.</p>
<p><strong>Faux Pas</strong>: Coming to church with a Bible translation other than the ESV.</p>
<p><strong>Finney, Charles: </strong>Wicked man who ravaged the evangelical movement.</p>
<p><strong>To Foreknow:</strong> To decree or to love, absolutely nothing to do with knowing before.</p>
<p><strong>Frankenstein:</strong> Cool story about a dead monster that got zapped with lightning and then became alive. Great parallel to the way we are regenerated.</p>
<p><strong>Free Will:</strong> Something that can’t exist because it would make God helpless if true.</p>
<p><strong>Glory:</strong> Praise we give to God for anything wicked that has ever happened (except for the birth of Charles Finney).</p>
<p><strong>God’s Secret Will:</strong> To save a few and reprobate the rest (secret to Arminians but not to us)</p>
<p><strong>God’s revealed will:</strong> a mystery</p>
<p><strong>Gospel of John:</strong> anything by John Piper</p>
<p><strong>Hebrews:</strong> Skip this book and read the Gospel of John instead.</p>
<p><strong>Hyper-Calvinists: </strong>Calvinists who care more about consistency than ‘looking good’.</p>
<p><strong>Infant damnation: </strong>Something that brings God glory.</p>
<p><strong>James: </strong>Book that Luther wanted thrown out of the canon.</p>
<p><strong>Jesus Loves Me, This I Know: </strong>Misleading children’s song.</p>
<p><strong>Jesus Loves the Little Children:</strong> Another terrible song, obviously written by someone who didn’t take the time to do a proper exegesis of scripture. <strong><a href="//biblia.com/bible/esv/John%203.16" target="_blank">John 3:16</a>: </strong>Enigmatic verse. One must be a scholar to properly understand this passage. James White’s unbiased insights are recommended.</p>
<p><strong>Missions:</strong> A complete waste of time, see “altar call” for more info.</p>
<p><strong>Mystery: </strong>The way God decrees sin but is not responsible for it.</p>
<p><strong>Paul: </strong>Author of Romans 9</p>
<p><strong>Pelagian: </strong>Name to call Arminians, extra points if they don’t know what it means.</p>
<p><strong>Polemic Atheist:</strong> Another name to call Arminians, good diversionary tactic when appealing to John Owen doesn’t work.</p>
<p><strong>Preaching the Gospel:</strong> Something God commands, but the reason why is a mystery.</p>
<p><strong>Pride: </strong>Something that works-based Arminians have in abundance, but we Calvinists don’t after being chosen by God<strong>.</strong> <strong></strong></p>
<p><strong>Regeneration:</strong> See “Frankenstein”.</p>
<p><strong>Reprobate:</strong> Those whom God justly damns to maximize His glory.</p>
<p><strong>Rick Warren:</strong> worthless author, read something by John Gill instead.</p>
<p><strong>Robot: </strong>Don’t say that word!</p>
<p><strong>Servetus: </strong>A heretic who got what he deserved.</p>
<p><strong>Shipwreck:</strong> Misleading term, because the “ship” wasn’t really floating in the first place.</p>
<p><strong>Sovereignty: </strong>meticulous micromanagement</p>
<p><strong>Supralapsarianism:</strong> God orchestrated the fall for His glory, ‘the central truth of scripture’.</p>
<p><strong>Wesley, John: </strong>A false apostle of free will</p>
<p><strong>Whitefield, George:</strong> Wesley’s superior</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;&#8230;These are few of my Favorite Things&#8230;&#8221; Lately I&#8217;ve been A Little Stressed out. Since I&#8217;m a Christian who isn&#8217;t supposed to be &#8220;Anxious about Anything&#8221;&#8230; I cheat and call them &#8216;Concerns&#8217;. Money concerns, Employment concerns, Political concerns, Family Health concerns These &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/simple-stress-relieving-activities/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5617&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Lately I&#8217;ve been A Little Stressed out. Since I&#8217;m a <strong>Christian</strong> who isn&#8217;t supposed to be &#8220;Anxious about Anything&#8221;&#8230; I cheat and call them <strong>&#8216;Concerns&#8217;</strong>.<span id="more-5617"></span></p>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Money concerns,</div>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Employment concerns,</div>
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<div style="text-align:left;">Political concerns,</div>
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<p>These are just a few of the <strong>Daily Stresses</strong> that we all take on when we wake up in the morning (if we can successfully get to sleep) and <strong>Dog Us Out</strong> till we once again head toward the<strong> Soft Pillow</strong> which often turns to a <strong>Hard Rock</strong> &#8220;Ricocheting&#8221; all the multitudinous Worries and Anxieties and even <strong>Christian &#8216;Concerns&#8217;</strong>.</p>
<p>What do you do for <strong>Relaxation and Escape </strong>from these Feelings of<strong> Hopelessness and Dispair? </strong>I have my Short List here&#8230;</p>
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<li>A Good Cup of Coffee, Tea in the Morning</li>
<li>&#8230; or<strong> Cab-Sav</strong> in the Evening&#8230;</li>
<li>Doing the Dishes by Hand</li>
<li>Folding the Laundry (weird, I know)</li>
<li>Ironing the Shirts and Slacks (Pure Zen)</li>
<li>Watering the Back Yard Grass</li>
<li>Reading a Good Book (or THE Good Book, the Bible)</li>
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<p>What kinds of <strong>Relaxing activities</strong> do you use when it gets a bit too much to handle? Let us know and<strong> Join the Conversation</strong>.</p>
<p>-mike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[This may be Coming to an America Near You Tell me again that FEMA Camps and Agenda 21 Forced Relocation couldn&#8217;t happen in America? Do you Really trust our President Obama of the &#8220;Executive Order&#8221; suspending of enforcement of Federal &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/19/today-in-history-feb-19th-1942-fdrs-internment-camps-during-ww2-presidents-day-addendum/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5601&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p>Tell me again that <strong>FEMA Camps</strong> and <strong>Agenda 21 Forced Relocation</strong> couldn&#8217;t happen in America? Do you Really trust our President Obama of the <strong>&#8220;Executive Order&#8221; suspending of enforcement of Federal Immigration Laws</strong> and<strong> &#8220;Self-Declared Legality&#8221; of Drone Killing of American Citizens</strong> who haven&#8217;t been Charged, Indicted or Convicted of ANY Crime?</p>
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<li>Does anyone care that our <strong>Constitutionally Guaranteed  </strong>Rights and Freedoms are being stripped away and swept aside?</li>
<li>Is <strong>American Idol</strong> and the latest season of <strong>Survivor</strong> that Mesmerizing to you?</li>
<li>Do you really care more about <strong>Britney Spears, Kobe Bryant and Kate Upton</strong> more than your own Family&#8217;s Future?</li>
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<p>FDR did this by <strong>nothing more</strong> than <strong>Unconstitutional &#8216;Executive Order&#8217;</strong> and it was enforced <strong>NOT</strong> by Civilian Authority, but by the <strong>War Department</strong>&#8230; American Citizens were considered <strong>&#8220;Enemy Combatants&#8221;</strong> by their OWN Country, having done <strong>NOTHING</strong> but be the wrong Race and nationality. <strong>No</strong> Charges, <strong>No</strong> Indictments, <strong>No</strong> Due Process and <strong>No</strong> Convictions in a <strong>Court of LAW</strong></p>
<p>FDR did more than just suspend <strong>Habeas Corpus</strong>, he suspended their<strong> Constitutional Rights by Executive Order</strong>. Tell me again what a Great President FDR was? Just following in the footsteps of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson&#8230; Now <strong>President Obama&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>-mike</p>
<h1>Japanese Relocation Centers</h1>
<h2><!--BodyText-->During World War II, nearly 120,000  Japanese Americans were under lock and key</h2>
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<td id="Col1">On February 19, 1942, soon after the beginning of World War II, <a href="/id/A0760616">Franklin  D. Roosevelt</a> signed <strong>Executive Order 9066</strong>. The evacuation order commenced the  round-up of 120,000 Americans of Japanese heritage to one of 10 internment  camps—officially called &#8220;relocation centers&#8221;—in California, Idaho, Utah,  <strong>Arizona</strong>, Wyoming, Colorado, and Arkansas.</p>
<h3><strong>Why Were the Camps Established?</strong></h3>
<p>Roosevelt&#8217;s executive order was fueled by anti-Japanese sentiment among  farmers who competed against Japanese labor, <strong>politicians</strong> who sided with  anti-Japanese constituencies, and the general public, whose frenzy was  heightened by the Japanese attack of <a href="/spot/pearlharbor1.html">Pearl  Harbor</a>. More than two-thirds of the Japanese who were interned in the spring  of 1942 were<strong> citizens of the United States.</strong></p>
<h3><strong>Conditions in the U.S. Camps</strong></h3>
<p>The U.S. internment camps were overcrowded and provided poor living  conditions. According to a 1943 report published by the War Relocation Authority  (the administering agency), Japanese Americans were housed in &#8220;tarpaper-covered  barracks of simple frame construction <strong>without plumbing</strong> or cooking facilities of  any kind.&#8221; Coal was hard to come by, and internees slept under as many blankets  as they were alloted. Food was rationed out at an expense of 48 cents per  internee, and served by fellow internees in a mess hall of 250-300 people.</p>
<p>Leadership positions within the camps were only offered to the <em>Nisei</em>, or American-born, Japanese. The older generation, or the <em>Issei</em>, were forced to watch as the government promoted their children  and ignored them.</p>
<p>Eventually the government allowed internees to leave the concentration camps  if they enlisted in the U.S. Army. This offer was not well received. Only 1,200  internees chose to do so.</p>
<h3><strong>Legal Challenges to Internment</strong></h3>
<p>Two important legal cases were brought against the United States concerning  the internment. The landmark cases were <a href="/id/A0880738"><em>Hirabayashi</em></a> v. <em>United States</em> (1943),  and <a href="/cgi-bin/id/A0880740.html"><em>Korematsu</em></a> v. <em>United  States</em> (1944). The defendants argued their fifth amendment rights were  violated by the U.S. government because of their ancestry. In both cases, the <a href="/cgi-bin/id/A0873869.html">Supreme Court</a> ruled <strong>in favor of the U.S.  government</strong>.</p>
<h3><strong>Closure of the Camps</strong></h3>
<p>In 1944, two and a half years after signing Executive Order 9066, fourth-term  President Franklin D. Roosevelt rescinded the order. The last internment camp  was closed by the <strong>end of 1945.</strong></p>
<h3><strong>Government Apologies and Reparations</strong></h3>
<p><strong>Forced into confinement</strong> by the United States, 5,766 <em>Nisei</em> ultimately  renounced their American citizenship. In <strong>1968</strong>, nearly two dozen years after the  camps were closed, the government began reparations to Japanese Americans for  property they had lost.</p>
<p>In <strong>1988</strong>, the U.S. Congress passed legislation which awarded formal payments  of $20,000 each to the <strong>surviving internees—60,000 in all</strong>. This same year, formal  apologies were also issued by the government of Canada to Japanese Canadian  survivors, who were each repaid the sum of $21,000 Canadian dollars.</p>
<h3><strong>Other Groups in the Camps</strong></h3>
<p>While Japanese-Americans comprised the overwhelming majority of those in the  camps, <strong>thousands of Americans of German, Italian, and other European descent </strong> were also forced to relocate there. Many more were classified as <strong>&#8220;enemy aliens&#8221; </strong> and subject to increased restrictions.</td>
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<p>Read more:  <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html#ixzz2LM7SzY00">Japanese Internment in World War II — Infoplease.com</a> <a href="http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html#ixzz2LM7SzY00">http://www.infoplease.com/spot/internment1.html#ixzz2LM7SzY00</a></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s the Man you are Honoring&#8230; Obama&#8217;s Secret Court for Killing by Andrew P. Napolitano Recently by Andrew P. Napolitano: Obama Gives Himself Permission To Kill President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/did-you-celebrate-president-obama-on-presidents-day-2013/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5595&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:xx-large;"><b>Obama&#8217;s Secret Court for Killing</b></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-family:Georgia, Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;"><b><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;">by Andrew P. Napolitano</span></b></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;"><i>Recently by Andrew P. Napolitano: </i></span></p>
<p align="center"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;"><i><a href="http://www.lewrockwell.com/napolitano/napolitano86.1.html">Obama Gives Himself Permission To Kill</a></i></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:xx-small;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">President Obama willingly admits he dispatched CIA agents to kill an American and his teenage son and the son&#8217;s American friend while they were in a desert in Yemen in 2011. He says he did so because the adult had encouraged folks to wage war on the United States and the children were just &#8220;collateral damage.&#8221; He says further that he&#8217;ll do this again when he is convinced that killing Americans will keep America safe. He says he knows the adult encouraged evil, and his encouragement caused the deaths of innocents. The adult was never charged with a crime or indicted by a grand jury; he was just targeted for death by the president himself and executed by a CIA drone.<span id="more-5595"></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">International law and the law of war, to both of which the U.S. is bound by treaty, as well as federal law and the Judeo-Christian values that underlie the Declaration of Independence (which guarantees the right to live) and the Constitution (which permits governmental interference with that right only after a congressional declaration of war or individual due process) all provide that the certainty of the identity of a human target, the sincerity of the wish for his death, the perception of his guilt and imminent danger are insufficient to justify the government&#8217;s use of lethal force against him. The president may only lawfully kill after due process, in self-defense or under a declaration of war.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">The reasons for the constitutional requirement of a congressional declaration of war are to provide a check on the president&#8217;s lust for war by forcing him to obtain formal congressional approval, to isolate and identify the object of war so the president cannot kill whomever he pleases, to confine the warfare to the places where the object&#8217;s military forces are located so the president cannot invade wherever he wishes, and to assure termination of the hostilities when the object of the war surrenders so the president cannot wage war without end.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">But when war is waged, only belligerents may be targeted, and advocating violence against the U.S. is not an act of wartime violence and does not make one a belligerent. Were this not so, then nothing would lawfully prevent the U.S. from killing Americans who spoke out in favor of al-Qaida, and then killing Americans who spoke out against war and killing, and then killing Americans whose words became an obstacle to killing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">That&#8217;s the reason the enabling federal legislation enacted in support of the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force specifically exempts expressive conduct from the ambit of prohibited criminal or warlike behavior that can provide the basis for any government prosecution or military belligerence. So, the feds can shoot at a guy with a bomb in his hands when he is about to explode it, but not at a guy with a megaphone in his hands when he is about to speak through it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">Thus, if New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki had been shooting at American troops at the time the government took aim at him, naturally, the troops can shoot back. But when he merely encourages others to shoot, his behavior is protected by the natural law, the First Amendment and numerous federal statutes. As well, he was 10,000 miles from the U.S., never known to have engaged in violent acts, and having a private conversation at a roadside cafe in a desert when he was killed. No law or legal principle justifies the U.S. government killing him then and there; in fact, numerous laws prohibit it.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">The president&#8217;s use of the CIA for offensive killing also violates federal law. Intelligence agents may only lawfully kill in self-defense, not offensively. Only the military may lawfully kill offensively. In the al-Awlaki case, intelligence sources have confirmed to Fox News that a team of American and Yemeni intelligence agents had followed al-Awlaki and had him under continuous observation at the time of his killing and for the preceding 48 hours. They easily could have arrested him – had he been charged with a civilian crime or a war crime, which he wasn&#8217;t. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">Of course, the murder of his Colorado-born son and the son&#8217;s American friend are not even arguably defensible, and the president&#8217;s spokesman who suggested that the young al-Awlaki should have &#8220;chosen a different father&#8221; shows a seriously defective thought process and an utter antipathy for the rule of law in places of power.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">We now confront the truly unthinkable: a proposal to establish yet another secret court, this one with the authority to authorize the president and his designees to kill Americans. This proposal has come from Congress, which seems more interested in getting in on the killing than in upholding the Constitution. The federal government only has the lawful powers the states delegated to it. As the states cannot kill Americans without due process, neither can the feds. Congress cannot create this killing court, and no judge on such a Stalinesque court can authorize the president to kill.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">The president has made a political calculation that it will be easier for him to justify killing folks he can demonize than it will be to afford them due process, by capturing, housing and trying them. Now, he has come to believe that it will be easier still if unnamed federal judges meeting in secret take the heat. Politically, the president may be correct. But he has taken an oath to uphold the Constitution, and he lacks the moral and legal basis to reject that in favor of killing.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;">When he kills without due process, he disobeys the laws he has sworn to uphold, no matter who agrees with him. When we talk about killing as if it were golf, we debase ourselves. And when the government kills and we put our heads in the sand, woe to us when there is no place to hide.</span></p>
<p><i>February 14, 2013</i></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Times New Roman, Times, serif;font-size:medium;"><i>Andrew P. Napolitano [<a href="http://www.facebook.com/judgenapolitano">send him mail</a>], a former judge of the Superior Court of New Jersey, is the senior judicial analyst at Fox News Channel. Judge Napolitano has written seven books on the U.S. Constitution. The most recent is </i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1595553517/ref=as_li_tf_til?tag=lewrockwell&amp;camp=14573&amp;creative=327641&amp;linkCode=as1&amp;creativeASIN=1595553517&amp;adid=19JNPXEAG5NC73HC505G&amp;&amp;ref-refURL=">Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Constitutional Freedom</a><i>. To find out more about Judge Napolitano and to read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit <a href="http://www.creators.com">creators.com.</a></i></span></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that there have been Two Previous &#8217;13th Amendments&#8217;? I bet you didn&#8217;t learn this in High School or even in College, but there were actually Two Previous &#8217;13th Amendments&#8217; before the one that Abolished Slavery in the &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/a-tale-of-three-amendments-confronting-the-lincoln-idolatry-on-presidents-day/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5577&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>Did you know that there have been Two Previous &#8217;13th Amendments&#8217;?</strong></p>
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<p>I bet you didn&#8217;t learn this in High School or even in College, but there were actually Two Previous &#8217;13th Amendments&#8217; before the one that Abolished Slavery in the United States after the Civil War for a total of Three, two of which were Passed by Congress and Ratified by the 3/4 of the States at the Time&#8230; only One of which still gets published or acknowledged by our &#8216;Current Form&#8217; of Federal Government (as opposed to the Original Constitutional One). <span id="more-5577"></span></p>
<h2><strong>There was the Original One</strong></h2>
<p>which Outlawed <strong>Titles of Nobility</strong> for those who hold Public Office.</p>
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<p style="text-align:left;">&#8220;If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive,<br />
or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the<br />
consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension,<br />
office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor,  king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.&#8221;</p>
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<ul>
<li>Passed by both Houses of Congress <strong>overwhelmingly in 1810</strong> (26 to 1 in the Senate and 87 to 3 in the House)</li>
<li>Ratified by the <strong>required 13 of 18 States by 1819</strong> (ratification proceedure interrupted briefly by the War of 1812), either Virginia or Connecticut being the Final State to ratify,</li>
<li>and then Published by <strong>several States</strong> and even the <strong>Federal Government</strong> AS a Valid, Ratified Amendment to the Constitution, the last publication as such was in the <strong>Territory of Colorado in 1868</strong>.</li>
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<blockquote><p>But somehow, has been <strong>Removed</strong> sometime after&#8230; at least that&#8217;s the last time it is seen in Republished State and Federal Materials. Why was it <strong>removed</strong> around the <strong>Lincoln</strong> Administration and the <strong>Reconstruction</strong> after the Civil War? <strong>Coincidence?</strong></p></blockquote>
<h2><strong>The Second One</strong></h2>
<p>which would have <strong>Immortalized Slavery</strong> in the United States and forever <strong>Forbid the Federal Government</strong> and even<strong> Future Constitutional Amendments</strong> from &#8216;Interfering&#8217; with Slavery in the States.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to <strong>abolish or interfere</strong>, within any State, with the <strong>domestic institutions</strong> (Slavery) thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service (Slaves) by the laws of said State.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Proposed by House <strong>Rep. Thomas Corwin</strong> of Ohio with an Identical proposal in the Senate by then <strong>Sen. William Seward</strong> (later Lincoln&#8217;s Secretary of State) as a &#8216;Solution&#8217; to the Slavery Problem in order to Lure the already Seceeded Southern States back into the Union and keep others from joining them,</li>
<li>Big Suprise,<strong> Lincoln also Strongly Supported</strong> the <strong>Fugitive Slave Act</strong> as well, which required All Citizens to help hunt down and return <strong>Runaway Slaves</strong> to their <strong>&#8216;Owners&#8217;</strong>.</li>
<li>Supported in his first Inaugural Address and <strong>Actively Advocated</strong> in Congress by a newly elected <strong>President Lincoln</strong>,</li>
<li>Passed by a Majority of both Houses of Congress, <strong>133 to 65 in the House</strong> and <strong>24 to 12 in the Senate,</strong></li>
<li>but was never Ratified by the States due to the outbreak of the Civil War.</li>
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<h2><strong>And the One we Know</strong></h2>
<p>which <strong>Rightly Abolished</strong> the Immoral and Inhuman Institution of Slavery in the United States. (makes you wonder why <strong>Lincoln &#8216;really&#8217; invaded the South</strong> if it was &#8216;only&#8217; about Slavery and they could <strong>Abolish it Peacefully</strong> by Constitutional Amendment?)</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8220;</strong>Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<ul>
<li>Which was actually Called for and Proposed <strong>NOT by Lincoln</strong>,</li>
<li>but by two <strong>Republican Representatives</strong> in the House, Rep. James Mitchell Ashley (Ohio) and Rep. James F. Wilson (Iowa),</li>
<li>but proceeded thru Congress with <strong>little Support and Advocacy</strong> from President Lincoln.</li>
<li>It was <strong>NOT</strong> his Idea, Support or Mythical <strong>&#8216;Life&#8217;s Goal&#8217;</strong> that got it Passed by Congress or Ratified by the States.</li>
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<p>It&#8217;s just <strong>Pure Fiction </strong>to believe it was. Just like Spielburg&#8217;s Movie. <strong>Pure Fiction</strong>. Find out the Real History and <strong>Legacy of Lincoln</strong>, the Civil war and the Reconstruction of the United States.. uh, The South&#8230; by <strong>Military Conquest</strong>. Read &#8220;The Real Lincoln&#8221; and &#8220;Lincoln Unmasked&#8221; by Dr. Thomas DiLorenzo.</p>
<p>-mike</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reblogged from Scripture Nuggets: 1 John 4:17 reads, “Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world” (KJV). The last phrase in The Message Bible &#8230; <a href="http://purposefulpruning.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/5570/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=purposefulpruning.wordpress.com&#038;blog=34940575&#038;post=5570&#038;subd=purposefulpruning&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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<p><strong>1 John 4:17</strong> reads, <em>“Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world” </em>(KJV). The last phrase in The Message Bible reads, “<em>Our standing in the world is identical with Christ’s</em>.” Is my standing in the world today identical with that of Christ?</p>
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Hitting the Reset Switch for this week. Great thoughts on our Purpose as Believers in this World to Be and Live as Christ. -mike
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