Ted Kennedy To Hillary Clinton . . .
Dear Republican supporter,
With each passing day Americans are learning that the cost of a Democrat Senate is too much to bear.
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Unprecedented tax increases and massive increases in federal spending are now items atop the Congressional Agenda.
It makes you wonder, what’s next?
Well, the Senate Democrats’ latest legislative priority is the Employee Free Choice Act — a huge payback to big labor for the 2006 elections.
For more than 60 years we’ve guaranteed workers the right to a secret ballot and guaranteed the right to freely choose whether or not they want to join a union, but now the Democrats want to take that right away.
The Employee Free Choice Act would eliminate the secret ballots that protect American workers from intimidation by union bosses.
Big Labor supports removing the secret ballot process because denying workers the right to a secret ballot makes it significantly easier to form a union through the public card check system in this bill. If it becomes law it could cripple small businesses across this country.
So why are Democrats making Union ballots a top priority? Political payback.
AFL-CIO President John Sweeney said that the 2006 election contributions to Democrats were “money well-spent” and that the election results were “clearly a mandate for a union agenda.”
It seems clear to me that America can’t afford the Democrats’ Agenda. If you agree, I urge you to support our efforts at the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Republicans need to win two seats to regain the Majority. Your support of the NRSC with a contribution of $25, $50, $75, $100 or even $250 before the critical June 30 fundraising deadline will help the NRSC assist campaigns in key states.
We will make sure your contributions are spent wisely and where they can most make a difference. We simply must take back the United States Senate.
I hope you will support our efforts with a contribution of $25, $50, $75, $100, $250 or even $500 today and help us reach our end of June goal.
Together we can make a difference and stop the Democrats from implementing their radical agenda. I thank you in advance for your support.
Senator John Ensign
NRSC Chairman
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Survey: Religious Republicans Still Show Strong Support for Bush
While the majority of Americans disapprove of they way President Bush is handling his job as president, a recent survey found that religious Republicans have not abandoned Bush and the GOP.
Crackdown on Protestant Christians continues in Uzbekistan
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Crackdown on Protestant Christians continues in Uzbekistan
By Michael Ireland
Chief Correspondent, ASSIST News Service
TASHKENT, UZBEKISTAN (ANS) – A Tajik citizen who has lived in Uzbekistan for more than 10 years was deported back to Tajikistan on about June 19, local Protestants — who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisals — told a western news service.
Members of her Pentecostal church in the capital Tashkent insist that Sayora (who preferred that her last name not be published) was deported in retaliation for her involvement in the congregation. She was held in jail for 22 days, after being among a group of Pentecostals arrested after meeting in a church member’s home. Another of those arrested, a man named Zainiddin (who also preferred that his last name not be published), was held for five days, then threatened and intimidated by neighbors and the police into moving out of his local mahalla (urban district).
Protestants in Uzbekistan pointed out to Forum 18 News Service (www.forum18.org) that Zainiddin’s case is the second in the past few months where a Protestant family has been forced to leave their home after threats, intimidation and pressure. A pastor’s daughter was kidnapped in April before being freed in a traumatized state, while the family was subjected to threats, beatings, allegedly inspired by the mullahs at the local mosque. The family was apparently targeted because the pastor is a convert to Christianity who actively shares his faith.
Sayora’s deportation is the latest in a series of deportations of foreign citizens involved in religious activity. The victims thus far have been Jehovah’s Witnesses and Protestants, a typical example being Ivan Bychkov, a Russian Baptist deported on August 11, 2006.
No official at the government’s Committee for Religious Affairs in Tashkent was prepared even to talk to Forum 18. Reached on June 26, an official who would not give his name said the chairman Artyk Yusupov was not in the office and put the phone down. The phone then went unanswered when Forum 18 called back, as did the phones of other Committee officials.
Sayora and Zainiddin were among 13 members of a Pentecostal congregation in Tashkent held when visiting an elderly church member in her home in the city’s Mirzo-Ulugbek district in late May. The National Security Service (NSS) secret police raided the home, filmed those present, threatened them and took them to the local police station for interrogation. Eight church members were subsequently tried at Mirzo-Ulugbek District Criminal Court under the Code of Administrative Offences. Three men were given sentences of five days’ administrative arrest at the prison on Panelnaya Street, while five more were each fined 62,100 Sums (296 Norwegian Kroner, 37 Euros or 49 US Dollars).
Although the three men were freed after five days, Sayora was kept in prison for 22 days until her deportation. She had lived in Uzbekistan for more than a decade and had tried in vain to get Uzbek citizenship. “I believe she was deported because she is a Christian,” one of her friends told Forum 18.
Another of those detained when police raided the private home was Zainiddin, who is in his fifties. He was freed after five days but was then subjected to huge pressure to leave his urban district. “Zainiddin was threatened and pressured in prison to renounce his faith,” one colleague told Forum 18 from Tashkent. “While he was in prison, officials in uniform visited his mahalla [urban district] and informed the neighbors. Then when he came out of prison he met a storm of dissatisfaction and hostility from neighbors, his parents and the local policeman. The local policeman ordered him to clear out of the mahalla by 1 July.” Religious communities often face repression organized at the mahalla level.
As well as facing pressure from officials, including the NSS secret police, and his family, Zainiddin also faced threats from local residents his colleague described as “Muslim fanatics.” Zainiddin was warned not to attend church, otherwise his and his family’s throats would be cut. After being seen attending church again despite the warnings, Zainiddin was again beaten. “His wife is bearing up, but she often breaks down in tears.” The youngest of their three children still lives with them. Later in June, the family was forced to move to another part of Tashkent.
Meanwhile, members of the registered Full Gospel congregation in Yangiyul, near Tashkent, have failed to persuade the Prosecutor’s Office to open a criminal investigation into the actions of police officers who raided their Sunday worship service on May 13, Protestant sources told Forum 18. The Yangiyul town Prosecutor, Abdugany Naibiev, rejected the attempt, writing on June 13 that that there was, as he put it, “the absence in the actions of the police representatives of the substance of a crime.”
Church members complain that the raid, conducted by six police officers and led by S. Norov of the Anti-Terrorist Department, was “illegal.” They say they were filmed without their permission and that the police officers swore at them and threatened them with violence. They add that the church’s pastor, Vyacheslav Bely, was threatened with criminal charges as, the police claimed, the church was involved in “preparing terrorists.” In the wake of the raid, church members made written complaints to various government agencies.
An official of the Yangiyul Prosecutor’s Office told Forum 18 on June 26 that Naibiev was no longer in the office, but said Furhat Azhizov had been handling the case. However, Azhizov’s assistant, who would not give his name, said he had no information. “I know there was a complaint, but I don’t have the details,” he told Forum 18. Asked why a group of religious believers was raided during a service, the assistant declined to respond. “I don’t have the right to give information by telephone.”
Protestants also remain under pressure in the Karakalpakstan [Qoraqalpoghiston] autonomous republic in north-western Uzbekistan, where all non-Muslim and non-Russian Orthodox religious activity is banned. The trial began on June 11 in Nukus, the region’s capital, of Zlikha Ordobayeva, Protestant sources have told Forum 18. She was accused of “illegally teaching religion” after police raided a gathering of Protestants at a private home in Nukus at Easter. (The same charge was earlier made against Pentecostal Christian Salavat Serikbayev). The prosecutor has demanded a fine of 50,000 Sums (235 Norwegian Kroner, 29 Euros or 40 US Dollars).
As Ordobayeva was in bed and too ill to come to court, the judges decided to hold the hearing in her home. Four court officials arrived to hold the first hearing. “She was on trial for teaching religion although she is illiterate,” one source told Forum 18. “She can hardly string more than a few words together. The judge could see that but stated that he would follow the decision the Prosecutor’s Office has already taken. The local
policeman testified that she was teaching when they raided the gathering.”
On June 15 the court gave Ordobayeva an official verbal warning. The trials of a number of other local Protestants held after the same raid are due to continue.
Protestant Christians and Jehovah’s Witnesses have been the religious communities that have faced the brunt of official pressure so far in 2007.Their congregations across Uzbekistan have been raided, and individual believers have been beaten, threatened, fined and imprisoned.
The most severe sentences so far imposed in 2007 have been: four years in a labor camp for Pentecostal pastor Dmitry Shestakov; two years in a labour camp for Jehovah’s Witness Irfon Hamidov; two years corrective labour for Jehovah’s Witness Dilafruz Arziyeva; and one year corrective labour, with a fine of 20 per cent of his salary, for Pentecostal Christian Salavat Serikbayev.
| ** Michael Ireland is an international British freelance journalist. A former reporter with a London newspaper, Michael is the Chief Correspondent for ASSIST News Service of Lake Forest, California. Michael immigrated to the United States in 1982 and became a US citizen in September, 1995. He is married with two children. Michael has also been a frequent contributor to UCB Europe, a British Christian radio station. |  |
Shock photo! Rosie O’Donnell puts bullet-wearing daughter online
Rosie O’Donnell is defending the banner photograph at the top of her blog today featuring her 4-year-old daughter, Vivienne, wearing an ammunition belt and military fatigues.
I just don’t know what to say.
Hindu Prayer Will Open Senate Session in July
(CNSNews.com) – For what is believed to be the first time in its history, the U.S. Senate will on July 12 be opened with a Hindu prayer, the Senate Chaplain’s Office confirmed Monday.
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This is getting out of hand. First our government is trying to get rid of God, now they are turning to religions that don’t even recognize God!
Atlanta officials declare Constitution-free zone
Your message is not congruent,’ so leave public property or be arrested!
The city of Atlanta has created a Constitution-free zone on public property for this weekend’s 2007 Atlanta Pride festival, according to pastors and lawyers who have been trying to secure an assurance that Christians’ free-speech rights will be protected.
A What!!!
A city says that on public property the Constitution of the United States of America does not apply?!?!?!
Read the article and watch the video that is in the article! Keep watching as the liberal activists chip away at our Constitutional Rights day by day!
I swear, Russia is looking more free than the United States every day!
Ergun Caner Shares His Journey Through Islam
I just watched this video from Ergun Caner: Ergun Caner Shares His Journey Through Islam, and let me say – This is worth your time to watch!
Cost Of Democrats
Tracking the cost of the Democrat Senate.
Full Hillary ’smoking gun’ video released
Filed as evidence in case against New York senator, husband
By Art Moore – 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
The full, five-minute videotape touted as “smoking gun evidence” of two felonies committed by Sen. Hillary Clinton has been released to WND.
As WND reported, the tape was submitted as evidence to a California appeals court yesterday in a civil fraud suit against the New York Democrat and her husband, former President Bill Clinton..
Christians warned: Accept Islamic law
JERUSALEM – Christians can continue living safely in the Gaza Strip only if they accept Islamic law, including a ban on alcohol and on women roaming publicly without proper head coverings, an Islamist militant leader in Gaza told WND in an exclusive interview. “This missionary activity is endangering the entire Christian community in Gaza,” he said.
Daytona Beach
Today I went over to Ormond Beach (the Daytona Beach area), and I went by myself so I could fix my Mom’s Satellite Dish, trash compactor, sprinkler system, a toilet in the third bathroom and hang up some blinds. I don’t like to go anywhere without my family coming with me, but it was refreshing in a way. After I spent some time talking with my Mom and fixing and improving things around her house, I went to my Grandfather’s grave to clean up his headstone and place some fresh flowers in remembrance of him for tomorrow being Father’s Day. After some time reflecting and remembering that my Dad does not have a grave to visit (my step mother had him cremated and has his ashes spread in the lake where he love to fish), it hit me once again the loss of both my Dad and Grandfather and the longing just to be able to talk to them both again – I just lost it for a bit.
Well, after doing all of that I decided to drive around the Daytona Beach area where I grew up just to reminisce for the past seventeen years that I’ve been away and to see what all has changed.
WOW! First off, it did not hit me that I moved away from Daytona seventeen years ago until I was driving out of the cemetery. As I left the cemetery I headed south on Riverside Drive and I could not miss the two multi-story condominiums that was sitting in place of the old Holly Hill Plaza where my Uncle once worked at the Publix back in the late nineteen fifties to the early nineteen sixties before he was drafted to fight in Vietnam. Then I crossed the Seabreeze Causeway to the beach side into Daytona Beach proper. Daytona Beach sure did a beautification project to the beach side! The way I remember the area it was old and rundown looking, but now it looks like a modern theme park, but no matter how it looked – it was home to me.
After driving around the beach side for a while, I drove back to the mainland over the Volusia Street Causeway (I guess now called International Speedway Boulevard, or ISB) and drove west on the street heading back to I95, then to I4 to head back home to Orlando. I was familiar with the road widening Daytona did years back to ISB for the traffic going to and leaving Daytona International Speedway for all of the NASCAR races. But what hit me was my old high school. I heard that Volusia County rebuilt Mainland High School about two years ago or so, but this was not what I expected! I was thinking along the lines of remodeling, but the old school was totally torn down and a whole new building now replaces the old.
I live less than seventy miles from Daytona, and for the past seventeen years I’ve been so involved with my career, met my wife and new family, and with the Evangelical ministries with the Body of Christ – I have missed a change in Daytona that had really shocked me today.
As I merged onto I4 where very little has been touched by man, I reflected on God’s work in the nature that surrounded me for a bit because I have always sat in awe of His mighty work – I had to snap back real quick to watching the road with all of the crazy drivers on I4 with places to get to, and for one in a long while I was not part of that set of crazy drivers with a goal in mind to get to where I was going to – but I was at a calm that I have not experienced for a long time.
I have always understood the need for rest and reflection that of which God wants us to have as commanded in the Fourth Commandment (Exodus 20:8-11), and with today’s lifestyle it is truly hard to rest. Yes, I was busy today, very busy, but after visiting the cemetery and being by myself, I had that bit of time to rest and think about God and what He has done – and that short bit of time was something I needed so bad that now after I got that bit of time I feel so much better, better than I have in months!
A bill in Congress makes it a crime for pastors and churches to speak against homosexuality
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June 14, 2007
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A bill in Congress makes it a crime for pastors and churches to speak against homosexuality
Message to pastors and other Christians: Just keep your mouth shut
Dear Anonymous,
If pastors and other Christians don’t aggressively oppose a bill now in Congress, in the near future they will be subject to huge fines and prison terms if they say anything negative about homosexuality.
The proposed law would make it a crime to preach on Romans Chapter 1 or I Corinthians Chapter 6. Or even to discuss them in a Sunday School class. If churches and individuals want to keep the government from telling them what they can and cannot preach and teach about homosexuality, they better get involved now!
House bill H.R. 1592 and Senate bill S. 1105 would make negative statements concerning homosexuality, such as calling the practice of homosexuality a sin from the pulpit, a “hate crime” punishable by law. This dangerous legislation would take away your freedom of speech and your freedom of religion. Consider what has already happened:
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A California lawsuit which is headed to the U.S. Supreme Court would make the use of the words “natural family,” “marriage” and “union of a man and a woman” a “hate speech” crime in government workplaces. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has already ruled in favor of the plaintiffs!
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CNN and The Washington Post both reported that General Peter Pace, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was fired because he publicly expressed moral opposition to homosexual behavior.
For the Alliance Defense Fund’s summary of this bill, click here.
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Please help us get this information into the hands of as many people as possible by forwarding it to your family and friends.
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Donald E. Wildmon, Founder and Chairman
American Family Association
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Sodom’s solemn warning
For “gay” and lesbian activists intent on molding American culture in their own image, the church is seen as the most stalwart opponent resisting the triumph of homosexual philosophy.
As Paul Varnell, a homosexual columnist and writer, says, “It can scarcely be doubted that the primary, and perhaps only sources of our culture’s anti-gay hostility are the Christian denominations.”
Read the rest here.
Dear President Bush, Why are you not Listening?
I just don’t understand. President Bush has been doing a great job of protecting our country after September 11, 2001, and the lower tax rate for all who pay taxes have moved our economy into one of the most prosperous and economic upward trend for the United States in recent history. All of this through good Conservative values and beliefs, and with the support from all of us in the Grassroots Conservative community. What I can’t understand is why President Bush is going against his (and our) Conservative values and beliefs on the illegal immigration issue? President Bush got it right with our war against the islamofascists who wish our very destruction, and reducing the tax burden on all who pay taxes to bring more revenue into the Federal Government. But why is he so wrong on the illegal immigration issue? Our borders are open and anyone can and have come into our country illegally. This is an open invitation for terrorist of all kinds, and not just the illegal immigrants that burden our country’s tax base – and without paying into our tax base at the same time.
GOPUSA took a Grassroots Survey from the “Grassroots” found here: Results of GOPUSA’s Grassroots Survey
And the survey clearly shows that we the people (of Conservative Principles at least) are all almost lock-step against any kind of amnesty for the illegal immigrants, for better border security and enforcing employment laws against the hiring of illegal immigrants as workers that are taking jobs away from many Americans.
So President Bush, please do what is right on the illegal immigration issue and enforce existing laws, stopping illegal border crossings and hold the employers of illegal immigrants accountable for the law breaking ways!
- Ric
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