Officials with a Grand Island meatpacking plant said 86 people have been fired after walking off the job amid a prayer dispute.

 A representative with JBS Swift and Company said the workers were fired Friday after repeatedly leaving work without authorization. The company said the workers had been warned they might lose their jobs.

 

(No matter what your faith is you need to work with those over you. However I won't be shocked if  charges are brought that this plant is  out to get Muslims. Read more on this story right here .)

The ex-husband of national televangelist Juanita Bynum plans to take his search for a new wife to the Internet with videos featuring dating tips and what he's looking for in a mate.

Thomas W. Weeks III and Bynum divorced after a public fight between the two landed him in jail.

Weeks, a minister who runs an Atlanta-area church, is known to his followers as Bishop Weeks.

 

(Instead of looking for a new wife this so called Pastor should be checking out what the word of God  says on how to treat women and wives. Read more on this story Minister lists qualifications for third wife.)

 There are reasons to question the choice of the commander of the Alaska National Guard as a prospective commander in chief (though there were equally serious reasons to doubt the military qualifications of another backwoods candidate, Abraham Lincoln, who served for a few months as private and captain in the Black Hawk War).

(The above words are part of a column written by Michael Gerson.  Read more of Gerson's words below.)

But instead of engaging this issue, liberals have been drawn, helpless and mesmerized -- like beetles to the vivid, blue paradise of the bug zapper -- toward criticizing Sarah Palin's religion. Palin's former Pentecostal church is called a "shout-and-holler tabernacle." Reporters press Palin's former pastor to reveal if she has ever spoken in tongues, the way it was once asked if candidates had ever used drugs. Palin's beliefs are compared to Rev. Jeremiah Wright -- though it turns out that she was caught on tape requesting prayers for the success of her country instead of railing against it. In that sense, Palin sounds most like President Franklin Roosevelt, who prayed on D-Day that, "by Thy grace, and by the righteousness of our cause, our sons will triumph."

All this can only work to Barack Obama's disadvantage, given his cool, aloof manner, and his patronizing comment on the bitter and religious. And it has brought an unintended benefit to the McCain-Palin ticket -- a populist, religious appeal that McCain alone did not possess.

Deriding Palin's religion has been a poor strategy -- and the mistake has been made before. During the first Pentecost -- the one recorded in Acts -- Christians spoke strange languages in public. Many observers dismissed them as drunk.

The critics of religion, as is often the case, did not get the last word.

(Why is it those on the left keep going after the faith of those on the right but leave those on the left all alone. What about Obama's former Pastor who instead of preaching the love of Jesus, he preaches hate of whites and for America. Read the rest of the above column

 The Theocrat in Lipstick.)

After running a brilliant primary battle to defeat Hillary Clinton, the Obama campaign is now in disarray. Why?

Perhaps it’s because Barack Obama has never run a competitive race against a Republican.

Now, facing John McCain’s blistering ads, Obama seems unable to fight fire with fire. The Democratic rank and file are furious (while simultaneously denouncing McCain’s negativity) and scared that Obama doesn’t know how to close the deal.

(The above is part of a column written by Jonah Goldberg. See more of the column below.)

To prove his newfound determination, bare-knuckle Obama unveiled a new TV ad, to air in key states.

It begins with the date “1982,” a picture of a disco ball and footage of McCain in clunky glasses from his first year in Washington. “Things have changed in the last 26 years, but McCain hasn’t,” says the announcer. “He admits he still doesn’t know how to use a computer, can’t send an e-mail, still doesn’t understand the economy and favors $200 billion in new tax cuts for corporations, but almost nothing for the middle class.” All the while it shows ancient computers and a cordless phone that looks like a walkie-talkie from “Ice Station Zebra.”
First, the ad is dishonest. McCain has been one of the Senate’s leading authorities on telecom and the Internet.

In 2000, Forbes magazine called him the “Senate’s savviest technologist.” That same year, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg gushed that McCain was the most “cybersavvy” of all the presidential candidates, a crop that included none other than Al Gore. Being chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, Weisberg explained, “forced him to learn about the Internet early on, and young Web entrepreneurs such as Jerry Yang and Jeff Bezos fascinate him.”
One reason McCain is not versed in the mechanical details of sending e-mail and typing on a keyboard is that the North Vietnamese broke his fingers and shattered both of his arms. As Forbes, Slate, and the Boston Globe reported in 2000, McCain’s injuries make using a keyboard painfully laborious. He mostly relies on his wife and staff to show him e-mails and Web sites, though he says he’s getting up to speed.

“It’s extraordinary,” Obama spokesman Dan Pfeiffer said, “that someone who wants to be our president and our commander in chief doesn’t know how to send an e-mail.” For the record, President Clinton sent exactly two e-mails while in office.

(The add should be removed ASAP unless Obama cares about being elected which is what it looks like with this add. I believe the  good people of America will see this  for what it is and it will back fire. Obama needs to be taken to the political woodshed. Do read the whole column E-Mail to Obama: Dishonest Ad, Wrong Audience -

I have made some new posts on my other blog Good Gone MAD Souls. The links to them are below.

Earlier this month, a media frenzy erupted when Republican presidential candidate John McCain chose Alaska governor Sarah Palin for his running mate. Since then, radio, TV, newspapers, and the Internet have been filled with reports on the personal life and political views of this relatively unknown figure who could become America's first female Vice President.

One image in particular caused quite a stir on the Internet. The photo, taken during a television interview in Palin's office, shows an Israeli flag in her window. It is a small thing - but one that got people talking. What, they asked, are Palin's views on Israel?

It turns out that Palin is well known among her state's small Jewish population. One prominent Jewish businessman described her as "absolutely a friend of the Jewish community." Rabbi Yossi Greenberg, well known in Jewish circles in Alaska, said that "from the time she became governor, [Palin] has always supported the Jewish community."

(The above is part of an email statement by  Rabbi Yechiel Eckstein President of The International Fellowship of Christians and Jews. Read more » of what the Rabbi wrote.)

Watch this video  Prayer, God and War    
and then try to answer this question why is it ok  with  the Media Elites that some pray or call for God's blessing but others can't. Could it be their politics.

The anger felt by many Nebraska Republicans toward Sen. Chuck Hagel rose to new heights Thursday after Hagel questioned whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president. State Republicans are "worn out" with Hagel and his propensity for controversial comments aimed at fellow Republicans, said Mark Quandahl, chairman of the Nebraska GOP. Quandahl went out of his way to distance the state party from Hagel's remarks about Palin, the party's vice presidential nominee.

Gov. Dave Heineman said "most Republicans are not happy" with Hagel right now.
Heineman said Hagel's comments about Palin's lack of foreign policy experience could be said about many governors who became president, including Franklin D. Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton.

"They all came to the presidency with little foreign policy experience and did quite well," said Heineman, who won a crucial endorsement from Hagel in the 2006 governor's primary.

When asked if Hagel would be welcomed at any Republican event in Nebraska in support of a GOP candidate, Heineman replied: "I don't know how to answer that for sure. Nebraskans are polite and respectful people, but I would say right now they disagree with Senator Hagel."

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mike Johanns, who has strong political ties to Hagel, declined to comment on Hagel's Palin comments.

Several Nebraska Republicans questioned why Hagel set his sights on Palin's experience without questioning Obama's.

(As I kind of wrote in my post yesterday  Sen. Hagel doubts Palin's ready Hagel is a Republican in name only. What is it with him that he will go after those on the right but leave Obama and others on the left alone.  Good for the Republicans who are taking Hagel on. Read more about them Hagel's remarks on Palin irk GOP .)

Evangelical Christians must eschew wedge issues and identity politics and cooperate with groups they sometimes disagree with to solve the global environmental crisis, a prominent religious leader told an  audience Thursday evening.

"It's very important that we talk to one another, relate to one another," said the Rev. Richard Cizik, speaking to about 125 people at Countryside Community Church, 8787 Pacific St. "If we don't, I don't see how we get beyond the culture war and identity politics."
Overwhelming evidence exists that mankind is responsible for global warming, Cizik said. And he described the need to cooperate with other religious faiths and environmental groups to achieve a common goal: saving the planet.

A self-described conservative and a Republican, Cizik drafted a letter in the early 1980s to then-President Ronald Reagan inviting him to address evangelicals about the placement of cruise missiles in Western Europe.

It was at that meeting where Reagan gave his speech branding the Soviet Union as an "Evil Empire." Cizik said he saw the Cold War as a good-against-evil confrontation and asked Reagan to describe the confrontation with the Soviets in moral terms.

He sees the effort to save the planet the same way.

"If American evangelicals will see the broad agenda, become change agents for a way of seeing the world differently, they will lose their reputation as being one of society's bullies," he said.

 (Now I believe us who are evangelicals need to care about many issues. However we need to keep at the top the moral issues such as the right to life. It is sad that some of those who care most about saving the planet don't care much about saving human souls and back abortion on demand. Read more of the above story right here .)

Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Wednesday became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president. Democrats have raised questions about Palin since Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice presidential running mate. Most national Republican officeholders have rallied to Palin's candidacy.

(Read more of the above story right here. )

(Being from Nebraska I am ashamed that the name of this great state is next to Chuck Hagel's name. I can't wait until his term is up and I am hopeful we will  replace him with a true conservative. Why is Hagel still part of the GOP since he has gone after Bush, McCain, and now Palin. Also what about Obama is he ready to be President. Lets sit down and discuss the issues and see who is ready or not ready. )

Russia defied the United States yesterday by announcing plans to sell military hardware to Iran and Venezuela. ( Russia ratchets up US tensions with arms sales to Iran and Venezuela    )

The head of the state arms exporter said that he was negotiating to sell antiaircraft systems to Iran despite American objections. Russia has already delivered 29 Tor-M1 missile systems under a $700 million (£386 million) deal with Iran in 2005.

“Contacts between our countries are continuing and we do not see any reason to suspend them,” Anatoli Isaikin, the general director of Rosoboronexport, told the RIA-Novosti news agency at an arms fair in South Africa.

 

( The Russia  government is once again becoming an enemy of the United States. )

Barack Obama sharpened his attacks on John McCain and mocked the Republican's recent calls for reform in two stops in Nevada on Wednesday after days of listening to nervous supporters fret about the Democrat's chances of taking the White House.

"Sen. McCain bragged about how as chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, he had oversight of every part of the economy. Well, all I can say to Sen. McCain is, 'Nice job. Nice job,'" Obama said at a rally at a baseball stadium in Las Vegas. "Where is he getting these lines? The lobbyists running his campaign?"

In Elko, Obama tried to anticipate his critics and called on the crowd of about 1,500 to sharpen their elbows, too.

"I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face," he said.

 

(I was hoping after the wonderful outing hosted by Pastor Warren we would see something different. If  I was McCain I would talk about the issues and stay away from the mud. I believe that would help him get elected. Perhaps Obama is scared and that is why he is acting this way. Read more on this issue  right here .)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account that Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin used for official business as Alaska's governor, revealing as evidence a few inconsequential personal messages she has received since John McCain selected her as his running mate.  (  Hackers break into Sarah Palin's e-mail account  )

"This is a shocking invasion of the governor's privacy and a violation of law. The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them," the McCain campaign said in a statement.

The Secret Service contacted The Associated Press on Wednesday and asked for copies of the leaked e-mails, which circulated widely on the Internet. The AP did not comply.

(It was reported on the O'Reilly Factor that  Sarah Palin's  kids phone numbers along with the emails were published  on a web site. Bill O'Reilly said not only should the hacker be punished but so should the web site. I agree and why didn't the AP help?)

(This is an outrage!)