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Krista Branch Day at IdaFlo

By idaflo | September 8th, 2010 | View Comments 

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The Screaming Burqa

By idaflo | September 7th, 2010 | View Comments 

burka veiled-women-of-afghanistanI have discovered that in a congregational setting, for those congregations who have a “bully network”, this network has two parts. Part one is of course those who engage in the bullying.  Part two is the rest of the congregation, that overwhelmingly sits by, mute, as whoever is being bullied, gets “the treatment”.  I believe both sides are equally culpable. Yet I feel the greatest disgust for the “part-two” folks who know better, but refuse to act because they fear being bullied themselves. And so they watch, always behind the cloak of “not wanting to cause trouble”.  Dysfunctional cowardice.

One of the most popular pieces of advice they gave to seminarians’ wives while we were at the seminary?

“Just be yourself”.

These pictures are dedicated to all those women out there, who have discovered that that piece of advice can get you into a whole HEAP of trouble… Read More »

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George Soros’s Evangelicals

By idaflo | August 28th, 2010 | View Comments 

Meet Richard Cizik, head of the New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good.

Richard Cizik

BY Mark Tooley at The Weekly Standard

August 26, 2010

For nearly 30 years Richard Cizik represented the National Association of Evangelicals in Washington, D.C. During the George W. Bush administration, he tilted increasingly left and embraced global warming as his iconic issue. A Vanity Fair magazine spread admiringly portrayed him walking on water, just like Jesus. But in December 2008 Cizik stepped too far by endorsing same-sex unions during an interview with Terry Gross NPR. He was forced to resign from NAE.

This summer, Cizik was back with Gross on NPR. He has created a left-leaning New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good….(continue reading HERE)

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Obama: “Iraq was all about me”

By idaflo | August 28th, 2010 | View Comments 

Once again, he finds a new and twisted way to make himself the star of every script, the point of every narrative; distorting the facts and our own history…

From Sister Toldjah

The Narcissist in Chief President uses his weekly address to comment on the official end of combat operations in Iraq:

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Diana West: Russians still obscure Polish airplane crash

By idaflo | August 16th, 2010 | View Comments 

This story has been foggy since day one.  Legitimate questions beg for answers so that truth may be known and  justice served. The victims deserve as much. The more we read about this story, the more confusing it becomes. (Story is also covered HERE at BIGPEACE.COM)

Polish airplane crash site

By: Diana West Washington Examiner Columnist – August 13, 2010

It’s never been clear what really happened on that foggy morning of April 10 when a Polish airplane crashed on a Russian runway, killing all 96 people aboard, including Polish President Lech Kaczynski, Cabinet ministers, military service chiefs, intelligence officials, the central bank president, parliamentarians and historians, decapitating the conservative government and gutting the country’s elite. Read More »

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Don’t Cry for Me, Barack Obama

By idaflo | August 15th, 2010 | View Comments 

I always look forward to posting anything Robin of Berkeley has to say.  Once again, she does not disappoint.
Today, instead of americanthinker.com her words come to us from David Horowitz’s NewsRealBlog.  A brief aside about David; I saw him speak while we lived in Northern, California.  In that presentation and in everything I’ve heard or read of him since, it feels as though he is such a smart guy, even his yawns merit college credit.
2010 August 13

Obama teary

by Robin of Berkeley at NewsRealBlog

Apparently Obama broke down weeping during the funeral of civil rights leader, Dorothy Height.  This sight left me strangely unmoved.

This is peculiar because I cry at almost anything. If there is a random stranger bawling on the street, my waterworks start flowing. Just last week I had a meltdown after my husband, Jon, and I went to the local pound.

A Dr. Doolitte type, Jon rescued some stray mutt, nestled her in our car, and together we brought the pooch over to a local shelter. When we said goodbye to the whimpering animal, I melted in a pool of tears. Exasperated, Jon not only had to deal with the dog’s slobbering, but mine as well.

Yet, seeing the photographs of our blubbering President left me feeling ice cold. I’ve asked myself, why? The reason: because this man cares not a whit about you or me. Read More »

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Socialist Party of America reveals 70 Democrats as belonging to their caucus

By idaflo | August 15th, 2010 | View Comments 

American Thinker logoBy Rick Moran August 14, 2010 at AmericanThinker.com

Two things of note in this revelation. The first is the astonishing number of Democratic House members who not only belong to the Socialist Party of America, but even more incredible, don’t mind if people find out about it. Read More »

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Dems Outraged Over Obama’s Ground Zero Mosque Comments

By idaflo | August 14th, 2010 | View Comments 

Twin Towers exploding in fire on 9/11Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, August 14, 2010 at GatewayPundit

Democrats were frustrated today with Barack Obama’s radical stance on the Ground Zero Mosque. Obama supports a mosque at Ground Zero along with only 20% of voters. A vast majority of Americans do not want a victory mosque built near the former World Trade buildings.
The Politico
reported:….(Article continues HERE)

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The stunning decline of Barack Obama: 10 key reasons why the Obama presidency is in meltdown

By idaflo | August 14th, 2010 | View Comments 

Nile GardinerBy Nile Gariner  at The Telegraph.co.uk

Nile Gardiner is a Washington-based foreign affairs analyst and political commentator. He appears frequently on American and British television and radio, including Fox News Channel, CNN, BBC, Sky News, and NPR.

The last few weeks have been a nightmare for President Obama, in a summer of discontent in the United States which has deeply unsettled the ruling liberal elites, so much so that even the Left has begun to turn against the White House. Read More »

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Coulter: 1 in 300 News Stories Mention Corrupt Government Bureaucrat a Democrat

By idaflo | August 13th, 2010 | View Comments 

Ann Coulter delves into another Democrat Media Complex cover-up in her entertaining column:

In the greatest party-affiliation cover-up since the media tried to portray Gary Condit as a Republican, the media are refusing to mention the party affiliation of the thieving government officials in Bell, Calif.

There have been hundreds of news stories about Bell city officials’ jaw-dropping salaries. Read More »

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