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LifeLock Claim Against the Feds
I entered a claim today with LifeLock, the identify fraud protector company that you see on TV. They guarantee up to $1 million compensation if someone steals your identity to spend your money. Who has been spending my money without my permission? You get 3 guesses and the first 2 don’t count. The United States federal government is the culprit. Oh, I approve of constitutionally allowed spending on national defense, etc, and I turn a blind eye to most of the government’s unconstitutional spending. We’ve been a prosperous country and could afford most of it.
But in the last couple years the federal thieves have gone too far. In 2009 they used my social security number to loot my accounts to help fund a $1 Trillion bailout bill, the proceeds of which was distributed to their friends in the unions and the community organizer groups. Then in 2010 they used my social security number to loot my accounts again for the $1 Trillion Obamacare program. For the last two years I’ve been asking myself what I can do about it. I’m just one voter waiting for the next election. Then it dawned on me: I’ve got LifeLock!
The only difference, between ordinary identity thieves and the government, is that the Feds are more professional. Their propaganda mill sells us on the idea that their thievery is legal, even if it bankrupts us. They make Bernie Madoff look like a small time hustler, and Madoff is in jail, isn’t he? I have LifeLock, and many of you have the same or similar programs offering identity fraud protection. The way I figure it, if all of us file identity fraud claims, we can get most of the loot back. Let’s say we have each been screwed out of $10,000. If 100 million of us file identity fraud claims for $10,000, that’s a trillion dollars back in the pockets of honest Americans where it belongs. So if you don’t have identity fraud coverage, get it, and join me in filing your claim.
And in the November election, don’t vote for the same thieves who have been looting your wallet. They think stealing is legal when you vote for them.
Terrorist Prison, For and Against
Posted by Editor in Grassmans, Opinion, Politics, Spirit Cave Prison on October 22, 2009
Public opinion on the proposed Spirit Cave prison is pouring in to the Post. The most representative opinions on both sides will be published daily until the issue is decided.
Against the Prison, George Miller:
The DHS plan for a terrorist prison in Pearlville is absurd. Pearlville is a quiet community and the residents like it that way. A terrorist prison at Spirit Cave will put Pearlville in the national media spotlight. Government officials taking over the town, civil rights groups protesting, plus who-knows-what unanticipated problems will change the culture of our community. For all the promise of high security, what happens if a terrorist escapes? Will he blow up Pearlville? And has anyone asked the Grassmans if they want a terrorist prison in their neighborhood? They are good neighbors and don’t bother anyone. Why should we allow the government to intrude on their territory? All in all, this is a bad idea and the Council needs to vote it down.
For the Prison, Alan Sharper:
Let’s look at the facts. It will be a small facility with 25 prisoners. This will mean a handful of new residents to manage the prison and a few frequent visitors from the government. Pearlville will get a little economic boost, and that will be very helpful in this economy. Security is not an issue. The Marines know how to handle these people and there have been no security problems in Guantanamo. I agree with the concern over the Grassmans territory. They have not been included in the discussion so far, and they have expressed some concerns. Assuming that the Grassmans issues can be resolved, the Council should vote “yes” on the Spirit Cave Prison.
Reverend Jeepers: Vote For Issue 3
Lately the television is filled with commercials for and against the Issue 3 referendum on gambling casinos in Ohio. The argument against casinos has traditionally focused on a forecast of increased crime and prostitution. This time the detractors focus on jobs, stating that the 34,000 jobs created by casinos in major Ohio cities will not all go to Ohioans, that many workers will be imported from New Jersey and Nevada.
Supporters of Issue 3 point to the huge amounts of money that Ohioans spend at casinos in neighboring states and the resulting tax revenue flowing out of Ohio, plus the obvious benefit from 34,000 new jobs.
I support Issue 3. As a minister my position may seem surprising to some. But let’s look at the facts: 1) The Pearlville Community Church hosts regular Bingo Nights and a Las Vegas Night every year. This is gambling and we have not seen any criminal activity related to it. 2) The state of Ohio is broke, and it is silly to continue sending Ohio tax dollars out of state. 3) 34,000 new jobs are good for Ohio. So what if some of those jobs are imported? The state has been losing jobs for years, so now it’s a bad thing for workers to move here from other states? When they arrive they will buy homes and spend money and pay taxes. I’m OK with that.
Opinion by Rev. Joseph Jeepers: On Evidence of God
It was a pleasure reading Dr. Dan’s review of his visit to the Creation Museum. I have been there myself three times and plan to visit again. Dr. Dan is right when he says the museum’s presentation of Genesis is controversial. Genesis asks us to believe a story that lacks physical evidence in a time when the great body of evidence makes Genesis look like a myth. And if it’s a myth, then how do we know that God exists?
We often point to natural wonders as evidence of a Creator. I have found it impossible to examine a maple leaf or witness a rainbow or the birth of a baby without thinking of the one God that created such miracles. But there are always detractors who point to reasonable evidence that these wonders have a logical origin. The faith versus science argument is endless.
There is one bit of physical evidence that even the most scientifically-oriented person cannot argue, and it has been visible since the beginning of time. Surely many others have taken the same notice, but we do not hear much about it.
Eclipses: Most of us have seen them and some of us have been lucky enough to witness full eclipses, both lunar and solar. The precise nature of eclipses is intriguing. In a full lunar eclipse, the earth’s shadow on the moon is not smaller than the moon, making the moon look like a donut, nor is bigger than the moon. The earth’s shadow is the same size as the moon’s diameter, covering it precisely. In a full solar eclipse, the earth exactly blocks out the sun, again not bigger or smaller than the sun as viewed from the earth.
For you astronomical mathematicians out there, what is the probability, in an accidental universe, that precise lunar and solar eclipses would occur as viewed from the only planet in a solar system where intelligent life exists and can view the phenomenon?
Experts have estimated that there is some number of potential planets where life is possible. If so, how many of those have at least one moon, and have lunar and solar eclipses that are precise when viewed from the surface of the planet? I suspect that the probability of such an accident is so small as to lack any creditability.
According to the Bible, God wants us to rely on faith in Him rather than our own reasoning. God is smart. He knows that man has an insatiable thirst for knowledge, and as knowledge is gained and reason is applied, many of us will question the story that is the basis of our faith. We have our core belief, but we like hard evidence. But there is not a lot of hard evidence that cannot be dismissed by the logical mind, and faith can be difficult to maintain.
The eclipse is physical evidence of the existence of God. He created this phenomenon as evidence for all generations. Primitive people easily accepted the eclipse as a creation of God, along with every other natural phenomenon. Today science explains rainbows and shooting stars in a logical way. Any argument of God versus science in most things does not change the minds of the participants. But the next time you are confronted with scientific reasoning as the answer for everything under the sun, ask for a natural explanation of the unnatural precision of our eclipses.
Reverend Joseph Jeepers is the Pastor of the Pearlville Community Church.
Visit the Creation Museum
Of the many interesting places we visited in September, the most interesting was the Creation Museum in northern Kentucky near Cincinnati. My wife thinks shopping malls are equal to museums and she enjoyed this one. As proof, she bought more stuff in the gift shop than she bought at Prime Outlets the day before.
To my knowledge there is no other museum devoted to presenting Genesis as factual history. And why shouldn’t there be one? Detractors say that Genesis is a myth because its assertions cannot be proved by scientific evidence. The scientific history of our planet and the universe changes generationally based on the latest discoveries. The scientific theories of the past are in the category of myths today, and that tends to level the playing field versus the creation story.
The Creation Museum is a wonderful presentation of Genesis. The quality of the exhibits is on par with those in Chicago’s Museum of Natural History. There are plenty of interactive opportunities for both children and adults. The walk through Noah’s Ark is fascinating. After the museum, we took a stroll through the several acres of beautiful gardens filled with plants that don’t look like they belong in this climate, but there they are.
Today a minority percentage of Americans accept Genesis as fact, so the Creation Museum invites controversy. Probably the most controversial assertion is that dinosaurs and man coexisted. This goes against everything archeology has discovered in the past 100 years. But, on the fifth day God created all the fish and animals, and on the sixth day God created man, so there you are. All creatures great and small coexisted with man.
In my small mind an obvious question popped up in the dinosaur exhibit: Why, in rock strata where dinosaur fossils are found, do we not also find human fossils as well as fossils of dogs, cats, and horses? The question was not addressed in the exhibit, so the answer becomes one of faith. I grew up with the Flintstones, so the Creation Museum’s answer is good enough for me.
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