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Man fired after saying homosexuality wrong

Man fired after saying homosexuality wrong


–adjective 1.deviating or departing from the norm; characterized by deviation: deviant social behavior.
''The letter reads, “You acknowledge that you then expressed to Ms. (name blacked out) that you disagreed strongly with her homosexual lifestyle and that [you] believe it is wrong. You describe it in your statement, as you did when speaking with me, as 'deviant.'"

A Massachusetts man has been fired from his sales position at the Logan Airport
branch in Boston of Brookstone allegedly for telling a female manager
that his Christian faith says homosexuality is wrong.
Peter Vadala was fired and the company says he violated a tolerance policy. But Vadala reports his dismissal came because he expressed his Christian view of homosexuality after a female manager made repeated references as she approached him four times during
work hours to her plans to marry her lesbian partner.
"At the start of the day, she told me she was getting married. I told her 'Congratulations,' and asked, 'Where's he taking you on your honeymoon?'" Vadala said.
"She replied that her partner was a 'she,'" he continued, "So I immediately tried to change the subject.
"I think she knew I was uncomfortable talking about it," he continued. "But, she brought it up to me three more times during the day.

"After the fourth time she told me about her plan to marry her partner, I told her, 'I think homosexuality is bad stuff,'" Vadala said.
"That's what I said. I wasn't rude about it and I didn't act disrespectfully to her," he said. "All the woman said to me as she left the store was, 'Human
Resources buddy. You keep your opinions to yourself!'" http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114779
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The Wright evil is back

Maya, Watchers, and the 2012 Return


The Wright evil is back


''As for Wright, he received some unwanted attention for saying earlier this year that he blamed “them Jews” for keeping him away from President Obama.''

A new video of Jeremiah Wright has surfaced, showing Barack Obama’s pastor for 20 years praising Marxism and discussing his ties to communists in El Salvador and Nicaragua and the Libyan government. Equally important, Wright is being introduced in the video by Robert W. McChesney, co-founder of Free Press, an organization which has come under scrutiny for its links to the Obama Administration and dedication to the transformation and control of the private media in the U.S.
In an article in the socialist Monthly Review, “
Journalism, Democracy, and Class Struggle,” McChesney declared, “Our job is to make media reform part of our broader struggle for democracy, social justice, and, dare we say it, socialism.”
In
the video, which captures Wright’s appearance at a September 17, 2009, anniversary celebration of Monthly Review, Wright said that while the “corporate media” provide a “binary lens” of the world, in such terms as “communist versus Christian,” Monthly Review offers what it calls “no-nonsense Marxism.”
He added: “You dispel all the negative images we have been programmed to conjure up with just the mention of that word socialism or Marxism.”
 

 
 
Man fired after saying homosexuality is wrong  ''The letter reads, “You acknowledge that you then expressed to Ms. (name blacked out) that you disagreed strongly with her homosexual lifestyle and that [you] believe it is wrong. You describe it in your statement, as you did when speaking with me, as 'deviant.'"
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    Does blending races make any difference?

    Does blending races make any difference?


    ''Nature repeatedly shows us that genetically, diversity must be better: more diverse genes mean that animals are better at adapting to changing environmental conditions, and at fighting off and surviving infections.''

    Just two weeks ago in Louisiana, an American Justice of the Peace made international news for refusing to issue marriage licences to couples who were not of the same race. He said he had taken the decision because he believed that mixed-race children would not be accepted by their parents' communities. Whether this was genuine concern for a real social problem or was born of a more atavistic notion that there is something inherently, biologically wrong with mixing races, we can only speculate. Either way, his position was quite illegal, and his conduct is being challenged.
    The sentiment, however, is one that is also shared much closer to home. Nick Griffin, the chairman of the BNP and a member of the European Parliament, has made his party's stance on mixed-race children clear. Miscegenation, he says, is "essentially unnatural and destructive", and mixed-race children "are the most tragic victims of enforced multi-racism". The BNP says that it does not, nor will it ever, "accept miscegenation as moral or normal". As a person from the Indian ethnic minority in this country, I am sorry to say that I am familiar with this attitude. The most recent census in England and Wales found that people from my South Asian background were the least likely of the minorities to be married to someone from a different ethnic group.
    Our relatively low inter-marriage rate might be explained by our cultural as well as racial differences, and our predilection for holding tightly to our caste systems and religions. When someone like me chooses a partner of another race, some family member is guaranteed to ask the same question as that Louisiana Justice of the Peace: "But what will the children be?"
    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/6475543/Its-a-wonderful-mixed-up-world.html
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    Teaching the Bible for progress in Sudan

    Teaching the Bible for progress in Sudan


    ''One would say that separation of church and state, as we do in America is the best path to take. In Southern Sudan, however, thinking outside the box and utilizing religion through the government has been an effective way to be able to find progress for devastated people who have no other hope and cannot be reached in any other way.''

    The government of Southern Sudan has been ingenious in using biblical verses and stories to get their message across. For the sake of brevity, I will list some of the concepts below:
    Water: The textbook teaches about the importance of
    water and water conservation by using the story of Elijah and famine in 1 Kings 17. It asks students to discuss what Jesus meant when he said he would "give you life-giving water."
    Roads: The government is trying to build
    infrastructure, and this sometimes necessitates people moving from their village huts so a road can be built. They support this by discussing roads used by traders, Genesis 37:12-28, and how John the Baptist discussed preparing a road for the Lord. The discussion items for students included questions such as, "Has your village ever been visited by an important person? What preparations were made for that visit?"
    Promotion of Education: The government of Southern Sudan needs doctors and other educated people. One section of the text is devoted to thanking God for education that is available to the human race, quoting the parts of the Bible that relate to developing a skill set. It quotes Exodus 31:1 on the gift of artistic work that God gives to Bezalel. The lesson works from the Bible by suggesting "when God gives us knowledge he wants us to use it for helping others. That means when you become a medical doctor or a judge you should use that knowledge for serving other people and not only your own people."
    Refugees: Not only does Southern Sudan use the examples of war in its own county but also it uses the work of Jesus to help local children extend their hands and hearts to potential refugees from other countries. "During the civil war in Sudan many people have lost their
    property. Some people were forced to run from their area to other areas with nothing to eat or wear. The United Nations and some organizations including the church came up with assistance in form of relief to help the people of Sudan. The textbook refers to Jesus as the first refugee and quotes Luke 14: 13-14 as a model for giving when people are in need. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114725
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    No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells

    No men OR women needed: Scientists create sperm and eggs from stem cells


    ''The science also raises the possibility of 'male eggs' made from men's skin and 'female sperm' from women's skin. This would allow gay couples to have children genetically their own, although many scientists are sceptical about whether it is possible to create sperm from female cells, which lack the male Y chromosome.'' Human eggs and sperm have been grown in the laboratory in research which could change the face of parenthood.
    It paves the way for a cure for infertility and could help those left sterile by cancer treatment to have children who are biologically their own.
    But it raises a number of moral and ethical concerns. These include the possibility of children being born through entirely artificial means, and men and women being sidelined from the process of making babies. Opponents argue that it is wrong to meddle with the building blocks of life and warn that the advances taking place to tackle infertility risk distorting and damaging relations between family members.
    The U.S. government-funded research also offers the prospect of a 'miracle pill' which staves off the menopause, allowing women to wait longer to have a child.
    It centres on stem cells, widely seen as a repair kit for the body.
    Scientists at Stanford University in California found the right cocktail of chemicals and vitamins to coax the cells into becoming eggs and sperm. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1223617/No-men-OR-women-needed-artificial-sperm-eggs-created-time.html#ixzz0Vh5EeASp
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    Islam: To kill or convert

    Islam: To kill or convert


    ''But enter the 21st century and enter Islam. Muslims now fan out around the world with one “prime directive” to “…convert or kill non-believers.” Muslims, whether peaceful or radical, they all follow the same edict in their Koran. Given enough numbers, they overwhelm their host country.''

    This past week, in Detroit, Michigan, a group of Muslim immigrants engaged the FBI in a gun battle.
    Journalists Paul Egan and Oralandar Brand-Williams of The Detroit News wrote, “The leader of a Detroit mosque who allegedly espoused violence and separatism was shot and killed Wednesday by the FBI in a gun battle at a Dearborn warehouse. Luqman Ameen Abdullah, imam of the Masjid Al-Haqq mosque in Detroit, was being arrested on a raft of federal charges including conspiracy, receipt of stolen goods, and firearms offenses. Charges were also filed against 11 of Abdullah's followers. Eight were in custody Wednesday night awaiting detention hearings today; three remained at large. A federal complaint filed Wednesday identified Abdullah, 53, also known as Christopher Thomas, as "a highly placed leader of a nationwide radical fundamentalist Sunni group." His black Muslim group calls itself "Ummah," or the brotherhood, and wants to establish a separate state within the United States governed by Sharia law, Interim U.S. Attorney Terrence Berg and Andrew Arena, FBI special agent in charge in Detroit, said in a joint statement.”
    While most Americans ignore that minor incident in Detroit, it proves indicative of a larger dilemma facing the United States’ immigration policy. Former President Bush in 2008, began importing 1,000 Iraqi immigrant refugees into the USA monthly. He jumped that to 19,000 a year for 2009. President Obama, earlier this year, signed a bill to add thousands more from war torn Palestine.
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Wooldridge/frosty514.htm
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    The new debtors prison

    The new debtors prison


    ''If being progressive means going back to the days of 16th Century England, then count me out.''

    IRS enforced health insurance mandate is the new debtor’s prison.
    I love the progressive social movement. They are so full of contradictions and hypocrisy that it would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad, or so dangerous to our liberty. After all, the irony of the progressives purporting to care more about the poor, but actually instituting policies which hurt them is stunning.
    If you aggregate all of the concepts that the President and the Democrat controlled Congress are trying to implement (not to mention here in Oregon), it amounts to a huge increase in the cost of living, which disproportionately hurts poor people. Higher fossil fuel prices because Congress locks up America’s oil, higher overall energy prices from cap and tax schemes, higher cigarette taxes, alcohol taxes and on and on. Obviously, these higher prices ripple through the economy creating inflation that affects every aspect of life making it harder for the average person to live the American dream, but especially poor people.
    Now add to this absurdity, the idea that Congress would mandate that each person in America (including illegal aliens) must buy health insurance, pay new taxes on their health care and if they don’t, the IRS will fine them up to $25,000 and up to a year in jail and it is clear what the result would be: the modern version of debtors prison. The Heritage Foundation has an analysis of the effect of this mandate on lower income and middle income people
    here.
    So let me get this right: We are going to help those who don’t have health care because they can't afford it by taxing them up the wazoo for that very health care? And, if they don’t buy health insurance, then we are going to turn the limitless power of the IRS against them, fine them outrageous amounts of money and throw them in prison?
    http://www.newswithviews.com/Kropf/jeff100.htm
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    Government can't even run vaccine program

    Government can't even run vaccine program


    "If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, how are you going to protect them against bioterrorism? If you can't get flu vaccines to Americans, what kind of health-care program are you running?"

    Shortages, rationing, political interference – what more can go wrong in the government's H1N1 vaccine program?
    Early this year, a new strain of flu killed a boy in Mexico and set off an international warning of a potentially devastating
    epidemic .
    Concern over flu epidemics is well placed. Many Americans died in the great epidemic of 1919, including one of my grandmothers.
    By March, "swine flu" (soon called H1N1) had claimed victims in the U.S., and the federal government swung into action promising 120 million doses of H1N1 vaccine would be available by mid-October.
    H1N1 claimed about 5,000 dead in the U.S. before the first vaccine had even been produced. By mid-October, only 12.7 million of the originally promised 120 million doses were available, causing the government to ration the vaccine by designating "high risk" groups – children and adults with immune deficiency – as the first to be vaccinated.
    Pictures of long lines of people waiting in the cold with their kids to get the vaccine became commonplace in local
    news coverage. Sometimes, after long waits, parents were told that the vaccine had run out.
    Flu shots are normally available through both public health agencies and private doctors. A presidential emergency order followed publicity about the vaccine shortages, confiscating all the vaccine for delivery only from government sources. The lines got longer just as news broke last week that the terrorists confined at Gitmo had already received their shots.
    Then things got worse as public health agencies from Nashville to
    Reno to Seattle reported that the feds had pressured the locals to make sure that illegals of any age or condition get the vaccine. This when many parents could not get the vaccine for their kids. http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114726
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    Limbaugh: 'He's immature, he's inexperienced – in over his head'

    Limbaugh: 'He's immature, he's inexperienced – in over his head'


    "And when they get this health care bill -- if they do -- that's the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior, because it will all have some related cost to health care -- what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do -- and there will be penalties for violating regulation."

    President Obama is pursuing a "radical" agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday," giving the young president failing grades across the board and standing by his sustained criticism of the administration.
    The conservative radio host assailed the administration for its economic stimulus package, health care reform plan and alleged uncertainty over the way forward in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging interview, he called Obama a "child" driven by his "out-of-this-world ego."
    And he predicted that Obama, who built a broad-based majority over Republican candidate John McCain a year ago, would not win a second term.
    http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/11/01/limbaugh-assails-radical-agenda-child-president/
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    Campaign chief: We did zero research on Obama

    Campaign chief: We did zero research on Obama


    ''Wright denounced "colored preachers" who don't subscribe to black liberation theology as people who "hate themselves, who hate Black people, who desperately want to be white and who write and say stupid things in public to make 'Masa' feel safer."

    Obama campaign manager David Plouffe claims President Obama's campaign staff had done "zero research" on its candidate and was not aware of the inflammatory statements and views of Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
    Plouffe, whose firm was hired to run Obama's presidential campaign, made the statement in a forthcoming book. While Plouffe and his staff may not have done their
    homework on Obama's radical associates, it may be hard for political insiders to believe some of Obama's other key advisers during the campaign were not aware of Wright's controversial views.
    One of Obama's most senior advisers was closely associated with Wright while others traveled in the same Chicago circles as Obama. Also, a review of Wright's church literature and the vast amount of church material available to the public makes the possibility of Obama himself not knowing about Wright's controversial views seem implausible.
    Plouffe recalled a Rolling Stone magazine item from February 2007 first disclosing some inflammatory quotes from Wright.
    Plouffe wrote, "The incident should have prompted an immediate scouring of the Reverend Wright and all he has said over the years. … It's worth noting that our systemic failure to deal with this issue properly started the day before Obama's announcement. I still kick myself for how terribly we mishandled our internal Wright
    work."
    Continued Plouffe: "We had done zero research on our own candidate beyond a small and incomplete package from the 2004 Senate race. ... We had ... failed to discuss the various options we might explore vis-à-vis Wright. We never raised with Obama the idea of leaving the church, or discussed with him any detail of how we would respond if inflammatory statements were to emerge. We were in denial."
    http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=114728
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    Islam: To kill or convert

    Islam: To kill or convert

      

    Limbaugh: 'He's immature, he's inexperienced – in over his head'


    "And when they get this health care bill -- if they do -- that's the easiest, fastest way for them to be able to regulate every aspect of human behavior, because it will all have some related cost to health care -- what you drive, what you eat, where you live, what you do -- and there will be penalties for violating regulation."

    President Obama is pursuing a "radical" agenda that is putting the economy and national security in peril, talk show host Rush Limbaugh told "Fox News Sunday," giving the young president failing grades across the board and standing by his sustained criticism of the administration.
    The conservative radio host assailed the administration for its economic stimulus package, health care reform plan and alleged uncertainty over the way forward in Afghanistan. In a wide-ranging interview, he called Obama a "child" driven by his "out-of-this-world ego."
    And he predicted that Obama, who built a broad-based majority over Republican candidate John McCain a year ago, would not win a second term.

     
     
    Teaching the Bible for progress
    in Sudan
      ''One would say that separation of church and state, as we do in America is the best path to take. In Southern Sudan, however, thinking outside the box and utilizing religion through the government has been an effective way to be able to find progress for devastated people who have no other hope and cannot be reached in any other way.''
     
     
     
     
     
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    Don't waste your pain

    Don't waste your pain


    ''Even when bad comes our way, God can bring good out of the bad. Your suffering will not last forever. Whatever you are going through, it will have an end. It may not seem like that at the time. But as 2 Corinthians 4:17 says, "For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all" (NIV).''

    I have always wondered why it is that when I take a pair of headphones and place them neatly in a drawer, they mysteriously become a knot that cannot be pulled apart? Does this happen overnight? Where did all those knots come from? Knots are always inexplicably appearing. It is all a mystery to me.
    Maybe your life is tied up in a knot right now. When you
    work at untying a knot, the question is often where do you start, because as you try to untie it, you can sometimes make it worse. That can be the case in our lives as well.
    The good
    news is that God can take that mess, those knots in our lives, and he can straighten them out. There are times he will intervene in a situation, but there are also other times when he will ask you to be strong through it.
    Sometimes God will allow suffering in our lives to get our attention. In David's familiar psalm, he wrote, "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me" (Psalm 23:4 NIV). Have you ever wondered what that means? In this psalm, David is comparing himself to sheep, which is not really a compliment. Sheep are pretty low on the intelligence scale in the animal kingdom. They have a tendency to go astray.
    In David's time, the shepherd had two
    tools that he used: a rod and a staff. The staff was a long, crooked instrument a shepherd used to move the wayward sheep back into line. And when the sheep went astray, he pulled them back with his staff. But sometimes a sheep wouldn't respond to the shepherd's staff, so the shepherd had to resort to using his rod. But it was better for a sheep to have a broken leg than to become leg of lamb.
    Sometimes God will allow something dramatic to get our attention and bring us to where we need to be spiritually. The psalmist said, "Before I was afflicted I went astray, but now I obey your word" (Psalm 119:67 NIV). Someone who found that to be true in her own life wrote me the following:
    A person expects to lose a
    parent. Maybe even a brother, sister, aunt, or uncle, but never a child. My son would have been 16 years old today. It has been 15 years since his death, but he was the person that brought me to the Lord. Because of his death, I received my salvation. ... God knows my pain. He lost a son too. I found salvation through God's Son because of the loss of mine.
    What can you say about something as tragic as this? God brought good out of bad – that is what you can say.
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    Recession 'nowhere near' end

    Recession 'nowhere near' end


    “For the world as a whole, it’s premature to think about exiting stimulus”

    Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz said the U.S. recession is “nowhere near” an end and the economy’s third-quarter growth rate of 3.5 percent, the first expansion in more than a year, won’t carry into 2010.
    While this week’s figures on gross domestic product are “very good,” the numbers would be “miserable” without stimulus measures enacted by the Obama administration, Stiglitz said today at a forum in Shanghai. He urged the U.S. and other countries not to pull back on efforts to shore up economies.
    “When we look at if workers can get jobs, if they can work full time, if businesses are able to sell goods they produce, in those terms, we are nowhere near the end of recession” in the U.S., said Stiglitz, 66, the former chief economist at the World Bank. The U.S. job market is still “in very bad shape.”
    Federal assistance to the housing and auto industries helped propel growth in the July-September quarter. President
    Barack Obama, in his weekly radio address to the nation, today called the Oct. 29 report on GDP a “good sign” and said an expanding economy is the first step to job creation.
    While most economists estimate the recession has ended, the
    National Bureau of Economic Research is responsible for determining when contractions begin and end. The Cambridge, Massachusetts, organization usually makes its recession pronouncement as long as a year and a half after the fact. The group defines a recession as a “significant” decrease in activity over a sustained period of time. The declines it measures would be visible in gross domestic product, payrolls, production, sales and incomes.

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    California: Schwarzenegger as Robinhood

    California: Schwarzenegger as Robinhood


    ''Such temporary measures as the withholding tax increase don't really fix the budget gap, "they just more or less hid it," said Christopher Thornberg, a principal with Beacon Economics in Los Angeles. "I call it a fraud."''

    Starting Sunday, cash-strapped California will dig deeper into the pocketbooks of wage earners -- holding back 10% more than it already does in state income taxes just as the biggest shopping season of the year kicks into gear.Technically, it's not a tax increase, even though it may feel like one when your next paycheck arrives. As part of a bundle of budget patches adopted in the summer, the state is taking more money now in withholding, even though workers' annual tax bills won't change.Think of it as a forced, interest-free loan: You'll be repaid any extra withholding in April. Those who would receive a refund anyway will receive a larger one, and those who owe taxes will owe less. But with rising gas costs, depressed home prices and double-digit unemployment, the state's added reach into residents' regular paycheck isn't sitting well with many. "The state's suddenly slapping people upside the head," said Mack Reed, 50, of Silver Lake. "It's appalling how brash that is."Brittney McKaig, 23, of Santa Ana said she expects the additional withholding to affect her holiday spending."Coming into the holidays, we're getting squeezed anyway," she said. "We're not getting Christmas bonuses and other perks we used to get. So it all falls back on spending. The $40 gift will become a $20 gift."The extra withholding may seem like a small amount siphoned from each paycheck, but it adds up to a $1.7-billion fix for California's deficit-riddled books. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-state-tax31-2009oct31,0,2028140.story?track=rss
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    Seven Deadly Sins on the Move

    Seven Deadly Sins on the Move


    Whether the economy is in a boom or a bust, the so-called "sin stocks" are supposed to be business as usual either way.
    In reality though, many of the stocks trading in the gambling, drinking, and adult entertainment sectors have proven to be extremely volatile of late.
    After scanning through many of the major companies operating mainly in either gambling, drinking, adult services, or smoking, several names broke through with major 1-month price swings to take note of.
    1-Month Change: Down 40% Million Dollar Saloon owns and operate an adult cabaret which offers restaurant and first-class bar service conducive to attracting businessmen and out-of-town convention clientele in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. The company hit a 52-week high of 0.15 per share back in March, but has since shed more than half of its value.
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