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Monthly Archive for December, 2007

Permission to think for yourself

I just read a study which says that even one dissenting voice can give people permission to think for themselves. Specifically:
Solomon Asch, with experiments originally carried out in the 1950s and well-replicated since, highlighted a phenomenon now known as “conformity”. In the classic experiment, a subject sees a puzzle like the one in the nearby [...]

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Merry Christmas

I sincerely wish each and every one of you a wonderful Christmas Season. May we all take time to reflect upon the profound gift of the One who was so great that He emptied Himself (kenosis) of all His regal glory and power in order to be our earthly High Priest, able to fully sympathize [...]

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308,428 Hebrew words

Israelis create Bible smaller than a pinhead

Israeli scientists yesterday said they had created the world’s smallest Hebrew Bible, fitting the book on to a gold-coated silicon chip smaller than a pinhead.
Scientists at Technion, Israel’s Institute of Technology, were able to pack the 308,428 words of what Christians refer to as the Old Testament on to [...]

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Look at pic - left brain or right?

THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test … do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?  

If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
For more about this, see:http://www.wherecreativitygoestoschool.com/vancouver/left_right/rb_tes t.htm

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Dear LORD spare us, please, from these people…. I realize that this country is ripe for judgement, but please give us the gift of teshuvah,and not the plague of more of the Clinton-Bush dynasty.  Amen.
ORANGEBURG, South Carolina (CNN) – Former President Bill Clinton said Monday that the first thing his wife Hillary will do when she [...]

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Who are these kooks?

By Pastor Chuck Baldwin
December 18, 2007
According to the Associated Press, “Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s supporters raised over $6 million Sunday to boost the 10-term congressman’s campaign for the White House.”
The AP report also said, “The [Paul] campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.”
According to the Paul campaign website, “In a 24-hour period on [...]

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Emotional hearing about thousands of suicidal veterans
More than 100,000 of the 750,000 veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan have sought treatment for mental problems from the Department of Veterans Affairs, an official said during a hearing on suicides. Dr. Ira Katz, the VA’s deputy chief of patient care, told members of the House Veterans’ Affairs Committee [...]

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The Bush administration was under court order not to discard evidence of detainee torture and abuse months before the CIA destroyed videotapes that revealed some of its harshest interrogation tactics.

Normally, that would force the government to defend itself against obstruction allegations. But the CIA may have an out: its clandestine network of overseas prisons.
While judges [...]

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Drash: Each generation has its own sins…  Everyone has a share in the mess. And it really doesn’t do a lot of good to indulge in exercises of finger pointing. But what a blight the “hippie generation” has been to America!  Since the 1960’s they have led this country to ruin and depravity…. Bill Clinton (spit) is the [...]

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Once again we see that the secular state of Israel completely disregards the words of the Torah and disavows the promises made by the LORD to Abraham….

Revealed: Israel agreed to forfeit Temple Mount
Documents detail ex-Israeli leader’s deal handing Judaism’s holiest site to Yasser Arafat
Aaron Klein, JERUSALEM – In spite of longstanding denials by top officials [...]

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