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Last week Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced the Pentagon’s networks will undergo updates that will coordinate the daily operations of the military’s computer networks.

The project’s goal is to protect America from cyberattactks while enhancing cybersecurity.

Official sources explained the project is not meant to simply bring the military into cyberspace, but rather to reorganize the Department of Defense in the hopes of consolidating and streamlining military commands into one system.

The new system will be known as “Cybercom,” and could possibly be led by Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, who is currently directs the National Security Agency.

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It’s good to know that you have a dependable option in this declining economy, and many servicemembers and veterans are taking advantage of theirs in this difficult time.

Despite today’s housing market, the VA loans continue to be sound and stable options for the military comunity.

With more than 162,000 home loan guarantees issued so far this year, the VA has seen an increase of about 31 percent since ths time last year.

One major reason for the increase? VA loans can still be obtained with no downpayment, a quality that has become increasingly difficult to find via conventional loans.

Last year more than 90 percent of VA loans were issued without any downpayments.

Consumers  VA loans also appreciate the quick and easy service. Technilogical advantages now alow a VA loan to be received electronically within 24 hours after  applying for the loan.

For more information, browse AllMilitary.com’s “VA Home Loans” link  found on the VA Benefits page.

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Another eventful weekend has come and gone. Two of our adversaries are extreme flashpoints right now. How will President Obama react to the situations with North Korea and Iran? Let us all hope and pray that he makes the right decisions. The Crawfish is worried about those decisions.

Isn’t that just special. The Democrats’ support for muslim terrorists in their efforts to destroy Israel has resulted in Jimmuh Cahtuh receiving the Palestine International Award For Excellence and Creativity, probably for his actions leading to the rise of Islamofascism and the glorious return to Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini. Cahtuh, who met with the Hamas leadership in Syria, urged the terrorist groups to quit bickering with each other so they could finish the job. While everything the now-2nd worst President in history had to say was exactly what The Chosen One has been saying for the past year, the Administration was quick to say that Jimmuh was not really representing Obama. Believability factor: ZERO!

Meanwhile, The Chosen One was “excited” about the elections in Iran, and was probably even more “excited” when I’minajihad stole the election, even though the US government publicly decried the fraud. Was it a coincidence that a rigged election took place when Jimmuh Cahtuh was in the area? The internet sites of the opposition parties and networking sites such as facebook and twitter are down, as is cell phone texting service, in an attempt to quell the uprisings and protests. Foreign journalists who are trying to cover the protests are being “reminded” that their visas will expire soon. It is obvious that the Mad Mullahs who really run Iran are still behind I’minajihad, and held the election only to give the people the impression that they matter to the Mad Mullahs. The Crawfish is wondering when ACORN opened up branch offices in Iran…or is ACORN a branch office of the Mad Mullahs?

CNN (surprise) already has interviewed I’minajihad, and asked why the opposition leader had already been arrested. I’minajihad pointedly refused to guarantee Mousavi’s safety.  Mahchchch(p-tooey!)moud also dismissed the protests as “unimportant” and compared them to disappointed fans after a soccer match.

On Monday, tens of thousands of Mousavi’s supporters turned out into the streets of Tehran to protest the election results. The security forces have attacked the protesters over the past few days, but will they continue to beat their own people or will the people be defeated? If the security forces start backing off, that will be a sign that I’minajihad’s on the ropes. This story, which The Crawfish got from Yahoo! News, says that the security forces have been standing on the sidelines today, helmets OFF! UPDATE: Looks like The Crawfish spoke too soon. As this column is being transferred and edited on the AllMilitary.com website, news is breaking that militia forces are opening fire on the opposition protesters, and there are multiple deaths. This could get out of hand very quickly.

Here’s a hint for folks who want to rig an election. Even if you desire a landslide result, it is bad form to claim that your candidate wins over 60% of the vote in a village that is not only the hometown of another candidate, but where over 60% of the population is made up of relatives of the opposition candidate!

Although He said in his Cairo address that America stood firmly with Israel, President Obama’s actions and words show that He stands firmly AGAINST Israel. It is really telling when the Palestinians and the rest of the muslims believe that He is an agent on THEIR side in the conflict against Israel.

There is one large fly in the soup of The Chosen One’s plans for the Middle East, as the sham of an election in Iran gives ammunition for Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in his war of words against Obama. This gives Netanyahu a big boost, and will certainly give him even more public support in Israel for settlement expansion.

Don’t let anybody say that University of Connecticut basketball coach Jim Calhoun is a wimp. Over the weekend, Calhoun was riding in a 50 mile charity bike race when he hit a pothole and wrecked. Different reports have the wreck 12 miles or 34 miles into the race, but what is clear is that the 67 year old coach broke FIVE RIBS in the crash. Still, he FINISHED the race, only to collapse and need hospitalization because of dehydration.

Gaffes Biden is out there saying that “everybody guessed wrong” regarding how the “stimulus” would affect the economy. Well, all of the Democrats and the media (but I repeat myself) guessed wrong. Conservatives knew it was simply an anti-Constitutional power-play for growing government by leaps and bounds.

The Chicago/union mob thug tactics that are the hallmark of The Chosen One are spilling over to other Democrats as they feel the rush of unlimited DC power, but the GOP is at least fighting back on some cases. This time, ethics charges are being prepared against Representative Ed Markey (D-Taxachusetts) who held a committee hearing on Cap-And-Tax energy policies, then ordered a federal investigation of the company of a witness who opposed his positions. Sounds like how the Clintons used the IRS against their enemies.

During the Vietnam War, one of the statements from the military that was most ridiculed was “We had to destroy it to save it” when referring to the destruction of a village. Well, that statement is evidently going to be the official policy of the Obama Administration. They plan to bulldoze large parts of 50 American cities to save those cities. The main reason that those urban areas need to be bulldozed is because they are ALL areas that have been dominated by DEMOCRAT politicians and policies, and are monuments to the failed Great Society programs that the left is still trying to foist upon us all. The Crawfish is not really sure about this plan, although I do agree that most parts of Filthadelphia would be greatly improved if they were hit with B-52 strikes.

The White House scandal regarding Americorpse and the firings of inspectors-general keeps growing. Not only does it look like Her Majesty micHELLe is involved, a la Hillary! in the Travelgate scandal, but that the Obama’s have a long history of being involved with these groups and their crooked leaders. Great expose from Michelle (***sigh***) Malkin and her contributors.

Not only has the Obama Administration released terrorists involved with the bombing of the USS COLE, but now they have released a muslim terrorist who was involved in the car-bombing murder of an American diplomat and was convicted in absentia by a Bosnian court of another car bombing, and bragged about involvement with the USS COLE bombers. Again, why does anyone doubt which side is The Chosen One on?

I wonder what the terrorist assisting group known as CAIR has to say about the actions of the peace-loving Followers of the Pedophilic False Prophet this time? Let me guess, the German women deserved that fate for venturing into muslim lands.

Cops in Arizona have finally come up with a solid idea for catching drunk or stoned drivers. They’re putting plainclothes cops in fast food restaurants late at night to spot the drunks and stoners when they come in to get their munchies.

Tip of the hat goes to Townhall blogger “Sgt Stryker” for answering the call when The Crawfish had heard a snippet of this story on TV. The Democrats are continuing to help The Chosen One reneg on his campaign promise to not raise taxes on anyone making less than $250,000.00 per year by looking to tax your health care benefits. Well, that is unless you happen to be a UNION worker. Yes, buried in the middle of the story is mention of a UNION EXEMPTION. If this goes through, there should be an IMMEDIATE discrimination lawsuit filed on behalf of all non-union workers in America.

Calling the Prophet Algoracle and the Gorons…Calling the Prophet Algoracle and the Gorons: we have another update for you. It seems that your fraud called man-made Glo-Bull Warming is being exposed once again by Mother Nature, since many crops are in danger this year because temperatures have been so LOW! Why anyone still believes this fraud is beyond my comprehension.

While the President, the Affirmative Action Attorney General, the Affirmative Action SCOTUS nominee, and many Democrats in Congress are steaming about the Holder v. DC ruling regarding firearms, they have decided that they CAN disarm a lot of other Americans by widening the description of a switchblade to include nearly 80% of the pocketknives currently carried by ordinary citizens in America. Will this proposal also get a union worker exemption, so Obama’s friends, the union thugs, can intimidate even more non-union workers?

Imagine my absolute shock when the homies in El Lay “celebrate” the championship win by the Lakers by rioting and looting. The leeches upon society’s backside will use any excuse to steal and destroy private property. When did “celebrating” go from partying in the streets to riots?

We’ll end this edition with some good news. According to the latest Gallup Poll, the largest ideological group in the US today is…CONSERVATIVES at 40%, followed by “moderates” at 35% and liberals at 21%. Too bad the GOP seems to be trying to get the 35% vote while hacking off the 40%.

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw or The Weekend Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“Stripped of all its covering, the naked question is, whether ours is a federal or consolidated government; a Constitutional or absolute one; a government resting solidly on the basis of the sovereignty of the States, or on the unrestrained will of a majority; a form of government, as in all other unlimited ones, in which injustice, violence, and force must ultimately prevail.”
– John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) American statesman-1831

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From Hot Air:

Via This Ain’t Hell, here’s the best thing you’ll see today. We already knew from the surge that Petraeus was a miracle worker — but evidently we didn’t know the extent of it. Forward this to a vet you love.

From CBS You Tube channel:

Lt. Brian Brennan was severely wounded in Iraq and faced unbeatable odds but, as David Martin reports, he made a remarkable recovery with a little help from a special Cherokee word.

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The Crawfish had so much material by Thursday that he decided to split his normal Saturday column into two parts and put them out on Friday and Sunday.

My opening story has 2 parts, the original outrage and the updated follow-up, so make sure to read it all.

The Obama Administration is now going against the sacred trust placed in our government by our military personnel and veterans. One of the benefits we are promised in exchange for our service is medical care for all service-related conditions, for life! Now The Chosen One wants private insurers to pay the VA for our care, thereby raising OUR rates and in effect making us pay for our service-related medical problems (rates go up when claims are made against a policy, and most policies have lifetime $$ caps, which can easily be exceeded by long term care for service related disabilities). The Commander of the American Legion has come out publicly against these plans, and I’m sure all of the other veterans groups will as well. The HATRED of the Democratic Party against our military and our veterans is no longer just under the surface. It is in the open! Maybe the veterans groups will now join forces with the Tea Party movement!
UPDATE: The outrage of the American people and the veteran service organizations worked! The Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America is reporting that the President is NOT going to send this plan through, and Fox News has the official statement from the White House.

There are some things that would make The Crawfish freak out and run away. This is one of them.

The people of America do not understand the basics of the Constitution, and they want too much from the government. That’s what one of the best SCOTUS Justices ever has to say. He also criticized judges (and Justices) who rule by their own opinions, and not the intent of the people who actually WROTE the Constitution. God Bless Clarence Thomas!

On the subject of anti-Constitutionality, the Democrats are pushing a bill that would force MANDATORY community service with left-wing indoctrination upon the youth of America and frighteningly harkens back to something Obama said on the campaign trail, “We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that is just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.” Every dictator in history has had a mandatory indoctrination program for the youth that became militaristic. Is this going to be the Obama version of the S.A. or will it be the Obama Youth?

Now The Crawfish ain’t all that careful about what he says in his columns sometimes, but the top municipal judge in my original hometown has just stepped in it in a column he wrote. Oops!

I’m not saying that a Democrat would be a two-faced hypocrite, but…okay, maybe I am saying that. Senator Chris “Countrywide Loans” Dodd is calling for the taxation of the AIG loans, because he finds them soooo offensive, but the “stimulus” bill has an amendment in it, called the Dodd Amendment, that specifically allows those bonuses. Since 2000, Dodd has gotten over twice the amount of campaign donations of anyone else from AIG…over $225,000.00. Oh, and he didn’t know he was getting a good deal from Countrywide, either.

Senator Dodd really blew it this time. First he claims that the so-called Dodd Amendment was put into the “stimulus” bill in the House-Senate conference committee by someone other than him, then he comes clean and admits that he did it himself…but blames the Obama Administration. These folks are falling apart at the seams! Dodd, who won his past two elections by two-to-one margins, is now running about dead-even with his Republican challenger in the 2010 Senate race in the heavily Democratic state of Connecticut.

The House responded to the bonus outrage by passing a bill to tax those bonuses at a 90% clip. Now, they know that this tax will never stand up in court, especially since legislation specifically authorized the bonuses, so why did they pass this bill? They did it purely to help Democrat incumbents in the 2010 election. These Congresscritters can go back to their districts and say, “See! I voted to stick it to those eeeeevillll executives and their bonuses!” Meanwhile, the folks who are bankrupting a NATION instead of just a business aren’t giving back their Congressional raises, are they?

Of course, all of the attention being given to the AIG bonuses is just a smokescreen. The real problem isn’t that measly $165 million. Why isn’t anyone saying anything about the $58,000,000,000.00 that went from the taxpayers to FOREIGN banks, via AIG and completely sanctioned by the Federal Reserve (under the direction of Tax Cheat Geithner back then). Nice little money laundering scheme.

Did y’all notice that the folks who helped collapse the credit market, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are about to make multiple million dollar bonus payments as well? Remember, Friend Of Obama Franklin Raines made $90,000,000.00 in six years while running one of them and cooking the books, and Bawney Fwank was having a heterophobic affair with one of Freddie Mac’s head honchos (but I thought he preferred Fannies! –ed.). Will either of them speak up on this. Yeah, right.

The number one reason that the credit market collapsed, leading to the downfall of the rest of the economy, was the Community Reinvestment Act, which forced banks to give loans to people who had no business getting loans. The credit unions in America are still somewhat healthy these days, because the CRA didn’t apply to them. Well, since the CRA did such a wonderful job of wrecking the regular banks, the Democrats want to expand the CRA to include the credit unions!

WOW! The State of Missouri thinks The Crawfish and others like him who supported Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, or Ron Paul, or those who support the Constitution of the United States are “militia influenced terrorists” and need to be watched. Islam: perfectly okay. Constitution: terroristic.

Washington’s governor has a new idea on how to make up part of the budget shortfall in the state colleges and universities. No, she’s not going to lower the pay of the overpaid professors who teach 2 classes per week (actually, they have their grad assistants do most of their work) and work on their book projects. Instead, she’s going to put a SURCHARGE on the students! Tip of the hat to blogger Dawndawn from Townhall.

President Obama screwed up on St. Pat’s Day, as if that day isn’t like every other day so far in his reign. The First African-American President, who basically renounced every bit of his white ancestry for political purposes, claimed Irish ancestry while hosting the Irish Prime Minister. On top of that, his electronic brain malfunctioned during the speeches.

Queen of the House Red Nanny P-Lousy stepped in it again. She had a meeting with a group of immigrants, many of them illegals. She told the group that enforcing our nation’s immigration laws is “un-American.” Is there anybody out there who still doesn’t believe that the goal of the Democrats is to get all of the illegals made legal and register them as Democrat voters?

If your nation’s economy is sucking, and it makes you mad, do you really think that a nationwide STRIKE is going to improve the situation? The socialist union stooges of France evidently think so.

WARNING! Do not read the headline of the following article with food or beverage in your mouth, ‘cause it will end up on your keyboard! Hey Prophet Algoracle, read THIS article about Glo-Bull Warming that comes to us courtesy of blogger georgetwin at Townhall.

The Crawfish AGAIN wants to kick the Prophet Algoracle in the squirrel food. On the first day of Spring, The Crawfish woke up to SNOW on his car and covering the ground throughout his drive to work. Glo-Bull Warming my tail section!

Y’all ain’t gonna believe this one. Yet ANOTHER Obama Cabinet nominee is in trouble. Secretary of Commerce nominee Gary Locke has had some shady dealings with Chinese companies that might cause him to resign or see his nomination torpedoed. Is there a single ethical Democrat out there to take a Cabinet job???

If y’all come across any weird/stoooopid/strange news stories that might be fodder for The Weekly Claw, e-mail them to me at at1aw_usn@yahoo.com and I’ll consider ‘em. Yes, I will give you newshounds credit.

“How strangely will the Tools of a Tyrant pervert the plain Meaning of Words!” -– Samuel Adams

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Another great one from Hank, at KDH. Please come by and read this great story in its entirety.

Images of male parts (I’ll try to keep this PG-13) ravaged by syphilis and gonorrhea are flashed on the screen at the base theater while our predeployment brief is under way for Exercise Cobra Gold. Our Battalion Surgeon warns our men and women of one of the most dangerous situations they are most assuredly going to experience in Thailand, “L I B E R T Y”. So on she briefs the basic facts. Yes, we recommend moral congruency, and the consequences from deviating from the trail are devastating, and no there is no 100% guarantee short of abstinence. As the XO of the Battalion I’ve been given free reign to interject myself at these events.

From the back of the theater I interrupt the presentation which is now stopped on a particularly gruesome image. I walk down to the front and address an audience which is packed to capacity. Our Battalion Sergeant Major is not present at the moment which implies free reign of my mischievous nature, a nature on which he sometimes attempts to encourage restraint.

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Yesterday President elect Obama told America; “Only Government can fix the economy”.

Do you believe this?

I SAY NO!

The senate is not the answer, the House of Representatives is not the answer, the President is not the answer, Bailouts are not the answer.

The good news this week on the financial front is that some of us have chosen “Not to participate in the resession”.

Those who see opportunity in despair and seek to comfort others instead of wallowing in it with them will always prosper! We give hope to the hopeless and faith to the seeker. AMEN!

The answer is :

This is a story We may have heard before but a dear friend passed it along to me again and it is one that bears repeating.

Thanks Butch.

ENJOY!

> > “Let me explain the problem science has with religion.” The
> > atheist professor of philosophy pauses before his class and
> > then asks one of his new students to stand.
> >
> > “You’re a Christian, aren’t you, son?”
> >
> > “Yes sir,” the student says.
> >
> > “So you believe in God?”
> >
> > “Absolutely.”
> >
> > “Is God good?”
> >
> > “Sure! God’s good.”
> >
> > “Is God all-powerful? Can God do anything?”
> >
> > “Yes.”
> >
> > “Are you good or evil?”
> >
> > “The Bible says I’m evil.”
> >
> > The professor grins knowingly. “Aha! The Bible!”
> >
> > He considers for a moment, “Here’s one for you. Let’s say
> > there’s a sick person over here and you can cure him. You
> > can do it. Would you help him? Would you try?”
> >
> > “Yes sir, I would.”
> >
> > “So you’re good!”
> >
> > “I wouldn’t say that.”
> >
> > “But why not say that? You’d help a sick and maimed person
> > if you could. Most of us would if we could. But God
> > doesn’t.”
> >
> > The student does not answer, so the professor continues.
> >
> > “He doesn’t, does he? My brother was a Christian who died of
> > cancer, even though he prayed to Jesus to heal him. How is
> > this Jesus good? Hmmm? Can you answer that one?”
> >
> > The student remains silent.
> >
> > “No, you can’t, can you?” the professor says. He takes a sip
> > of water from glass on his desk to give the student time to
> > relax.
> >
> > “Let’s start again, young fella. Is God good?”
> >
> > “Er…yes,” the student says.
> >
> > “Is Satan good?”
> >
> > The student doesn’t hesitate on this one, “No.”
> >
> > “Then where does Satan come from?”
> >
> > The student falters, “From God.”
> >
> > “That’s right. God made Satan, didn’t he? Tell me, son. Is
> > there evil in this world?”
> >
> > “Yes, sir.”
> >
> > “Evil’s everywhere, isn’t it? And God did make everything,
> > correct?”
> >
> > “Yes.”
> >
> > “So who created evil?” The professor continued, “If God
> > created everything, then God created evil, since evil exists
> > , and according to the principle that our works define who
> > we are, then God is evil.”
> >
> > Again, the student has no answer.
> >
> > “Is there sickness? Immorality? Hatred? Ugliness? All these
> > terrible things, do they exist in this world?”
> >
> > The student squirms on his feet. “Yes.”
> >
> > “So who created them?”
> >
> > The student does not answer again, so the professor repeats
> > his question, “Who created them?”
> >
> > There is still no answer. Suddenly the lecturer breaks away
> > to pace in front of the classroom. The class is mesmerized.
> >
> > “Tell me,” he continues onto another student. “Do you
> > believe in Jesus Christ, son?”
> >
> > The student’s voice betrays him and cracks. “Yes, professor,
> > I do.”
> >
> > The old man stops pacing, “Science says you have five senses
> > you use to identify and observe the world around you. Have
> > you ever seen Jesus?”
> >
> > “No sir. I’ve never seen Him.”
> >
> > “Have you ever felt your Jesus, tasted your Jesus or smelt
> > your Jesus? Have you ever had any sensory perception of
> > Jesus Christ, or God for that matter?”
> >
> > “No, sir, I’m afraid I haven’t.”
> >
> > “Yet you still believe in him?”
> >
> > “Yes.”
> >
> > “According to the rules of empirical, testable, demonstrable
> > protocol, science says your God doesn’t exist. What do you
> > say to that, son?”
> >
> > “Nothing,” the student replies. “I only have my faith.”
> >
> > “Yes, faith,” the professor repeats. “And that is the
> > problem science has with God. There is no evidence, only
> > faith.”
> >
> > The student stands quietly for a moment, before asking a
> > question of His own. “Professor, is there such thing as
> > heat?”
> >
> > “Yes,” the professor replies. “There’s heat.”
> >
> > “And is there such a thing as cold?”
> >
> > “Yes, son, there’s cold too.”
> >
> > “No sir, there isn’t.”
> >
> > The professor turns to face the student, obviously
> > interested. The room suddenly becomes very quiet.
> >
> > The student begins to explain…
> >
> > “You can have lots of heat, even more heat, super-heat,
> > mega-heat, unlimited heat, white heat, a little heat or no
> > heat, but we don’t have anything called ‘cold’. We can hit
> > up to 458 degrees below zero, which is no heat, but we can’t
> > go any further after that. There is no such thing as cold;
> > otherwise we would be able to go colder than the lowest -458
> > degrees.”
> >
> > “Everybody or object is susceptible to study when it has or
> > transmits energy, and heat is what makes a body or matter
> > have or transmit energy. Absolute zero (-458 F) is the total
> > absence of heat. You see, sir, cold is only a word we use to
> > describe the absence of heat. We cannot measure cold. Heat
> > we can measure in thermal units because heat is energy. Cold
> > is not the opposite of heat, sir, just the absence of it.”
> >
> > Silence across the room. A pen drops somewhere in the
> > classroom, sounding like a hammer.
> >
> > “What about darkness, professor. Is there such a thing as
> > darkness?”
> >
> > “Yes,” the professor replies without hesitation. “What is
> > night if it isn’t darkness?”
> >
> > “You’re wrong again, sir. Darkness is not something; it is
> > the absence of something. You can have low light, normal
> > light, bright light, flashing light, but if you have no
> > light constantly you have nothing and its called darkness,
> > isn’t it? That’s the meaning we use to define the word. In
> > reality, darkness isn’t. If it were, you would be able to
> > make darkness darker, wouldn’t you?”
> >
> > The professor begins to smile at the student in front of
> > him. This will be a good semester. “So what point are you
> > making, young man?”
> >
> > “Yes, professor. My point is, your philosophical premise is
> > flawed to start with, and so your conclusion must also be
> > flawed.”
> >
> > The professor’s face cannot hide his surprise this time,
> > “Flawed? Can you explain how?”
> >
> > “You are working on the premise of duality,” the student
> > explains…
> >
> > “You argue that there is life and then there’s death; a good
> > God and a bad God. You are viewing the concept of God as
> > something finite, something we can measure. Sir, science
> > can’t even explain a thought.”
> >
> > “It uses electricity and magnetism, but has never seen, much
> > less fully understood either one. To view death as the
> > opposite of life is to be ignorant of the fact that death
> > cannot exist as a substantive thing. Death is not the
> > opposite of life, just the absence of it.”
> >
> > “Now tell me, professor. Do you teach your students that
> > they evolved from a monkey?”
> >
> > “If you are referring to the natural evolutionary process,
> > young man, yes, of course I do.”
> >
> > “Have you ever observed evolution with your own eyes, sir?”
> >
> > The professor begins to shake his head, still smiling, as he
> > realizes where the argument is going. A very good semester,
> > indeed.
> >
> > “Since no one has ever observed the process of evolution at
> > work and cannot even prove that this process is an on-going
> > endeavor, are you not teaching your opinion, sir? Are you
> > now not a scientist, but a preacher?”
> >
> > The class is in uproar. The student remains silent until the
> > commotion has subsided.
> >
> > “To continue the point you were making earlier to the other
> > student, let me give you an example of what I mean.” The
> > student looks around the room, “Is there anyone in the class
> > who has ever seen the professor’s brain?” The class breaks
> > out into laughter.
> >
> > “Is there anyone here who has ever heard the professor’s
> > brain, felt the professor’s brain, touched or smelt the
> > professor’s brain? No one appears to have done so. So,
> > according to the established rules of empirical, stable,
> > demonstrable protocol, science says that you have no brain,
> > with all due respect, sir.”
> >
> > “So if science says you have no brain, how can we trust your
> > lectures, sir?”
> >
> > Now the room is silent. The professor just stares at the
> > student, his face unreadable. Finally, after what seems an
> > eternity, the old man answers, “I guess you’ll have to take
> > them on faith.”
> >
> > “Now, you accept that there is faith, and, in fact, faith
> > exists with life,” the student continues, “Now, sir, is
> > there such a thing as evil?”
> >
> >
> >
> > Now uncertain, the professor responds, “Of course, there is.
> > We see it everyday. It is in the daily example of man’s
> > inhumanity to man. It is in the multitude of crime and
> > violence everywhere in the world. These manifestations are
> > nothing else but evil.”
> >
> > To this the student replied, “Evil does not exist sir, or at
> > least it does not exist unto itself. Evil is simply the
> > absence of God. It is just like darkness and cold, a word
> > that man has created to describe the absence of God. God did
> > not create evil. Evil is the result of what happens when man
> > does not have God’s love present in his heart. It’s like the
> > cold that comes when there is no heat or the darkness that
> > comes when there is no light.”
> >
> > The professor sat down.
> >
> > If you read it all the way through and had a smile on your
> > face when you finished, mail it to your friends and family.
> >
> > PS: The student was Albert Einstein.

God IS the answer!

Blessings

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This morning starts the 2008 Weblog Awards. Voting starts sometime this morning and goes through Monday January 12, 2009 at 10:00 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), which is 5:00 p.m. (EST) and 2:00 p.m. (PST). Remember to vote early, vote often AND VOTE FOR ME!

Knee Deep in the Hooah! has been selected as a finalist. They have my gimpy little blog running up against names like BlackFive and Michael Yon. I do not stand a chance against the big guns they have in this category. I am the only female blogger (that I can tell anyway) in the category and the only blog that is exclusively military family oriented. Still, I plan on having as much fun as possible with it. I even snatched an old Obama logo and I may use it. I have a community organizer background, you know. Hey, I have to pull out all the stops!

So, click on the logo below — vote early, vote often, vote Knee Deep.

If you vote for me all of your wildest dreams will come true — Pedro

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the
fight in the dog that counts. — Mark Twain

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This is one of those small notes you write to yourself and place under a magnet… you know to help jog your memory. You can only hope that the note doesn’t get covered up by one huge magnet, or by the turkey crafted from a handprint that your little one made at Thanksgiving.

Anyway, a couple of items of interest:

First: The New BAH rates are available for viewing:

The Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH) is based on geographic duty location, pay grade, and dependency status. The intent of BAH is to provide uniformed service members with permanent duty within the 50 United States accurate and equitable housing compensation based on housing costs in local civilian housing markets, and is payable when government quarters are not provided. A uniformed service member stationed overseas, including U.S. protectorates, who is not furnished government housing, is eligible for Overseas Housing Allowance (OHA).

The 2009 BAH Rates are now available — Click here to view.

And, secondly:

I have been writing for the family section of the military blog “You Served.” They have a radio show, and I have been invited be on the show. I am pretty excited, but a little nervous too. I did some internet radio back when it was still new (for the foundation I used to work for), but I feel so “out of shape!” Anyway, here’s the information if any of you want to tune in. If you write in to ask questions, please don’t ask me things like “What are you wearing?” “Do you have Prince Albert in a can?” etc. 

This week we will be speaking with Soldier Hard who has a new music project with Marine veteran Dego called “The DOD”. He will stop by to discuss his new album. LTG Boykin, retired Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence,played a role in almost every recent major American military operation, serving in Grenada, Somalia, and Iraq. He is currently a professor atHampden-Sydney College, Virginia, and author of “Never Surrender: A Soldier’s Journey to the Crossroads of Faith and Freedom.” Knee Deep In The Hooah blogger, Claire, is a Soldier mom and popular blogger. We will be talking about stresses on military families, the new report of military divorce rates, and her blog.

Here’s the link to where the show will be broadcast. LINK to You Served Blog Radio

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