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Check out this video.  This reporter walks up on a random Obama supporter and tries to make him look stupid.  But the tables get turned.  It just goes to show. . .you can’t judge a book by its cover!!!

Irresistibly you tempt me with an instance of your scent

As I write, as you read, I contemplate times we may spend

Together, wrapped tight

Like the morning dew illuminated by radiating twilight

The vibrations of your voice invading my ears

Relinquishing to me all that you fear

Those fears I will banish….and replace with love

The love we taste, the love we create, as our souls watch our bodies from above

Lets step back from slumber, perchance to dream

And unravel our constant futuristic schemes

In which you are my queen, with beauty amongst high

Stand beside me through life till the day that I die

Let it be written, let it be done

Let the blood shed from battles lost

Become the conduit for battles won

Drink with me from platinum chalices

Make me no longer the victim of absence of malice

Give into my persuasion on every occasion

Become the sexy hostess to my forceful invasion

For it is only you, the apple of my eye

That can color me with hope

From your Indigo Dye

Wow, this is police brutality at it’s best.  Fuckin pigs!!!

This video is sooooooo good. Keith Olbermann from MSNBC blasts president Bush and calls him a liar over the FISA bill issue which aims to grant immunity to the telecom companies that participated in wire taps of the American people. Please watch!

Here is a video of Pat Robertson leg pressing 1,000 pounds. This dude is like 75 years old! WTF. Click Here to see the video!!!

Here is a clip from the movie Friday.  This has got to be one of the funniest movies of all time!  In this part, the local bully Deebo (Tiny “Zeus” Lister) rolls up on Craig (Ice Cube), Smokey (Chris Tucker) and Red (DJ Pooh) and straight jacks them.  LOL.  Enjoy!

Now some fresh pickings from the Political Grapevine:

Bailing Out

John McCain’s chief media adviser is suggesting he will quit the campaign — rather than work against Barack Obama.

Mark McKinnon was a Democrat before working for President Bush’s campaign in 2000 and 2004.

He tells National Public Radio — “I would simply be uncomfortable being in a campaign that would be inevitably attacking Barack Obama. I think it would be uncomfortable for me, and I think it would be bad for the McCain campaign.”

McKinnon says while he disagrees with Obama on fundamental issues, he likes him a great deal. He says he will still support McCain — but only from the sidelines.

Quick Turnaround

That Portsmouth, New Hampshire landlord we told you about last week who was stiffed by the Clinton campaign for office rent has now been paid — and he’s giving the money to Barack Obama. Terry Bennett tells the Portsmouth Herald he was overnighted a check after the story got out. He says he is giving the money to Obama because when Clinton’s campaign workers left his office in a big mess — and didn’t pay — that was the last straw.

And Bennett apparently wasn’t the only business owner to get stiffed. The Herald reports a man who owns a cleaning service in Des Moines, Iowa says the campaign skipped out on a $7,500 bill. The Clinton campaign says everyone who provided a service will be paid — and that these two cases were “isolated delays.”

Paying a Price

Southern Baptist Minister Wiley Drake says he is being investigated by the IRS for endorsing Mike Huckabee in a press release written on church stationery. Drake is the pastor of First Southern Baptist Church in Buena Park, California. He says the IRS sent him a 14-page letter earlier this month following a complaint by the Americans United for Separation of Church and State.

Federal tax law states church officials may not endorse candidates or parties without putting their tax-exempt status at risk. drake says he was only offering his personal endorsement — not that of the church.

Heart Less

And folks in Saudi Arabia looking for Valentine’s Day gifts this week were pretty much out of luck — because of a national ban on all red gift items. Undercover Islamic religious police have been going around forcing shops to stop selling red roses and other such gifts. The Muslim authorities say Valentine’s Day is a pagan Christian holiday (see blog post below) that promotes sin and encourages relationships out of wedlock.

Other Muslim-controlled areas are not so sure. valentine’s day items are available in bahrain, kuwait, and dubai, among others.

Hello all and Happy Valentines Day.  Valentines day is a day celebrated by many all over America but how many you know it’s true origins?  Read on:

The Silence of Educators

Teachers are all too often silent about the origin of the customs they are forced to teach in today’s schools! If they were to speak out, many would lose their jobs!

Isn’t it time we examined why we encourage our children to celebrate St. Valentine’s Day - when it is never mentioned in the Bible as a practice of the New Testament Church?

Today, candymakers unload tons of heart-shaped red boxes for February 14, while millions of the younger set are annually exchanging valentines. Florists consider February 14 - St. Valentine’s Day - as one of their best business days. And young lovers pair off - at least for a dance or two - at St. Valentine’s balls. Why? Where did these customs originate? Where do we find any such practices in the Bible? How did we come to inherit these customs?

A Christian Custom?

Did you know that centuries before Christ, the pagan Romans celebrated February 15 and the evening of February 14 as an idolatrous and sensuous festival in honor of Lupercus, the “hunter of wolves”?

The Romans called the festival the “Lupercalia.” The custom of exchanging valentines and all the other traditions in honor of Lupercus - the deified hero-hunter of Rome- was also linked anciently with the pagan practice of teen-agers “going steady.” It usually led to fornication. Today, the custom of “going steady” is thought very modern. It isn’t. It is merely a rebirth of an old custom “handed down from the Roman festival of the Lupercalia, celebrated in the month of February, when names of young women were put into a box and drawn out by men as chance directed.” That’s the admission of the Encyclopedia Americana, article, “St. Valentine’s Day.”

When Constantine made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire there was some talk in church circles of discarding this pagan free-for-all. But the Roman citizens wouldn’t hear of it! So it was agreed that the holiday would continue as it was, except for the more grossly sensual observances.

It was not until the reign of Pope Gelasius that the holiday became a “Christian” custom. ” As far back as 496, Pope Gelasius changed Lupercalia on February 15 to St. Valentine’s Day on February 14.” (p. 172 of Customs and Holidays Around the World by Lavinia Dobler).

But how did this pagan festival acquire the name of “St. Valentine’s Day”? And why is the little naked Cupid of the pagan Roman so often associated today with February 14? And why do little children and young people still cut out hearts and send them on a day in honor of Lupercus the hunter of wolves? Why have we supposed these pagan customs in honor of a false god are Christians?

Who Was the Original “St. Valentine”?

Valentine was a common Roman name. Roman parents often gave the name of their children in honor of the famous man who was first called Valentine in antiquity. That famous man was Lupercus, the hunter. But who was Lupercus? - and why should he have also borne the name Valentine among the heathen Romans?

The Greeks called Lupercus by the name of “Pan“. The Semites called Pan “Baul,” according to the Classical Dictionaries. Baal - mentioned so often in the Bible - was merely another name for Nimrod, “the mighty hunter” ( Genesis 10:9) It was a common proverb of ancient time that Nimrod was “the MIGHTY hunter before the Lord.” Nimrod was their hero - their strong man - their VALENTINE!

How plain that the original Valentine was Nimrod, the mighty hunter of wolves. Yet another of Nimrod’s names was “Sanctuc” or “Santa“, meaning Saint. It was a common title of any hero-god. No wonder that the Roman Lupercalia is called “St. Valentine’s Day”!

But why do we associate HEARTS on a day in honor of Nimrod - the Baal of the Phoenicians and Semites?

The surprising answer is that the pagan Romans acquired the symbol of the heart from the Babylonians. In the Babylonian tongue the word for heart was “bal” (Strong’s Concordance Number H1168). The heart - bal - was merely a symbol of Nimrod - the Baal! or Lord of the Babylonians!

Executed at Rome

Nimrod - the original St. Valentine - was also known as Saturn, the Roman-Babylonian god who hid from his pursuers in a secret place. The Latin word Saturn is derived from the Semiticspeaking Babylonians. It means “be hid,” “hide self,” “secret,” “conceal.” The original Semitic (Hebrew) word, from which the Latin Saturn is derived, is used 83 times in the Old Testament (see Young’s Concordance under “Sathar,” also “sether”).

According to ancient tradition, Saturn (Nimrod) fled from his pursuers to Italy. The Apenine mountains of Italy were anciently named the mountains of Nembrod or Nimrod. Nimrod briefly hid out at the site where Rome was later built. The ancient name of Rome, before it was rebuilt in 753 B.C. was Saturnia - the site of Saturn’s (Nimrod’s) hiding. There he was found and slain for his crimes. Later, professing Christians in Constantine’s day made Nimrod - the St. Valentine of the heathen- a Saint of the Church and continued to honor him under the name of a Christian martyr.

Why February 14?

But why should the Romans have chosen February 15 and the evening of February 14 to honor Lupercus - the Nimrod of the Bible? (Remember that day in ancient times began at sunset the evening before.)

Nimrod - Baal or sun god of the ancient pagans - was said to have been born at the winter solstice. In ancient time the solstice occurred on January 6 and his birthday therefore was celebrated on December 25 and now called Christmas. It was the custom of antiquity for, the mother of a male child to present herself for purification on the fortieth day after January 6 - Nimrod’s original birthdate - takes us to February 15, the celebration of which began on the evening of February 14 - the Lupercalia or St. Valentine’s Day.

On this day in February, Semiramis, the mother of Nimrod, was said to have been purified and to have appeared for the first time in public with her son as the original “mother and child.”

The Roman month February, in fact, derives its name from the februa which the Roman priests used in the rites celebrated on St. Valentine’s Day. The febru were thongs from the skins of sacrificial animals used in rites of purification on the evening of February 14.

Cupid Makes His Appearance

Another name for the child Nimrod was “Cupid” - meaning “desire” (Encyclopedia Britannica, article “Cupid“). It is said that when Nimrod’s mother saw him, she lusted after him - she desired him. Nimrod became her Cupid - her desired one - and later her Valentine! So evil was Nimrod’s mother that it is said she married her own son! Inscribed on the monuments of ancient Egypt are inscriptions that Nimrod (the Egyptians called him Osiris) was “the husband of his mother.”

As Nimrod grew up, he became the child-hero of many women who desired him. He was their Cupid! In the Book of Daniel he is called the “desire of women” ( Dan. 11:37). Moffatt translates the word as Tammuz - a babylonian name of Nimrod. He provoked so many women to jealousy that an idol of him was often called the “image of jealousy” ( Ezekiel 8:5). Nimrod, the hunter, was also their Valentine - their strong or mighty her! No wonder the pagans commemorated their hero-hunter Nimrod, or Baal, by sending heartshaped love tokens to one another on the evening of February 14 as a symbol of him.

Nimrod, the son of Cush the Ethiopian, was later a source of embarrassment to the pagans of Europe. They didn’t want an African to worship. Consequently, they substituted a supposed son of Nimrod, a white child named Horus, born after the death of Nimrod. This white child then became a “fair Cupid” of European tradition.

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Four sheriff’s deputies have been suspended after purposely tipping a quadriplegic man out of his wheelchair onto a jailhouse floor, authorities said.

Surveillance footage from Jan. 29 shows Hillsborough County deputy Charlette Marshall-Jones, 44, dumping Brian Sterner out of his wheelchair and searching him on the floor after he was brought in on a warrant after a traffic violation.

Sterner, 32, said when he was taken into a booking room and told to stand up, Jones grew agitated when he told her that he could not.

“She was irked that I wasn’t complying to what she was telling me to do,” he told The Tampa Tribune in Tuesday’s edition. “It didn’t register with her that she was asking me to do something I can’t do.”

Sterner can drive a car but has not been able to walk since a 1994 wrestling accident. He has no feeling below his sternum and has partial use of his arms.

Jones has been suspended without pay, and Sgt. Gary Hinson, 51, Cpl. Steven Dickey, 45 and Cpl. Decondra Williams, 36 have also been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation, sheriff’s spokeswoman Debbie Carter said.

“The actions are indefensible at every level,” Chief Deputy Jose Docobo said. “Based on what I saw, anything short of dismissal would be inappropriate.”

A woman who answered Jones’ telephone said Jones was unavailable. A message left at a telephone number listed for a Steven Dickey in Tampa was not immediately returned Tuesday night. Listings for Hinson and Williams could not be located.

Sterner was arrested at his Riverview home and taken to the Orient Road Jail on a charge of fleeing and attempting to elude a police officer, according to records. He posted $2,000 bond and was released Feb 3.

A warrant for Sterner’s arrest was issued after an Oct. 25 incident, in which police stopped him while driving a car fitted with hand pedals and cited him for blocking an intersection.

“My client was stopped that night and was given a traffic citation, so how could he be fleeing and eluding?” Sterner’s lawyer John Trevena said. “We’re very skeptical about the basis for the charge itself.”

Trevena said he hopes authorities investigate the deputies for criminal charges. He said he was “mortified” when he watched the footage.

“I couldn’t believe that a detention deputy would be so callous toward an individual, whether they were disabled or not,” he said.

Looks like non-hispanic whites will become a minority by 2050.  A recent Pew (no pun intended) report suggests that the Latino population as well as immigration influx will soar and for the first time in this country’s history since the Native Americans were decimated, whites will be the minority.  Very interesting….  read on:

The number of Hispanics in the United States will triple by 2050 and represent nearly 30 percent of the population if current trends continue, according to a report released yesterday.

The study by the nonpartisan, Washington-based Pew Research Center also found that nearly one in five Americans will be foreign-born in 2050, compared with about one in eight today. Asian Americans, representing 5 percent of the population today, are expected to boost their share to 9 percent.

Blacks are projected to maintain their current 13 percent share. Non-Hispanic whites will still be the nation’s largest group, the report says, but would drop from 67 percent of U.S. residents to 47 percent.

Overall, by 2050 the U.S. population is projected to increase by 47 percent, from 296 million in 2005 to 438 million. Newly arriving immigrants would account for 47 percent of the rise, and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren would represent another 35 percent.

Authors of the study, which roughly tracks similar analyses by the Census Bureau and other sources, cautioned that their findings are projections based on immigration and demographic trends that may change.

Nonetheless, the report offers an intriguing picture of the possible long-term effects of the immigration surge that began after 1965, when Congress abolished a quota system that had nearly ended immigration from non-European countries since the 1920s.

Because of a declining birthrate among U.S.-born women, immigrants and their U.S.-born children and grandchildren already account for most of the nation’s population increase over the past several decades. The study projects that by 2025, the foreign-born share of the population will surpass the peak recorded during the waves of immigration that occurred between 1860 and 1920, when foreign-born residents represented as much as 15 percent of the U.S. population.

But the study’s authors said that immigration will do little to offset the more than doubling of the nation’s elderly population as baby boomers age. By 2050, people older than 65 will make up 19 percent of the population, compared with 12 percent in 2005, while the share of working-age people will shrink from 63 percent to 58 percent.

This translates into a sharp rise in the “dependency ratio” of working-age people, compared with the number of young and elderly. Today, there are about 59 children or elderly people per 100 working-age adults. By 2050, that figure is expected to increase to 72 dependents per 100 working-age adults.

Though advocates of immigration have suggested that the newcomers can help offset the pressure boomers put on Social Security, the report indicates that even if immigration were reduced by 50 percent, the dependency ratio would change only from 72 dependents to 75 per 100 working-age adults.

Those who oppose allowing immigration to continue at its current pace interpreted the findings as vindication. “These numbers underline the fact that immigration is not a solution to the aging of the population,” said Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, which favors further limits on immigration. “And then we need to ask ourselves if we want the 100 million more people immigration will bring. Do you want 80 million more cars on the road, or 40 million homes occupying what’s now open space?”

At a news conference to announce the report yesterday, co-authors D’Vera Cohn and Jeffrey S. Passel declined to draw policy conclusions. They also noted that even if their projections are accurate, the social implications may be different by 2050: Given the high rate of intermarriage between Latinos and members of other ethnic groups, many descendants of today’s Latinos may not even identify themselves as such.