Is That Your Final Answer?

No more evading the question...

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The pessimist says that the glass is half-empty.

The optimist says that the glass is half-full.

Are those our only options? We're either an optimist or a pessimist??? I think not.

Personally, I am a self-proclaimed "realist." Realists see no value in pessimism or optimism. One is just as futile as the other and neither have any logical purpose. What is important is truth...anything more or less than truth distorts the decision-making process.

Ok, so the pessimist says it's half-empty, and the optimist says it's half-full. What does the realist say?

The realist says that there is water in the glass.

Forget the empty/full debate and use the water as you see fit. If you have to be positive about something, then just be happy that someone left you some water...ok?

I think that is really all that there is to say about this subject, but feel free to debate this whole thing amongst yourselves should you "feel" the need.

I'm out...


Rayburn

Like 'Father', Like Son?

Like 'Father', like son?

What am I supposed to think about this Barack Hussein Obama character who wants to be my president?

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Let's look at the facts:

1. Barack's biological father was a Muslim.

2. Barack's step-father was a Muslim.

3. Barack was educated for 4 years in predominantly Muslim Indonesia.

4. Barack attends Trinity United Church of Christ which feels free to spout anti-semitism and racism which Barack maintained that he knew nothing about. (See also #10)

5. Barack's longtime pastor and spiritual adviser, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, is a racist and hates America.

6. Barack's pastor, Rev. Wright, states that Louis Farrakhan's (Muslim leader in America) "depth on analysis [sic] when it comes to the racial ills of this nation is astounding and eye-opening. He brings a perspective that is helpful and honest."

7. Barack's pastor, Rev. Wright, stated, "When [Obama’s] enemies find out that in 1984 I went to Tripoli" to visit Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, "a lot of his Jewish support will dry up quicker than a snowball in hell."

8. Barack's pastor, Rev. Wright’s, relationship with Louis Farrakhan, once described by Obama as a "close" relationship.

9. Like Wright, Farrakhan has repeatedly made hate-filled statements targeting Jews (calling Judaism a "gutter religion"), whites, America, and homosexuals. He has called whites "blue-eyed devils" and the "anti-Christ." He has described Jews as "bloodsuckers" who control the government, the media, and some black organizations.

10. Barack lied about "not hearing" Reverend Wright's hate-filled and racist sermons.

11. Barack's church defends their racism and hatred.

12. Barack says, "with Wright retiring from the pulpit, [I don't] see an issue with [my] family remaining in the congregation."

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Ok, so tell me, please, why I should vote for this guy?

Even if I didn't know his record on abortion, gun rights, or homosexuality, why would I vote for a guy who's had these types of influences in his life? Who in their right mind would remain a member of a church that promotes racism and speaks highly of Muslim leaders (see point #6 above)? More to the point, why would I want a person who remains a member of a church like this knowing full well that their church honors these types of practices (see points #11 and #12 above)???

My critics might say, "but Obama said, 'with Wright retiring from the pulpit, [I don't] see an issue with [my] family remaining in the congregation.'"

Big woopty-doo! As you can see in point #11 above, Obama's church sees nothing wrong with their racism and hatred. The shepherd may have retired, but the flock is still repeating after him!

Let's not forget that these folks associate themselves with a Muslim leader (Louis Farrakhan). The Koran demands the destruction of all infidels (anyone that is not a Muslim--including Christians). Farrakhan calls Judaism a "gutter religion" (see point #9 above). He calls Jews "bloodsuckers" and whites as being the anti-Christ. Obama even admits that Wright and Farrakhan have a "close" relationship (see point #8 above)!

FARRAKHAN--If you're reading, ISLAM IS THE GUTTER RELIGION! Mohammed hijacked another pagan religion to make Islam because the Jews and Christians wouldn't let him teach in their churches and synagogues! Mohammed is a FAKE! More to come on this subject in another post.

WRIGHT--If you're reading this, THE JEWS ARE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE! Read Deuteronomy 14:2, Deuteronomy 7:6, Acts 3:13-15, Genesis 17:19, and Genesis 26:2-5 in that bible that you claim to represent! Not only that, but JESUS WAS A JEW (Matthew 1:1-16)!

Obama's spiritual advisor, Rev. Wright, traveled with Farrakhan to Tripoli to meet with QADDAFI (see point #7 above)! Remember him? Didn't we bomb his country in the '80s???

Besides that, Obama LIED about not hearing some of the hateful and racist sermons according to Newsmax in point #10 above! At least Bill Clinton waited until he had been in office for a while before he lied to the nation.

Again, my critics might say, "But aren't you being a little drastic? Aren't you unfairly judging Barack by all these other people that he knows?"

No...I really don't think I am being drastic. I think you can make very accurate judgements about someone's character by observing the people that they choose to associate with. And everyone knows that if you lie with the dogs, then you're gonna get fleas.

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So who should we vote for?

Well, I would like to say that we should vote for Mike Huckabee--he's the real deal. Unfortunately, we don't have that option any more. I guess we could try to pencil him in on our ballots. Something tells me that isn't gonna work...

Vote for Hillary? In your dreams...have you all forgotten about what happened to Vince Foster? I bet she still has some of his blood under her fingernails. Check out point #83 in the article at freerepublic.com. And China had her and her husband (who forgot that he was married. "...that depends on what 'is' is..." blech!) in their back pockets among many other things during Billy's 8 year masquerade.

Ron Paul or Ralph Nader? Ummm, how can I say this without sounding condescending? Ok, here it goes. Ha-ha-haaaaaa!!!!!!!!!

John McCain? His records not perfect. I mean, his support for stem cell research gives me problems, but we have to choose between the "lesser of two evils" or the lesser of four evils in this case. McCain is a supporter of the nation of Israel. He believes in finishing what we started in Iraq. His faith in Jesus is not questioned. And he didn't kill anybody (that didn't deserve it) that I know of. John's ok for me...especially in a line-up with the remaining would-be presidents.

But I digress...let me make my point as clear as possible...

I WON'T BE VOTING FOR BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA!



Later tater,


Rayburn

Nazi-Islam--Who Do You Think You Are Fooling??

Who Do You Think You Are Fooling??

It seems so innocent...hidden under the cloak of religion, Muslims claim to be a "peace-loving" people, but even their Koran calls for the death of all "infidels" (non-muslims).

Hitler found it necessary to annihilate all of the Jews. The PLO's founding document calls for the extermination of all Jews. The Palestinians are hell-bent to acquire more of Israel's God-given land. Why? The below article (found at: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/816232/posts) by Tom Knowlton should clear some of this up for you. This is just the tip of the iceberg, folks. More to come, unless these radicals find a way to silence me too.

Any of you planning to silence me had better come prepared because I, unlike you, am prepared.

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The Nazi Roots of Modern Radical Islam
By Tom Knowlton

The recent "Letter to the American People" allegedly authored by Osama bin Laden is a virtual ideological manifesto for Islamic extremists. It serves to outline the perceived grievances of radical Muslims against Israel and the West.

The letter claims, "It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses," dating the conflict between Jews and Arabs back to the Biblical conflict between Abraham's two children: his eldest son, Ishmael (from who Arabs are believed descended), and his younger son, Isaac (from who Jews are believed descended). Some Muslims believe that Isaac usurped Ishmael's birthright.

Likewise, prominent imams such as Abu Qatada, Omar Muhammad Bakri, and Abu Hamza regularly echo this claim that Arabs and Jews have been bitter enemies from the dawn of time. However, if one examines the history of the Middle East, there is very little evidence of constant warring and animosity between Jews and Arabs.

In fact, when the city of Jerusalem fell to Christian Crusaders in 1099, the defenders of the holy city had been a combined force of Jews and Muslims. After the Crusaders captured the city, they massacred Muslim and Jewish citizens alike and left the survivors to flee Jerusalem. Not until the Muslim hero Saladin defeated the Crusaders in 1187, did the Jewish population even begin to return to Jerusalem.

Jerusalem's Jewish community continued to prosper under the Muslim Nahmanides in 1267. But the community's true renaissance occurred during the 15th and 16th centuries, when a large influx of Jews were welcomed into Jerusalem by the Ottoman Empire after being expelled from Spain.

For four centuries under Ottoman rule, Arab and Jewish neighborhoods peacefully coexisted. After the defeat of the Ottoman Empire in World War I, the region came under British mandate. The early days under the British also saw relatively peaceful coexistence continuing and manifesting itself in the form of Arab and Jewish neighborhoods springing up in the "garden neighborhoods" of Talpiot, Rehavia and Beit Hakerem.

However, after over 700 years of peaceful coexistence, the true start of the Arab-Israeli conflict can be dated to 1920 and the rise of one man, Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, the grand mufti of Jerusalem. As grand mufti, al Husseini presided as the Imam of the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the highest Muslim authority in the British mandate.

History shows Al Husseini to be a brutal man with aspirations to rule a pan-Arabic empire in the Middle East. He rose to prominence by actively eliminating those Jews and Arabs he considered a threat to his control of Jerusalem's Arab population, and he heavily utilized anti-Jewish propaganda to polarize the two communities.

In 1920 and again in 1929, Al Husseini incited anti-Jewish riots by claiming the Jews were plotting to destroy the Al Asqa mosque. The riots resulted in the massacre of hundreds of Jewish civilians and a virtual end to the Jewish presence in Hebron.

The 1936 Arab revolt against the British is believed to have been at least partially funded by Nazi Adolf Eichmann, and Al Husseini again ordered armed Arab militias to massacre Jewish citizens.

When British authorities finally quelled the rebellion in 1939, Al Husseini fled to neighboring Iraq and helped to orchestrate a 1941 anti-British jihad. As in Jerusalem, the British successfully put down the rebellion and Al Husseini fled to Nazi Germany.

Al Husseini found the Nazis to be a strong ideological match with his anti-Jewish brand of Islam, and schemed with Hitler and the Nazi hierarchy to create a pro-Nazi pan-Arabic form of government in the Middle East.

Dr. Serge Trifkovic documents the similarities between Al Husseini's brand of radical Islam and Nazism in his book The Sword of the Prophet. He noted parallels in both ideologies: anti-Semitism, quest for world dominance, demand for the total subordination of the free will of the individual, belief in the abolishment of the nation-state in favor of a "higher" community (in Islam the umma or community of all believers; in Nazism, the herrenvolk or master race), and belief in undemocratic governance by a "divine" leader (an Islamic caliph, or Nazi führer).

The Nazis provided Al Husseini with luxurious accommodations in Berlin and a monthly stipend in excess of $10,000. In return, he regularly appeared on German radio touting the Jews as the "most fierce enemies of Muslims," and implored an adoption of the Nazi "final solution" by Arabs. After the Nazi defeat at El Alamein in 1942, Al Husseini broadcast radio messages on Radio Berlin calling for continued Arabic resistance to Allied forces. In time, he came to be known as the "Fuhrer's Mufti" and the "Arab Fuhrer."

In March 1944, Al Husseini broadcast a call for a jihad to "kill the Jews wherever you find them. This pleases God, history, and religion."

On numerous occasions, Al Husseini intervened in the fate of European Jews, most notably blocking Adolph Eichmann's deal with the Red Cross to exchange Jewish children for German POWs.

Moreover, Al Husseini personally recruited Bosnia Muslims for the German Waffen SS, including the Skanderberg Division from Albania and Hanjer Division from Bosnia. The Hanjer (Saber) Division of the Waffen SS was responsible for the murder of over 90 percent of the Yugoslavian Jewish population.

SS leader Heinrich Himmler was so pleased with Al Husseini's Muslim Nazis that he established the Dresden-based Mullah Military School for their continued recruitment and training. In 1944, Hanjer commandos parachuted into Tel Aviv and poisoned drinking wells in Jewish communities in an effort to stir up ethnic tensions.

After the fall of Nazi Germany, Al Husseini fled to Cairo, Egypt in 1946 rather than face war crime charges for his actions in Yugoslavia. But he continued his operations.

In the late 1940s and early 1950s, Al Husseini worked closely with a pro-fascist group in Egypt called Young Egypt. In 1952 Gamal Abdul Nasser, a prominent member of Young Egypt, was among military officers who seized control of the Egyptian government from King Fu'ad. Al Husseini is reported to have been responsible for bringing Otto Skorzeny, the Nazi commando once labeled by the OSS as "the most dangerous man in Europe," into the employ of the Nasser government.

Similarly, Al Husseini had a strong influence over the founding members of both the Iraqi and Syrian Ba'ath party. Strong evidence exists that al Husseini was instrumental in the arranging of Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner's employment as an advisor to the Syrian general staff. However, al Husseini's central role in the creation of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1964 is perhaps his most indelible mark on the Middle East today.

The radical Imam was the spiritual mentor of the first chairman of the PLO, Ahmed Shukairi, and saw that much of his ideology was instilled in the organization. More importantly, Al Husseini used his extensive connections to recruit financial supporters for the PLO throughout the Arab world.

Almost 30 years after al Husseini's death in 1974, the Palestinian people still revere him as a hero and embrace his radical theology. The "Arab Fuhrer's" close Nazi association and virulent anti-Semitism is perhaps the reason that Hitler's Meinf Kampf is ranked as the sixth all-time bestseller among Palestinian Arabs.

Several of his descendants remain active in Palestinian affairs today.

Al Husseini's grandson, Faisal Husseini, was part of the PLO since 1964 and served as minister without portfolio in the Palestinian National Authority, with responsibility for Jerusalem until his death in May 2001.

The radical imam's nephew, Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el Husseini, has been a major player in Palestinian terrorism for almost 40 years. He was the guiding force behind the merging of the Fatah faction into the PLO. In 1990, Rahman Abdul Rauf el-Qudwa el Husseini was responsible for the Palestinian community's support of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait.

Most Mideast observers today recognize the younger Al Husseini by the secular name he adopted as his own in 1952, Yasser Arafat.

By the late 1980's many of the PLO's radical Muslim financiers had become disillusioned with the increasingly secular nature of the Palestinian movement. Yasser Arafat's support of Saddam Hussein in the early 1990s strongly angered and prompted many of these extremists in the Persian Gulf states to reduce or all together withdraw their financial backing of the PLO.

An astute emerging Sunni terrorist, Osama bin Laden, capitalized upon Arafat's political misstep and transformed his al Qaeda organization into the prime recipient of financial support from Sunni Muslim radicals. That funding has enabled bin Laden to wage terrorist attacks on western and Israeli interests for over a decade. His most recent "Letter to the American People" echoed al Husseini's propaganda claim that "the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al Aqsa mosque."

There is little doubt that throughout history the Arabs and Jews have encountered the kind of friction that comes from any two distinct religious or ethnic groups sharing the same geography. However, that history has largely been one of relatively peaceful coexistence. The divergence from that pattern occurs in 1920 with the rise of a virulent anti-Semitic mufti of Jerusalem whose ideology embodied more similarities to that of Nazi Germany than to the historical Islam of Saladin or the Ottoman Turks.

The wave of extremist Islam that has plagued the world in the latter days of the 20th century and into the opening days of the 21st, has little to do with ancient history or Islam. The cause lays largely at the feet of Haj Amin Muhammad Al Husseini, who utilized murder and anti-Semitism to consolidate his power over his fellow Arabs and further his personal quest to be caliph of the pan-Arab world.

Hagee...what were you thinkin', brother???

Hagee...what were you thinkin', brother???


Huckabee and McCain both campaigned in Texas to be the Republican nominee for the 2008 General Election for President of the United States of America.

Let's look at the facts:

1. The Presidential position is an executive position.
2. McCain is known widely as a liberal Republican with very little executive experience.
3. Huckabee is known widely as a conservative Republican with much executive experience.


Who did Hagee support? McCain.
Why did Hagee support him? Because he assumed that McCain was going to win the nomination.

(Read: http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/02/28/714684.aspx)

I looked at those words and could not believe what I was reading.

Here is John Hagee, a person esteemed as a evangelical leader. He has a 19,000 +/- following in San Antonio, TX. I've listened to the man preach, and while I don't agree with everything he believes, I generally agree with his theology...but not with his politics.

John, you are supposed to be a man of faith. Where was your faith? Who is more like Christ? Huckabee or McCain? Granted, no one is perfect as the Messiah is, but I ask you to honestly tell me: Is Huckabee or McCain more like Christ?


When David went to face Goliath, he was met with opposition. His own brothers tried to send him away. They basically asked David, who was still young, "What do you think you are doing here?" David responded, "Is there not a cause?" Outstanding response!

They didn't think David could defeat Goliath. Granted, Goliath was a battle-hardened giant, and David was a small shepherd boy. Physically, the odds stacked against David...but spiritually and in measure of faith, David greatly overpowered Goliath and defeated him. He cut off Goliath's head with Goliath's own sword for crying out loud!!!

Is that not what we are seeing today? Huckabee as David, and the Democrats as the Goliaths?

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Who will defeat the Democrats?

The liberal-minded McCain? I don't think so. The Democratic voters will view him as Democrat wannabe, and the Republican voters will see him as a sell-out. McCain in the White House? I don't think so.

I can almost see John Hagee looking at David as he approached the battlefield with a smirk on his face. I can almost hear Hagee ridiculing David for even showing up. "Who do you think you are? Forget how small you are compared to a Philistine giant. Have you considered how small you are compared to the average full-grown man? Go home, boy..."

King Saul tried to outfit David in his own armor, but David refused it. He wasn't used to those things. David was more accustomed to facing the enemy as he had faced the enemies of his flock of sheep. Wearing shepherds clothing and armed with a sling and a few rocks.

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Hagee, you made the wrong choice, bubba.

David won the fight.

Ask yourself: Would Jesus have chosen McCain or Huckabee? Would Goliath have been defeated if David had gone home?

"Victory is within our grasp because John McCain knows it's never wrong to do the right thing," Hagee said.
(Read: http://www.christiantoday.com/article/proisrael.evangelical.leader.hagee.endorses.mccain/17105.htm)

Ok nevermind that Hagee's statement is only stating the obvious ("it's never wrong to do the right thing"?? ok, I will put that in the "no duh" category).

The right thing for Christians, according to our Christian theology, is to place our support behind leaders who most resemble and imitate Christ and stand behind them.

You should always, always, always stand for what is right. Even if you think you might lose...even if you think you might die for it. That's what David did. That's what Mike did.

Hagee, what did you do?

Think about it...seriously.



Sincerely,


Rayburn

Little Bobby Throws A Fit

A very complicated way to let the world know that you are a sore loser...



Every once in a while, someone comes along and doesn't like the game that is being played and throws a wall-eyed temper tantrum...

...and then you've got guys like the 'Pastafarians' who take it to the next level of stupidity...

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Who are the Pastafarians?


According to Wikipedia (if you can believe an encyclopedia that ANYONE can change):

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The Flying Spaghetti Monster (also known as the Spaghedeity) is the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster and its system of beliefs, "Pastafarianism". The religion was founded in 2005 by Oregon State University physics graduate Bobby...to protest the decision by the Kansas State Board of Education to require the teaching of intelligent design as an alternative to biological evolution.

In an open letter sent to the education board, [Bobby] professes belief in a supernatural creator called the Flying Spaghetti Monster which resembles spaghetti and meatballs. He furthermore calls for the "Pastafarian" theory of creation to be taught in science classrooms.

Due to its recent popularity and media exposure, the Flying Spaghetti Monster is often used by atheists, agnostics (known by Pastafarians as "spagnostics"), and others as a modern version of Russell's teapot.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flying_Spaghetti_Monster)

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Ok, so little Bobby doesn't like the creation story. Guess what, Bobby, a lot of people don't like the creation story. A lot of people don't like the evolution fable either.

Ahem! Let me calm down and take the middle ground here before I launch into Bobby...

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Neither evolution or creation are provable; therefore both require that you 'believe' in them. Now, people can 'believe' whatever they want. I have looked at both theories...have listened to debates on this subject until my ears bled...and I have read more crap on these two theories until I had to get laser surgery on my cornea.

Which one is true? Neither can be proven. So which one should get tax-funded? To be fair: both or neither.


FUND BOTH OF THEM! Let the student decide which one to take, and let both sets of courses (1 set for evolution and 1 set for creation) lead towards a degree with equal credit rating.

Which one do I believe? I believe creationism to be correct. Why? Because it makes more sense to me. God spoke and it happened which makes a whole lot more sense than to say that everything came from nothing. What? Yes, the evolutionist believes that everything came from nothing. They call it the "Big Bang".

Now, the next thing that will happen is that some knucklehead will say, "Rayburn believes in creation? Look at the stuff he writes. They're all about blah, blah, blazzy-blah. Har-har-har!" as they wipe the slobber from their shirt.

I have been in debates on this subject for many years, and do you know how many peoples minds that I have changed? Zero.

Debates are for those who want to argue. No one wins unless you have irrefutable proof that your argument is correct.

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Back to the subject

So little Bobby didn't get his way. So what does he do? Made himself look like a brat is what he did. Although I can't give Bob all the credit. He just made up an idea and the rest of the atheists followed suit and are completing the fable of their zesty Italian-flavored icon. I don't really think little Bobby could have come up with this all by himself. Besides, misery loves company.

Here's what I figure happened. When little Bobby saw that they were actually going to teach creationism in his school, he FREAKED OUT. "What? You mean there are people who believe there is a God? What if it's true? I might be held accountable for what I do! AUGH!!!! SPAGHETTI MONSTER, PLEASE SAVE ME!!!!"

And then his brain got stuck on stupid as the rest of the atheists completed the idea of the spaghetti theory.

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Little Bobby, I am sorry that the only course of action that you knew to take concerning creationism was to dive head first into doofyism. You could have handled this much more "intelligently".

Oh, and by the way, I do have another theory: Perhaps only the atheist came from monkeys? ...now that's a subject that is debatable.


I'm out,


Rayburn