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It’s Jewish

When we present G-d’s holy Law
And arguments from Scripture draw,
Objectors say, to pick a flaw:
“It’s Jewish”

Romans 7:12,22; Psalms 19:7-8;
Revelation 14:12: Acts 17:11…

Though at Creation Yeshua blessed
And sanctified the Seventh Day for rest,
The same belief is still expressed:
“It’s Jewish!”

Genesis 2:2-3; Exodus 20:10-11

Though with the world this rest began
And hence through all the Scriptures ran,
Even though Yeshua said ’twas made for man”…
“It’s Jewish!”

Mark 2:27: Luke 4:16: Acts 17:2; Matthew 24:20;
Luke 23:56; Acts 13:42-44; Isaiah 56:2-7

Though not with Jewish rites which passed,
But with the moral Law ’twas classed,
Which must exist while time shall last—
“It’s Jewish!”

Matthew 5:17-20; James 2:10-12: Romans 3:31
Psalms 111:7-10: 1John 2:3-4; Revelation 22:14

If from the Bible we present
The Sabbath’s meaning and intent,
This answers every argument:
“It’s Jewish!”

Exodus 16:4-5, 26-28; 20:8-12;
Ezekiel 20:12-25, Isaiah 58:13-14

Though the disciples one and all,
Continued still this rest to call
The Sabbath day, this answers all:
“It’s Jewish”

Acts 16:13; 18:4; Luke 6:5:
Matthew 28:1; Acts 15:21; 17:2

The Gospel Teacher’s plain expression
That “sin is of the Law transgression”
Seems not to make the least impression;
“It’s Jewish”

1John 3:4; Romans 4:15; 3:20: 7:7

They love the day of man’s invention,
But if the sabbath day of Yeshua we mention
This puts an end to all contention:
“It’s Jewish”

1Timothy 4:1; 2Thessalonians 2:3-4;
Isaiah 58:13, Matthew 12:8

Oh ye who thus G-d’s day abuse
Simply because ’twas kept by Jews,
The Saviour, too, you must refuse—
“He’s Jewish”

John 4:9-10; Hebrews 7:14; Mark 15:32

The Scriptures, then, we may expect
For the same reason you’ll reject.
For if you stop to recollect,
“They’re Jewish!”

Romans 3:1-3; James 1:1

Thus the apostles, too, must fall,
For Andrew, Peter, James, and Paul,
Thomas, Matthew, John, and all,
Were Jewish.

Acts 16:20; Philippians 3:5

So to your hapless state resign
Yourself in wretchedness to pine;
Salvation surely you’ll decline—
“It’s Jewish!”

John 4:22; Hebrews 8:8; Matthew 10:6; 15:24

The gravest threat we face is not from Islamic extremists, but the codification of draconian procedures that deny Americans basic civil liberties and due process. – One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/one_day_well_all_be_terrorists_20091228/

Syed Fahad Hashmi can tell you about the dark heart of America. He knows that our First Amendment rights have become a joke, that habeas corpus no longer exists and that we torture, not only in black sites such as those at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan or at Guantánamo Bay, but also at the federal Metropolitan Correctional Center (MCC) in Lower Manhattan. Hashmi is a U.S. citizen of Muslim descent imprisoned on two counts of providing and conspiring to provide material support and two counts of making and conspiring to make a contribution of goods or services to al-Qaida. As his case prepares for trial, his plight illustrates that the gravest threat we face is not from Islamic extremists, but the codification of draconian procedures that deny Americans basic civil liberties and due process. Hashmi would be a better person to tell you this, but he is not allowed to speak.

This corruption of our legal system, if history is any guide, will not be reserved by the state for suspected terrorists, or even Muslim Americans. In the coming turmoil and economic collapse, it will be used to silence all who are branded as disruptive or subversive. Hashmi endures what many others, who are not Muslim, will endure later. Radical activists in the environmental, globalization, anti-nuclear, sustainable agriculture and anarchist movements—who are already being placed by the state in special detention facilities with Muslims charged with terrorism—have discovered that his fate is their fate. Courageous groups have organized protests, including vigils outside the Manhattan detention facility. They can be found at www.educatorsforcivilliberties.org or www.freefahad.com. On Martin Luther King Day,  this Jan. 18 at 6 p.m. EST, protesters will hold a large vigil in front of the MCC on 150 Park Row in Lower Manhattan to call for a return of our constitutional rights. Join them if you can.

If it were a matter of evidence, activists like Hashmi, who is accused of facilitating the delivery of socks to al-Qaida, would probably never be brought to trial.

Hashmi, who if convicted could face up to 70 years in prison, has been held in solitary confinement for more than 2½ years.

Hashmi is not allowed to attend group prayer. He is subject to 24-hour electronic monitoring and 23-hour lockdown. He must shower and go to the bathroom on camera. He can write one letter a week to a single member of his family, but he cannot use more than three pieces of paper. He has no access to fresh air and must take his one hour of daily recreation in a cage. His “proclivity for violence” is cited as the reason for these measures although he has never been charged or convicted with committing an act of violence.

The extreme sensory deprivation used on Hashmi is a form of psychological torture, far more effective in breaking and disorienting detainees. It is torture as science. In Germany, the Gestapo broke bones while its successor, the communist East German Stasi, broke souls. We are like the Stasi. We have refined the art of psychological disintegration and drag bewildered suspects into secretive courts when they no longer have the mental and psychological capability to defend themselves.

“Most of the evidence is classified,” Jeanne Theoharis, an associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College who taught Hashmi, told me, “but Hashmi is not allowed to see it. He is an American citizen. But in America you can now go to trial and all the evidence collected against you cannot be reviewed. You can spend 2½ years in solitary confinement before you are convicted of anything. There has been attention paid to extraordinary rendition, Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib with this false idea that if people are tried in the United States things will be fair. But what allowed Guantánamo to happen was the devolution of the rule of law here at home, and this is not only happening to Hashmi.”

Our descent is the familiar disease of decaying empires. The tyranny we impose on others we finally impose on ourselves. The influx of non-Muslim American activists into these facilities is another ominous development. It presages the continued dismantling of the rule of law, the widening of a system where prisoners are psychologically broken by sensory deprivation, extreme isolation and secretive kangaroo courts where suspects are sentenced on rumors and innuendo and denied the right to view the evidence against them. Dissent is no longer the duty of the engaged citizen but is becoming an act of terrorism.

In the dead of night on December 17, 2009, President Barack Hussein Obama placed the United States of America under the authority of the international police organization known as INTERPOL, granting the organization full immunity to operate within the United States.

http://www.examiner.com/x-3704-Columbia-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d26-US-placed-under-international-policestate

INTERPOL now has the full authority to conduct investigations and other law enforcement activities on U.S. soil, with full immunity from U.S. laws such as the Freedom of Information Act and with complete independence from oversight from the FBI.

This is very dangerous. A complete violation of the US Constitution and our Bill of Rights.

A coup is underway in the United States of America, the goal of which is to establish complete, unquestioned authority over the citizens–a ‘fundamental change’ to the United States where citizens have no legal recourse against an authoritarian central government.

Here are some great Bento Ideas. Would you make or eat any of these?

Do you have a favorite?

Here are my baby pictures

I just had to share this picture of me holding my cute little nephew Lucian this past Sunday

He likes sticking his tongue out

Here are some Mario Bento Boxes. What do you think? Make you hungry?

The Xbox 360 bento box was made from many items not found in a conventional Xbox 360 – including seedless cucumbers, grapes, Japanese yam cakes, egg white, star jelly pudding among other delicacies. But the main element – the controller – is made from good old jasmine rice.


I love Bento Boxes! What are your thoughts?

There is a barn fire in progress close to our house! I will update this as I get information.

Second bad fire in the Ephrata area in 3 days.

No injuries were reported at the and the barn was a complete loss