Video: Two interesting videos on Gold and Silver

If you happen to believe this is a blog posting to try and promote some income for myself….you would be right! 😉 😀 😛 🙂

But seriously, I think these videos should be watched by many.

…and now for the kicker:

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Read this and try not to puke.

Ugh…..

Egypt’s National Council for Women is campaigning against the changes, saying that ‘marginalising and undermining the status of women would negatively affect the country’s human development’.
Dr Mervat al-Talawi, head of the NCW, wrote to the Egyptian People’s Assembly Speaker Dr Saad al-Katatni addressing her concerns.
Egyptian journalist Amro Abdul Samea reported in the al-Ahram newspaper that Talawi complained about the legislations which are being introduced under ‘alleged religious interpretations’.
via Outrage as Egypt plans ‘farewell intercourse law’ so husbands can have sex with dead wives up to six hours AFTER their death | Mail Online.

Gross. Hmm, I wonder if Samantha Power would support something like this? or…. dare I say it? Obama? Hmmmm…

Others: The Gateway Pundit, The Jawa Report, The Daily Caller, A Blog For All, Weasel Zippers, Atlas Shrugs, Clayton Cramer’s Blog and The Daily Dish

Remember Samantha Power?

It seems that Samantha Power has gotten a new job.

“Yid with a Lid” reports:

Only Barack Obama! Today the President tried to show he was a friend of the Jews with a beautifully crafted speech Holocaust Museum. Showing his words mean nothing, also today Samantha Power began work today as chair of President Barack Obama’s new Atrocities Prevention Board. If you don’t remember Ms Power she once called for a US force to invade Israel and force through a “peace settlement.” Powers also had some unflattering things to say about about America’s Jewish population during the 2008 campaign
How long do you think it will be before Powers uses that board as tool to de-legitimize Israel?
via “The Lid”: Obama Selects Woman Who Wanted to Invade Israel As Chair of Genocide Panel.

This lady is a real piece of work; head on over and check out the video over at Lid’s site. Previous Samantha Power offerings at my old blog here.

Christian Guitarist Phil Keaggy in hospital

Some sad news to report.

But first one of my favorite videos:

The story from various sources:

From WCTI-TV:

Craven County — The concert for two-times Grammy Nominated Phil Keaggy has been canceled at Temple Baptist Church.
According to Temple’s website, Keaggy was hospitalized due to complications from a recent surgery, after a brief performance last night.

Via House of Guardian: (H/T to Classic Petra on facebook)

Please pray for Phil Keaggy. He is in the ICU in North Carolina after hemorrhaging during a routine procedure. was operated on an hour ago.

Via Temple Baptist Church in New Bern, NC:

Phil Keaggy has been hospitalized due to complications from a recent colonoscopy. We regret that he is unable to be with us this weekend. The good news is, he will be fine. Please pray for him and help us get the word out. We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused, especially to those who have traveled to be here tonight for the concert.

I think it would be a good idea for everyone, who loves Keith’s music and Keith himself; to spend a little time in prayer for him.

Young people aged 18-24 becoming “Religiously Unaffliated”

I have an opinion on this one….

Video:

Details about America’s youngest eligible voters and their faith are coming into focus.
A survey of about 2,000 millennials aged 18-24 found major religious shifts among this age group, according to the Public Religion Research Institute and the Berkley Center for Religion at Georgetown University.
The survey found that all Christian groups have millennials leaving their ranks. Catholics saw the the biggest drop of nearly 8 percent less millennials identifying with the religion.
Now, 25 percent of those in this age group say they are “religiously unaffiliated.” Nearly 14 percent of millennials have left the religious traditions of their childhoods to become unaffiliated.
“Millennials are much less likely to say they have a personal belief in God like someone you can have a relationship with,” Robert Jones, with the Berkley Center at Georgetown, explained.
“They’re more likely than older generations to say that God is a more impersonal force in the universe,” he said.Via More Millennials Becoming ‘Religiously Unaffiliated’ – US – CBN News – Christian News 24-7 – CBN.com

I believe there is a reason for this; many of the young people of today, see the utter hypocrisy of Christians today and the lack of separation from the world and they just decide that this sort of Worldly lite Christianity is really not for them. I cannot say that I honestly blame them, if I were in this age group, I would most likely be the same way.

What these young people are making the mistake of doing is this; they basing their beliefs or lack of, on what other people do. Christianity is not about what other people do or, in other words, Christianity is Faith that Christ died on the cross, 2012 years ago for my sins and because of that, I invited him into my heart, when I was 9 years old. I have been saved ever since. What other people do — or do not do — does not affect my walk with the Lord. admittedly, it has been tough for me, I have been wronged by so-called “Christians” in the past. However, I have made the decision, I am not going to stop serving the Lord, because of what other people do.

That, is what these young people have done. The only thing we can do, is pray for them.

HotAir’s Tina Korbe moves on

I was actually sad to see this. It appears that HotAir’s Tina Korbe is moving on to greener pastures.

You can read Ed’s posting here and Tina’s final posting here.

Just a personal note of observation; I did not always agree with her and I even once gently criticized her. But, I always respected her opinions —– even if I did not agree with them all. I also noticed another thing too; the commenters over at HotAir.com could be downright brutal with Tina. I believe this was fueled by resentment of a woman blogging at HotAir or something. I never made my criticisms of Tina personal. I simply stated that I disagreed with her. Some of the comments on Tina’s postings were personal, brutal, sexist and nasty. So, I can see why Tina left.

Either way, I wish Tina the best. She is a very smart woman, that I am sure will do well in whatever she does. Tina is also a very, very, beautiful woman; and the man she is going to marry is going to be one lucky guy. I wish him and Tina the very best. 🙂

Woof?!?!

Oh boy…. the silly season is on us.

Go read.

…and a little music for the occasion:

Google AdSense Suspends My Account

It was bound to happen, I guess. It seems that I have done something to upset the “Google Gods” and I now find my Google Adsense account suspended. I say this, because this came bounding through my Inbox today:

Hello,
After reviewing our records, we’ve determined that your AdSense account
poses a risk of generating invalid activity. Because we have a
responsibility to protect our AdWords advertisers from inflated costs due
to invalid activity, we’ve found it necessary to disable your AdSense
account. Your outstanding balance and Google’s share of the revenue will
both be fully refunded back to the affected advertisers.
Please understand that we need to take such steps to maintain the
effectiveness of Google’s advertising system, particularly the
advertiser-publisher relationship. We understand the inconvenience that
this may cause you, and we thank you in advance for your understanding and
cooperation.
If you have any questions or concerns about the actions we’ve taken, how
you can appeal this decision, or invalid activity in general, you can find
more information by visiting
http://www.google.com/adsense/support/bin/answer.py?answer=57153.
Sincerely,
The Google AdSense Team

I have no clue what they mean by “invalid activity.” I suppose it might be related to my political position, and my boldness to speak my mind on race and the double standard of such things. However, it does appear that Google just took the only sort of income that I have, that actually pay, which is related to this blog. The Amazon stuff has not really paid at all; the guns stuff and the gold, and the other ads are all of the “I get paid, if you buy” kind; so, it looks like good ol’ Google has me by the short hairs.

I will not sit here and yowl on about “Freedom of Speech” or anything stupid like that; Google is a private entity and they are not obligated to offer me service at all. I very well could have written something that offended someone’s liberalism and he or she decided to suspend my account. I filled out an appeal request, but I tend to believe that will be ignored or at the least looked at and rejected.

I am not a whiner; so, I will not sit here and gripe my situation — but I will tell you about how now my parents will have to foot the bill for my medication for ADHD, which runs $50.00 a month. This is because I have no healthcare insurance and that is because I have been jobless, outside of what this blog makes —- for the last 7 years. I blame myself partially for that; and I blame both political parties for stupid decisions that caused this hideous economy, both here in Michigan and nationally.

This might be also a good time to inform you, that if you are a Conservative blogger, be watchful and possibly consider other advertising avenues, as Google seems to be tightening the rules on what they tolerate; they just do not tell you that, they dump you for idiot ambiguous reasons, like this one. Again, I will not call this a “freedom of speech issue,” I call this simply a private company choosing to be selective about whom they do business with, and it is obvious to me, they are not interested in doing business with me any longer.

I think it goes without saying, that if there was ever a time for you to buy a book from my bookstore, or get a gun or some accessories or some gold or silver; or any of the other products in the sidebars —- or just hit my tip jar, this would be a good time to do it. Hopefully, I still have to goodwill amongst some of my readers. I mean, I know I can be a bit of a stickler and can take some unpopular positions — but man, did they have to cut me off at the knees?

Update (September 25, 2012): I am now on Adbrite. In case you are wondering about the ads. 😀

Photo: Summer Afternoon

As you all can see, I have not been posting much. It is summer; although for last few days around here, it has been cool for this late in the year. Anyhow, I just do not have much to say; politics is headed toward the general election. The Republican Party is picking a guy, who is not going to get elected. Obama is still an idiot, and I’ve grown bored of it all.

I also got a new handheld for my birthday, which is coming in June, I will be 40 years old. (ugh!) I hope to get some sort of employment this summer. This sitting around crap sucks!

But for now, as the photo shows; I am doing quite a bit of front porch sitting, which I love.

Till next time,

-Patrick

Some Clarity

I was not going to comment on this, but I feel the need to. As you all know, I defended John Derbyshire’s piece and even did a follow up on it. I even blasted NRO for their firing of him.

The one thing you must know, when I am right, I will argue about being right, until I am blue in the face or until I drop dead. What I will also do, unlike some of bloggers on the right; is admit when I make a mistake — and yes, I made a big one. I made the common mistake of not fully reading John Derbyshire’s piece, which I, for the most part, pretty much agree with — except one little part. That would be this one here:

(11) The mean intelligence of blacks is much lower than for whites. The least intelligent ten percent of whites have IQs below 81; forty percent of blacks have IQs that low. Only one black in six is more intelligent than the average white; five whites out of six are more intelligent than the average black. These differences show in every test of general cognitive ability that anyone, of any race or nationality, has yet been able to devise. They are reflected in countless everyday situations. “Life is an IQ test.”

I included the links, because, quite bluntly, I hold some of those links in suspicion. Look, I do not like what happened to my Cousin at all; but I am not prepared to say that ALL black people are stupid — because they are black. I just do not agree with that and I do not think that my late Cousin Michael Hill would either.

Folks, I admit it, I blew it here and I blew it badly, for not reading the entire article. Next time, I think I will be a bit more careful in reading articles, like this one; before I toss my support behind it. Again, what happened to my cousin in 1994 was a tragic thing and I think I should mention, that my cousin was not totally blameless either. Were there trigger happy cops involved? Yes. Were they corrupt? Yes. But my cousin could have prevented it from happening, by using a little bit of common sense. All I am saying about that, its a personal family thing and I do not like using family for political stuff. But, I felt this warranted the mention, seeing all this stuff about Trayvon Martin.

Again, my friends, I am very sorry and next time; I will be much more careful about what I support and write about. Also too, a special thanks to Ed Morrissey of HotAir.com and Roy Edroso at Village Voice for pointing out the part of that article that I was not aware of, when I hit publish the first time. Let this be a lesson to me and everyone who sided with this piece; that WE READ THE WHOLE THING before we hit publish! It is a lesson well-learned, at least here anyhow.

Bottom-Line: I reject the accusation of racism by the left. But, I will fully admit to not reading that entire article and then siding with it. Because of that, I can say that I do not agree with the article now fully, neither would my late cousin.