There needs be some changes in the world to not allow this practice!

In Afghanistan women are not allowed to dance in public, but boys can be made to dance in women’s clothing – and they are often sexually abused.

It’s after midnight. I’m at a wedding party in a remote village in northern Afghanistan.

There is no sign of the bride or groom, or any women, only men. Some of them are armed, some of them are taking drugs.

Almost everyone’s attention is focused on a 15-year-old boy. He’s dancing for the crowd in a long and shiny woman’s dress, his face covered by a red scarf.

He is wearing fake breasts and bells around his ankles. Someone offers him some US dollars and he grabs them with his teeth.

This is an ancient tradition. People call it bachabaze which literally means “playing with boys”.

The most disturbing thing is what happens after the parties. Often the boys are taken to hotels and sexually abused.

The men behind the practice are often wealthy and powerful. Some of them keep several bachas (boys) and use them as status symbols – a display of their riches. The boys, who can be as young as 12, are usually orphans or from very poor families.

Omid’s story

I spent months trying to find a bacha who was willing to talk about his experience.

Omid (not his real name) is 15 years old. His father died in the fields, when he stepped on a landmine. As the eldest son, it’s his job to look after his mother – who begs on the streets – and two younger brothers.

“I started dancing at wedding parties when I was 10, when my father died,” says Omid.

“We were hungry, I had no choice. Sometimes we go to bed on empty stomachs. When I dance at parties I earn about $2 or some pilau rice.”

I ask him what happens when people take him to hotels. He bows his head and pauses for a long time before answering.

Omid says he is paid about $2 for the night. Sometimes he is gang raped.

I ask him why he doesn’t go to the police for help.

“They are powerful and rich men. The police can’t do anything against them.”

Omid’s mother is in her early 30s, but her hair is white and her face creased. She looks at least 50. She tells me she only has half a kilo of rice and a few onions for dinner. They’ve run out of cooking oil.

She knows that her son dances at parties but she is more concerned about what they will eat tomorrow. The fact that her son is vulnerable to abuse is far from her mind.

In denial

There have been very few attempts by the authorities to clamp down on the bachabaze tradition.

Muhammad Ibrahim, deputy Police Chief of Jowzjan province, denies that the practice continues.

“We haven’t had any cases of bachabaze in the last four-to-five years. It doesn’t exist here any more,” he says.

“If we find any man practising it we’ll punish them.”

According to Abdulkhabir Uchqun, an MP from northern Afghanistan, the tradition is not just alive, but steadily growing.

“Unfortunately it is the on the increase in almost every region of Afghanistan. I asked local authorities to act to stop this practice but they don’t do anything,” he says.

“Our officials are too ashamed to admit that it even exists.”

Afghanistan is a country where Islamic values are cherished so I asked a Grand Mullah at the Shrine of Ali in Mazar-e Sharif – the holiest place in Afghanistan – for his views on bachabaze.

“Bachabaze is in no way acceptable in Islam. Actually, it’s child abuse. It’s happening because our justice system doesn’t work.

“This country has been lawless for many years and responsible bodies and people can’t protect children,” he explains.

Dancing boys are picked out at a young age by men who cruise the streets looking for effeminate boys among the poor and vulnerable. They offer them money and food.

The Independent Human Rights Commission in Kabul is one of the few organisations that has attempted to address the bachabaze practice.

The group’s head, Musa Mahmudi, says while it is common in many parts of Afghanistan there have been no studies to determine how many children are abused across the country.

He takes me to the street in front of his office to show me just how difficult it is to protect children here.

The streets of Afghanistan are full of working children. They polish shoes, they beg, they gather plastic bottles to resell. They will take on any job which will earn them some money, he says.

Dancing bells

Every Afghan I spoke to knew about bachabaze. Many tried to convince me that it exists only in remote areas.

But I went to a party late at night in the old quarter of Kabul, less than a mile from the government’s headquarters.

It was there that I met Zabi (again not his real name), a 40-year-old man who is proud to have three dancing boys.

Zabi says he has a good job and he gives them money.

“My youngest bacha is 15 and the oldest is 18. It wasn’t easy to find them. But if you want it badly – you will find them,” he says.

“We have a circle of close friends who also have bachas. Sometimes we gather together and put women’s clothes and dancing bells on our bachas and they dance for us for two-to-three hours. That’s all.”

He says he has never slept with his boys, though he admits he hugs and kisses them.

I tell him that many people think this practice is wrong.

“Some people like dog fighting, some practice cockfighting. Everyone has their hobby, for me, it’s bachabaze,” he says.

When we leave the party at two in the morning a teenage boy is still dancing and offering drugs to the men around him.

Zabi is not especially wealthy or powerful, yet he has three bachas. There are many people who support this tradition across Afghanistan and many of them are very influential.

The Afghan government is unable and some say unwilling to tackle the problem. They are facing a growing insurgent movement. How long international troops will stay in the country is uncertain.

The justice system is weak, poverty is widespread, and there are thousands of children on the streets trying to make a living.

So bachabaze will continue.

You can hear the entire documentary ‘Afghanistan’s Dancing Boys’ on 8 September from 0905GMT on the BBC World Service, or you can listen online by clicking here. This programme is part of the BBC World Service’s World Stories series.

The truth is eternal, and never changing, what was or is, or will be is always the truth!

The truth supersedes all else, even the falsehood or lies…  Because even the untruths are true as the exist  in an existence which is a true event in time!   Yes, even the bad or falsehoods of existence are a true happening…  Therefore the truth exist in all things, because since even the false lies exist they are a true occurrence…

This does not mean that you need believe a lie or falsehood,  just that you should become aware of it’s existence…  Because it exist or has occurred it is a true event in time! There is some truth in every lie!

Why is this dear friend?

Well if you (we) get back to the basic elements of the universe, it becomes apparent, that we live by certain inalienable laws or principles of Truth!  These are based upon the very essence of Almighty God!

God is truth and all that is created by Him exist as some form of truth!

Yes even Satan, is a true existence, while opposed to the directives of God,  he exist and operates while in unholy ways he is a true being…  Therefore there is a truth about even the devil and all the evil in the universe!  Satan does exist…    To believe otherwise is one of the great lies perpetrated upon the created beings…

Your purpose in life is to seek the truth, beyond this earthly existence in which we exist….  You should  { which is conditional } extend all your effort to find how the truth can or will effect your future…

Remember ” Consequences follow conduct!”

If you live an evil self centered life without repentance and acceptance of the saving Grace of The One true God, then you will only have a evil lonely existence in the eternity to come! Because The Only Sin that will cast you into the Outer Darkness { Which is with out God}; is to reject or not accept His Grace and Mercy that He has offered  and allowed through  His Son , by your personal choice!  There by failing to accept His Lordship and Surrendering to His Will in your life!   That is The Sin of  Unforgiveness!

This is the truth, and neither you nor anyone else can change that period!

You can do wrong, even when you do not realize that it is wrong or evil!

This should be enough to scar you into seeking the Grace of God in your life!

But since the Truth of God is an open book, you can through prayer, supplication and repentance come to the saving Grace of Almighty God, who alone can save your very  soul!  This is where your faith comes into play, the act of being saved is a open on going thing that must be worked out by you alone with fear and trembling!

What we should learn in this life is simply truth!

The truth exist; find it for your sake!

We will discuss this in more detail how to find the truth which is an open book in future posts…

May Almighty God Bless your soul, and grant you the peace you seek through the Universal Truth of His Word!

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One of the ways the Islamic desired control of America {and all other non Muslim countries} is coming about is through the prison systems and propaganda  in local masques….   Read this report:

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Converts to terror

By PATRICK DUNLEAVY

Reporting on the terrorism trial now under way in federal district court in Manhattan is focusing on defense attorneys’ “entrapment” claim. But to me, the more interesting question is how the four accused were radicalized to the point where they’d even consider plotting to bomb synagogues in The Bronx and shoot down aircraft with missiles.

What stands out is the prison connection.

All four defendants were former inmates. More important, all three imams at the mosque in Newburgh that the defendants attended after being released from prison had a connection with the prison system.

Imams Salahuddin Muhammad, Hamin Rashada and Melody Rashada worked for the Department of Correctional Services. All had been hired by Warith Deen Umar — who for years headed ministerial services for the New York state prison system.

Umar stated in a 2003 Wall Street Journal interview that prisons were a prime place to recruit homegrown terrorists. As recently as last year, at an Islamic Society of North American convention, he made disparaging remarks about Israel and Jews in 2009. He’s an an avowed Salafist.

The Wahabbi/Salafist sect of Islam adheres to a strict interpretation of the Koran and aims to restore the caliphate form of government, functioning under Sharia law. It views Jews and other groups of nonbelievers as infidels and enemies of Islam.

And it has been the dominant Islamic theology in the prison Muslim community for decades — thanks to generous Saudi funding for literature and training for the chaplains. It’s been so dominant that Shia Muslim inmates in New York filed a class-action lawsuit against the prison administrators, claiming religious persecution, threats and overt acts of intimidation by other Muslim inmates at the behest of the civil-service chaplains.

Several years ago, authorities recorded conversations of convicts in Imam Salahuddin Muhammad’s congregation. One claimed that both the governor and the president of the United States were “Zionist puppets.” Another called Jews “pigs and dogs.”

Is it any wonder that one of the defendants, alleged ringleader James Cromitie, was recorded making anti-Semitic remarks and stating that he wanted to destroy the Jews, seeing them as enemies of Islam.

Where and when were these seeds of hatred planted — and where was the prison chaplain when all this was going on?

In an interview with The New York Times after the arrest of the four suspects in May 2009, Imam Salahuddin Muhammad insisted he’d seen little evidence of radicalization in prison, claiming, “I don’t hear any of that wild stuff,” he said, “and if I did hear it, I would stomp it out. It’s totally un-Islamic.”

Yet, during his time as chaplain in the Fishkill State Prison, he hired several inmates with known radical Islamic ties as clerks in the chaplain’s office. One was a Palestinian Hamas member; another was a Yemeni inmate with ties to the Lackawanna Six — a US-grown terrorist cell that attended al Qaeda training camps in the Middle East. He even allowed the inmates to use his office phone to call the Middle East and North Africa.

One need only look at the amount of money from inmate funds that were sent to the Newburgh mosque over the years to see a well-established connection. Inmates from the chaplains’ prison congregations have also sent thousands of dollars to pseudo-Islamic charities, such as the Holy Land Foundation and others, which in turn provided material support for terrorist organizations.

Radical Islamic recruitment in the prison system is a reality. Years of sowing seeds among a captive audience are bearing fruit.

It was no coincidence that the authorities focused on this particular congregation.

Patrick Dunleavy, a former deputy inspector general of the state Department of Correctional Services, spent more than 26 years working in law enforcement. As head of the Criminal Intelligence Division, he probed the radical Islamic-recruitment movement inside and outside prison walls. A version of this article ran at investigativeproject.org.

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To see more truth about Islamic law   go to  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=radQfdRNSxA

{ Children of the night – sharia law }    Here is more truth!

This is  just more of the Truth about how your freedom is being subverted; one of the most important things in this is why anyone knowing how this Islamic law works would choose this?

If we can’t or won’t do something to correct our course in this earthly life then we have only ourselves to blame for any grief that will follow! As the sands of times pass on!

Date:   9/1/2010   09:09:39  GMT  Orig Blog viewed  333, 386 times

The winds of change!

The Winds of change! by kerminator …..

This is a must read for those who are confused or lost in their life! We all pass through this world experiencing change… Most is thrust upon us by the so called powers to be or the “Fad” ravaged society, this is a map to help make sense out of the “Copy cat” images placed before us! Most of which attempt to control your life! HUH!

Date: 3/25/2010 08:52:01 GMT orig. blog has been viewed over 220, 616 times…

We all need to look at what we eat… Learn to control your life so you do not need all the meds and procedures… HUH!

Date:   8/27/2010 10:18:25 GAT

** Here is some info that may save you some grief!

How Does Sugar Feed Cancer?

Controlling your blood-glucose and insulin levels through diet, exercise and emotional stress relief can be one of the most crucial components to a cancer recovery program. These factors are also crucial in order to prevent cancer in the first place.

It may surprise you, but the theory that sugar feeds cancer was born nearly 80 years ago. Even more shocking, most conventional cancer programs STILL do not adequately address diet and the need to avoid sugars.

In 1931 the Nobel Prize was awarded to German researcher Dr. Otto Warburg, who first discovered that cancer cells have a fundamentally different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells.

Malignant tumors tend to use a process where glucose is used as a fuel by the cancer cells, creating lactic acid as a byproduct.^[i] The large amount of lactic acid produced by this fermentation of glucose from cancer cells is then transported to your liver. This conversion of glucose to lactic acid generates a lower, more acidic pH in cancerous tissues as well as overall physical fatigue from lactic acid buildup.^{[ii] [iii]}

This is a very inefficient pathway for energy metabolism, which extracts only about 5 percent of the available energy in your food supply. In simplistic terms, the cancer is “wasting” energy, which leads you to become both tired and undernourished, and as the vicious cycle continues, will lead to the body wasting so many cancer patients experience.

Additionally, carbohydrates from glucose and sucrose significantly decreases the capacity of neutrophils to do their job. Neutrophils are a type of white blood cell that help cells to envelop and destroy invaders, such as cancer.

In a nutshell, ALL forms of sugar are detrimental to health in general and promote cancer, but in slightly different ways, and to a different extent. Fructose, however, clearly seems to be one of the overall most harmful.

Connecting the Dots: Fructose—Uric Acid—Cancer and Chronic Disease Risk

One particularly interesting tidbit I noticed in this latest study is the mention of how fructose metabolism leads to increased uric acid production along with cancer cell proliferation.

In my first interview with Dr. Johnson, he explained just how detrimental the impact of fructose is on your uric acid level. Interestingly, ONLY fructose, NOT glucose, drives up uric acid as part of its normal metabolic pathways

And, the connection between fructose, uric acid, hypertension, insulin resistance/diabetes and kidney disease is so clear that your uric acid level can actually be used as a marker for toxicity from fructose — meaning that if your levels are high, you’re at increased risk of all the health hazards associated with fructose consumption and you really need to reduce your fructose intake.

For more information about this topic, please see this link.

Dr. Richard Johnson has written one of the best books on the market on the health dangers of fructose, called The Sugar Fix, which explains how fructose causes high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, diabetes and kidney disease. As I’ve mentioned previously, he does promote the use of artificial sweeteners in this book, which I cannot recommend.  His research on fructose, however, is unsurpassed in my opinion.

Now it’s safe to say that cancer, at least pancreatic cancer, is also definitely on the list of diseases that are directly linked to excessive fructose consumption.

So are Fruits Good or Bad for You?

This recommendation has created much controversy among many who regularly consume fruit and believe this recommendation does not apply to them.

Many who eat large amounts of fruit have no symptoms, just as those with high blood pressure may not have any symptoms. However lack of symptoms is no assurance you are not exposing yourself to some danger.

Please remember that over three-quarters of the population has insulin resistance.

How do you know if you have insulin resistance?  If you have any of the following conditions it is a safe bet you have it:

• Diabetes
• High blood pressure
• Overweight
• High Cholesterol
• Cancer

If you have insulin resistance it would be strongly recommended to limit your total grams of fructose from fruit to below 15 grams per day (see the table below).  If you believe you are very healthy and are an exception to this recommendation, then you can easily confirm if this is true for you by measuring your uric acid level.

If your uric acid level is greater than 5.5 than you have a risk factor and should limit your fructose consumption. The higher over 5.5, the stronger the risk factor is.

Keep in mind that fruits also contain fructose, although an ameliorating factor is that whole fruits also contain vitamins and other antioxidants that reduce the hazardous effects of fructose.

Juices, on the other hand, are nearly as detrimental as soda, because a glass of juice is loaded with fructose, and a lot of the antioxidants are lost.

It is important to remember that fructose alone isn’t evil as fruits are certainly beneficial. But when you consume high levels of fructose it will absolutely devastate your biochemistry and physiology. Remember the AVERAGE fructose dose is 70 grams per day which exceeds the recommend limit by 300 percent.

So please BE CAREFUL with your fruit consumption. You simply MUST understand that because HFCS is so darn cheap, it is added to virtually every processed food. So even if you consumed no soda or fruit, it is very easy to exceed 25 grams of hidden fructose in your diet if you are consuming anything processed.

If you are a raw food advocate, have a pristine diet, and exercise regularly, then you could be the exception that could exceed this limit and stay healthy. But in my experience that is certainly the exception and not the norm.

So please, carefully add up your fruits based on the table below to keep the total fructose from fruit below 15 grams per day.

Restricting Fructose Consumption is Crucial Part of a Comprehensive Cancer Treatment Plan

Reducing (or preferably eliminating) fructose and other added sugars, as well as limiting grain carbohydrates from your diet, is usually a primary priority  on my list of cancer reducing strategies, and for good reason.

This dietary strategy should also be part of your comprehensive cancer treatment plan.

By severely reducing your intake of fructose and carbs in your diet, you help stave off any potential cancer growth, and “starve” any tumors you currently have.

It also bolsters your overall immune function, because sugar decreases the function of your immune system almost immediately.

Unfortunately, few cancer patients undergoing conventional cancer care in the US are offered any scientifically guided nutrition therapy beyond being told to “just eat healthy foods.” I believe many cancer patients would see major improvement in their outcome if they controlled the supply of cancer’s preferred fuel, glucose, and stayed clear of fructose to significantly reduce tumor proliferation.

Starving Cancer – Another Up-and-Coming Strategy

Before I go into further cancer prevention strategies, I’d like to remind you of another recent cancer research development I recently wrote about, namely ‘starving’ cancer by eating foods that prevent angiogenesis.

Angiogenesis (too many blood vessels) is a hallmark of cancer as the tumor actually needs blood in order to grow (this is how it feeds on the glucose in your bloodstream). But angiogenesis appears to be preventable by consuming foods that are natural inhibitors of excessive blood vessel growth.

When you regularly consume these foods, you can effectively starve any microscopic cancerous growths, effectively preventing them from growing further and becoming dangerous.

According to Dr. Li, who is currently leading this research, resveratrol from red grapes, for example, have been shown to inhibit abnormal angiogenesis by 60 percent. Even more potent is the ellagic acid found in strawberries.

Other potent anti-angiogenetic foods include:

Logically, different foods contain different potencies of anti-angiogenetic compounds.  Some foods have even been found to be more potent than current anti-angiogenetic drugs! These include parsley and garlic.

But interestingly, when researchers evaluated a combination of two of the LEAST potent teas, for example, they discovered that this combination tea had greater potency than any given tea by itself.

“There’s synergy,” Li states, which should come as no surprise to those of you who are well-versed in holistic nutrition.

It is this synergy that makes fresh, whole foods so potently nutritious!

The sum is far greater than the individual parts, and this is why it’s far more important to focus on eating a diet of whole, organic foods, rather than obsessing about individual nutrients.

Other Cancer Prevention Strategies

Aside from avoiding fructose and other added sugars (which means cutting out not only soda and sugary beverages, but also processed foods since most are loaded with HFCS), and incorporating more anti-angiogenetic fare into your diet, here are several additional strategies you can incorporate to virtually eliminate your cancer risk:

1. Normalize your vitamin D levels with safe amounts of sun exposure. This is one of the most effective, and least expensive, cancer prevention strategies available to most people. Ideally, you’ll want to monitor your vitamin D levels to make sure your levels stay within a therapeutic range year-round.
2. Get appropriate amounts of animal-based omega-3 fats.
3. Exercise. One of the primary reasons exercise works is that it drives your insulin levels down. Controlling insulin levels is one of the most powerful ways to reduce your cancer risks.
4. Have a tool to permanently erase the neurological short-circuiting that can activate cancer genes. Even the CDC states that 85 percent of disease is caused by emotions. It is likely that this factor may be more important than all the other physical ones listed here, so make sure this is addressed. My particular favorite tool for this purpose, as you may know, is the Emotional Freedom Technique.
5. Only 25 percent of people eat enough vegetables, so by all means eat as many vegetables as you are comfortable with, preferably fresh and organic.

   Ideally, you’ll also want to determine your nutritional type, as some veggies are better than others, depending on your type. In addition, if you are a carb nutritional type, for example, you may need up to 300 percent more vegetables than a protein nutritional type.

6. Maintain an ideal body weight.
7. Get enough high-quality sleep.
8. Reduce your exposure to environmental toxins like pesticides, household chemical cleaners, synthetic air fresheners and air pollution.
9. Boil, poach or steam your foods, rather than frying or charbroiling them.

References

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• [i] Warburg O. On the origin of cancer cells. Science 1956 Feb;123:309-14.
• [ii] Volk T, et al. pH in human tumor xenografts: effect of intravenous administration of glucose. Br J Cancer 1993 Sep;68(3):492-500
• [iii] Digirolamo M. Diet and cancer: markers, prevention and treatment. New York: Plenum Press; 1994. p 203

Then they will become defensive toward any attempt to change these values, if and when confronted with any new   ideas or alien information…   This is almost a built in defensive mode which most humans use for survival…  Yet is it necessary?

It can appear as both good and bad;  because on the one hand it offers some  perceived security in the known, yet it can be perceived as bad when a new situation ( an unknown) arises that could improve their life!   So on the one hand it allows the person to exist based upon what they know at the time;  even though it may be a dangerous or even  a destructive situation…   This is where many find themselves today!

How then can we be better situated to find improvement in our lives?

First we should all come to realize that God has given each human, a free agency or the ability to choose right or wrong…    Even though many people will attempt to explain their sinful actions by saying they did not know right from wrong!    Well this is an eternal lie , because God has placed within the heart of every person the ability to know right from wrong,  if and when they stop to consider it!

Now we have all heard the term that ” the Devil made me do it !” which is a cope out because while you may be tempted ultimately it is your decision; not the Devil’s…     All decisions come down to  either accepting or rejecting the temptation, before acting upon it!   Other wise you would only be a puppet on the string of the Devil puppet master; dancing when ever he dictates…   Many people do get into a position where they feel that is where they are in their life;  lost to whims and grief…   This is a sorry excuse to live a reprobate existence!

What you need to do is to seek, (seek is a key word) the truth in your life!  Because if you are earnest and seek the Righteousness of God in your life it can and will be made available to you no matter where you find yourself! There is no limit to the power and knowledge of Almighty God!

Now we will still have the cultural and physical environment  limitations to deal with but you can over come all these things through Prayer and supplications, when you seek the Truth!

There have been many false Christ (anti Christ)  in  history;  yet there is only one  Eternal Father God!

As far as we are concerned our only hope is found in the only true savior of mankind;

Yeshua Ha’Mashiach (Jesus Christ)

Who is this person, read what was illustrated in this passage in Matthew 16:13 – 17…

When Jesus came into the district of  Caesarea Philippi, he ask his disciples,  ” Who do people say that the Son of Man is?” And they said some say John the Baptist, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one of the prophets.” He  then said to them, ” But who do you say that I am?”  Simon Peter replied, ” You are the Christ, Son of the Living God.”  And Jesus answered him, ” Blessed are you, Simon Bar Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father who is in heaven”

If you are lost or confused, this passage should help you see the Truth!

While we all struggle with the darkness of the present world, with all the deception and lies put upon us by our culture and physical environment; it behooves us to seek the truth in our life!  We need to seek God in our life…   There was a brother Lawrence (1611 – 1691) who learned the way to Almighty God!

“[T]he 17th century [French] monk, Brother Lawrence, developed a technique–mostly through inspiration and intuition–which leads to results akin to those developed by the continued practice of mindfulness meditation.  In The Practice of the Presence of God” he wrote:

“This made me resolve to give the all for the All: so after having given myself wholly to GOD, to make all the satisfaction I could for my sins, I renounced, for the love of Him, everything that was not He; and I began to live as if there was none but He and I in the world … I worshiped Him as often as I could, keeping my mind in His holy Presence, and recalling it as often as I found it wandered from Him. I found no small pain in this exercise, and yet I continued it, notwithstanding all the difficulties that occurred, without troubling or disquieting myself when my mind had wandered involuntarily. I made this my business, as much all the day long as at the appointed times of prayer; for at all times, every hour, every minute, even in the height of my business, I drove away from my mind everything that was capable of interrupting my thought of GOD. Such has been my common practice ever since I entered into religion.”   (Quote by Brother Lawrence)

Source: -–www.lighthousetrailsresearch.com/brotherlawrence.htm

On his death bed when ask how he had spent  his time he replied:  ” Blessing God, praising God, adoring Him, and loving Him with all my heart.  That is our whole purpose, brothers, to adore God and to love Him without worrying about all the rest in life!”

If you are seeking the Truth; here is a proven way to get yourself on the right track!

While S.S. has been passed around as a political football for years hare are some facts to help you understand where we stand now!

Date:   8/16/2010 04:22:41 GMT  … viewed  303,159 times

Subject: History Lesson on Your Social Security Card

Just in case some of you young whippersnappers (& some older ones) didn’t know this. It’s easy to check out, if you don’t believe it. Be sure and show it to your family and friends. They need a little history lesson on what’s what and it doesn’t matter whether you are Democrat or Republican. Facts are Facts.

Social Security Cards up until the 1980s expressly stated the number and card were not to be used for identification purposes.

Since nearly everyone in the United States now has a number, it became convenient to use it anyway and the NOT FOR IDENTIFICATION message was removed.

Franklin Roosevelt, a Democrat, introduced the Social Security (FICA) Program. His promises are in black, with updates in red.

1.) That participation in the Program would be Completely voluntary [No longer voluntary],

2.) That the participants would only have to pay 1% of the first $1,400 of their annual Incomes into the Program [Now 7.65% on the first $90,000, and 15% on the first $90,000 if you're self-employed],

3.) That the money the participants elected to put into the Program would be deductible from their income for tax purposes each year [No longer tax deductible],

4.) That the money the participants put into the independent ‘Trust Fund’ rather than into the general operating fund, and therefore, would only be used to fund the Social Security Retirement Program, and no other Government program [Under Johnson the money was moved to the General Fund and Spent], and

5.) That the annuity payments to the retirees would never be taxed as income [Under Clinton & Gore up to 85% of your Social Security can be Taxed].

Since many of us have paid into FICA for years and are now receiving a Social Security check every month — and then finding that we are getting taxed on 85% of
the money we paid to the Federal government to ‘put away’ — you may be interested in the following:

Q: Which Political Party took Social Security from the independent ‘Trust Fund’ and put it into the general fund so that Congress could spend it?

A: It was Lyndon Johnson and the democratically controlled House and Senate.

Q: Which Political Party eliminated the income tax deduction for Social Security (FICA) withholding?

A: The Democratic Party.

Q: Which Political Party started taxing Social Security annuities?

A: The Democratic Party, with Al Gore casting the ‘tie-breaking’ deciding vote as President of the Senate, while he was Vice President of the US

AND MY FAVORITE:

Q: Which Political Party decided to start giving annuity payments to immigrants?

A: That’s right! Jimmy Carter and the Democratic Party. Immigrants moved into this country, and at age 65, began to receive Social Security payments! The Democratic Party gave these payments to them, even though they never paid a dime into it!

Now, after violating the original contract (FICA), the Democrats want to turn around and tell you that the Republicans want to take your Social Security away!  HUH!

And the worst part about it is uninformed citizens believe it! If enough people receive this, maybe a seed of awareness will be planted and maybe changes will  evolve. Maybe not, though.     Some Democrats are awfully sure of what isn’t so — but it’s worth a try.    How many people can YOU send this to?

Fact:  Actions speak louder than bumper stickers.

lets look at some facts, and see what you think, folks…

We will list some of the reasons people have …

1) Looking at the facts, first everyone has a free choice to practice, do, or think what ever they will just they must realize for every action there is an opposite and equal reaction, no matter the situation!

2) Not all people are or will be treated the same, unfortunately it has not been nor will it be so!

3) All people are selfish and to one extent or another filled with lust and greed!

4) Life is not fair because our very existence varies so much that  only in a colony of robots would everything be the same;  in any attempt to be “fair”…   But then who is to say what is fair?

5) Next is the consideration as to what really makes right or wrong!

While you may not like this outline it is based  upon the truth!

All this said and done most people just want to do what ever they fell like at the time, but what are the consequences?

** We will cover more on this later,  stop back and compare your life to the truth!

***  Here is a story that shows the real bias and control to keep  the truth, limited.. HUH!!

Tour de Sol Results

The weather was perfect and the traffic was acceptable on Friday the 13^th of May for the Monte Carlo style Rally mileage competition.  I had an arrangement with a local newspaper editor to meet with his reporter at the start line of the Rally and carry him along for an hour or so, to witness the rally and get publicity for Tour de Sol.  We met at the start/finish line at Stewart’s shop off exit 13N of I87.  We went through the official process of checking in, including filling the fuel tank to the very top, checking the tire pressure, and sealing the fuel filler cap and fuel filler door.  I insisted that the officials pay close attention to published rules and procedures so there would be no doubt or question of the procedures being fulfilled to the start.  I expected to get such good mileage that I would be accused of cheating when I finished.

At first the start line official wanted to bypass the sealing off of my gas cap because he couldn’t find his glue/silicon sealer, which was to be used to glue a business card to the gas cap and to the metal around it, preventing any entry.  I insisted that the seal be installed so there would be no question.  A second seal was installed on the filler door.  This was a number of strips of overlapping duct tape smoothed over the filler door and signed by the official.  Any tampering of the tape would be obvious at the finish line.  The signature spanned across all overlaps of the tape.

We had planned to start at 9 AM but the official procedures delayed our start until about 9:40.  Because the newspaper reporter wanted to ride only for part of the rally we had to change our planned route to accommodate his wishes.  My wife the navigator, who has never been trained to navigate, was busier than a one legged field goal kicker and didn’t have time nor enough hands to do the logging paperwork of the rally, and keep us from getting lost at the same time.  We did get lost for a while but we just stopped and I deciphered the map and road signs to find our way again.

Two hours later we had made it to one road that was part of our planned route and back to the start/finish line to drop off the reporter.  Most of that loop was on unfamiliar roads, which is not what you want in a mileage competition.  But this was more like real driving conditions so I couldn’t complain.  On this first loop we did have a run-in with a road work crew, which got my temper charged up a little.  Two bad the charge couldn’t go into the battery, because on our second loop the battery went dead and we wasted ten minutes getting help to get us going again.

The pause at the start/finish line, to drop off the reporter, took longer than expected because the finish line had officially just opened and the press was there.  I pulled in to drop off the reporter and the officials wanted to do the finish line procedures.  I told them I was only half done and they would have to wait.  The press did jump in and did an interview and took pictures.  My reporter got out and a half hour later I resumed my rally.

The second half of the rally was mostly uneventful because we chose major routes to travel, which gave us more traffic to contend with and forced us to maintain a higher speed than planned.  We also had that incident of having a dead battery caused by the hydrogen generator running when the engine was off.  This is a big no-no in our instruction manual and I had planned on rewiring the system to prevent that the previous week but got too busy.

Our route took us 160 miles according to our odometer, which was off by 5 miles because I had installed slightly smaller tires than stock.  Our route took us through 12 villages and cities in 155 miles for an average of one city per 13 miles.  I would call that pretty normal average driving conditions.  The speed limits ranged from 30 mph to 55 mph, except in school zones, where it was 15-20 mph.  We did no highway driving whatever on this rally as other competitors did.  We had close to 50 stop signs and traffic lights and plenty of miles of city traffic on our route to claim that we had pretty normal traffic conditions.

Our driving techniques were what you would expect for a mileage competition.  We used almost every technique in the Hydrogen Boost manual expect drafting, because we never got on the highway where drafting would help.  Yes, we did as the rules suggested, we packed in as much fuel as we could before the start.  I filled the tank up the night before.  I shook the car and jumped up and down on the bumper to get all the air bubble out, as suggested by the rules.  I even insured that our start line fill up was done with my car tilting down away from the filler tube.  And yes when I pulled in to the finish line I first pulled up to the pump that had my car tilted the other way.  Of course this was done because this is how every other car pulled in.  The normal traffic for that station was such that you had to pull in that way unless you balked traffic and interfered with normal flow, which was in from the main road and out onto a side road where there was a traffic light to help you get back onto the main road.

I knew that the original finish line fill-up would be inaccurate but I wanted to make a point to the officials that they were not getting an accurate mileage calculation.  My first fill-up took 0.8 gallons, which calculated to an average mileage of about 200 mpg.  Even I was flabbergasted but I was not the only one who would not accept that calculation.  I pointed out to the officials the problem and said, “Let’s pull the car down there, where I filled up before and let’s fill up again.”  We did this and it took on another 0.4 gallons, but this was not enough either.  Though it would have calculated to 133 mpg, I said, “Wait we’re not done yet.  The rules encouraged us to shake the car and put as much in as we could.”  So I got on top of the bumper and jumped up and down and shook the car to get all the bubbles out.  Then we took the pump again and put in another 0.2 gallons, for a total of 1.424 gallons, for an average of 112 mpg.  After doing a ten mile odometer calibration run and using 10.28 miles on the odometer to do it, we calibrated the real distance traveled on the rally to be 155.3 miles.  This made our real mileage 109.1 mpg.

After that the official went through the vehicle “with a fine toothed comb” to find out how I must have cheated.  By this time the best hybrid had recorded about half that mileage.  After examining under the hood and inside the computer readout on the Auterra Dyno-Scan, they finally gave up the quest for cheating proof.  They wanted to figure a way to dock me for shutting off my engine while still moving (Read about the porpoising technique in our newsletters.) but I objected that the Prius hybrid also shuts off its engine while moving so how could you dock me in a competition with them.      ** Note the negative bias?

The official awards ceremony was Saturday at 3 PM and I was called up to get in lie for an award.  I expected that the official finally dropped their objections to porpoising and would award me the best in show trophy.  When I was called up I was given an award for “most unique vehicle” which I though quite inappropriate since I was driving the most common vehicle there.  My mileage was announced as 99 mpg and I figured I was docked for porpoising.  I called the official the next day and he said they had originally made a mistake adding up the three fill-up receipts during the calculations and that I only got 99 mpg.  He said that we had on one slip used the cent instead of gallons.  I objected, but without having the slips in front of me I could not make accusations.  Of course when gas sells at over $2 a gallon the cents would have been more than the gallons.  After seeing the official results I saw that they also only credited me with only 150.1 miles instead of 155.3.  They must have mistakenly done the calibration adjustment twice.  Regardless of any mistakes made in calculating the mileage, the reported official results were that The Hydrogen Boost Saturn SL1 achieved 99.53 mile per gallon.  The only vehicle to officially achieve more mileage was a plug-in hybrid that used both electrical power from the wall and gasoline from the pump.  You can notice on the official results that this entrant is listed twice, once at 102.13 mpg and again at 67.47 mpg.  I can only assume that the 102.13 mpg was the mileage based on just the gasoline added to the tank at the finish line and the 67.47 mpg was the equivalent mpg after the electrical power to recharge the batteries was converted to gallons of gasoline.  I haven’t seen the formula that the officials used to calculate how many gallons of gas were equivalent to the kilowatt hours used to charge the batteries.  Whatever the formula was I know that it favors the electrical power input.  2004 results reported an electric “vehicle” achieving 1099.5 mpg.

There was at least one modified hybrid that was credited with 94.73 mpg, but as far as I know, none of the other entrants including this one, were required to fill their fuel tank at the finish line with three attempts in different positions and with jumping up and down on the bumper to shake out the bubbles.  Regardless of the finish line procedures, technically the plug-in hybrid that is listed twice and officially credited with beating the Hydrogen Boost Saturn should have been disqualified or told to go back out and drive around some more, because they did not cover the minimum distance required by the rules.

That’s enough about the bad news.  If you want to see the chart of the official results of the Tour de Sol Monte Carlo style rally mileage competition, you can see the full chart at http://www.bestrateofclimb.com/montecarlo-results.htm

If you want a brief summary, here it is:

Entrant                   Vehicle                                     Mileage

M. Kohler               Plug Hybrid Priys              102.13

F. Giroux                Hydrogen Boost Saturn       99.53

B. Hardegen            HybridMod Insight             94.73

C. Sullivan              Insight Hybrid                   81.74

M. Lewis                 Insight Hybrid                   79.12

Glynn                     VW Biodiesel                    76.82

H. Marsolais            Smart Biodiesel                74.72

M. Houle                 Civic Hybrid                     74.52

Jack Lee                 Insight Hybrid                   73.75

E. Diefenbach         Insight Hybrid                   72.31

M. Kohler               Plug Hybrid Prius               67.47

M. Bardall               Prius Hybrid                     64.23

A. Lane                   Prius Hybrid                     62.49

J. Laughlin              Civic Hybrid                     61.17

J. McConville          Prius 2 Hybrid                   58.99

Rw. Pichardo          Insight Hybrid                   58.87

Claude                   Insight Hybrid                   58.82

S. McAusland           Insight Hybrid                   56.87

E. Seal                   Civic Hybrid                     56.37

R. Stratton              Prius 2 Hybrid                   56.32

S. Greenbaum         Civic Hybrid                     53.65

Deb Van Batt           Insight Hybrid                   52.58

Herbert                  Prius 2 Hybrid                   51.52

B. Gillett                Prius Hybrid                     51.06

C. Lawrence           Prius 2 Hybrid                   47.58

S. Tanenholtz         Prius Hydrid                      47.29

G. LaBelle               Prius 2 Hybrid                   46.76

A. Walker               Prius 2 Hybrid                   46.58

E Packer                 Prius 2 Hybrid                   45.12

A Fiffick                 Escape Hybrid                  42.88

M. Grisborne           Prius 2 Hybrid                   41.95

CVB                        Prius 2 Hybrid                   40.79

J. Van Duesem        VW Pass Biodiesel             38.78

Dave                      Escape Hybrid                  35.03

J. Murphy               Lexus 400 Hybrid              28.09

C. Vogel                 Ford F250 Biodiesel           19.88

C. Shelton              Mercedes Biodiesel           Fun Run

J. Schnebly             Prius 2 Hybrid                   DNF

So where does the Truth lie?