Happy Mother's Day!

The Reading Mother


I had a mother who read to me
Sagas of pirates who scoured the sea,
Cutlasses clenched in their yellow teeth,
"Blackbirds" stowed in the hold beneath.


I had a Mother who read me lays
Of ancient and gallant and golden days;
Stories of Marmion and Ivanhoe,
Which every boy has a right to know.


I had a Mother who read me tales
Of Gelert the hound of the hills of Wales,
True to his trust till his tragic death,
Faithfulness blent with his final breath.


I had a Mother who read me the things
That wholesome life to the boy heart brings--
Stories that stir with an upward touch,
Oh, that each mother of boys were such!


You may have tangible wealth untold;
Caskets of jewels and coffers of gold.
Richer than I you can never be--
I had a Mother who read to me.

Strickland Gillilan

Dame Elizabeth Rosemund Taylor, 1932-2011 Rest In Peace

Beautiful Elizabeth Taylor was a consummate actress and Hollywood legend with the most striking pair of violet blue eyes this side of heaven. She was also a compassionate humanitarian, known for her work helping victims of AIDS.
In 1985, Elizabeth founded the American Foundation for AIDS Research. However, what many people do not know about lovely Elizabeth is that at the height of her acting career, she became a Jewess.
After her conversion to Judaism in 1959 (this had nothing to do with her husband Eddie Fischer) Elizabeth took the Hebrew name, Elisheba Rachel. She began to support many Jewish causes, especially Israel's right to exist. Because of her generous purchases of Israel Bonds, Arab nations targeted Ms. Taylor and boycotted her films. In 1962, the Egyptian Government under President Gamal Abdul Nassar banned Elizabeth from entering Egypt to finish the filming of Cleopatra primarily due to her support for Israel. Egyptian officials declared, "Miss Taylor will not be allowed to come to Egypt because she has adopted the Jewish faith and supports Israeli causes." Elizabeth later canceled a trip to the Soviet Union after it's condemnation of Israel in the 1967 Six Day War.
In the 1970's her activism for the Jewish people and Israel continued with her signing a letter of protest against a UN Resolution which declared that Zionism was racism and a form of racial discrimination. But perhaps her most noblest gesture of support for the Jewish people was when Elizabeth offered herself as a replacement for the Israeli hostages being held by Arab hijackers in Entebbe, Uganda in July, 1976.

The Jew Factor

According to halakha, the collective body of Jewish law, a child is not Jewish if the child’s mother is not Jewish. This ruling is based in part from a passage in the Book of Ezra:

“And Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel of the sons of Elam said to Ezra:
We have broken faith and dealt treacherously against our God and married foreign women of the peoples of the land; yet there is still hope for Israel in spite of this thing.
Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all the foreign wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the command of our God; and let it be done according to the Law.” Ezra 10:2-3

Reform Judaism and progressive or liberal Jews have refuted this law and claim that anyone can be declared Jewish as long as one of their parents is Jewish.
Gabby Giffords mother is Christian Scientist, which under orthodox law would disqualify her as being Jewish.
It has only been since 2001 that Giffords solely identified herself with being Jewish. She is a member of the Congregation Chaverim, a Reform synagogue, in Tucson.
While Congresswoman Giffords seems very sincere in her commitment to Judaism, as well as her support for Israel,with most Democrats today, claiming to be Jewish has more to do with politics than with the tenets of faith. And while Giffords might support the Second Amendment and gun rights, like many of her more progressive-minded Jewish female politicians, she is fully pro-abortion, with a 100% rating from NARAL, or the National Abortion Rights Action League. In fact, this was mentioned several times by various media outlets in describing Congresswoman Giffords career in the Congress. She has also been described as very moderate in many other of her political views, even jokingly accused of really being a Republican. I suppose by mentioning her 100% rating with NARAL was the mainstream media’s way of reassuring their liberal viewing audience that Giffords “is still one of us.”
And while I thank God that she is recovering from her injuries, it would be nice to see her colleagues openly giving thanks and glory to Gabby's Creator too. Doctors are hailing her recovery as nothing short of a miracle.
Liberals, especially those in the political arena, seem only to focus on God and the need for prayer when it is convenient for them. Sort of like being a convenient Jew. Furthermore, this sudden call for camaraderie in the Congress in the wake of this shooting of one of their fellow members will probably dissipate once the collective shock and survivor’s guilt wears off.
America is literally drowning in a cesspool of deep spiritual darkness, something best reflected in several passages from II Timothy 3:1-5:
“But understand this, that in the last days will come perilous times of great stress and trouble.
For people will be lovers of self and utterly self-centered, lovers of money and aroused by an inordinate, greedy desire for wealth, proud, and arrogant, and contemptuous boasters.
They will be abusive, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, and profane.
They will be slanders, false accusers, troublemakers, intemperate and loose in morals and conduct, uncontrolled and fierce, haters of good.
They will be lovers of sensual pleasures instead of lovers of God.
For although they hold a form of piety (true religion) they deny and reject and are strangers to the power of it.”

Of Twain, Free Speech, And Censorship

The unreasonable decision to ban the "N" word from the classic works of author Mark Twain is not only a clear violation of freedom of speech and expression, but censorship. It is a denial of American History as Twain recorded it for his generation. "Huckleberry Finn" and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" reflect the mindset of a different time and different cultural practices. How are we suppose to teach our children to think for themselves if we deny them the right to freedom of thought and expression?
Freedom of Speech is guaranteed to every American citizen under the Constitution. Liberal politicians and the news media have sought to bend the rules of this right to speak one's mind freely and unhindered by imposing on our society the virulent institution of political correctness. This has emboldened those living among us who use their race and ethnic origin as a weapon to silence and intimidate their critics. These people, and you know who you are, have been allowed to get away with establishing a rather lucrative career stirring up the masses in order to uncover the alleged latent bigotry and racism lurking just beneath the surface of every white face in America.
Furthermore, if the dreaded "N" word is to be removed from Twain's works than it should be removed from all black rap songs, black movies, black literature, etc. It was black idiomatic speech that first coined this word in the first place. So, if it is deemed offensive for a white man to use it than it should be deemed offensive for a black man to use it too.

"To Proclaim Liberty To The Captives"

The American Indian people are a small remnant of hundreds of thousands of indivdual and distinct nations that once thrived across the North American continent. Their ancestors not only suffered humiliating defeat, but were nearly annihilated by the ethnic cleansing policies of white Europeans who sailed across the Atlantic seeking to colonize what became known as the New World.

What began in 1492 with the Italian-born explorer, Cristoforo Columbus, whose treachery against the indigenous peoples of Hispaniola began when he discovered their access to vast amounts of gold, culminated in the nineteenth century with Manifest Destiny, or the belief that it was the divinely sanctioned right of the white man to expand across the American continent, to dominate the land from sea to shining sea, while actively murdering thousands of Indians standing in their way. Meanwhile, the United States Government managed to find a way to break nearly every treaty they ever made with the different Indian nations, swindling them out of their land, and destroying their way of life forever. By their very actions and through words spoken over them calling for their demise, the government bureaucrats cursed the American Indians.

"For the wicked in pride and arrogance hotly pursue and persecute the poor... His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, oppression, (fraud); under his tongue are trouble and sin, mischief and iniquity." Psalm 10: 4, 7

I believe this spiritual curse against the Indians is the primary reason for the unprecedented levels of terrible poverty and despair on many Indian reservations today. Native people are too often the victims of violent crime, and many suffer from addictions to drugs and alcohol. The rate of suicide is higher in the Indian communities than anywhere else in the United States. Many native communities are beset by serious health issues. Type II Diabetes and Heart Disease are rampant due to poor diet and alcoholism. The federal government's answer to Indian poverty was allowing the tribes to open up casinos on their reservations. This has not only brought gambling to Indian Country, but an increase in fraud and political corruption within certain tribal business councils.

After the American Indians were forcibly uprooted and exiled from their ancestral lands and pushed on to federal reservations, there came upon them yet another plague of sorts, a "conversion movement".


Conducted by self-professed Christians, these deceitful religious groups' primary motives were not only steeped in religious pride and church legalism, but a greedy desire to take even more lands away from the Indians.

"With our tongues we prevail; our lips are our own to command at our will, who is lord over us?" Psalm 12:4

These groups believed the best way to deal with saving the Indian's soul was to "kill the Indian, save the man" while destroying Indian families by forcibly taking children away from their parents and putting them in specially designated "Indian Schools". Many of the children placed in these institutions were the victims of terrible cruelty inflicted by sadistic instructors determine to indoctrinate them into accepting the ways of the white man.
Bereft of the love and compassion of God, and the leading of the Holy Spirit, these schools were nothing more than religious indoctrination camps which produced a bitter harvest of broken spirits filled with hurt and rejection, and generated a great degree of hostility and suspicion towards Christianity in Indian Country.

God loves his native children. This is why He sent His beloved Son, Yeshua, into the world, so that none may perish.



"To grant consolation and joy to those who mourn in Zion...to give them an ornament of beauty instead of ashes, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a heavy burdened and failing spirit...that they may be called oaks of righteousness, lofty, strong, and magnificent, distinguished for uprightness, justice , and right standing with God, the planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified." Isaiah 61:3

Believers need to stand together in prayer for the Indian communities of America. We need to ask the Lord to raise a mighty army of indigenous brothers and sisters, purchased by the blood of the Lamb, and led by the Holy Spirit, to trample the spiritual strongholds that have prevented true revival from taking place, and allow them to witness the Gospel message of love and forgiveness; to be a light for Christ to those languishing under the mantle of spiritual darkness.

"And they shall rebuild the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former desolations and renew the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations." Isaiah 61:4

Public School Bullying Protection Program

The story about the Florida man who went after the bullies harrassing his daughter on the school bus really struck home with me. Furthermore, those kids deserved to be punished, not the father. I feel he was within his rights to protect his child. My 17 year old oldest son is mildly autistic. Last spring, he was using the boys lavatory at his high school and looked up to see two boys with a school video camera filming or attempting to film him over the stall. I just happened to be waiting for my son that day in the school office. I was picking him up early for a doctor's appointment. My son came into the office and told me what happened and that he wanted to report these two kids to the vice-principal of the school. I went back into her office with him to find out what was going on. I also spoke to one of the two witnesses who saw these two boys with the camera out in the hallway. This vice principal told me she was "searching for the two boys on the school computer and when she found them she would prosecute them." Well, to make a long story short, nothing was done. In fact, I had to contact the school that afternoon to find out what was being done and I was told by the woman vice-principal that the camera had been confiscated and there was nothing on it. I was further told by her that there had only been one boy involved in the incident, not two like my son claimed, and that this boy had been "signed out of school by his mother and was never coming back." To add insult to injury, I was later contacted, not by phone, but by e-mail by the principal of the high school, who was clearly on the defensive when he informed me that " it was not a school camera that had been involved," but a "personal cell phone camera" and that the boy was "just kidding around, pretending to take pictures." I even filed a police report the day after the incident, but the police later told me that because there was no evidence they could not do anything. Well, duh! There's no evidence because someone ( I have reason to suspect the woman vice-principal) deliberately changed the details of the story and/or erased any evidence, if there was any found. (At least, I hope it was erased and not downloaded onto someone's social network page on the Internet!)
I say I have reason to suspect this woman vice principal because since this incident I have talked to several other parents who have had run ins with this same woman covering up bullying done to their kids. This woman is black and she has a history of covering up bullying done by black students. She is a perfect example of what is terribly wrong with our society today. People in a position of authority over others who use their skin color and/or race to silence and intimidate others. I think that the cowardly school administration is afraid to confront her behavior because they probably fear her bringing a "racial discrimination" lawsuit against them. Meanwhile, kids like my son, who was traumatized by this incident, and other kids are made to suffer. And what about those bullies? What lesson is someone like this woman vice-principal teaching them? How to be devious and how to lie just like her! Now I ask you, had this happened in a K-Mart bathroom or any public restroom, would someone have been arrested for "pretending to take pictures" of someone over a toilet stall? Needless to say, my son no longer attends our local highschool and neither will my younger son.

"For We Wrestle Not Against Flesh And Blood..."

Never mind that over three thousand innocent American people lost
their lives on September 11, 2001. Never mind that people trapped in
the crumbling Twin Towers had the equally horrible choices of either
jumping to their deaths on the sidewalks or burning to death inside
the buildings. Never mind that for weeks after this day of infamy, the
air in Lower Manhattan still reeked with the odor of burnt flesh and
death. If you are opposed to the abomination of a mosque being built
near Ground Zero, the left-wing news media and other liberal groups
have labeled you “Islamophobic” and worst, “racist”.
So, where is the money coming from to fund this proposed mosque?
And why is it being called "The Cordoba House"? Contrary to the
liberal revisionist spin on history, the Muslim conquest of Cordoba
Spain was not a big lovefest between Muslims and Christians and Jews.
Christians nuns were raped and mutilated, priests were randomly
crucified. Jews were also raped, mutilated, and hacked to pieces with
scimitars. This massacre included pregnant women, children, and
babies. Christians and Jews who survived the initial invasion, for
many years afterwards, were subjected to a dhimmi tax in order to
continue living alongside their Muslim conquerors. However, the only
part of this gruesome history of 400 years of Muslim invasions and
occupations in Europe the derelict Left offers up to our
impressionable children in their history books is how the West alone
was responsible for the Holy Crusades.
For our president to come out in support of the proposed mosque near
Ground Zero is yet another deliberate provocation towards the American
people. Obama has already revealed his contempt for the ordinary,
hard-working, patriotic American tax payers with his bail-outs and
socialism-through-healthcare, not to mention his determination to
dismantle and change our Constitution.
Meanwhile, why is the Left so determine to coddle Muslims and Islam?
They not only see nothing wrong with the building of this mosque, but
also support Great Flags Amusement Parks decision to host Muslim
Family Day on September 12, 2010. I am sorry, I don’t buy the excuse,
“Well, it’s the end of the Muslim holiday of Ramadan.” So, what?
Why did they choose the same weekend when most Americans are
remembering and commemorating 9/11? I feel this was done on purpose,
again to provoke the outrage of many Americans, myself included, so
that the Left can use our anger against us by calling us
“Islamophobics” and “religiously intolerant” and of course, “racists”.
Let me also make it clear that while there are many peace-loving
Muslims who are good and decent people and would never harm anyone,
there is nothing tolerant or peaceful about Islam. The core tenet of
the Islamic religion is submission, which is what the word, Islam
means, of all peoples and lands to Allah. Most moderate Muslims can't
or will not speak out against this mosque out of fear of being
retaliated against by those Muslims determine to wage Jihad, or holy
war, against us. Former Muslims willing to speak out against Islam
like Whalid Shoebat, Nonie Darwish, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali are quickly
dismissed by the liberal press as frauds and troublemakers. This
mosque is being built for one purpose and one purpose only. It is
going to serve as a symbol to the rest of the world that our enemies
have finally conquered us. And the worst part of it all is there are
many Americans quite willing to be led like docile sheep to the
slaughter.