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LOUISIANA CORRUPTION = BIG MESS

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

How can we upright Americans trust the Louisiana clique with handouts from private and public funds? We can’t. There’s a bad history there in Louisiana, New Orleans in particular.

No wonder one of the New Orleans officials, as Katrina was hitting hard, said to another local politico that perhaps God was cleansing the place. I thought to myself: "You bet. In more ways than one."

That part of this prideful nation is sludge up to its ears. The record proves it.

John H. Fund of NewsAndOpinion.com comes clean with his assessment of the situation related to money handed over to the state and local boys and girls in Louisiana. And it is not pretty reading.

He calls the geography under inspection to be "a swamp of corruption." Then he elaborates with "Louisiana’s political culture needs a cleanup."

US President George W. Bush offered $62 billion in emergency moneys. Gets this: few accountability sendbacks have been put into the equation! Not sound for dealing with Louisiana and especially New Orleans. Not thinking clearly on that move.

Even with that handout, Louisiana’s senators brashly come up with this: They asked, without blinking an eye, for a growing figure of $250 billion from feds. Count those pennies and weep.

Figure into that math fraud and waste and mismanagement and hideaway items in officials’ attics and cellars and backyard sheds. Let’s recall that the police just happened to come upon chainsaws, beverages, food and roof tarp in New Orleans Chief Administrative Officer Cedric Floyd’s home. Other city personnel are having their households inspected as I type. I wouldn’t know why.

According to Democrat House Appropriations Committee Representative David Obey, accountability for the money flow down South is just not there. It’s a trusting net that is breaking loose every day. And more threads will come undone as more honest persons look into those in authority hiding this-and-that behind their backs.
Here’s the dubious history we are working with according to John H. Fund:

"Louisiana ranks third in the nation in the number of elected officials per capita convicted of crimes. ‘The governor, an attorney general, three successive insurance commissioners, a congressman, a federal judge, a state Senate president, and a swarm of local officials’" were all convicted.

"Last year, three top officials at Louisiana's Office of Emergency Preparedness were indicted on charges they obstructed a probe into how federal money bought out flood-prone homes.

"Last March the Federal Emergency Management Agency ordered Louisiana to repay $30 million in flood-control grants it had awarded to 23 parishes. Much of the region has long had a relaxed attitude towards corruption."

New Orleans, if true to its past, will clean up the fed handout with glad hands. Former Mayor Marc Morial’s colleagues were legally brought down recently because of alleged kickbacks related to public contracts. Representative William Jefferson's house was raided by the FBI due to suspicions that he had "misused his office."

The New Orleans police office needs the spy glass closely scouring its walls. Honest people living in that metro have endured much deceit from those whom they should have been able to trust to the last blue hat on the force. But not so. It’s been a troubling existence for those with integrity living in that city.

Often police have been found involved in crime rather than wiping it out. In fact, according to NewsAndOpinion.com "more than 50 officers went to prison in the past dozen years, two of them to death row." A police district was "caught altering its data."

More: Bob Livingston, Republican, pointed out that the Orleans Parish Levee Board took money for levees and built a casino, convention center and Mardi Gras fountain. Could that be one of the reasons the levees were not strong enough to withstand hurricane force? Just could be one of the factors.

When a board member overseeing the moneys was asked how moneys could be moved so easily he responded: "’We were trying to be good neighbors.’"

Sounds like the Mafia comradeship to me.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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'KEEP OUR RESOLVE’ : MYERS RE NEW IRAQ

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

Those patriotic to the American mission at home and abroad understand fully what Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers was speaking about when he urged US citizens to "keep our resolve."

According to Jim Garamone of American Forces Press Service, Myers stated: "’I hope that we can keep our resolve, because if we don't, the life that our children and grandchildren are going to have will be much different than what we grew up in.’"

He was addressing his high school reunion in Shawnee Mission, Kansas.

I once lived in Kansas City and well recall the Middle-America lifestyle there. It was also "back then" in the era that Myers refers to. So I can also remember fondly the time as well as the geography.

I would want for my children and grandchildren to live in an America like unto the one I thoroughly enjoyed when living in Middle-America. It was a delight. Now that I live in Maine, I find this locale to be a delight as well. Therefore, I can agree with Myers for all Americans throughout the country to keep the resolve in New Iraq.

Otherwise, we forfeit not only the liberties present and future for Iraqis, but we endanger our own nation — and all other freedom-based nations.

To remove multinational troops from New Iraq today would open wide the planet to what Muslim murderers global are salivating for — Islam as the world rule.

Why this is so difficult for Americans to grip I don’t know. Yet the Cindy Sheehans prize themselves on being so utterly smart — the intelligent clique of our society.

All the while they are the most ignorant mouthpieces giving forth. The liberal media may indeed be categorized right alongside these airheads spouting off against clear, clean logic.

If the multinational troops do leave New Iraq tomorrow, may the Sheehans be the first to welcome Muslim murderess on both shores of the US. And may they embrace those who are intent on slaying all non-Muslims, the latter being "infidels."

I will not be there to greet the Islamic killers international. I will have left for parts unknown. But surely the smiling, yelping Sheehans will be there as the welcoming party for those they are already hugging with their empty, crazed rhetoric.

Further in his remarks to his friends, Myers stated: "’If we could choose any servicemember in Iraq and beam them here and ask them, "What do you think?" the typical answer would be this: "We understand the mission here, and we think it is really important. The Iraqi people deserve our support, and we can get it done. If we just get a little support from back home, we can get this done." That's the message they'd send.’

Myers went on: "’Terrorists want to create fear in your mind. They want you to act irrationally and illogically, and they can have a terrible impact on our country and our way of life.

Then referring to the teachers of yesteryear who instructed him and his peers, Myers said: "’They are some of the most important people we have in this country. You will never know what difference you will make in people's lives.

"’We all do our parts. We all have to serve. We're all in this together.’"

Yes, we are all in this together except for the ignorant "elite" who pride themselves on being patriotic when in reality they are partners with Muslim criminals major.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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SILENT MAJORITY OPPOSES SHEEHAN CLIQUE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

"It's the silent majority," said 22-year-old Stephanie Grgurich of Leesburg, Va., who has a brother serving in Iraq.

She was referring to those in America who realize that New Iraq must endure patience in time in order to establish liberties. The patriots spoke against this weekend’s anti-Iraq rallies in the nation’s capital.

A democracy does not form overnight. America was not put in place overnight. Why then would supposed thinking citizens of the United States exclaim if New Iraq costs even in human sacrifice?

There were the countless who laid down their lives for what we enjoy today as freedom in America. One could never number those who were willing to die in order for succeeding generations to realize a republic of and for the people.

Yet when it comes to New Iraq and freedom spread elsewhere, self-centered, materialistic, unreal people don’t want to count the cost. They don’t want to lay down a life for another. They want freedoms for themselves but are unwilling to pay what it takes to provide such freedoms for others.

Yet it was Jesus who said, "It is more blessed to give than to receive." He also reminded His disciples that one lays down his life for another. He then followed through by doing just that outside Jerusalem on a particular Friday.

Today then there are scores of Americans who continue to continue, realizing reality stands firm. Daydreaming of panaceas does not work in a spiritually damaged world. This is not heaven. This is a planet that is scarred.

Therefore, realists confront the scarred truth daily in order to forge ahead, knowing the pain, and counting on the
fruition.

Those like Cindy Sheehan demand perfection everywhere yesterday. And when the Bush administration and like freedom crusaders cannot produce it according to the liberals’ time frame, all hell breaks loose from the liberals’ mouths. They can’t stand reality. They cannot abide by truth. They must form a world that they themselves cannot create. Yet the rest of us must provide it for them.

Liberal media feed the panacea pandering. Liberal newsmakers continue to wind up the unreal mouths to cry out more and more for the paradise not here to come pronto or else they will have a fit. Then let them have a fit, just as they staged this past weekend in Washington, D.C.

For the rest of us, the fit becomes weary. We have had it with the unreal. We really don’t pay them much attention. The word "Cindy Sheehan" has become so worn and shredded that genuinely thinking persons don’t recite it any more, not even in disgust.

So carry on, liberals, for your unreal world will never break through upon your shouting heads. We realists instead will stay true to the patriotic mission of America — sacrificing for freedoms kept at home and liberties shared abroad.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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TEN COMMANDMENTS COMMISSION PRESIDENT HOLDS OUT HOPE

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

They are the foundation of any civilization that lasts. It’s the moral base if a culture endures.

So it is that Ron Wexler moves ahead with that hope for America in particular. He has formed the Ten Commandments Commission. As President / CEO, he has gathered about him prestigious religious leaders.

Wexler, an Orthodox Jew who is admired in Christian circles, bonded with Dr. Myles Munroe, Christian leader and author, in founding the Ten Commandments Commission.

It is primarily because of the US Supreme Court ruling concluding that public displays of the Ten Commandments in a Kentucky courthouse were against the laws of the land. The Court stated that the showing of such a message was counter to the US Constitution.

Yet it is that very US Constitution that breathes out the ethic of the Ten Commandments. And it is the laws of this land that are primarily set in place because of the morality base of the Ten Commandments. Therefore, for the US Supreme Court to prohibit the public display of such a fundamental message is counter to the US Constitution, not the other way around.

This is the postulate of Wexler and Munroe. This the basis for their founding the agenda to bring back to Americans the primary truth that our culture was begun with that Ten Commandments base and must continue with that base if the country wants to survive.

With this mission before them, the two men have forged ahead with the hope of centuries. It is the Word of God "given to the nations." As Wexler points out, it’s not a Jewish message alone. It’s not a Christian message alone. Though it is Jewish and Christian it is broader than that. It is a message "to the nations."

Every human being on the planet who would desire to exist within a civilized milieu should realize that such is possible when persons live out the Ten Commandments. It is all there.

That is why God gave such a blessing to Moses. It was then that deity instructed Moses to disperse the tidings "to the nations." The Jewish people were the means by which that message was to be relayed. But it was not for them alone.

Wexler points out that when persons refer to the Jews as "God’s chosen people," they often think of "chosen" as defined as a privileged people. No. Wexler accents that the Jews were chosen to work, and to work especially hard. They were to message the nations.

With what? With the Ten Commandments. When the Ten Commandments are exercised sincerely daily in the interplay of society, the humans involved come into a new sphere of enjoyment, happiness and health.

That is why Wexler and Munroe labor day and night to bring to the American consciousness the historical truth of the Ten Commandments. By living them, a society exists as blessed. By ignoring them, a society exists as cursed. And finally the curse can lead to extinction.

Wexler than points to the "natural disasters" occurring in the United States and elsewhere on the planet. He wonders if this is simply a natural happening or if God is seeking to get through a critical message. If it is the latter, a return to God’s moral base — the Ten Commandments — would lift the curse to bring the blessing. It is that significant an understanding of daily occurrences.

Wexler provides further detail: "As the fury of hurricane Rita is about to hit the shores of Texas just 3 weeks after the disaster left Katrina, people of faith must be wondering. . .

"It was revealed to me that in numerology, the numerical value of the Hebrew letters that make up the name Rita + God is equal 620. The number of all the Hebrew letters that make up the Ten Commandments is…. 620! Is there a connection?

"See Genesis 1:1, “Now the earth was formless and empty (chaos) and the darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the WATER.” The spirit of God in Hebrew “Ruach”, also translates as wind. Therefore this could be read as the wind of God was hovering over the chaos that existed before creation! It was then that God began with His the task of creation.
"Could this now be the spirit of God above the water? Rita + God equal 620 equal the Ten Commandments? Could this be the wake up call for the nation? Now when the Ten Commandments are thrown out of schools and out of courts, could there be a connection? Just think for a moment that there is a correlation.

"The Ten Commandments represent the moral foundation of this great and blessed nation. Sacred laws that this nation was founded on are being assaulted and denigrated daily by an army of secular champions determined to destroy every vestige of America's rich spiritual heritage," Wexler explains.

"We've seen destructive lifestyles applauded and promoted in schools and public venues even as prayer, Scripture, and expressions of faith are ridiculed and banned."

How can this be overturned? By bringing the peoples to the Ten Commandments for adoption as a way of life.

To combat the erosion of the Ten Commandments in society, Wexler met with Jewish and Christian leaders in Canada to formulate a coordinated response. The September 9-19 strategy sessions discussed how churches, synagogues and various religious ministries can affirm and maintain the Judeo-Christian moral tradition in society.

In addition, Munroe states in support of his colleague’s position: "We are very disappointed in the Supreme Court's ruling against the Ten Commandments. Recent court rulings represent a divergence from the founding Judeo-Christian principle of the sovereign divine supremacy, and they threaten the very fabric and foundation of the pillars of our society."

Now the Ten Commandments Commission has chosen February 5 as "Ten Commandments Day" nationwide. The Commission is requesting ministry spokespersons to involve themselves aggressively in this national campaign to return the Ten Commandments and Judeo-Christian moral base to America. The Ten Commandments in particular must be restored to a place of respect and adherence in the country or the citizenry may suffer untold woes due to a purposeful disobedience of God’s expectations for His own creation.

"Declare Sunday February 5 as 'Ten Commandments Day' in your church!" proclaims Wexler. "Plan for your message to center on the importance of the Ten Commandments and godly moral principles both to individuals and to our nation. Pastors, rabbis, and community leaders have a responsibility to lead the challenge that will stop this dark assault on America's morality and God's Holy word."

"There is a huge coalition of people who are committed to the commission's efforts," reports Susan Zahn, founder of the Christian PR firm, WDC Media.

"Daily, churches and ministry leaders are contacting the commission to join the cause." "The Church has always been the moral guide for America-and pastors have always taken the lead," says Munroe. "Now more than ever, our nation needs their leadership. We pray that thousands of God's anointed will answer this spiritual call to arms and join us in taking a bold stand for God's law and moral values."


Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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GOD, WHERE IS THE ACLU WHEN AMERICA NEEDS IT MOST?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I heard someone on TV say this morning, "Say a prayer for Texas."

What? Say a prayer for Texas? Are you kidding?

That brought me to ask: "Where is the ACLU when we need it most?" I just don’t get it. We are in one slam of an emergency in this nation. Drenched details are spilling over our consciousness 24 / 7.

And with all that is pecking away at the country’s nerves, I find that the ACLU is silent. Silent. Where is the ACLU when the entire continent needs it desperately? It’s a panic out there. And the ACLU acts as if we’re all on our ways to the shopping mall for another spend-out.

I am an American. I pay my taxes. I don’t commit crimes. I do what I can for my town. So why doesn’t the ACLU care a flip about millions of like citizens? Instead, the ACLU just remains mugged up in some coffee café somewhere when the people of this country cry out for help.

Say a prayer for Texas? I say, Say a prayer to find out where the ACLU is hiding. When we need the ACLU it goes hiking off someplace safe.

After all, is it not the ACLU and team that have warned us not to take the Judeo-Christian heritage seriously for it’s all a crock?

And isn’t it the ACLU enthusiasts who have warned us to trump up the nation’s elite edge by deleting "under God" from the pledge of allegiance to the American flag?

And is it not the ACLU clique that has cautioned the lawmakers about creating a theocracy in America, about how utterly dangerous it would be to ensconce the God our country’s beginnings in the schools, the town meetings, the nation’s capitol, university commencement ceremonies, and on and on?

Of course, the ACLU has worked day and night to enlighten us, to bring us into the current secularization of Europe, to mature the younger generation, to broaden our national perspectives so as to realize the potential of the homo sapien sans deity.

Has not the ACLU pounded it into our heads that we are nothing but evolved tissue from the first cell, that all ethic is relative, and that even an Intelligent Design impinging upon evolutionary theory is religious fanaticism run amuck?

With all that energy put out over years and years, surely then the ACLU should come to the aid of the country now that it’s under water. Its oil supply is endangered. Humans are taken from cot to cot and city to city while their medial records have washed away, their children are misplaced and their homes are flooded through and through.

I just don’t get it.

When the ACLU takes away the God-base of a nation, proclaims that even the coins with "In God We Trust" are anathema and that the Ten Commandments should be sliced from every public scene, then why doesn’t the ACLU come through with its agenda of secularization to save our lives? To redeem our souls? To provide the necessary rescue stations to care for our citizenry.

Say a prayer for Texas?

Why, that would be anti-ACLU and we intelligent, egocentric, educated, cosmopolitan, materialistic, secular persons of the New Age can’t reduce ourselves to such a low level as that?

That would par us off with the "born again" zealots. That would categorize us with the Christian fanatics. That would put us in the same league as the evangelicals. That would make us all in Jerry Falwells!

For God’s sake, we can’t permit that to happen. Oh, forgive the expletive. I didn’t mean to bring deity into this mess. But when the ACLU forsakes its own loyal crew in a time of need, I just wonder what the ACLU is all about anyhow.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

GOD, WHERE IS THE ACLU WHEN AMERICA NEEDS IT MOST?

J. Grant Swank, Jr.

I heard someone on TV say this morning, “Say a prayer for Texas.”

What? Say a prayer for Texas? Are you kidding?

That brought me to ask: “Where is the ACLU when we need it most?” I just don’t get it. We are in one slam of an emergency in this nation. Drenched details are spilling over our consciousness 24 / 7.

And with all that is pecking away at the country’s nerves, I find that the ACLU is silent. Silent. Where is the ACLU when the entire continent needs it desperately? It’s a panic out there. And the ACLU acts as if we’re all on our ways to the shopping mall for another spend-out.

I am an American. I pay my taxes. I don’t commit crimes. I do what I can for my town. So why doesn’t the ACLU care a flip about millions of like citizens? Instead, the ACLU just remains mugged up in some coffee café somewhere when the people of this country cry out for help.

Say a prayer for Texas? I say, Say a prayer to find out where the ACLU is hiding. When we need the ACLU it goes hiking off someplace safe.

After all, is it not the ACLU and team that have warned us not to take the Judeo-Christian heritage seriously for it’s all a crock?

And isn’t it the ACLU enthusiasts who have warned us to trump up the nation’s elite edge by deleting “under God” from the pledge of allegiance to the American flag?

And is it not the ACLU clique that has cautioned the lawmakers about creating a theocracy in America, about how utterly dangerous it would be to ensconce the God our country’s beginnings in the schools, the town meetings, the nation’s capitol, university commencement ceremonies, and on and on?

Of course, the ACLU has worked day and night to enlighten us, to bring us into the current secularization of Europe, to mature the younger generation, to broaden our national perspectives so as to realize the potential of the homo sapien sans deity.

Has not the ACLU pounded it into our heads that we are nothing but evolved tissue from the first cell, that all ethic is relative, and that even an Intelligent Design impinging upon evolutionary theory is religious fanaticism run amuck?

With all that energy put out over years and years, surely then the ACLU should come to the aid of the country now that it’s under water. Its oil supply is endangered. Humans are taken from cot to cot and city to city while their medial records have washed away, their children are misplaced and their homes are flooded through and through.

I just don’t get it.

When the ACLU takes away the God-base of a nation, proclaims that even the coins with “In God We Trust” are anathema and that the Ten Commandments should be sliced from every public scene, then why doesn’t the ACLU come through with its agenda of secularization to save our lives? To redeem our souls? To provide the necessary rescue stations to care for our citizenry.

Say a prayer for Texas?

Why, that would be anti-ACLU and we intelligent, egocentric, educated, cosmopolitan, materialistic, secular persons of the New Age can’t reduce ourselves to such a low level as that?

That would par us off with the “born again” zealots. That would categorize us with the Christian fanatics. That would put us in the same league as the evangelicals. That would make us all in Jerry Falwells!

For God’s sake, we can’t permit that to happen. Oh, forgive the expletive. I didn’t mean to bring deity into this mess. But when the ACLU forsakes its own loyal crew in a time of need, I just wonder what the ACLU is all about anyhow.

Copyright © 2005 by J. Grant Swank, Jr.

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