Three of my new messages

Against all Odds http://www.acidplanet.com/components/embedfile.asp?asset=1206593&T=123

How to miss God while reading the Bible http://www.acidplanet.com/components/embedfile.asp?asset=1205918&T=4330

Back to Basics; a Bible, Notebook, and a Pen http://www.acidplanet.com/components/embedfile.asp?asset=1120541&T=6553

Email me if you listen and enjoy them. Wes

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Prison Inmates

There are now more than 2 million prison inmates in the United States.

More than one million are blacks.

These people do not have jobs; do not pay taxes, and do not care for their children.

Blacks constitute more than half the prison population, but are only 13% of the general population.

Illegal immigrants cause 23% of the crime in our country.

It costs the American tax payers (those of us who work for a living) approximately $40,000 per year for each inmate.

Of course, this includes color television, food, housing, work out rooms (you know, we want them to be stronger by the time they leave) and other perks such as libraries and opportunities for free schooling.

Let's see $40,000 per prisoner times 2 million = $80,000,000 per year.

In case you did not read correctly, it costs us $80 Billion Dollars per year to house and feed the 2 million inmates.

A quote from Ayn Rand's book, Atlas Shrugged: ""The inhabitants of slums were not the men who made this country."

2% of our population is committing 50% of the crimes!

Guns

Each year about 30,000 people die from hand guns.

More than half of these victims are suicides: 16,869.

More than 2 million crimes are prevented by armed citizens each year. Just think how many lives are saved!

Automobile accidents kill about 50,000 people each year.

Medical Malpractice kills about 195,000 U.S. citizens each year.

Doctors vs Gunowners


Doctors

(A) The number of physicians in the U.S.
is 700,000.

(B) Accidental deaths caused by
Physicians per year are 120,000.

(C) Accidental deaths per physician is

0.171

Statistics courtesy of U.S.
Department of Health and
Human Services.

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Now think about this:

Guns

(A) The number of gun owners in the U.S.
is 80,000,000. (Yes, that's 80 million)

(B) The number of accidental gun deaths
per year, all age groups, is 1,500.

(C) The number of accidental deaths
per gun owner is .000188.

Statistics courtesy of FBI

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So, statistically, doctors are
approximately

9,000
times more dangerous than gun owners.

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The Beast

Yes, you've read correctly and heard correctly.

They have named Obama's new Presidential Limosine THE BEAST.

He's the first President to ride in it!

Israel's "Find"

This article just appeared in one of Israel's newspapers, Arutz Sheva.

Delek-Noble announced that Israel has discovered 1.3 trillion cubic feet of natural gas. This is enough to supply the state of Israel with decades of energy.

This discovery could very well transform Israel's economy!

Tamar is the name of the well where the discovery was made. Tamar lies about 80 miles north-northwest of the 1999-2000 Mari-B, Noa, and Nir gas discoveries 15-23 miles off Ashkelon. It is also about 40 miles southeast of Israel's maritime border with Cyprus.

Now Russia has a motivation for invading Israel!

Ezekiel wrote and prophesied, "A long time from now you will be called into action. You and your hordes will roll down on them like a storm and cover the land like a cloud. At that time evil thoughts will come to your mind, and you will think an evil thought. You will say, 'I will go up to the land to take a spoil.'"(See Ez. 38).

Of course, Lebanon is claiming that the gas is hers. According to the Arabs, nothing can ever belong to Israel---even The Land.

The final days are getting closer!

Israel Discovers Natural Gas!

by Hillel Fendel

(IsraelNN.com) The Houston-based Noble Energy company, drilling for Israel’s Delek fuel company, announced that it has discovered a huge deposit of natural gas under the Mediterranean Sea near Haifa.

Infrastructures Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer (Labor) said that the find was of “historic proportions,” and that it could change the face of Israel’s economy.

Eighty-seven billion cubic meters, or nearly 3.1 trillion cubic feet, of high-quality gas are estimated to be in three deposits in the Tamar Drilling site, which is named for Delek owner Yitzchak Teshuva’s granddaughter. Teshuva said that the find marks a “historic milestone and a great holiday for Israel,” and that he has no doubt it will “supply Israel’s energy needs for many decades to come.”

Only A Billion Dollars!

The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion" in a casual manner, think about whether you want politicians spending your tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.
A.

A Billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B.

A billion minutes ago Jesus was on the earth.


C.

A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the stone age.


D.

A Billion days ago no one walked on the earth on two feet.




E.

A
billion dollars ago was only
8 hours
and 20
minutes,
at the
rate our government

is
spending it.


While this
thought is still fresh in our brain...


let's take
a look at New Orleans ..

It's
amazing what you can learn with some simple division.



Louisiana
Senator,
Mary
Landrieu (D)
is
presently asking
Congress
for

250 BILLION
DOLLARS

to rebuild
New Orleans . Interesting
number....

what does
it mean?




Well... if
you are one of the 484,674 residents of New
Orleans

(every
man, woman, and child)
you
each get $516,528.


B.

Or... if
you have one of the 188,251 homes in
New
Orleans , your
home gets
$1,329,787.


C.

Or... if
you are a family of four...

your
family gets
$2,066,012.


Washington , D. C.


HELLO!

Are all
your calculators broken??



Accounts
Receivable Tax

Building
Permit Tax

CDL License
Tax

Cigarette
Tax

Corporate
Income Tax

Dog License
Tax

Federal
Income Tax

Federal
Unemployment Tax (FUTA)

Fishing
License Tax

Food License
Tax

Fuel Permit
Tax

Gasoline Tax

Hunting
License Tax

Inheritance
Tax

Inventory
Tax

IRS Interest
Charges (tax on top of tax)

IRS
Penalties (tax on top of tax)

Liquor Tax

Luxury Tax

Marriage
License Tax

Medicare Tax

Property Tax

Real Estate
Tax

Service
charge taxes

Social
Security Tax

Road Usage
Tax (Truckers)

Sales Taxes

Recreational
Vehicle Tax

School Tax

State Income
Tax

State
Unemployment Tax (SUTA)

Telephone
Federal Excise Tax

Telephone
Federal Universal Service Fee Tax

Telephone Fe
deral, State and Local Surcharge Tax

Telephone
Minimum Usage Surcharge Tax

Telephone
Recurring and Non-recurring Charges Tax

Telephone
State and Local Tax

Telephone Usage Charge

Tax

Utility Tax

Vehicle
License Registration Tax

Vehicle
Sales Tax

Watercraft
Registration Tax

Well Permit
Tax

Workers
Compensation Tax


STILL
THINK THIS IS FUNNY?


Not one of
these taxes existed 100 years ago..
and our
nation was the most prosperous in the world.


We had
absolutely no national debt...
We had the
largest middle class in the world...
and Mom
stayed home to raise the kids.


What
happened?

Can you
spell 'politicians!'

And
I still have to
press
'1'
for
English.


I hope
this goes around the

USA
at least
100 times

What the
heck happened?????

Who were the Philistines?

The hostility of the Philistines and their war-mongering dates back beyond the Jewish Exodus from Egypt (around 1450 B.C.).

No one is absolutely sure where the Philistines came from, but most scholars agree that they originated from the north coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Caphtor, or the Island of Crete, is a likely place (Amos 9:7).

Deuteronomy 2:23 states, " . . . the Caphtorites from Crete invaded and destroyed the Avvites, who had lived in villages in the area of Gaza."

Jeremiah 47:4 says, " . . . the Lord is destroying the Philistines, those colonists from Crete. The city of Gaza will be demolished."

The Philistines were not "Pirates of the Caribbean", but "Pirates of the Mediterranean". When they arrived on the coast of what is now Israel, they forced a foothold there and invaded the land. These pirates were in power in their new land at least as early as the Exodus (1450 B.C.), Exodus 13:17.

God clearly told the Israelites about the boundaries for their new land.

"I will fix your boundaries from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, and from the southern deserts to the Euphrates River. I will help you defeat the people now living in the land, and you will drive them out ahead of you. Make no treaties with them and have nothing to do with their gods. Do not even let them live among you! If you do, they will infect you with their sin of idol worship, and that would be disastrous for you (Ex. 23:31-32).

Would to God that the Jewish people had obeyed these simple instructions from the Lord. But they did not. The Gaza war with Hamas and the Lebanon War with Hezebolah are the present-day results.

The Philistines have always been a thorn in the side of Israel. During the period of the judges the Philistines dominated five great capitals: Ashdod, Ashkelon, Ekron, Gath, and Gaza. Samson was the man who killed 3,000 of them when he pulled down the pillars in their temple, Judges 16:26-27.

Their disappearance as a nation from history occurred about the time of the conquest of Cyrus of Persia, 600 B.C. But the bloodline never went away. The terrorist tactics of their ancestors remained in their genes. Long before Mohammad was born (570 A.D.) these people were killing, raping, and taking what was not theirs to take.

We don't use the word "Philistine" any more. But we are all familiar with the word "Palestinian", which came into wide usage around 1967. These are, undoubtedly, the same people group. No wonder they are such a thorn in Israel's side.

Most people do not know that the term "Jewish Palestinians" was once a common term. Today this term is certainly not politically correct.

I was visiting with an Arab in Israel recently. He was a "Palestinian". We chatted for several hours and I learned a lot from him by asking him questions and just allowing him to talk.

At one point he made a very interesting statement. He said, "I don't know why we can't get along with the Jews like my ancestors did. My great grandfather lived right next door to Jews and they were very good friends."

Prior to that statement I had asked him the definition of the word "Palestinian". He told me it was anyone who had lived in the Holy Land for hundreds of years.

So, according to his definition, and according to his own admission, Jews had lived in the Holy Land for centuries.

I made my own statement then, "So . . . Jews are "Palestinians", too!"

His immediate response, "Oh, no! Jews can't be "Palestinians."

"But you just told me that the definition of a "Palestinian" is anyone who has lived in the Holy Land for centuries."

He just stared at me for a moment as though a bell had been rung in his head and then exclaimed, "Well . . . I'll have to think about this for a while."

The word "Philistines" is mentioned 255 times in the Bible.