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Whatever the evil (poison) is, it must be presented in a mix of something good, or good for you.
Rat poison is like this, 99.5% of the ingredients are tasty and nutritious for the rat
(otherwise, they wouldn't eat it, would they?).  Only .5% (1/2 percent) is deadly.
I am reminded of Dad's special brownies.  It is the same truth.

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If you want to remain in your ignorance then take this blue pill -

There are a number of people who do not like actor Jim Carrey.  Generally, he is known for his comedy.  Carrey has starred in at least 2 films that promoted a moral message.  The first of these movies is “The Cable Guy”.  I reported on it in August of 1996.  The other is his recent movie “Bruce Almighty”.  First, I am reprinting the review of “The Cable Guy”, which I entitled “Kill the Baby Sitter”, then a review of “Bruce Almighty”, which I entitle “How to Pray”.  If you do not want the movie spoiled, then do not read this review.  I report on these movies, because it seems that at least critics and many viewers miss the message.

The "wire services" report on the recent movie "The Cable Guy" as "Comedy with an edge like a razor, but more of a collection of set pieces and comedy sketches than a coherent story".

Some of you may have seen the movie, starring Jim Carrey & Matthew Broderick.

Carrey plays the Cable Guy, using names like Chip Douglas, Larry Tate and other popular TV character names.  Broderick play the victim, Steven.

Carrey portrays most everything in the genre of television show characters and situations.  The Cable Guy is rather demented, and pushes his way into the lives of unsuspecting people and bombards them with his television repertoire.  Because of his connections from giving people free cable, he is able to manipulate events to achieve his goals.

The basic theme is that the Cable Guy is demented from watching lots of television, beginning when he was a child and his mother used the television as a baby sitter while she went slutting.

In other words, the world of television is his world.  Though he knows there is a real world apart from television, he still must act-out his life in the venue of television, as though television was the real world.  The Cable Guy is troubled by his condition and really wants help.  He seeks comfort in forcing friendships upon people.

The punch, which many people may miss, and obviously the "wire services" did, is at the end (where else).  The Cable Guy is on a satellite broadcast tower, above the dish.  After the chase to get there, he has occassion to look down on the dish when a stapler falls into the dish.  At that moment he, realizing there may be no help for him, realizes there is a way to help others yet to be effected like he was.

Destroying the transmitter dish will stop the world from being able to watch television (at least on cable).  He says "Kill the baby sitter".  So he decides to end his demented life and drops from the tower to the LNA (low noise amplifier) of the dish, whereby interrupting the broadcasts.  We see many people affected and some even pick-up books to read. Imagine that.

His effort is short lived as we can be sure the cable company gets the system back on line shortly, and the Cable Guy does survive, though severely injured.

But the seemingly subtle message was - "Stop using television as a baby sitter".  In that capacity, TV is damaging.

The "wire services" evidently missed the point.  The story, while it started to drag a little long with the dementia (but not bad), made the point.  Can you trust the media to report things well?

There seems to be a pattern in presenting a moral message in some of Jim Carrey’s movies.  They build towards the embedded moral message, which is sprang on the viewer at the end.  Ironically, these movies are of value only for those with eyes to see and ears to hear.  The message is lost on all others, who probably will continue saying they do not like Jim Carrey.

Carrey’s character, Bruce Nolan, is heard to complain to God, for his generally self-inflicted troubles.  Bruce Nolan is disgruntled by his slow advancement, and seeming lack of recognition, in his job and focuses on that and everything he does revolves around his woes for his job.

After loosing his job, Nolan blames God for doing such a poor job.  So, God calls Nolan and bestows upon Nolan all the powers of God and leave Nolan in charge, while God takes a vacation.

Nolan promptly sets out to “fix” HIS OWN life woes.  Eventually, he is effected by the numerous prayers coming in for God, whose job Nolan is now responsible.  Nolan messes up the job of answering prayers by granting all prayers.  Nolan finally looses his girlfriend because his egocentric ego is not powered by the power of God.  His girlfriend reluctantly leaves Nolan.  In despair, Nolan gives up on the power trip and relinquishes the power, and asks God to help him.  While seeking God’s help, he sees a light and is hit by a truck.  He dies and meets God who questions Nolan about his predicament.  In the dialogue Nolan comes to realize how to pray.  He learns not to pray for his own riches and material things, but rather to pray for the benefit of other.  In this case, he prays for his girlfriends happiness, regardless and in spite of him.  Having learned how to pray, Nolan is returned and is revived with injuries, but he has learned his lesson and is not dealing with his status and prepared to earn his climb through life.

The movie holds the message till the end, while making subtle build towards the lesson.
 

I N S I G H T

How Much Do You Make per Hour?
contributed by D
[As you probably are already aware, I do not usually forward this kind of thing, but this one was quite insightful and very telling of families today.]

A man came home from work late again, tired and irritated, to find his 5-year-old son waiting for him at the door. "Daddy, may I ask you a question?"

"Yeah, sure. What is it?" replied the man.

"Daddy, how much money do you make an hour?"

"That's none of you business! What makes you ask such a thing?" the man said angrily.

"I just wanted to know. Please tell me, how much do you make an hour?" pleaded the little boy.

"If you must know, I make $20 an hour."

The little boy looked up at his father and he said, "Daddy, may I borrow $9 please?"

The father was furious. "If the only reason you wanted to know how much money I make is just so you can borrow some to buy a silly toy or some other nonsense, then you march yourself straight to your room and go to bed. Think about why you're being so selfish. I work long, hard hours everyday and don't have time for such childish games."

The little boy quietly went to his room and shut the door. The man sat down and started to get even madder about the little boy's questioning. How dare he ask such questions only to get some money?

After an hour or so, the man calmed down. He started to think he might have been a little hard on his son. Maybe there was something he really needed to buy with that $9 and he didn't ask for money very often. The man went to the little boy's room and opened the door. "Are you asleep, son?" he asked.

"No daddy, I'm awake," replied the boy.

"I've been thinking, maybe I was too hard on you earlier," said the man. "It's been a long day and I took my aggravations out on you. Here's that $9 you asked for."

The little boy straight up, beaming. "Oh, thank you daddy!" he yelled.

Then, reaching under his pillow, he pulled out some more crumpled up bills. The man, seeing that the boy already had money, started to get angry again. The little boy slowly counted out his money, then looked up at his dad. "Why did you want more money if you already had some?" the father grumbled.

"Because I didn't have enough, but now I do," the little boy replied. "Daddy, I have $20 now. Can you play with me for an hour?"
 

related articles are at these links from the DesMoines Register
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4780934/20588813.html  Boy ends up paying own child support
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788998/20599859.html  People offer cash to boy who paid support

In Iowa, the government has confiscated the savings of 11-year-old Rylan Nitzschke. Rylan saved $220 from chores and shoveling snow, but that now belongs to Iowa. Why? Rylan’s father allegedly owes child support (to Rylan), and his father’s name was on the boy’s bank account.

OK, so this is a mistake, and Iowa will return the boy’s savings, right? Wrong. State officials have no intention of returning the money. After all, they receive federal funds for each dollar they collect (and for each father they incarcerate). Rylan’s piggy bank helps balance the budget.

As Congress prepares to pass the Welfare Reform bill, the Washington Times reports that child support enforcement officials are ecstatic over provisions that will allow them to plunder and criminalize more citizens, using children as the justification. Yet no evidence indicates that there is, or ever has been, a problem of unpaid child support other than that created by the government. The child support "crisis" consists of little more than the government seizing people’s children, imposing patently impossible debts on parents (and others) who have done nothing to incur those debts, and then arresting those who, quite predictably, cannot pay.

Now this dishonest and discredited hoax is creating a Western version of "Absurdistan" – the name given by East European dissidents to the Soviet dictatorships that were not only repressive but, at times, simply buffoonish.

West Virginia officials cleaned out the bank account of an 85-year-old grandmother whose son allegedly owed child support. The son paid in none of the $6,450 taken from the account, which comprised her life savings. She was also charged a $75 processing fee.

Canada has a name for such grandmothers: "deadbeat accomplices." These are grandparents, second wives, or other relatives, who can be forced to disclose and part with their savings to government officials.

In California, minor boys raped by adult women must pay child support to the criminals who raped them. "State law entitles the child to support from both parents, even though the boy is considered the victim of statutory rape," the district attorney's office says. One boy was drugged before the sex. Kansas courts have likewise held that "the issue of consent to sexual activity under the criminal statutes is irrelevant in a civil action to determine paternity and for support of a minor child born of such activity." So much for not letting criminals profit from their crimes.

The elderly can also become targets of rape-for-profit. A disabled 85-year-old man, sexually assaulted by his housekeeper and awarded damages for the assault, was ordered to pay her child support, and his pension was garnished. The court denied him access to the child.

According to the Keystone Cops who enforce child support, a "child" is not a dependent minor but any recipient of their chivalry. "We've got some 40- to 45-year-old ‘kids’ running around who are owed child support," says Nick Young, enforcement director in Virginia. In Ohio, a 77-year-old great grandfather who had always paid on time was told he owed $45,000 in back child support and had his wages garnished, even though his youngest child was 46 years old.

In Canada, runaway children sue their parents for child support. In California, a 50-year-old divorce lawyer successfully sued his own parents for child support because, he said, depression rendered him unable to work. Startlingly, such suits were probably intended by a legislature dominated by trial lawyers. Judge Melinda Johnson observed that the statute is "unambiguous," and an attorney notes, "The statute didn't come about by accident."

In Canada and Australia, stepfathers are now ordered to pay the custodians of their stepchildren. Stuart Miller of the American Fathers Coalition comments wryly that such rulings open the door to multiple marriages to obtain multiple child support proceeds from multiple men without the inconvenience of multiple children. In fact, this is already happening, as judges allow "double-dipping," whereby both the biological father and stepfather are ordered to pay full child support to the same custodian for the same children.

Child support has little to do with providing for children. Its purpose is to redistribute money – and power – among grown-ups. Iowa officials say the only way Rylan’s father can prevent the looting of Rylan’s savings in the future is to give the boy's money to the adult with custody.

But the miracle is that Rylan bothers with chores at all. Rylan’s father "owes" his son money, according to the government, not because Rylan earns it through hard work but because his mother divorced the old man. Rylan can simply demand the money of his father, and the state will make him cough it up. Why teach youngsters to work when you can teach them to sue.

Indeed, some states now force fathers to pay college tuition. So kids, don’t work to save for college or study hard for a scholarship. If you can convince your mother to divorce your father, the government will force Dad to pay at the barrel of a gun. Once fathers can be forced to pay law school tuition the machine will be completely self-financing.

States create instant deadbeats simply by increasing burdens. In Virginia, the author of sharply increased guidelines, William Rodgers of William and Mary College, tells officials that if they do not like his formula, he would "create a schedule to suit." Presumably Dr. Rodgers proposes the guidelines he considers fair and reasonable. But if Virginia officials prefer guidelines that are not fair and reasonable, he can provide those too. This is Groucho Marx government: "Those are my principles. If you don’t like them, I have others."

Thus does child support simultaneously corrupt both public ethics and private morals, turning children into cash prizes and even "cash crops." One girl tells a Toronto newspaper of her savvy career plans: "I'm going to marry a really rich guy, then divorce him," she says. "But first I'm going to have his kids, so I get child support."

September 24, 2003  Stephen Baskerville, PhD, [send him mail] teaches political science at Howard University.

Copyright © 2003 Stephen Baskerville
 

[If you know the truth of some of the history of the uSA, then you already know there is no true lawful mandate of "separation of church and state".  If there really is a legitimate mandate of "separation of church and state" in the uSA, then why is it only applied against christian and christian like faiths, religions and the like?  You think I exaggerate?  Have you paid attention to the news?

Here is a report on the amount of funds the government (state) of the uSA is spending to support a religion (church).  Where is the separation?]

U.S. Financial Aid To Israel: Figures, Facts, and Impact
http://www.wrmea.com/us_aid_to_israel/index.htm

[The following are taxes imposed directly or indirectly.  Some may go by names other than tax, but regardless of what you call them, they remain a tax.]

Accounts Receivable Tax
Building Permit Tax
Capital Gains Tax
CDL license Tax
Cigarette Tax
Corporate Income Tax
Court Fines (indirect taxes)
Dog License Tax
Federal Income Tax
Federal Unemployment Tax (FUTA)
Fishing License Tax
Food License Tax
Fuel permit tax
Gasoline Tax (42 cents per gallon)
Hunting License Tax
Inheritance Tax Interest expense (tax on the money)
Inventory tax IRS
Interest Charges (tax on top of tax)
IRS Penalties (tax on top of tax)
Liquor Tax
Local Income Tax
Luxury Taxes
Marriage License Tax
Medicare Tax
Property Tax
Real Estate Tax
Septic Permit Tax
Service Charge Taxes
Social Security Tax
Road Usage Taxes (Truckers)
Sales Taxes
Recreational Vehicle Tax
Road Toll Booth Taxes
School Tax
State Income Tax
State Unemployment Tax (SUTA)
Telephone federal excise tax
Telephone federal universal service fee tax
Telephone federal, state and local surcharge taxes
Telephone minimum usage surcharge tax
Telephone recurring and non-recurring charges tax
Telephone state and local tax
Telephone usage charge tax
Toll Bridge Taxes
Toll Tunnel Taxes
Traffic Fines (indirect taxation)
Trailer registration tax
Utility Taxes
Vehicle License Registration Tax
Vehicle Sales Tax
Watercraft registration Tax
Well Permit Tax
Workers Compensation Tax

COMMENTS: Not one of these taxes existed 100 years ago and our nation was the most prosperous in the world, had ABSOLUTELY NO NATIONAL DEBT, had THE LARGEST MIDDLE CLASS IN THE WORLD and MOM STAYED HOME WITH THE CHILDREN.

100 YEARS OF PROGRESS?____
 

You can find several realted news articles at the following search result page.  Save this image and look at it in your favorite imaging program, and ennlarge it to check all the nigty dialogue.

http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news/?c=&p=%24200+bill+roanoke

 

I N S I G H T

The Job Search
contributed by Bob

Joe Smith started the day early having set his alarm clock (MADE IN JAPAN) for 6 A.M.

While his coffeepot (MADE IN CHINA) was perking, he shaved with his electric razor (MADE IN HONG KONG).

He put on a dress shirt (MADE IN SRI LANKA), designer jeans (MADE IN SINGAPORE) and tennis shoes (MADE IN KOREA).

After cooking his breakfast in his new electric skillet (MADE ININDIA) he sat down with his calculator (MADE IN MEXICO) to see how much he could spend today.

After setting his watch (MADE IN TAIWAN) to the radio (MADE IN INDIA) he got in his car (MADEIN GERMANY) and continued his search for a good paying AMERICAN JOB.

At the end of yet another discouraging and fruitless day, Joe decided to relax for a while.

He put on his sandals (MADE IN BRAZIL) poured himself a glass of wine (MADE IN FRANCE) and turned on his TV (MADE IN INDONESIA), and then wondered why he can't find a good paying job in..... ..... .....the uSA
 

"Well, we're all excited because President Bush has started his 35-day vacation. He's down there in Crawford, Texas; and on the first day of his vacation he went fishing. He didn't find any fish. But he believes they're there and that his intelligence is accurate."
  --David Letterman
 

This is itnersetnig.

Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are wirettn, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht the frist and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae. The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit a porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe.

Itnersetnig, isn't it?
 

On September 12, 2003, on the ABC program 20/20, was a story about testing the security of the borders of the united States of America.  The so called security system failed.

ABC shipped a box from Jakarta, Indonesia (a city considered by U.S. authorities to be one of the most active al Qaeda hot spots in the world.  The box contained about 15 pounds of depleted uranium.  Depleted uranium is considered harmless, not fissionable (weapons material) and legal for shipping into this country.  The important thing here is that if security people can not or do not detect this uranium, they will not detect enriched uranium (as both register the same, till inspected personally.

This is the second time ABC has tested border security and for the second time in 2 years, the vaunted government plan has failed.

Tom Ridge, secretary of Homeland INsecurity, has claimed BIG improvements in port security since the last time ABC tested them.  Rich stresses added vigilance overseas (Like Jakarta and Singapore??).  Rich has said the reason for “building security measures thousands of mile away, long before a container is first loaded on a ship” is so “our borders become our last line of defense, not our first line of defense.”  Clearly, there is NO defense.

On July 21, 2003, a lead lined steal pipe containing the uranium was packed in a suitcase and placed in a Teak box.  In the suitcase were some letters and notices for anyone who might open the box and suitcase, to alert them to the situation.

One note said

“ATTENTION   If you have opened this please immediately call Brian Ross [at] ABC news at 212-456-7612 or after hours call the ABC news desk at 212-456-2700 and ask them to page Mr. Ross urgently.”

Another note said

“UN2910 NOTICE   This package contains an ‘excepted quantity’ (less than 15lbs) of low-level radioactive material, .198% U235 depleted uranium (1 solid cylinder) and conforms to the conditions and limitations [pecified in 49 CFR 173.421 for excepted [haxardous] material, limited quantity, [….] scientific research material for educational purposes.”

[Those items in [] are were exact language could not be determined]

The box was sealed in Jakarta and passed through the trucking lanes in Jakarta then through the shipping docks in Jakarta (Tom Rich’s first line of defense). The box then passed through 2 more of Tom Rich’s lines of defense at Singapore and Hong Kong.

The box, along with most others were never opened, inspected or scanned.  Finally, the box arrives in Los Angeles on the morning of August 23, 2003.  One must now be asking how close is too close for dangerous people and materials to get to the uSA.  Could a bomb be set off in that harbor and do significant damage?

Based upon the fact that the box came from Jakarta, was enough to target the box for screening.  According to Asa Hutcheson, under secretary of Homeland Insecurity, this means that Homeland Insecurity passed the test.  Hutcheson says they “targeted it, inspected it and confirmed it was not a danger to America”.  This confirmation was through X-ray exams (which can not see through lead very easily) and radiation detection equipment (and we must figure that it is common to find radioactive material being shipped through our borders???).

Having passed through the port of Los Angeles the container passed through the city of LA all the way to its warehouse destination.  The ABC crew met the box at the destination warehouse and opened it to find their package.  They explained themselves to the curious warehouse and shipping people.

So, AFTER the radioactive material has made it to its destination, what was the feds reaction?  Surely, you already know.  The feds took only 10 hours to begin their investigation of ABC and selected people from ABC.  They began with a midnight (literally) raid of the ABC new bureau in LA.

This “investigation” of ABC continued for at least the next 5 days, as feds went to the homes of various people from ABC.

This of course was sparked only because the shippers, to whom the ABC crew at the warehouse had explained themselves, had contacted the feds expressing concern that the feds had missed the shipment.  Hence, if ABC had kept its mouth closed, NOONE would have know anything.

A look at most every other trouble involving attacks on our own soil is that the government is there to do something AFTER the trouble and then to blame the wrong people.  Sometimes there are even very quick to cover and hide the evidence, like leveling and burying buildings, to avoid any further investigations.

Asa Hutcheson defends the feds action after the fact as blaming ABC for not correctly completing a shipping manifest, identifying they were shipping uranium.  ABC producer Ross soundly settle that when he said “we did not put that on there, because we did not think terrorist would put that on the manifest”.

Moreover, Asa Hutcheson avoided the question of where he (or his agency) thought Brian Ross was a terrorist by claiming that Ross “was trying to carry out a HOAX on our [uSA] inspectors”.

U.S. agents also sought, without warrant or subpoena, to obtain ABCNEWS field tapes. Two agents showed up at night at the San Diego home of a freelance cameraman, Jeff Freeman, who worked on the project.

"They first identified themselves as FBI agents, which it turns out they weren't," said Freeman. "They wanted to know if I still had the tapes I had shot for ABC and if I could turn them over."

It is interesting to note that Senator Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley generally applauded ABC and ridiculed the feds for going after ABC rather than the read cause of the problem in security.

In a letter to Attorney General John Ashcroft and Ridge, Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said he was concerned about "a chilling effect on legitimate  investigative reporting" in the ABCNEWS case.

"If my neighbor told me my barn was on fire, my first instinct would be to thank my neighbor and get some water for the fire. I worry that the government's first instinct is to pour cold water on the neighbor," Grassley wrote.

The feds acknowledge that security at US ports is a huge problem thst can not be solved overnight. (how about the past 2 years??)
 

Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia once talked about a contest he was asked to judge. The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child. The winner was:

A four year old child whose next door neighbor was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife. Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard, climbed onto his lap, and just sat there. When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor, the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

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Teacher Debbie Moon's first graders were discussing a picture of a family. One little boy in  the picture had a different color hair than the other family members. One child suggested that he was adopted. A little girl said, "I know all about adoptions because I was adopted." "What does it mean to be adopted?" asked another child. "It means," said the girl, "that you grew in your mommy's heart instead of her tummy."

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A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up. As the doctor looked down her ears with an otoscope, he asked, "Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?" The little girl stayed silent. Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked down her throat. He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster down there?" Again, the little girl was silent.  Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest. As he listened to her heart beat, he asked, "Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?" "Oh, no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart. Barney's on my underpants."

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On my way home one day I stopped to watch a Little League baseball game that was being played in a park near my home. As I sat down behind the bench on the first-base  line, I asked one of the boys what the score was. "We're behind 14 to nothing," he answered with a smile." "Really," I said. "I have to say you don't look very discouraged."  "Discouraged?" the boy asked with a puzzled look on his face. "Why should we be discouraged? We haven't been up to bat yet.

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Whenever I'm disappointed with my spot in life, I stop and think about little Jamie Scott. Jamie was trying out for a part in a school play. His mother told me that he'd set his heart on being in it, but, she feared he would not be chosen. On the day the parts were awarded, I went with her to collect him after school. Jamie rushed up to her, eyes shining with pride and excitement. "Guess what Mom," he shouted, and then said those words that will remain a lesson to me............................"I've been chosen to clap and cheer."

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An Eye Witness Account from New York City, on a cold day in December some years ago: A little boy about 10 years old was standing before a shoe store on the roadway, barefooted, peering through the window, and shivering with cold. A lady approached the boy and said, "My, but your in such deep thought staring in that window!"  "I was asking God to give me a pair of shoes," was the boy's reply. The lady took him by the hand and went into the store and asked the clerk to get half a dozen pairs  of socks for the boy.She then asked if he could give her a basin of water and a towel. He quickly brought them to her. She took the little fellow to the back part of the  store and, removing her gloves, knelt down, washed his little feet, and dried them with a towel. By this time the clerk had returned with the socks. Placing a pair upon the boy's feet, she purchased him a pair of shoes. She tied up the remaining pairs of socks and gave them to him. She patted him on the head and said, "No doubt, you will be more comfortable now". As she turned to go, the astonished kid caught her by the hand, and looking up into her face........with tears in his eyes, asked her ..................... "Are you God's Wife?"
 

"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports.It is impossible to rightly govern the world without God and the Bible” -- George Washington

"Our ancestors established their system of government on morality and religious sentiment. Moral habits, they believed, cannot safely be entrusted on any other foundation than religious principle, not any government secure which is not supported by moral habits.... Whatever makes men good Christians, makes them good citizens." --Daniel Webster

"The highest glory of the American Revolution was this; it connected, in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity." -- John Quincy Adams

"It cannot be emphasized too strongly or too often that this great nation was founded, not by religionists, but by Christians; not on religions, but on the gospel of Jesus Christ! For this very reason peoples of other faiths have been afforded asylum, prosperity, and freedom of worship here” -- Patrick Henry

"We have staked the future of all of our political institutions upon the capacity of mankind for self-government, upon the capacity of each and all of us to govern ourselves, to control ourselves, to sustain ourselves according to the Ten Commandments of God." -- James Madison,  chief architect of the Constitution

"No free man shall ever be de-barred the use of arms. The strongest reason for the people to retain their right to keep and bear arms is as a last resort to protect themselves against tyranny in government." -- Thomas Jefferson

"The said constitution shall never be construed to authorize congress to prevent the people of the United States who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms." --Samuel Adams

"The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun." -- Patrick Henry

"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue." -- John Adams 2nd President of the United States

"Good  government generally begins in the family, and if the moral character of a people once degenerate, their political character must soon follow." -- Elias Boudinot, president of the Continental Congress, later a congressman from NJ, and president of the American Bible Society

"God who gave us life gave us liberty. And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure if we have removed their only firm basis: a conviction in the minds of men that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with His wrath? Indeed, I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever." --Thomas Jefferson

“He is the best friend to American liberty, who is most sincere and active in promoting true and undefiled religion, and who set himself with the greatest firmness to bear down on profanity and immorality of every kind. Whoever is an avowed enemy of God, I scruple not to call him an enemy to his country." -- John Witherspoon , the only clergyman in the Continental Congress

"Providence has given our people the choice of their rulers, and it is the duty, as well as privilege and interest, of a Christian nation to select and prefer Christians for their rulers." -- John Jay first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, one of three men most responsible for our Constitution

"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- William Penn; Thomas Jefferson's personal seal

"A Bible and a newspaper in every house, a good school in every district - all studied and appreciated as they merit – are the principle support of virtue, morality, and civil liberty." -- Benjamin Franklin; March 1778

"Statesmen may plan and speculate for liberty, but it is religion and morality alone which can establish the principles upon which freedom can securely stand. The only foundation of a free constitution is pure virtue." -- John Adams 2nd President of the United States

"Without morals a republic cannot subsist any length of time; they therefore who are decrying the Christian religion, whose morality is so sublime and pure (and) which insures to the good eternal happiness, are undermining the solid foundation of morals, the best security for the duration of free governments." -- Charles Carroll, signer of the Declaration of Independence

"The rights essential to happiness.... We claim them from a higher source - from the King of kings and Lord of all the earth” -- John Dickinson, signer of the Constitution and a member of the Continental Congress

"The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: 'that God governs in the affairs of men.' And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid?" -- Benjamin Franklin

"The only foundation for... a republic is to be laid in Religion. Without this there can be no virtue, and without virtue there can be no liberty, and liberty is the object and life of all republican governments." -- Benjamin Rush signer of the Declaration of Independence

"A patriot without religion, in my estimation, is as great a paradox as an honest man without the fear of God. Is it possible that he whom no moral obligations bind, can have any real Good Will towards Men? Can he be a patriot who, by an openly vicious conduct, is undermining the very bonds of Society? ...The Scriptures tell us righteousness exalteth a Nation." -- Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams
 

If you have installed Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) and noticed a loss of some features, I wish you much fortune in finding a fix.

One feature is to have the last windows/folders you had open be there when your computer is restarted.

If you like this feature then you are probably one of those who are now sad it is gone with the IE6 upgrade, and you probably can not easily find a way to fix it or restore this feature.

I have found the fix, with the help of my friend Russell, thanks Russell.

1- Click “start”, click “run”, type “regedit”
2- In the lefthand side of the window --
3- click the “+” next to HKEY_CURRENT_USER
4- click the “+” next to Software
5- click the “+” next to Microsoft
6- click the “+” next to Windows
7- click the “+” next to CurrentVersion
8- click the “+” next to Explorer
9- click the “+” next to Advanced

10- click on the “edit” menu then select “new” then select “DWORD
11- a new entry appears and is highlighted
12- type “PersistBrowsers” (without the quotes [“])
13- right click on the new entry, then select “modify”, then set the value to “1” (w/o the quotes) and click “OK” (the leading zeros are unnecessary)
14- close the window

Since you're just adding a new value and not removing anything that your computer is already depending on, there should be little chance of causing any problems.

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