Wednesday, December 3, 2008

400-408 – (3:05) Prop 8 "The Musical" (video here), at Sacramento Community College with an "all-star" cast that includes Jack Black as Jesus, Neil Patrick Harris, and John C. Reilly.  In the musical, Jesus asks Prop 8 supporters about the Bible verses that say shell fish is an abomination, that you can stone your wife, or sell your daughter into slavery, in order to diminish the abomination of homosexuality.  Then Jesus affirms the separation of church and state.  But people have the right to vote for whomever they choose on whatever criteria they choose too.  If Christians, Jews, and Mormons want to vote to perserve family that's not a violation of church and state, that called democracy.

413-423 – How do you answer this criticism?

• 428-437 – How do you answer this criticism?

(Leviticus 11:9-12) Leviticus was all about teaching separation, e.g. fish swim and bugs crawl, so if a bug in the sea has legs and can crawl, it's truly not a fish but a sea bug, or shellfish.   Besides, Romans 14:14 says it's up to personal conscience, and Jesus says in Matt 15:11, "It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

In 1400BC, before the Law was given to Israel, the pagan nations had no law against men killing their wives and children.  The OT improved that moral order by requiring men to go before the elders before anyone was stoned.  Rabbinic literature has no record of this ever being done.

(Exodus 21:7-11) If you sell your daughter to a man, and he becomes unhappy with her, he may not sell her off, he must allow her family to redeem her back.  And, if the man buys her for his son, she must be treated as a daughter.  All these are improvements over the then current moral codes of the pagan nations.

443-452 – • Michelle Malkin (12/03/08) Who will make the other Prop. 8 musical?

A bunch of Hollywood libs produced "Prop. 8: The Musical," with the obligatory ridicule of people of faith and Jack Black-as-Jesus. If the opponents of Prop. 8 stuck to cheesy dinner theater protests like this, I'd have no problem. It's the insane mob attacks, sweeping blacklists, and church vandalism that give them a bad name.

There's gotta be someone out there up for making the other Prop. 8 musical — the one with angry activists storming restaurants and Mormon temples, hectoring elderly people over their signs, and hounding donors large and small until they pay off their tormentors in the name of tolerance. Anyone?

458-508 – • King 5 (12/02/08) Anti-religious sign at state Capitol raises eyebrows.

(2:33) The Washington State Capitol in Olympia now has next to the nativity scene a placard that reads, "At this season of the Winter Solstice may reason prevail. There are no gods, no devils, no angels, no heaven or hell. There is only our natural world. Religion is but myth and superstition that hardens hearts and enslaves minds."  The metal plaque has been delayed in shipping.  The audio is from Dan Barker of the Freedom from Religion Foundation.  Jim Erskine of the WA State General Administration Office is the one telling the requirements for posting something in their State Capitol. Dennis Bounds and Lori Matsukawa are the news people running the segment.  Elisa Hahn reports.

512-523 – How do you challenge this?  What is the principle their advocating?  Must we now allow the KKK and skinhead groups "equal access" to exercise their "free speech" on Martin Luther King Day.  Should we now allow any "statement" to be displayed next to any "symbol?"  Do you support Washington Governor Christine Gregoire decision to allow this statement?  Would it be better to just revoke the holiday?

528-538 – Calls

540 – (:90) Mike Campbell with Pell Air, reports that space heaters can cost you more than a brand new heating unit for your home!  He's offering a free estimate of anyone's broken heater as well as a brand new heating system for as low as $80.00 per month.  Call him now on his cell phone at (310) 600-4701.

544-554 – Calls

558-608 – Jack Hibbs, senior pastor at Calvary Chapel Chino Hills (calvarycch.org), on how he came to faith in Christ and what led him into the ministry.  Wait till you hear the miracle that occurred in his life!

612-623 – Jack Hibbs,

628-638 – Jack Hibbs,

644-655 – • LAT (12/02/08) TACA passengers in a fog after 9-hour flight diversion:  Flight from San Salvador to L.A. should've taken 41/2 hours but winds up being more like 14 after an unplanned overnight in Ontario.

(:31) Jay Leno making a joke on Monday's show (11/24/08) about Canada's new ruling that obese people can get 2 plane seats for the price of 1.

• Fox News (12/02/08) Rastafarian Can Bring Religious Discrimination Suit Against Jiffy Lube for Grooming Policy.

• Fox News (12/03/08) Conservatives Upset With Episcopal Church Break Off, Form Rival Religion.

• Oliver Hart And Luigi Zingales (12/03/08) Economists Have Abandoned Principle: Twelve months ago nobody could have imagined government interventions we now take for granted.  Mr. Hart is a professor of economics at Harvard. Mr. Zingales is a professor of finance at the Chicago Booth School of Business.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

400-408 – Mark Hitchcock, pastor of Faith Bible Church (edmondfaithbible.com) in Edmond, Oklahoma, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, and author of more than 15 books on end times prophecy including his soon to be released The Late Great United States:  What Bible Prophecy Reveals about America's Last Days, on where America fits into end times prophecy.  You can contact Mark at mark@edmondfaithbible.com.

413-423 – Mark Hitchcock

428-437 – Mark Hitchcock

443-452 – Mark Hitchcock

458-508 – Kevin McCullough, founder of the Musclehead Revolution, co-host of the nationally syndicated Baldwin-McCullough Xtreme Radio at www.bmxradionow.com, Townhall contributor, and my guest host here on the Frank Pastore Show, on his latest book The Kind of Man Every Man Should Be.

512-523 – Kevin McCullough,

528-538 – Bill Maier, a clinical psychologist at Focus on the Family (family.org), and host of Weekend Magazine, on today's report that almost half of college-aged adults have a psychiatric disorder.  He issued this statement today,

"As a society I believe we need to ask the hard question—what is causing such a high incidence of personality disorders and drug and alcohol abuse among our young people?  Although the researchers rightly point to our high-pressure, 'get ahead  at  all costs' culture, we need to acknowledge that family breakdown, dysfunctional parenting, social isolation and spiritual emptiness are likely major contributing factors as well."

• Fox News (12/02/08) 1 in 5 Young Adults Has Personality Disorder, Study Finds.

The study was released Monday in Archives of General Psychiatry, and was based on 5,092 face-to-face interviews of adults ages 19-25 in 2001 and 2002.

Conducted by Mark Olfson of both Columbia and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.  It was funded by grants from the National Institutes of Health, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the New York Psychiatric Institute.

20% have a personality disorder that interferes with everyday life.

50% have either or both a personality disorder or a substance abuse problem.

Less than 25% get any treatment.

33% suffer from substance abuse (drug and alcohol abuse).  Among these, 20% are problem drinkers, and 7% have drug problems.

12% have anxiety disorders.  Among these, 8% had obsessive compulsive personality disorder (an extreme preoccupation with details, rules, orderliness, and perfectionism), and 2% have OCD (which features repetitive actions such as hand-washing to avoid germs).

8% have phobias.

7% are depressed.

5% are bipolar.

541 – Ann-Marie Murrell, director of children's ministries at Burbank Presbyterian Church, talking about Bethlehem Village at First Presbyterian Church of Burbank (firstpresburbank.org)  It's free for everyone and it's this Friday and Saturday from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.  For more information, call  818-842-5103

544-554 – Bill Maier

555 – [1:30] "Your Independent, Unbiased, Advisors: The Money Guys" Robert Micone/Bill O'Connor at Applied Financial, 866-SEEK-COUNSEL, and online at appliedfinancialplanning.com.

558-608 – Bill Maier

612-623 – Bill Maier

628-638 – • ABC News (12/02/08) Marketers Aim to Man-Up Men Bras, Tummy-Tucking Tanks Target Male Consumers.

644-655 – Bros and butt padding for men?  No, it's not a joke.

• AP (12/02/08) Georgia is voting in Senate runoff today.

• Fox News (12/02/08) Nuclear or Bioterror Attack on U.S. Likely by 2013, Panel Warns.  Key points,

• "The United States should be less concerned that terrorists will become biologists and far more concerned that biologists will become terrorists," the report states.

• "The biological threat is greater than the nuclear; the acquisition of deadly pathogens, and their weaponization and dissemination in aerosol form, would entail fewer technical hurdles than the theft or production of weapons-grade uranium or plutonium and its assembly into an improvised nuclear device," states the report.

• Study chairman Graham said anthrax remains the most likely biological weapon. However, he told the AP that contagious diseases — like the flu strain that killed 40 million at the beginning of the 20th century — are looming threats. That virus has been recreated in scientific labs, and there remains no inoculation to protect against it if is stolen and released.

• Al Qaeda remains the only terrorist group judged to be actively intent on conducting a nuclear attack against the United States, the report notes. It is not yet capable of building such a weapon and has yet to obtain one. But that could change if a nuclear weapons engineer or scientist were recruited to Al Qaeda's cause, the report warns.  The report says the potential nexus of terrorism, nuclear and biological weapons is especially acute in Pakistan.  "Were one to map terrorism and weapons of mass destruction today, all roads would intersect in Pakistan," the report states.

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Monday, December 1, 2008

400-408 – Tommy Ice, the Executive Director of the Pre-Trib Research Center (pre-trib.org) on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded back in 1994 by Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice to "research, teach, proclaim, and defend pre-tribulationism."  Ice says the early church was premill until the appearance of Augustine's City of God about 400AD which advanced an amill view that dominated church teaching for 1,200 years.  The Catholic Church is still amill.  Postmill was a spin-off of amill that began around 1700, and premill resurfaced about 1800.

• The information below is summarized from "Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine" by Wayne House (1992).

Dispensational Premillennialism:  the Rapture (He will come for his church) and the Second Coming (He will come with His church) are distinct events separated by a 7-year Tribulation.  The Church is not spiritual Israel, the nation of Israel itself will fulfill prophecies concerning Israel.  Christ will reign on Earth for a literal 1,000 years.  Global "conditions" will continue to decline.  Proponents:  J. N. Darby, C. I. Scofield, L. S. Chafer, John Walvoord, Charles Feinberg, Charles Ryrie.

Historic Premillennialism:  the Rapture and the Second Coming are the same event.  The Church is spiritual Israel, and will fulfill some of the prophecies concerning Israel.   Believers will be resurrected at the beginning of the Millennium, and unbelievers at the end.  The Church will go through the Tribulation, hence it is posttrib.  The Millennium may not be a literal 1,000 years.  Proponents:  George E. Ladd, Millard Erickson.

Postmillennialism:  The Church is the New Israel.  The Church will one day Christianize the whole world, and this will lead to a 1,000 year period of peace and prosperity called the Millennium.  At the end of the Millennium, Christ will return.  Global "conditions" will continue to improve.  There will be one general resurrection of all people, believers and unbelievers at the Second Coming.  Proponents:, Loraine Boettner, Augustus Hodge, Charles Hodge, W.G.T. Shedd, A. H. Strong, B. B. Warfield, James Snowden, Christian Reconstructionists.

Amillennialism:  The Church is the New Israel.  Israel and the Church are not two distinct programs, but one unified outworking of God's purposes and plans in a "covenant of grace."  There are no prophecies to be fulfilled in the nation of Israel.  There is no future millennial kingdom only the eternal state, God's kingdom has always been and will always be.  The Kingdom is now present in the Church Age, as is Tribulation.  There will be one general resurrection of all people, believers and unbelievers at the Second Coming.  Proponents: Augustine, Louis Berkhof, Abraham Kuyper, Leon Morris, Anthony Hoekema, Gary Demar, Ken Gentry, RC Sproul, most Reformed theologians, and the Roman Catholic Church.

Pretribulation:  "Christ will come for His saints at the Rapture (John 14:1-14; 1 Cor. 15:51-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18), and then with His saints at the Revelation (Zech. 14; Matt. 24:29-31; Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-27; and Rev. 19)."  His return is imminent (Titus 2:13), with no advance warnings (Acts 20:29-30; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 4:1-3).  Christians are exempt from divine wrath (1 Thess. 1:10, Rev. 3:10).  There will be a literal Tribulation (Revelation 6-19), and the church will not go through it since it is not mentioned.  The "Restrainer" of 2 Thess. 2:1-12 is the Holy Spirit, and He must remove the Church before the Tribulation begins.  Living, non-glorified believers will enter and then repopulate the millennial kingdom (Zech. 12:10-13, Rom. 11:26).  Proponents:  John F. Walvoord, J. Dwight Pentecost, John and Paul Feinberg, Charles Ryrie, Leon Wood, Hal Lindsey.

Midtribulation:  The Rapture occurs in the middle of the Tribulation prior to the Great Tribulation.  Emphasis is upon the midpoint of 3 1/2 years (42 months, 1,260 days) from Dan. 7, 9:27, 12:7; Rev. 11:23, 12:3, 6, 14).  2 Thess. 2:14 refers to preceding signs of the Rapture.  Rev. 11:15-19 mentions the seventh trumpet, which is identical to the trumpet of 1 Thess. 4:16.  The Olivet Discourse of Matt. 24-25 coincides with the Rapture passage of 1 Thess. 4:15.   Proponents:  Gleason Archer, J. Oliver Buswell, Merrill Tenney.

Posttribulation:  The Rapture will occur after the Tribulation at the Second Coming.  Proponents:  Douglas Moo, Robert Gundry.

413-423 – Tommy Ice, the Executive Director of the Pre-Trib Research Center (pre-trib.org) on the campus of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, founded back in 1994 by Jerry Falwell, Tim LaHaye and Thomas Ice to "research, teach, proclaim, and defend pre-tribulationism."

428-437 – Prophecy Calls

443-452 – Prophecy Calls

458-508 – Hugh Ross, founder and president of Reasons to Believe (reasons.org), an international, interdenominational ministry established to communicate the factual basis for belief in the Bible as the error-free Word of God.  Hugh's latest book is Why The Universe is the Way It Is.

• Telegraph (12/01/08) Pentagon hires British scientist to help build robot soldiers that 'won't commit war crimes'.  The American military is planning to build robot soldiers that will not be able to commit war crimes like their human comrades in arms.

512-523 – Hugh Ross

Efficient causes replaced final causes, How? replaced Why?  Aristotle noted four types of causation that may be best understood in the context of a saddle being made.  The material cause is the leather, the formal cause is the kind of saddle envisioned by the craftsman, the efficient cause is the craftsman, and the final cause is the fact that he wants to make money by selling saddles.  With all of reality reduced to a determined machine, there was no room for either formal causes or final causes.  Thus, the search for "why" something was done, was replaced with just "how" it was done.  The "why" was considered irrational, totally subjective and arbitrary, only "how" was intellectually acceptable.  Yet, not even an infinite knowledge of "how?" will ever begin to address "why?"

528-538 – Hugh Ross

544 – Hey gang, if you haven't gotten your tickets yet for our KKLA Night at the Curtain Call Dinner Theater in Tustin, you'd better hurry!  There're only 55 seats left!   Now's your chance to reserve one of the last seats to see "It's A Wonderful Life" with Gina and me this coming Saturday, December 6^th.  If you call right now, they'll even throw in a Free Show ticket to a future performance.  Call the Curtain Call box office now (714) 838-1540.

544-554 – Hugh Ross

558-608 – • Fox News (12/01/08) Five Mumbai Terrorists May Have Escaped Capture.

• Dorothy Rabinowitz (11/30/08) Deepak Blames America: The media look within to explain the sick delusions of the Mumbai killers.

• AP (12/01/08) Students lie, cheat, steal, but say they're good.  The Josephson Institute surveyed 29,760 high school students at 100 randomly selected high schools nationwide and found:

• 35% of high school boys, and 26% of high school girls, admit to stealing from a store in the past year.

• 26% of boys, and 14% of girls, admit to stealing from a friend in the past year.

• 49% of boys, and 36% of girls, admit to lying to save money in the past year.

• 83% had lied to a parent about something significant in the past year.

• 64% say they had cheated on a test in the past year.

• 36% say they had used the Internet to plagiarize an assignment in the past year.

•• Yet, 93% say they are satisfied with their personal ethics and character.

•• And, 77% say "when it comes to doing what is right, I am better than most people I know."

612 – Hey gang, if you haven't gotten your tickets yet for our KKLA Night at the Curtain Call Dinner Theater in Tustin, you'd better hurry!  There're only 55 seats left!   Now's your chance to reserve one of the last seats to see "It's A Wonderful Life" with Gina and me this coming Saturday, December 6^th.  If you call right now, they'll even throw in a Free Show ticket to a future performance.  Call the Curtain Call box office now (714) 838-1540.

612-623 – How bad is it in your classroom?

628-638 – How bad is it in your classroom?

644-655 – • Louis V. Gerstner Jr. (12/01/08) Lessons From 40 Years of Education 'Reform': Let's abolish local school districts and finally adopt national standards.  Mr. Gerstner, a former CEO of IBM, was chairman of the Teaching Commission (2003-2006), which reported on ways to improve the quality of public school teaching.  His five core recommendations:

1)  Abolish all local school districts, save 70 (50 states; 20 largest cities). Some states may choose to leave some of the rest as community service organizations, but they would have no direct involvement in the critical task of establishing standards, selecting teachers, and developing curricula.

2) Establish a set of national standards for a core curriculum. I would suggest we start with four subjects: reading, math, science and social studies.

3) Establish a National Skills Day on which every third, sixth, ninth and 12th-grader would be tested against the national standards. Results would be published nationwide for every school in America.

4) Establish national standards for teacher certification and require regular re-evaluations of teacher skills. Increase teacher compensation to permit the best teachers (as measured by advances in student learning) to earn well in excess of $100,000 per year, and allow school leaders to remove underperforming teachers.

5) Extend the school day and the school year to effectively add 20 more days of schooling for all K-12 students.

• LAT (12/01/08) Locke High School's progress: Three months into the school year, a troubled high school is making strides as a Green Dot charter.

• Hamid Ahmed (12/01/08) Iraq: Bombs kill more than 30 in Baghdad, Mosul.

• Fox News (12/01/08) Police Try to ID Shoppers in Wal-Mart Trampling Death Surveillance Tape.

• Telegraph (12/01/08) Pirates attack cruise ship off Somali coast:  Shots were fired after the luxury cruise ship Oceania Nautica was chased by pirates in the Gulf of Aden.

• Reuters (11/25/08) UPDATE 1-German carmakers make fresh move to cut output.

• Mark Steyn (11/29/08) It's Not the Cold War: Updating strategy to fight the ideology.

• L. Gordon Crovitz (12/01/08) Let's Move Intelligence Out of the 1970s.

• Peggy Noonan (11/28/08) Turbulence Ahead: Some things to be thankful for in depressing times.

• Dick Morris (12/01/08) Obama's Myths: Young Voters And Small Donors.

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Wednesday, November 26, 2008

400-408 – Michael Medved, host of The Michael Medved Show (michaelmedved.com), author of The 10 Big Lies About America: Combating Destructive Distortions About Our Nation, will be in Los Angeles Wednesday December 3^rd (when he'll broadcast from the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda) and Thursday December 4^th (when he'll be at the Victoria Gardens Cultural Center).  We talk about the #1 Big Lie, the American "genocide" of millions of Indians.

• Michael Medved (11/26/08) Big Lies that Poison Thanksgiving and Subvert Our Sense of Honor.

• Mona Charen (11/25/08) Giving Thanks for Genocide? No, we celebrate the peaceful start of the not always peaceful history of the greatest of nations.

413-423 – Michael Medved, on Big Lie #2 dealing with slavery.

428-437 – The Real Stories of Thanksgiving

• FRC, Prayer Team Targets November 26, 2008.

America 's "First" Thanksgiving[s]

Christopher Columbus and the Catholic missionaries who accompanied the Conquistadors surely prayed and offered thanksgiving to God in the New World, but the first official "Thanksgiving Day" was celebrated by the French Protestants in 1564.  Prominent Huguenot leader, Admiral Gaspard de Coligny, envisioned America a refuge for persecuted French Protestants.  He sponsored a group of Huguenots to found Ft. Caroline on Florida 's St. John's River.  The settlement struggled, but reinforcements came just in time to save it.  On June 30, 1564, the group celebrated their first Thanksgiving Festival.  Florida claims the first Thanksgiving. Sadly, the Huguenots were massacred by soldiers who claimed Florida for Spain.  Spanish Catholics established a missionary beachhead that prospered for generations in Florida and throughout the Southwest.  French Catholics extended their reach from Canada and Maine to the Great Lakes, south along the Mississippi to the Gulf Coast back to Florida .

Virginia, too, claims the first Thanksgiving!  In 1607, the first permanent English settlement was established in Jamestown.  As elsewhere, settlers were motivated by profit opportunity and faith.  Rev. Robert Hunt led the Englishmen in a Eucharist of thanksgiving and praise - consecrating the colony to God.  Unlike the Puritans northward, these settlers were rooted in the Anglican Church.

Americans draw their Thanksgiving vision from the Pilgrims and Puritans of Massachusetts.  We owe them the spirit that shaped the beginnings of the American social order: the Mayflower Compact; acknowledgement of God as the basis for civil and religious authority; and the dream that America could model Biblical Christianity in our political order and become a "city upon a hill."  Only half of the Pilgrims survived the first winter of 1620.  Miraculously helped by friendly Indians, a small band persevered through the meager harvest of 1621.  Governor William Bradford proclaimed the month of November to be dedicated to "Thanksgiving unto the Lord." 

In 1623, Bradford proclaimed another Thanksgiving - the Thanksgiving most Americans picture:  "In as much as the great Father has given us this year an abundant harvest of Indian corn, wheat, peas, beans, squashes, and garden vegetable, and has made the forests to abound with game and the sea with fish and clams, and inasmuch as he has protected us from the ravages of the savages, has spared us from pestilence and disease, has granted us freedom to worship God according to the dictates of our own conscience; now I, your magistrate, do proclaim that all ye Pilgrims, with your wives and ye little ones, do gather at ye meeting house, on ye hill, between the hours of 9 and 12 in the day time, on Thursday, November ye 29th, of the year of our Lord one thousand six hundred and twenty-three, and the third year since ye Pilgrims landed on ye Pilgrim Rock, there to listen to ye pastor and render thanksgiving to ye Almighty God for all His blessings. William Bradford, Ye Governor of Ye Colony."

While Americans adhere to many faiths today, our national religious heritage derives from a broad range of early settlers.  Yet scholars agree that the New England Puritans were the predominant spiritual force in 17^th century America (see Dictionary of Christianity in America, Daniel G. Reid, Editor, Intervarsity Press, 1990, American Quotations, Wm. Federer, Amerisearch, Inc., 2001).

• Elizabeth Armstrong, Christian Science Monitor (2002), The First Thanksgiving. 

She points out there are only two surviving historical sources to the first Thanksgiving:  (1) colonist Edward Winslow's letter to a friend dated December 1621, mentioning some of the food and activities, and (2) a book written by William Bradford in 1641, that was stolen then lost for almost 200 years, until it resurfaced again in 1854.  Here's a passage from Winslow's Letter,

"Our harvest being gotten in, our Governor sent four men on fowling, that so we might after a more special manner rejoice together, after we had gathered the fruit of our labors; they four in one day killed as much fowl as, with a little help beside, served the Company almost a week, at which time, among other Recreations, we exercised our Arms, many of the Indians coming amongst us, and among the rest their greatest King Massasoit, with some 90 men, whom for three days we entertained and feasted and they went out and killed five Deer, which they brought to the Plantation and bestowed on our Governor, and upon the Captain and others."

What historians do know about Thanksgiving:  (1) The first Thanksgiving was a harvest celebration in 1621 that lasted for three days, (2) likely between Sept. 21 and Nov. 11.  (3) Approximately 90 Wampanoag Indians and 52 colonists participated, the latter mostly women and children.  (4) The Wampanoag, led by Chief Massasoit, contributed at least five deer to the feast.  (5) Cranberry sauce, potatoes - white or sweet - and pies were not on the menu.  (6) The Pilgrims and Wampanoag communicated through Squanto, a member of the Patuxet tribe, who knew English because he had associated with earlier explorers.  (7) Besides meals, the event included recreation and entertainment.  (8) Abraham Lincoln named Thanksgiving an annual holiday in 1863 to be celebrated the last Thursday of November.

A 19^th century "Martha Stewart," named Sarah Josepha Hale, is largely responsible for our modern Thanksgiving!   In 1854, as editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Hale filled its pages with recipes and editorials about Thanksgiving, all based upon Winslow's brief passage.  That year, Bradford's history of the Plymouth Plantation had resurfaced.  Hale wrote of – you guessed it – roasted turkey, savory stuffing, and pumpkin pies, none of which appeared at the original celebration – nor did forks.  In 1858, she petitioned president Buchanan to declare Thanksgiving a national holiday, and though he declined, five years later in 1863, Abraham Lincoln consented, and declared the last Thursday of November a national holiday known as Thanksgiving.  Hale wrote, "We have too few holidays. . . . Thanksgiving like the Fourth of July should be considered a national festival and observed by all our people. There is a deep moral influence in these periodical seasons of rejoicing, in which whole communities participate. They bring out . . . the best sympathies in our natures."

443-452 – • Last year, we talked with Kim Wier, founder of Engaging Women Ministries in Texas (engagingwomen.com) and co-author of Redeeming the Season: Simple Ideas for a Memorable and Meaningful Christmas, about how we can bring our families closer tomorrow in a fun and meaningful way!

1) Create a "Table of Thanks" tablecloth, where each year you have all your guests write in the same color Sharpie what they're thankful for that year, and then in successive years, change the color so you can one day have a family history on the color-filled table cloth.

2) And, buy all the kids some inexpensive carpenter aprons so they can decorate their own tablecloth too!

3) Have the young girls gather up forest items to make this year's table decorations.

4) All the guests get their own table place card with a special blessing you've written just for them.

5) Have kids draw what they're thankful for, and then do an art show with their explanations after dinner.

6) For teens, have a karaoke machine for them to sing to and have the adults join in too!

7) Have the kids show you how good they are at their favorite video game.

8) Have everyone have to rap what they're thankful for.

9) Everybody says one thing they're thankful for regarding the person on their left.

10) Conversation starters are put on cards in a big bowl or just laying around on the table, and everyone takes turns.

• Myrna Blyth (11/26/08) Let's Talk Turkey: A family celebration.  The average American will consume 4,500 calories tomorrow!

458-508 – Dr. John Townsend, clinical psychologist, marriage and family therapist, and co-host of the nationally-syndicated radio program New Life Live (newlife.com) heard weekdays here on KKLA at 2:00pm, on how to deal with those "difficult" relatives around the holidays.  His latest book is Loving People: How to Love and Be Loved.

512-523 – Dr. John Townsend

528-538 – Dr. John Townsend

544-554 – Who's right?  Those who say the schools should celebrate Thanksgiving or those who say allowing students to dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is demeaning?

• LAT (11/26/08) Police called over Thanksgiving dispute at Claremont school.  Tensions rise as foes and backers of a longtime celebration involving kindergartners in Indian and pilgrim costumes demonstrate outside Condit Elementary. The district eliminated the costumes this year.

• LAT (11/25/08) Claremont parents clash over kindergarten Thanksgiving costumes.  Some say having students dress up as pilgrims and Native Americans is 'demeaning.' Their opponents say they are elitists injecting politics into a simple children's celebration.

• Contra Costa Times (11/25/08) Thanksgiving feast draws protesters to Condit Elementary School.

• Fox News (11/25/08) Thanksgiving Costumes or Racist Stereotypes?

558-608 – Calls

612-623 – Calls

628-638 – Calls

644-655 – What are you thankful for?

(1:10) Jack Hibbs warning his congregation that people who disturb the services at his church will be prosecuted.  But they are still loved.

(:31) Jay Leno making a joke on Monday's show (11/24/08) about Canada's new ruling that obese people can get 2 plane seats for the price of 1.

• Above The Hate, Letter Against Hate to President Monson of the Mormon Church.

• NRO Editorial (11/26/08) Not So Holy.

• Michelle Malkin (11/26/08) Playing Games at Gitmo: Nothing clarifies the mind like a jihadi boomerang.

• Thomas Sowell (11/26/08) Ivan and Boris Again:  We are all Russian peasants?

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Pastor Jack Hibbs Warning to No on 8 Disrupters

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

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Monday, November 24, 2008

400-408 – Jim Garlow, pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego (skylinechurch.org) and leader of the successful Yes on 8 amendment (protectmarriage.com) on what took place on the Dr. Phil Show this past Friday on Prop 8.

(1:43) San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsome asks Jim Garlow about the connection between interracial marriage and same sex marriage and Maggie Gallagher chimes in on the Dr. Phil show which aired 11/21/2008.  They talk about it then a black lady on the Yes on pop 8 side chimes in and arguments and some chaos occurs while the black woman says, "You have never met an ex-black person!"

413-423 – Jim Garlow

428-437 – Dr. Mark Hitchcock, pastor of Faith Bible Church (edmondfaithbible.com) in Edmond, Oklahoma, professor at Dallas Theological Seminary, and author of more than 15 books on end times prophecy including his soon to be released The Late Great United States: What Bible Prophecy Reveals about America's Last Days, on where America fits into end times prophecy.

• The information below is summarized from "Charts of Christian Theology and Doctrine" by Wayne House (1992).

Dispensational Premillennialism:  the Rapture (He will come for his church) and the Second Coming (He will come with His church) are distinct events separated by a 7-year Tribulation.  The Church is not spiritual Israel, the nation of Israel itself will fulfill prophecies concerning Israel.  Christ will reign on Earth for a literal 1,000 years.  Global "conditions" will continue to decline.  Proponents:  J. N. Darby, C. I. Scofield, L. S. Chafer, John Walvoord, Charles Feinberg, Charles Ryrie.

Historic Premillennialism:  the Rapture and the Second Coming are the same event.  The Church is spiritual Israel, and will fulfill some of the prophecies concerning Israel.   Believers will be resurrected at the beginning of the Millennium, and unbelievers at the end.  The Church will go through the Tribulation, hence it is posttrib.  The Millennium may not be a literal 1,000 years.  Proponents:  George E. Ladd, Millard Erickson.

Postmillennialism:  The Church is the New Israel.  The Church will one day Christianize the whole world, and this will lead to a 1,000 year period of peace and prosperity called the Millennium.  At the end of the Millennium, Christ will return.  Global "conditions" will continue to improve.  There will be one general resurrection of all people, believers and unbelievers at the Second Coming.  Proponents:, Loraine Boettner, Augustus Hodge, Charles Hodge, W.G.T. Shedd, A. H. Strong, B. B. Warfield, James Snowden, Christian Reconstructionists.

Amillennialism:  The Church is the New Israel.  Israel and the Church are not two distinct programs, but one unified outworking of God's purposes and plans in a "covenant of grace."  There are no prophecies to be fulfilled in the nation of Israel.  There is no future millennial kingdom only the eternal state, God's kingdom has always been and will always be.  The Kingdom is now present in the Church Age, as is Tribulation.  There will be one general resurrection of all people, believers and unbelievers at the Second Coming.  Proponents: Augustine, Louis Berkhof, Abraham Kuyper, Leon Morris, Anthony Hoekema, most Reformed theologians, and the Roman Catholic Church.

Pretribulation:  "Christ will come for His saints at the Rapture (John 14:1-14; 1 Cor. 15:51-58; 1 Thess. 4:13-18), and then with His saints at the Revelation (Zech. 14; Matt. 24:29-31; Mark 13:24-27; Luke 21:25-27; and Rev. 19)."  His return is imminent (Titus 2:13), with no advance warnings (Acts 20:29-30; 2 Peter 2:1; 1 John 4:1-3).  Christians are exempt from divine wrath (1 Thess. 1:10, Rev. 3:10).  There will be a literal Tribulation (Revelation 6-19), and the church will not go through it since it is not mentioned.  The "Restrainer" of 2 Thess. 2:1-12 is the Holy Spirit, and He must remove the Church before the Tribulation begins.  Living, non-glorified believers will enter and then repopulate the millennial kingdom (Zech. 12:10-13, Rom. 11:26).  Proponents:  John F. Walvoord, J. Dwight Pentecost, John and Paul Feinberg, Charles Ryrie, Leon Wood, Hal Lindsey.

Midtribulation:  The Rapture occurs in the middle of the Tribulation prior to the Great Tribulation.  Emphasis is upon the midpoint of 3 1/2 years (42 months, 1,260 days) from Dan. 7, 9:27, 12:7; Rev. 11:23, 12:3, 6, 14).  2 Thess. 2:14 refers to preceding signs of the Rapture.  Rev. 11:15-19 mentions the seventh trumpet, which is identical to the trumpet of 1 Thess. 4:16.  The Olivet Discourse of Matt. 24-25 coincides with the Rapture passage of 1 Thess. 4:15.   Proponents:  Gleason Archer, J. Oliver Buswell, Merrill Tenney.

Posttribulation:  The Rapture will occur after the Tribulation at the Second Coming.  Proponents:  Douglas Moo, Robert Gundry.

443-452 – Dr. Mark Hitchcock,

458-508 – Don Perkins, with According to Prophecy Ministries (according2prophecy.org), teacher and researcher for 27 years on bible prophecy.

512-523 – Don Perkins,

528-538 – Calls

544-554 – Robert Spencer, founder of JihadWatch.org, with the latest on tensions in the Middle East.  His latest is Stealth Jihad: How Radical Islam is Subverting America without Guns or Bombs on tensions in the Middle East relating to end times prophecy.

• Jihad Watch (11/24/08) Justice served: Holy Land Foundation defendants guilty on all counts.

558-608 – • Don't Be a Victim of Fraud!

There are some verified reports of a new credit card scam going on right now.  What's new is that the scam artist actually has your credit card number – but they don't have the 3 (Visa/MC/Discover) or 4 (AMEX) digit verification number on the back of the card which they're trying to get from you.  They'll say they're from the Credit Card Fraud office, and even verify your bank card number and mailing address, and even say that charges have been attempted and their just verifying with you to make sure everything is okay.  Then, they'll ask for your verification number.

NEVER  give anyone, either over the phone or online, ANY INFORMATION!

Every credit card company staff member already has full access to your account info, they would NEVER ask you to "confirm" anything.  The ONLY exception would be if YOU were to call them for help and they would need to verify who YOU were.  If they were to call you – they would NEVER ask you for personal information. 

IF they do ask for personal information – tell them you will call THEM back and use the number on the back of your credit card – never use any number a caller supplies.  Then immediately, hang up the phone and call your local police department and put in a police report.  Then call your credit card company and ask for the FRAUD or SECURITY department.  Explain to them what happened and ask for your card account to be CLOSED and re-issued with a NEW number.

NEVER respond to an e-mail that looks convincing – thieves can easily COPY any company's web site or e-mail protocols.  Always open a NEW browser window and enter in the address you use to access your accounts on line.  DO NOT USE hyperlinks in e-mails this is how they begin to get your information.

This time of year – and in this current economy – would-be thieves are multiplying like rabbits.

If you don't have a credit monitoring service yet – you might consider getting one for yourself and your family as a Christmas present.

Most AAA members are eligible for FREE credit monitoring through Experian.

Chase offers a monitoring service for all three credit companies for $12 a month for any one – you don't have to be a Chase customer.

612-623 – Lynn Edgington, the founder and president of Eagle Research Associates, Inc. (eagleresearchassociates.org) warns people about the latest cons and rip offs.

• Truth or Fiction, Use Your Gift Cards Quickly from Companies Filing for Bankruptcy-Truth!

628-638 – Lynn Edgington

644-655 – Lynn Edgington

• Here are a few more tips.

• Never give anyone your complete social security number– only the last 4 digits.  And, obviously, never write your number down for anyone.  If anyone demands it – make sure they have a darn good reason why they need it and how you are supposed to give it to them.

• Re-print your checks but don't use your full name – use only your initials, e.g. "J.P. Doe."  Thieves will not know how you sign your checks – nor will they know what your first name is.

• Consider using a PO Box or business mailing address instead of your home address on your checks.

• Use your cell phone number in place of your home number.

• Never put your Social or Driver's License numbers on your checks.

• If you go to a store and for some reason their "check or credit card processing system is down" and they want to "IMPRINT" your credit card the old way – PASS ON IT!  You've just given multiple people your credit card number.

• Never use your personal MAILBOX to mail checks.  Always put payment envelopes directly into a USPS mailbox – never use your house mailbox with the flag up.  You're just advertising to hundreds of crooks  "come and get it."

• Reduce the number of bills you pay by check.  Instead, use your banks free bill paying service – or use an automatic bill paying service.  That way, you're protected against fraud and will have legal recourse should your bank or vendor contribute to some form of fraudulent activity through holes in their security.

• Buy and use a shredder to shred everything with any personal information on it – but especially all those credit card solicitations – your credit card statements, etc.  Ever notice how many have cash access checks enclosed?

• Once a thief has a starting point – your full name – address, etc. – you become more attractive as a victim.

• And lastly – never put personal information on public web sites like Facebook, MySpace, etc.  You're only advertising to millions and giving thieves all kinds of personal information – where you live – work – kids – when you'll be home and away – etc.  All of it is just another open invitation for them to "come and get you".

 

• Guardian (11/22/08) 'We consider ourselves heroes' - a Somali pirate speaks.  Asad 'Booyah' Abdulahi, 42, describes himself as a pirate boss, capturing ships in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocean. Here he tells his story.

• NRO Editors (11/24/08) Legislating Immorality.

• Michael Barone (11/22/08) The Limits of Success -- and Failure:  Presidencies do not turn out as presidents or their constituents expect.

• Brian T. Kennedy (11/24/08) What a Single Nuclear Warhead Could Do:  Why the U.S. needs a space-based missile defense against an EMP attack.

• Marvin Olasky (11/24/08) An evangelical call to strategic focus on schools, media and cities.

• Victor Davis Hanson (11/24/08) Ten Random, Politically Incorrect Thoughts.

• Bloomberg (11/24/08) U.S. Pledges Top $7.7 Trillion to Ease Frozen Credit (Update2).

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Friday, November 21, 2008

400-408 – Ron Prentice, Executive Director of California Family Council (californiafamily.org), invites everyone to the Truth Project coming to Paz Naz tomorrow morning at 8:30 a.m., admission is $89 per person or couple, and $79 for groups of 10 or more. 

413-423 – Missy Huff, a 21-year-old Christian, has been going into the Castro District for the past 3 years with the Justice House of Prayer outreach team, and she was part of the team that got safely escorted out of the Castro District by the police when violence seemed eminent due to the angry homosexuals that mobbed them.

(:55) Homosexuals chase young Christians out of the Castro District in San Francisco last Friday night (11/14/08) who have regularly been showing up singing praise songs and witnessing.  The crowd curses and chants "Shame on you!" and "Don't come back!"(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrRxFoBSPng).

428-437 – Calls

443 – Hey gang, there's just a few seats left for "It's A Wonderful Life" on Saturday, December 6^th at the Curtain Call Dinner Theater in Tustin for our big KKLA Night with Gina and I!  If you call right now, they'll even throw in a Free Show ticket for a future performance!  Call the Curtain Call box office now at (714) 838-1540.

443-452 – Calls

458-508 – • Michelle Malkin (11/21/08) Dating Intolerance: The eHarmony shakedown.  EHarmony has been forced to start a same-sex matching service called "Compatible Partners" by March 31, 2009, even though the settlement acknowledges eHarmony was not in violation of the law.  Consumers will spend $1 billion this year on online dating, and the market will expand by 10% in each of the next five years.  EHarmony attracted nearly 2.6 million unique visitors in October, 2008.  236 eHarmony members are married every day.

• Email your complaints to:

New Jersey Attorney General's Division on Civil Rights:  J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, Director.  609-292-4605.  Email:  http://www.nj.gov/oag/dcr/email.html

New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram.  609-292-4925.  Email:  http://www.nj.gov/lps/formmail.html

New Jersey Governor Jon S. Corzine.  609-292-6000.  Email:  http://www.nj.gov/governor/govmail.html

512-523 – What do you think of the decision?

528-538 – What do you think of the decision?

539 – Linda Carpenter from Alpenhorn Bed and Breakfast in Big Bear (alpenhorn.com, 888-829-6600), reports on the "chocolate tours" in Big Bear coming up on Saturday, December 6^th.

544-554 – 

558 – Hey gang, there's just a few seats left for "It's A Wonderful Life" on Saturday, December 6^th at the Curtain Call Dinner Theater in Tustin for our big KKLA Night with Gina and I!  If you call right now, they'll even throw in a Free Show ticket for a future performance!  Call the Curtain Call box office now at (714) 838-1540.

558-608 – Missy Huff

612-623 – Missy Huff

628-638 – Missy Huff

644-655 – Missy Huff

• Fox News (11/21/08) Americans Still Giving, Despite Economic Meltdown.

• Jonah Goldberg (11/21/08) Honestly, Another Abe? That ain't what America is like today — and thank God for it.

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

400-408 – Ron Gleason, pastor of Grace Presbyterian Church in Yorba Linda (rongleason.blogspot.com) author of Reforming or Conforming?: A Critique of Post-Conservative Evangelicalism.

413-423 – (1:23), (:06), (:02) Joy Behar on The View today said, "A lot of them are demented when they're homeschooled."  Did you know Behar was, you guessed it, a public school teacher.

428-437 – Calls

443-452 – Calls

(:55) The View women, November 18, don't know what "suffrage" is.  Whoopi Goldberg cites an "Advocate" cover that reads "Gay is the New Black."  While reading the teleprompter, Whoopi says "some people don't agree with comparing this to black suffrage," paused and, in a puzzled state, admitted "I don't even understand what that word is, 'suffrage.'"  For the record, it's the right to vote.  Sherri Shepherd thought "I guess it's when black people had to, you know, they didn't want to die for being black."

(:29) Joy Behar yesterday said, "We all know Sarah Palin is an Airhead."  They were discussing the Time and Newsweek covers already comparing Obama to Lincoln and FDR.  Elisabeth thought Obama ought to be in office a little bit before they canonize him, and rightly pointed out this is just another example of the media swooning.

458-508 – Calls

512-523 – USAF Ret. Lt. General Tom McInerney, former Assistant Vice Chief of Staff for the U.S. Air Force and former director of the Defense Performance Review, current military analyst at Fox News, and author of Endgame: The Blueprint for Victory in the War on Terror, on Iran saying  they have enough nuclear fuel for one atomic weapon.

• IHT (11/20/08) Iran said to have enough nuclear fuel for one weapon.

• Fox News (11/20/08) Iran Produces Enough Uranium to Build Nuclear Weapon.

• Fox News (11/20/08) Israeli Air Force 'Ready for Iran's Nuclear Sites'.

524 – [2:00] Don Rohde. (818-262-2092) For the past 36 years, Don has been a sales manager at Galpin, the #1 volume Ford dealer in the world for the past 18 consecutive years.  Galpin has been family-owned and operated for the past 59 years, and 90% of their business is repeat or referral.  Galpin offers Ford, Lincoln-Mercury, Honda, Mazda, Saturn, Volvo, Jaguar, and Aston Martin.  Located in the heart of the San Fernando Valley at Roscoe and the 405.

528-538 – USAF Ret. Lt. General Tom McInerney

TH 539 – [1:30] "Your Independent, Unbiased, Advisors: The Money Guys" Robert Micone/Bill O'Connor at Applied Financial, 866-SEEK-COUNSEL, and online at appliedfinancialplanning.com.

544-554 – Dave Wolf, he is the Athletic Director and head men's and women's soccer coach at Westmont College in Santa Barbara where the Tea Fire destroyed 8 university buildings last week including dorm rooms, faculty housing and Coach Wolf's own home.  They played a soccer game and both teams "won."

• Bill Plaschke (11/18/08) Soccer team helps Westmont College rise from ashes.

558-608 – Dave Wolf, and his younger brother Phil Wolf, the head coach of APU.

612-623 – Dave Wolf, and his younger brother Phil Wolf, the head coach of APU.

628-638 – Dave Wolf, and his younger brother Phil Wolf, the head coach of APU.

644-655 – Dave Wolf, and his younger brother Phil Wolf, the head coach of APU.

• NRO Editors (11/20/08) Detroit DIP.

• WSJ (11/20/08) The Obama Health Plan Emerges.

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