Never Again?

Some people may think that hunting witches in this century is an absurd notion and any attempt to portray someone as a witch-hunter was a witch hunt itself. I know better.

I grew up in a church and married into a family who believed in witches, though they claimed they lived mainly in foreign countries, a joke in itself doncha think? They also prayed to be rid of those disagreed with them, one even claiming he killed a woman in this way, another referring to retribution for those who tried to oust him, for his corrupt pastoral ways, as a witch hunt. I heard of demons being called out of people at camp meetings and youth camps. These people will welcome Sarah Palin's witch hunter mentor, but I am not so sure they will move to Alaska to meet Jesus, but who knows?

You are welcome to your own opinion concerning modern day witches, but I can assure you that witch hunts are alive and well and scaring the shit out of people world wide, not just in the Superstitious Southern United States.

Modern Day Witch Hunts

Sarah Palin's Testimony

Child Witches Hunted by Christians in Niger Delta

Palin linked electoral success to prayer of Kenyan witch hunter
The pastor whose prayer Sarah Palin says helped her to become governor of Alaska founded his ministry with a witchhunt against a Kenyan woman who he accused of causing car accidents through demonic spells.
At a speech at the Wasilla Assembly of God on June 8 this year, Mrs Palin described how Thomas Muthee had laid his hands on her when he visited the church as a guest preacher in late 2005, prior to her successful gubernatorial bid.
In video footage of the speech, she is seen saying: “As I was mayor and Pastor Muthee was here and he was praying over me, and you know how he speaks and he’s so bold. And he was praying “Lord make a way, Lord make a way.”
“And I’m thinking, this guy’s really bold, he doesn’t even know what I’m going to do, he doesn’t know what my plans are. And he’s praying not “oh Lord if it be your will may she become governor,” no, he just prayed for it. He said “Lord make a way and let her do this next step. And that’s exactly what happened.”
She then adds: “So, again, very very powerful, coming from this church,” before the presiding pastor comments on the “prophetic power” of the event.
An African evangelist, Pastor Muthee has given guest sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God on at least 10 occasions in his role as the founder of the Word of Faith Church, also known as the Prayer Cave.
Pastor Muthee founded the Prayer Cave in 1989 in Kiambu, Kenya after “God spoke” to him and his late wife Margaret and called him to the country, according to the church’s website.
The pastor speaks of his offensive against a demonic presence in the town in a trailer for the evangelical video “Transformations”, made by Sentinel Group, a Christian research and information agency.
“We prayed, we fasted, the Lord showed us a spirit of witchcraft resting over the place,” Pastor Muthee says.
After the spirit was broken, the crime rate dropped to almost zero and there was “explosive church growth” while almost every bar in the town closed down, the video says.
The full Transformations video featuring Pastor Muthee’s story has recently been removed from YouTube but the rest of the story is detailed in a 1999 article in the Christian Science Monitor, as well as on numerous evangelical websites.
According to the Christian Science Monitor, six months of fervent prayer and research identified the source of the witchcraft as a local woman called Mama Jane, who ran a “divination” centre called the Emmanuel Clinic.
Her alleged involvement in fortune-telling and the fact that she lived near the site of a number of fatal car accidents led Pastor Muthee to publicly declare her a witch responsible for the town’s ills, and order her to offer her up her soul for salvation or leave Kiambu.
Says the Monitor, “Muthee held a crusade that “brought about 200 people to Christ”.” They set up round-the-clock prayer intercession in the basement of a grocery store and eventually, says the pastor “the demonic influence – the ‘principality’ over Kiambu –was broken”, and Mama Jane fled the town.
According to accounts of the witchhunt circulated on evangelical websites such as Prayer Links Ministries, after Pastor Muthee declared Mama Jane a witch, the townspeople became suspicious and began to turn on her, demanding that she be stoned. Public outrage eventually led the police to raid her home, where they fired gunshots, killing a pet python which they believed to be a demon.
After Mama Jane was questioned by police – and released – she decided it was time to leave town, the account says.
Pastor Muthee has frequently referred to this witchhunt in his sermons as an example of the power of “spiritual warfare”. In October 2005, he delivered ten sermons at the Wasilla Assembly of God, the audio of which was available on the church’s website until it was removed around the time Mrs Palin’s candidacy was announced. The blog Irregular Times has listings and screen grabs of the sermons.
It was during that these sermons that Mrs Palin, who was then preparing for her gubernatorial run, was anointed by Pastor Muthee. His intercession, she says, was “awesome”.
Her June 8 speech was to mark the graduation of students from the Wasilla Assembly of God’s Masters’ Commission, which, as Pastor Ed Kalins explains, believes Alaska will be the refuge for American evangelicals upon the coming “End of Days”. After her speech, Mrs Palin was presented with an honorary Masters’ Commission diploma.

Home of the Brave!

America... just a nation of two hundred million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns and no qualms about killing anybody else in the world who tries to make us uncomfortable.

Hunter S. Thompson

Found this in my E-mail

In today's world, we eat but don't taste, look but don't see, listen but don't hear. You are here on the planet to be happy. It is all that is required of you. And when you are happy, you become a healing force that powerfully and magnificently heals the planet. If you want to help the world, be happy. Pleasure your senses. Be juicy, sensual, and glorious. Taste, touch, smell, hear and explore your universe. Accept yourself exactly as you are and radiance will flow through you to the world.

Denise Linn, Secrets and Mysteries

Thanks Pat!

Broc Obama

Upside Down Rainbow

Pictured: Rare upside-down rainbow spotted in the UK
By Rebecca CamberLast updated at 3:20 PM on 17th September 2008
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1056500/Pictured-Rare-upside-rainbow-spotted-UK.html
It appeared in the sky for the briefest of moments.
A dazzling arc of psychedelic colour reminiscent of the Cheshire Cat's grin in Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland.
But this is no fantasy or trick of the light, it is known as a circumzenithal arc. Seen here shimmering in the sky over Cambridge in the afternoon sunshine, it is often mistaken for a rainbow hanging upside down.

Rare: An astronomer caught this unusual upside-down rainbow on camera near her home in Cambridge
But unlike a rainbow, the sky has to be clear of rain and low level clouds for it to be seen.
Relatively rare in Britain, the arc only appears when sunlight shines at a specific angle through a thin veil of wispy clouds at a height of around 20,000 to 25,000 feet.
At this altitude the cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals, the size of grains of salt.
Meteorologists say the clouds must be convex to the sun with the ice particles lined up together in the right direction to refract the light.
This results in the sunlight bouncing off the ice crystals high in the atmosphere, sending the light rays back up and bending the sunlight like a glass prism into a spectrum of colour.
Renowned astronomer and writer Dr Jacqueline Mitton was lucky enough to capture the optical phenomenon on camera near her home in Cambridge last Sunday.
The 60-year-old who has a doctorate in astrophysics from Cambridge University said: 'I've never seen anything like it before - and I'm 60.
'The conditions have to be just right: you need the right sort of ice crystals and the sky has to be clear.
'It's quite surprising for this to occur somewhere like Cambridge, usually it is in places that are colder.
'We're not sure how big an area it was visible over, but it was certainly very impressive.'
According to Dr Mitton, the colours in the rainbow were intensified by the position of the sun, which was at the optimum spot in the sky of 22 degrees.
The vision was made even more dazzling by the presence of "sun dogs" - gleaming spots on a halo around the sun.
Dr Mitton added: 'It was just an amazing combination of factors that happened at the right time.'
Her husband Simon, 62, an astronomy writer, said: 'The circumzenithal arc is a quarter circle, pointing toward the setting sun.
'The "rainbow'" is much brighter and more concentrated than a rainfall rainbow.'
Rainbows are formed when sunlight is refracted in a raindrop.
But in a circumzenithal arc, the colours are in reverse order from a rainbow, with violet on the top and red at the bottom.
The arc usually vanishes quickly because the cirrus clouds containing the ice crystals shift their position.
Ice particles in high cirrus clouds occur all year round, but circumzenithal arcs are usually obscured by lower level clouds.
Circumzenithal arcs are so named as they go around the zenith - the point in the sky directly above the observer- rather than the sun.
A spokesman for the Met Office said: "Circumzenithal arcs are seen relatively rarely in Britain because they can only be seen at the right combination of atmospheric conditions.
'The height, depth and position of the ice clouds must be right as the cloud needs to be at a specific angle convex to the sun.
'Circumzenithal arcs actually occur quite commonly as these types of clouds occur throughout the year.
'But the vision is usually obscured by clouds underneath which means circumzenithal arcs are much rarer than rainbows and halos
'It is quite rare to see one as vivid as this. It depends on the position of the observer because its visibility can vary greatly, someone ten miles away would probably not be able to see it.'

Baby Stilettos

I am so excited about the latest craze in baby fashion, baby stilettos! Aren't these the cutest little shoes you have ever seen?! If I had a granddaughter I would be buying these in every color, but alas, I don't even know anyone with a baby girl. How better to teach your little girl exactly what will be expected of her when she grows up? By starting her young she may even learn to love feet deforming shoes and beg for them while still in kindergarten. Hell, by the time these babies are in kindergarten stilettos for toddlers may be on the market.

Who's to say that women did not love foot binding and the tiny feet that resulted? How can you know for sure that women who were forced to wear dresses that covered their feet so they could not run away when their husbands were beating them didn't love those dresses? They might not have even minded those beatings so much, being administered, as they were, by men who loved them and were only trying to make them into better wives and mothers.


I know women who tell me that stilettos are very comfortable and they like to wear them. Maybe by starting your little miss off in soft comfy stilettos that she is not even aware of, the transition to real stilettos will be made much easier and less traumatic.

Why would anyone want to make their little girl feel odd and old fashioned like the crazy Holmes~Cruise family,
when she could feel pretty and sophisticated in her Heelarious baby stilettos?
I fear little Suri will never fit in with the "real" world. Maybe I will send her a pair.

PS I heard on the Today Show that the shoes were $35. and the matching bustier was $10. but they must have been making a joke ? because I have searched the Internet and cannot find a baby bustier anywhere, damn!

Dinotopia

I want to move to Dinotopia, a world where dinosaurs and humans live in peaceful interdependence. Christopher loves all kinds of dragons and dinosaurs so always brings home books and DVDs about them from the library. He checked out Dinotopia, which was a miniseries in 2002. He lost interest long before all 4 hours of it played, but I loved it! I want to go there. Turns out there are lots of books written about this mythical world, which, according to the story, exists now as well as in the past. It is cute, charming, and uplifting, a rarity these days in books or movies. To learn more about my future home , you can visit the Official Dinotopia site. If you decide to join me and my human and saurian friends, you will need to understand the code they live by.

THE CODES
1 - One raindrop raises the sea.
2 - Survival of all or none
3 - Weapons are enemies, even to their owners
4 - Give more - take less
5 - Others first - self last
6 - Observe, listen and learn
7 - Do one thing at a time
8 - Sing every day
9 - Exercise imagination
10 - Eat to live, don't live to eat
11 - FIND THE LIGHT


They greet each other by saying, Breathe Deep, to which they reply, Seek Peace. This place sounds so much nicer than that other lost paradise I am obsessed with, doncha think? See you on the island, Breathe Deep. :)