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Obama Administrations' "War on GOD" Continues

Veterans Allege VA Censoring Prayer

Updated: Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011, 10:00 PM CDT
Published : Tuesday, 28 Jun 2011, 10:00 PM CDT

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  SALLY MACDONALD
  Reporter

HOUSTON - Local veterans say the Department of Veterans Affairs is consistently censoring their prayers, banning them from saying the words "God," and "Jesus" during funeral services at Houston National Cemetery.

Three separate organizations have come forward complaining the cemetery's director and other government officials are violating the First Amendment. Members from the Veterans of Foreign Wars, The American Legion and the National Memorial Ladies all complain of "religious hostility" at the cemetery.

On Tuesday they told a federal judge what's been going on there.

"People are doing things out there that I feel like they shouldn't be," said Jim Rodgers, a Vietnam veteran.

"We are private citizens in a private organization, and yet we are restricted from saying what our ritual calls for," said John Spahr, Veterans of Foreign Wars.

A 26-page complaint outlines the allegations. According to the court papers, the cemetery's director, Arleen Ocasio, bans the word "God" and requires prayers to be submitted for government approval.

"We were told we could no longer say "God bless you" and "God bless your family," said Marilyn Koepp, a volunteer with the National Memorial Ladies.

The group attends about 60 funerals a week to honor veterans and console families.

"How did I feel? I probably shouldn't say how I felt because it was absolutely apalling that this woman would come aboard and tell us we can not say 'God bless you,'" said Koepp.

Nobleton Jones felt belittled when he says a government official told him he couldn't use the word "God" in his recitation to a family as he handed them a bag of shell casings from a gun salute.

"I tell the people, 'We ask that God grant you and your family grace, mercy and peace,’ That forth has been censored," said Jones.

Attorneys with the Liberty Institute began investigating last month after a local pastor won his fight to say his "Jesus" prayer at the cemetery's Memorial Day ceremony.

"When we investigated we determined the government and the director are discriminating based upon religious viewpoint," said Jeff Mateer, general counsel for Liberty Institute.

Ocasio couldn't be reached for comment. Assistant U.S. Attorney Fred Hinrichs told the judge:

"We're in the process of going through the claims. Some are true, and some are not true."

What's more, the veterans allege the VA turned the chapel into a meeting room shortly after the director came on board two years ago.

They say they won't back down from the fight.

"I am going to say 'God bless you' until I don't know what would make me ever stop it," said Koepp.

So far the complaints appear to be isolated to the Houston National Cemetery. The government has until the middle of next month to respond to the allegations.

The Democratic Party and the Obama Administration seem to be continuing their "War On GOD". Like most socialistic and communistic organizations, the first attack is on any Deity the populous believes in. They want the only worshiping going on to be towards the "State" and the party controlling it. Unfortunately, once that occurs, the "party" then begins acting like a very vengefulDeity by destroying anything or anyone that may threaten their self appointed status. So, instead of being "Alpha and Omega...the beginning and the end", they are more like the "fallen" one. The Obama-ites, with their arrogance and condescension, need to have their own "Armageddon" and, GOD willing, it will happen on November, 2012.

Is Chris Matthews Derranged?

By Scott Whitlock | June 27, 2011 | 

 

Chris Matthews Smears: Bachmann's Praise for the Founders Equals 'Slavery'

 

After playing a clip of Michele Bachmann longing for a return to the "Founders' vision of a constitutionally conservative government," MSNBC's Chris Matthews on Monday assumed the Republican presidential candidate meant "slavery."

The Hardball anchor offered bizarre analogies, questioning former RNC Chair Michael Steele on Bachmann's 2012 campaign: "What is this, Michael? The Protestant Reformation? That somehow we're going back to the purity of the original Christian church?"

Immediately jumping to the worst interpretation, Matthews continued, "We're going back to the original perfection of slaveholders and how perfect they were and government is the enemy. She speaks pure Tea Party lingo."

 

After Steele asserted that Bachmann was simply "reminding us of foundational principles," the liberal anchor smeared, "What? Slavery?"

Matthews, who previously trashed the Republican as a "zombie" and a "nutcase," weirdly critiqued Fox News host Chris Wallace for wondering if Bachmann was a "flake."

The MSNBC journalist chastised, "I think [Wallace] hurt her feelings there. A very human moment there, I know Michele Bachmann a little bit as a human being."

A partial transcript of the June 27 segment can be found below:

5:02           

CHRIS MATTHEWS: Here she is, Michele Bachmann, the congressman [sic], in her announcement speech this morning in Waterloo, Iowa. Let's listen.


MICHELE BACHMANN: I want my candidacy for the presidency of the United States to stand for a moment when we, the people, stand once again for the independence from a government that has gotten too big and spends too much and has taken away too much of our liberties. Government thinks it knows better. Government thinks it knows better how to spend our money. Government thinks it knows better how to make a better life for us. They think they create jobs. They even think they can make us healthier, but that's not the case. We have to recapture the Founders' vision of a constitutionally conservative government if we are to secure the promise for the future.

CHRIS MATTHEWS: What is this, Michael? The Protestant Reformation? That somehow we're going back to the purity of the original Christian church? We're going back to the original perfection of slaveholders and how perfect they were and government is the enemy. She speaks pure Tea Party lingo.

MICHAEL STEELE: Well, she's like the Council of Trent for the Catholic Church.

MATTHEWS: Right. What is it she's going back to the purity of the old days?

STEELE: She's not going back to the purity of the old days.

MATTHEWS: Yes, she is.

STEELE: It's reminding us of some of the foundational principles.

STEELE: What? Slavery?

MATTHEWS: Well, that was in the original founding principles.

STEELE: Please, Chris. Stop. Stop jumping in. You know that's not what this is about. And the reality is, when I became chairman of the RNC in 2009, I inherited a party that was lost. Its moorings not anchored as they once were. And, so, you've have candidates now who have emerged out of the last two years who understand by going around the country and listening to the people what some of those foundational issues are for them. Let me speak to that.
                   
MATTHEWS: Okay, let's take Michael at his word. The foundational issues: Government is bad.

DAVID CORN: Right..

MATTHEWS: Government is bad. She's in the government, by the way. She's paid by the-

STEELE: Well, who best to talk about this?

5:10
       
[Matthews on Wallace wondering if Bachmann is a "flake."]

MATTHEWS: I think he hurt her feelings there. A very human moment there, I know Michele Bachmann a little bit as a human being. Forget the arguments we have here. Let's go on, because I think Chris Wallace in his favor was trying to use the language other people were using. It wasn't his thought,  but it came across as his thought and that's why, after the show ended, Wallace apologized for the question he put. And I know how you get in these situations. Not exactly this way, but he got in it this way.

Chris Matthews has made some pretty shocking comments over the years. Unfortunately, those comments are becomming more bizarre. He is nothing more but pure hatred. He has to be the angriest man in American media. Even with his side in control, he can't control himself from spewing his venom time and time again. I believe he is at a point when his hayred has consumed him so much that he is become mentally derranged. It is time for him to be cut loose from NBC.

If You Tell A Lie Long Enough..............................

Changing Tides: Research Center Under Fire for 'Adjusted' Sea-Level Data

By Maxim Lott

Published June 17, 2011

| FoxNews.com

In a NASA "what-if" animation, light-blue areas in southern Florida and Louisiana indicate regions that may be underwater should sea levels rise dramatically.

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Is climate change raising sea levels, as Al Gore has argued -- or are climate scientists doctoring the data?

The University of Colorado’s Sea Level Research Group decided in May to add 0.3 millimeters -- or about the thickness of a fingernail -- every year to its actual measurements of sea levels, sparking criticism from experts who called it an attempt to exaggerate the effects of global warming.

"Gatekeepers of our sea level data are manufacturing a fictitious sea level rise that is not occurring," said James M. Taylor, a lawyer who focuses on environmental issues for the Heartland Institute.

 Steve Nerem, the director of the widely relied-upon research center, told FoxNews.com that his group added the 0.3 millimeters per year to the actual sea level measurements because land masses, still rebounding from the ice age, are rising and increasing the amount of water that oceans can hold.

"We have to account for the fact that the ocean basins are actually getting slightly bigger... water volume is expanding," he said, a phenomenon they call glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA).

Taylor calls it tomfoolery.

"There really is no reason to do this other than to advance a political agenda," he said.

Climate scientist John Christy, a professor at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, said that the amount of water in the ocean and sea level were two different things.

"To me… sea level rise is what's measured against the actual coast," he told FoxNews.com. "That's what tells us the impact of rising oceans."

Taylor agreed.

"Many global warming alarmists say that vast stretches of coastline are going to be swallowed up by the sea. Well, that means we should be talking about sea level, not about global water volume."

In e-mails with FoxNews.com, Nerem indicated that he considered "sea level rise" to be the same thing as the amount of water in the ocean.

"If we correct our data to remove [the effect of rising land], it actually does cause the rate of sea level (a.k.a. ocean water volume change) rise to be bigger," Nerem wrote. The adjustment is trivial, and not worth public attention, he added.

"For the layperson, this correction is a non-issue and certainly not newsworthy… [The] effect is tiny -- only 1 inch over 100 years, whereas we expect sea level to rise 2-4 feet."

But Taylor said that the correction seemed bigger when compared with actual sea level increases.

"We’ve seen only 7 inches of sea level rise in the past century and it hasn’t sped up this century. Compared to that, this would add nearly 20 percent to the sea level rise. That's not insignificant," he told FoxNews.com.

Nerem said that the research center is considering compromising on the adjustment.

"We are considering putting both data sets on our website -- a GIA-corrected dataset, as well as one without the GIA correction," he said.

Christy said that would be a welcome change.

"I would encourage CU to put the sea level rate [with] no adjustment at the top of the website," he said.

Taylor’s takeaway: Be wary of sea level rise estimates.

"When Al Gore talks about Manhattan flooding this century, and 20 feet of sea level rise, that’s simply not going to happen. If it were going to happen, he wouldn’t have bought his multi-million dollar mansion along the coast in California."

As time goes by, the evidence, and the hucksters, of global warming are being shown for what it is and what they are. The last paragraph sums up the entire subject. Al Gore and his man-made global warming buddies are dangerous people. They are scammers who are trying to consolidate power and control over all of us.