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Aug. 25 Open Line

Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on August 28, 2011 at 12:00 AM {no comments}

To the Jehovah’s Witnesses that came to my door Saturday morning and left a cross in my mailbox, it is illegal to get into someone else’s mailbox. I have your license plate number and you will be reported. If I want to hear a sermon from you, I will call you. well, Illinois, we are finally first in something. “Illinois Loses Most Jobs in Nation … “ and when did it all happen? when the tax increase was put in place. For all of you people who think that raising taxes is a good thing for the economy, look at the facts. what party has controlled Illinois for the past few years? Talk all you want but the proof is there for those who will choose to see it. Tax the corporations and the people who own them and then ask why they leave the state or the country. Oh I get it, everyone else should suffer as long as you get what you want. Earlier this year Illinois passed the largest tax increase of any state at 67 percent. Illinois now also holds the record for most jobs lost in a state. could this be related? since 98 percent of blacks voted for Obama, is it now even reasonably possible for the rest of us Americans to take an opinion about Obama’s presidency by a black person to be anything other than racially biased? regarding the punishment for the cyberstalker and his “Free Speech” rights, the victim also has the right to feel secure in her own home. Free speech is to be cherished, not viscously used to inflict pain or give sick pleasure to the aggressor. One does not yell “fire” in a crowded theater and then expect free speech to be upheld. with the privilege comes the responsibility. Two will get you five that the folks who complain about the low health inspection scores for restaurants would get a lower score for their home kitchen. in the West Central Nag Derby, Roodhouse surges to the front ahead of Beardstown. Virginia is running a strong third while Ashland fades away with Chandlerville and Woodson bringing up the rear. So what if the parks close at 10 o’clock in Beardstown. it was probably the same kids with the dogs that get in the fountain and throw their trash in there as well. Kick them out. Why let them trash a beautiful park? “Quinn signs Law,” “Quinn signs Law.” There are enough laws. How about “Quinn creates Jobs?” that would be way better reading material for a change. There’s only one reason why Obama is declaring amnesty for hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens. his approval rating among Hispanics has plummeted by 40 points in the past two years. by declaring amnesty, via executive fiat, he will curry their favor, along with their votes, in 2012. yet another sleazy political trick by the community organizer from Chicago. It’s as simple as that. There’s a long history of twisted tales, half-truths, counter truths and slimy deceptions. Some of these deceptions come from deliberate actions, such as Obama’s past attempts to hide his original birth certificate from the eyes of the American people. It’s good to read more postings that are moderate in tone and content. You went by five times to see the kid running around naked under the sprinkler? that was very distasteful. Mind your own standards. There are more officially unemployed people in the United States, 13.9 million, though if you count those who have given up looking it’s nearly twice that, than the total individual populations of 46 out of 50 U.S. states. Obama was right, he has fundamentally changed this great nation. How gutsy. Are you liberals proud? the monster buses should have been purchased from an American company, but instead they came from Canada. Putting that aside, they should not be used for Obama’s campaign as they were before he took off for his “uppercrust” vacation, unless his campaign pays for the use which we all know will never happen. On Aug. 20, one of the darlings of the liberals, California Rep. Maxine Waters, said that the “tea party could go to hell.” that is so typical of liberals to tear someone down instead of coming up with a plan of their own. the Town Brook should be declared a wildlife refuge to protect it from the neat freaks. Just leave it alone. One thing the state of Illinois could do to help balance the budget would be to replace that coal pile at the corner of Diamond and Michigan with a windmill and/or solar panels to power and heat the Mental Health Center. then follow suit with every state owned building from the Ohio River to the Wisconsin line. this could jump start an Illinois manufacturing industry of clean energy equipment and provide a high-profile demonstration of the fact that such measures save money everywhere they’re tried. in the meantime, coal mining becomes more and more destructive to the environment as it becomes less and less labor intensive. You can fool some of the people some of the time, but the Republican Committee of Misinformation and Deception can fool their constituency all of the time. they lie. and if you believe their lies then that makes you a fool. Border patrol have guns for a reason. Use them. I bet the Crimsons and Panthers draw a bigger paying crowd than the number of freebies that show up for a school closing meeting. Vacation days: Obama-51, Bush-180. Obviously President Bush was effective and efficient enough to have his work done and be able to take the time off, unlike Obama who vacations while postponing a major plan for job creation until “shortly after Labor Day.” Has anybody seen my other sock? Driving by several times and watching little kids play in a sprinkler is just sick. You should be arrested. I heard years ago Moammar Gadhafi has many compounds he lived in, not just one. I heard on many syndicated news agencies that are not U.S. government run, owned, and operated propagandist machines that the Libyan president is still alive and well plus has 100 or so of his loyal soldiers with him. what we are seeing on TV is propaganda about Tripoli and those fellas shooting the celebratory small arms fire into the air are the same al-Qaida we fought in Afghanistan and Iraq. Why are we supporting this take over? I love Prairie State Bank and Trust. There are a lot of times I wish my mother had gotten an abortion. especially when I’m listening to the sanctimonious rants of hateful right wingers. they can’t legally throw anyone out of a public school for the color of their hair or the length of their hair. It’s unconstitutional. it was overthrown years ago. go ahead and color your hair whatever color you want, please. I do believe that 200 minutes a month for a fourth-grader to read is a lot more than 40 minutes per month on the Book it program. That’s the difference between most schools and Washington School. Washington is a very good social school, if you want your child to be indoctrinated into social things. If you want your children to learn about reading, writing and arithmetic then maybe you ought to think about sending them somewhere else. it isn’t a socialization program, it’s about learning facts. not doing things like getting in touch with people’s feelings or holding the weak down with your thumb, all the while pretending to help them. If you’re a waitress or a checker doing your work and people respond, “thank you,” be sure to respond, “you’re welcome,” not “no problem.” and be sure to smile. Can someone help me on this situation in Roodhouse. the mayor does whatever he wants. He’s already raised our monthly utility rate by $80 a month and he doesn’t listen to the council. He’s wanting to raise our meter charges. I’ve probably already paid for my meter 50 times. Now they want to go from three dollars to $15. These meters aren’t slot machines, although that’s what Joe seems to think they are. the state’s attorney nor the attorney general want to do anything to help us. If there’s anyone out there who can help us please leave a message in Open Line and we’ll be sure to get in contact with you. Thank you. looks like somebody is trying to shake up the East Coast a little bit. It’s about time, they needed a little shaking up. Something is fishy that North School has been selected to be closed whenever the topic was whether Franklin and Washington were to be closed. Now all of a sudden, out of the blue, someone comes up and says North is to close. that is a shock. this is outrageous and it needs to stop. is there anywhere in Jacksonville to take your recyclables? I can’t seem to find anyplace to take them. I’d like to answer about the guy who says that wind turbines are only for greedy farmers whose land they risk. My husband died in a farm accident, I’m trying to keep the farm. I do not get subsidies, I can’t afford a wind turbine because they are $10,000. You have to get your neighbors to go in with you and REA will help you pay it back. but, you can’t get any help here. If you don’t like the subsidies for farmers then you buy your food from China and see how you like that. regarding burning leaves. Unfortunately, burning leaves creates huge particles of smoke which are dangerous to small children, older folks and people with lung conditions. So, there’s never a time when it’s OK to fill the air with smoke. Please be considerate of those who have a hard time breathing. Thank you Rick and Chet over at Passavant for hiring such stellar department managers who have no sense of ability to manage a department or do it with pride. they are all idiots and play favorites with the flunkies in their office who sit on their butts all day long. our two party system isn’t working any longer. only the tea party can save us now. to the person who thinks that a wildlife habitat needs to be along the brook, I think we have enough places like that around town. If you drive around in the city there are a bunch of people who aren’t taking care of their lawns, not mowing their weeds. If you go down there by MacMurray College, they have it all trimmed up, it looks wonderful and the rest of town needs to look like that. Don’t just mow, get out there and trim. If you don’t have trimmers then get out there with your two hands. Aw, school board says when they asked for higher taxes, the taxpayers said no, so what are they to do, boo-hoo. try what the taxpayers have to do, live within your means. Stop making decisions based on what year of school “your” kids are in. Stop treating the education fund like a money tree. Just wondering why the Journal-Courier doesn’t cover junior high and middle school sports? Little league football is, and I think it would be nice for young kids to see their accomplishments in the paper. Quite frankly I believe that there are a lot of idiots in Open Line online. did you hear the latest news flash? it was the Keebler Elves and al-Qaida who were digging tunnels under Washington, D.C. that is what caused the 5.9 magnitude earthquake on 8/23/11. We should be very afraid. is it agreed, then, that what we need in today’s America is more unskilled immigrants, especially those from third-world countries? I understand some of the 117 school board members have been threatened by an e-mail from a Franklin parent. is this person insane? I wrote “NCLB is a lie. the children leaving Lincoln School will be left behind wherever they attend school. These kids have more problems than any grade school teacher can handle, and the biggest problem they have are their parents or lack thereof.” then when I found JHS and Turner had already been through these problems of not making AYP I changed my mind because I think I am a great parent. People on the East Coast afraid of a 5.9 earthquake, panicking and jamming the cellphones with calls. the lamestream media was helping to spread the panic to the people. with all their speculation of after shocks, tremors and a nuke meltdown. Nothing much happened. the panic was created by people full of fear in this country. Hey Repukemeister, if the Bush tax cuts are the reason we are so far in debt then why did your fellow Democrats extend the Bush tax cuts? both the House and Senate still had a Democrat majority when Congress approved extending the Bush tax cuts. and your fearless leader Barack Hussien Obama also approved it. You are eating your own words, Repukemeister. Unemployment on the rise in Illinois? Surely not. I’m sure the tax increases had nothing to do with that. keep electing Democrats to public offices and they’ll tax your rear end into oblivion. this is to the farmer basher: I have received at least two phone calls in the last two years regarding having wind turbines placed on my property. I said “no” every time and hung up. also, I have never ever received farm subsidies. only one Cass County dispatcher working and multiple calls coming into them. the dispatcher didn’t even listen to me, just said “you’ll have to hold a minute, I have other calls.” Glad it wasn’t serious or life-threatening. the community of Beardstown and the county should have separate dispatchers, someone will end up losing their life or be seriously injured because of lack of manpower. Beardstown never should’ve gotten rid of its dispatching service. all our mayor and aldermen did was hurt a community.

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Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on August 25, 2011 at 6:20 AM {no comments}

The Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja

The government yesterday presented a comprehensive power rescue package that would give the nation a total of 572 megawatts at the cost of Sh523 billion($330 million).

The rescue package would enable the country end the worsening power rationing that has clouded the nation for months now and cost the economy dearly.

The Tanzania Electric Supply Company (Tanesco) alone has lost revenue amounting to Sh420 billion over the past eighteen months as a result of the power rationing.

At the same time a total of 50 companies have been closed or forced to reduce their production by 50 percent, during the past seven months.

But, presenting the government’s Power Rescue Package yesterday, the Minister for Energy and Minerals, William Ngeleja, assured the nation that the proposal would end the power rationing between September and December, this year.

While sections of the legislators questioned the expensiveness of the rescue package, the Minister responded by saying the cost of power rationing to the economy was bigger than what the nation would incur, to finance the multibillion shillings proposal.

“We need electricity but at what cost? Having electricity under this package is still cheaper than not having it, because in every single unit that is not produced, it costs the economy $1.10.” Minister Ngeleja said.

Minister Ngeleja whose Ministry was given three weeks to come up with a rescue package to save the country from the worsening power rationing, said the target was to produce 500 megawatts, but under this package there would be a total of 572 megawatts.

He also ruled out any possible increment of electricity tariff as part of financing the $330 million package.

“ there will be no increment of electricity tariffs until the country is able to have enough electricity, and has moved out of the current crisis,” the Minister assured the nation yesterday.

Elaborating the financing mechanism of the package, Ngeleja made it clear that while the total cost was Sh523 billion, Tanesco’s revenues during that period would be only Sh115 billion, creating a deficit of Sh408 billion.

To meet the deficit, Minister Ngeleja told the Parliament that the government would act as guarantor to enable Tanesco borrow the Sh408 billion from local banks, a move strongly challenged by the opposition camp.

The camp challenged the government, saying instead of cutting its spending spree in order to finance the proposal, the burden has been left to Tanesco to borrow from local banks.

But in response, Minister Ngeleja defended the move, saying borrowing wasn’t just a government’s culture or a sin, adding that ‘if super powers economy in the world were borrowing money to finance various projects, there was nothing wrong for Tanzania to do the same.

“If America, the world’s powerful nation borrows, who are we?” asked Ngeleja. he added, “this is not a dictatorial regime and therefore we can’t just impose orders on investors in the name of collecting revenues.”

Legislator January Makamba emphatically stated: “It’s time to say goodbye to emergency power…, this should be the end because sometimes the so called emergency turn out to be the conduit of corruption.”

572 megawatts structure

According to Ngeleja, Symbion Power Tanzania Limited, Aggreko, Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) and the National Social Security Fund (NSSF) are the companies that have been contracted by the government through Tanesco to resolve power crisis on emergency plan.

Symbion, that was generating 75 megawatts by mid July when Ngeleja tabled the ministry’s before it was rejected by Parliament , is now trying its generators so that they can run on JET I. According to Ngeleja, until the end of this month Symbion, which has the capacity to generate 112 megawatts, will be able to add another 37 megawatts into the national grid.

Independent Power Tanzania Limited (IPTL) which is also in the list of plants expected to provide an immediate solution to the crisis has beefed up power generation to 100 megawatts from 20 megawatts that were being generate in mid July when the budget was rejected by the MPs.

The minister told the House that IPTL has been able to beef up power generation after the government succeeded to raise funds. however, the minister neither revealed the amount of funds raised nor its source.

The Minister also told the House that in late June, Tanesco signed an agreement with Aggreko International in which the latter would bring generators with the capacity to produce 100 megawatts. According to Ngeleja, the generators arrived in Dar es Salaam yesterday and the assembling work, which is done on 24 hour basis, is underway.

Symbion, according to Minister Ngeleja, is in three phases expected to install other generators that are expected to generate a total of 205 megawatts by December this year. under this plan, Symbion would next month install a 45-MW capacity plant at Ubungo while in October the company would bring in the country a 110 -MW capacity plant that would be installed in Dodoma.

He said in the last phase Symbion would bring in a 50-MW capacity plant in December to be installed in Arusha.

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) on their part have agreed to purchase a 150MW capacity power plant whose installation would also be done in three phases. The minister said next month NSSF will bring in the country a 50- MW capacity power plant while another two plants with 50- MW capacity each will be bought on in October and November, respectively.

According to Ngeleja, if all goes as planned, the nation would have surpassed the target by 272 megawats under the emergency power plan because when the budget was rejected on July 18, the ministry was required to come up with a plan of generating 300 megawatts on emergency measure by December this year.

He said if 572 megawatts would be added to the national grid by December this year, there would over 1110 megawatts of power for the nation with a surplus of about 272 megawatts.

Sticking on the emergency power plan that ends on December this year the minister said the government will have to bear the financial burden of financing it since Tanesco’s financial muscles can not overcome it.

He said while the cost for implementing the plan stands at Sh 523 billion, Tanesco’s revenue up to December would not exceed Sh 115 billion. In that respect the government will bridge the financial gap reaching Sh 408 billion.

On the long term plan, the government would guarantee Tanesco to enable it purchase a 300 MW capacity plant. According to Ngeleja the project would be implemented in 2012.Ngeleja said until December 2012 all listed projects would have cost Sh 1.2 trillion.

He said to enable the plan get smooth implementation the government would waive taxes on fuel used by various power generation plants whose companies have entered agreements with Tanesco except JET1.

However, the minister told the august House that once the government succeeds to supply reliable power to its customers it will float a request to Energy and Water Utilities Authority( EWURA) to have power tariffs reviewed to meet the running and administrative costs.

According to Ngeleja ,Tanzania is a nation with less power tariffs compared to Kenya and Uganda. but, he highlighted that the change in tariffs will touch large scale power consumers such as companies and mining firms only.

The minister said the Confederation of Trade and Industries (CTI) has welcomed the government proposal as long as it supplied reliable power.

Ngeleja also told the House that customers owing Tanesco have to pay their debts to generate funds to help the company and the government in general, implement the projects. Until June this year the government owed Tanesco a total of sh 86 billion.

The government came with the plan yesterday after MPs on July 18 rejected the financial estimates of the Ministry of Energy and Minerals because of lack of enough funds allocated to address the ongoing load shedding and allegations of corruption made against Permanent Secretary David Jairo who was sent on paid leave to pave way for investigations.

Having rejected the budget Prime Minister Mizengo Pinda was compelled to withdraw it.

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RNC giving Obama hard time over Hickenlooper’s assessment of 2012 odds

Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on August 8, 2011 at 6:55 AM {no comments}

Barack Obama owned Colorado in 2008, so Republicans are having a field day highlighting Gov. John Hickenlooper’s statement that the president would have a “hard time” winning Colorado if the election were held today.

Obama received the Democratic nomination in 2008 at the convention in Denver, where Hickenlooper, as mayor, helped raise the money to stage the event.

And although Colorado historically votes for the Grand old Party presidential nominee, Obama beat John McCain here by 9 percentage points.

The Republican National Committee used Hickenlooper’s comments in talking points sent nationwide Wednesday, and also when unveiling a TV ad in the Rocky Mountain West attacking Obama on the economy.

“Asked whether Obama would hold Colorado if the election were held today, Hickenlooper said: ‘It depends on who his opponent was. I think it’d be a very close battle. He’d have a hard time,’ ” according to Politico.

“There’s such dissatisfaction over people who have been out of work, not just for a few months but for a year and a half or two years,” Hickenlooper also told Politico.

Politico provided a transcript of the interview to the Denver Post.

Hickenlooper, a Democrat who took office in January, said Wednesday that he gave six interviews in a row at the National Governors Association meeting in Salt Lake City over the weekend.

He said that when talking to Politico, he apparently omitted what he said to some other organizations: how he thought Obama would prevail and about the problems the president had inherited.

“I did say people have been unemployed for so long they are having a hard time recognizing that the recession came before Obama took office,” Hickenlooper said. “The depth of the recession is defined by events he had no role in.”

Hickenlooper said he has not heard anything from the White House about his comments, and that various polls do indicate Obama faces a tough battle in Colorado, “a genuinely purple state.”

Obama’s national approval rating is at 46 percent, said Denver pollster Floyd Ciruli. he said there’s been no recent poll in Colorado because there is no U.S. Senate race in 2012, but Obama had a 51 percent disapproval rate, according to a 2010 Colorado Senate exit poll.

The Politico interview also touched on a few of the suggestions Hickenlooper offered for Obama to win over states, including flexibility for the no Child Left Behind education law and implementation of the Affordable Care Act, the health reform law.

The TV ad attacking Obama is airing in Colorado, Nevada and new Mexico — which account for one-third of the states Obama won in 2008 that had been won previously by President George W. Bush.

The ads are part of a GOP strategy in the Rocky Mountain West that also uses Spanish-language radio spots and Internet messages to highlight Obama and the economy, said Rick Wiley, political director of the Republican National Committee.

Wiley, and Ryan Call, the Colorado GOP director, participated in a telephone news conference Wednesday to discuss the ad. Similar news conferences were held in new Mexico and Nevada with GOP officials there.

Call almost immediately mentioned Hickenlooper.

“Just last week, our Democrat governor, John Hickenlooper, couldn’t have said it better when he handicapped President Obama’s chances in 2012 . . ., ” Call said.

“This admission by even a Democrat governor in a state like Colorado underlines and underscores the problem this president faces.”

The ad focuses on the economy.

“Barack Obama promised a better economy. he gave us bigger government, higher taxes and skyrocketing debt,” a narrator says.

Wiley declined to say how much the RNC is spending on the ad buy, but the Democratic National Committee said the cost for the three states is $750,000.

The DNC’s Brad Woodhouse blasted Republicans in Democrats’ talking points.

“It’s no surprise that the RNC, which is run by a chairman so out of touch with economic reality that he said it would ‘not be the end of the world’ if the nation defaulted on its debt for the first time, would rather run negative ads than work in good faith with President Obama to responsibly reduce the deficit and create jobs,” Woodhouse said in a statement.

Lynn Bartels: 303-954-5327 or lbartels@denverpost.com

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Do you really think the world will end in 2012 or is it a hoax that the government made up to scare us?

Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on August 7, 2011 at 10:55 PM {one comment}

The government said the economy will take a few years to get better and when did this 2012 scandal begin? right when the economy went bad..so about 2008…so if the economy gets better in few years that's..2012..world ends 2012?

This was made up by businessmen and women purely for profit and is an extreme form of marketing since it consists entirely of lies. Most marketing is only 80% lies!

Neither the ancient or modern Mayans predicted this. They left that up to liars and fools in the USA, Belgium and a few other countries.

Very few people believe this, including those who are saying it will end. It is about profits, not prophets, marketing, not Mayans.

Stories of disaster or anything big in 2012 are nonsense promoted by gutter websites and gutter TV transmitters for one purpose, to make money from the sale of books, advertising, movie tickets, guns, disaster shelters and survival supplies, or to get people into dangerous religious cults. Disaster in 2012 is 2% superstition and the the rest is direct lies.

The Mayan calendar does not end, nor did it predict anything from 2012, and not warning signs either. the lies that there are predictions are the bases for the lies that anything will happen at all. since the basis of the predictions are a few lies, then all the predictions fail, no matter what other "evidence" is trotted out to support them.

In all cases in the 2012 material the other "evidence" is also lies. Here's a short list of the lies, the list does not cover everything because there are too many different lies and some of them contradict each other.

Planet X exists, Nibiru exists

Solar flares reaching the Earth

Pole shifts, geographic or magnetic

Scientists predict it

Planetary line-ups, galactic line-ups

Photon belt

Earth's core heating up

Nostradamus, anyone or anything else predicted it.

Garden gnome apocalypse

Get my drift? It is all nonsense.

See www.2012hoax.org/start for an exposure of the main liars and fools and why they are wrong or lying..

There is just as much of a chance that it will end today, as in 2012. I can virtually gaurantee that the Mayans do not know when the world will end. Not one person that has ever lived has even a clue when the world will end except maybe Jesus. People that actually believe the Mayan prediction have forgotten that science determines that and the future is uncertain. the future depends upon the actions of today which will have consequences that determine what will happen. you yourself can change the future just by changing your mind or actions today.

I have not heard that yet, but no. the world will not end, and there is no proof it will. But however, on December 21st in 2012…things will get a little ugly. It is VERY possible the Earth will lose part of its alignment with the sun for a little while. and it is expected that there will be a series of Earthquakes and tidal waves from solar flares from the sun (or something like that). the world will end when our sun explodes. which will be in billions of years. It is possible that some parts of the world will be unlucky, but no…the world will not end.

Hello Neil :
I just answered a similar question. I'll give you the same answer.
This is NOT any gov't. hoax from any country. the world will never end.
the last line of the Lord's Prayer is, " … world without end." He should know !
Concern yourself with other obstacles or problems.

The government is trying to dispel these 2012 rumors that are spreading around the internet like wildfire based on unfounded theories.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/feature…
http://astrobiology.nasa.gov/ask-an-astr…

No I don't think it will end in 2012. I do think people are stupid. They believe anything they hear and always have. why else would evil get elected all the time? Eg..Hitler, Stalin, Bush[s] Obama…yeah I said Obama. I could shoot myself for voting for him. He promised to bring our troops home and what did he do? Sent more and all our money is going up in smoke. EVIL and STUPIDITY rule this earth.

LOL -

The myth that the world will end in 2012 has nothing to do with the government.

It's because the Mayan calender ends on that year and some people with half a brain thinks that means the world will end as well.

It's not going to happen

I bet 2012 is going to be another Y2K. seriously people, how many times have we predicted "the end"? we're still here! nothing is going to happen so calm down and stop worrying about it.

government had nothing to do with it. someone saw a mayan calendar and decided it meant the world was ending.

I don't think the world will end in 2012. But that's my thought. Some people do and some don't.

Do you really think the world will end in 2012 or is it a hoax that the government made up to scare us?

Are we in the end times as foretold by the bible?

Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on August 1, 2011 at 11:33 PM {no comments}

I am just wondering that with all that is going on in the world these days – bad Economy, natural disasters, war, Israel invading Palestine (beginning of Armageddon), if you think we maybe in the end times?

2 Timothy 3:1 " this know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2 for men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3 Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4 Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;" Doesn't this sound like people of today ? Rapture, tribulation, thousand year reign of Christ, Armageddon , then Judgment day

Yes! The humanity has never been in such a difficult situation. Soon things will get even worse, that is when God will intervene:
<for then there will be great tribulation such as has not occurred since the world’s beginning until now, no, nor will occur again.> (Matthew 24:21)
<and in the days of those kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never be brought to ruin. and the kingdom itself will not be passed on to any other people. it will crush and put an end to all these kingdoms, and it itself will stand to times indefinite.> (Daniel 2:44)

No, definitely not.

Why take any of it seriously?

The Bible would have us believe that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree.

I personally think we are in the end times of the seventh golden orb. we are living in a foretold time. People going to the toilet, people jacking off on the bus. it has all been foretold by the great wizard of zanzibar.

it is the beginning of the armageddon, we are All going to fry in a pan of low fat oil for all eternity if we do not change our ways.

Three proofs we are in the end times:

PROOF #1: Matthew 23:37-39
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! see! your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see me no more till you say, 'Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!'"
Jesus knits Jewish revival and repentance in Jerusalem directly to His second Coming. The data we have related to messianic congregations and their current growth through conversions in Jerusalem and Israel shows that we are witnessing the largest remnant of Jewish believers in Jerusalem since the first century. for Matt. 23:37-39 to come to pass, there has to be a Jewish political state, Jerusalem must be governed by the Jews, and there must be believing Jews that want to make Jesus their King residing there… for 1800 years, there was no Israel and no Jerusalem; then, until recently, no remnant of believers in the city.

PROOF #2: Matthew 24:14
"and this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, then the end will come."
Jesus knits the preaching of the gospel to the whole earth to His return or "the end". and we have measurable data that proves that this will happen in this generation. What's measurable – which in and of itself is true for the first time in history as missions organizations all over the world are knitting together to coordinate, collaborate, and compile information – is data that shows that the whole earth (every people group and language) will have heard the gospel sometime between the years 2025 and 2032. Those are the most conservative estimates. most main leaders are saying that the "task will be complete" in 10 years – and that for the first time in history the gospel will have gone to the ends of the earth… Jesus knits the preaching of the gospel to the whole earth to His return or "the end". and we have measurable data that proves that this will happen in this generation."

PROOF #3: Luke 18:7-8
"and shall God not avenge His own elect who cry out day and night to him, though He bears long with them? I tell yout hat He will avenge them speedily. nevertheless, when the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?"
Jesus knits night and day prayer to the in-breaking of speedy justice and His return to the earth. Hopefully I don't have to prove statistically what a unique time in history this is across the earth related to night and day prayer – Kenya alone had missions leaders, pastors, and other leaders recently commit to establishing 75,000 houses of prayer in the next ten years. Night and day prayer speaks to the condition of the church related to faith at the end of the age – remember the parable: when you want something badly enough, you won't relent until you get it. The church that is consumed with the desire for true, speedy justice is one that will not relent, night and day, in asking for it in prayer. To put it a … Read Moredifferent way, the church will be consumed with a hunger and thirst for righteousness that drives it to continual, unceasing prayer right before He returns. We are seeing the beginnings of that right now, in a historic, measurable way that is unique in all of church history. That there is an expression of night and day prayer in increasing measure – and the statistical increase over the last ten years is truly shocking – it's an explosion – well, that alone should alert us that something is up. Combine it with the other two signs….

Fascinating observation! *insert sarcasm*

You do realize that:

1. History is littered with all that you have mentioned?
2. That the second coming has been expected since the supposed ascension of christ.

If you are truly worried about it, lock yourself up in bunker, and pray.

our future isnt written out for us in a stupid book of fairy tales, our future is based on what we create, and the only reason it will be the end is if stupid people who follow old books kill because of stupid old scripts, weather it be christians, jews or muslims are equally evil and worship the same stupid ancient idiology

NO! for pity's sake! this is turning into an "if I had a drink for ever time someone asked me if the end of the world was coming" stupid question! We've answered it a million times!
(Pardon my hyperbole)
(hiccup)

very much in the end. read Matthew 24. unfortunately many will be caught unready when Christ comes just like the jews when they were invaded by the romans in the destruction of jerusalem.

No. The Bible verses that said the end times were "any minute now" were written thousands of years ago.

No, the bible is a book of fables. The world will end when the sun burns out in several billion years.

Take a look at…

http://www.endoftimes.net/

http://www.jesuswillreturn.com/

I believe it is the beginning of the end. Much worse to come.

Yes, many will disagree though.

No. People have believed that for millennia. it won't happen now, either.

Yes, we are.

There is much worse to come in my opinion

* I don't know … the world will end when it wants to , but we shouldn't encouraged … *

Yes, we definitely are in the end times as spoken of in the Holy Bible.

As it was in the days of Noah, so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man (Matt 24:37). The time leading up to the great Flood was a lot like our time in that it was characterized by a deliberate and increasing disregard for the ways of God. Finally “the Lord saw how great man’s wickedness on earth had become and that every inclination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil all the time” (Gen. 6:5).

http://gracethrufaith.com/selah/prophecy…

No. We are in the end times of confusion and soon the truth will come to light. but first God has to let all the impostors kill each other off.lol.

i agree with Eza L

i agree with Eza L and lady luck… there is way worse to come…

Are we in the end times as foretold by the bible?

Time to Panic About the Federal Debt Limit

Filed under 2012 Prophecy by larrydkeen on July 11, 2011 at 8:21 AM {no comments}

Average citizens will pay the price for political dithering in Washington — as usual

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Is anyone else getting as nervous as I am about this debt-ceiling debate? Don’t get me wrong; my view has long been that we would endure some stomach-churning days on the way to a deal. Ultimately, though, I believed that the adults in both parties would prevail and lift the debt ceiling sufficiently to get the country through the 2012 election without default.

Now I’m worried, because too many politicians on both sides of the aisle and at both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue are happily taking potshots at each other to score political points, with little regard for the stakes involved. who knows how much patience the stock and bond markets have or when they might decide to panic at the prospect of Washington failing to come to a deal in time?

Tom Gallagher, a political economist with the Scowcroft Group, likens the U.S. economy to an airplane with engine problems, just barely maintaining altitude above the tree line. Although the plane is holding its own, if almost anything else goes wrong, it will crash. recent reports on initial unemployment claims show just how close to the treetops we are. back in February, as the Fiscal Times pointed out last week, first-time claims had held at 400,000 or less for seven of nine consecutive weeks. Now the number has been running above 400,000 for 12 weeks. that is a pretty dramatic downshift that matches the uptick in the overall unemployment rate and the decline in the growth of the gross domestic product.

The great Recession technically began after December 2007 and ended in June 2009; it was the longest recession in duration and the largest in terms of relative decline of GDP since the end of World War II. But polls show that many Americans believe that it’s not over. A May 2011 study conducted by Northeastern University’s Center for Labor Market Studies examined the GDP, employment, hourly earnings, and productivity data and found why so many people feel that way. the 23-page report, “The ‘Jobless and Wageless’ Recovery From the great Recession of 2007-2009: the Magnitude and Sources of Economic Growth through 2011 I and Their Impacts on Workers, Profits, and Stock Values,” concluded that “aggregate employment has not increased above the [second] quarter of 2009, and real hourly and weekly wages have been flat to mostly negative.”

After a thorough walkthrough of the sobering mound of data, the study concluded that the only major beneficiaries of the recovery have been “corporate profits and the stock market and its shareholders. most holders of savings and money-market accounts also are net losers due to declining real interest rates which have been in negative territory for many interest-bearing and money-market accounts.”

an economy this fragile can’t afford another shock.

The point is not to play the class-warfare card. most major companies came out of the financial crisis of 2008 relatively unscathed, but the experience scared the heck out of most of them and prompted many to stock up on cash to be on the safe side. Lack of confidence in the durability of the recovery and in the political leadership in Washington has also made business owners cautious about expanding or hiring. much of companies’ postrecession investment has gone into machinery to make them more productive with fewer employees.

All of this explains why the glass looks half full to some people and half empty to others. For those who see the U.S. economy through the prism of the stock market and their monthly investment statements, the economy has come back from the trauma of the financial crisis reasonably well. despite ups and downs, it has headed back in the right direction.

But people who base their assessment of the economy more on a pay stub and a monthly checking-account balance have seen little improvement — and they wonder whether they ever will. this year’s slowdown adds to their anxiety.

An economy this fragile can scarcely afford the damage that could come from partisans on the left and right playing chicken in debt-ceiling increase negotiations. It’s not hard to imagine the roller-coaster ride, the likely plunges in the markets, and the moments of sheer terror that we could face over the next month.

No one would benefit from having a repeat of September 29, 2008, the day the House voted down the Troubled Asset Relief Program and caused the stock market to drop 777 points and lose $13 trillion in shareholder value.

The U.S. economy is fragile; at best, growth is anemic. the economy badly needs a new round of stimulus, but that seems extremely unlikely. whereas “stimulus” used to have eight letters, it is now a four-letter word. the Federal Reserve Board’s second round of quantitative easing has concluded, and anxiety about the deficit means that there is little support for new spending stimulus. Worries over the long-term deficit and debt issues are trumping fears about the weakness of the economy and the lack of job growth. But as weak as the economy is, a sharp market sell-off might be all it would take to send it plunging downward into a double-dip recession.

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