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There's "Army Strong ".... then There's Kimberly Munley STRONG !
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Nov 7, 2009 6:33 am
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Fort Hood is one of the largest United States military installations in the world. Isn't it a little strange a civilian police officer almost single handedly ended the massacre? Aren't soldiers trained with the use of weapons? Or would that be too P.I. for a soldier to be carrying a gun?
From The Times
November 7, 2009
A police officer and mother of one was hailed a heroine yesterday after it emerged that she almost single handedly ended the massacre at Americas biggest military base.
Kimberly Munley does not look as if she would be much of a match for a heavily armed US soldier on a murderous rampage. But the slightly built 34-year-old civilian officer was first on the scene after Major Nidal Malik Hasan began firing on comrades at Ford Hood in Texas as they prepared to deploy to Afghanistan and Iraq. The 39-year-old psychologist killed 13 and left 31 others with serious injuries.
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DannyRay ?
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Oct 30, 2009 5:04 pm
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Every once in awhile I see DannyRay in the blog watchers. He seems to be behind bars like in a jail. Is there a message in that? Seems a little odd.
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Jesus w/o Religion
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Oct 18, 2009 8:42 am
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Religion is something we can do that gives us a sense we are doing something that pleases God so to assure our entrance into heaven.
Jesus came to free humanity from religion of its false gods and false idols. He wasn't just a founder of a "new" religion called, Christianity.
As the disciples were passing through a corn field on the Sabbath they stopped picked and ate. The Pharisees, took it upon themselves to interpret what could be done and not done on the Sabbath, questioned Jesus why his disciples were breaking the Sabbath. Jesus reminded them how David entered the House of God and ate what was unlawful. If God didn't get angry with David, why would he angry with his disciples? (Mark 2:23-26)
When Jesus went to do good on the Sabbath, healing a man, the Pharisees once again complained. They would of rather seen the man go unhealed than to break the Sabbath. (Mark 3:1-6)
Jesus didn't get angry with the woman at the well. He didn't get angry with the women caught in adultery, or the soldiers who nailed him to the cross, or even Levi, the tax collector, but he did get angry with the Pharisees who were deeply embedded into RELIGION.
(notes from Ken Armstrong, pastor from Medford,OR.)
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Flu shot ..... Will you get one ?
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Oct 11, 2009 5:46 pm
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I have never gotten a flu shot yet. I know some who get one year after year and they never get the flu. Others, I have heard get sick after getting one. I can get one for about 25 bucks, but not sure if I want to take the risk. They say if you work around a lot of people its a good idea.
I'LL have to think this one over. 
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Your Favorite National Park
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Oct 3, 2009 4:55 pm
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Have you been watching Ken Burns series on the National Parks?
I have been blessed, I feel, to have been to most of them in the west, except in Alaska. Its hard to say which one is my favorite. Two of my favorites are Yellowstone and Zion.
While watching the series, I was surprised to hear how many people described it as a spiritual experience. Where do you feel the presence of God the most, at church, praying? There is something about standing at awe, breathless at the foot of a mountain range with a roaring river winding through. Or a canyon painted with brilliant colors. Huge monuments, unmade and unspoiled by human hands, testify to a creator who can bring them into existence by simply his spoken word.
Have you ever wondered, with all the wonderful things we see here, how wonderful will be the things to come?
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Yom Kippur -- The Day of Atonement -- An annual Sabbath
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Sep 28, 2009 1:42 pm
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Today is Yom Kippur. One of the most holiest day of the year for Jews. It is a day of fasting and it is also an annual Sabbath day.
Leviticus 23: 31-32
"You must not do any work at all! This is a permanent law for you, and it must be observed from generation to generation wherever you live. This will be a Sabbath day of complete rest for you, and on that day you must deny yourselves"
A question for those of you who keep the weekly sabbath, as I once did. If you keep the weekly sabbath by commandment, do you also keep the annual sabbath? Note above -- This is a permanent law...
The command says its permanent. If the weekly sabbath is permanent shouldn't the annual sabbath days be permanent as well and kept?
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Wow, this is so cool -- Egyptain coins have been found carrying the name of Joseph.
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Sep 27, 2009 8:19 am
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Egyptian paper: Coins found bearing name of Joseph
Posted: September 26, 2009
11:30 pm Eastern 2009 WorldNetDaily
Egyptian coins carrying the name of Joseph, the biblical patriarch whose arrival in Egypt as a slave eventually provided salvation for his family during decades of drought across the Middle East, have been discovered in a cache of antique items shelved in boxes in a museum, according to a new report.
The report from the Middle East Media Research Institute said the coins with Joseph's name and image were found in a pile of unsorted artifacts that had been stored at the Museum of Egypt.
MEMRI, which monitors and translates reports from Middle East publications and broadcasters, said the original report was in Egypt's Al Ahram newspaper in Cairo.
The newspaper said the discovery countered claims by some historians that coins were not used for trade in Egypt at the time the Bible records Joseph and the Jews migrated there. Those historians have argued that trade was done by barter.
But researchers told the newspaper the minting dates of the coins in the cache have been matched to the period in which Joseph was recorded to be in Egypt.
"A thorough examination revealed that the coins bore the year in which they were minted and their value, or effigies of the pharaohs [who ruled] at the time of their minting. Some of the coins are from the time when Joseph lived in Egypt, and bear his name and portrait," said the newspaper report.
The report carried an explanation of the discovery by a team involving researcher Sa'id Muhammad Thabet:
"Studies by Dr. Thabet's team have revealed that what most archeologists took for a kind of charm, and others took for an ornament or adornment, is actually a coin. Several [facts led them to this conclusion]: first, [the fact that] many such coins have been found at various [archeological sites], and also [the fact that] they are round or oval in shape, and have two faces: one with an inscription, called the inscribed face, and one with an image, called the engraved face – just like the coins we use today," said the report.
The newspaper called the find "unprecedented" and said, "The researchers discovered the coins when they sifted through thousands of small archeological artifacts stored in [the vaults of] the Museum of Egypt."
The Egyptian newspaper noted that the Quran indicates clearly "that coins were used in Egypt in the time of Joseph."
The report continued, "Research team head Dr. Sa'id Muhammad Thabet said that during his archeological research on the Prophet Joseph, he had discovered in the vaults of the [Egyptian] Antiquities Authority and of the National Museum many charms from various eras before and after the period of Joseph, including one that bore his effigy as the minister of the treasury in the Egyptian pharaoh's court.
The report continued, "According to Dr. Thabet, his studies are based on publications about the Third Dynasty, one of which states that the Egyptian coin of the time was called a deben and was worth one-fourth of a gram of gold. This coin is mentioned in a letter by a man named Thot-Nehet, a royal inspector of the Nile bridges. In letters to his son, he mentioned leasing lands in return for deben-coins and agricultural produce."
The report explained that other texts from the Third, Sixth and Twelfth Dynasties also talk about coins.
"The archeological finding is also based on the fact that the inscribed face bore the name of Egypt, a date, and a value, while the engraved face bore the name and image of one of the ancient Egyptian pharaohs or gods, or else a symbol connected with these. Another telling fact is that the coins come in different sizes and are made of different materials, including ivory, precious stones, copper, silver, gold, etc." the newspaper reported.
The museum research uncovered 500 of the coins "carelessly" stored in boxes.
One even had the image of a cow "symbolizing Pharaoh's dream about the seven fat cows and seven lean cows, and the seven green stalks of grain and seven dry talks of grain," the report said.
"Joseph's name appears twice on this coin, written in hieroglyphs: once the original name, Joseph, and once his Egyptian name, Saba Sabani, which was given to him by Pharaoh when he became treasurer. There is also an image of Joseph, who was part of the Egyptian administration at the time," the report said.
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