RIGHTEOUS RESISTANCE

The decline and demise of the UK

Much of the reason that the UK (and Europe in general) has fallen so far.

And the world wants us to be like Europe? God help us.

Oh yes, please give them $2 BILLION!

What the heck?

This is the group that Obama wants to give 2 billion dollars to???

http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/20/this-is-our-house-now-acorn-mob-begins-breaking-into-homes/

"Civil disobedience?" No no no, people. This is pure LAWLESSNESS. Get a clue!

Interesting and important website

This was sent to me by a friend. Watching it made me go "wow." As American citizens, we need to pay heed to this information!

It's about 5 minutes long:

http://apathetic-usa.com/

More on the Octo-Mommy

Funny how the public, when asked, can really give their unvarnished opinion on certain topics. And since I've posted something earlier about this woman and her now 14 children (8 of whom were born at one time, very recently), I thought I would link to one of my favorite decor blogs, who just happened to delve into this topic today.

Take note of all of the comments (and forgive the language)! Many of the comments really hit home with my own feelings on this situation. How can this woman justify all of these children when she is on welfare and food stamps? It's infuriating!

http://decorno.blogspot.com/2009/02/can-we-talk-about-important-topics.html

And in the news...

A few items of note this week.

After the ginormous bailout just a few short weeks ago, we now have this:
$787 Billion Stimulus Bill Clears House; [thankfully!] No Republicans Voted for It - House GOP Leader John Boehner of Ohio [said]: "With a price tag of more than $1 trillion when you factor in interest, it costs every family almost $10,000 in added debt. This is an act of generational theft that our children and grandchildren will be paying for far into the future."

Hmm. A Muslim who wanted to promote a "positive" Muslim image, just can't help himself, and resorts to the standard Muslim ("religion of peace") M.O. Nice. "Somehow, 'I told you so' just doesn't quite say it." - Will Smith in "I, Robot." One commenter summed it up perfectly: "Don't hold your breath to hear about this one from the MSM. They constantly do their best to show the 'religion of peace' in the best light possible...while taking every opportunity they can find to castigate Israel."

And in technology news:

Have you read the Left Behind series? Then this should sound very familiar!

After this new bug, there's now a bounty on the head of the worm writer

The telecom industry faces a moment of truth

And...of course it is. Thanks to all you aimless worthless hackers who have nothing better to contribute to society than to wreak havoc.

And Helen...it's past time for you to retire, honey. WAY past time.

New favorite quote: When Liberals raise the bar, expect the Limbo. :-D

More from Glenn Beck - We Surround Them

Glenn Beck has started a "movement" of sorts, which is supposed to culminate with "We Surround Them: The Unveiling;" March 13th on FOX News at 5pm ET.

So, because I believe Glenn really has something, and I agree with him, I am doing my part. Here's how it shakes out, from Glenn's website.

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Do you watch the direction that America is being taken in and feel powerless to stop it? Do you believe that your voice isn’t loud enough to be heard above the noise anymore? Do you read the headlines everyday and feel an empty pit in your stomach…as if you’re completely alone? If so, then you’ve fallen for the 'Wizard of Oz' lie. While the voices you hear in the distance may sound intimidating, as if they surround us from all sides—the reality is very different. Once you pull the curtain away you realize that there are only a few people pressing the buttons, and their voices are weak. The truth is that they don’t surround us at all. We surround them. So, how do we show America what’s really behind the curtain? Below are nine simple principles. If you believe in at least seven of them, then we have something in common. I urge you to read the instructions at the end for how to help make your voice heard. The Nine Principles:

America is good.
I believe in God and He is the Center of my Life.
I must always try to be a more honest person than I was yesterday.
The family is sacred. My spouse and I are the ultimate authority, not the government.
If you break the law you pay the penalty. Justice is blind and no one is above it.
I have a right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, but there is no guarantee of equal results.
I work hard for what I have and I will share it with whom I want. Government cannot force me to be charitable.
It is not un-American for me to disagree with authority or to share my personal opinion.
The government works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me.

The 12 Values:

Honesty
Reverence
Hope
Thrift
Humility
Charity
Sincerity
Moderation
Hard Work
Courage
Personal Responsibility
Friendship

You Are Not Alone.

How close did we come?

This close.

Am currently listening to Glenn Beck. Glenn is more and more becoming one of the wisest conservative voices on radio (IMHO). Smart, irreverent, and insightful, the guy just "gets it."

He played several clips of someone (sorry, just missed the guy's name, but someone very high up in finance, will research) who talked about the following:

On one very recent Tuesday, within one hour, over $500 billion was pulled out of U.S. banks.

Because of safeguards that had (thankfully) been put in place, alarms went up, the banking industry panicked, and the Fed put a stop to any more massive amount of funds being pulled out of American banks. If they had not done this, by the end of that day, we could have had over $500 TRILLION taken out of the U.S., causing our complete financial collapse, and within a few hours, the collapse of the entire world!

So WHO WAS IT that caused this financial "hiccup?" Sadly, no one seems to know. But I hope Glenn (or someone!) will find out and let us know. Was it China? The Middle East? Russia? We NEED to know.

We are literally teetering on the edge here, people. We are in the End Times, and more and more issues and problems are cropping up proving this very fact! PAY ATTENTION!

Glenn has also listed nine principals that make our country strong, and will keep our country strong...if we believe in them, and LIVE THEM:

http://www.glennbeck.com/content/articles/article/198/21018/

Dreams and visions

Fascinating and very exciting news from the middle east!

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/534009.aspx

Acts 2:17:
In the last days, God says,
I will pour out my Spirit on all people.
Your sons and daughters will prophesy,
your young men will see visions,
your old men will dream dreams.

It's coming ever closer, and ever faster

That would be additions to the U.S. and global infrastructure in which the antichrist will soon use to rule the world. Case in point, these two items:

Think concentration camps only existed during the Holocaust? Think again. Next...bringing back the guillotine. Achtung baby, indeed!

Daniel 12:8-10
And I heard, but I did not understand. Then I said, O my lord, what shall be the end of these things? And He said, Go, Daniel! For the words are closed up and sealed until the end-time. Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried. But the wicked shall do wickedly. And none of the wicked shall understand, but the wise shall understand.

You can run but you can't hide

And a couple other annoying bits of news:

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87988

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=87894

and the infinitely wise Dennis Prager has some questions for Katie Couric.

it's Godzilla!

No...even worse:

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20090202/D9635SB01.html

Can you imagine...? A volcano in Tokyo? Yikes.

If 8 is enough...what about 14???

This greatly disturbs me.

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/531734.aspx

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D961JRU80&show_article=1

Things that stick out:

The woman is UNMARRIED!
She already has SIX OTHER CHILDREN!
She almost undoubtedly underwent fertility treatment
She is very young. Just HOW young is that?
WHY did she have more children when she had SIX already???

I know I should not judge, but this is becoming more and more common. There are so many people having children under the wrong circumstances, making their lives--and those of their children--just that much more complex, complicated, and uncertain. This very well may cause them to live a life of poverty, struggle and dependence on the system/government for welfare or support. Which means our tax dollars at work. Or not.

Common sense, people. Use your God given common sense!

The devil is a patient being

Sixty four years ago Norman Thomas knew what was going to happen to our country in 2009.

Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 – December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America.

The Socialist Party candidate for President of the US, Norman Thomas, said this in a 1944 speech:

"The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened."

He went on to say: "I no longer need to run as a Presidential Candidate for the Socialist Party. The Democrat Party has adopted our platform."

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The devil is nothing if not intelligent, devious...and so very patient. He's had eons of experience, and (up until lately) had all the time in the world to bring humans to ruination. His arsenal of evil is vast, and consists of things great (war) and small (jealousy) to bring ruin upon those who want to do good, who try to do good, from the inside, disguising it all as "change for the better."

One of my favorite authors is Francis Schaefer, a 1960s Christian theologian, whose ideas about Christianity were quite radical for his time. I can't remember the actual quote (tho the theme of this quote is one I think about it often in these end days), but it said something to the effect of: every new generation accepts more outlandish ideas, and pushes the boundaries of decency as to what was acceptable by the generation before.

The first generation says: "One cannot show one's ankles in public for fear of causing a stir!"So wears floor-length gowns and constrictive undergarments.
The next generation says: "What's the big deal? It's just an ankle." And tosses off their corsets, bobs their hair, raises their hems....and starts doing the Charleston.
Subsequent generations think that the "below the knee" hems of their mothers is too constricting, so they raise them even higher, and start dressing like men, wearing pants and jeans, while burning their undergarments in the streets.
The following generation pushes the boundaries even further, and starts wearing items once considered undergarments to the office, or on the outside of their clothes, starts looking at hooker and stripper "fashion" as something to actually aspire to, and talks about sex and body parts right out in the open (not to mention how everyone thinks the U.S. needs to be more like Europe!). This is where we are today. Decency and modesty have been tossed out the window under the guise of "freedom," "individualism" and "rights."

In a sense, Schaeffer also predicted change for the worse in our country, because he knew what mayhem successive generations would bring to the world.

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"The threat is very real & can only be ultimately defeated by combating those who warp and pervert the minds, particularly of younger people." ~Tony Blair

"Evil is Powerless if the GOOD are Unafraid". ~Ronald Reagan

HALLELUJIA!

The best news I've heard in months.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/19/bush-commutes-sentences-border-patrol-agents/

CRAZY news

Went to the Fox news website today, and holy cow. There were so many crazy news stories, I just had to post them!

OJ – a sociopath? No, not poor downtrodden OJ!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479867,00.html

cruelty and selfishness, leaving the kids to deal

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476687,00.html

Suffer the little children

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480016,00.html

the burning bed

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476605,00.html

they grow up so fast

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477064,00.html

Crazy parents

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479904,00.html

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476104,00.html

crazy nannies

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479984,00.html

crazy pro-Palestinian mobs again

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479897,00.html

crazy derm doctors

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,476724,00.html

crazy neighbors

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478124,00.html

crazy vengeance

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478387,00.html

crazy lies

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479883,00.html

crazy morals

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480037,00.html

crazy dictators

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,480034,00.html

crazy storms

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,478024,00.html

crazy comics

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/15/spider-man-comic-starring-obama-sells-record-numbers-nationwide/

crazy truth!

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/01/09/palin-lays-media-coverage-campaign-web-video/

crazy heartwarming

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479811,00.html

crazy miracles

http://www.foxnews.com/photoessay/0,4644,6290,00.html#10_55

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,479756,00.html

Hamas supporters in Florida

This video was forwarded to me by a friend. This "demonstration" (more like a near riot) happened not somewhere in the middle east, not in Gaza, not in Europe, but in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

I'm forever fascinated in a train-wreck-can't-look-away way by the people who refer to themselves as Palestinian, or frankly pretty much anyone from the middle east who is so vehemently anti-Israel. They consistently have this hair-trigger mentality that cannot be reasoned with, and this only becomes worse when a crowd gathers. First only one or two people are yelling, then pretty soon you have hundreds, and then they want to go across the street and kick some Israeli ass. Please.

It's irrelevant at this point to try reasoning with these people, it really is. They're like a rabid dog, they just keep coming and yelling and screaming till they're blue in the face, and sometimes the only thing one can do with a rabid dog is to put it down (ala Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, if you please). I am not advocating violence, but you can't explain to these people that:

Israel was prophesied to become a country through the will of God (through the 6 Day War), but the existence of Israel was sanctioned by none other than the U.N.! So if Israel's neighbors have any issues about Israel, they need to talk to the U.N. about it.
The longed-for nation of Palestine has never existed where they say it existed before Israel came to be. Palestine was once a British owned parcel of land, but was never actually a "nation" or a "country." So...
Claiming that the state of Israel is an "occupation" is a moot point. The world gave them the right to exist. End of story. Waging daily local war over that tiny piece of land because you're angry about a country that doesn't even exist, is pointless. If you want your own country, do it the right way, diplomatically. The U.N. hates Israel too, so you should have no problem founding your own country. But instead you want what Israel has already. Sorry, too late!
Because God prophesied that Israel's re-existence would occur, and that Israel will never again disappear, trying to get rid of Israel just because you hate them won't work. In fact, if you TRY to make them go away using violence or nukes, YOU in turn will be destroyed by your own actions, because it's been prophesied to happen. The majority of Israel will be divinely protected, and you will become nothing more than a big hole in the ground. Damascus, Syria? Yeah, buh-bye. Read all about it HERE.

FREAKY. And fascinating medical breakthrough

Truly amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxhi4Q8EDTU

HURRAH! Good news for once

THANK GOODNESS THIS HAS BEEN AXED!!!

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-transtexas_07met.ART0.State.Edition2.4ab2026.html

http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/01/07/01072009_texas_corrridor.html

NOBAMA WATCH

WOW! Great news from the Obama camp…and quite a surprise:

http://christianpost.com/article/20081218/obama-invites-rick-warren-to-pray-at-inauguration.htm

OF COURSE this news ruffled some feathers. Expect heckling!

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16693.html

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/12/17/rick-warren-to-give-invocation-at-obamas-inauguration/

Obama faces heady challenges, and they're growing

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081213/ap_on_el_pr/obama_mounting_challenges;_ylt=AhIWIJoMLiUuobj5ftg1BbGGWo14

NATIONAL NEWS

Part of me thinks: Why can't we have something similar here in the US?

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=302729

However…remember when 'Imademonjob' was here in the the states speaking at Columbia in NY and getting thunderous applause to his speech? This is the same guy who runs a country who does this to its people (caution: graphic!)

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11274175.html

The media doesn't "get" religion

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/502813.aspx

Hmm…does this mean the whole theory is crumbling?

http://businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081218205953.aspx

You can add me to the status on this – I've now been unemployed for over 6 months!

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/the_new_standard_of_living_sta.html

ISLAM / TERRORISM WATCH

I'm surprised this guy didn't get executed for trying to injure a head of state! They execute for lots less in Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RFH7C3vkK4

seriously, you take your life into your hands if you do something like that over in Iraq! http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/arabs_if_the_shoe_fits.html

and the women who love them:

http://www.mererhetoric.com/archives/11275213.html

I swear they just make this stuff up, nevermind what's in the Koran.

http://israelmatzav.blogspot.com/2008/10/male-urine-less-impure-than-female.html

http://www.weaselzippers.net/blog/2008/11/algeria-sex-with-daughters-in-law-divinely-ordained-in-islam.html "Ayas 5.101/102 says : "Don’t ask questions. You lose faith by asking questions". "When you lose faith you become apostate and Allah calls for beheading of renegades even before infidels"…Moral of the above fill in the blanks Quranic story : Your brain is like your donkey , and Islam is like a mosque. You can ride your donkey any where you want, but when you enter the mosque you have to leave the donkey at the gate.

http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/nov/10pak-taliban-kill-married-woman-for-adultery.htm

The Islamic "narcissistic trilogy." I'll buy that.

http://shrinkwrapped.blogs.com/blog/2008/12/of-shoes-and-rage.html

Little Mosque on the Prairie? This line from the article says quite a lot: "But some Muslim commentators have denounced the shows premises, from the strong presence of women ("The fact that the women were sitting so close to the men is an abomination", writes one blog commenter). Oh please, GET OVER YOURSELF.

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/how_canadas_little_mosque_on_t.html

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

Fascinating technology!

http://www.abc4.com/content/news/slc/story/New-device-prevents-teenagers-from-talking-and/0mKtikbcPUW6BnzHgeiDcA.cspx

Again I ask: is this even legal?!

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,465985,00.html

'ONE WORLD EVERYTHING' WATCH

The clamor for a one-world government to bring order, even at the expense of liberty, may be too strong for some politicians to resist:

http://www.worldmag.com/webextra/14780

24 THINGS ABOUT TO BECOME EXTINCT IN AMERICA

This was emailed to me and it was so intriguing, I was compelled to blog about it. Many items on this list seem small(ish) on their own, but together they are just another step toward our exponentially growing dependence on technology, which may one day become our very downfall. When it all collapses, whether by a terrorist's EMP (electromagnetic pulse) explosion, or by some super hi-tech 'bug' that infiltrates anything that interfaces with a computer, our nation, and our world, will become so helpless and disconnected, that we will welcome the Antichrist with open arms! (that's one scenario anyway) 24 THINGS ABOUT TO BECOME EXTINCT IN AMERICA:

24. Yellow Pages (and/or phone books in general) This year will be pivotal for the global Yellow Pages industry. Much like newspapers, print Yellow Pages will continue to bleed dollars to their various digital counterparts, from Internet Yellow Pages (IYPs), to local search engines and combination search/listing services like Reach Local and Yodle Factors like an acceleration of the print 'fade rate' and the looming recession will contribute to the onslaught. One research firm predicts the falloff in usage of newspapers and print Yellow Pages could even reach 10% this year -- much higher than the 2%-3% fade rate seen in past years.

23. Classified Ads The Internet has made so many things obsolete that newspaper classified ads might sound like just another trivial item on a long list. But this is one of those harbingers of the future that could signal the end of civilization as we know it. The argument is that if newspaper classifieds are replaced by free online listings at sites like Craigslist.org and Google Base, then newspapers are not far behind them.

22. Movie Rental Stores While Netflix is looking up at the moment, Blockbuster keeps closing store locations by the hundreds. It still has about 6,000 left across the world, but those keep dwindling and the stock is down considerably in 2008, especially since the company gave up a quest of Circuit City. Movie Gallery, which owned the Hollywood Video brand, closed up shop earlier this year. Countless small video chains and mom-and-pop stores have given up the ghost already.

21. Dial-up Internet Access Dial-up connections have fallen from 40% in 2001 to 10% in 2008. The combination of an infrastructure to accommodate affordable high speed Internet connections and the disappearing home phone have all but pounded the final nail in the coffin of dial-up Internet access.

20. Phone Landlines According to a survey from the National Center for Health Statistics, at the end of 2007, nearly one in six homes was cell-only and, of those homes that had landlines, one in eight only received calls on their cells.

19. Chesapeake Bay Blue Crabs Maryland's icon, the blue crab, has been fading away in Chesapeake Bay. Last year Maryland saw the lowest harvest (22 million pounds) since 1945. Just four decades ago the bay produced 96 million pounds. The population is down 70% since 1990, when they first did a formal count. There are only about 120 million crabs in the bay and they think they need 200 million for a sustainable population. Over-fishing, pollution, invasive species and global warming get the blame.

18. VCRs For the better part of three decades, the VCR was a best-seller and staple in every American household until being completely decimated by the DVD, and now the Digital Video Recorder (DVR). In fact, the only remnants of the VHS age at your local Wal-Mart or Radio Shack are blank VHS tapes these days. Pre-recorded VHS tapes are largely gone and VHS decks are practically nowhere to be found. They served us so well.

17. Ash Trees In the late 1990s, a pretty, iridescent green species of beetle, now known as the emerald ash borer, hitched a ride to North America with ash wood products imported from eastern Asia. In less than a decade, its larvae have killed millions of trees in the Midwest, and continue to spread. They've killed more than 30 million ash trees in southeastern Michigan alone, with tens of millions more lost in Ohio and Indiana. More than 7.5 billion ash trees are currently at risk.

16. Ham Radio Amateur radio operators enjoy personal (and often worldwide) wireless communications with each other and are able to support their communities with emergency and disaster communications if necessary, while increasing their personal knowledge of electronics and radio theory. However, proliferation of the Internet and its popularity among youth has caused the decline of amateur radio. In the past five years alone, the number of people holding active ham radio licenses has dropped by 50,000, even though Morse Code is no longer a requirement.

15. The Swimming Hole Thanks to our litigious society, swimming holes are becoming a thing of the past. '20/20' reports that swimming hole owners, like Robert Every in High Falls, NY, are shutting them down out of worry that if someone gets hurt they'll sue. And that's exactly what happened in Seattle. The city of Bellingham was sued by Katie Hofstetter who was paralyzed in a fall at a popular swimming hole in Whatcom Falls Park. As injuries occur and lawsuits follow, expect more swimming holes to post 'Keep out!' signs.

14. Answering Machines The increasing disappearance of answering machines is directly tied to No 20 our list -- the decline of landlines. According to USA Today, the number of homes that only use cell phones jumped 159% between 2004 and 2007. It has been particularly bad in New York; since 2000, landline usage has dropped 55%. It's logical that as cell phones rise, many of them replacing traditional landlines, that there will be fewer answering machines.

13. Cameras That Use Film It doesn't require a statistician to prove the rapid disappearance of the film camera in America. Just look to companies like Nikon, the professional's choice for quality camera equipment. In 2006, it announced that it would stop making film cameras, pointing to the shrinking market -- only 3% of its sales in 2005, compared to 75% of sales from digital cameras and equipment.

12. Incandescent Bulbs Before a few years ago, the standard 60-watt (or, yikes, 100-watt) bulb was the mainstay of every U.S. home. With the green movement and all-things-sustainable-energy crowd, the Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL) is largely replacing the older, Edison-era incandescent bulb. The EPA reports that 2007 sales for Energy Star CFLs nearly doubled from 2006, and these sales accounted for approximately 20 percent of the U.S. light bulb market. And according to USA Today, a new energy bill plans to phase out incandescent bulbs in the next four to 12 years.

11. Stand-Alone Bowling Alleys www.BowlingBalls.us claims there are still 60 million Americans who bowl at least once a year, but many are not bowling in stand-alone bowling alleys. Today most new bowling alleys are part of facilities for all types or recreation including laser tag, go-karts, bumper cars, video game arcades, climbing walls and glow miniature golf. Bowling lanes also have been added to many non-traditional venues such as adult communities, hotels and resorts, and gambling casinos.

10. The Milkman According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, in 1950, over half of the milk delivered was to the home in quart bottles, by 1963, it was about a third and by 2001, it represented only 0.4% percent. Nowadays most milk is sold through supermarkets in gallon jugs. The steady decline in home-delivered milk is blamed, of course, on the rise of the supermarket, better home refrigeration and longer-lasting milk. Although some milkmen still make the rounds in pockets of the U.S., they are certainly a dying breed.

9. Hand-Written Letters In 2006, the Radicati Group estimated that, worldwide, 183 billion e-mails were sent each day. Two million each second. By November of 2007, an estimated 3.3 billion Earthlings owned cell phones, and 80% of the world's population had access to cell phone coverage. In 2004, half-a-trillion text messages were sent, and the number has no doubt increased exponentially since then. So where amongst this gorge of gabble is there room for the elegant, polite hand-written letter?

8. Wild Horses It is estimated that 100 years ago, as many as two million horses were roaming free within the United States. In 2001, National Geographic News estimated that the wild horse population had decreased to about 50,000 head. Currently, the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory board states that there are 32,000 free roaming horses in ten Western states, with half of them residing in Nevada. The Bureau of Land Management is seeking to reduce the total number of free range horses to 27,000, possibly by selective euthanasia.

7. Personal Checks According to an American Bankers Assoc. report, a net 23% of consumers plan to decrease their use of checks over the next two years, while a net 14% plan to increase their use of PIN debit. Bill payment remains the last stronghold of paper-based payments -- for the time being. Checks continue to be the most commonly used bill payment method, with 71% of consumers paying at least one recurring bill per month by writing a check. However, on a bill-by-bill basis, checks account for only 49% of consumers' recurring bill payments (down from 72% in 2001 and 60% in 2003).

6. Drive-in Theaters During the peak in 1958, there were more than 4,000 drive-in theaters in this country, but in 2007 only 405 drive-ins were still operating. Exactly zero new drive-ins have been built since 2005. Only one reopened in 2005 and five reopened in 2006, so there isn't much of a movement toward reviving the closed ones.

5. Mumps & Measles Despite what's been in the news lately, the measles and mumps actually, truly are disappearing from the United States. In 1964, 212,000 cases of mumps were reported in the U.S. By 1983, this figure had dropped to 3,000, thanks to a vigorous vaccination program. Prior to the introduction of the measles vaccine, approximately half a million cases of measles were reported in the U.S. annually, resulting in 450 deaths. In 2005, only 66 cases were recorded.

4. Honey Bees Perhaps nothing on our list of disappearing America is so dire; plummeting so enormously; and so necessary to the survival of our food supply as the honey bee. Very scary. 'Colony Collapse Disorder,' or CCD, has spread throughout the U.S. and Europe over the past few years, wiping out 50% to 90% of the colonies of many beekeepers -- and along with it, their livelihood.

3. News Magazines and TV News While the TV evening newscasts haven't gone anywhere over the last several decades, their audiences have. In 1984, in a story about the diminishing returns of the evening news, the New York Times reported that all three network evening-news programs combined had only 40.9 million viewers. Fast forward to 2008, and what they have today is half that.

2. Analog TV According to the Consumer Electronics Association, 85% of homes in the U.S. get their television programming through cable or satellite providers. For the remaining 15% -- or 13 million individuals -- who are using rabbit ears or a large outdoor antenna to get their local stations, change is in the air. If you are one of these people you'll need to get a new TV or a converter box in order to get the new stations which will only be broadcast in digital.

1. The Family Farm Since the 1930s, the number of family farms has been declining rapidly. According to the USDA, 5.3 million farms dotted the nation in 1950, but this number had declined to 2.1 million by the 2003 farm census (data from the 2007 census hasn't yet been published). Ninety-one percent of the U.S. farms are small family farms.

NATIONAL NEWS

Oh GEORGE! Shame on you!

http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/498658.aspx

OUR TAX DOLLARS help pay these salaries!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/12/12/those-soft-voiced-anchors-npr-make-big-bucks

After working for a time in radio myself, and becoming equally jaded, this comment pretty much says it all:

Elitest Hypocrites!

I worked in public radio, but when I did, it was for free as a volunteer to get experience in the business. Then when I went to work in the real world (which NPR people don't live in) I never made more than $6.00 an hour in the field, in either the commercial end or the public end. And as a result, the business that is in my blood has left me with a very bitter impression that makes me permanently refuse to even reconsider going back into it!

Resigned....as he should!

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2008/12/12/evangelical-spokesman-resigns-after-telling-npr-gay-marriage-abortion-ar

It's interesting how back during our country's founding years, the Bible was required reading, and the ruling government at the time actually distributed Bibles in schools! And now we have this:

http://christianpost.com/article/20081212/court-to-decide-on-bible-distribution-at-public-schools.htm

Southern US hit by rare snowfall--oooh it's global warming!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7780562.stm

LATEST NEWS

OBAMA WATCH

Obama's Senate seat up for sale?

http://spectator.org/blog/2008/12/09/illinois-governor-and-obama-al

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/10/AR2008121001677.html

What the heck?! Is this even legal?

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40376

NATIONAL NEWS

More on the Saxby Chamblis win in Georgia

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/12/saxbys_win_08s_most_intellectu.html

Seriously?!? This is taking things way too far

http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/480701.aspx

But hark—a rebuttal!

http://christianpost.com/article/20081206/pro-god-christmas-ads-take-on-atheist-bus-campaign.htm

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

This is what will happen then DNA samples are collected – someone, somehow, somewhere, will corrupt the proper use of anything that first starts out as a "good thing"

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20081204/tc_nm/us_britain_dna_us_1

Somalia is close to 'total famine'

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7764937.stm

China-Europe Row Deepens

http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=40349

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

By 'cleaning up its act', does this mean that eventually YouTube (since its own by lefties Google) will also try to squelch and challenge anything of a 'religious' nature that they deem inappropriate? Look for it to definitely happen eventually.

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2008/12/04/youtube-tries-clean-its-act

ON THE VERGE OF COLLAPSE!

Seems like everyone and everything is on the verge of collapsing around the world—and of course, everyone's looking for a BAILOUT. If this doesn't smack you upside the head to tell you that we are indeed living in the End Times, I don't know what will.

RUSSIA:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20081124/118512713.html

http://rightwingnews.com/mt331/2008/11/foreign_affairs_follies_is_rus.php?comments=show

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20081107/118194479.html

ICELAND:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/iceland.creditcrunch

BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China)

http://www.nni.nikkei.co.jp/FR/TNKS/Nni20080827D27VS742.htm

INDIA'S Security:

http://www.financialexpress.com/news/Security-system-on-verge-of-collapse-BJP/393348/

ITALY:

http://en.epochtimes.com/n2/world/italy-bankrupt-8187.html