WMail #67: "The Distinction POWER"

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the topic of the last issue was "Cooling The Planet", and the February issue will be on the topic "The Distinction LOYALTY"

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Calling All Patriots!

Patriots despise George W. Bush because he has shredded the Constitution. Your children and grandchaildren are no longer free, and I don't mean because of the skyrocketing National Debt. America ceased to be a democracy (or even a republic) on the day that G.W.B. became the President. The United States of America is run by an insane, neo-fascist cabal and this former bastion of Freedom has morphed into a non-benevolent dictatorship.

http://www.boycottW9.org

WAR NEWS: Iraq oil give-away

The Iraq oil fields are now producing at 55% of pre-invasion levels. Meanwhile, U.S. & British oil companies are pushing legislation thru the Iraq parliament that gives them a tax-free, no-bid, 30-year irrevocable deal to exploit the Iraq oil fields.

Mission accomplished !!

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2132574.ece

Solution To Local Gang Problem

Valencia County News-Bulletin
Saturday 30 December 2006
Opinion / Letters [page 5A]

Churches must take a stand against gangs
The crime rate in Valencia County is the result of widespread tolerance of the gang ethos. There is not one clergyperson in the county, for example, who has taken a real stand against gang members (beyond verbal tsk-tsk-ing).

Virtually all the churches here are Bible-based, and the First Commandment states that no one shall have any allegiance higher than the Judeo-Christian God. Allegiance to a gang is in conflict with the First Commandment.

When the pastors and priests of Valencia County enforce a policy that no one holding allegiance to any gang can participate in, say, communion or confession, then the gang problem will be gone.

Gary E. Nordell
Belén, New Mexico