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Local news for Berlin, GA continually updated from thousands of sources on the web.
- Your Agenda
The Berlin VFD is hosting a benefit supper/sing for six cancer patients and one patient with a disabling injury.
- updates: Local Deaths
Deaths reported to The Moultrie Observer on Friday, Nov. 21, 2008, include Bertie Mae McCall Rogers, 70, of Ashland, Ala; Michael Frank Conway, 66, of Berlin; Jessie E. Watson, 81, of Warner Robins, Ga.; and ...
- Bridwell growing into firefighter gear
A first-responder class is a great place to learn the serious business of saving lives, but for one Colquitt County teen it was also a venue for finding a future husband.
- A book that takes you back in simpler times
'More Simpler Times' is the sequel to Dr. Charles Williams ' first book, 'Simpler Times', and is a collection of stories about growing up in South Georgia in the 1940s during the time when life was less ...
- Argument leads to broken bones
A Moultrie woman reported she was pushed out of a truck and possibly dragged during an argument Sunday morning.
- Man charged with DUI in wheelchair
A Moultrie man was apprehended after he was allegedly driving a motorized wheelchair scooter at Colquitt County High School Sept.
- Moultrian dies in Berlin crash
A Moultrie man was killed early Wednesday morning as he drove around Berlin. The Georgia State Patrol said Guy Fowler, 79, of Moultrie, was driving a Dodge Ram 1500 truck on Southerland Avenue in Berlin at 6:06 ...
- Moultrie man dies in car accident
A 79-year old Moultrie man was killed in a car crash Wednesday morning. It happened around 6am in Berlin just outside of Moultrie.
- Minor fire at Moultrie Manufacturing
A machine at a Moultrie plant caught on fire Monday afternoon. The fire, however, did not cause any significant damage.
- Reddick announces honorees
Vice President and Dean of Academic Affairs Niles Reddick has announced the names of 192 students who have been selected for the Distinguished Achievement List for the 2008 summer term at Abraham Baldwin ...
- Car fire may be arson
Officers responded to a car fire early Saturday morning that was believed to have been deliberately set.
- Two fires reported; one may be arson
Colquitt County volunteer firefighters were called to two separate house fires over the weekend.
- update
However, numerous trees have been blown down and some property damage has resulted.
- Berlin festival to include pageant
After a hiatus of five years, the Berlin Cotton Festival made its reappearance last October and this year it will expand its festivities to include the Miss Cotton Pageant.
- 4 escape mobile home blaze
A mobile home on Highway 133 South near Spence Field was destroyed by a fire Tuesday afternoon but its four occupants escaped without injury.
- Berlin plans Safety Night Saturday
There will be a Kids Safety Night in Berlin on Saturday, Aug. 2, from 6 to 9 p.m. in the park behind Berlin City Hall and the police department.
- City, county record 48 arrests
At least 49 people were arrested over the holiday weekend and the week prior in Moultrie and Colquitt County on a wide variety of charges, ranging from possession of illegal drugs to family violence.
- Fire destroys mobile home, family safe
A mobile home was destroyed when a fire ignited Wednesday morning. Volunteer firefighters from the Culbertson, Berlin and Southside Volunteer Fire Departments were called to the mobile home on Stiner Road about ...
- Three face robbery charges
Three men were charged with robberies related to two separate incidents over the weekend - just a part of lengthy crime report.
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City DescriptionBerlin is a town in Colquitt County, Georgia, United States. The population was 595 at the 2000 census.
Berlin is located at 31°4′3″N, 83°37′25″W (31.067405, -83.623649).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (1.9 km²), all of it land.
As of the census of 2000, there were 595 people, 196 households, and 145 families residing in the town. The population density was 794.7 people per square mile (306.3/km²). There were 249 housing units at an average density of 332.6/sq mi (128.2/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 64.87% White, 11.93% African American, 1.68% Asian, 19.66% from other races, and 1.85% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 24.87% of the population.
There were 196 households out of which 40.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 57.7% were married couples living together, 13.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.0% were non-families. 20.4% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.84 and the average family size was 3.25.
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Would the world be reacting differently if USA had invaded Georgia instead of Russia?
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Would there be "human shields" and "peace" marches in Berlin and San Francisco if the USA had invaded Georgia instead of Russia? I can remember many years ago when Russia invaded Hungary. The Left, which was radically opposed to the USA in Korea, barely made a peep. The NY Times won awards for glowing reports of how "happy" the Hungarians were to be ruled by communist Russia.
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Obama's speech in Berlin was called arrogant, so what is jumping ahead of the POTUS and setting policy?
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McCain has sent an envoy to Georgia and spoke on the subject to the USA saying that sending the military would not be necessary BEFORE the actual President said anything. If Obama's speech was presumptuous then what is McCain,or is this just another double standard.
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Obama made exactly one statement on Georgia and is supporting Bush.
McCain has insisted on talking about it every day and is talking to the Prime Minister every day, as if he's already the President. His key foreign policy adviser was also a lobbyist for Georgia.
Sending envoys over there is beyond presumptuous.
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Why Saakashvilli is being described as democratic president?
Question:
During the president elections in Jan 2008:
1. His main opponent Okruashvili was prisoned in Berlin.
2. Independent TV channel (Imedi) was closed and the owner of this channel died in London under uncleared circumstances.
His military expenses are reaching now 15.9 % of GDP of Georgia (worlds 2nd largest after N.Korea)
He doesn't hesitate to use canons and rocket launch systems to destroy a city.
What exactly is so democratic in this man? Just wonder.
Answer:
he is our SOB.
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What exactly has Russia ever contributed to the world?
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I mean, apart from supporting evil communist regimes like Cuba, N. Korea and attacking and killing innocent ppl in Afghanistan, Chechnya, Georgia, ethnic cleaning...,Chernobyl disaster, setting Berlin wall, promoting cold war and nuclear warheads, killing dissidents with plutonium, etc…
As a rich and so-called superpower (!), what has the KGB gov. ever done like promoting freedom, liberty in the world or fighting poverty, hunger, AIDS…?
And If I'm not enough educated on Russia please enlighten me,
thank you.
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Death and destruction...oh wait, you already covered that one.
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Georgia vs Russia, where did u guys get your facts, Nickelodeon or Baby First channel? Totally stupid answers?
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One misinformed complained about Russia invading Germany and Poland, Poland was invaded by Russians pushing back Hitler's Germany, and they kept going until Berlin, and, they did that by land, using more man than guns, its fact that they would go to war with one gun for every two or three soldiers, they would pick up the gun when the first soldier died, that's a brave warrior defending his land, not an idiot calling for air support every time someone shoots at him.
The French helped the US against the British because they hated the British is other nice one, they probably hated the British is true, but they were and are a very informed and developed people, they don't go in or out of wars just because they love or hate people, they go for their interest and agenda.
This question is directed to the answers to"Georgia vs. Russia Should the U.S. intervene?":
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080808083635AACC6 1T
>>>and the answer with the two web sites jon taplin's blog and global research relate my problem with the air strikes, soldiers calling 4 air strikes to take 1 man in a village .. "Using the 105 Millimeter Howitzer from 10,000 feet to blow up a town while seeking one man, is a classic example of mismatched firepower. It is almost as stupid as using F-18 Strike fighters in Counterterrorism operations. Now that the Army is finally admitting they may have killed a lot of civilians, perhaps we can begin to recalibrate our fighting strategy in Afghanistan. If our soldiers believe they can call in airstrikes whenever they are under attack, with no regard to collateral damage, we will never win the hearts and minds of the Afghani people."
Answer:
What's your point? If you want to get the real truth and the real news, check out these websites:
www.jtaplin.wordpress.com
www.globalresearch.ca
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Are Gerhard Schröder and Frank-Walter Steinmeier Russia's "fifth column" in Germany?
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The whole SDP seems so, doesn't it?
I mean, with Schröder on Gazprom's Board of Executives, and both him and Steinmeier basically vetoed EU sanctions on Russia (which the vast majority of EU members wanted) for the invasion of Georgia...
I bet if Russian tanks were in Berlin again, those two would be the first to hoist Vladimir Putin's photos up everywhere!
Answer:
Well first of all: Gerhard Schroeder is the former leader of Germany - and yes he works for Gazprom. No major country in Europe asked for sanctions since sanctions never work. The US fails in Cuba - we all fail in Iran. So we need to talk seriously.
By the way: Gerhards SChroeders government was right on the war against Iraq. Russia and the world would take the US more seriously - without our invasion of Iraq. What has the US done so far in Georgia?
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What do u think of my Research?
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I know it's too long but plz read it if u can and tell me what do u think of it and how much do u rate it from 1 - 100?
Thank you so so MUCH!!
The American Educational Reform in the 1800s
American reform movements in the early to mid 1800's strived at improving our developing society. America was growing larger, and with the expanding population, many new ideas sprang up. Conflicting opinions between the people of the United States caused the emergence of an Age of Reform, where people tried to change things such as the educational system and women rights. These movements were the result of our nation's self-determination and interest in improving the society we live in. Education is really important to every country and every civilization and it's noticeable that "Education is the transmission of civilization." (Ariel and Will Durant, The Lessons of History, 1968) Education reform means to make education better by removing faults and defects. True educators are always thinking of more effective ways to enhance and democratize the way children learn. With the continuous change of growing population, economics, culture, family, and global communication, there has to be continuous educational reforms to keep the society abreast with these changes.
Home education was so common in America that most children knew how to read before they entered school. As Ralph Walker has pointed out, "Children were often taught to read at home before they were subjected to the rigours of school. In middle-class families, where the mother would be expected to be literate, this was considered part of her duties." (Ralph Walker, Old Readers: In Early American Life, October, 1980, p. 54.) In the early 1800’s education in America grew and developed rapidly, largely because of the works of three very important men: Noah Webster, William McGuffey, and Horace Mann. These three men were catalysts for the growth of education throughout the nineteenth century, and without them the large strides America took during this time would not have occurred. These great men all shared one goal: to educate the youth of America as well as possible.
The first American schools opened during the colonial era. As the colonies began to develop, many began to institute mandatory education schemes. In 1642 the Massachusetts Bay Colony made "proper" education compulsory. Similar statutes were adopted in other colonies in the 1640s and 1650s. Virtually all of the schools opened as a result were private. The nation's first institution of higher learning was Harvard University, opened in 1636. Most of the universities which opened between 1640 and 1750 form the contemporary Ivy League, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Brown, the University of Pennsylvania, and several others. After the American Revolution, the new national government passed the Land Ordinance of 1785, which set aside a portion of every township in the unincorporated territories of the United States for use in education.
Public education in Massachusetts began when Horace Mann left his post as Senate president and became Secretary of the Massachusetts Board of Education in 1837. Mann did many things, but his main legacy was to convince people that public education was a public good that should be publicly funded. As a result, Massachusetts had the first system of public schools in the country. By 1860 the fruits of these efforts were impressive. The states were generally committed to providing free elementary education. For students who wished more than a grammar school education, there were 300 public high schools in the whole country, and almost 100 of these were in massachusetts. There were also about 6000 private academies, many of which charged only a small tuition to poor children. Colleges and universities were still small, few had over 100 students and ill equipped, but their numbers had increased since colonial times. Just as every instant city needed a newspaper and hotel, so it needed what was called a college. Julian Sturtevant, founder of Illinios College in 1830, said, "It was generally believed that one of the surest ways to promote the growth of a young city was to make it the seat of a college." (A History of the United States, p. 281) So before the Civil War 516 colleges were founded, many were little better and the private academies, but only 104 survived to the 1900s.
The Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890 provided federal financial support to state universities. Many land-grant colleges and state universities were established through gifts of federal land to the states for the support of higher education. Financial support was extended to the universities and this in turn led to increased research. The Morrill Land-Grant Act of 1862 sparked the growth of state institutions offering curricula in agriculture and the mechanical arts. The act created a variety of institutional arrangements such as A & M colleges, and even allowed some private colleges to provide the new curriculum.
Women have been equally discriminated against in American schools. Even in coeducational schools, practically no encouragement was given to the girls. For countless centuries, the role of the American female was in the home. Domestic responsibilities such as devoting time for the home, preparing meals, and caring for the family rested in the hands of females. Mothers taught their daughters' responsibilities in the home to prepare them for their future. In colonial days girls were taught the household arts but were not expected to learn to read and write. People thought that "book learning" would put an undue stress on their delicate minds and bodies. Progress came slowly and step by step.
Women's education and career options, especially for the middle and upper classes, were aided by the founding of academies and seminaries for girls. In Massachusetts girls began to attend summer sessions of the public grammar schools in the late 1700s. "In 1821, Emma Willard established the Troy Female Seminary in New York, the first endowed educational institution for women in the United States." (Education, p, 3) In 1823, Catharine Beecher opened the Hartford Female Seminary and later founded seminaries in Cincinnati and Milwaukee. In 1837, Mary Lyon established the Mount Holyoke Seminary with a curriculum that emphasized domesticity, piety, and teaching. Mount Holyoke enrolled girls from both wealthy and poor families; it was the first institution to challenge class discrimination. By 1840 the efforts of reformers where showing results, and nearly all New England women could read and write.
Finally in 1836 (200 years after Harvard College was founded for men) Wesleyan College in Georgia was chartered as the first college for woman. As years rolled by "women protested that they too should have a right to learn and that it is unfair that men could go to college and they can't." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3) A new status for woman was "their opportunity for an adequated education and the right to speak out in public, would mean a richer life for all." (History of the United State, p.284) The rights of women seemed essential to a better America. "The brave reforming women that helped in education are our founding mothers of women education today." (Westward Expantion 1800-1880, Article, Pg 3)
Because of racial discrimination, African Americans not only struggled to acquire an education but had to combat stereotypes concerning what type of education was most suitable for them. The 1800s witnessed important changes in their education. The education of blacks remained very low until President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. The Civil War and Reconstruction period had a profound effect on the education of blacks in the South. The Thirteenth Amendment ended slavery and the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments granted equal rights to freed slaves. Many sought to take advantage of their new freedoms, especially the opportunity to acquire an education. The reconstruction era witnessed major advances in segregated education for African Americans. Before the Civil War, education for blacks was practically non-existent in the South, and several southern states had laws against teaching slaves to read and write. Schools in the North were segregated. African American ingenuity and perseverance produced some notable exceptions. For instance, Milla Granson of Natchez, Mississippi, a slave who had learned to read and write from her master's children, operated a school late at night when her master slept and slaves had finished working in the fields.
During the Civil War, both African American and white teachers began the arduous but rewarding task of educating southern blacks. Indeed, freedmen's education began in army camps. Many brave teachers such as "Mary S. Peake began teaching freed slaves at a Fort Virginia School in 1861. Susie King Taylor, a former slave who learned to read and write, taught black soldiers in the army." (African Americans: Freed People, p. 5) After the war, some white northern women used their education by moving south to teach the freed slaves. Laura Town was the first to do so; in 1862, she established the Penn School on the South Carolina Sea Islands, which she ran for forty years. The African American educator Charlotte Forten Grimke joined her. In her diary, Forten remarked "I never before saw children so eager to learn." Such was the case with most black children throughout the South. The number of black teachers increased as more African Americans became educated.
The literacy rate was around 5% in the 1860s rose to 40% in 1890, but when many wealthy American men and woman, mostly from the North gave millions of dollars to help educate black people, the literacy rate by 1910 was at 70%. John D. Rockefeller an American industrialist and philanthropist, for example, "had contributed over $50 million, most of it to train more teachers for black schools." (History of the United States, p. 449) The South spent less money than other parts of the country on education of all kinds. And blacks there had to attend separate and inferior schools. But many black leaders did not agree about this situation. In 1881, an American educator, author and leader of the African American community, Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. There he trained thousands of blacks to be better farmers and mechanics, to make a good living, and to help build their communities. He did not want blacks to spend their efforts learning history, literature, foreign languages, science, and mathematics. Instead, he said that they should train quickly for jobs, and mostly for jobs they could do with their hands.
Many who admired Booker T. Washington still did not agree with him because they did not want to wait for their rights. Twenty five years after Washington started his Tuskegee Institute in Alabama, a group met at Niagara Falls. Their black leader was W. E. B. Du Bois. He was born in Massachusetts after the Civil War, he studied at the University of Berlin in Germany and then received a Ph.D.degree from Harvard University in 1895. "He was the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard, was a professor at AtlantaUniversity and the leading black intellectual of his time." (Evitts,William. The Niagara Movement, p. 1) In 1905 the declaration by Du Bois's Niagara Movement expressed outrage. It demanded for blacks all their human rights, all their rights as Americans, and at once. It opposed all laws and all customs that treated blacks as if they were different from other people. And of course, it demanded the right to vote.
As the United States entered the twentieth century, it had adopted a framework of publicly supported elementary and secondary schools and had seen a significant increase in the number of colleges and universities nationwide. The advancement in technology and learning methods has brought about a lot of change for the better in the public education. The American public school has always been looked upon as a system that inculcates the ideals of equality and freedom in the individual. It has changed historically according to the upheavals in the society.
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I liked it, very thorough and systematic. 101
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What are some artists with a place in their name.
Question:
For Example:
Boston
Kansas
Atlanta Rhythm Section
Georgia Satellites
Ohio Players
Chicago
Louisiana Le Roux (did a song called New Orleans Ladies)
Berlin
Bering Strait (Country Band)
Asia
Europe
Ozark Mountain Daredevils
Alabama
Black Oak Arkansas
I forgot the New York Dolls
Answer:
The Oak Ridge Boys
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25 questions?
Question:
1: Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Harry Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
2: Who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain"?
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Joseph McCarthy
3: Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 because:
American nuclear bombers were based there
He wanted to force Westerners out of the city
The Berlin Wall was being built
He was unhappy with the results of the Nuremburg Trial
4: Americans persuaded Western Europe to be democratic by:
Giving cheap holidays to Disneyland
Opening up McDonald's restaurants
Creating rock and Roll music
Giving money via the Marshall Plan
5: The Berlin Airlift was a response to:
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
The unusually severe winter of 1947
The construction of the Berlin Wall
Wartime destruction of roads into West Berlin
6: The Marshall Plan was:
A strategy for defeating North Korea
A strategy for defeating communist China
An American economic aid program for Europe
A civil-defense plan for surviving a Soviet nuclear strike
7: The Soviet Union responded to the formation of NATO by:
Blockading West Berlin
Forming the Warsaw Pact
Sending advisors to the Organization of American States
Creating the Iron Curtain
8: What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine (a.k.a. Containment)?
The elimination of Communism
Reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II
To prevent the spread of Communism
Assist British colonies in Africa
9: The immediate cause of the US military involvement in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was the:
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Creation of the DMZ along the 38th parallel
Attack by North Korea on South Korea
Acquisition of a nuclear weapon by North Korea
10: The first American troops sent to Korea landed on the shores of
Seoul
Inchon
Pusan
Wonsan
11: Which of the following statements about Korea is TRUE?
Korea was divided in World War II into the Communist North and democratic South
Korea was divided in World War II into the democratic North and the Communist South
North Korea assisted mainland China in the fight against Chiang Kai-shek
South Korea and North Korea were always two separate countries
12: All of the following contributed to Cold War tensions EXCEPT the:
United States airlift of food to the citizens of Berlin
Marshall Plan
Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the US Senate
Establishment of NATO
13: McCarthyism runied the lives of numerous people because they were accused of having links to ________.
The FBI
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Communist Party
The Baby Boomers
14: Why were the Rosenburgs executed?
Espionage
Kidnapping
Murder
Terrorism
15: All of the following contributed to the expansion of the American economy in the 1950s EXCEPT:
The Baby Boom
Suburban growth
The end of the Korean War
Increased industrial growth
16: Who was NOT a musical artist from the 1950s?
John Lennon
The Big Bopper
Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
17: Which of the following was NOT a television show broadcast in the 1950s?
The Howdy Doody Show
I Love Lucy
M*A*S*H*
Gunsmoke
18: What was the name of the influential book written by Betty Freidan based on her experiences in the 1950s?
Peyton Place
On The Road
Happy Days
The Feminine Mystique
19: All of the following occurred during Eisenhower's two terms in office EXCEPT:
The continuation of the Korean War
NASA was created
Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union as the 49th and 50th states
The government sent troops to assist the Little Rock Nine
20: Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city busses. Where did this occur?
Memphis, Tennessee
Mobile, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Macon, Georgia
21: The decision in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, ____________, ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. United States
22: Known as the _______, these were the teenagers who initially needed military escort to attend their high school classes.
Little Rock Seven
Little Rock Eight
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Ten
23: _____________ was a baptist minister from Atlanta who helped to shape the course of the national Civil Rights Movement beginning in the 1950s.
Mahatmas Gandhi
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesse Jackson
24: Students used ______________ as a method to desegregate lunch counters in more than 200 cities.
Violent protest
Freedom Rides
Sit-ins
Protest marches
25: The ________ Amendment abolished slavery.
13th
14th
15th
16th
Answer:
I am only doing this because some of the answers you were given are wrong. The answers are easy to find on the web, really.
1. A 2. B 3. B 4. D 5. A 6. C 7. B 8. C 9. C 10. C 11. A 12. C 13. C 14. A 15. C 16. A 17. C 18. D 19. A 20. C 21. C 22. C 23. C 24. C 25. A
Some people are giving you the wrong answers, maybe just to teach you a lesson. I prefer you see the correct answers and learn. Please find the time to look these up in your text or on the net.
For instance, number 19. The correct answer is A. It is kind of tricky. The NASA website said NASA started in 1958, B is incorrect. Alaska & Hawaii were admitted in July and August 1959. So C is wrong. Eisenhower sent some of the 101st Airborne to protect the Little Rock Nine, so D is wrong.
Therefore A must be correct. That is semantics. The Korean War did continue for a while, but the key here is it ended during the Eisenhower administration, not continued. So since B,C & D are wrong, A is more correct.
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Isn't this scary????
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Im watching the History Channel, and its about the Cold War. and they said that the Red Army could of took Berlin in Days, and West Germany in Weeks, and they probally could took Rest of Eourpe, Just thinking what they could of done, but they didnt....And happening right now( I mean This YEAR ) Russia invaded Georgia ( not the US )
So I just want to know your thoughts about that.. Both Happening now and Back then about the cold war, and Georgia
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Yeah it is. Then again having Bush in the White House is far more scary. The Russians will stay on their side as they did during the cold war.
Ever since the USSR was dissolved the US has been provoking and disrespecting Russia, undermining their interests and refusing real alliances that were on the table at one point. Early after the cold war Russia wanted to become a member of NATO themselves but Washington soon made it very clear that wasn't an option. Ever since the US kept treating Russia as a second class country and most of all as a competitor and certainly not a friend. That Russia finally had enough of that arrogant American attitude is only logical. In the conflict with Georgia Russia protected Russians after Georgia attacked them. Russia send a clear message their influence is the region will not be marginalized without a fight. Georgia killed 2000 innocent civilians and at least ten Russian peace keepers before the Russians reacted.
http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&t ask=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2042&updaterx=2008-08-12+12%3A32 %3A04
"We Americans consider the Monroe Doctrine – no foreign power is to come into our hemisphere – to be holy writ. Why, then, can we not understand why Russia might react angrily to our interference in her politics or the politics of former Russian republics?
The effect of U.S. expansion of NATO deep into Eastern Europe, U.S. interference in the politics of the former Soviet republics, and U.S. siting of military bases in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia has been to unite Russia and China, and undo the diplomacy of several successive U.S. presidents.
How has this made us more secure?
If we don't want these people in our backyard, what are we doing in theirs? If we don't stop behaving like the British Empire, we will end up like the British Empire. " Pat Buchanan warned in 2006. The Neocon cabal should have payed attention.
http://www.antiwar.com/pat/?articleid=8964
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, Washington has followed a policy of systematically encroaching on former Soviet territory to establish a string of military bases and governments friendly to the US. The purpose of this policy was to undermine the influence of Russia in the energy-rich regions of central Asia, while seeking to divide and weaken Europe.
The consequences of Washington’s intervention in the former Soviet bloc have included the installation of a number of authoritarian regimes which lack any genuine broad popular base such as those of Mikheil Saakashvili in Georgia and Viktor Yushchenko in the Ukraine, as well as the regime in Poland. The most common characteristics of these administrations are rabid anti-communism, national chauvinism, contempt for genuine democratic processes and an unwavering adherence to the precepts of the free market.
Such regimes are inherently unstable, both internally and in relation to their neighbours. Now, the US administration has agreed to install a new weapons system in Poland directed against its biggest neighbour, while at the same time guaranteeing to come to the military assistance of the Polish government when necessary. This is a recipe for new conflict and war. Nothing could more clearly express the utter recklessness of US foreign policy.
Russia’s intervention over the past two decades in the states of the former Soviet Union - as in its brutal war in Chechnya — have been of a reactionary character and should be condemned, but there cannot be the least doubt that the main power intent on establishing new power blocs and spheres of influence in the region is the US.
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Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Question:
Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Harry Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
2: Who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain"?
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Joseph McCarthy
3: Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 because:
American nuclear bombers were based there
He wanted to force Westerners out of the city
The Berlin Wall was being built
He was unhappy with the results of the Nuremburg Trial
4: Americans persuaded Western Europe to be democratic by:
Giving cheap holidays to Disneyland
Opening up McDonald's restaurants
Creating rock and Roll music
Giving money via the Marshall Plan
5: The Berlin Airlift was a response to:
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
The unusually severe winter of 1947
The construction of the Berlin Wall
Wartime destruction of roads into West Berlin
6: The Marshall Plan was:
A strategy for defeating North Korea
A strategy for defeating communist China
An American economic aid program for Europe
A civil-defense plan for surviving a Soviet nuclear strike
7: The Soviet Union responded to the formation of NATO by:
Blockading West Berlin
Forming the Warsaw Pact
Sending advisors to the Organization of American States
Creating the Iron Curtain
8: What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine (a.k.a. Containment)?
The elimination of Communism
Reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II
To prevent the spread of Communism
Assist British colonies in Africa
9: The immediate cause of the US military involvement in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was the:
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Creation of the DMZ along the 38th parallel
Attack by North Korea on South Korea
Acquisition of a nuclear weapon by North Korea
10: The first American troops sent to Korea landed on the shores of
Seoul
Inchon
Pusan
Wonsan
11: Which of the following statements about Korea is TRUE?
Korea was divided in World War II into the Communist North and democratic South
Korea was divided in World War II into the democratic North and the Communist South
North Korea assisted mainland China in the fight against Chiang Kai-shek
South Korea and North Korea were always two separate countries
12: All of the following contributed to Cold War tensions EXCEPT the:
United States airlift of food to the citizens of Berlin
Marshall Plan
Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the US Senate
Establishment of NATO
13: McCarthyism runied the lives of numerous people because they were accused of having links to ________.
The FBI
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Communist Party
The Baby Boomers
14: Why were the Rosenburgs executed?
Espionage
Kidnapping
Murder
Terrorism
15: All of the following contributed to the expansion of the American economy in the 1950s EXCEPT:
The Baby Boom
Suburban growth
The end of the Korean War
Increased industrial growth
16: Who was NOT a musical artist from the 1950s?
John Lennon
The Big Bopper
Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
17: Which of the following was NOT a television show broadcast in the 1950s?
The Howdy Doody Show
I Love Lucy
M*A*S*H*
Gunsmoke
18: What was the name of the influential book written by Betty Freidan based on her experiences in the 1950s?
Peyton Place
On The Road
Happy Days
The Feminine Mystique
19: All of the following occurred during Eisenhower's two terms in office EXCEPT:
The continuation of the Korean War
NASA was created
Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union as the 49th and 50th states
The government sent troops to assist the Little Rock Nine
20: Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city busses. Where did this occur?
Memphis, Tennessee
Mobile, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Macon, Georgia
21: The decision in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, ____________, ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. United States
22: Known as the _______, these were the teenagers who initially needed military escort to attend their high school classes.
Little Rock Seven
Little Rock Eight
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Ten
23: _____________ was a baptist minister from Atlanta who helped to shape the course of the national Civil Rights Movement beginning in the 1950s.
Mahatmas Gandhi
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesse Jackson
24: Students used ______________ as a method to desegregate lunch counters in more than 200 cities.
Violent protest
Freedom Rides
Sit-ins
Protest marches
25: The ________ Amendment abolished slavery.
13th
14th
15th
16th
Answer:
I stopped taking tests about 20 years ago. Sorry.
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history!!!!!?
Question:
1: Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Harry Truman
J. Edgar Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Dwight Eisenhower
2: Who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain"?
Josef Stalin
Winston Churchill
Harry Truman
Joseph McCarthy
3: Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 because:
American nuclear bombers were based there
He wanted to force Westerners out of the city
The Berlin Wall was being built
He was unhappy with the results of the Nuremburg Trial
4: Americans persuaded Western Europe to be democratic by:
Giving cheap holidays to Disneyland
Opening up McDonald's restaurants
Creating rock and Roll music
Giving money via the Marshall Plan
5: The Berlin Airlift was a response to:
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
The unusually severe winter of 1947
The construction of the Berlin Wall
Wartime destruction of roads into West Berlin
6: The Marshall Plan was:
A strategy for defeating North Korea
A strategy for defeating communist China
An American economic aid program for Europe
A civil-defense plan for surviving a Soviet nuclear strike
7: The Soviet Union responded to the formation of NATO by:
Blockading West Berlin
Forming the Warsaw Pact
Sending advisors to the Organization of American States
Creating the Iron Curtain
8: What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine (a.k.a. Containment)?
The elimination of Communism
Reconstruction of Western Europe after World War II
To prevent the spread of Communism
Assist British colonies in Africa
9: The immediate cause of the US military involvement in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was the:
Japanese invasion of Manchuria
Creation of the DMZ along the 38th parallel
Attack by North Korea on South Korea
Acquisition of a nuclear weapon by North Korea
10: The first American troops sent to Korea landed on the shores of
Seoul
Inchon
Pusan
Wonsan
11: Which of the following statements about Korea is TRUE?
Korea was divided in World War II into the Communist North and democratic South
Korea was divided in World War II into the democratic North and the Communist South
North Korea assisted mainland China in the fight against Chiang Kai-shek
South Korea and North Korea were always two separate countries
12: All of the following contributed to Cold War tensions EXCEPT the:
United States airlift of food to the citizens of Berlin
Marshall Plan
Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the US Senate
Establishment of NATO
13: McCarthyism runied the lives of numerous people because they were accused of having links to ________.
The FBI
The House Un-American Activities Committee
The Communist Party
The Baby Boomers
14: Why were the Rosenburgs executed?
Espionage
Kidnapping
Murder
Terrorism
15: All of the following contributed to the expansion of the American economy in the 1950s EXCEPT:
The Baby Boom
Suburban growth
The end of the Korean War
Increased industrial growth
16: Who was NOT a musical artist from the 1950s?
John Lennon
The Big Bopper
Elvis Presley
Buddy Holly
17: Which of the following was NOT a television show broadcast in the 1950s?
The Howdy Doody Show
I Love Lucy
M*A*S*H*
Gunsmoke
18: What was the name of the influential book written by Betty Freidan based on her experiences in the 1950s?
Peyton Place
On The Road
Happy Days
The Feminine Mystique
19: All of the following occurred during Eisenhower's two terms in office EXCEPT:
The continuation of the Korean War
NASA was created
Alaska and Hawaii were admitted into the Union as the 49th and 50th states
The government sent troops to assist the Little Rock Nine
20: Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city busses. Where did this occur?
Memphis, Tennessee
Mobile, Alabama
Montgomery, Alabama
Macon, Georgia
21: The decision in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, ____________, ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
Marbury v. Madison
Brown v. Board of Education
Brown v. United States
22: Known as the _______, these were the teenagers who initially needed military escort to attend their high school classes.
Little Rock Seven
Little Rock Eight
Little Rock Nine
Little Rock Ten
23: _____________ was a baptist minister from Atlanta who helped to shape the course of the national Civil Rights Movement beginning in the 1950s.
Mahatmas Gandhi
Malcolm X
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jesse Jackson
24: Students used ______________ as a method to desegregate lunch counters in more than 200 cities.
Violent protest
Freedom Rides
Sit-ins
Protest marches
25: The ________ Amendment abolished slavery.
13th
14th
15th
16th
Answer:
1: Who made the decision to drop the atomic bombs on Japan?
Harry Truman
2: Who coined the phrase "Iron Curtain"?
Winston Churchill
3: Stalin blockaded West Berlin in 1948 because:
He wanted to force Westerners out of the city
4: Americans persuaded Western Europe to be democratic by:
Giving money via the Marshall Plan
5: The Berlin Airlift was a response to:
The Soviet blockade of West Berlin
6: The Marshall Plan was:
An American economic aid program for Europe
7: The Soviet Union responded to the formation of NATO by:
Forming the Warsaw Pact
8: What was the main goal of the Truman Doctrine (a.k.a. Containment)?
To prevent the spread of Communism
9: The immediate cause of the US military involvement in the Korean peninsula in 1950 was the:
Attack by North Korea on South Korea
10: The first American troops sent to Korea landed on the shores of
Pusan
11: Which of the following statements about Korea is TRUE?
Korea was divided in World War II into the Communist North and democratic South
12: All of the following contributed to Cold War tensions EXCEPT the:
Rejection of the Treaty of Versailles by the US Senate
13: McCarthyism ruined the lives of numerous people because they were accused of having links to ________.
The Communist Party
14: Why were the Rosenburgs executed?
Espionage
15: All of the following contributed to the expansion of the American economy in the 1950s EXCEPT:
The end of the Korean War
16: Who was NOT a musical artist from the 1950s?
John Lennon
17: Which of the following was NOT a television show broadcast in the 1950s?
M*A*S*H*
18: What was the name of the influential book written by Betty Freidan based on her experiences in the 1950s?
The Feminine Mystique
19: All of the following occurred during Eisenhower's two terms in office EXCEPT:
The continuation of the Korean War
20: Rosa Parks' decision not to give up her seat led to a Supreme Court decision outlawing segregation on city busses. Where did this occur?
Montgomery, Alabama
21: The decision in the landmark 1954 Supreme Court case, ____________, ruled that segregation in public schools was illegal.
Brown v. Board of Education
22: Known as the _______, these were the teenagers who initially needed military escort to attend their high school classes.
Little Rock Nine
23: _____________ was a baptist minister from Atlanta who helped to shape the course of the national Civil Rights Movement beginning in the 1950s.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
24: Students used ______________ as a method to desegregate lunch counters in more than 200 cities.
Sit-ins
25: The ________ Amendment abolished slavery.
13th
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sOme facts you might not know..?
Question:
1. Most American car horns honk in the key of F.
2. The name Wendy was made up for the book "Peter Pan."
3. Barbie's full name is Barbara Millicent Roberts.
4. Every time you lick a stamp, you consume 1/10 of a calorie.
5. The average person falls asleep in seven minutes.
6. Studies show that if a cat falls off the seventh floor of a building it has about thirty percent less chance of surviving than a cat that falls off the twentieth floor. It supposedly takes about eight floors for the cat to realize what is occurring, relax and correct itself.
7. Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks otherwise it will digest itself.
8. The citrus soda 7-UP was created in 1929; '7' was selected after the original 7-ounce containers and 'UP' for the direction of the bubbles.
9. 101 Dalmatians, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, and Mulan are the only Disney cartoons where both parents are present and don't die throughout the movie. .
10. A pig's orgasm lasts for 30 minutes.
11. 'Stewardesses' is the longest word that is typed with only the left hand.
12. To escape the grip of a crocodile's jaws, push your thumbs into its eyeballs - it will let you go instantly.
13. Reindeer like to eat bananas.
14. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver and purple.
15. The word "samba" means "to rub navels together."
16. Mel Blanc (the voice of Bugs Bunny) was allergic to carrots.
17. The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
18. The very first bomb dropped by the Allies on Berlin during World War II Killed the only elephant in the Berlin Zoo.
19. More people are killed annually by donkeys than airplane crashes.
20. A 'jiffy' is a unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
When you sneeze, air and particles travel through the nostrils at speeds over100 mph. During this time, all bodily functions stop, including your heart, contributing to the impossibility of keeping one's eyes open during a sneeze.
Annual growth of WWW traffic is 314,000%
%60 of all people using the Internet, use it for pornography.
In 1778, fashionable women of Paris never went out in blustery weather without a lightning rod attached to their hats.
Sex burns 360 calories per hour.
A raisin dropped in a glass of fresh champagne will bounce up and down continually from the bottom of the glass to the top.
Celery has negative calories! It takes more calories to eat a piece of celery than the celery has in it.
The average lead pencil will draw a line 35 miles long or write approximately 50,000 English words. More than 2 billion pencils are manufactured each year in the United States. If these were laid end to end they would circle the world nine times.
The pop you hear when you crack your knuckles is actually a bubble of gas burning.
A literal translation of a standard traffic sign in China: "Give large space to the festive dog that makes sport in the roadway."
You burn more calories sleeping than you do watching TV.
Larry Lewis ran the 100-yard dash in 17.8 seconds in 1969, thereby setting a new world's record for runners in the 100-years-or-older class. He was 101.
In a lifetime the average human produces enough quarts of spit to fill 2 swimming pools.
It's against the law to doze off under a hair dryer in Florida/against the law to slap an old friend on the back in Georgia/against the law to Play hopscotch on a Sunday in Missouri.
Barbie's measurements, if she were life-size, would be 39-29-33.
The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30ft.
One third of all cancers are sun related.
THE MOST UNUSUAL CANNONBALL: On two occasions, Miss 'Rita Thunderbird' remained inside the cannon despite a lot of gunpowder encouragement to do otherwise. She performed in a gold lam� bikini and on one of the two occasions (1977) Miss Thunderbird remained lodged in the cannon, while her bra was shot across the Thames River.
It has been estimated that humans use only 10% of their brain.
Valentine Tapley from Pike County, Missouri grew chin whiskers attaining a length of twelve feet six inches from 1860 until his death 1910, protesting Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency.
star if you like please!
Answer:
The name 'Wendy' wasn't made up for Peter Pan - it was first used as a girl's name in the story, but was rarely used as a boy's name beforehand :)
And actually, the words 'silver' 'orange' and 'purple' all have words that rhyme with them. Others don't. Eg 'hurple', meaning to walk lamely, rhymes with purple.
I starred this, very interesting.
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Evangelicals: Obama's victory is being described as global in proportion. Is this the beginning of the end?
Question:
I'm interested in the perspectives of those who have studied end-time prophecy. (Eschatology) Do you believe there are aspects to this election which may foreshadow some of those prophecies?
Do you have any thoughts about the impact of Obama's religious background which includes both Muslim and Christian roots? He is also bi-racial, bridging gaps between Caucasian and African-Americans (as the outcome of the election proves), and international - with childhood ties to Indonesia, and having family in Kenya today. As one person who was interviewed put it: "[Obama] had an Asian childhood, African parentage and has a Middle Eastern name. He is a truly global president."
Why do you believe people are celebrating his victory on a global scale? Is America truly becoming a "New World" as indicated in this article, and if so, is this the early steps of the New World Order foretold in Revelations?
Note: I am NOT calling Obama the anti-Christ or being disparaging to him in any way, so let there be no ranting here to that effect. I am asking you to look at the bigger picture and how this election may or may not relate to Bible prophecy........this is not about who you voted for, so hopefully there will be response from both liberal and conservative perspectives.
Please keep it respectful..... thank you.
Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe
By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer John Leicester, Slideshow: World reacts to U.S. election
PARIS – Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow.
People across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. history being made, while the president of Kenya — where Obama's father was born — declared a public holiday.
In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted "Obama! Obama!"
"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place," South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, said in a letter of congratulations to Obama.
Many expressed amazement and satisfaction that the United States could overcome centuries of racial strife and elect an African-American as president.
"This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten," Rama Yade, France's black junior minister for human rights, told French radio. "America is rebecoming a New World.
"On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes," she said.
In Britain, The Sun newspaper borrowed from Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing in describing Obama's election as "one giant leap for mankind."
Yet celebrations were often tempered by sobering concerns that Obama faces global challenges as momentous as the hopes his campaign inspired — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the elusive hunt for peace in the Middle East and a global economy in turmoil.
The huge weight of responsibilities on Obama's shoulders was also a concern for some. French former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Obama's biggest challenge would be managing a punishing agenda of various crises in the United States and the world. "He will need to fight on every front," he said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped the incoming administration will take steps to improve badly damaged U.S. ties with Russia. Tensions have been driven to a post-Cold War high by Moscow's war with U.S. ally Georgia.
"I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the U.S. administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia," Medvedev said.
Europe, where Obama is overwhelmingly popular, is one region that looked eagerly to an Obama administration for a revival in warm relations after the Bush government's chilly rift with the continent over the Iraq war.
"At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama.
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke of "a new America with a new credit of trust in the world."
Skepticism, however, was high in the Muslim world. The Bush administration alienated those in the Middle East by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison — human rights violations also condemned worldwide.
Some Iraqis, who have suffered through five years of a war
Floid - a little rant there, but I had to laugh out loud when I read your response. Okay - we'll see what we can do to help you out there. :-)
Andymcj78 (Atheist) - although the question is addressed to evangelicals, I'm glad you responded, and I don't disagree with your insights. Thank you.
Suzanne YPA: Very insightful - I especially appreciate your knowledge of eschatology. Thank you!
Suzanne YPA - Regarding your EDIT, I'm thankful you added that. I agree - there is a MAN of perdition (anti-christ) who will be revealed. I know there are many spirits of anti-christ which have gone forth, but there will be a false Trinity (anti-christ; false prophet; satan) and a false Messiah who will set himself up in the temple as God. Also, thank you for those links -
derius537 - Thank you for your insights! I know there are many who share these views, and your answer shows alot of thought. I appreciate what you're saying.
Lotta Lou - Thank you for the website link and your response. You serve to remind us that no matter how caught up we get in political matters, government is not the source of our salvation or provision - Christ is. Thank you for your reply.
Lover of Blue - we have some doctrinal differences, but I always enjoy hearing from you. You have the heart of an evangelist and some excellent insights here. I appreciate your response - (please check out Suzanne YPA's edit)
To all the rest who responded, I appreciate you taking the time to think this through and share your insight. You all have given me alot to think about - thank you!
Solomon's Glory - I'm so glad you weighed in on this one! A number of excellent points here - (Daniel 8, Job, the facts about Prince Charles, etc) I agree with you - the response of the Ecclesia ("the called out ones", the church) should not be a reaction of fear. We are exhorted to be watchful and to pray, being mindful of the times and season we're in. (Hence this discussion)
There is an inward grieving because we know there is much suffering yet to come....for a season. (Not that God takes pleasure in the destruction of the rebellious - Ezekiel 33-34) However, there are many who will come to Christ ONLY during the hour of extreme crisis and tribuation.....perhaps an interesting discussion for another day.
Thank you again and thanks to all!
Love in Christ, Cassandra
Answer:
Ok, trying to understand this from your perspective:
I don't think Obama fits the bill of the Anti - Christ either. He has a wife and child, whereas Daniel ch 8 clearly says he will not regard the desire of women, indicating that he will either be celibate or a homosexual. He is not the first world leader to have his arrival heralded on the world stage, nor I suspect will he be the last.
As for the Sun "news paper" which is owned by Rupert "howling mad" Murdoch, you will find that he is a political chameleon. In the past he has switched his party allegiances in both England and Australia to keep his influence. Indeed, the main reason he took out American citizenship was so that he could hold media interests there as foreigners are, or at least at the time, were not allowed to do so.
Regardless of who won the election, America as been declining in power for some time now. There are far more players since the break up of the USSR, such as the EU, China, India, Islam and a once again resurgent Russia. Yes, these power blocks are looking for a shift in policy from the US, which is why there is much world wide optimism and enthusiasm, however only time will tell if Obama will make a good President, as indeed the same would have been true if Senator McCain had won the election.
From my understanding, when the end comes it's supposed to come suddenly: And the beast is supposed to be the person people least expected to be so.
Yes, the new President indeed has international roots and varying degrees of affiliation with Islam and Christianity. Then again Prince Charles is a freemason and a future head of the church of England but few question his dual religious, or even different foreign connections, i.e: Part Greek with German ancestry. Ok, it's a European back ground, but he still has religious, secular and global influence, especially being the future head of the British Common wealth. Yet no one seems to be tying him or other world figures who do similar things in with biblical prophecy.
Suzanne YPA makes some interesting points. However, Babylon whether it represents Rome or a physically rebuilt new manifestation of the ancient city, or just his system: No one is absolutely clear on this, is not supposed to be the centre of the Anti - Christ's rule according to Christian eschatology. The whole point is to have the temple rebuilt in Jerusalem and be worshipped as God there: 2nd Thess ch 2 speaks about him sitting in the temple of God as God and exalting him above everything that is called God.
As for the Iraq war, whatever your politics, Obama can't be exclusively criticised for wanting to pull out because the Republican party, at least stated that they eventually wanted to anyway, and were even setting time tables. Yes, by all means adhere to your faith and be concerned with what's happening in the world. But don't live in fear of future events. Doesn't the scripture say that God has not given Christians a spirit of fear, but of love, power and a sound mind? So over concern may make you look in the wrong places.
"We have nothing to fear but fear itself".
Franklyn Delano Rooseveldt.
Or by taking the course of fear, you may end up repeating the words of Job: "The thing I feared most as come upon me". Even if the end is nigh, then for you Christians it's supposed to herald a glorious new beginning. For the rest of us, the clear context as I understand it is that the great tribulation is supposed to be the biggest ever revival and persecution, designed to run simeoltaneosly in order to make mankind choose between God and the Beasts system so that Christ can bring in his own new world order.
I hope this helps.
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Did Joe Biden blunder again or did he say that on purpose ?
Question:
Here's an article today from the New York Post:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/postopinion/editorial s/joe_bidens_fears_134618.htm
Joe Biden wonders whether Barack Obama is qualified to be commander-in-chief.
"Mark my words," Biden warned Sunday at a Democratic fund-raiser. "It will not be six months [after the inauguration] before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."
Then he added, "Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Now, here's where it gets scary.
Obama's "gonna need your help to use your influence within the community to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
He's going to need help?
Terrific.
What's particularly disturbing is Biden's Kennedy analogy.
For those who don't recall, it was a scant five months after JFK became president that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev took his measure.
Kennedy had just bungled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, then went off to a summit in Vienna - where Khruschev determined that the rookie chief executive could be had.
Two months later, construction began on the Berlin Wall, precipitating a crisis that nearly led to a US-Soviet shooting war in Europe.
And 14 months after that came the Cuban Missile Crisis - when nuclear Armageddon was only barely averted.
Is Biden saying that America's current enemies - sorely aware of Obama's inexperience - plan to test a President Obama with similar crises, to see what he's made of?
Sure seems like it.
But what if Obama is still on the wrong side of the learning curve when this major international crisis hits?
More important: What if he makes the wrong decision - as even Joe Biden suggests he might?
After all, Obama was wrong about the troop surge in Iraq.
And he was wrong in his initial response to Russia's invasion of Georgia - when he urged the victimized nation to "show restraint."
And he was wrong when he said he would gladly sit down unconditionally with people like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - the very people his own running-mate now says are planning to "test" him.
As John McCain said yesterday, "We don't want a president who invites testing from the world . . . The next president won't have time."
Little wonder, then, that Biden later admitted that he "probably shouldn't have said all this."
But why not, Joe?
It's doubtless all true.
And it's much better to get it all out now - rather than wait until it's too late to do anything about it.
Answer:
He is talking about us "screwing up" our relationship with Israel. Obama wrote in his own book how he would side with islam should anything bad happen.
When he says "it is not gonna be apparent that we are right", It seems he is already making excuses for an obama mistake. Welcome to WW-III.
No need to worry though, He has Collin Powell. He is always Honest to the American people.
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Why would the world become more safe with Obama as president ?
Question:
Below is an article from the NYPost suggesting the opposite.
Conversely, PLEASE GIVE US YOUR REASONS WHY YOU THINK the world would still be more SAFE.
Joe Biden wonders whether Barack Obama is qualified to be commander-in-chief.
"Mark my words," Biden warned Sunday at a Democratic fund-raiser. "It will not be six months [after the inauguration] before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy."
Then he added, "Watch. We're going to have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
Now, here's where it gets scary.
Obama's "gonna need your help to use your influence within the community to stand with him. Because it's not gonna be apparent initially, it's not gonna be apparent that we're right."
He's going to need help?
Terrific.
What's particularly disturbing is Biden's Kennedy analogy.
For those who don't recall, it was a scant five months after JFK became president that Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev took his measure.
Kennedy had just bungled the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, then went off to a summit in Vienna - where Khruschev determined that the rookie chief executive could be had.
Two months later, construction began on the Berlin Wall, precipitating a crisis that nearly led to a US-Soviet shooting war in Europe.
And 14 months after that came the Cuban Missile Crisis - when nuclear Armageddon was only barely averted.
Is Biden saying that America's current enemies - sorely aware of Obama's inexperience - plan to test a President Obama with similar crises, to see what he's made of?
Sure seems like it.
But what if Obama is still on the wrong side of the learning curve when this major international crisis hits?
More important: What if he makes the wrong decision - as even Joe Biden suggests he might?
After all, Obama was wrong about the troop surge in Iraq.
And he was wrong in his initial response to Russia's invasion of Georgia - when he urged the victimized nation to "show restraint."
And he was wrong when he said he would gladly sit down unconditionally with people like Hugo Chavez and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad - the very people his own running-mate now says are planning to "test" him.
As John McCain said yesterday, "We don't want a president who invites testing from the world . . . The next president won't have time."
Little wonder, then, that Biden later admitted that he "probably shouldn't have said all this."
But why not, Joe?
It's doubtless all true.
And it's much better to get it all out now - rather than wait until it's too late to do anything about it.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10212008/postopinion/editorial s/joe_bidens_fears_134618.htm
Answer:
Well, I suppose it will be more safe because he has Islamic roots and is not a nationalistic American. He would rather negotiate than make war. His major backers are Islamic.
In the last century the two major world conflicts were started by German aggression. I guess we have forgotten that other nations sometimes make war.
The 21 century belongs to Islam. they have a mandate to spread their religion and culture world wide.
In Europe they have choked the press, free speech, they hold countries in thrall because the fear of suicide bombings if they are offended. And it does happen!!! Why would it not happen here. (again)
that one can head off war with Islam, he can hand the country over without a wimper. We will become like the rest of Europe, our school teachers will wear burkhas and sharia law will be instituted.
We were the last hold out of freedom in the world. Barack will bring Peace through submission to Islam.
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Will the Right Wing Label McCain as Presumptuous and Arrogant Now? Or is that just an Obama thing...
Question:
Today, Sen. McCain spoke with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on the phone. In that conversation, he told him that all Americans support and back his struggle.
The problem is that I and many others don't feel the same way. We regard what the Georgian president did last Fall to quell insurrection was out of line and too forceful, especially for someone claiming such things as democracy and freedom. Moreover, we feel it has been very out of line for Russia to grant people inside of Georgia a Russian passport and declare them as Russian citizens. In short, we find BOTH sides to have behaved unacceptably and find both complicit in this ordeal. Either way, the violence must stop from both sides.
So, it seems arguable that McCain is being rather presumptuous and arrogant given he does not speak for the U.S. in saying what he said, nor is it his place to during an erupting international conflict to call one of them and declare unilarteral support from the United States.
Now, since all Obama did to be labeled presumptuous and arrogant was go overseas, meet with international leaders, give a speech in Berlin with "presidential aura" suggesting the America and Europe should work more together, then can we expect the far more egregious actions of McCain to be labeled similarly?
Or is he just a doggone patriot?
You decide. I know I have.
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Cigar Man: He wasn't purporting to speak for all of us when he said, "'I told him that I know I speak for every American when I said to him, today, we are all Georgians,' McCain said."? Sure buddy, you better sit this one out.
Wounded Duck: You're telling me I'm speaking for everyone by saying, "I and many others don't feel the same way"? Yeah, I totally get how "everyone" and "I and many others" are the same thing.
RitchWilliams: I agree with some things you said, and disagree with others. Either way, well said and thanks for that.
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Honestly, he broke the law with that phone call, not that anyone will have the guts to call him on it.
He didn't speak for me, but I take a rather dim view or ethnic cleansing, which is what Georgia tried to do as it started the war.
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conservativES & republicans don't u think the media failed us again with calling states 2 early & cockiness?
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Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe
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Slideshow: World reacts to U.S. election Play Video Video: Obama's Kenyan relatives cheer win AP Play Video Video: Postcard to U.S. President: Tehran Reuters AP – Koichi Morii, an Obama citizen, holds Obama fish burgers, which are sold in the city, to celebrate Barack … PARIS – Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow.
People across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. history being made, while the president of Kenya — where Obama's father was born — declared a public holiday.
In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted "Obama! Obama!"
"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place," South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, said in a letter of congratulations to Obama.
Many expressed amazement and satisfaction that the United States could overcome centuries of racial strife and elect an African-American as president.
"This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten," Rama Yade, France's black junior minister for human rights, told French radio. "America is rebecoming a New World.
"On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes," she said.
In Britain, The Sun newspaper borrowed from Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing in describing Obama's election as "one giant leap for mankind."
Yet celebrations were often tempered by sobering concerns that Obama faces global challenges as momentous as the hopes his campaign inspired — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the elusive hunt for peace in the Middle East and a global economy in turmoil.
The huge weight of responsibilities on Obama's shoulders was also a concern for some. French former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Obama's biggest challenge would be managing a punishing agenda of various crises in the United States and the world. "He will need to fight on every front," he said.
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped the incoming administration will take steps to improve badly damaged U.S. ties with Russia. Tensions have been driven to a post-Cold War high by Moscow's war with U.S. ally Georgia.
"I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the U.S. administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia," Medvedev said.
Europe, where Obama is overwhelmingly popular, is one region that looked eagerly to an Obama administration for a revival in warm relations after the Bush government's chilly rift with the continent over the Iraq war.
"At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama.
Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke of "a new America with a new credit of trust in the world."
Skepticism, however, was high in the Muslim world. The Bush administration alienated those in the Middle East by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison — human rights violations also condemned worldwide.
Some Iraqis, who have suffered through five years of a war ignited by the United States and its allies, said they would believe positive change when they saw it.
"Obama's victory will do nothing for the Iraqi issue nor for the Palestinian issue," said Muneer Jamal, a Baghdad resident. "I think all the promises Obama made during the campaign will remain mere promises."
In Pakistan, a country vital to the U.S.-led war on the al-Qaida terrorist network and neighbor to Afghanistan, many hoped Obama would bring some respite from rising militant violence that many blame on Bush.
Still, Mohammed Arshad, a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the capital, Islamabad, doubted Obama's ability to change U.S. foreign policy dramatically.
"It is true that Bush gave America a very bad name. He has become a symbol of hate. But I don't think the change of face will suddenly make any big difference," he said.
Obama's vict
besides obama has no foreign policies or experience
i know i was watching nbc and the called it when they were only small number were in
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Oh yeah, I think it was wrong. I was super pissed, while I was watching the Polls on FOX last night they had already checked Obama as winning one of the States when the votes were Obama having 30% and McCain had something like 65%. How was that possible?
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