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I do believe that we as a nation are coming under the judgment of God and abortion is part of the cause of Divine wrath. [Hidden Content] Does God Judge Nations Today?But what about judgment on nations today? What about America as a whole? Are there biblical pointers to how God deals with nations today? First, the Bible portrays God as sovereign over the nations and ruling them for his purposes. This includes ethnic peoples as well as the political states that emerge around them: “Kingship belongs to the Lᴏʀᴅ, and he rules over the nations” (Psalms 22:28). Second, the Bible portrays God’s relation to nations as tolerating sin up to a point, and then bringing calamity. God said to Abram that his descendants would spend 400 years in a foreign land as slaves (Genesis 15:13). Then God would “bring judgment on the nation that they serve” (Genesis 15:14). Why such a long delay before God gave the promised land to Israel? God answers, “Because the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete” (Genesis 15:16). In other words, there was a level of corruption that would be reached among the nations of the promised land that would justify God’s judgment on them when Israel returned from Egypt. So God taught his people not to say, “It is because of my righteousness that the Lᴏʀᴅ has brought me in to possess this land.” Rather, “it is because of the wickedness of these nations that the Lᴏʀᴅ is driving them out before you” (Deuteronomy 9:4). Third, numerous texts in the Bible mention the kinds of iniquity God has in mind when he says, “the wickedness of these nations.” Judgment to Israel and other nations is threatened for arrogant hearts (Isaiah 2:11; 3:15; 13:11), idolatry (Jeremiah 16:18; Ezekiel 23:20), bribery (Isaiah 1:23), extortion (Ezekiel 22:12), and the oppression of the poor (Isaiah 10:2; Malachi 3:4).

I work with Special Education also. Education is not a waste, but unrealistic expectations can be counter intuitive to the situation. Please do not read anything I said as a personal attack, for it is not my intention.

Moral Relativism, the New Morality, if it makes me feel good then it must be right, calling good evil and evil good. Ideas have consequences.

​Unrealistic expectations are a waste and that is the problem. One of the kids is 14, been in the school for 2 years max, and has only been living with the "Aunt" for that same amount of time. Yet the family is surprised the kid is reading at a 3rd grade reading level and is now upset with HJISD because of this. The mental capabilities, emotional problems, moving around to different schools and the parental neglect factors lead me to be skeptical of the accusations and remind people of unrealistic expectations vs the cliche of "Teaching a child is never a waste."

A Sour Lake woman said the district hasn't equipped her two dyslexic nephews enough so they can get to at least an average reading level. One of them, a 14-year-old, is still reading at a third grade level. The other, a first grader, has had trouble reading his own birth date. No, reason to blame the school for the lack of parental involvement. @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ They'll also decide if the district needs to reimburse Kiesling for private services. Really your sisters kids cant read ,even with the help of private tutors, and she still wants to blame the school ----------------- I know I am jerk but you can't make lemon-aid out of paint chips.

We waste more time and money on kids who do not have the ability or desire to learn.

​A 30 year old father...if your not a father by 30 you don't know what you are doing. My question is what does it matter if he is a father, brother, or son? He was part of a brawl.

I hope they get some jail time.

Good Job! Have fun playing in another country and enjoying the whole experience.

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White Privilege is at the root of this!!!!!! 

Race, Politics and Lies Thomas Sowell | May 05, 2015 Among the many painful ironies in the current racial turmoil is that communities scattered across the country were disrupted by riots and looting because of the demonstrable lie that Michael Brown was shot in the back by a white policeman in Missouri -- but there was not nearly as much turmoil created by the demonstrable fact that a fleeing black man was shot dead by a white policeman in South Carolina.   Totally ignored was the fact that a black policeman in Alabama fatally shot an unarmed white teenager, and was cleared of any charges, at about the same time that a white policeman was cleared of charges in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown. In a world where the truth means so little, and headstrong preconceptions seem to be all that matter, what hope is there for rational words or rational behavior, much less mutual understanding across racial lines? When the recorded fatal shooting of a fleeing man in South Carolina brought instant condemnation by whites and blacks alike, and by the most conservative as well as the most liberal commentators, that moment of mutual understanding was very fleeting, as if mutual understanding were something to be avoided, as a threat to a vision of "us against them" that was more popular. That vision is nowhere more clearly expressed than in attempts to automatically depict whatever social problems exist in ghetto communities as being caused by the sins or negligence of whites, whether racism in general or a "legacy of slavery" in particular. Like most emotionally powerful visions, it is seldom, if ever, subjected to the test of evidence. The "legacy of slavery" argument is not just an excuse for inexcusable behavior in the ghettos. In a larger sense, it is an evasion of responsibility for the disastrous consequences of the prevailing social vision of our times, and the political policies based on that vision, over the past half century. Anyone who is serious about evidence need only compare black communities as they evolved in the first 100 years after slavery with black communities as they evolved in the first 50 years after the explosive growth of the welfare state, beginning in the 1960s. You would be hard-pressed to find as many ghetto riots prior to the 1960s as we have seen just in the past year, much less in the 50 years since a wave of such riots swept across the country in 1965. We are told that such riots are a result of black poverty and white racism. But in fact -- for those who still have some respect for facts -- black poverty was far worse, and white racism was far worse, prior to 1960. But violent crime within black ghettos was far less. Murder rates among black males were going down -- repeat, DOWN -- during the much lamented 1950s, while it went up after the much celebrated 1960s, reaching levels more than double what they had been before. Most black children were raised in two-parent families prior to the 1960s. But today the great majority of black children are raised in one-parent families. Such trends are not unique to blacks, nor even to the United States. The welfare state has led to remarkably similar trends among the white underclass in England over the same period. Just read "Life at the Bottom," by Theodore Dalrymple, a British physician who worked in a hospital in a white slum neighborhood. You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization -- including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain -- without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large. Non-judgmental subsidies of counterproductive lifestyles are treating people as if they were livestock, to be fed and tended by others in a welfare state -- and yet expecting them to develop as human beings have developed when facing the challenges of life themselves. One key fact that keeps getting ignored is that the poverty rate among black married couples has been in single digits every year since 1994. Behavior matters and facts matter, more than the prevailing social visions or political empires built on those visions. [Hidden Content]

We could ask Seal team 6 but they all died... What I am saying is their is a lot of shady events around all of this.. [Hidden Content] [Hidden Content] The mortal remains of all sailors and soldiers aboard the ill-fated helicopter, named "Extortion 17" were immediately cremated without permission from the families. Families were told this happened because the bodies were badly burned in the crash. But Charles Strange calls foul. In fact he says the story is a complete lie. Taliban on the ground in fact found the bodies of the crew. The Obama administration cremated everyone in order to cover up something, Western Center for Journalism writes.

Wow, do you personally know somebody in the case or are you really that hateful? 

School officials have declared an outbreak of chlamydia at a high school in Crane County, Texas, where the only sex-ed course is legally required to emphasize abstinence. ​Apparently some of the kids failed the class. I remember when Rivercrest ISD had an AIDS outbreak back in the 90's or something like that.

So how is that working in Europe now? I mean years of not offending, political correctness  and appeasement  has led to Sharia Law trumping the laws of the land. Yes, there are consequences for every action and the consequences for staying silent in the face of evil is the deadliest of all consequences.   

......in John 5:1-2, the fourth Gospel writer speaks of “a pool in Jerusalem, by the Sheep Gate, called in Hebrew ‘Bethesda’, which has five porticoes”. Until the 20th century, there was no evidence outside of John’s Gospel for such a place and, again, critics questioned John’s reliability. Then in the 1930s, the pool was uncovered by archaeologists — complete with four colonnades around the edges and one across the middle. One more example will suffice and it’s perhaps the most intriguing — the so-called “James Ossuary”. According to the Gospels — and to the Jewish historian, Josephus, James was the brother of Jesus and was killed in AD62. In 2002, a mid-first century bone box or ossuary was discovered in Jerusalem, bearing the Aramaic inscription “James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus”. There is very strong evidence that the box and its inscription are authentic. Ed Keall, of the Royal Ontario Museum here in Toronto, has said “we stand by our opinion that the James Ossuary is not a forgery”. As New Testament historian Ben Witherington put it: If, as seems probable, the ossuary found in the vicinity of Jerusalem and dated to about AD 63 is indeed the burial box of James, the brother of Jesus, this inscription is the most important extra-biblical evidence of its kind. If we had more time, numerous other examples could be listed. The key point is this: archaeology doesn’t prove the New Testament is true. But what it does do is endorse the narratives. It shows that the biblical writings are historical and geographical in character — and thus deserve to be weighed and treated as seriously as an other texts from antiquity. [Hidden Content]

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Well why did the SEALS have to sign legal documents after their raid, why get rid of the body so quickly?  Plausible story or not that is fishy.

None. You cant get humans to control themselves let alone the weather.  

Since the King(s) of England had a habit of throwing people in jail without trail and executing people who spoke out against them, it was a pretty dumb idea by our Founding Fathers to want to protect freedom of speech.   

The Islamic terrorist are following the teachings of Muhammad to the letter and the westbary guys are a cult. The leader claims to be Jesus and supported Al Gore for president, so there are two ,for sure, signs that the Westbary guys are neither  Christian nor Baptist. Please have more knowledge about things before you start limiting the 1st amendment.