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ALL AMERICAN Wednesday February 11, 2015 WEEKLY Volume 18, Issue 50© email: [email protected] America’s Best Conservative Newspaper since 1997 Muslims Plan to Visit Legislators Page 3 by Corbett Mason “...was a deliberate, carefully planned evil act of the long waged war on the West by Koran-inspired soldiers of Allah around the world. They hated us before George W. Bush was in office. They hated us before Israel existed. And the avengers of the religion of perpetual outrage will keep hating us.” - Michelle Malkin Chris Kyle seems to be the subject of much debate, snipers take out the enemy to protect their fellow countrymen. They have been used to take out Islamic terrorists setting up IED’s (Improvised Explosive Devices) along roads being used by our convoys. Any combat soldier with his “boots on the ground” trying to retake a town, would want a sniper on every high vantage point possible. For the simple reason, they hit what they’re shooting at and it might make the difference if they make it home or not. Liberal film maker Michael Moore and other Progressives deplore the use of military snipers and call them cowards. I have a good friend that was a sniper in Viet Nam on one of his tours, his longest confirmed kill was at a distance of 600 yards. He could and still has the ability to start a fight in a empty elevator. During one of these fisticuffs, he has no though of his own well-being or that of his opponent, he fights with a no holds barred mentality. He was a “tunnel rat” during his second tour in Nam and killed several Viet Cong while making his way through tunnels. His heart was in his throat more than once, but he did what was required of him. Any man in combat would be grateful for any one taking out the enemy. My friend also suffers from “Post Traumatic Stress.” “Of course people don’t want war. Why should a poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best thing he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece.” - Hermann Goering A reporter from Time Magazine asked Chris Kyle if he had regrets for killing over 160 people during his deployment as a Navy Seal? Kyle responded, “I had to do it to protect the Marines. You want to lose your guys, or would you rather take out one of them?” Union General William T. Sherman in America’s Civil War said, “War is hell.” The “political correct crowd” is in an uproar about Chris Kyle’s calling the enemy, “savages.” When ISIL or al-Qaeda kills and beheads innocent children, rapes women and sells them for sex slaves, they also sell children, behead journalists, kill innocents by cruxification, kill individuals by fire, while beheading and shooting “innocents” on an incalculable scale, what would you call them, innocence lost? I haven’t heard many Progressives complain about the enemy and many innocents being killed by our country’s use of drones. Drones are being used in Pakistan, Yemen, and Afghanistan. Brandon Bryant served in the U.S. Air Force as part of a crew piloting America’s drones. It’s estimated he participated in the killing of 1,626 people. He started in early 2007, being based in the Nevada desert, during which he logged thousands of hours of flight time. He finally had enough, when the next target See Mason, pg. 3 AG nominee eyed in massive Obama cover-up Loretta Lynch tied to world’s biggest banking scandal By Jerome R. Corsi NEW YORK – Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch could be facing new confirmation problems in the U.S. Senate after being tied to the world’s biggest banking scandal, involving HSBC, which used its power to temporarily shut down WND.com as the news site was breaking a series of stories on the megabank’s moneylaundering practices – practices that resulted in more than $1.2 billion in fines Wednesday, Eric Holder’s Department of Justice appears to be stonewalling the release of documents that could implicate Lynch in a massive cover-up of Obama administration involvement in international moneylaundering of Mexican cartel drug money. John Cruz in interview with WND’s Jerome Corsi vestigation and avoid the filing of criminal charges. torney for the Eastern District of New York, oversaw the willingness to prosecute HSBC was exposed by a former HSBC vice president and relationship manager in New York, John Cruz, who called the bank a “criminal enterprise.” Cruz was ignored by law enforcement authorities until he brought to WND 1,000 pages of customer account records that document his claims. Loretta Lynch investigation of drug-related international money laundering allegations against London-based HSBC Holdings LLC. WND published a series articles documenting charges HSBC laundered billions of dollars that traced back to the Mexican drug cartels, culminating with a $1.256 billion fine paid to the U.S. government to end the in- Cruz called the $1.92 billion fine the U.S. government imposed on HSBC “a joke” and filed a $10 million lawsuit for “retaliation and wrongful termination.” Whistleblowers in India and London joined Cruz in charging See Cover-up, pg. 4 ‘High horse’ jab just president’s latest attack on his own professed faith By Garth Kant The latest example came during his remarks Thursday at the National Prayer Breakfast, but it was hardly the first time Obama has criticized Christianity or defended Islam. In order to better understand what Obama truly believes, WND looked at the history of Obama’s relationship with religion, beginning with those most recent remarks. Page 12 A PLAN TO STOP AGENDA 21 by Tom DeWeese NewsWithViews.com Never Underestimate the Power of a Pebble in Your Shoe! In 2012, Lynch, as the U.S. at- The federal government’s un- ‘Committed Christian’? Obama’s religious history unmasked WASHINGTON – Why would President Obama, who professes to be a Christian, apparently harbor such animosity toward what he claims is his own faith? Sarge’s Day to apologize, pointedly noting that the Inquisition was political, and the Crusades were a defensive effort against jihad. It was William Wilberforce who led the campaign against slavery. It was Martin Luther King who fought (segregation.)” Obama’s remarks came just two days after the release of a video of the burning death of a captured Thiessen wondered why the president would criticize those who criticize ISIS atrocities, asking, “What does he mean by get off our high horse? And what kind of person looks at a video of a man being burned alive and his reaction is to say ‘Let’s not forget, we in the West did that, too’?” Thousands of grassroots activists across the nation have taken up the fight against Agenda 21 and its policy of Sustainable Development. Where once there were only a very few of us speaking out against this “comprehensive blueprint” for the complete transition of American society, now hundreds speak in meetings and testify in legislative hearings. We know it is an assault on property rights, energy use, building development, even education and health care. The policy’s impact is massive and, to many, overwhelming. Yet, our voice of opposition continues to be ignored. We get the roll of the eyes, the snide remarks, the accusations of conspiracy theorists and fringe fanatics. They smirk. They laugh and they move forward with their plans conceived in the back rooms out of sight of a sleeping public. How can we stop it? Where do we start? How do we overcome the almost unlimited political power and funding controlled by the other side? I have fought this mega-force for over 20 years. I have been thrilled to see our little rag tag band of grassroots activists score enough victories to make the planners and Non-governmental organization (NGOs) very nervous. But it’s not enough. They continue, regardless of opposition because we fail to make them feel pain for their actions. They suffer no personal or political consequences, even when their plans go so very wrong. We need a plan. We need to “With all due organize the many individual r e s p e c t , t h e activists into one mighty fist of Crusades were opposition. We need to show almost a thou- the planners that their actions sand years ago. have consequences that are The Inquisition forcing American citizens to was in the 15th suffer. “And lest we century. ISIS is get on our high burning people Then-Sen. Obama during a visit to Kenya in 2006 horse and think alive today. Now. I have such a plan. It’s divided into three sections: that this is unique to some other Jordanian pilot by ISIS and just Not Christians,” he added. place, remember that during the one day after word that the radical Crusades and Inquisition, people Islamic army is selling, as well as See Agenda, pg. 7 See History, pg. 8 committed terrible deeds in the crucifying, children. name of Christ,” Obama said at Thur. Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues the breakfast. WND CEO Joseph Farah inter- Wed preted Obama’s remarks as an “In our home country, slavery excuse of Islam, by drawing an and Jim Crow all too often was equivalence between the current Partly Sunny Sunny Partly Mostly AM Partly justified in the name of Christ,” murderous reign of terror perHigh 53 High 38 Cloudy- Cloudy Cloudy Cloudy Showers he added. petuated by Muslim radicals and High 56 Hign 41 High 43 High 51 High 43 Low 27 Low 27 long-past misdeeds by Christians Low 32 Low 22 Low 31 Low 39 Low 23 Incensed critics are interpreting long-since condemned by virtually 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% 20% 50% those remarkable words as both all Christians. an attack on Christianity and a CONTENTS defense of Muslim atrocities. Marc Thiessen, former chief Classifieds Page 11 speechwriter for President George Crossword Puzzle/Horoscopes Page 10 As WND reported, among the W. Bush, was incredulous, stating Editorials/Comments /Politicos Page 2 many Christian leaders outraged on Fox News Thursday evening, Fishing Report/Golf Report Page 10 by the president’s comments, one “It was evangelical Christians Catholic leader called for Obama who fought slavery and Jim Crow. Page 2 The BANNER Wednesday, February 11 , 2015 Governor Mary Fallin’s “Oklahoma Now” THE VIEW FROM HERE Governor Mary Fallin Renews Executive Orders, Clears out Dozens of Others OKLAHOMA CITY – Governor Mary Fallin today signed an executive order that carries forward 24 executive orders from her and previous administrations and eliminates dozens of others. executive orders that are pertinent to managing government,” said Fallin. “This is just another example of getting rid of the clutter that state government accumulates over the years and making it more efficient.” Legislative Mischieviousness Under the terms of an amend- in my opinion acceptable and does contracted for use by the state of ment to the Oklahoma Constitu- not seem to be aimed at promoting Oklahoma, excluding residents tion passed some years ago, the massive vote fraud. That one would Legislature is required to open its require that ALL local candidate at state veterans homes. · Designating Lt. Gov. Todd Lamb as Thirteen of the 24 executive O k l a h o orders renewed in today’s execu- ma’s small tive order were issued by Fallin. b u s i n e s s advocate. They include: The governor has decided not to renew nearly 70 executive orders, some of which date back 56 years. Many of the orders not being renewed deal with outdated policies and agencies or are inconsistent with federal law. · Prohibiting the use of tobacco products on all properties owned, Some of them include: leased or contracted for use by A 1986 order dealing with the the state of Oklahoma. now defunct Oklahoma Pecan · Requiring state agencies to Commission. submit an electronic copy of A 1997 order designating the proposed permanent rules to the now defunct Oklahoma Amateur governor and the appropriate Sports Commission to advise the Cabinet secretary. governor on the promotion of · Prohibiting the use of electronamateur sports. ic cigarette or vaping devices on “I’m bringing forward just those all properties owned, leased or By Neil Carson (CKA Bob McDowell) Gov. Mary Fallin The governor also carried forward several executive orders from former Governor Brad Henry, including one that prohibits state employees from texting while driving when using state vehicles, state electronic equipment or when on state business. Other executive orders carried forward were issued by former Governors Frank Keating and David Walters. Rep. Bennett Praises Passage of Bill to Protect Religious Rights has co-authored, was approved by a vote of 7-2 in the Oklahoma House Judiciary Committee Tuesday. OKLAHOMA CITY – State Rep. John Bennett today praised the committee passage of a bill that will protect pastors to participate in same-sex marriage ceremonies. House Bill 1007, which Bennett be able to force pastors or businesses to take part,” said Bennett, R-Sallisaw. “I believe religious rights trump gay rights. If religious rights don’t trump gay rights, then we’re heading down the road of Iran, where citizens are forced to convert to Islam or die. I always hear the phrase of separation of church and state by the left when it benefits them, but the reality is if we want to have a separation of church and state, we must use it for its factual meaning and keep the state out of our churches.” The legislation states: “No regularly licensed, ordained or authorized official of any religious organization shall be required to solemnize or recognize any marriage that violates the official’s conscience or religious beliefs.” It gives religious officials and clerical individuals immunity from lawsuits based on a refusal to participate in the ceremony. “Gay people can find someone to marry them and provide wed- This bill now proceeds to the full ding services, but they shouldn’t House for consideration. Senate Review A Weekly Column by Senator Marty Quinn As the State Senate begins its first session of the 55th Legislature, I wanted to take a minute to acknowledge some of the legislators who have served as my mentors, friends and colleagues at the Capitol and in our district over the years. I’d like to recognize former Majority Floor Leader, Representative Tad Jones. A supporter of roads, educations and the museums, I will always be especially thankful he believed enough in me to encourage me to run for a seat in the House in 2010 when he was term limited. At the same time, I’d like to wish Rep. Mark Lepak all the best as he begins his first term in House District 9 and I’m looking forward to seeing him accomplish many good things during his tenure there. I also want to recognize former State Senators Stratton Taylor and Sean Burrage. Their public service to the people of District 2 was outstanding in both representation and service. Senator Taylor’s efforts were instrumental in driving the improvements to Highway 20 and Highway 88, as well as transitioning Rogers State University into a 4-year university, while Senator Burrage was a champion for education and road programs and was also a defender of the museums. All of these legislators have an exceptional legacy at the State Capitol, and I have some big Toll Free Capitol Switchboard 1-877-762-8762 Sen. James M. Inhofe E-mail: [email protected] Web: http://www.inhofe.senate.gov.senate Washington Phone 1-202-224-4721 FAX 202-228-0380 Tulsa Phone: 1-918-748-5111 • Oklahoma City 1-405-608-4381 Sen. Tom Coburn Washington 1-202-224-5754 FAX 202-224-6008 Tulsa Phone: 1-918-581-7651 Okla. City 1-405-231-4941 U.S. House of Representatives Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-Dist. 1) 216 Cannon House Office Bldg. Washington DC 20515 1-202-225-2211 FAX (202) 225-9187, Tulsa, 2448 E. 81st. St., #5150, Tulsa, OK 74137, 1-918) 935-3222 FAX (918) 935-2716 shoes to fill. I was honored to serve in the House for 4 years, and now I’m looking forward to continuing on with our work in the Senate. Finally, I’d also like to thank my former colleagues in the House of Representatives. I learned so much in my term in the House, and I’m looking forward to bridging that experience as I transition to the Senate and get to know the legislators on this side of the Capitol. There is a wealth of knowledge and experience here that I’m enthusiastic to learn from and understand. As a recap from this week, members of the State Senate convened Monday for the first day of the legislative session, first in the Senate chamber, and then we reconvened in joint session later on the House side to hear the Governor’s State of the State address. Governor Fallin spoke of the budget constraints this year and summarized the challenges the state will face with less revenue to appropriate than last year. The budget will have legislators’ attention this session as we work to meet the needs of the state while facing a $300 million dollar See Quinn, pg. 3 annual session on the first Monday of February, which in 2015 means February 2. This amendment also mandates that the session MUST adjourn on or before the last Friday in May. In my opinion, this was a wise change, since it had become the practice over the years since statehood in 1907 to have sessions extend later and later in the year. That made it less likely that the members could afford to have their outside vocation, and thus become the quintessential ‘professional politician’. The Republic called the United States of America was founded on the basis of ‘part time legislators’ who were gainfully occupied in a job or business outside of the duties of the elective office. In the case of the Oklahoma Legislature each house has, of necessity, adopted its own rules on the filing of bills in advance of opening, in this case December 12. In the Senate, there is no limit on the number of bills each of he 48 members can file, while in the House each of the 101 members is allowed to file up to 8 bills. It seems to me that some members, with some few notable exceptions, seem to think that it is their sworn duty to file as many bills each year as they can dream up or be requested by constituents or lobbyists. Thus for the first session of the new Legislature, there have been 815 bills filed in the Senate, which amounts to just under 17 per member. In the House there have been 1219 bills filed for the 2015 session, which calculates out to 12 each. However, my representative has informed me that those in leadership offices have no limits. In the January 24 issue of the daily paper there was an editorial about one member, listed as in the House, who it was said has filed 9 bills, all proposing to “reform elections”. A better term would have been “remove vote fraud obstacles”. On checking other sources, it turns out that he is ‘Senator’ David Holt, R-OKC (error No.1). Of the nine listed, only one is The Conservative View By Russell Turner Forming Habits While I was growing up my parents instilled in me the value of work. As soon as I was physically able I was ready to do any odd jobs to make some spending money. I would pick strawberries or haul hay; while it was hard work, it taught me the value of money and it got me into the habit of being self-sufficient. My parents, and most of our neighbors, believed in the American work ethic. It was their goal to pass on the traits of self-sufficiency and the freedom that has made our country great. Recently I read an article about two young men living in the northeast part of our nation; this winter those areas have experienced record snowfalls. These two young men saw an opportunity to make a little extra money shoveling snow on peoples’ driveways and sidewalks, sadly while they were knocking doors to solicit some jobs they were informed by the police that shoveling snow required a permit and they couldn’t do it. It never ceases to amaze me how people in the government class want to regulate and control all aspects of our lives. In my opinion there were several losers in this scenario. The people who needed to have the snow cleared couldn’t get it removed; many people who weren’t physically able Rep. Markwayne Mullin, (R-Dist. 2) Washington 1-202-225-2701 Claremore 1-918-341-9336 Muskogee 1-918-687-2533 Rep. Frank Lucas 1-202-225-5565/Stillwater 1-405-624-6407 Rep. Tom Cole 1-202-6165/Norman 1-405-329-6500 Oklahoma State Offices Governor Mary Fallin OK State Capitol, 2300 N. Lincoln Blvd. Room 212 Oklahoma City, OK 73105 www.governor.state.ok.us • Phone 1-405-521-2342 Fax 405-521-3353 Tulsa Office: 440 S. Huston Ave. , Suite 304, Tulsa, OK 74127 Phone: 1-918-581-2801 • Fax 1-581-2835 elections would have to be held in a single cycle in the Spring or in the Fall. It falls short in restricting itself to ‘local candidate’ elections, and should include bond issue elections. The others listed in the editorial would abolish going to the polls and vote by ‘mail’. Would effectively take political parties out by having an ‘open’ primary with the top two, of whatever registered position, going to the final election. Would allow citizens to register to vote ‘online’ (how could it be determined if the person was actually eligible). Would allow citizens to register at the election board in person at early voting. Would eliminate the notarization of absentee ballots. Would add Wednesday and Saturday afternoon to the early voting days. Other of his bills would also lower the percentage of recent election voters required to sign a petition for ballot positions for parties and presidential candidates from 5 to 2. And a resolution to amend the Constitution to lower the percentage of petition signers from 8 to 2 for new statutes and from 15 to 10 for proposed Amendments. It seems to me that the reduction numbers are grossly excessive, but would consider 5 to 4 or 3 and 8 to 6. In checking the recorded Conservative vote evaluation on Sen. Holt for the 2014 Session, it was found that he was listed as only 60%, while the cumulative is 64 as reported in the “Oklahoma Constitution” newspaper. That rating would put him very close to the “RINO” status (Republican In Name Only), especially when compared to the 100 by my Sen. Nathan Dahm and Rep. Mike Ritze who, along with another Senator and Representative from Broken Arrow. Jay Vickers, Editor Editorial & Advertising Offices: Located/Mailing address is: 433301 E. 350 Road, Adair, OK 74330 Published by Banner Weekly Corp. Donna Vickers, President/Publisher To Subscribe, call 918-783-5657 [email protected] Subscription Rates: $70 Annually for mailing. An Independent Newspaper, All Reproduction Rights of Advertising and Articles are Reserved by Banner Weekly Corp. Copyright© 1997-2014 would have been glad to pay some young person to clean the snow from their sidewalk. The young entrepreneurs who had some spare time couldn’t use it because of an overreach by the government. For our economy to work we need ambitious people to start businesses; as the population grows we need to have more business start ups than businesses closing. While we Americans are the recipients of a bunch of feel good Russell Turner talk and biased poll numbers, the business closings are more than the new business openings. Habits that are formed can be good or bad. Like the two young men who wanted to shovel snow, if they were allowed to do the odd job just maybe in the future they might want to start another type of business. Instead of helping to cultivate the habit of the American work ethic our government is helping to form the habit of setting on their butts and asking the government to take care of their every need. I feel that we are beginning to see the results of habits formed by do-gooder lawmakers who were never taught self-reliance and a good work ethic. If we don’t encourage young people to become go-getters, there will be no one willing to start businesses in the future. Contrary to what our elected leaders like to spout off, government is not the answer to all of our needs. Most successful people have thrived in spite of the government, not because of government. We all form habits. Like a world class athlete who forms the habit to train more than his competitors, it is time that we help the younger generations form good business habits that will allow us to compete on a world stage. Wednesday, February 11, 2015 The BANNER From My Pointless View...by Ruth Bivens Global warming? Reporting In Dear Friends, Since our last letter we have made quite a circle, and are back at the house in Pharr for a few days. Believe me, I am ready for some down time, and this poor little old house looks like it needs some loving care. On January 8th we left the Getsemani Children’s Home in Coahuila and headed for Alabama. We consider ourselves so blessed to be included in their Annual Mission Conference. We made it to Northport late on the 9th, so had a chance to sleep in and get some rest before the first rally at the Northport First FWB Church on the 10th. As usual, when we walked into the church we were met by dear friends who feel like family. The Alabama conference covers their state, involving those churches that choose to participate. This year there were 60 churches that took part with 132 services and 22 different speakers. Bud and I were hosted in 17 different events. There were three different rallies, a Prayer Breakfast and a Luncheon. The balance of our services were regular worship service times. At each event we were given the opportunity to share our burden for the people and the Free Will Baptist work in Mexico. For three weeks we were privileged to return to several churches we had visited before, and also the great opportunity to visit new places where people knew very little about our work, The only slide program I have is one I put together three years ago, so we used it. Bud didn’t really want to, but I convinced him that there would be some people there who had not seen those pictures, and a picture is worth a thousand words. Of course, in three years the children at Getsemani Home have really grown. But, the pictures I have still give folks the understanding of their need for prayer and support. I had some work done on my computer about a year ago. I won’t mention the name of the store where I went. In the process of the work they did I lost a bundle of manuscripts and the programs that I used to put the slides together. I have been back to the repair shop once, but, that was before I discovered that I couldn’t make an updated slide program. I’m going back again! So, each time we spoke, with our outdated slides, we shared stories about the work in Mexico. Bud could talk all day if given the chance. So, he always laid his watch out where he could see it, then started talking. There is really no shortage of stories we can share that show how the Lord has taken care of us in the war zone that Mexico has become, and how He has blessed and provided for the financial needs throughout the work there. People have just stepped up to the plate and right when there was a great need a check would come in the mail. We want to thank you dear servants of the Lord, with all our hearts, you who share our burden for Mexico and who invest in it with you prayer and funds. One of the sweetest things about the annual conference is the chance to just sit and visit over a meal and get better acquainted with the people of the local church. There are some great cooks in Alabama, and Bud was frequently asking for recipes that he could use at the Getsemani Children’s Home when he cooks. He came home with a good collection, and tried out a chicken pot pie for us yesterday. It was delicious. We had a message from our IBLAC treasurer a couple of days ago. Classes there started on Jan. 13th, but, only night classes. They are meeting Tuesday and Thursday evenings and have 16 adults and 7 children attending. Pray with us for young men to answer the call of the Lord to study and preach. We have such a shortage of pastors, and several of the churches in the area were started by deacons with a heart burden for their people. With the great facility that we have there at IBLAC it just breaks my heart that it is not being used full time! The local pastors are insisting that we need Bible College trained teachers. Maybe a change in the staff would increase enrollment. Pray with us about that too. You could move right into our house on campus! Pastor Macario Sanchez, at the church on the canal road in Reynosa, is struggling with the aging church building. Bud and I started that work under a tree in ’96 after he met lots of families while he walked down the road and handed out candy to the children. While Bud walked down that section of Ruth Bivens the road, where there were 26 little squatter shacks, I drove the car every morning on our way to the Seminary of the Cross down the way. Since then, it has always been a joy for us to drive down the road and see the two story Palabras de Vida Eterna church. (That translates Words of Eternal Life.) It always reminds us that we had a hand in starting the work and many people have come to know the Lord because of it. And we are always reminded of Yolanda and her children who were killed when a plane skidded off the runway and crashed through her little house, right next to the church building. Yolanda was our first convert and she and her father donated the property where the church now stands. Over the years the wooden walls of the second floor have rotted due to leaks that developed in the roof. Brother Macario is tearing out those wooden walls and his plan is to put up concrete block walls and replace the leaky roof with a metal roof. He calculates that the whole project is going to cost around $5,000. Pray about that, and if the Lord lays it on your heart to help out, send checks designated for Macario’s church and we will take 100% of your gift to him. Just in the last few days we have heard from Adrian Hernandez, a graduate of our IBLAC Bible Institute, who pastors up in the Hidalgo mountains among the Nahuatl people. He and his wife have a new baby girl, so it is no longer safe for them to travel those mountain roads on his motorcycle. They are looking at buying a used VW car that he has located in Veracruz state. He is ministering in four different villages and doing a great job reaching his own people. Pastor Valentin Castillo, at the Cues de Palmas Altas church across the lake and up the river, needs more chairs for his congregation. They continue to reach new people and the last we heard the children were sitting on benches made from boards laying across blocks and boxes. God is blessing there and the work is growing. They are still working on their parsonage and hope to get moved in soon. That will give them more one on one time with the folks in the neighborhood and eliminate the expense of gas for the frequent crossings in our little boat. Brother Lalo Gonzalez, director of the Seminary of the Cross in Reynosa, reports that the pastor’s meeting, that was scheduled for last Saturday to decide whether he would remain in his position as director, was put off until June. The last time I spoke with Sister Elvira she was encouraged that several pastors had expressed their support of Brother Lalo. It seems that there is only one pastor in Reynosa who wants his job. This is a rather arrogant young man and has caused other problems in their association in the past. We are confident that the Lord is in control and we know of the wonderful work Brother Lalo and his family have done there at the Seminary over recent years. In the past two years their funding for the Seminary has drastically fallen. He told me at one point that they did not go out and recruit students because if more came they could not feed them. If you are acquainted with Brother Lalo Gonzalez and the Seminary of the Cross and would like to help them out, just send us a check and designate it for them. Lalo is our older son’s father-in-law, so they are family, and we love them See Pointless. pg. 9 Only the data is heated Page 3 Muslims Plan to Visit Legislators Sent by Mike Ray WND OKLAHOMA CITY -- Besides whelmingly endorsed State Blogger blows lid off ‘1 of the raft of typical events held Question 755. That measure greatest scientific scandals of at the State Capitol during the would have barred the Oklahoma all time’ annual legislative session, Okla- judiciary, when interpreting WASHINGTON – Skeptics of homa Muslims have set aside a cases for state law, from considman-made catastrophic climate day this month to visit their Rep- ering any court case in which the Islamic system of Sharia law figchange of the kind pimped by resentatives and Senators. ured prominently in the decision. Al Gore have been ridiculed, scoffed at and dismissed sneer- The Oklahoma chapter of the SQ 755 also forbid Oklahoma Council on American-Islamic jurists from embracing internaingly as “deniers.” Relations (CAIR) has scheduled tional law as a precedent when For years, anyone in public life “Muslim Day” at the Capitol making decisions that affected who expressed doubts about on Feb. 27. “We already have Oklahomans. the apocalyptic claims of gov- 50 of our members who have ernments, the scientific estab- registered for the event, and we U.S. District Judge Vicki Mileslishment and the lemming-like hope to attract twice that many LaGrange in Oklahoma City popular culture was treated like for the day,” said Adam Soltani, approved a temporary restraining a card-carrying member of the executive director of the Okla- order that barred certification homa chapter of CAIR. of the election’s results; subseFlat-Earth Society. quently that decision was upheld “Several members of our comby the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Worse yet, dissident scientists were categorically denied the munity have come to me, asking Appeals in Denver. ability to publish in scientific how they can get their voices journals, let alone get govern- heard and how they can get in- The appellate court ruled that the volved in public affairs,” Soltani initiative violated the Establishment grants for research. said. “Muslim Day at the Capi- ment Clause of the 1st AmendYet the doubts have persisted tol” is intended to encourage ment to the U.S. Constitution, – driving one noble blogger to followers of Islam to be more because it singled out the Muslim faith among religious laws for do something others had failed involved in the public arena. During their hours at the Capidiscrimination. Furthermore, the to do: Check the original official temperature records and tol the Muslims plan to discuss 10th Circuit Court declared, there compare them with what was issues such as racial profiling, was no “compelling state interactually recorded by the science free speech guaranteed by the est” for the law because it was a establishment issuing the dire 1st Amendment to the Constitu- solution looking for a problem: warnings of doom and gloom tion of the United States, and proponents of the initiative failed unless coercive, top-down ac- the teaching of religion in public to “identify any actual problem tion was taken to reduce carbon schools. The Oklahoma Muslims the challenged amendment seeks also plan to meet with their state to solve.” emissions worldwide. legislators during the day. What Paul Homewood found The event will provide an op- Defenders of the proposed ban is shocking and is being called portunity to attempt to ease the acknowledged at the prelimiThe-fiddling-with-temperature- friction between members of the nary-injunction hearing that they data-is-the-biggest-science-scan- Islamic faith and their Oklahoma did not know of a single instance in which an Oklahoma court dal-ever.html “one of the greatest neighbors. had applied Sharia law or used scientific scandals of all time.” One GOP legislator in particular the precepts of other nations or “When future generations look has been a rather vocal critic of cultures, let alone that such applications or uses had resulted in back on the global-warming CAIR in recent weeks. And in 2010, Oklahomans overproblems in Oklahoma. scare of the past 30 years, nothing will shock them more than the extent to which the official Quinn, from pg. 2__________________________________ temperature records – on which the entire panic ultimately rested shortfall that, in reality, could be Natural Resources & Regulatory even more when the Equalization Services. – were systematically ‘adjusted’ Board meets to give its final certito show the Earth as having fication on February 17 at 10AM. As we begin the 2015 legislative warmed much more than the In addition to the budget, legisla- session, I encourage you to track actual data justified,” wrote tors will also be paying close to bills and follow the legislative Christopher Booker in the Lon- attention to other important issues process by logging onto the State don Telegraph after reviewing like education, prison reform and Senate website at www.oksenate. Homewood’s findings. water quality concerns as we move gov. It’s simple to follow the link through the legislative session. Homewood began by checking the temperature graphs for three weather stations in Paraguay. What he found was the recorded temperatures were simply reversed dramatically – from showing a cooling trend to a warming trend. After that, he checked more South American weather stations and found more evidence of upward adjustments. These bogus records were recorded by the U.S. government’s Global Historical Climate Network and then broadcast by the Goddard Institute for Space Studies and the National Climate Data Center – the very records scientists and governments use to justify their “global warming” claims. February will be a busy month as our committees meet throughout the week to consider bills that have been filed. If approved in committee, bills will then move onto the Senate floor. As you can imagine, with more than 800 Senate bills and more than 30 joint resolutions, Senators will be working at a fast pace to hear and consider as many bills as we can. Our work in standing committees is a crucial component of a bill’s path through the Legislature, and I’ve been appointed to serve on several committees this year. I am currently a member of the Education, Finance, Insurance, and Appropriations standing committees. I’ve also been appointed to serve as the Vice-Chair for the But what about the rise in sea Appropriations Subcommittee for levels and the thawing of arctic ice caps? Homewood investigated the temperatures taken there, too, finding in nearly every case the upward temperature adjustments that have made climate change an article of faith for governments and scientists around the world. Perhaps the ice is melting for another reason – the flow of warmer water from the Atlantic, which occurs in a cyclical manner over many decades rather than rising atmospheric temperatures, speculated Homewood. On Friday, Barack Obama’s administration released a national security strategy claiming rising seas, worsening droughts, melting Arctic ice and extreme weather events rank among the See Warming, pg. 7 to monitor legislation at the top of the homepage. The Senate website also features daily agendas, meeting notices, calendars, and other helpful information. Additionally, there is also a link for live audio and video streaming from the Senate Chamber, as well as from all committee rooms available on the website. If you’re visiting the State Capitol, wireless internet access is accessible throughout the Senate gallery, rotunda, committee rooms, offices and press rooms. If you have any questions about state government or concerns about legislation, please do not hesitate to contact my Senate office at the Capitol by calling (405) 521-5555 or writing to me at Senator Marty Quinn, 2300 North Lincoln Blvd. Rm. 528B, State Capitol Building, Oklahoma City, OK 73105. I can also be reached via email at [email protected]. Corbett, from pg. 1_________________________________ in line was an American citizen. He thought, we were doing the wrong thing. This American was one of the people that he took an oath to protect. He turned his back and walked away. The ole Rancher says, “History should be the guiding light of experience for mankind and nations and yet we walk blindly down the same ruts of those who rose from despair only to sink again because of corruption and greed. A man or nation that walks upright in their convictions of freedom for all, will usually find himself walking alone. Our nation is involved in wars around the world. Our leaders tell us, we’re fighting to give other countries their freedoms, while at the same time they’re reducing ours along with our god given rights.” Member FDIC Phone: 918-785-2446 Fax: 918-628-5170 www.bankboc.com P.O. Box 199 • Adair, OK 74330 Page 4 The BANNER Wednesday, February 11 , 2015 Samsung: Don’t discuss personal info in front of TV We’re Being Cooked!!... by Joe Esposito This is the 43rd article in the BANNER NEWSPAPER, February 11th, documenting the problems with Oklahoma utilitiesʼ (GAS/WATER/ELECTRIC) “Spy” Smart Meters (a microwave radiation data mining device) being placed on your property through stealth Your SmartTV just might be fine print? and forced implementation in Oklahoma When Federal Legislation was passed concerning smarter than you think. More such products are com- the implementations of Smart Meters the law stated they were to be an Opt-In by the ratepayDid you know someone might ing online every day – like ers, however the Utilities have made them MANDATORY. There is no law that says you be listening on the other end of Amazon’s connected speaker have to accept a Smart Utility Meter to destroy your health. Warns other people may actually be listening your TV? with a Siri-style assistant that can perform a variety of tasks This weekʼs article is a NEWS RELEASE for the upcoming MUSKOGEE TOWNHALL Would you have guessed that including adding items to your MEETING Location: 801 W. Okmulgee St. Muskogee, OK 74401 Phone: 918-682many someones are indeed lis- e-commerce shopping basket. 6657 tening if you are using a voicerecognition SmartTV? “The potential privacy intrusion Microwave Radiating Structures in a 4 mile radius from the Muskogee Library, as of 02/06/15, of voice-activated services is consist of ~ 69 Tower Structures, ~ 1 new tower ~ 156 Antennae www.AntennaSearch. Convenience may come at the massive,” reports TechCrunch. com expense of privacy and secu- com. rity in the expanding world THIS IS YOUR INVITATION TO ATTEND THE MUSKOGEE of interconnected devices and Electronic privacy activists are PATRIOT TOWNHALL MEETING voice control recognition, cau- apoplectic about what’s already tions Samsung, which issues here and what’s on the horizon – this warning on its SmartTVs: comparing it to George Orwell’s NEWS RELEASE -- for Muskogee Patriot Townhall meeting Tuesday, Feb. 24, 2015 “Please be aware that if your Big Brother world of “1984.” spoken words include personal MUSKOGEE PATRIOT TOWNHALL MEETING or other sensitive information, Where does this all lead? Another Muskogee Patriot Townhall meeting is scheduled at the Muskogee Library, Tuesday, that information will be among February 24, 2015 at 6:30pm. The townhall meetings are the first Thursday of each month, the data captured and transmitted The TechCrunch report conusually; however, this townhall meeting is the second one in the month of February because to a third party through your use cludes with this question: “When of its great importance to human health and the onset of “unexplained” symptoms of illnesses. of Voice Recognition.” all the objects in your home have networked ears that are The speaker, Joe Esposito, from Owasso, Oklahoma, will address this topic along with givWhat do YOU think? Sound off fine-tuned for commercial intel- ing pertinent information about what he sees as the remedy for this phenomenon. We, The on reports of your SmartTV spy- ligence gathering, where will People, need to be well and accurately informed with the truth about civic issues and our ing on you. Take the WND Poll you go to talk about ‘personal’ duties as citizen voters. We have an obligation to keep in touch in person and via telecommunication methods with those we elect and send to state and federal government to represent or ‘sensitive’ stuff?” But how many are reading the us. The monthly townhall meetings have been held since April 2013. At each meeting there Cover-up, from pg. 1________________________________ the HSBC settlement amounted “When an individual finds out they got a loan they never knew to a massive cover-up. about, 5 percent of that loan went In response to WND’s report- to the accounting firm that made ing of Cruz’s evidence, HSBC up the phony tax returns and the lodged a complaint that blocked other 95 percent of that loan went Internet access to one of the to the manager,” he explained. WND stories, and senior reporter Jerome Corsi was fired by the “One manager was involved in New York City investment firm the transaction, another manager he had worked with for two years was involved in notarizing the as a senior managing director, transaction, and senior management was involved where they Gilford Securities. signed off permission to give the WND also reported on evidence loans even when the loans get Holder’s Justice Department did rejected by underwriting.” not investigate money-laundering charges in deference to bank In an attempt to make his charges clients of his Washington-based public, Cruz in 2011 published law firm, where he was a part- a book titled, “World Bankner prior to joining the Obama ing World Fraud: Using Your Identity.” administration. In addition, WND reported HSBC was engaged in a systematic scheme to defraud citizens of India who live abroad out of billions of dollars in investment accounts. ‘Continuing to cover up’ In a telephone interview Friday, Cruz said the Obama administration “is continuing to cover up its role in the HSBC money laundering scandal.” “The IRS has blocked every legal effort I have made to be credited as a whistleblower in the HSBC billion-dollar settlement,” Cruz said. “It is impossible that the Obama administration did not know HSBC was laundering drug money for the Mexican cartels, because the documentation I had showed the laundered money passed through the federal wiretransfer services.” On July 17, 2012, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, released a majority and minority 330-page staff report titled, “U.S. Vulnerabilities to Money Laundering, Drugs, and Terrorist Financing: HSBC Case History.” It documented HSBC’s role in illegally laundering hundreds of billions of dollars of drug money for the Mexican cartels and for terrorist-affiliated Middle Eastern groups. “In an age of international terrorism, drug violence in our streets and on our borders, and organized crime, stopping illicit money flows that support those atrocities is a national security imperative,” said the committee’s chairman at the time, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich. are materials – free and/or for minimal cost - for the audience to use and to share: each one, teach one. At the Tuesday, February 24, 2015, meeting the topic will be about household radiation and its effects on human health. What is important to keep in mind is the radiation emitted from smart meters along with other sites emitting high levels of radiation causing adverse conditions in people. The persons who experience the adverse effects of the radiation are unaware of their danger. Mr. Esposito is a life-long resident of Oklahoma, is self-employed in construction specializing in concrete. He has lived in Owasso for the past 20 years, is married and the father of two children. His interest in radiationʼs effects has made him an activist on behalf of peopleʼs health which is being adversely effected by exposure to radiation emitting from microwaves, cell phones, cordless telephones, computers, modern lightbulbs, smart meters and other sources of household appliances. Added to the sources of radiation are the smart meters installed on household locations without the consent or knowledge of the home residents. The radiation is most damaging to human health at all times because the radiation is emitted every second of the day and night, but especially it is hazardous to the residents during the night into their bedroom during their sleep. Radiation comes into the home, into the bedroom unobstructed leaving the occupants in the line of exposure and harm. Upon awakening, the occupant experiences symptoms which Mr. Esposito will describe causing the person to seek health care for relief. Unknowingly the residents are being radiated continuously and at high levels but which are not seen in relation to symptoms the resident reports. The symptoms are then mis-diagnosed and subsequently mistreated as the health care provider does not factor in the radiation causative component. On January 22, 2015, Mr. Esposito surveyed five homes in Muskogee for radiation levels only to find four of the five in need of changes to reduce or eliminate the radiation sources and levels. For example, change a cordless phone to the “old fashioned” wall-plug in type as cordless phones emit unbelievable amounts of radiation continuously 24/7. At one residence he surveyed, he discovered 75 registered cell towers in the radius of four miles from the home along with 151 antennas and 50 unregistered towers. The towers have a distance of 30 miles for their individual emission of radiation. Mr. Esposito said that his life and that of his family dramatically changed November 7, 2012 after watching the video -“Smart Meters & EMR: The Health Crisis of Our Time”, by Dr. Dietrich Klinghardt, September 27, 2012 (43:11 minutes). See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_wxM6IAF1I “Because of this youtube video,” he said, “I laid my life aside for the past two years and four months in order to STOP SMART METERS in Oklahoma.” See - stopsmartmetersinoklahoma.org. The “PSO SMART METER PILOT PROGRAM” was implemented in Owasso, Oklahoma, and “my house received a smart meter, even after I told them I did not want it. As a result and after a series of events, PSO turned off my electric power for 66 days. I am trying to educate the Oklahoma State Legislature and all Oklahomans concerning the problems with smart meters since January 2013.” Handouts will be available to the audience. For more information, call 918-577-6352. Submitted by Catherine White, Muskogee Patriot Townhall Coordinator, 2703 S. 26th St, Muskogee 74401. Cell 918-686-3866 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ALL WIRELESS DEVICES ARE EMITTING MICROWAVE RADIATION, INCLUDING THE UTILITIESʼ SMART METERS, WHICH ARE THE BIGGEST OFFENDERS THAT ARE ASSAULTING YOU AND YOUR FAMILIES. YOU MUST LEARN HOW TO PROTECT YOURSELVES! -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Oklahomans call “YOUR” three Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners (OCC). Tell them to put a Moratorium on utilities’ digital wireless meters and to conduct the HEALTH studies that neither the utilities nor OCC has conducted up to this date. Levin said HSBC “used its U.S. bank as a gateway into the U.S. financial system for some HSBC affiliates around the world to Cruz charged the 1,000 pages of provide U.S. dollar services to customer account records show clients while playing fast and HSBC relied on identity theft, loose with U.S. banking rules.” capturing legitimate Social Security numbers that were then used HSBC paid the $1.256 billion to create bogus retail and com- fine in December 2012 in an mercial bank accounts. Through deferred prosecution agreement the accounts, HSBC employees with the Justice Department for systematically deposited and violations of the Bank Secrecy withdrew hundreds of millions Act, the International Emergency of dollars on a daily basis, appar- Economic Powers Act and the Oklahoma Corporation Commission’s ently without the knowledge of Trading with the Enemy Act. Main Telephone number - (405) 521-2211 the identity-theft victims. Chairman/Commissioner Bob Anthony Commissioner Dana Murphy Commissioner Todd Hiett (new commissioner) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ YOUR AGRI. DIESEL SERVICE SPECIALIST Call your Oklahoma State Legislators -- House and Senate members that represent you and tell them to put a Moratorium on the utilities’ digital wireless meters. You can also file complaints on line with the OCC and the Attorney General Scott Pruitt (elected officials) for NOT protecting you and your family. Questions call Joe Esposito 918-639-3421 Wednesday, February 11, 2015 The BANNER “…and the State of the Union is Strong.” By Walt Thrun As previously noted the president omitted several relative ‘I’ words during his recent state of the union address. He did, however, use the personal pronoun ‘I’ (or ‘me’ or ‘my’) more than 90 times during his speech. One such example related to climate change. This column has numerous times in the past highlighted Scripture passages confirming that God has absolute control of the weather and climate patterns. President Obama’s take on the issue: “And no challenge – no challenge – poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change. That’s why, over the past six years, we’ve done more than ever before to combat climate change…and that’s why I will not let this Congress endanger the health of our children by turning back the clock on our efforts. I am determined to make sure American leadership drives international action.” Another preposterous example of claiming personal power not granted: “As Americans, we respect human dignity, even when we’re threatened, which is why I’ve prohibited torture…” Mr. President, you are an ardent supporter of late term and partial birth abortions. Have you seen the operational procedure involved in such a thing and the state of development of these children who are forced to undergo such a procedure? Just prior to entering the Promised Land God revealed to Israel that the day would come when they would reject Him and ask for a king to rule over them instead. And 350 years later just as God had announced they asked for a king. Their reasoning was that they wanted to be just like all other nations. God gave them a king, his name was Saul. God summarized the issue later. “I will be your King; where is any other, that he may save you in all your cities? And your judges to whom you said, ‘Give me a king and princes’? I gave you a king in My anger, and took him away in My wrath.” Hosea 13:10-11 Israel rejected the direct hand of God to rule them and instead asked for a king from one of their own. God granted their wish and gave them a king in His anger. That was one of Israel’s saddest moments. And just as God had forewarned them, they would be sorry for rejecting Him and His sovereign rule. “And you will cry out in that day because of your King whom you have chosen for yourselves, and the LORD will not hear you…” 1 Walt Thrun Samuel 8:18 The Bible is so clear about the sovereignty of God and His impending judgment of all nations because they all shunned His revealed standard of righteousness and justice. “Come near, you nations, to hear; and heed, you people! Let the earth hear, and all that is in it, the world and all things that come forth from it. For the indignation of the LORD is against all nations; and His fury against all their armies…” Isaiah 34:1-2 The greatest challenge facing this great nation is definitely not climate change; it is plainly a return to the word of the almighty sovereign God of all nations. If America is really a Christian nation, then the following should be our prayer: “Almighty God we have sinned and turned our backs to you. We have hidden Your word; not in our hearts, but on the back shelf gathering dust. We asked for a king and you gave us a ‘Saul.’ Please restore us dear God and give us a ‘David’…or his Offspring.” Note the following words of the president as he displayed extreme misguided confidence in America’s ability to succeed without God. “At this moment – with a growing economy, shrinking deficits, bustling industry, and booming energy production – we have risen from recession freer to write our own future than any other nation on earth. It’s now up to us to choose who we want to be over the next fifteen years, and for decades to come…the state of the Union is strong.” Oh, by the way, the president did mention God at the end of his address. “Thank you, God bless you, and God bless this country we love.” You decide if America deserves God’s blessings, or… Share your thoughts walt. [email protected] Page 5 The Fight Over “Waters of the United States” Continues by Josh Miller closed November 14, 2014. WASHINGTON – Congressman Markwayne Mullin (OK-02) said today that the fight over the Over one million public comU.S. Environmental Protection ments were received during Agency’s (EPA) epic power grab the comment period, according continues even as the agency in- to EPA Administrator Gina dicates that the final rule regard- McCarthy’s testimony in today’s ing the “Waters of the United joint hearing. States” (WOTUS) under the Clean Water Act may be issued Mullin’s public meetings were held in Broken Bow, Vinita, by April 2015. McAlester and Okmulgee. The Mullin has been a leader in the second-term lawmaker’s office U.S. House of Representatives worked with the Oklahoma against the proposed rule and the Farm Bureau, the Oklahoma EPA’s attempts to significantly Cattlemen’s Association and expand the definition of what the Oklahoma Pork Council to qualifies as a water of the U.S. to get the word out to farmers and the detriment of farming, ranch- ranchers. Oklahoma Farm Buing and many other sectors that reau President Tom Buchanan joined Mullin in McAlester to create jobs. underscore the importance of Additionally, the U.S. Sen- the issue. ate Environment and Public Works Committee today held “The EPA and the U.S. Army a joint hearing with the House Corps of Engineers issued the Transportation and Infrastruc- proposed rule to greatly increase ture Committee to examine the their authority over large swaths impacts on state and local gov- of land that could include our ernments of the proposed rule. farms, ranches and even dry The Senate committee is chaired ditches,” Mullin said. “The EPA by Oklahoma U.S. Senator Jim calls this new rule a ‘clarification’ of what constitutes a ‘naviInhofe. “I am glad that Senator Inhofe is continuing to shed light on this issue so critical to Oklahoma.” said Mullin. “This shows how Oklahomans are refusing to relent and we will continue to put pressure on the EPA and to stand up against this terrible proposal.” Last fall, Mullin held public informational meetings around the Second District regarding how the proposal will redefine navigable waters under the Act. The meetings were designed to give people the facts and encourage them to get involved in the process of fighting the federal overreach by participating in the rulemaking process through the public comment period that gable waterway.’ Unfortunately this proposed rule would take away from states the regulation of navigable waters and allow a large expansion of the types of terrain requiring a federal permit.” In September the House passed legislation Mullin co-sponsored, the Waters of the United States Regulatory Overreach Protection Act (H.R. 5078), to uphold the federal-state partnership to regulate our nation’s waters by preserving existing rights and responsibilities with respect to WOTUS under the Clean Water Act. The legislation remained alongside hundreds of other bipartisan House-passed bills that U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid never brought to the Senate floor for consideration. “The battle against this kind of federal overreach continues at many levels and I will keep fighting to hold this administration accountable in its attempts to tell farmers and ranchers how to take care of their own land,” Mullin said. Free Estimates Licensed & Bonded All Work Guaranteed • Certified Electricians • 30 Years Experience • Serving Vinita, Grand Lake, Adair, Chelsea, White Oak, Welch, Big Cabin, Bluejacket •Emergency Calls 24/7 For All Your Electrical Needs Co ins 918-256-6030 E ectric Vinita, OK JOIN THE ONLINE FARMING CONVERSATION. 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Haiti is one of the poorest countries in Bill Chupp the world. Without a doubt, it is the poorest in the Western hemisphere. The earthquake in 2010 caused massive destruction and killed 200,000 people. Basic human necessities such as food, water and shelter were immediately scarce and aid was given by many humanitarian groups. Haiti won its independence from France in 1804. It was the first slave nation to do so; however, slavery is still practiced in Haiti today. As many as a half million children are unpaid domestic servants called restaveks, who are at severe risk for physical and sexual abuse. With all the casualties from the earthquake, there were many displaced children who either do not have a family or any means of surviving. These end up seeking shelter. That is the mission of “Reach Haiti”. Our youth group is going to visit Haiti during their spring break in March. Several of our youth had gone to Haiti during the summer of 2013 and that has sparked the desire for another trip. Scott and Donna Miller will be leading the group. They will be met by Josh and have the opportunity to visit the orphanages and go on street evangelism tours. The church planting is done by starting what they call Simple Churches that meet in houses. As a leader is found for each Simple Church, they are expected to teach and multiply. They have 200 church plants already and want to expand to 300 more. Sunday morning worship time was also given to Brother Josh, who again informed us of the culture of Voodoo and satanic influence in Haiti. But God has rewarded their efforts. In his sermon he described God’s call for Abraham to go. He also told the story of Jonah and Nineveh. He ended with the challenge, “What will we do for our world’s hurting people today?” After the carry-in dinner in the Family Life Center we said farewell to Josh and his family as they left for the Tulsa airport to catch an afternoon flight back to Tennessee. Our afternoon session was with Jamie Nofsinger. He reported on the work in Tibet with a Power Point presentation. He has served in China for seventeen years. The Nofsinger’s have been in Tibet at the present location for nine years. They have lived by example to their neighbors and are raising three children. The youngest child was adopted from an orphanage. They have also fostered other children. The primary religion is Buddhism and Animesin. People have traditions that characterize their lives. They try to get rid of their sin by spinning a prayer wheel, throwing paper fliers that have prayers on them into the wind that they call wind horses. Much like Haiti, the work is plentiful and it takes a long term commitment to actually live with people and befriend them to gain their trust. My thoughts and prayers go out to these two young couples who are making an impact in our world today. Sometimes I reflect back and think if I could turn back the clock fifty years… Like Boxcar Willie’s song “Once I had a treasure… the youth of yesterday”. “Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your father which is in heaven.” Matthew 5:16 Have a good week. God Bless… Rep. Markwayne Mullin will be in Vinita for a Town Hall meeting. 5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Craig County Community Center 915 E. Apperson Dr. Vinita, OK “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. 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KW 5.52/4x7 Rotary Tedder Thought for the Day by Corbett Mason First you divide the people with “political correctness” and blame another party for the first party’s injuries, whether real or perceived. Division weakens a country from within. These “projected hate policies” generally take the public’s mind from what’s going on within the leadership of their particular organization. Favors are bought and paid for. Our leaders have studied the psychology of the masses and fine tune their emotions to play in perfect harmony with decisions pointing them, in which way to go. Everyone follows the Master who says he can solve his problems and become his savior. Everyone champions the hallowed cause of the masses, but in the voting booth, they vote for where their interests lie. Be it more unemployment, higher wages, more food stamps, affordable healthcare, just get someone else to pay for it. All will put their needs first and pass the leftover crumbs to others. This holds true in all forms of government and in all organizations. That’s why the laws passed upon the citizens aren’t applied to our leaders, that’s why the CEO’s make the big money. Government has put itself above its people, its needs above those of its followers, it has put itself above the laws they have put in force. They rule by decree and force, our forefathers of long ago knew government was to be feared, not worshipped. A lesson lost on the multitudes of today. Today’s children will be taught to conform to government in ways I can’t even imagine. Common sense has been lost in this land of something for nothing. We’re living in the “Land of the Political Correct” where education and socialization bends everything a child knows that is right and proper. The B.S. artists let many words flow from their tainted lips that sound like honey but would in reality choke an honest thinking man. They’re taught everyone is entitled to everything with no responsibility for their own actions. Our leaders lie and change their goalposts at will, they change the laws as they see fit. Truth is replaced with half truths and outright lies. Americans of today will never find the respect due them until they stand up with backbone and demand that our leaders are subjected to the same laws pushed on to the working class. Woodrow Wilson recognized this fact and said, “Liberty has never came from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of the government. The history of government is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is the limitation of government, not the increase of it.” “Hitler was able to destroy German democracy in only six months, this should serve as a warning of what can happen if the public is apathetic,” Chancellor Merkel said. We have become a country of uninformed followers following the dictation of our out of control leaders. The public has become a nation of sleep walkers bending, obeying and complying to government instruction with no thought of their own free will; they have accepted the fact government knows best, if they’d stop and think they’d know better. By accepting everything government tells you at face value one loses his own thought process and individuality. The ole Rancher says, “Propaganda and indoctrination are Corbett Mason deep ruts for the average man to step up and out of. In a bygone day, questioning our leader’s actions was an American pastime; it’s now a lost art gathering dust.” Our nation has had six years of spreading the wealth around, during this time the poor have gotten poorer and the rich have gotten richer. Looking at the city of Chicago that spawned Valerie Jarret and Obama, we see a city of corruption that is on the verge of bankruptcy. These two have did well for themselves at the taxpayer’s expense by promising much and delivering little. If wealth destruction can destroy a nation, how can an ever growing debt build one? Our leaders have put the walking plow before the mule. We live in a nation, whose economy depends on the promises of more debt and consumption, instead of savings and investments. Government debt and taxes reduce the amount of money left for reinvestment. Several studies have shown elitists march to a drum roll of self interests, which override what’s best for the nation and its people. Those in power will quote one of their economists or some other expert to push whatever the cause of the day is. A government’s expert is a lackey for those in power, they avail what knowledge they possess and align their doctrine with the doctrine of those in power. For an example, we have Obama’s administration consultant, a MIT economics professor by the name of Jonathan Gruber. He spoke of using deception to pass Obamacare. “Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. 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Proponents of Agenda 21 have buried our elected officials under tons of information to promote their agenda. Yet, many still say they have never heard of Agenda 21. Others fail to understand it. Here is an outline of the plan 3. Field Coordinators in every that I believe will finally produce region (4) substantial victories in the battle There are dedicated activists to finally stop Agenda 21. throughout the nation who are ready to organize against Agenda 1. National Training Seminar 21 in their communities. But they A gathering of national leaders, lack the knowledge of how to get activists, and elected officials to started. APC will provide field create a plan of action, prepare coordinators who will answer legislative language, and open the call. They will establish a lines of communications to or- presence in every region of the ganize the nationwide fight to nation and will go into a commustop Agenda 21. This will not nity to work directly with local be a conference where attendees residents (or state organizations) sit in an auditorium and listen to to provide leadership, materials speakers. This will be a series of and strategy for countering the pro-Agenda 21 forces at work working sessions. there. Elected representatives (city council, country commissioner 4. Website Clearing House listing and state legislator levels) will pro-property rights/anti-Agenda meet in sessions to network, and 21 candidates, organizations and work to create effective language activists nationwide for various legislation designed to protect property rights and How do activists know which stop Agenda 21. Sustainable candidates to support in any election cycle? Politicians are always Development programs. trying to say the popular thing to Meanwhile, activists from across any group they are addressing? the nation will meet in concurrent But all too often, once elected, sessions to learn new organizing they do the opposite when faced tactics and tools for effective with policy decisions. ways to fight pro-SD programs and to effectively support elected The American Policy Center officials who introduce pro- will create a special web site property rights/anti-Sustainable to act as a clearing house for such information on candidates Development legislation. across the nation, at every level In addition, activists will learn of government. to use new methods to create precinct organizations to build a Many organizations send out permanent infrastructure to sup- questionnaires and polling to port and elect candidates who provide such information. But there is no central clearing house oppose Agenda 21. where activists can easy gain acBottom line for both of these ses- cess to the data. sions is to create a plan of action to write and introduce effective The site will also list contact legislation and to then prepare a information for activists and strong force of support in each organizations in states and local legislative body to help pass communities so those concerned it. Ion addition, we will build a with fighting such policy can permanent local precinct struc- easily connect and network with ture for local and state election like minded activists. The site will also list any recent activities victories. taking place in each state. 2. Agenda 21 Video to every Providing a steady stream of upelected official to-date information, successful A 15 minute video prepared legislation victories and new specifically for elected officials tactics are the key to exposing entitled “Your Actions Have and defeating Agenda 21. It is Consequences.” This video will imperative that APC have the be narrated by an elected official very best flow of information to and it will detail the dangers of feed to the media, elected offi- cials and the public in general. Page 7 Vinita High School Senior Serves As State Senate Page 5. Reaching out to the general public with the Stop Agenda 21 message: A national television ad campaign to build support for property rights victims Americans have been emotionally moved by ads on television depicting the plight of neglected dogs and cats. However, there is much more unseen suffering taking place across the nation by human property owners. These are our friends and neighbors, suffering ad the hand of their own government. Shattered dreams, destruction of homes, families, businesses, even whole industries, are the result of Agenda 21/Sustainable Development policies. Yet most Americans remain ignorant of such disasters. Rarely does a news program talk about the plight of property owners. By making the American public aware of this plight, we can create awareness of the consequences of these outrageous policies and gain a lot of support in our fight to stop Agenda 21. To that end, the American Policy Center plans to produce an ad similar to the animal ads, complete with a depiction of the victims and with original music that tells the story. The song, “Shattered Dreams” has been written and recorded by singer/ song writer Susan Toms. Readers can see the rough draft of the ad below. Regardless of the great divide in this nation, one thing remains. People are fair-minded and react to injustice. Our ads are designed to reach out to the average American and show them how their neighbors are hurting. That is a powerful message we intend to tell. In addition, as part of the outreach to the general public, APC has created an international symbol for Property Rights Freedom. That symbol will be used by every activist group fighting Sustainable Development world wide. It will be used in our ads, publications, web sites and correspondence to show we are united. In addition, as we build support for property rights freedom among the business community, we will ask them to display the symbol in their advertising to let people know they support our cause. To gain the right to display the symbol will require signing agreement to a Property Rights Statement of Principles. Vinita High School senior, Laura Wood served as a Senate page for State Sen. Charles Wyrick (D-Fairland) during the first week of the legislative session from Feb. 2-5, 2015. Wood is the daughter of Vinita residents Jeff and Cathy Wood. Warming, from pg. 3_______________________________ most potent threats to U.S. national proportions has been perpetrated security, alongside violent extrem- on them all. ism, cyberattacks and Russian aggression. Of course, not all the scientists and politicians were fooled. “At home and abroad, we are taking concerted action to confront the Meteorologist Brian Sussman dangers posed by climate change authored “Climategate: A Veteran and to strengthen our energy secu- Meteorologist Exposes The Global rity,” the document says, declaring Warming Scam,” back in 2010. climate change “an urgent and And Sen. James Inhofe, wrote “The growing threat to our national Greatest Hoax: How the Global Warming Conspiracy Threatens security.” Your Future,” in 2012. 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He won’t call it Islamic radicalism, which is a problem.” Obama made another remark the Christian faithful may find particularly perplexing, implying their religion is not necessarily more true than any other faith: “I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt – not being so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us, and doesn’t speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn’t care about others, that somehow we alone are in possession of the truth.” As to what Obama believes is the truth, a look at his past comments and actions regarding religion, especially Christianity, may be illustrative. References to God removed Obama has a history of omitting references to God and Christianity. Two years ago, WND reported he issued a statement endorsing the National Day of Prayer but excised virtually any reference to Christianity, the primary faith of the nation’s founders. In 2009, he did cite the prayers of the Continental Congress and President Lincoln’s call for prayer during the Civil War. But he started turning the next year, mentioning “God” only twice, asking for “blessings” and “guidance.” The closest reference to the nation’s Christian heritage was a reference that the U.S. “counts freedom of conscience and free exercise of religion among its most fundamental principles.” By 2012, Obama’s proclamation was merely giving thanks “for our democracy that respects the beliefs and protects the religious freedom of all people to pray, worship, or abstain.” In 2013, his text included “faith” only to reference it as “our faith” and recognized “God” only for delivering liberties and guidance. Obama has repeatedly removed the phrase “endowed by their Creator” from the line in the Declaration of Independence that reads: “We hold these truths to be selfevident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalien- North America, an unindicted coable Rights, that among these are conspirator in a scheme to raise Life, Liberty and the pursuit of money for Hamas. Happiness.” Anti-Christian policies In 2013, WND reported that eventual GOP presidential candidate Perhaps the most infamous examHerman Cain believed that was ple of what critics consider Obama no slip of the tongue, saying, “I administration hostility toward believe it was intentional because Christians was the demand by the he did it three times.” IRS that conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status reveal He added, “With all of his tele- the contents of their prayers. prompters, how could you not put that in there? No. I believe it was A letter from the IRS to Coalition intentional.” for Life of Iowa read, “Please detail the content of the members of your By WND columnist Chuck Nor- organization’s prayers.” ris’ count, Obama dropped “their Creator” seven times in just a two- Another applicant was asked, month span in 2012. “Please explain how all of your activities, including the prayer meetIn 2009, WND reported Obama, ings held outside of Planned Parentwhile admitting that America has hood, are considered educational as “a very large Christian population,” defined under 501(c)(3).” told the Turkish press that “we do not consider ourselves a Christian Critics also say the Obama adminnation.” istration tried to crush First Amendment religious rights of Christians And in December 2010 , a letter by mandating employers provide from the Congressional Prayer certain kinds of contraceptives, Caucus rebuked Obama for incor- including abortion-inducing drugs, rectly replacing the nation’s motto which many Christians found obof “In God We Trust” with “E jectionable and immoral. pluribus unum” in a speech at the University of Indonesia. The Supreme Court sided with those Christians by ruling 5-to-4 in favor of the plaintiffs and against Defense of Islam the government in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby on June 30, 2014. In a speech given to the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. Not only many Christians, but 12, 2012, the president declared, many former and active members “The future must not belong to of the military, have been chathose who slander the prophet of grined by Obama’s normalization Islam.” of the homosexual lifestyle in the nation’s armed forces. In a speech in Cairo, Egypt, in June 2009, Obama said that he In a video interview, now-retired felt it “part of my responsibility as Coast Guard Commandant Adm. president of the United States to Robert Papp revealed that Obama fight against negative stereotypes personally threatened to fire any of Islam wherever they appear.” service leaders who disagreed with the president’s decision to Also in 2009, Obama told a French repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” reporter, “[I]f you actually took policy toward homosexuals in the the number of Muslim Americans, military. we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world.” (In fact, “We were called into the Oval Ofin 2008 Christians made up 76- fice, and President Obama looked percent of the population at 173 all five service chiefs in the eye and million, religious Jews 1.2-percent said, ‘This is what I want to do.’ I at 2.6 million, and Muslims only cannot divulge everything he said 0.6-percent at 1.3 million.) to us, that’s private communications within the Oval Office, but if And in May 2011, WND learned we didn’t agree with it — if any of that in October 2009, one of us didn’t agree with it — we all had Obama’s faith advisers, Eboo Patel, the opportunity to resign our coma Muslim activist from Chicago, missions and go do other things,” compared al-Qaeda to what he said Papp. called Christian “totalitarians” in the U.S. and Jewish “totalitarians” Military chaplains reportedly are in Israel. also under threat by regulations that now prevent them from speaking In February 2010, Obama named against homosexuality. Patel to his Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood The Family Research Council has Partnerships. documented scores of instances in which the military under Obama Patel is part of the official speaker’s has threatened service members bureau of the Islamic Society of participating in religious (primarily The new Rhino Flex-Wing has been unleashed! Christian) expression. Christian bishops have been kidnapped, and one priest was recently WND reported how U.S. Army sol- killed. These rebels are allies of diers at a Mississippi post were in- the Islamic rebels that President structed that the American Family Obama is now arming.” Association, or AFA, was a “hate group” because the radical leftist “We are now arming Islamic rebels Southern Poverty Law Center had who are allied with al-Qaida that advised the military that the AFA’s attacked us on 9/11. Does that make view of homosexuality, informed any sense at all?” he concluded. by traditional values, was hateful. Rep. Trent Franks, R-Ariz., exThe U.S. military teaching that the pressed the sentiments of many American colonists were “extrem- Obama critics who charge he has ists” was traced also back to the done little to prevent or stop the Southern Poverty Law Center. widespread martyrdom of Christians in Islamic lands, including Judicial Watch, a government cor- Iraq and Syria. ruption monitor, said it obtained records regarding the “prepara- Pointing out the extreme dangers tion and presentation of training Christians face worldwide, in Sepmaterials on hate groups or hate tember 2014, Franks said Obama crimes distributed or used by the administration officials “only Air Force.” respond when the politics become so antithetical to them that they The teaching claimed: “In U.S. have to.” history, there are many examples of extremist ideologies and move- “I been extremely critical of presiments. The colonists who sought to dent Obama and it’s primarily for free themselves from British rule that reason. It seemed like whenand the Confederate states who ever there’s suffering of the insought to secede from the Northern nocent, whether it’s the unborn at states are just two examples.” the hands of [abortionist] Kermit Gosnell, innocent people at the The attacks by Muslims who killed hands of [Syrian president] Bashar nearly 3,000 people on Sept. 11, Assad or innocent Coptic Chris2001, were called a ‘historical tians in the hands of the Muslim event.” Brotherhood in Egypt, or innocent Christians at the hands of ISIS in The administration’s efforts to en- Iraq,” he said. force acceptance of the homosexual lifestyle extend well beyond the In August 2013, hundreds of Coptic military and affect every federal Christians in Nashville, Tennesemployee. see, took to the streets to call out Obama after members of the MusIn May 2013, WND columnist lim Brotherhood, the group that Matt Barber revealed the existence temporarily seized power in Egypt of an internal Justice Department and was backed by the adminisdocument that forced managers to tration, burned scores of Coptic accept the administrations policies Christian churches, schools and on homosexuality, or else. businesses. 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Christian blood is everywhere.” DEALER Support Your Local Tea Party Group See www.theteaparty.net Wednesday, February 11, 2015 The BANNER Agenda, from pg. 7__________________________________ plan will bring major changes to our fight and start us down the road to restoring local government control. And I believe that if we can restore freedom on the local level, then we can restore it as a nation. dedicated activists with new tools and new tactics, and bring together a great number of elected officials who want to do something, but now lack the ability or the knowledge. We will fix that. But how do we make it happen? The budget for this plan is $500,000. That may seem like a lot of money for our little movement of dedicated activists, but it’s a drop in the bucket considering the millions of dollars controlled by the Sustainablists. Step by step, we will move forward, take the offensive and march inland to attack and destroy the Sustainable Development policies that are infesting every community in this nation. And we will help those officials who are blindly implementing Sustainable Development understand that I need 100 volunteers – dedi- their actions have consequenccated activists – who will es on American citizens. take one very specific action. To raise the funds to make And so, I’m looking for just this plan a reality, I have 100 dedicated Americans who created the “Living Room want to stop Agenda 21. All Money Bomb.” One hundred you have to do is go to www. people, bringing their friends apcmoneybomb.com and sign and neighbors into their living up to host a “Living Room room for the sole purpose of Money Bomb” to help provide teaching them about Agenda the resources I need to put this 21 and raising the money to plan in place to defeat Agenda make this plan a reality. 21. It’s that simple. And I don’t expect these 100 people to do the talking. I will. It’s easy. I have recorded a one hour video presentation that tells the details of Agenda 21 and why it is such a threat. I then go through the plan to stop it and then I make the pitch for funds. It’s that simple. The full plan, video, and budget can be seen here. If each of the 100 “Living Room Money Bombs” raise just $5,000, I will have the $500,000 needed. Or, as one activist said the other night during a discussion of the plan, if activists in each state would raise a total of $10,000 per state, we would have the needed funds. That is such a small number considering the entire nation and the thousands of dedicated Americans trying to save our Republic. Of course, there are the doubters who don’t believe we have a chance of winning. They hang their heads in despair, crying that we have lost the Republic. They tell us that someone behind the scenes makes all the decisions. “They” decide the future of our lives goes the cry. How can we possibly compete with their billions of dollars, ask the doubters? How can we overcome their massive political power? My plan is designed to play to our strengths of grassroots organizing. It uses assets that we already have - elected representatives who understand and are fighting from the inside of our government. Americans know something is very wrong in this nation, but many just don’t understand what it is. Memo To The GOP 2016 Field: Speak Out When The President Won’t, Especially On ISIS And Iran By Hugh Hewitt Jordan’s swift reaction to the savage murder of its young fighter pilot --the rapid execution of two terrorists-- is just the first of our ally’s responses if King Abdullah was correctly understood by members of the House Armed Services Committee. The president’s muted response to the latest and most gruesome ISIS atrocity outraged listeners to my radio show yesterday who are longing for more clarity and especially more seriousness from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. They will be even more disturbed when they learn that the president’s halting comments on ISIS are far stronger than his complete appeasement of Iran, detailed in Mike Doran’s must read “Obama’s Secret Iran Strategy.” (A companion commentary on Doran’s article is Lee Smith’s excellent reflection upon it from The Weekly Standard.) Yes, we’re small! Out numbered! Out spent! But, never underestimate the power of a pebble in your shoe, because a few pebbles carefully placed, after time, create a festering sore that can stop an army. And that is exactly what my plan is designed to do. Tom DeWeese is one of the nation’s leading advocates of individual liberty, free enterprise, private property rights, personal privacy, back-to-basics education and This double retreat, from (1) American sovereignty and the face and facts of ISIS barbarity and from (2) the independence. reality of the evil nature and A native of Ohio, he’s been a nuclear ambitions of the recandidate for the Ohio Legis- gime in Teheran, has thrown lature, served as editor of two American foreign policy into newspapers, and has owned more disarray than anytime several businesses since the since the middle of the Carter age of 23. In 1989 Tom led years. the only privately-funded election-observation team to the Panamanian elections. In 2006 Tom was invited to Cambridge University to debate the issue of the United Nations before the Cambridge Union, a 200 year old debating society. Today he serves as Founder and President of the American Policy Center and editor of The DeWeese Report For 40 years Tom DeWeese has been a businessman, grassroots activist, writer and publisher. As such, he has always advocated a firm belief in man’s need to keep moving forward while protecting our Constitutionally-guaranteed rights. The DeWeese Report , 70 Main Street, Suite 23, Warrenton Virginia. (540) 341-8911 E-Mail: [email protected] E-Mail: ampolicycenter@ hotmail.com Website: www.americanpolThis plan will unite us, train icy.org The president has 23 months left to wreck more havoc on America’s national security and it is up to the House and Senate to do everything they an to stop him, and to focus the country’s attention on the attempted appeasement of Iran and the “strategy” of “least possible force that domestic politics will allow” in Iraq and Syria. Sanctions bill after sanctions bill ought to be forthcoming from the Congress directed at Iran, as well as a demand to stop negotiations with the mullahs pending conclusion of the investigation into the assassination of the Argentinian prosecutor which has “Iran” written all over it. The next president can and should rip up any “deal” done by this feckless Administration with Teheran, but it would be better if none is ever concluded because of obstacles erected by the GOP-run Congress. **** Pointless, from pg. 3____________________________________________________________ dearly. We will make sure they receive any designated funds. Meanwhile, the violence in Mexico just seems to keep escalating. When we got home Tuesday evening and turned on the news that was all we heard. The highway from Reynosa, 10 miles south of us, to Matamoros, south of Brownsville, was closed due to fighting between the drug cartels and the military. There were 14 people killed that day, 13 drug cartel members and one civilian who walked out into the street with a gun. The next day a car was stopped on the Pharr International bridge with $400,000 worth of Cocaine, and the Border Patrol discovered a group crossing the Rio Grande into Texas carrying around $750,000 worth of Marijuana. As long as the drug market in the U.S. continues strong, the cartels will do all they can to get the drugs across the border. And, kidnapping U.S. citizens provides them more income. Bud went to the bank in Reynosa on Thursday to send money to IBLAC and pastors in the Altamira area. He said there were only two cars on the international bridge going and coming, and the streets were empty. The local American Consulate has urged American citizens not to cross into Mexico and even the large industrial park in Reynosa told their employees who live in Texas not to come. Our son John has decided not to bring Linda back to the Seminary for the beginning of classes on the 9th of February. They would have to drive six hours down the Mexican side of the border and it is just too dangerous. I know that Linda will be disappointed, but, John will bring her as soon as it is safe. It is better not to take the risk right now. So, keep us all in your prayers. We do what we can to avoid unnecessary risks. I believe that the violence in the world today just points to the soon coming of our Lord. Page 9 Happy Valentine’s Day by Sue Gage Wilcox Christmas had barely passed. Right along the side of the “Clearance Aisles” were sparkling aisles of Valentine’s cards, decorations, pretties of all kinds. That was fine with me! I LOVE Valentine’s Day. I just love LOVE. I would venture to say that almost everyone has a special Valentine’s Day story – I would have to really narrow down my thinking to come up with maybe twelve or seventeen favorites! Probably my favorite story is one that my parents shared. Daddy and Mother (Howard and Willie Gage) were missionary builders and on this particular mission, they were sent to the village of Nassian in the Ivory Coast of West Africa. There was another missionary family that needed a home, and Daddy and Mother had gone for Daddy to build it. The home was to be a three or four bedroom American style home. It was a long way from where Daddy could get the supplies he would need: cement, lumber, nails, and supplies to wire the house for electricity that would be powered by a generator. Not far from the site of the house, there was a dry creek bed. It was the dry season, but when the rains came, there was a force behind the water that ran down that bed – leaving deposits of sand. That sand was the quality that could be used with cement for the footing of the house. When Daddy found the supply of sand, he started hauling it – a pickup load at a time. What he didn’t tell Mother was that while he was looking for sand, he had found a beautiful bed of wild orchids. On the morning of February 14 (Valentine’s Day), he invited Mother to go with him after sand. He drove up onto a flat area off of the primitive road. There were beautiful African trees in full leaf that Sue Wilcox could be seen in the background. Just in front of the trees were some large slate gray rocks. In front of the rocks was the most beautiful bed of wild orchids that Mom had ever seen. Dad said, “Happy Valentine’s Day, Mother Dear.” Their love had taken them from Chimney Rock Holler near Salina, Oklahoma, through Daddy’s time fighting for our country, and back to a little farm in the Welch Community east of Pryor, Oklahoma. It was while they were there that they started the Greenbrier Free Will Baptist Church. Then they moved to Checotah, Oklahoma, to minister there. While at Checotah, Dad volunteered to use his hammer anywhere in the world it might be needed by the National Association of Free Will Baptists. That offer was not a problem for Mother. Wherever she and Daddy were together was home. Who would ever have thought that their love would take them to a special Valentine’s Day in Africa? A Weekly Column by Senator Wayne Shaw As the State Senate kicks off a busy week of the first session of the 55th Legislature, I wanted to give you a quick overview of the process we’ll see in the coming months. Members of the State Senate convened on Monday for the first day of the legislative session, first in the Senate chamber, and then we reconvened in joint session later in the House chamber to hear the Governor’s State of the State address. Governor Fallin spoke of the budget constraints this year and reiterated the challenges we’ll face with less revenue to appropriate than last year. February will continue to be hectic as committees work to hear bills that have been introduced this year. Only the bills approved at the committee level will move on to be heard by the full Senate, so with more than 800 Senate bills and 32 joint resolutions filed in the Senate and 1,219 bills and 26 joint resolutions filed on the House of Representatives side, our work is cut out for us as we focus on more than 2,000 bills that will be moving through various committees at the Capitol in the coming weeks. Committee work is an integral part of the legislative process, and I’m honored to serve on four standing committees, including Education, Tourism & Wildlife, Public Safety and Appropriations. Additionally, I’ll be serving as the Vice-Chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee for Select Agencies. As we begin the 2015 legislative session, I encourage you to follow the bills and experience the legislative process by visiting the official State Senate website at www.oksenate. gov. There are many options available to keep up with what’s happen- Sen. Wayne Shaw ing in the Senate. It’s simple to follow the link to track legislation at the top of the homepage. The Senate website also includes daily agendas, meeting notices, calendars, and other helpful information. Additionally, there is also a link for live audio and video streaming from the Senate Chamber, as well as from all committee rooms available on the website. I am looking forward to the challenge of the new legislative session. There’s a lot to be done and I’m ready to get to work. Throughout the legislative session I will be keeping you aware of Senate news and the business of the state. Please feel free to contact me at the state Capitol by calling (405) 521-5574 or by email at [email protected]. Page 10 The BANNER Wednesday, February 11 , 2015 The Golf Corner Prescribed burn insurance available for landowners Prescribed fire is one of the themselves or lessees implement- Services. 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In fact, the U.S. government has made several highly controversial moves to make your savings & retirement accounts a prime target for confiscation! They’re using legislation and authoritarian power in collusion with the modern financial system to gain access to your private assets in the name of “protection”, “security” or “national emergency.” But in reality, your savings & wealth are being targeted as a revenue source. Obama Wants Your Savings & Retirement In back-to-back State of The Union addresses, Obama announced new initiatives aimed at getting to your savings & retirement money. Obama’s latest proposal is to tax citizens’ college savings plans to pay for new programs, such as making the first two years of community college free. So hardworking Americans will now have a portion of their children’s college savings confiscated through new taxation. This comes right on the heels of Obama’s previous initiative: the MyRA. 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FATCA cuts off companies from access to critical U.S. financial markets if they fail to pass along American data – tantamount to financial warfare against many of our own allies. Fearing the wrath of the U.S. government, more than 100 nations have agreed to the law, including the Vatican! Even Russia and China have been intimidated into signing on. In a 2006 “Call to Renewal” keynote address in Washington, he said: “Even those who claim the Bible’s inerrancy make distinctions between scriptural edicts – sensing that some passages are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life.” tination has something to do with being a ‘good father’ to his children and transferring values he got from his atheist mother,” before concluding Obama “doesn’t have a clue as to what it means to be a Christian.” Obama’s true faith? Obama himself has often sparked questions about his true faith. prayed in a mosque – something the then-presidential candidate said he never did. Obama’s campaign released a statement explaining the senator had never been a “practicing Muslim.” Widely distributed reports noted that in January 1968, Obama was registered as a Muslim at Jakarta’s Roman Catholic Franciscus Assisi Primary School under the name Barry Soetoro. He was listed as an Indonesian citizen whose stepfather, listed on school documents as “L Soetoro Ma,” worked for the topography department of the Indonesian Army. During his first presidential campaign he referred to his “Muslim faith” and In his memoir, “Audacity continued to speak until of Hope,” Obama said he an interviewer interjected, believed in the evolution “Christian faith.” of man from primates and did not believe, “as many “My Christian faith” evangelicals do,” that the Obama repeated before After attending the Assisi continuing. Bible is without error. Primary School, Obama Essentially calling most In February 2012, Rev. was enrolled – also as Catholics hypocrites, Franklin Graham revealed a Muslim, according to Obama accused Chris- that President Obama con- documents – in the Besuki tians of routinely modify- fided to him and his father Primary School, a public ing their doctrinal beliefs during a recent visit to school in Jakarta. for personal or political North Carolina: “I don’t The Loatze blog, run by reasons, “Which is why go to church.” an American expatriate the majority of Catholics “I have no idea what he in Southeast Asia who practice birth control.” really believes,” Graham visited the Besuki school, He added that he viewed said during an appearance noted: “All Indonesian students are required to the biblical condemna- on MSNBC. study religion at school, tion of homosexuality as confined to “an obscure The following is a 2007 a n d a y o u n g ‘ B a r r y Obama campaign flyer Soetoro,’ being a Muslim, line in Romans.” that describes the future would have been required In a 2004 Chicago Sun- president as a “committed to study Islam daily in Times interview, Obama Christian” who believes in school. the “power of prayer”: said: “He would have been “I am a Christian. I’m Leftist Bill Maher, host taught to read and write rooted in the Christian of HBO’s “Real Time,” Arabic, to recite his tradition. I believe that doubted Obama is a prac- prayers properly, to read and recite from the Quran there are many paths to the ticing Christian. and to study the laws of same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher “I just don’t believe it,” he Islam.” power, a belief that we are said in 2012. Indeed, in his autobiogconnected as a people. That there are values that Maher suspects the presi- raphy, “Dreams From My Father,” Obama actranscend race or culture, dent is an atheist. knowledged studying the that move us forward, and there’s an obligation for Former GOP presidential Quran and described the all of us individually as contender Rick Santo- public school as “a Muswell as collectively to take rum said Obama follows lim school.” responsibility to make a “phony theology” not based on the Bible and “In the Muslim school, the those values lived.” preached by radicals, hav- teacher wrote to tell mothWND CEO Joseph Farah ing learned such by at- er I made faces during wondered in his column tending the Trinity United Quranic studies,” wrote in October 2008, “Many Church of Christ in Chica- Obama. paths to the same place?” go for 20 years and listening to the sermons of the The Los Angeles Times, “This is the antithesis radical leftist Rev. Jeremy which sent a reporter to Jaof what Jesus reveals in Wright, the president’s karta, quoted Zulfin Adi, who identified himself as Scripture, for example, former pastor. among Obama’s closest in John 14:6: ‘Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, Obama said the title of his childhood friends, stating the truth, and the life: no 2006 memoir, “The Au- the presidential candidate man cometh unto the Fa- dacity of Hope,” was in- prayed in a mosque, somespired by one of Wright’s thing Obama’s campaign ther, but by me.’” claimed he never did. sermons. Farah also noted, “Obama says he prays regularly. Shortly after the attacks on In a free-ranging interBut look how he describes Sept. 11, 2001, Wright de- view with the New York that process: ‘It’s not for- clared “America’s chick- Times, Obama described mal, me getting on my ens are coming home to the Muslim call to prayer as “one of the prettiest knees. I think I have an roost.” sounds on Earth at sunongoing conversation with God. … I’m constantly Wright also sermonized, set.” asking myself questions “God damn America — about what I’m doing, that’s in the Bible — for The Times’ Nicholos why I am doing it. The killing innocent people. Kristof wrote Obama rebiggest challenge, I think, God damn America, for cited, “with a first-class is always maintaining treating our citizens as less [Arabic] accent,” the opening lines of the Musthan human.” your moral compass.’ lim call to prayer. “So whom,” Farah asked, Obama has long denied he The first few lines of the “is he talking to in these was ever a Muslim. call to prayer state: conversations? He’s talking to himself! He’s talk- But as WND reported, ing to his under-developed public records in Indoconscience – the one that nesia listed Obama as a Allah is Supreme! told him it was the right Muslim during his early Allah is Supreme! thing to do to prevent doc- years, and a number of Allah is Supreme! Allah tors and nurses from of- childhood friends claimed is Supreme! fering life-saving support to the media Obama was I witness that there is no to babies born alive after once a mosque-attending god but Allah Muslim. botched abortions.” I witness that there is no god but Allah As for the afterlife, Farah A Los Angeles Times I witness that Muhammad also observed that Obama report quoted a child- is his prophet … “suggests his eternal des- hood friend stating Obama Page 12 The BANNER Wednesday, February 11 , 2015 Sarge’s Day On Saturday, January 31st, the Oklahoma Veterinary Medical Association inducted Sarge into the Oklahoma Animal Hall of Fame. I had the privilege of knowing Sarge before he was transformed into the dog who is now the official therapy dog at the Norman Veteran’s Center. His transformation is a testament to what can happen when a snarly, growly, nippy schnauzer truly gets a second chance. with Sarge, he looked me in the eye and quietly said “I know what it means to get a second chance. I spent two years on death row”. No I do not know what he did - - I do know it happened 40 years ago and he is a Viet Nam vet. The Dogs of Lexington is on youtube - - 43 minutes long - - submitted by John Otto. The stories are compelling. It was nominated for a Heartland Emmy...watch it to draw your own conclusions, But Saturday, I watched as Sarge stood at attention for the presentation, jumped in the laps of the veterans who were there and showed all of us the joy that comes when a growly dog is transformed into a loving dog. 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