NEW UPDATE ON RACHEL AND HOW SPECIFICALLY TO PRAY

Withdrawing Life Support from Mechanically Ventilated Recipients of Bone Marrow Transplants: A Case for Evidence-Based Guidelines



1. Gordon D. Rubenfeld, MD; and
2. Stephen W. Crawford, MD
+ Author Affiliations

1. From the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, Washington. Acknowledgments: The authors thank Kathleen Shannon-Dorcy, Jonda Barton, and Susan Treiber for their help in acquiring and abstracting charts and Gary Schoch for computer assistance. Grant Support: By the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (Dr. Rubenfeld); Public Health Service grants CA-18221, CA-18029, and CA-15704 from the National Cancer Institute; and Division of Health and Human Services grants HL-36444 and HL-30542 from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute. Requests for Reprints: Gordon D. Rubenfeld, MD, Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359762, Seattle, WA 98104-2499. Current Author Addresses: Dr. Rubenfeld: Harborview Medical Center, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, 325 9th Avenue, Box 359762, Seattle, WA 98104-2499.

Abstract

Background: Mechanical ventilation after bone marrow transplantation is associated with a high mortality rate. The available literature provides conflicting predictors of outcome in relatively small study groups.

Objective: To identify predictors of death and mortality trends in mechanically ventilated transplant recipients.

Design: Nested case–control study.

Setting: The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, which specializes in bone marrow transplantation.

Patients: All survivors (cases, n = 53) and a group of patients matched for year of transplantation who did not survive (controls, n = 106) were selected from all mechanically ventilated patients (n = 865) who received a bone marrow transplant between January 1980 and July 1992. Patients who received mechanical ventilation for less than 24 hours after a procedure or who received mechanical ventilation after a second bone marrow transplantation were excluded.

Measurements: Surviving patients were defined as those who were alive 30 days after extubation and who were discharged from the hospital. Daily laboratory, physiologic, and treatment variables were collected.

Results: Survival was statistically associated with younger age, lower score on the Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation III, and a shorter time from transplantation to intubation. There were no survivors among an estimated 398 patients who had lung injury and either required more than 4 hours of vasopressor (epinephrine or medicine to keep her blood pressure from dropping, which she is still on…)support or had sustained hepatic (liver) and renal (kidney) failure. Through the use of these factors, an accurate prediction of death could have been made in the first 4 days of mechanical ventilation for more than half of the patients who did not survive. During the past 5 years, survival rate has changed from 5% to 16% (P = 0.008), an increase that was not explained by changes in the age of the patients, the rate or timing of intubation, or the percentage of allogeneic transplants that were not HLA-identical.

Conclusion: Of the patients who required mechanical ventilation after bone marrow transplantation, no one survived with lung injury combined with either hemodynamic instability (BLOOD MOVEMENT ISSUES) or hepatic (LIVER) and renal (KIDNEY) failure. However, survival after mechanical ventilation seems to be improving.

UPDATE ON RACHEL

Here is a quick update. Rachel just got home a few minutes ago! She is home much earlier than originally planned! God has continued to prove Himself faithful and will continue to do so. Please pray that God gives her strength before going back to the hospital in 3 weeks for 5 days of more CHEMO. This is the beginning of a long road ahead. God has shown Himself over and over again the past 23 days of hospitalization, both with Rachel, and also with those 2 little precious girls.

We have all cried out to God in so many different ways and days and have so much to be thankful for! Thank you SO MUCH everyone for the babysitting, the meals, and the multitude of thousands upon thousands of prayers going up to our Heavenly Father. God is somehow, someway, going to show Himself to everyone that is in our lives through this journey we call life, and to Him be the glory and honor for ever and ever. He is alone is worthy of all glory, and honor, and praise.

1) Pray that God will remove all cancerous blasts throughout her spinal cord and throughout her blood system.
2) Pray that God will give Rachel the strength and stability of mindset for daily life here at home (The chemo has really messed with her body and mind, it's what it does...)
3) Ask God to give me the strength to be there for Rachel and the girls through this tough time in our lives.
4) Continue to thank GOD for His faithfulness and healing. Remember, James 4:3 says "You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives" We can ask God for His healings and blessings to be poured out upon us when we ask for things with the right motive, and in the presence of HIM. Romans 5:3-4 says "Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance produces character; and character gives hope."

Jesus is coming soon! Jesus will heal Rachel either here on earth, or soon in glory. Either way, Jesus will receive the glory. He alone is worthy! Give thanks to HIM today! I have already thanked Him for the things He is going to do. Please do the same!

Countdown to November 2, LESS than 2 months away!

“A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.” – Cicero

Well, I feel the need tonight to talk about our country and where it is going. I have been praying tonight, reading some stuff online and thinking about the past few years that has surrounded us as Americans with the radicalism that has grown up from our current president and Congress.

I was just reading the Declaration of Independence of the 13 colonies on July 4, 1776, and am wondering if our president and Congress even believe in what we have hired them to do in Washington, DC. I can't get this line out of my head either, which says in the Declaration, that all men are created equal.

BUT ARE WE? REALLY? ARE WE AS AMERICANS REALLY EQUAL? Think about this for a moment. We have a president, Congress, and liberal media that think they know "better than you do" on almost everything. For a president who ran on uplifting themes like hope and change, Barack Obama spends an awful lot of time scolding Americans about how he hopes they’ll change. EXCUSE ME? HOPE AND CHANGE? Change into what? I'm sorry Congress and Mr. president, but like most real patriotic Americans, I liked our country the way it was before you took office. We had a different sense of freedom. People love to hate Sarah Palin and the Tea Party groups around the nation. Why? Are they afraid of them? What have they done to despise the progressives and those other "uppity-ups"? YOU KNOW THESE TYPES OF PEOPLE! Those that "know more than you and know what is best for you"... The people who look down their nose at you...this is the current congress and our current progressive, socialist president.

But why do these people despise Sarah Palin and other conservatives like myself? BECAUSE WE ARE REAL. PERIOD. We say what we mean and mean what we say. We are God-fearing, God-loving, true blooded Americans.

Congress has forgotten they were sent to Washington to represent the People, not to control them.

The Democrat Party has always been the party of slavery, sedition, subversion, socialism and surrender. Their current political strategy is to win on “razor thin margins.” They plan a narrow victory on every unpopular bill as a means of providing “cover” for party members during upcoming elections, and strive to find, at minimum, one Republican who will cross party lines to vote for their agenda in order to claim “bi-partisanship.”

The left-leaning Republicans who run on the GOP ticket but vote for the liberal agenda are as culpable as the Democrats in committing treason by attempting to usurp the People’s rights through passage of unconstitutional legislation.

The 111th Congress enacts incomprehensible bills that no one reads which indebt us to out of control spending, excessive taxation, and the loss of individual liberties while the federal government grows exponentially.

We’ve held teaparties and protests drawing tens to hundreds of thousands, phoned, emailed and faxed, but our Representatives still ignore the will of the People. We were founded on a REPUBLIC, NOT A DEMOCRACY PEOPLE!

How often have you heard people refer to America as a Democracy? When was the last time that you heard America referred to as a Republic? Rarely, if ever.

There is a very good reason that our Pledge of Allegiance refers to our country as a Republic and there is a very good reason that our Declaration of Independence and our constitution do not even mentioned the word "democracy".

Many people are under the false impression our form of government is a democracy, or representative democracy. This is of course completely untrue. The Founders were extremely knowledgeable about the issue of democracy and feared a democracy as much as a monarchy. They understood that the only entity that can take away the people's freedom is their own government, either by being too weak to protect them from external threats or by becoming too powerful and taking over every aspect of life. ARE YOU READING THIS AND INGRAINING THIS INTO YOU BRAIN? YOU have a brain, now use it and reread this paragraph. AGAIN!


They knew very well the meaning of the word "democracy", and the history of democracies; and they were deliberately doing everything in their power to prevent having a democracy.

In a Republic, the sovereignty resides with the people themselves. In a Republic, one may act on his own or through his representatives when he chooses to solve a problem. IN AMERICA, The people have no obligation to the government; instead, the government is a servant of the people, and obliged to its owner, We the People. MOST politicians have lost sight of this fact!

It is time We the People stand up and remind Congress who we are and that we will no longer stand idly by while they legislate our freedoms from us in the dark of night. We WILL hold them accountable for their actions.

All members of the House of Representatives and a select number of Senators are up for re-election in 2010. It’s time to clean both legislative houses, and we begin in 2010 and continue until we have Representatives who represent the will of the People. Those members who want to violate our constitutional rights must be removed from office! Just remember, THIS NOVEMBER!

Now for those that wonder how this will play out for prophecy, well I believe that the Republicans and many, many Christians will sweep into the House and the Senate, and will truly have an effect on this administration in the white house, and the many socialist and communist czars that are in place also. 2 Corinthians 4:4 says....The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. Ephesians 2:2 says...in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and of the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. 1 Corinthians 1:18 says...For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.

HUH? What does that mean? Well, I believe that the reason that this will be a sweeping moment into power for many Christians is that satan has blinded the minds of unbelievers and of those who think that they "know better than either you or I" and will be a shocking moment to them. They already despise us (remember your reading above) and will come to hate, truly verbally and physically hate (I believe) Christians and those that voted in this change into office. I also believe that they will truly LONG for the day when the rapture happens, and all the "good in the world is gone" and all the Christians are "outta here" so that they can do their work

1 John 4:3 says...but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist, which you have heard is coming and even now is already in the world.

Well, we all know that Obama does not believe that Jesus is the only way...Obama said: “I believe there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power” OH REALLY NOW. Let me repeat the previous verse in the previous paragraph. 2 John 1:7 says...Many deceivers, who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh, have gone out into the world. Any such person is the deceiver and the antichrist.

John 14:6 says “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." JESUS CHRIST SAID THIS! JESUS IS GOD! JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN!
That sounds pretty exclusive to me! Even so, come quickly, LORD JESUS!

Warning! 666 coming soon! But will you accept it?

I recently was talking with a co-worker of mine last week, and she mentioned that she had just experienced identity theft.  That is in and of itself kind of frightening, especially to think that someone else may be changing or damaging the last thing that you have as "true purchasing power", your credit score!  She and I had a conversation and it made me realize that she could be one of the billions of people that are going to accept the mark of the beast, or the infamous "666" that the antichrist is going to bring about! Some of you that read this blog are familiar with the terms "antichrist" and "mark of the beast" but for those of you that aren't, let me just say this.  The Bible says that in the last days and times, perilous (or dangerous) times are coming.  And some of the things that the Bible prophecies is 1)the one world government, 2)one world (global) leader, and 3)the one world (global) currency.  The book of Revelation in the Bible also states that one will have to accept this "mark" or "666" or designation in ones right hand, or forehead, in order to even be able to buy or sell ANYTHING in the coming days, or during this period of tribulation.  You will have to accept this "mark" onto or into your body and worship the antichrist, or be put to death.  Period.

Anyway, I mentioned to her that just think...in the coming days/months/years, we will soon have something implanted in our right hand or forehead that will end all this identity theft, since we won't be able to do any kind of commerce or transaction, without it.  She said "I can't wait! I am a proponent!  Add my medical information to that chip and I would be over the moon!  I figure they follow everything we do anyway...Why not make our lives easier...And put our info at our fingertips, pun intended..." :-)

WOW!  She told me she has ready the Bible twice already, but can't accept it.  Hmmm, well, she has made her choice.  But the thing that really got me thinking is that she was quoting prophecy and what is about to happen in OUR LIFETIME and didn't even realize what she was hoping for!

I don't think YOU, yes YOU dear reader realize how close at hand this technology and implementation really is!
We have all heard about micro-chipping our dogs and cats and other "tagging" of animals so that the states' DNR can record a certain animals whereabouts, right?  Scientists tag animals to monitor their behavior and keep track of endangered species. Many leaders globally are asking whether all of mankind should be tagged too. And some of us might have heard about the same thing happening to humans, right?  Click this link for reference here... Looking for a loved one? Just GOOGLE his MICROCHIP!  I just can't believe how SMALL this thing is! 

Look at how easy it can be implanted into your right hand below!

And watch this test commercial for exactly these items, the VERICHIP HEALTH LINK!  WATCH! The selling of this "tiny chip" as something "we need/have to have" is moving into high gear!

1) Doctors in an emergency room can quickly identify the victim and see his/her medical history, this enabling them to more quickly take life-saving action
2) For Elderly people who cannot remember to take their medications
3) A grandfather declares that he took an RFID chip because he is "in love with his children's children"! Tugging at the heart strings.
4) Because a young man wants to take better care of his elderly Mom
5) A man with Diabetes touts the efficiency of RFID chip in helping him take his medicine as he is supposed to take it.
6) Finally, the Emergency Room doctor comes on the screen to tell us all that he appreciates it very much when the people whose bodies land on the E.R. gurney have had an RFID chip implanted.

Now, remember how I mentioned at the top of this blog about protecting your "identity" for a fail-safe "identity theft" program, and my co-worker WAS SUPER EXCITED AT THAT POSSIBILITY???  Microchip Implant to Link Your Health Records, Credit History, Social Security
Novartis and other pharmaceutical companies are already backing this technology. THIS chip and its database could form the basis of a new national identity database lined to Social Security and NationalCreditReport.com. The VeriMed Health Link homepage describes the chip:

… a tiny, passive microchip (the nation’s first and only microchip cleared for patient identification by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration) and a secure, private online database that links you to your personal health record. Your Health Link is always with you and cannot be lost or stolen.

DID YOU CATCH THAT?  ...IS ALWAYS WITH YOU AND CANNOT BE LOST OR STOLEN!

We are living in the final days people before satan and the antichrist make themselves known to the entire world!  Revelation 13:15-17 states this... ¹⁵He was given power to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that it could speak and cause all who refused to worship the image to be killed. ¹⁶He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, ¹⁷so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name.  After Jesus calls his church home to heaven, there will be a tribulation period of 7 years here on earth, and during this time, you will have to accept this "chip" or "mark of the beast" or you will be killed by satan. Revelation 20:4-6 says this if you deny the "chip"...And the souls of them that were beheaded for the testimony of Jesus and for the word of God and who had not adored the beast nor his image nor received his character on their foreheads or in their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

This one will really get you thinking tonight. 
"Buried deep within the over 1,000 pages of the massive US Health Care Bill in a “non-discussed” section titled: Subtitle C-11 Sec. 2521— National Medical Device Registry, and which states its purpose as:
“The Secretary shall establish a national medical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and outcomes data on each device that—‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and ‘‘(B) is a class III device; or ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable.”
In “real world speak”, according to this report, this new law, when fully implemented, provides the framework for making the United States the first Nation in the World to require each and every one of its citizens to have implanted in them a radio-frequency identification (RFID) microchip for the purpose of controlling who is, or isn’t, allowed medical care in their country.

So. Is this microchip going to be the one that is used for the glory and control of the antichrist?  I don't know.  But it sure appears that way.  I have one more picture to show you how small this technology is getting now.  THIS IS THE NEW RFID CHIP!

SMALLER THAN A GRAIN OF SAND!
Pray for your country.  Pray for your pastors.  Pray for this president and all who "lead" us.  We are approaching dangerous (perilous) times.  Get right with God.  Prepare and share this with others today! 2 Timothy 1:7 says "For God has not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind."

You decide

First of all let me say that I'm not here to convince you of anything. Well actually I am.  I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, and hopefully through this blog you will see your need of a Saviour and come to accept Jesus as Lord before He returns again.  Remember, all will say that Jesus is Lord, and either you say it now and believe it to be true before the wrath and judgment of God the Father, or you will say it upon judgment day.  Philippians 2:9-11 says "For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father"  YOU DECIDE!  Watch the video from Fireflight called "You Decide" below.  Here are the words

Fiction and reality collide
Faceless and so busted up inside
You've been searching you've been crying out
Will you be destroyed by all your doubt?

You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
You decide

God is calling out to you again
Let Him pull you, let Him take you in
From the fear that swallows up for your life
Will you stay the same or will you fight?

You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
Only love can change your life

Every day you hold on to your lonely broken heart
(It's tearing you apart)
God is calling out to you just let healing start
(Will you open up and let Him in)

You decide
(Who will you run to)
Wrong or right
(There is no reason)
For you to hide
Only love can change your life
You decide

GO ISRAEL GO!

On Monday, 10 pro-Palestinian activists were killed and others injured when Israeli soldiers took control of six boats forming a flotilla about 70 miles offshore in international waters. The flotilla was headed towards the Gaza strip for the ostensible purpose of delivering aid. The real purpose was to challenge Israel's naval blockade of the Gaza strip and, thereby, create an international incident. The "flagship" of the flotilla was dispatched by our NATO "ally," Turkey. Israel's blockade is meant to stop the well documented and deadly flow of military equipment and terrorists into Gaza from the sea.

Prime Minster Netanyahu said this in his first statement after raid: "It is our right and obligation to prevent arms from reaching Gaza. This was not a ‘Love Boat’ it was a hate boat.'

Speaking live to the nation in his first public statement since the crisis began, Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday night that "The state of Israel faces an attack of international hypocrisy. This is not the first time we have faced this, two years ago we faced a massive attack of missiles fired by Hamas who hid behind civilians. Israel went to great lengths to avoid civilian casualties but who did the UN condemn? It condemned Israel."…

Israeli warships made contact with the six ships making up the first wave of the flotilla organized by the Free Gaza Movement late Sunday night. Israeli officers contacted the ships' captains by radio and ordered them to follow the Israeli ships back to port. The aid ship captains refused.The Israeli army said that it expected the ships to refuse to return to port, and were ready with commando teams to board and seize control of the aid ships.Israeli army officials later acknowledged that they had underestimated what they would face and had equipped their commandoes with only paint-ball guns for crowd dispersal and sidearms for self-defense as a last resort. The Israelis expected to face protestors, not armed and violent fighters.

I have some videos to show you too.  In these videos, the Israeli commandoes are shown sliding onto the upper deck of the Marmara one-by-one, each soldier being grabbed and lynched as he reached the ship. The first soldier was severely beaten and then thrown over the side to a lower deck. He sustained serious injuries.

Knives, metal poles, baseball bats, firebombs, stun grenades and even firearms were also used by these supposed "peaceful protestors" or "activists" against the commandoes in a clearly premeditated ambush.

Only after the Israeli troops realized they were under life-threatening attack did they request authorization to use their sidearms in self-defense.Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak and IDF Chief of Staff Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi debunked claims that Israel was the one bent on violence by pointing out that the other five ships were seized without a shot being fired.

So, why did a violent confrontation take place only on one of the ships, the Miva Marmara?

The answer was made clear later in the day when it was revealed that the Marmara was controlled by and carrying most of the activists belonging to the IHH, a violent Turkish organization that supports Islamic terrorism.The IHH, it turns out, had co-sponsored and organized the flotilla along with the Free Gaza Movement. These guys were looking for a fight before ever setting off. As evidenced by this behavior and the presence of so many weapons onboard the Marmara, the IHH activists never intended to reach Gaza. Their goal was to pick a very public fight with Israel, and use the outcome to further besmirch the Jewish state in the media.

In that way, the tactics of the IHH mirror those of Hamas, which also publicly supported the flotilla and sent representatives to Turkey to bless its embarkation.
shows IHH activists and their supporters chanting violent anti-Jewish slogans prior to the flotilla's launch from Turkey:

Furthermore, just days before the Free Gaza flotilla set off from Turkey, Israel published details of ongoing humanitarian aid shipments to Gaza via southern Israel. The residents of Gaza receive enormous amounts of essential goods, much more than the flotilla could have hoped to deliver.

In fact, enough goods have been delivered over the last 18 months to provide every man, woman and child in Gaza with one ton of humanitarian aid each!

What the United States and other mainstream media won't tell you is that Israel's blockade of Gaza is really a very limited embargo targeting only those items that could and have been used by Hamas and its terrorist allies to prepare rockets and bunkers.

Israel tried to explain this to the Free Gaza Movement, and offered to add the permitted goods they had collected to the daily aid truck convoys. But the activists refused, because actually getting supplies to the residents of Gaza was not their primary objective.  The Israeli Defense Force discovered bullet proof vests, night vision goggles, and other undisclosed arms that were meant to be used by Hamas and other terrorists organizations against Israel in the coming days.

But why is all this happening?  Because Obama and the rest of the muslim world "HATES ISRAEL AND THE JEWS"!  It is no secret that Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in 2008 that that Israel must be "wiped off the map" and that attacks by Palestinians would destroy it.  The muslims truly believe that be killing jews, that they are "doing the will of Muhammad"  Check this out.  The prophet Muhammad said this in Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 176: Narrated by 'Abdullah bin 'Umar: Allah's Apostle said, "You (i.e. Muslims) will fight with the Jews till some of them will hide behind stones. The stones will (betray them) saying, 'O 'Abdullah (i.e. slave of Allah)! There is a Jew hiding behind me; so kill him.'" Sahih Bukhari Hadith Volume 4, Book 52, Number 177: Narrated by Abu Huraira: Allah's Apostle said, "The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. "O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him."

But why has the United States, under the administration of the obamachrist, turned on ISRAEL more in the past 2 years than at ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY?  Consider these things...

1. Israel during the Bush and Clinton Administrations – had landing rights in Turkey, and in the USA bases in the middle east and more recently under George Bush, in Iraq. This was in case they were invaded by Iran , or Saudi or any other Arab country. Obama has withdrawn those landing rights. Israel now has nowhere to refuel in the Middle East.

2. Netanyahu was instructed to come to the White House for a meeting. He was brought in through a servants entrance – the only head of state ever in US history to be given that disgraceful treatment. He was not offered even a cup of tea – but was lectured to by Obama who told him that he is not permitted to attack Iran and that he has to withdraw all forces from the West Bank and may not build any more settlements ( neighborhoods) in East Jerusalem.

3. Israel found out that there were four terrorists meeting in Dubai . As they have done for the past 62 years, they informed the US of that and said that these terrorists had to be dealt with. Obama said under no circumstances. Israel decided to go ahead. They killed the one terrorist who showed up. However the CIA was sent there to film the entire event by Obama – and then a concerted PR campaign was waged by the White house to discredit Israel and what they did – this kind of action has taken place with US support for the past 62 years since we have common enemies.

4. Obama has refused to oppose or do anything about Syria’s rearming of Hezbollah and Hamas – Israel now sits in imminent danger from the amounts of missiles that can be sent into her territory.

5. Israel intends to attack Iran –there are over 30 installations of which 4 have underground bunkers that contain nuclear weapons. Israel cannot wait any longer. The US is no longer supporting Israel ’s self defense.

6. Israel will never tell the US again of its plans – since they cannot trust us.

I DON'T BLAME THEM!  SOME OF US HERE IN AMERICA STILL LOVE AND RESPECT YOU ISRAEL...so...GO ISRAEL GO!

Obama is going to do what? HUH?

In recent days the President and senior White House officials have...in the presence of foreign dignitaries mind you...made fun and mocked a law passed in the state of Arizona. This new Arizona law directs that when law enforcement officers engage in a lawful stop, detention, or arrest, a reasonable attempt shall be made, when practicable, to ask about a person’s legal status if reasonable suspicion exists that the person is unlawfully present in the U.S.A.  If you want to read this bill in its entirety, it is here at THIS PDF FILE LINK

At the same time, a number of senior officials, including the Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and the U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, have admitted in media interviews and congressional hearings that they either have not studied—or even read—the new Arizona law! Nor have Administration officials drawn attention to the amendments to the measure, also signed into law, which specifically prohibit using race, color, or national origin even as a factor in determining whether a reasonable suspicion exists that a person is unlawfully present in the U.S.A.  Rather, the Obama administration has chosen to inflame the debate over the Arizona law.  Hmmm.  This sounds familiar doesn't it.  Remember when we were all debating about the government bailout of GM and Chrysler, and then when we ALL TALKED ABOUT the health care reform that Pelosi, Obama, and numerous spineless congressmen levied upon this once great nation? 

But first lets talk about how Obama is flip flopping again on the Arizona law.  Remember last week when Obama had Felipe Calderon, the president of Mexico, by his side?  Calderon's comments on the Arizona law and his request that Congress do something about the availability of high-powered weapons along the border drew criticism from several lawmakers saying he was interfering in U.S. internal matters. The Mexican leader also told lawmakers reluctant to take up the immigration issue this year that comprehensive immigration reform is crucial to securing the two countries' common border.

Calderon, the first foreign national leader to address Congress this year, (HUH?  MEXICO & CONGRESS???)  said he strongly disagrees with the Arizona law that requires police to question people about their immigration status if there's reason to suspect they are in the country illegally.  "It is a law that not only ignores a reality that cannot be erased by decree but also introduces a terrible idea using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement," he said to cheers, mainly from the Democratic side of the chamber.  Oh really?  Racial profiling?  DO READ ON.

CALDERON PROTECTS THE MEXICAN BORDER FROM ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION.  WHY DON'T WE IN AMERICA?  Why don't we protect ours? Let's adopt Mexico's policy. Calderon can't complain about that.  In an interview with Wolf Blitzer, Calderon revealed how terribly hypocritical he is when it comes to immigration. What he considers good for Mexico in terms of policy he considers a violation of human and civil rights if employed by the United States. Here is the transcript from the SAME DAY THAT CALDERON gave a 40 minute speech, and the liberal democrats gave him a standing ovation for talking down about the Arizona law. 

This is the Wolf Blitzer (CNN) interview with Calderon...
BLITZER: So if people want to come from Guatemala or Honduras or El Salvador or Nicaragua, they want to just come into Mexico, they can just walk in?

CALDERON: No. They need to fulfill a form. They need to establish their right name. We analyze if they have not a criminal precedent. And they coming into Mexico. Actually...

BLITZER: Do Mexican police go around asking for papers of people they suspect are illegal immigrants?

CALDERON: Of course. Of course, in the border, we are asking the people, who are you?
And if they explain...

BLITZER: At the border, I understand, when they come in.

CALDERON: Yes.

BLITZER: But once they're in...

CALDERON: But not -- but not in -- if -- once they are inside the -- inside the country, what the Mexican police do is, of course, enforce the law. But by any means, immigration is a crime anymore in Mexico.

BLITZER: Immigration is not a crime, you're saying?

CALDERON: It's not a crime.

BLITZER: So in other words, if somebody sneaks in from Nicaragua or some other country in Central America, through the southern border of Mexico, they wind up in Mexico, they can go get a job...

CALDERON: No, no.

BLITZER: They can work.

CALDERON: If -- if somebody do that without permission, we send back -- we send back them.

BLITZER: You find them and you send them back?

CALDERON: Yes. However, especially with the people of Guatemala, we are providing a new system in which any single citizen from Guatemala could be able to visit any single border (INAUDIBLE) in the south. And even with all the requirements, he can or she can visit any parts of Mexico.

While the wishes of President Calderon and the Mexican government should be heard with respect and debated appropriately, OBAMA and Congress should always remember its duty is to protect the rights of American citizens, not foreign nationals.  It is fine that while Calderon gladly exercised the benefits of our First Amendment to criticize Arizona’s new immigration law as “using racial profiling as a basis for law enforcement,” he failed to offer the same criticism for the much harsher immigration laws currently on the books in Mexico.

This is what CNN's Wolf Blitzer was asking in his “Situation Room” show last Thursday.  Wolf Blitzer specifically asked President Calderon regarding what happens to illegals in Mexico with: “You find them and send them back?”

Calderon’s answer: “Yes.”

Coin it “the pot calling the kettle black,” “people in glass houses should not throw rocks,” or any other catch phrase, the truth is that Calderon’s speech was just one more example of the “do as I say, not as I do” attitude.

SO NOW COMES THE GOOD PART!  The President has announced he plans to send up to 1,200 troops to the border with Mexico, a move that prompts many questions.  Including my title of this session of this blog.  Obama is going to do what? HUH?

Sending troops to the border makes sense, when it makes sense—in other words, if it is an appropriate, effective, and efficient use of military manpower. In 2006, President Bush sent over 6,000 troops to the border to assist in the build-up of the Border Patrol. Some National Guard units routinely deploy to the border in support of state and federal authorities as part of annual training duties.  BUT 1,200 is NOT ENOUGH!   Whether this announced deployment fits into the category of makes sense is difficult to tell. There are few details available. In addition, in terms of the overall security of the border it is difficult to see how these forces would make a strategic difference. The border with Mexico is almost 2,000 miles long. The US government already has over 20,000 border patrol agents! Given that many soldiers in a military unit are support and command personnel and the unit has to operate 24 hours a day (requiring shift work), at best the deployment of 1,200 will a few hundred soldiers on the border at any one time.

The only thing that I can tell you is that this is an election year.  Enough said.  Remember in NOVEMBER!  Check it out here at REMEMBER NOVEMBER.  Let's try to get rid of the satanic forces at work against this country before the Lord returns again.  REVELATION 22:20 states it perfectly... "He who is the faithful witness to all these things says, "Yes, I am coming soon!" Amen! Come, Lord Jesus!"