The Patriots

By Robert Gehl      

The media’s going nuts that Hillary Clinton took three big paychecks for three speeches at Goldman Sachs. At $225,000 a pops that’s pretty good scratch – but it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
 
She’s been very, very busy, raking in millions in a three-year stretch since she left her post as the Secretary of State. Her defense?  It varies from “It’s what they offered me” to the hilarious, “I happen to think we need more conversations about what’s going on in the world.”

Pricey “conversations” indeed.

Here’s a list of the 92 “conversations” that Clinton has had in just the past three years. The total: $21.7 million.

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Robert Gehl is a college professor in Phoenix, Arizona. He has over 15 years journalism experience, including two Associated Press awards. He lives in Glendale with his wife and two young children.

by Staff

 

The chalkman is back with some very good illusions. The chalkman is Julian Beever, an accomplished 3 dimensional concrete illusion artist. He amazes people with his sidewalk 3D chalk drawings.  

Wikipedia describes him as a British chalk artist creating "chalk drawings on pavement surfaces since the 1990s...He uses a projection technique called anamorphosis to create the illusion of three dimensions when viewed from the correct angle."  Ready to take a dip?

Remember, these pictures are actually flat but better watch out for the crocodile anyway
An Interesting shark illusion.  The 3-D effect is striking.
Real people can merge with the drawings in a most realistic fashion... even sitting on the top edge of a waterfall.
The ultimate Beer float!
Hanging on for dear lile, it's another world just below the pavement. Don't lose your grip!

Without a doubt, the chalkman is one of the most talented illusionists of the art world.  More of his work is available in his 2010 book, 'Pavement Chalk Artist' He is renowned artists whose works have appeared around the world.

by Staff

According to the 2010 Census, African-Americans are  32.4% and Hispanics are 28.9% percent of Chicago ’s population. Whites are 31.7% percent.

Homicide

 96.8 percent of homicides in Chicago are committed by African-Americans and Hispanics. But it's not their fault ??? (Whites and Asians who make up 38.7% of the population committed 3.2% of the homicides)

Rape

93.3 percent of rape in Chicago is committed by African-Americans and Hispanics.

Robbery

Of the 2,759 robberies committed in Chicago in 2009, 2,352 of those robberies were committed by African-Americans, which means that African-Americans are responsible for 85.2 percent of robbery in Chicago  10.8% of robberies are committed by Hispanics for a total 96% for BOTH races.

Aggravated Assault

It is clear that 96.8 percent of homicides 93.3 percent of rapes 96 percent of robberies, and 91.8 percent of aggravated assaults  =  94.5 percent of all violent crime in Chicago is committed by African-Americans and Hispanics.  If African-Americans and Hispanics were removed from Chicago , 95 percent of violent crime in Chicago would disappear along with them. 

Source: 2009 Annual Report, Chicago Police Department

How does race have nothing to do with crime? Why does the media pretend there isn’t a connection here?

by Oswald Chambers

ISAIAH 50: 4 The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as the learned.  5 The Lord GOD hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

To be an Uncommon Believer….

Let the “First Voice” You Hear in the Morning…. Be the Voice of the LORD

"Study to show thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth." 2 Timothy 2:15

“The majority of present day preachers understand only the blessings that come to us from the Cross, they are apt to be devoted to certain doctrines which flow from the Cross. Paul preached one thing only: the crucified Christ, “Who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.””

If you cannot express yourself on any subject, struggle until you can. If you do not, someone will be the poorer all the days of his life. Struggle to re-express some truth of God to yourself, and God will use that expression to someone else. Go through the winepress of God where the grapes are crushed. You must struggle to get expression experimentally, then there will come a time when that expression will become the very wine of strengthening to someone else; but if you say lazily - "I am not going to struggle to express this thing for myself, I will borrow what I say," the expression will not only be of no use to you, but of no use to anyone. Try to state to yourself what you feel implicitly to be God's truth, and you give God a chance to pass it on to someone else through you. 

Always make a practice of provoking your own mind to think out what it accepts easily. Our position is not ours until we make it ours by suffering. The author who benefits you most is not the one who tells you something you did not know before, but the one who gives expression to the truth that has been dumbly struggling in you for utterance.