SCOTUS Impeachment Petition

SCOTUS Impeachment Petition

To: U. S. Congress
PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES

We the People of the United States, do hereby demand that our duly elected representatives in both houses of Congress, initiate impeachment proceedings against the following Supreme Court Justices:

John Paul Stevens
Anthony Kennedy
David H. Souter
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Stephen G. Breyer

We, the undersigned, consider the Supreme Court ruling in Kelo v. New London, 04-108, [in which the Supreme Court threw out private property rights] rendered June 23, 2005, not only unacceptable, but to be in criminal violation of the Justice's oaths to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.

Be advised that We the People regard elected officials to be our public servants. Failure to take action against the Justices specified shall be considered support for the decision rendered in the aforementioned case, and will result in our resolve to ensure your defeat in the next election.

Being from myriad political and ideological spectra, we are united in our belief that our right to own property is inalienable.

Sincerely,

The Undersigned

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Pyromarketing and The Purpose Driven Life

Full Story Link - This is worth the read! This is an interesting study written by Tim Challies on how "pyromarketing" is what made the Purpose Driven Life the "success" it has been. It wasn't just because people were changed by the book. It was because of a systematic planned assault by Greg Stielstra, the marketing guru at Zondervan Publishing.:

Here are a few excerpts:

"The key to successful Pyromarketing is to understand marketing as fire. Founded on the assumption (which is clearly and obviously true) that we are bombarded with advertising, Pyromarketing attempts a whole new approach. Interestingly, Stielstra compares the success of The Purpose Driven Life with another surprise hit, The Passion of the Christ. 'The success of The Purpose-Driven Life or The Passion of the Christ, remains puzzling to many, but not to those who know their secret. What do these remarkable success stories have in common? They each used PyroMarketing.'
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Rick Warren, using his existing credibility gained through his prior book The Purpose Driven Church and Purpose Driven seminars, convinced 1200 pastors to begin a "40 Days of Purpose" campaign in their churches. These people were gathered with the promise (or at least suggestion) of success - that by following this campaign they would have bigger, stronger, more successful churches. The tinder was ready to be struck by a match.
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This four-part approach, (the basics of pyromarketing in the article) which is cyclical in nature, reveals the secret behind the success of The Purpose Driven Life. It all comes down to a particularly brilliant marketing solution. It is brilliant, because while Stielstra does not say so, there are clearly three factors that he takes advantage of within the church:

Naivety. This approach dupes Christians into becoming marketers, not for a book, but for a marketing approach, and ultimately for a profit-driven corporation. This marketing approach is supposed to work as easily with any product as with what is a supposedly-biblical book. There is nothing inherently Christian about the approach and it has no biblical basis.

Ignorance. This approach also benefited from the ignorance of evangelical Christians, that they were not able to see beyond the marketing and see a book that was, in many places, clearly unbiblical and which said little that had not already been said before, either by Christian or secular writers. Were Christians properly-educated in the Scriptures, this approach would fall flat.


Pragmatism. This approach is, at its heart, pragmatic. This is the charge that has long been levelled at the Church Growth Movement, that success becomes the ultimate arbiter of truth rather than the Word of God. In a sense all marketing is pragmatic, especially when it is designed to sell a product.

Never Wrestle with Pigs

Some funny folk wisdom:

"He could ruin the working parts of a brick."

"It's so dry the Baptists are sprinkling and the Methodists are using washcloths."

"I'm hungry enough to eat a cold oatmeal sandwich with hair in it."

"He was born on top of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down."

"I'm as busy as a mosquito in a nudist colony."

"It's as scarce as a deviled egg after a church picnic."

I especially like these two, listed under "General truths":

Political Wisdom: "Never wrestle with pigs. They like it and you'll only get dirty."

"No matter how popular you are, the size of your funeral depends on the weather."

Bad Guys: Fake Guns Work Just as Well!

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After the UK banned real guns, criminals have taken to using realistic, fake firearms. They basically serve the same purpose -- a threat of bodily harm to the victim (whom the criminal knows is unarmed and unable to defend him/herself, thanks to Big Brother Government).

England's planned remedy? Ban the fake guns, of course!

Like Criminals are going to care....


A "fake" gun

Your Tax Dollars at Work

Another Federal Judge at it again...

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"A federal judge is siding with homosexual activists in America's oldest city, ordering St. Augustine, Fla., to fly 49 'gay-pride' flags on its Bridge of Lions.

The ruling from U.S. District Judge Henry Lee Adams Jr. says the rainbow banners are to be flown for six days starting today. "

This is why.

Milk Makes Fat Kids

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Children are urged to drink plenty of milk but a study published on Monday suggests that the more milk that kids drink, the fatter they grow -- and skim milk is a worse culprit than whole milk.



A survey of more than 12,000 children aged 9 to 14 showed that those who drank more milk weighed more than those who drank less.

"Children who drank the most milk gained more weight, but the added calories appeared responsible," the team at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard University in Boston wrote in their report, published in the journal Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine.

But there was a surprising finding.

"Contrary to our hypotheses, dietary calcium and skim and 1 percent milk were associated with weight gain, but dairy fat was not," they wrote.

The Fire Rebels

Interesting article on new techniques to fight fires

By clinging to traditional methods, Hartin argues, US fire departments are needlessly endangering firefighters' lives. In 1983, he notes, there were 3.4 US firefighter fatalities per 100,000 fires. In 2002, the most recent year for which data is available, the rate was 3.5. That represents 101 fatalities each year, about a fifth of them due to extreme fire behavior. "We're not getting any better at this, and that's ridiculous," Hartin says.

"Firefighters don't like to talk about science and theory," Hartin says. "They are tradition-bound, practical people, but each time they see one of their buddies survive something he shouldn't have because of the new methods, we'll gain acceptance."