It’s heartwrenching to see an innocent child out on the streets, begging for money to buy something to eat. Many children, families and individuals around the world are suffering from poverty, death, disasters and diseases. Not being able to do anything about it can be very frustrating. Well, something can be done about it. One may not be able to alleviate them from poverty, but the least one can do is give them food and the essentials they need in order to survive, just like what Feed The Children and Larry Jones continuously does.

The story of how Feed The Children born started with a small child by the name of Jason. Larry Jones happened to be in Haiti attending a conference when he met Jason. The boy asked if Jones could spare a few pennies because he wanted to eat. Moved by the child’s plea, Jones bought him a roll of bread and butter, and a bottle of soda. Jones was amazed at the sight of this hungry child while grain was decaying in his hometown because of not enough market for growers.

Back in his Oklahoma home, Jones and his wife Frances decided to start an organization and donate the surplus of food to hungry children in the world. Farmers began to contribute bags of grain to the Joneses. On that day, Feed The Children came to be.

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_The_Children http://feedthechildrencorp.blogspot.com/

It would seem that summer is finally upon us. No one can really explain the uncharacteristically warm weather. We all a bit befuddled. As soon as the sun comes out, Britain goes a bit bonkers. Millions don their bikinis and trunks in order to lap up what intermittent rays of sun grace their gardens or rooftops. Whilst for those native to California, or Mexico or the Sahara desert, shudder in our moerate temperatures, grabbing what jumpers, coats and thermal socks they can, we Brits insist that it is in fact tropical outside. We are willing to suffer the goose pimples and shivers, in order to allow our lilly whit skins to catch a mere glimpse of sun. What do we think will happen? Do we think we will suddenly become bronzed beauties if we get the halter necks and hot pants out for ten minutes a day? At least we’re making the most of it I suppose.

Mesothelioma is a rare cancer of the tissues that line the person’s internal organs. Nearly two thousand brand new instances are pinpointed each year in the whole US. Out of these, around75 percent of instances concern the sac around the lungs, referred to as the pleura. This is known as pleural mesothelioma. In almost ten to 20 percent of cases, malignant mesothelioma might affect the tissue that surrounds abdominal organs, named the peritoneal membrane, causing what is then referred to as peritoneal mesothelioma.

Exposure to asbestos is absolutely the largest cause for this uncommon sickness. After exposure to asbestos, the delay to progression of the mesothelioma disease might be 2 to 4 decades. Due to occupational introduction, malignant mesothelioma is around 3 times more routine in men, than in females. Due to the mass of occurrences rises with your age, there are almost 10 times more cases in the males more than age 64 than in the men in their thirties.

Being diagnosed with Malignant mesothelioma is a serious ailment, that, currently, has a very bad percentage of long-term continuance. On the other hand, if it is diagnosed early, care are then in existence that will considerably lengthen the patient’s life. All new therapies continue to be and are being developed by the way of clinical trials.

After cyclone Nargis left Myanmar in a devastated state, the country’s military regime has been stubbornly refusing foreign aid. Bold and reluctant, the military junta even went as far as saying that they are more than capable of handling the damage left by Nargis, including reconstruction and taking care of the problems of long-term food shortage.

US Department of Defense Secretary David Gates said that if Myanmar’s top officials still would not open their country to foreign help, he will withdraw the US Navy ships currently located off Myanmar’s coast. Gates further pointed out that the neglect illustrated by Myanmar’s junta is criminal in nature and compared such neglect to genocide.

Myanmar has been suffering the harsh effects of civil war for 45 years now and has been constantly watched by the international community. Violations of human rights – mass rape of women, forced labor, extrajudicial state executions, and coerced relocation – are commonplace in the country. As much as Gates and the rest of the world would like to intervene, international laws prohibit them to do so — violating a nation’s sovereignty is a matter not to be taken lightly.

If China, a more advanced and better-equipped country in comparison to Myanmar, accepted and thanked all nations for helping out after a series of earthquakes struck the nation, why can’t Myanmar do the same?

Still, if Gates chooses to withdraw US ships from Myanmar, he should order the Navy to withdraw slowly for them to be able to quickly go back if Myanmar’s officials decide to have a change of heart.

Former Senator Al D’Amato wrote an article for the Business Politics site.

The New York Times recently published an article about Senator Al D’Amato

Alphonse D’Amato says if we raises taxes, we will lose talent.

Ocean explorer Gilles Fonteneau has been a long-time champion of the sea and its inhabitants. He was as a member of Jacques Cousteau’s Calypso ocean exploration team for many years before setting out on his own. On his first maritime mission in 2001, Fonteneau measured the movement of the tectonic plates of the Caribbean. With such information gathered, he was hoping it could be of use in preventing a tsunami disaster in the area, such as the one that devastated Southeast Asia in 2004. Although he was met with resistance at first, Fonteneau was able to accomplish his mission of planting GPS devices on the area.Fonteneau’s second maritime study involved the support of NASA and the Bacardi Family Foundation. His mission was to study the erosion of the coral reefs in the Caribbean waters, which produced adverse and devastating effects to the marine life all over the world. The study also proved that coral reef erosion also has its own sets of negative impacts to the economies of the surrounding Caribbean countries.The Bacardi Family Foundation has been a strong supporter of Fonteneau’s maritime research in the Caribbean waters and has heavily funded his scientific underwater expeditions. With financial aid from the Bacardi Family, Gilles Fonteneau has been able to fit his 45-foot catamaran, Prince de Vendée, with the latest technological equipment.Fonteneau’s third expedition has proven that fishes do communicate by sound and this was later confirmed by the New York Times. His findings have proven to be valuable in the field of maritime study.Fonteneau has written all his experiences as an ocean explorer in a book titled Murmurs from the Deep.Sources:With the backing of NASA and the Bacardi Family Foundation, he and his scientific crew members set out to study the erosion of coral reefs in the area, which is slowly devastating not only fish populations but all marine life, and has enormous consequences for the economies of Caribbean countries.With backing from the Bacardi Family Foundation, he outfitted a catamaran with plenty of technological equipment and, it seems, bottles of rum.

The ACLU has championed many causes since it was founded in 1920 by Mr. Roger Baldwin. Some of the most notable causes or rulings the ACLU supported have to do with abortion rights, homosexual and lesbian rights and removal of prayer from the public schools. Some of its most notable positions were of lesser significance but created much more press because they bordered on the frivolous and were more a nuisance than a legitimate cause. They adopted positions against bible studies and prayer groups in public schools and the removal of manger scenes in public during the Christmas season. Can’t you hear the voices of many grateful Americans in a resounding…gee thanks?

Not to be mistaken for something that actually qualifies as the protection of our civil liberties is the new battlefield conjured up by the ACLU in Las Cruces, New Mexico. The three crosses adorning the city logo is a point of pride and history for the residents there but for the ACLU, they have given cause for it to rear its head and wield the battle axe. It has resulted in making “what ever happened to common sense” being the most oft used phrase in internet blogging history. But wait, it doesn’t stop there.

The latest fit the ACLU has begun; concerns prayer offered by the U.S. military’s chaplains. In short the ACLU thinks it should be stopped. Whew! That’s good thinking. I don’t know about you but the last thing I would want to have happen to me just before I went to battle for my country is to have my country tell me I couldn’t go to God in prayer. In particular they are trying to stop chaplains from praying in the name of Jesus Christ. In a volunteer force made up of mostly Christian men and women isn’t that an infringement of their religious freedom? In fact it is more than that.

The constitution says “Congress shall make no laws touching religion, or to infringe the rights of conscience.” What genius does it take to see that the ACLU is actually crying “unconstitutional” while they are proposing laws that are clearly unconstitutional? Don’t want to be crass but perhaps the ACLU lawyers and aides should all take a day off to watch Forrest Gump together. If I remember correctly the most often repeated line in that movie is, “stupid is, as stupid does”

Diametrically opposite the ACLU is the newly formed but no less formidable, ACLJ. The American Center for Law and Justice founded in 1990 is headed by Jay Sekulow who is the ACLJ’s Chief Counsel. He is a well respected advocate for constitutional freedoms and has argued many cases before the U.S, Supreme Court.

The Center for Law and Justice has successfully argued cases and supported positions in other cases which resulted in an impressive list of good common sense decisions and rulings. A short list of the accomplishments of the ACLJ is as follows.

• A guarantee for minors who want to be involved in the political process by protecting their free speech rights in political affairs.

• Rulings to protect the constitutional rights of religious groups to obtain equal access to public facilities.

• Protection for the free speech rights of pro-life demonstrators

• The right for public school students to form and participate in religious organizations such as Bible clubs.

The ACLJ is currently on the radio waves daily soliciting signatures for a petition to stop the ban on prayer by the military chaplains. The response is said to be very powerful at the least. Upwards of ten thousand people a day are asking to have their names added to the petitions.

It is shameful that Americans must pound away to ward off organizations like the ACLU whose agenda looks like it originated in la-la land. The constitution is under attack by those who feign that they are working to protect it. After all this is America and they have a constitutional right to mess with the constitution. Let’s not mess with their right to do that, but lets hope and pray (if they don’t stop us) that they don’t prevail.

The Bible tells the believer to respect the rulings and laws provided by the secular rulers because the powers that be, are all ordained of God. Romans 13:1. Almost all bible believing Christians take this mandate seriously and endeavor to be law abiding citizens. You would think that this respect for secular law would hold things in balance between those who believe in the Bible and revere the constitution and groups like the ACLU, but it does not. The ACLU seems bent on removing all reference and allusion to God on any level. What would the result be if they were successful in this plight? I choose to let the Bible answer that question.

And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Romans 1:28

Rev Bresciani has written many articles over the past thirty years in such periodicals as Guideposts and Catholic Digest. He is the author of two books available on Amazon.com, Alibris, Barnes and Noble and many other places. Rev Bresciani wrote “Hook Line and Sinker or what has Your Church Been Teaching You,” publisher, PublishAmerica of Baltimore MD. He also wrote a book published by Xulon Press entitled “An American Prophet and His Message, Questions and Answers on the Second Coming of Christ.” His book is now being heralded as the clearest book on the subject of the second coming of Christ since Hal Lindsey’s “Late Great Planet Earth” Rev Bresciani’s website is,

http://americanprophet.org