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I still need these psych sites; I have no one! ultimately, God is keeping me alive! No one else cares!
The general community just spits in your face and abandons you as fast as possible! they are Godless and friends only of their own! They have no respect for God or what God has created! they kill because they are murderers! They attempt to kill God all day and his creations! they want to wipe them from the face of the earth! God genocide! Wont work! Cant kill God; he created everything! doesn't work that way!
God created satan; and satan turned on him, as his followers turned have also turned on God and Gods followers! Now the world chooses to destroy the God followers! The world has no control over God or his followers! Therefore, the world murders his children daily!
Communities murder his children daily! as they attempted with me! Genocide of the decent! they want them dead!
The decent, the honest, the upright is being destroyed and eradicated, much like the jews were eradicated in the glazed ovens of the nazi prison camps!
Propaganda against the innocent! it has come to this! I am one of those who was destroyed by my community! and I was eradicated! but I came back! not that anyone ever really saw me again!
2 elements motivate these people, greed and power! and this is purely demonic in nature to the point that the behavior is not hidden! Its a like a group of thugs that quietly destroy behind closed doors, but in public wear accountants suits and engineers gulf clubs!
I am lucky to be alive! I was sent or put through the meat grinder of this life with no choice of my own! I was 2 young and had no idea!
This means these monsters were using children for their human experiments!
I was destroyed! I did not fit in, nor would I! and I never will! I was ostracized! of course it does not work; they ostracized a child from a community? that is child abuse! sadistic malice against a child!
I have God; and thats about all I have! and Im trying to get used to it!
Still attract them; but they are useless and rude!
IVe been told in my country not to date the women here! I would agree! But the interest in women continues because Im a man!
Im not sure what happened to the women to make them this way! I understand! Im not sure what they don't fight against it; or fight back to become human beings! Ive seen plenty of women turn into scornful man haters! or feminists! and I guess thats OK! I hate it! I hate dealing with them! they hate because the enjoy it!
Im a decent man, these feminists don't care; their out to hate everything they can get their hands on; anyone! They don't care who it is!
Women; Ive seen more n more women having one baby then getting rid of the thug rapist they had the baby with! They end up single mom! Seems, thats all their is anymore, just single moms and their children! No fathers! Thats because these were never fathers in the first place; they were sociopaths! The women knew this; they talk among themselves! They know what their doing! Having a single child by a sociopath is a status simple in the women community! Going out with a male whore and having his baby puts a women way up in the hierarchy of female group status! Whats funny and interesting is; when I tell these women their X is nothing but a sociopath; the women ignore me as a dumbass and continue to identify him as a bad boy father who wont pay attention to their children! Im like; " you were told this is a sadistic sociopath, why do expect a sociopath to be connected to children; he is not; have you seen how he treats your children in public when your not here?"! " you were told the thug you were hooking up with was a sociopath; why the ###$ did you have a kid by him; let me guess! you knew he would be out using again and sleeping with other women again; this giving you the excuse to dump him and be on your own with your knew baby!
Seriously laughable all of it! accept for the children; they are are ones being used by this system of human hatred!
When I hookup with a women who has one child from a sociopath male whore, I am now; not only tied to the child and her, Im now tied to the male whore sociopathic father! How nice; how nice to be roped in at all directions!
Since a decent man is not going to hook up with a women like this; decent people see through this game; instead of changing, the women simply finds anther sociopath to date and bring home and start this misery all over again!
I have seen women have a new baby by every new boyfriend they have! Roping in a new man by having a surprise baby that happens to be his! surprise!
I think people like myself are hated now in this society! I cannot maintain friends!
IVe had women like me; but Im suppose to want to take care of her three children! wont happen; and it never will; Im not the father; what the ###$ were these people thinking about when they hooked up in the first place!
Women like this can't have a real relationship!
I feel women in my society are ruined! They have been destroyed! I feel that everyone in my society have been destroyed!
I will be a bad boy male whore; Theres nothing else felt! I can sleep with a million girls; but I can't find one to have a relationship with; thats because they are all ruined! they can't have relationships!
I have no other choice then to be a male whore! Ill get my needs met, Ill get fed! Theres buses full of women to sleep with! but it all seems boring; I just wanted to have a relationship with someone! if they don't want a relationship with me or can't, Ill have them in bed and leave it at that! and thats OK I guess! seems sad in away!
ITs impossible to have a relationship with a women; their like animals; their not human anymore! No point in it!
In my society women are ruined, their like animals; theirs no way to have a relationship with them! All that is left is to be allocated to bad boy male whore! not a problem; I attract plenty of women! just seems messy! like sompt'ns wrong! What went wrong here!
Women are pathological; they have no conscious! I personality think they have been ruined! Theirs no way to have a relationship with them!
All the girls that have been attracted to me; hundreds; All I wanted was a relationship! not possible! I can't have a relationship with them! no person in their right mind would have a relationship with one of these! impossible! I can f@ckm! They feed me; I get something out of it! Their all good looking! I don't have to sleep with anyone I don't find attractive! but its not what I wanted; I just wanted a nice girl to have a relationship with! can't find one! Ive looked!
IVe looked for a nice girl; I can't find one! All the girls I meet are manipulative users!
The girls that appear to be with depth and intelligence and romance are married! their husbands are boring, so the girls take an interest in me; on the side! I would never sleep with them! we are friends! But this backfires, sometimes the girls fall for me! But they have no control over me; they are with another man! I get tired of their games; their users, but don't seem to think so! I get tired of them and their game and shut everything down! I shut down all emotions on them! and I retire from their company! The girl gets insecure and controlling by it doesn't work! Im not with them; they are with another man!
All I have to do is show I know worthy women in the community and the other girls are all over me! female preselection; Im selected by other girls and I can prove it; and Im in! the women are all over me!
And I can pick any women! well, not any; Im getting older! the 20 year old college girls are not all going to fall for me! but Ive had interested from them as well at times! but I wouldn't want them getting hated on by their crowd for being with an older guy! but these days I wonder if anyone cares about anything anymore! Im not blaming anyone! just saying!
All I wanted was a relationship!


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By Barbara Starr
American special forces units overseas have been on alert for the past several days for a mission to attack potential al Qaeda targets if those behind the most recent terror threats against U.S. interests can be identified, a senior Obama administration official told CNN.
The official declined to identify the units or their locations because of the sensitive nature of the information.
The units, along with several others, were put on heightened alert by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel last week.
The United States closed embassies and consulates across an area of Africa and the Middle East and imposed a global travel alert for Americans following threats against U.S. interests described as serious and credible.
An intercepted message among senior al Qaeda operatives in the last several days raised concerns that led to the closures, CNN has learned.
Three sources said the United States has information that members of the Yemen-based al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula are in the final stages of planning an unspecified attack.
I think we (USA and allies) should focus on Syria, Iran, Russia, China, and their allies after Mr Obama make a decisions on Syria. It could become a world wide conflict.
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So much for any surprise. Way to alert the bad guys CNN. What side are you on anyway?
Seems most readers here have no idea the U.S. government actively funds AL-CIA-DA. It's not a conspiracy theory. It's reality.
its all because of that youtube video remember...
"walk loudly and carry a really big stick"
In 1980, only Iranians were the only ones violating embassies and the Ayatollah praised these guys for their actions, now is everywhere and all Islamic clerics are behind these attacks.
Why would our own government and liar obama have our troops attack terrorist forces when we train and supply these very groups with weapons for years and still do it today? This story is a smoke screen to get everyone attention off the crimes obama has committed and the illegal NSA spying.
@Todd,supplying weapons from Pres.Obama,good theory bud..Anything like Reagan with the Iran Contra deal,seliing sar
in gas to Hussein,Kadafi to use on his own people or using Rumsfield as supplier of weapons to afghan rebels also training them against Russian troops that are now used against us..Any similarities there bud or is that all smoke and mirrors too..Hey your hatred for our first black president is showing go back to your cave !!
Hello Pete, it's true. The U.S. government has been propping up AL-CIA-DA for a long time. The mulatto (about as black as Zimmerman is Hispanic) President has no objection to this. If it's racist to criticize Obama, the same should be for Bush.
@Joe,its been obvious since day one republicans are the racist party ,just look at their members in both houses...Just a sprinkling of color so they don't all look Lilly white like a KKK meeting .Remember the Tampa convention when republican reps were throwing peanuts at the black reporter for CNN calling her a monkee,that's republicans,no matter how you shake up that barrel and turn it over all you get are racist and republicans so far have proved it over and over!!Bush was never criticized to the extent that Pres.Obama has and you know it ,remember the disrespect that Gov.Brewer of Arizona or justice Roberts publicly expressed toward our president our first africanamerican one I might add,I do!!
Pete takes his eye off the ball and continues push the "Blame Bush" scenario, that Americans are ignoring. Todd's got a point. This admin is aiding and abetting. http://tinyurl.com/m4o3yf3
@Mark,and what president hasn't helped out in abetting,just name one maybe Carter ,he's maybe the only one!!And yes I'll blame Bush till hell freezes over and you'll deny you not only voted for that Texas idiot once but twice even after seeing his catastrophes he created won't yah...You're independent now aren't yah Mark,another republican in denile ,right!!
Let's get the hell outta there and let them fight against themselves till none are standing,they deserve it!!Again cut foriegn aid and try helping our own citizens here that are struggling for once with some of that aid money that only goes to the leaders in mostly corrupt countrys and you'll know who they are starting with Netanyahus Isreal!!
Today's special forces are taking their turn in a fight that has gone on for a very long time. We are in the same struggle that Charles Martel fought in at the Battle of Toulouse in 721 A.D. Barring the apocalyptic use of nuclear weapons, the war will probably continue for another thousand years.
If we want Western culture to survive and prevail, we must do the following:
1. Encircle the Islamic world and practice a policy of cold war containment. We must ally with China, Russia, Europe, and Sub-Saharan Africa.
2. We need to stop immigration from Islamic countries. The mass migration of Islamic immigrants is intended to establish a foothold in the West.
3. We have to ween ourselves off of Middle Eastern oil to the maximum extent possible.
4. We have to disentangle our arms industries from the Middle East and force Islamic nations to rely on their own technologies and industrial base for weapons.
5. We have to have a clear vision of how we want the Islamic world to evolve and make it clear that acceptance into western society requires certain evolutions in Middle Eastern culture that include certain thresholds of non-violence and tolerance.
Seriously? Come one now. Wake up to the fact this whole thing is a staged joke. And you saw what happened to SEAL Team 6, I hope. They figured out what was really going on and ended up on the White House hit list. Let's hope the SF guys politely stay in their boxes and follow orders.
Honestly, is anyone all that surprised that a culture with wild religious views who has been occupied by foreign militaries for years who employ drones to kill them is trying everything they can to hurt us?
Greed for oil is what got us into this mess and we all know it but choose to accept a terrorist attack now and again.
There needs to be a seismic shift in our government to rid ourselves of our thirst for their damn oil.
Al Qaeda threatens the world with potential terrorist attacks....
We send U.S. special forces to make Al Qaeda pee their pants. Just saw today that four Al Qaeda militants were already taken out in Yemen. My how the tables have turned.
Sounds like fantasy land. You do know who AL-CIA-DA works for, don't you? The SF is likely working alongside them.
War is evolving to address the changes in national threat. We no longer have massive movements of men and armament who meet and fight it out to determine a winner causing wide-spread destruction. We have small groups with special skills and arms competing behind the scenes.
What I see is one side attacking symbolic targets, causing little damage but basically 'counting coup'. The other trying to stop them by killing them.
The attackers are getting publicity, but not accomplishing any sort of goal. They are attacking targets and not their attackers – who are killing them a few at a time. This is ultimately a losing strategy. They gain no territory or power physically or psychologically. This is important if an ideology is to survive – it must gain a safe haven in order to grow. The only havens they have gained is by destroying the infrastructure of a region – meaning they destroy what they need to grow and expand.
BINGO! This is exactly what makes them terrorists as they have no real plans on governing a region. Their sole purpose is to be disruptive.
Follow the money. That'll lead right back here to the U.S. government. You want to stop terrorism? Get America back into the hands of the American public. Otherwise, the ship will be captained by the terrorists themselves. That's who runs the country.
For me THE ONEs I AM CONCERD WITH is all the muslims in the world. When will they become exstremist?? and start blowing things up?? I am a vet from oef- oif even our interps we couldent trust em. We can't trust any call me racest call me crazy but the way they think will blow your mind.
QUOTE: .....the way they think will blow your mind!"
COMMENT: Yes! But, Western countries cannot expect much from a culture and religion that:
1. Thrives on living in the past (14th Century values)
2. Believes their messiah ascended to heaven on a winged horse
3. All non-Muslims are infidels, and the must be killed, but appeasing infidels for a short time is fine
4. Rewards attacks on innocent women and children by convincing the suicide attackers they will immediately go to heaven, live in a mythical city with streets of gold, and unlimited food, and, of course, scores of virgins.
They mainly do what the Pentagon tells them to do.
Send them to Hell, Special Forces.
They won't be doing that.
Erkel and his gang are just showing you the usual smoke & mirrors! "It was a video." REMEMBER? I suggest you all read the current #1 sellers out there..."The Amateur", "Injustice", "Obama's Enemies' list" The raping of our once proud nation continues!
You are as stunningly ignorant as you are off topic...read some of the responses to this threat from both sides of the aisle you monumental moron...
Give em hell boys.
Look Servicemen, Ayman al-Zawahiri needs a bullit in his forehead. Go do it !
Why don't you go do it?...
Because we have brave, elite, special forces volunteers that would be much more effective than you or I.
He's probably hanging out in the Pentagon with the rest of the terrorists.
What happen to classified information, wait why not telling them when and how and type of Arms we're carrying as well. I love when you report a story but when it comes to stratigic battle plans you might want to keep your head where it belongs.
I said that back during Viet Nam. It's just gotten worse.
AL-CIA-DA gets their intelligence directly from the White House. Their bosses. You won't be able to cut off that flow. Wait! You didn't think they were a legitimate enemy, did you? The real terrorists are closer than you think.
The Ministry of Truth has spoken...
I wish we could all work together against these terrorists. The reason they are embolden is that they see us as divided and fragmented. We are Americans, and we should all work together to combat any threat against our freedom and our wish to live together in peace.
Let us work together, and let us learn to compromise.
We can be again what we once were, a nation of people that cares about everyone of us, a nation that works together, a nations who welcomes immigrants to join us....
....or we can be like Rome, a nation of haves and have nots, a nation that fell in spite of it's military power, to our petty squabbles.
History repeats itself. I hope that we have the wisdom to avoid this future, but who knows?
You want to unite and stop terrorists? Take away their funding. Every barrel of oil that comes out of the Persian Gulf or the Middle East funds them. IF we were to unite as a nation and develop alternatives to their oil, develop alternative technologies to fossil fuels, and shared those technologies with the rest of the world, they would have no funding to conduct any operation short of herding goats. You are correct we should learn from History. We have been in that area of the world since 1940 trying to control the political climate militarily and politically not to mention giving arms to various groups that we end up going to fight. Bin Laden and Saddam Hussein are just a couple of names that should be familiar to you. How did that work out for the United States? Now we have war mongerers providing arms to Syrian rebels. Why so we can go fight them 10 years from now?
The federal govt. should take full advantage of the massive oil and gas reserves that we have in this country. Green Energy is an oxymoron.
We don't actually need their oil anymore. We have access to other sources. Australia has enough untapped oil to make Saudi Arabia look like nothing. Unless an American owns a part of their oil production business, I can't think of a reason we're still buying from them. I'm thinking Cheney. He's just enough of a chump to play both sides for the money. Now there's a story for a reporter to sink his teeth into. If he lived long enough to report it.
The main funders of the terrorists are the U.S. taxpayers. The U.S. government funds terrorism all over the planet and we get to pay for it.
Doubt if, unlike WWII, we will ever see all Americans on the same page with regards to national defense. We have the Doves who believe that 9/11 was well deserved because the US mistreated Muslims. And we have the Hawks who would just as soon attack 100 Al Qaeda tomorrow.
BTW I believe that the DOD should attack 1,000 Al Qaeda targets tomorrow just to stay in practice.
Go SF.
everyone commenting on this website is a fool.
a post from someone with a vast amount of experience at being a fool no doubt.
That means...
Well then....welcome fool!
True. A bunch of Kool-Aid drinkers who are willing to bend over and take one where the sun doesn't shine from the TSA. Many of these folks really believe the crap coming from the U.S. government and the mainstream media.
If they weren't stupid we would be screwed.
Iin the final stages of planning an unspecified attack? WOW! Hillary better hurry and apologize!!
So jimmy if the govt did absolutely nothing, just to appease you and entertain the nsa debacle and there was an attack, what would be yiur complaint? you would complain and blame the govt for the failure to act. Right?
As history has proven (do you read?), government has always been the biggest threat. You name the incident, usually there's a government hand involved. No, I'm not talking kooky tin foil hat nonsense. Look up real history. We haven't had a legitimate foreign attack since practically the War of 1812.
Sorry but it's a real shame to look back at history but when you look back at the various incidences that the U.S. government had justified some kind of escalation of events, it was a staged act that got us there.
That's how it works in the real world.
The people that complains constantly are the same morons that expect the decisions made should go through them first.
Incompetence on display to the world. Terrorists make a few well-placed and well-timed calls among themselves. BINGO. 20-some embassies closed. And terrorists now know precisely how said incompetence tracks, disseminates, and interprets such calls (if any, in fact, were made).
Oh give it a rest, you flatulent half-wit.
Well said.
Freedom storm what do you suggest? im curious what goes through the mind of a complainer.
Great comment...inormaion like this always shows the hand of the government. In WW2they had to hide their intel (ENIGMA) from tipping their hand on how they collect intel. Any time its rleased by overt defensive actions the "enemy" uses it to interperet how it ws collected. As for the comment about whethe there was actually a threat, Id have to agree with you. Seems very dubious timing that this inte was gathered right when the NSA and PRISM are under fire. The CIA and their ilk have been caught lying so often its a miracle anyone believes anything they say. The uninformed masses will hate this comment becaue it challenges their world view bt the educated few will be in agreeane. Start by lookinginto the Gulf of Tonkin , Operation Gladio, Operation Northwoods...the proof is there if you want to see it.
When it comes down to it, you really can't trust anything the U.S. government tells you.
When you have a scandal such as the NSA scandal you have to do something to distract from it and make your past sins look justified.Scare hell out of everybody,lie lie lie to cover up the scandal and divert the media attention elsewhere.
Another moron heard from.
In general, I think the USA agencies are too numerous, too loud, too big, and too incompetent to stop whatever huge attack that may be planned. If our government was more interested in defeating the terror organizations, it would not broadcast some much information about our strategies. If our government was interested in defeating terror organizations, we would not create endless holes and opportunities for the terrorists to slip out of custody and back to their networks. Face it, the US government never intended to accomplish our objectives.
The govt wants terrorist attacks. Theyre good for business!
I also heard that professional wrestling was real.
I have found that even invented threats are as real as the day is long
It's as usual: damned if they do, damned if they don't. Many people are grousing that they think the threat alert is just a way to keep the "sheeple" (their term) frightened, and to make a show of protecting Americans for political purposes.
On the other hand, if nothing was being done to bolster security right now, and an attack DID occur, these same people would be screaming about how irresponsible the government was, failing to protect Americans, accusing the government of letting an attack happen so it can declare war on somebody.
Can't win, can they? So they might as well be responsible. Why not?
To some linear thinkers, the mere announcement of a threat is nothing more than a government ploy, riddled with nefarious agendas. It won't occur to them that the threat is real unless an attack occurs; then they'll get busy laying blame.
Even I received an e-mail from the government, outlining the warnings. Maybe it's because I live abroad, but I'm not in any country at risk of attacks – even less at risk than the States is. I did just renew my passport, but not to travel. I need it to remain legally in this other country. Nor have I traveled in many years. Nor have I made travel plans, or gotten myself on any government lists to receive security warnings. I have to give them credit for being extremely thorough, and I'm grateful for it. It strongly encouraged me to pass the notice on to others, especially people I know who plan to travel soon. They're not letting any grass grow under their feet on this, and that, in my book, is being responsible.
More people, from what I've read of comments in various places, seem to feel that the threat is mere imagination, pure hype. They'd probably have said that when people tried to connect the dots before 9/11, but were stifled in doing so.
I can tell you one thing that doesn't depend on anyone in government or in the media: Islamists intend to conquer the whole world, and by ANY means at all. I've studied Islam for almost 20 years. I know what it is. Unless you have also studied it, you do NOT know anything of importance about Islam. Not even things that could bear on your own survival. You prefer your ignorance and denial. One day, that will cost those who do so.
Their god tells them they must conquer the whole world. MUST. It is not a suggestion. Read their holy books, and you, too, will actually have the facts about Islam.
I wouldn't go into a panic over a warning like this, but I would become much more observant and vigilant, and would avoid public transportation and places where people congregate in large numbers. I take the government warnings seriously because I take these terrorists seriously. It's really that simple.
Thus spake The Ministry Truth
Good post. I'm curious as to why the government thinks the threat is aimed at embassies. Obviously we're not being told everything, but that's par for the course.
Well said...and far too sensible for many of these wing-nuts
It makes me sick just how the right-wing politicians in Washington are using these clowns. I wonder if any of the so-called "threats" are genuine or invented by the C.I.A. We"ll probably never know for sure.
your prez supports muslim terrorist.
Get psychiatric help, you sad little half-wit.
Review Benghazi.
Maybe these mutts are learning from the mistakes that didn't happen.
"...a senior Obama administration official told CNN."
You mean left wing???


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Ukraine: 49 dead as rebels down military plane
NOVOHANNIVKA, Ukraine >> Pro-Russia separatists shot down a Ukrainian military transport plane Saturday, killing all 49 crew and troops aboard in a bloody escalation of the conflict in the country's restive east.
It was a bitter setback for the Ukrainian forces, which have struggled to suppress an armed insurgency by foes of the new government, and came only a week after the new president, billionaire candy magnate Petro Poroshenko, spoke about a peace plan in his inaugural address.
Yet the incident, the deadliest for the Ukrainian military in the four-month-old conflict, suggested the two sides were very much still at odds. Poroshenko called an emergency meeting of Ukraine's national security council and declared Sunday a day of national mourning.
The U.S. government reiterated its support for Poroshenko's government and rejected Russia's statements that it was not arming the rebels. It said Russia clearly had sent tanks and rocket launchers to the rebels, making sure the unmarked tanks were of a type not currently being used by Russian forces.
"We condemn the shooting down of the Ukrainian military plane and continue to be deeply concerned about the situation in eastern Ukraine, including by the fact that militant and separatist groups have received heavy weapons from Russia, including tanks, which is a significant escalation," said White House spokeswoman Laura Lucas Magnuson.
Analysts said the downing of the plane could bring a renewed emphasis on increasing sanctions against Russia.
The loss of the plane "will refocus attention on the fact that Russia does not seem to be doing very much to moderate the insurgency (or) the cross-border resupply of separatists," said Timothy Ash, an analyst at Standard Bank PLC.
"Comments from U.S. officials are now quite specific, and I would expect the focus to return to sanctions next week," he said.
Nine crew and 40 troops were aboard the Il-76 troop transport when it went down early Saturday as it approached the airport at Luhansk, the Ukrainian prosecutor general's office said.
Luhansk is in eastern Ukraine near the border with Russia, an area where separatists have seized government buildings and declared independence. Ukrainian forces still control the Luhansk airport, however.
Defense Ministry spokesman Bohdan Senyk said the rebels used anti-aircraft guns and a heavy machine gun to down the plane, while the prosecutor general's office said rebels used an anti-aircraft missile.
The plane's tail section lay with other pieces of scorched wreckage in a field near the village of Novohannivka, 20 kilometers (12 miles) south of Luhansk. An AP reporter saw a dozen or more armed separatists inspecting the crash site.
The death toll Saturday exceeded the 46 who died after a fire and shootings in Odessa on May 2. At least 40 people also died in fighting at Donetsk airport in late May and a rebel spokesman said the toll on his side that day may have been as high as 100.
The Kiev government has accused Russia of permitting three tanks to cross the border this week into eastern Ukraine, where they were used by rebels. Russia denies supplying the separatists and says Russians fighting in Ukraine are volunteers who went there on their own.
Moscow did not respond to reports it was sending tanks into Ukraine but instead issued a warning Saturday, accusing the Ukrainian military of violating the border. The Russian Foreign Ministry said if the incursions continued it would "take all necessary measures to suppress them."
The ministry listed several incidents when it said the Ukrainian armed forces crossed into Russian airspace or territory, including on Friday when it said a Ukrainian armored vehicle ventured about 150 meters (yards) into Russia.
NATO, meanwhile released images Saturday that it said showed recent Russian tank movements near the border.
The tanks seen in eastern Ukraine, NATO said, "do not bear markings or camouflage paint like those used by the Ukrainian military. In fact, they do not have markings at all, which is reminiscent of tactics used by Russian elements that were involved in destabilizing Crimea."
Tensions between Ukraine and Russia escalated in February after pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych was driven from office by protesters who wanted closer ties with the European Union and an end to the country's endemic corruption. Russia then seized and annexed Ukraine's Black Sea peninsula of Crimea.
The U.S. and Europe rejected the annexation and responded with financial sanctions targeting individuals they deemed to have played a role. They have threatened to further extend the sanctions to the Russian economy.
French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the Ukraine situation with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday, expressing their "grave concern" over the continued combat in eastern Ukraine. They "stressed the importance of rapidly establishing a ceasefire in Ukraine" and called for measures to de-escalate the fighting.
The statement from Hollande's office also said Hollande and Merkel stressed the need to find an agreement in the natural gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine. Russia says Ukraine owes billions in unpaid gas debts and has set a deadline of Monday before it will demand upfront payments for gas supplies. Ukraine disputes the debt amount.
The European Union reported that senior officials from Ukraine and Russia, including Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and Gazprom CEO Alexei Miller, were holding talks in Kiev later Saturday on the gas issue.


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Bake, uncovered, stirring every 10 minutes, for 40-45 minutes, or until vegetables are tender and golden. Remove herb bundle & discard, toss with fresh parsley and serve.
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Thursday, July 24, 2008
Cherry Clafouti - Coming Soon to a Video Recipe Blog Near You
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I've been making clafouti for almost a year now. Saw it on the food channel and it looked so easy. One thing I'm still not sure of though, how to store it if it's not all eaten that night, and how long is it good for? I've been making it with blueberries since they came in, and I have made it with rasberries, and blackberries. I look forward to your video.
- July 24, 2008 at 8:58 AM
- Chef John said...
You can just refrigerate it. Then I would use the microwave to just take the chill off.
Should keep a couple days, but after that I would look for a new recipe!
- July 24, 2008 at 11:05 AM
lol, sometimes I make it for the people in the office, it never needs to sit for more than one evening. I was just wondering if it should be in the fridge or the is it like bread pudding, and can sit out.
Thanks for answering. You have a great site, and I've learned some great things in the short time I've been coming here.
- July 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM
- Chef John said...
Yes, sitting out for one evening is no problem. Thanks for watching!
- July 24, 2008 at 1:55 PM
- milkshake said...
Grandma was making great ones - we used to call it "bublanina" ("bubly cake"- dont ask why). The only thing I disliked were the cherry pits - grandma did not like to pit her cherries so one had to bite with care...
I recommend using tart cherries if you can get them - it produces much more interesting flavor than with the crunchy sweet ones.
- July 24, 2008 at 4:28 PM
Da-rool! Can't wait for the demo video. I just hope it's simple enough for kitchen-impaired me to pull it off!
- July 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM
Hi Chef John - Love the blog. Here on the West Coast we only get Bing cherries, red or white. Will they work for this dish?
- July 25, 2008 at 1:37 PM
- Chef John said...
any fresh cherry works, any fresh fruit for that matter.
- July 25, 2008 at 2:35 PM
Hi Chef John.. :) i LOVE!!! your recipes! :D
thankyou so much for sharing.
- August 6, 2009 at 7:04 AM
- asuperstar said...
Yum Yum Yum!!
- June 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM
- Tammy Jones said...
Fresh picked cherries (tart ones) were at our farmer's market this morning and I couldn't resist buying any. Your Clafouti recipe totally ROCKED, even with sour cherries (plus I pitted them)! My husband loved it! It's a definite keeper, and I just wanted to thank you for such a great - and easy - collection of recipes.
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The Dow industrials took their biggest daily tumble in more than seven months Friday, caught up in a two-day selloff in emerging-market stocks and currencies.
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In 2010, Quentin Dupieux's Rubber hit screen to critical acclaim. The acclaim was mostly along the lines of "The best killer tire movie you'll ever see." Despite its odd-ball premise and protagonist, Rubber did seem to have cohesive subtext about criticizing the audience and purposely messing with their expectations. By contrast, Dupieux's new movie, Wrong, is all killer tire and hardly anything to say. That's doesn't make it a bad flick. Strangeness along the lines of a killer tire can still be pretty funny, and Wrong's off-kilter reality offers plenty of laughs. It's just too silly and devoted to strangeness to make any an exploration of a convoluted subtext worth considering.
Somewhere in all the bizarre behavior is a comprehensible plot. Dolph (Jack Plotnick) has lost his dog Paul and is desperate to find him. That's about as tethered as the movie gets to our reality. Around this understandable and real situation is a debate over a pizza company's logo, a palm tree that has morphed into a pine tree, a neighbor (Regan Burns) who is driving to the ends of the Earth, an office that's always raining on the inside, dog telepathy, and much more. The movie makes no attempt to explain these odd phenomena nor do any of the characters consider it bizarre. Only Dolph takes exception to certain aspects, and a guy who works out of a raining office and can communicate telepathically with his dog is the closest anchor we have to reality.
Or at least our reality. Dupieux has basically created an alternate universe where oddball characters exist, and rarely will anyone question another person's behavior. The central idea is that everything we do would probably seem strange to the people in the movie, and if that's the case, why do we consider their actions to be "wrong"? The presentation is matter-of-fact, but that only serves to make the movie more hilarious. How can we take a serious point when Master Chang (William Fichtner)—an enigmatic figure who wants to make owners love their pets more—talks about how he burned off half his face with acid on a dare and how it made him appreciate his face more.
Speeches like these and the commitment every actor gives to this off-kilter universe makes the film work wonderfully. No one gets furious when a car is repainted without their permission. No one bats an eye when rain pours into their office every single day. Everyone in the cast does a great job, but Fichtner blows them all away. Employing a heavy European accent and dressing in Eastern garb, his dialogue and delivery is superb. It's another amazing performance from one of the best character actors working today.
The pervasive silliness of Wrong prevents it from going any deeper than its twisted sense of humor. It's not quirky, it's not twee, and it's not dark. It's for people who loved the killer tire in Rubber and didn't want anything more. There could be something worthwhile buried beneath Wrong's goofy humor, but the film comes off as too slight to warrant the mental energy of trying to piece together a deeper meaning (if one even exists). The best you can do with Wrong is to laugh, shrug your shoulders, shake your head in frustration, and say, "Sure. Why not."
Rating: B-
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Calls for action seem to be everywhere throughout the eurozone with the exception of Germany, where Chancellor Angela Merkel's insistence on adhering to austerity is increasingly isolating her from the rest of the region. And as worries rise over financial catastrophe, the slowdown that has afflicted much of the global economy is taking its toll as far away as Asia, where in China the purchasing managers' index fell below economists' expectations.
Bloomberg reported Friday that Italy went on the attack against Merkel, with Prime Minister Mario Monti saying that Merkel's determination to bring about a stable eurozone economy "risks being undermined because of lack of promptness in setting up the necessary instruments to limit the contagion." He also advocated formulating a plan for common borrowing, a policy Merkel strongly opposes.
He was quoted saying on Thursday to a European Parliament committee in Brussels, "Countries that are at the core of the system and which have had the huge merit of instilling the culture of stability to the European Union in the first place, most notably Germany, should really reflect deeply but quickly. Europe should really accelerate the efforts, as the European Commission is doing, in order to limit the contagion."
Mario Draghi, head of the European Central Bank (ECB), added to the clamor, telling the committee that unless policymakers took more aggressive action, the euro "is being shown now to be unsustainable unless further steps are being undertaken."
He added that it was not the mission of the ECB to compensate for policy failings in the eurozone. "It's not our duty, it's not in our mandate" to "fill the vacuum left by the lack of action by national governments on the fiscal front," on "the structural front, and on the governance front," he said in the report.
On Wednesday the European Commission (EC) had proposed Europe-financed bank recapitalizations and the development of a timetable for euro bonds. Merkel flatly rejected such ideas, and on Thursday suggested a timeline of "5 to 10 years" to fix the problems the crisis has revealed in the joint currency.
Monti, Draghi and Bank of Italy Governor Ignazio Visco all urged Merkel to support the EC's proposal to permit the banks to receive money directly from the European Stability Mechanism (ESM) instead of having to go through governments.
"People are actually working on finding ways that the ESM could be used to recapitalize banks," Draghi said in the report. "The issue is not so much the use of ESM money to recapitalize banks but whether this could be done directly without having to go to governments." He added that if creditor nations like Germany and Finland kept insisting that they had to have input before money could be issued, there is a risk that "we have a big pot of money but nobody can touch it." The likelihood that Ireland gave a yes vote to its Thursday referendum on the European budget discipline treaty passed nearly unnoticed, according to Reuters, with markets far more worried about the outcome of a second election in Greece in the days to come and continuing problems in Spain.
Eurozone unemployment, at a record high of 11%, according to Eurostat, was led by Spain with a rate of 24.3% in April. Figures were not available for Greece, although in February its unemployed totaled 21.7% of the population. In both Italy and France the April rate rose to 10.2%. That is the highest rate for Italy in 12 years. Germany and Austria both saw their unemployment rates fall, the former to 5.4% and the latter to 3.9%.
Unsurprisingly, consumer confidence in Italy fell in May to a level it has not seen in more than 15 years. Business confidence also dropped, hitting its lowest level since August 2009. High unemployment combined with tax increases and levies on gas prices have weighed on consumers and businesses alike. Two earthquakes in northern Italy in May also took a toll on industrial output, according to Rome-based employers lobby Confindustria, which said a decline of 0.6% was likely.
The U.K., already in a recession, saw its purchasing managers' index shrink in May for the first time this year, to its lowest level since May of 2009. It came in at 45.9 from 50.2 in April. Since Britain relies heavily on the eurozone to buy its exports, the trend looks likely to continue. Even emerging markets such as Brazil and Russia were slower.
Economic woes have spread to Asia, where Bloomberg reported Friday that a slowdown has hit not only China, but also India, South Korea and Taiwan. China's PMI, according to China's statistics bureau and logistics federation, fell to 50.4 in May from 53.3 in April. Economists polled by Bloomberg had expected a PMI of 52. "This set of data is very bad," Hong Kong-based Credit Suisse economist Dong Tao said in the report. "China now needs some highly symbolic policy moves."
Tirthankar Patnaik, a Mumbai-based strategist at Religare Capital Markets, said in advance of the figures on India that "the outlook for growth in the short term is very bad. Industrial growth is slowing down and investments are not taking place."


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The best part of each soundtrack from his previous films, is what you're saying.
If is has "scary" music along the lines of The Sixth Sense and Signs, coupled with some driving rhythm like Unbreakable, and the mysterious beauty of The Village and thematic complexity of Lady in the Water.... It'll be perfect!
Hmm, that's too bad, but I'll wait to make my final decision until I get the soundtrack.
Allright, then maybe I will get the soundtrack. Except, when does it come out. I did just get a new paycheck, so I think I'll go out and buy it.
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Rezidor announces the Park Inn by Radisson Odintsovo, Moscow Region
Rezidor, one of the fastest growing hotel companies worldwide and a member of the Carlson Rezidor Hotel Group, announces the Park Inn by Radisson Odintsovo Greater Moscow. The property featuring 122 rooms is scheduled to open in Q3 2012.
"Russia and its capital city Moscow are a key development market for our dynamic mid-market brand Park Inn by Radisson. Our brand portfolio in the country now comprises 25 hotels with 6,300 rooms in operation or under development, and we are looking forward to further strengthening our Park Inn by Radisson footprint in Russia", said Kurt Ritter, President & CEO of Rezidor.
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Walmart seems to be issuing new $5 Reservation cards all the time. They are available in Electronics, on an endcap display and/or locked up in the videogame section - - and some stores also have a nifty cardboard POP display just for them. Identified as VIP Pre-Order Program Reservation Cards, they are intended to reserve a copy of a soon-to-be-released game, but can also be used for purchases throughout the store. The cards are typically removed from the shelves after the game has been released, but not always; the cards can still be activated and used. Walmart has an on-line site where purchasers can unlock additional bonus content (as noted on the plastic backboard), which shows a variety of cards already issued (including, alas, 6 cards I missed): http://zreward.com/categories/1/products
For some reason, they appear on the register display (and your receipt) as phone cards during activation, but I have used them to purchase food and supplies at Walmart. They do not work at Walmart gas pumps. Once in a while a register will display that the gift card I'm using is a phone card and won't decrement the value on my card, but if the associate tries again, the transaction will go through.


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text: Show Hide image Politics 21 July 2011 John Pilger: Amid the Murdoch scandal, there's an acrid smell of business as usual The Fleet Street hacks and men from Westminster are now scrabbling to rewrite the history of the phone-hacking fiasco. The pact between press and parliament remains the same. Sign-up In Scoop, Evelyn Waugh's brilliant satire on the press, there is the moment when Lord Copper, owner of the Daily Beast, meets his new special war correspondent, William Boot, in truth an authority on wild flowers and birdsong. A confused Boot is ushered into his lordship's presence by Mr Salter, the Beast's foreign editor. "Is Mr Boot all set for his trip?" "Up to a point, Lord Copper." Copper briefs Boot as follows: "A few sharp victories, some conspicuous acts of personal bravery on the Patriot side and a colourful entry into the capital. That is the Beast policy for the war . . . We shall expect the first victory about the middle of July." Rupert Murdoch is a 21st-century Lord Copper. The amusing gentility is missing; the absurdity of his power is the same. The Daily Beast wanted victories; it got them. The Sun wanted dead Argies; gotcha! Of the bloodbath in Iraq, Murdoch said: "There is going to be collateral damage, and if you really want to be brutal about it, better we get it done now . . ." The Times, the Sunday Times, Fox got it done. Corporate monoculture Long before it was possible to hack phones, Murdoch was waging a war on journalism, truth, humanity, and succeeded because he knew how to exploit a system that welcomed his devotion to the "free market". He may be more extreme in his methods, but he is no different in kind from many of those now lining up to condemn him who have been his beneficiaries, mimics, collaborators, apologists. As Gordon Brown turns on his former master, accusing him of running a "criminal-media nexus", watch the palpable discomfort in the new parliamentary-media consensus. "We must not be backward-looking," said a Labour MP. Those parliamentarians caught two years ago with both hands in the Westminster till, who did nothing to stop the killing of hundreds of thousands of people in Iraq, and stood and cheered the war criminal responsible, are now "united" behind the "calm" figure of Ed Miliband. There is an acrid smell of business as usual. Certainly, there is no "revolution", as reported in the Guardian, which compared the fall of Murdoch with that of the tyrant Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania in 1989. The overexcitement is understandable; Nick Davies's scoop is a great one. Yet the truth is, Britain's system of elite monopoly control of the media rests not on News International alone, but on the Mail and the Guardian and the BBC, perhaps the most influential of all. All share a corporate monoculture that sets the agenda of the "news", defines acceptable politics by maintaining the fiction of distinctive parties, normalises unpopular wars and guards the limits of "free speech". This will be strengthened by the illusion that a "bad apple" has been "rooted out". When the Financial Times complained last September that the BSkyB takeover would give Murdoch dominance in Britain, the media commentator Roy Greenslade came to his rescue. "Surely," he wrote, "Britain's leading business newspaper should be applauding an entrepreneur who has achieved so much from unpromising beginnings?" Murdoch's political control was a myth spread by "naive commentators". Noting his own "idealism" about journalism, Greenslade made no mention of his history on the Sun, or as Robert Maxwell's Daily Mirror editor responsible for the shameful smear that the miners' leader Arthur Scargill was corrupt. (To his credit, he apologised in 2002.) Greenslade is now a professor of journalism at City University, London. In his Guardian blog of 17 July, he caught the breeze and proposed that Murdoch explain "the climate you created". How many of the political and media chorus now calling for Murdoch's head remained silent over the years as his papers repeatedly attacked the most vulnerable in society? Impoverished single mothers have been a favourite target of tax-avoiding News International. Who in the so-called media village demanded the sacking of Kelvin MacKenzie as Sun editor following his attacks on the dead and dying in the Hillsborough stadium tragedy of 1989? The kowtowing class This was an episode as debased as the hacking of Milly Dowler's phone, yet MacKenzie is frequently feted on the BBC and in the liberal press as a "witty" tabloid genius who "understands the ordinary punter". Such vicarious middle-class flirtation with Wapping-life is matched by admiration for the successful Murdoch "marketing model". 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Embracing Grace, Author Dives Into Christian Marketplace
- Paula Moldenhauer Contributing Writer
- 2006 22 Sep
Author Claudia Mair Burney didn't think she'd publish her novels in the Christian market. In her mind, CBA [Christian Booksellers Association] publishing was for white women who lived perfect lives. It wasn't for a black woman who'd overcome tremendous abuse and struggled with disabling depression. But one day, during a time of intense discouragement, Burney sat in a hospital lobby and read Today's Christian Woman. Inspired, she clutched it to her heart and told God that if He'd let her write for Him, she'd write for broken people like herself.
When she whispered that prayer, Burney had no idea what the Lord had in store. In 2004, she started a blog where she poured out her struggles, her love for Jesus, and her passion to live in His grace. Inspired by Brennan Manning's book, "The Ragamuffin Gospel," she called herself the Ragamuffin Diva. From there, the rest is history. ...
It's the dream of every writer to be "discovered" as you were. Tell us the saga of that first book contract.
I was a big ol' mess at the time – disenfranchised from church and much of life. I loved writing, but felt unworthy to write for Jesus. To me, Christian women writers were all perfect: homeschooling moms with husbands who pastored a little white church on a hill. Even if they weren't, they seemed different from me. I had chronic, disabling depression, three suicide attempts, and a husband who struggled with drug and alcohol addictions. I certainly couldn't write for God, but my heart wanted it so.
Soon after reading that issue of Today's Christian Woman, I started my blog, the Ragamuffin Diva. A talented novelist liked my blog and told her publisher he needed to look at it. Amazingly, he did, and wrote me cold, asking if I'd like to write a book for his house. It didn't work out to publish there. He quit a few days after I finished the book, but he ended up becoming a literary agent, taking me on as one of his first clients, and selling "Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man" to NavPress within months. God is awesome. Truly.
Could you give readers an idea of what "Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man" is about?
It's about a woman who walled herself off from the abundant life Jesus had for her, and how a red dress, a fine man, and a mysterious murder impact her life and force her to make changes. Changes like letting love in and letting go of the past. It's funny, funky, and has CSI stuff. It's the book I wished I could have read.
You said that there is something "magical and perfect" about writing a story and that your life would be impoverished without fiction. You first longed to write fiction when you were eleven.
Yes, I walking down the hall at school. There was a slip of paper on the floor and I was compelled to pick it up. It must have been a God thing. Of course I didn't think it was then. It had dialogue on it from a play and I thought, "Wow. I could write this." So I wrote a play, and my teacher, Mr. Wilson, let me perform it. Later, when I dropped out of high school, it was Mr. Wilson that persuaded me to go back. He even offered me a scholarship.
After you accepted Jesus, you felt fiction wasn't spiritual enough and quit writing your stories. Why? What happened that allowed you to write fiction again?
I didn't grow up in a book lover's house. My mother loved [Edgar Allan] Poe, and old poetry, but there weren't many books to choose from. Unfortunately, there were some pornographic novels, and as a curious eight-year-old I read them. I can't tell you the damage those books did to my soul. I'm still casting off the muck. So, there was guilt about reading anything not "Scripture" in my early Christian life. I needed stories, though. At fourteen, I met my friend Keysha, and "fiction" came back into my life because I told her my stories.
Tell us about that.
Keysha and I would spend hours in the story worlds I dreamed up. I think those stories protected us from the very harsh ghetto life that surrounded us. Those stories gave us hope and courage, and helped us to realize we could find love. True love. We ended up finding that True Love together when we responded to the same altar call.
You want to write books for broken people – people with messy lives who aren't sure how to hold it all together, but who hold onto Jesus. Can you elaborate on that?
So many of us are wearing masks of competence, but are shattered in a billion pieces inside. We're afraid to let anybody know we're a pile of shards. I wanted my characters to have real-world struggles. I wanted them to think bad thoughts, harbor unforgiveness, and want to have sex if even if they weren't married. I wanted my characters to struggle with those issues because God knows I struggled with them. But even in my messiness I found grace. Jesus helped me with the sin I struggled with. I wanted to write a book sinners could relate to, and say, hey, maybe I can get some grace, too.
"Murder" is a unique book. It's mystery, romance, and women's fiction all rolled into one. It starts off sassy and light and ends up going deep. Was that intentional?
I didn't mean to go so deep in the end, but Bell's story, so much like my own, forced me to. She had to confront her own darkness as well as "the bad guys." But isn't that life? Aren't we always forced to confront our darkness? We are always being pruned so we can blossom on the vine.
I know many novels have bits of the author's life hidden within them. Is this true with "Murder"?
The novel deals with religious abuse. I lived with a man who was very much like a cult leader, only he couldn't find any other disciples besides me. He was incredibly cruel and hurt me in every way you can hurt a person: physically, emotionally, spiritually, sexually. He wouldn't let me even speak the name of Jesus. We shopped at a health food store that had a Christian bookstore attached. When he'd drop me off to get groceries, I'd sneak into that bookstore and trace Jesus' name on the book jackets. When the Waco, TX tragedy happened with David Koresh, this man actually said to me, "That guy is just like me." And he was! It was pure grace that I got away from him without being in a body bag.
You call yourself the Ragamuffin Diva, an "unsteady disciple whose life can be messy" yet who is "made in the image and likeness of God and embracing grace." How has your concept of God changed from when you were a young girl and afraid to write fiction?
I know God to be far more loving than before. His love pretty much blows out my mind. All of us are made in the image and likeness of God. Embracing grace is allowing God to devastate our fear of Him by allowing Him to love us. We do fear God. That's probably the number one reason we avoid Him. Now that I'm beginning to understand His love, there isn't much I'm afraid of – well, I am afraid of things, but now I take those things to God without hesitation.
You and I have had some interesting discussions about race. You once told me that you didn't think you would ever publish in the CBA because of color.
Take a look around CBA. There aren't too many people of color. A handful of black women. Most black writers are publishing Christian Fiction in the ABA [American Booksellers Association], with much success. CBA is more segregated than Sunday morning, which has been said to be the most segregated hours in America. White folks go their way, black folks go our way, and not too often do we meet.
You're published in the CBA, despite what you thought would be hurdles. Why do you think you are there and how do you feel about that?
I know I'm here because it's where God put me. I didn't think I'd get into CBA and it didn't occur to me to try. I wrote "Murder" because a CBA publisher asked me to. I had my eye on an African American ABA publisher because I thought that was where I belonged. I love it that God was a trickster. He closed the door with the ABA publisher and sent me to CBA. I had to confront a lot of my racist and separatist tendencies. It was painful, but needful. I'm a better person because it forced me to move away from the "colored drinking fountain" to the "white's only" drinking fountain. But the water is the same.
In our previous discussion you mentioned that like it or not, as Americans we have a history to overcome in the area of racial relationships. What do you think keeps us all from moving out of the past and into the future in this area?
It's not easy! Who wants to think they have any racist tendencies? Who wants to go through the discomfort of wading through the murky waters of race matters in America? We worry that we will offend each other, and we still do offend. We inherited all these rules that we don't understand. Dealing with race is a messy affair. But we really need to. This is not what Jesus had in mind. He was notorious for surprising people and breaking the race and ethnicity rules of His day.
You once described yourself as "evangelical with a spiritual element added that is not Protestant." What do you mean by that?
I'm by conversion Eastern Orthodox, but I'm a new convert, and still have as much of an "evangelical" mindset as ever. But at the same time, I've added the celebration of the Eucharist, the Divine Liturgy, and the rich traditions of the Eastern Church to my life. It's so much deeper now, and I've only picked up a few grains of sand on the big shores of Tradition (with a capital T). I haven't even begun to go into the ocean yet.
Why do you think traditional prayers are so impacting?
Few things have affected me more deeply than fixed hour prayers. Ancient prayers root me in the faith. They connect me to a communion of saints past and present. When I pray, "O Heavenly King, Comforter, Spirit of Truth who are everywhere and fill all things, treasury of good things, and giver of life, come and abide in us, and cleanse us from all impurities, and save our souls O Good One," The Holy Spirit descends on the whole of us, in and outside of time. I also love to sing and chant prayers. They seem to reach my heart faster that way. Augustine said, "He who sings prays twice." I love that.
You're also concerned about the separation between evangelicals and those from a more liturgy-driven background.
Jesus Christ only had one Church. His. The Church split in 1057 or so, and we've been splitting ever since. We cut ourselves off from our history, and that's always dangerous. We've protested ourselves away from each other. God can't be pleased. I'm all about the unity of the faith. I don't know how we'll do it, but I pray the Holy Spirit will help us.
What's your greatest desire for your book?
I want people to walk away after reading my book and think, "Jesus loves me. He will keep pursuing me and working in my life, drawing me to Himself, even while I'm a mess." You know, there isn't any place where God cannot find and rescue you. There is always grace. And it truly is amazing.
"Murder, Mayhem, and a Fine Man" was released in July. The second book in the Amanda Bell Brown mysteries, called "Death, Deceit, and Some Smooth Jazz," comes out in December. Readers can visit Burney at www.ragamuffindiva.blogspot.com. Read the complete interview with her at http://gracereign.blogspot.com/2006/07/ragamuffin-diva-comes-to-gracereign.html.
A homeschooling mother of four, Paula Moldenhauer is passionate about God's grace. Published over 300 times, she's recently released two novels: Titanic: Legacy of Betrayal and Postmark: Christmas. Her website offers homeschooling and parenting articles, devotionals, and information about her books. www.paulamoldenhauer.com Contact Paula: email@example.com