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Specialty Auto Network3012 N. 93rd St. Omaha, Nebraska U.S.A.
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*UPDATE Employee: SPECIALTY NETWORK NOT A SCAM
*General Comment: Specialty Network is a SCAM
*UPDATE Employee: Bob Office Administrator
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James GAVE ME A 90-DAY GUARANTEE THAT I WOULD NOT BE CHARGED UNLESS MY CAR SOLD THROUGH THEIR NETWORK, AND SOLD FOR AT LEAST THE PRICE I WAS ASKING. He actually told me to list it for $2,000 more than what I had it listed for on autotrader.com.
James pretty much guaranteed they would sell my car within 2 weeks.
I gave them a "recorded" authorization to charge my card....but it was supposed to be IF AND WHEN MY CAR SOLD. It was a WIN-WIN DEAL, for me, AS I WOULD NOT BE CHARGED UNLESS THEY SOLD THE CAR, AND FOR THE PRICE I WAS ASKING!
I received my credit card statement and I find a charge for $399. This charge I am now disputing with my credit card company, as the Specialty Auto Network has refused to refund the $399, since they say "the car sold.
It doesn't matter to them that it did not sell through them. They KNOW it did not sell through them. They DENY their LIES.
The Specialty Auto Network is A SCAM. DON'T LIST YOUR CAR WITH THEM. THEY CALL PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTED ON AUTO-TRADER. Auto-trader is the organization that located my buyer, a banker here in Colorado, who will verify that he found my car through www.autotrader.com. Don't trust Specialty Network's smooth-talking, LYING salespeople. List your car with auto-trader.
I am contacting the Better Business Bureau of Omaha, NB, to report this organization. It is Specialty Auto Network, 3012 N. 93rd St., Omaha, NB, 68134-4716. 1 800 576 1640 or 402-934-7880. I will also be contacting eBay, and telling them that they need to take this network off their site, to protect their own credibility.
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AUTHOR: Dipute Resolution - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, June 22, 2010POSTED: Tuesday, June 22, 2010
We have looked into the name candice Golden and find no record of doing any transactions with this customer. We have been doing business for well over 9 years in combined business. Anyone can make a clain does not mean it is true. Since their is no record of this customer this leads us to believe that this may be a competetor.
It does not make any since. The alleged consumer states that they thought they would not be charged util the unit sold but authorized the charge by giving the card number. Or they understood this would be the one time only marketing fee to advertise. It is the buyer and sellers agreements as to what the asking price is not ours. The vehicle does not sell through us because the seller is in possesion of the car and title. specialtyauto uses several affilliate classifieds and other resources to get the customer the maximum exposure. Customers receive a welcome letter with all information of policies.
This so called customer must not have read the scam alert information on Auto Trader either before listing with them and obviously if the person used auto trader auto trader did not sell the vehicle either. The person claiming the BBB report. Yes we are not one of the companies which pay to keep the complaints off the list. The fact of the matter is every company receives complaints. All though we strive to have all the vehicles sell we do not force a buyers market, not even dealers can.
YOU SHOULD FIND OUT THAT THE BBB EVEN MADE THE SCAM REPORT: SEE htt or http://www.betterbusinessbureascam.blogspt.com http://www.ripoffreport/better-Business/BBB-Better-Business-Bureu-B-X786.htm
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#2 General Comment
Specialty Network is a SCAM
AUTHOR: beware - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Tuesday, May 04, 2010POSTED: Tuesday, May 04, 2010
There are 116 complaints filed against the company for making verbal promises that they don't follow through with.
Most of the feedback on Ebay is from them purchasing items. Some feedback is from people who bought vehicles from sellers who were marketing with Specialty Network.
Ebay feedback doesn't mean they are a reputable business.
Do your homework before trusting them.
There are lots of people who have posted negative things about them. It is for a reason.
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#3 UPDATE Employee
Bob Office Administrator
AUTHOR: Dipute Resolution - (United States of America)
SUBMITTED: Monday, December 14, 2009POSTED: Monday, December 14, 2009
SpecialtyAuto/Network eBays Top Sellers
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Positive Feedback (last 12 months): 100%
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Check out the eBay ratings of Specialty Network store name. Specialty Auto does 6, 000 business transactions a day.
Specialty Auto Network does not dominish any customers concerns, however, just because a person does not get the results hoped for does not mean Specialty Auto is a scam. You cannot get around eBay facts that Specialty Auto Network maintains eBays Top seller award as stated above.
We at specialty Auto Network offer Marketing packages to assist sellers in getting the results they need. Although specialty Network desires to have 100% customer satisfaction it is not always obtainable due to buyer seller temperments. The facts cannot be disbuted.
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First time I tried it, It was horrible. Had no Idea what I was doing, Most everyone I know pretty much is anti-LoL, etc. etc. But The second time around It wasn't nearly as bad once someone showed me the ropes. However I emphasis this part of the game: To get the most out of this game you need to know what the heck you're doing or else you're just going to be pulling your hair out and dying a lot. If someone you know plays it you can have them teach you the controls. Soloing a custom match is fairly easy too, but You better have patience. It can be tedious at times.
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After months passed by I tried calling her to see if there was any progress on selling my timeshare but there was no answer. I found out that the Executive Timeshare marketing company was a fraud.
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Column - Time Abbott took on Rudd
Andrew Bolt
–, Thursday, February, 07, 2013, (11:57am)
UPDATE and correction: No, Julia Gillard is not propped up by the "NSW Right". it is the AWU "faction" propping her up. I am informed today that Gillard now has the support of just three of the NSW Right's 18 MPs. Apologies.
Tony Abbott is winning too big. More polls like the last might panic Labor into ditching Julia Gillard.
So the question for the Opposition Leader is: why keep attacking only Gillard when Kevin Rudd is his greatest threat?
Something this week seemed to snap in Labor.
Newspoll had the party back to a disastrous 44 per cent to the Coalition's 56, after preferences. Essential and Galaxy put the margin at 46 to 54.
There's also been a string of typically terrible judgment calls from Gillard, the flight of two ministers and alleged corruption scandals.
More Labor MPs now seem convinced Gillard, even with her new lucky glasses, is indeed terminal and even Rudd could not be worse. Rudd is tipped to be just six votes from toppling her.
Abbott knows he has Gillard's measure, but could he beat Rudd?
Yes, he can boast he beat Rudd once, forcing Labor to replace him with Gillard. But Rudd is the country's most popular politician, and Abbott is clearly not.
Gillard has proved so inept that Rudd now seems a welcome change even to conservatives who once excoriated him.
That could make him a big sugar hit for Labor – for as long as voters forget what made him such a shambolic leader, hated by his own side.
There has been quite some forgetting, too. A Galaxy poll last month rated Rudd our second most popular Prime Minister of the past 25 years, behind John Howard but ahead of even Bob Hawke.
To beat him, the Coalition will have to remind voters all over again that many of Gillard's problems were actually created by Rudd.
Grandiose Rudd blew the surplus. Impulsive Rudd scrapped the border laws which worked. Rush-rush Rudd gave us the waste, from pink batts to overpriced school halls.
But Rudd will have learned from his mistakes and will say so, even if it's unclear how many he truly repents and which he can overcome.
He's also untainted by the scandals dragging down Gillard – Thomson, Peter Slipper and the AWU rip-offs .
He has fought the NSW Right which is drowning in corruption scandals - and which props up Gillard.
He doesn't carry the cross of Gillard's broken promises.
Testing him, exposing him - this will take the Opposition maybe all the time until September.
Better start soon.
Have Your Say
Getting nervous Andrew?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:04am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:57am)
Not nervous Jordo just getting on the front foot.
Labor knifed Rudd as he was doing a shocking job. Now he is the beacon of light.
The Libs just need to remind the voting public why he was gotten rid of in the first place.
Gotta hand it to Labor though replacing a terrible failure with a failure though
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:59am)
Of what?
Someone the entire ALP hate?
We know Gillard is dead meat and the ALP will turn on her soon, so Abbott may as well address the next ALP leader and avoid the rush.
Do remind me of the polling please Maggie ha ha ha
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:05am)
How desperate are you Labor stooges that you'd be happy to replace an incompetent train wreck with an incompetent train wreck?
Look at the Labor front bench. There is literally no-one who is not tainted by incompetence or scandal or union related idiocy who is in any kind of position to become leader.
What does that say about a political party?
It seems that nothing succeeds like failure when it comes to the Labor party.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:09am)
Ever the optimist arn't you Jordon
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:19am)
You're damn right we are. 1st they promise anything to get elected, then they spend like a drunken sailor, and now we are in the phase where they realise they have stuffed it up, so they focus on stealing more money from the prudent in the population to pay for their mess. You're damn right we are scared.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:22am)
Of course.
The Libs are terrifed of the man who made "Mr 22% interest rates Howard" lose his seat.
He humilatated their hero! They fear they will do the same to Abbott!
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:30am)
I find your continuing abiltity to support this government truly incredible.
No. Really.
That people are actually capable of this level of self-deception (or worse) is what makes me nervous.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:46am)
If he came back it'd be the funniest Liberal campaign in history, as all they'd have to do is show clips of Conroy, Roxon, Burke and Swan publicly trashing Rudd. In other words, the ALP would be running the coalitioon ads. Bring it on
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:51am)
Lets do a re-run of all the character reference's the Labor Party gave Resurrection Rudd.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (11:27am)
Rudd was RIPPED apart by Abbott, if you fail to remember how Gillard became PM.
And he has been RIPPED apart by his own colleagues over the last couple of years.
Rudd is not a problem for Abbott.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (01:27pm)
One word
Thu 07 Feb 13 (02:18pm)
Yes we're all nervous about krudd. If he was leader in the campaign the coalition would only need to run an ad showing what alp ministers said about him a year ago, so we're really nervous.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (02:23pm)
Are you suggesting Krudd is better than the Ranga? Yet you have always praised Gillard. How quickly you left wingnutters change. Incredible, with supporters like you that show no loyalty what chance has Labor got?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (02:24pm)
Not as nervous as many liar's party backbenchers - with or without Rudd.
Rudd's 'popularity' extends only so far as the sympathy given due to the means of his removal. Most people I meet now talk about policy failures, irrespective of who is in charge. People know that Rudd initiated, promoted and propped up every single and repeat policy failure that the liar's party have presided over. Then there's Gillard's additional stuff-ups.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (03:04pm)
The govt could put forward Santa and they'd still lose, that's how putrid, sleazy and self centred they are viewed by the public.
There will be rejoicing in the streets when we are rid of them!!
Thu 07 Feb 13 (03:09pm)
So Jordo, you too have written off the current PM? Any port in a storm.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (03:31pm)
I don't think Andrew is worried,he is just trying to pump a bit of excitement into something that is a lay down misere.
How's this for a scenario,Rudd is brought back to try and salvage something,he loses but he can blame Gillard,he can point out that he WON the election to get Labor into office Gillard only kept power by collusion of the indi's and she has lost this coming election,Rudd can now vent his spleen whilst in opposition against the traitors(as he will see them).
If Rudd is brought back he will stay leader untill there is another back-stabbing or till the next election after this one coming.
Which means a long time in the wilderness for the ALP.
Now Abbott will probably stay PM in the first 3 years before Turnbull will strike(which he will,he takes second fiddle to no-one),after that who knows,but we can most probably expect the next 3 govts will be Lib/Nat,who is PM won't matter much the ALP have no-one credible waiting in the wings to offer up any viable alternative which isn't good for a healthy democracy.
BTW Crossin,Scrymgour or Peris-Kneebone,you can now tell us where you stand on the matter?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (03:37pm)
Andrew has the quiet confidence of a Christian holding four aces.
Thanks to Mark Twain
Thu 07 Feb 13 (04:03pm)
How's the last fortnight been for all you Labor sycophants anyway? Feeling good?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (06:40pm)
Must be so hard being on the conservative side of the fence eh J? Only polling 54-56 2PP - must be so much better polling 44-46 and hoping that you can pull the same preferences as last time.
He might not be tainted by the family skeletons of Thomson, Slipper and the AWU but he is tainted by the Heiner Affair in Queensland just in case you have forgotten. We have not.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:05am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:57am)
If it is should a scandal why is it that the QLD LNP are not interested in it?
In fact the Nationals in the 1990's held an enquiry inti it and concluded that there was no case to answer.
"So the question for the Opposition Leader is: why keep attacking only Gillard when Kevin Rudd is his greatest threat?"
Abbot is doing the right thing attacking the person in the PM chair, until that changes there is no need to sink to Labor levels of attacking anyone that goes against them.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:07am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (11:56am)
Agreed. The only person to attack Rudd must be the person standing against him in the next election in his seat.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (03:40pm)
Abbot is doing the right thing attacking the person in the PM chair
Absolutely. Until, or if, Rudd ceases to be just a backbencher, Abbott does not need to mention his name.
Abbott will have plenty of ammunition if the situation changes.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (06:16pm)
Spot on. Your job as opposition leader is to make the pm's job as hard as possible, not helping them.
"But Rudd will have learned from his mistakes and will say so, even if it's unclear how many he truly repents and which he can overcome." It's not in him to repent. M'Beattie tried this 'I made a mistake and I'll wear it' caper for far too long and it bite him badly in the end like the kid who cried wolf once too often.
But what would do Labor's head in, to use a KRuddism, is to treat His Lordship KRudd as IF He were the PM in waiting and sideline Gillard.
What was KRudd's tactic against John Howard Oh yeah that's right.. "playing with his mind''
Let the mind games begin..
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:11am)
Gillard is so desperate to cling to power, I'll bet that if she sniffs a tilt from Rudd coming she'll call the election immediately.
How spineless is Rudd, anyway, that he'd take back the job that his own friends (Swannie et al) punted him out of?
Better to retire a moderate failure than a major failure, Kev, and take the rest of the treacherous Labor bastards out with you.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:12am)
The Libs don't have to worry about Rudd. The Labor party prepared the Liberal election ad campaign last year, when they all publicly heaped scorn and ridicule on Rudd. Who better to defeat him than Simon Crean and Wayne Swan? Personal poularity ratings don't matter. It is only the two party preferred voting intention that matters and Rudd can only improve Labor's standing by a couple of points. So they would only face a disaster instead of a catastrophe. And there is absolutely no way the Labor Party could pull itself into a united team if Rudd took over. Too much bad blood. So the result might not be any better anyway.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:12am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (02:18pm)
I can see the Liberals advertisement now, it contains the ALP's own ministers bagging the crap out of Kevin Rudd. Easily an election wipeout of the ALP would follow....Authorised by Tony Abbott!
Thu 07 Feb 13 (04:21pm)
Good point Richard, the Libs have plenty of ammo to use on Rudd if he retakes the leadership.
Still, I am with AB, I would still slip the occasional attack on Rudd into the fold. It can't hurt!!!!
As Paul Keating said about Andrew Peacock's return. "A souffle only rises once."
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:17am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (06:19pm)
He did rise twice- just not high enough either time. But not a bad campaigner at all. I think he would have thrashed Keating.
The prospect of any more Labor is absolutely terrifying. Rather than playing the man, I believe the correct strategy for Abbott is to discredit the Labor brand (this shouldn't be too hard).
. Labor is the political wing of the trade union movement
. It's whole agenda is to empower and benefit trade unions at the expense of the rest of the community.
. Most of the government ministers are in fact communists in sheeps clothing
. Labor always rape the economy and spend recklessly
. Labor always spend the future earnings of our children for no tangible benefit (tax our children before they are born)
. Labor always seduce voter support by promising to give give give with no possible hope of paying for it
etc etc etc
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:20am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:57am)
That's an enlightening summary 'Terrified'. More like a quivering-lipped revelation of childhood.
Was it your mother who filled you with Cold War tales of the red menace?
They've made a start at having a go at Rudd in this ad.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:21am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (04:25pm)
That is good Dave, I like it. Love how the faceless men sneak around in the middle of the night and lumber us with a lemon.
Don't forget he led the govt that had lost its way. I wonder what excuse they will use this time? She was the 'greatest leader of her time' (Evans) but was picked on because she was a woman! Time to pull the plug woman!!!
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:25am)
Last time I looked we had a parliamentary system, not a presidential system. The Opposition are better advised to promote their team over the Labor 'team'.
Please, MSM, and you too Andrew, stop forcing the square peg of presidentialism into the round hole of parliamentarianism. You complain of the voters ignorance of how our system works, yet promote this fundamental incongruence.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:29am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:08am)
The Coalition needs to take their message to the voters in a way *the voters* understand.
That means reminding them of the disaster that would result from voting for a local member who would install Mr Rudd as PM.
At the same time the Coalition should send the message that *all* Labor, Green and Labopendent members are responsible for the current mess by failing to call and support a no-confidence motion in the current government.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:13am)
Our Political System becomes more like a Presidential race with each passing election.
It is easier for parties (and the press) to present TV interviews than to have the pollies go around the Town Halls as they did in says of yore.
I recall Jim Killin at the Moonee Ponds Hall, putting down the hecklers with supreme style. In those days we saw our pollies in real life, not as seven second TV grabs, and we voted for people we recognised.
While handing out "How to Vote" cards at a recent election, I asked "Who will you vote for" to be told "Kevin Rudd". Although Rudd was not standing in my electorate, the voter could not name the Labor candidate.
How common do you think this is?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (05:45pm)
And yet one of e main poll question is who is the preferred PM.
While I agree with your comment, the PM is still the face of the government.
The Libs need to attack labor, and remind people, that they are all the same, no matter who is in charge.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (06:18pm)
Every election since 1983 has been about the leadership of the major parties. There's nothing wrong with it.
I disagree strongly. Focus is the key to success. Why dilute your effort by focussing on two targets?
The fact is, if Labor dump Gillard then they will rip themselves to pieces. Rudd will be caught up in the collateral damage. It will be vitriolic beyond comprehension.
If Rudd does emerge from the bloodbath then the Coalition have plenty of material ready all of it freely given by his Labor colleagues. Plenty more will flood in fueled by a whole ex cabinet hellbent on revenge.
Nuh, Abbott and the Coalition know what they are doing. Just keep it up and they are assured of ridding us of this gaggle of geese.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:31am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:57am)
Quite so AM.
And select Rudd they will by the end of next week.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:11am)
No. Look at the US election. We need to set the terms of the debate *now*, before the Labor/MSM spinmeisters do so. We need to publicly and vigorously flag the possible Labor strategy, so "low-information" voters are forewarned and the spinmeisters lack a clear path.
Indeed! bring back Kevin O'Lemon, an utter failure whose self agrandising should be vomit inducing to ANYONE with a trace of commonsense.
A Hypocrite, bully to young female airline staff and egotistical photo opportunist.
This man, in 2 years had spent our surplus left by the Liberal Party and plunged us some $100 billion in debt. Roof Batts, Green Loans, B.E.R rorts, fuel watch, grocery watch..promises to LOWER the cost of living (HA HA HA HA!!!), distastrous dismantling of border protection, govt that 'lost it's way' (in just 2 years mind you!), loathed by senior mp's, labelled a "psychopath", how much worse does it get!!
How on earth ANYONE still sees this guy as an aternative to Gillard..and TONY ABBOTT is out of their freaking mind!
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:31am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:20am)
I love how the Libs criticse Labor's handling of the GFC: Forgetting that the last time their party handled a global recession it resulted in massive debt WITH double digit inflation, interest rates and unemyplment-simutaneously!
Not only does Julia have new glasses, she seems to have developed a new authoritative style of speaking - slower, and deeper.
How many more "real Julia" personas are we yet to see?
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:39am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:44am)
But no comment on the massive makeover Tony Abbott recently had? No comment on the speech therapy he's done to stop him doing those dreadful aaarrrs between every third word? No comment on what it cost for that pic of him in a firefighter's uniform with a firetruck in the background, both borrowed from a unit hundreds of miles away that was not in active service? No comment on the thousands of dollars he charged (us) for expenses on his last charity bike ride? Gillard is no saint but Abbott is no better.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:54am)
typical remake of "The three faces of Eve", redrafted by the wee scot .
Thu 07 Feb 13 (04:03pm)
I know! That's what I was thinking - it's all raspy and strange!!!
John McTernan must be giving speech coaching as well!!!
I don't know what is worse the droneing or the new voice!!!
KRudd assured everyone he is 100% behind his leader and won't challenge. In 2 weeks when caucus runs the leadership ballot and appoints KRudd as the new leader the coalition will re-launch the Kevin O'Lemon ads.
Expect new adds that are a collage of labor MP's ccalling KRudd a sociopath, unhinged, disloyal etc.
For labor MP's and senators it must be a bit like going from the dentist to the proctologist.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:40am)
Ah yes, Andrew's latest prediction: Rudd will replace Gillard.
Seeing as Andrew has been so accurate with his predictions (how many times have you predicted Gillard's demise now, Andrew?) why should we doubt.
Commentary? Fiction and fabrication is a more apt description.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:46am)
Thu 07 Feb 13 (10:10am)
If only you carping lefties could come up with one positive reason to re-elect Gillard.
Just one positive reason.
Every day we have something to confirm Juliar is the worst PM in our history, presiding over the worst government in our history.
Yes, the Libs should now take aim at KRudd because as sure as night follows day,he will be in the chair before election day.
Unless Jules, in a moment of panic,rushes off to the G-G's.office seeking an early election under some pretext or other.
What do you reckon jordon? I reckon you would have a fair idea considering your close association to this mob of absolute drongo's.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:49am)
Andrew this is not an labor pardy beauty or talent contest. We must never forget that Rudd was part of the original incompetent gang of 4.
Australia does not deserve a second and third round of assault with a ego maniacs ear wax eating specifica golbetrotting ninarpopp. And mind you I don't remember all the abusive names he was described by his backstabbers.
Can anyone imagine how spiteful and vindictive he could be?
Rudd wouldn't have time to run the county he would be so busy preening himself.
For the sake of our country,, enough already.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:50am)
Rudd is waiting to be dragged 'reluctantly, a
la the Speaker', by his government comrades to the Prime Minister's chair.
I cannot see him opposing Gillard himself.
Thu 07 Feb 13 (08:55am)
I can't believe Rudd would come back. He might reduce the margin but he won't win. And then as soon as the election is over, he'll get turfed again by the Unions - this time because he 'lost' the election. Nothing to gain for him at all.
I can see Rudd calling the press conference to say "Today the Labor Party has asked me to again lead them. Unfortunately, I know I won't have the support of those who say I'm a psychopath with no Labor values, so I'm going to have to say no, and instead announce my resignation and tootle off!"
Thu 07 Feb 13 (09:02am)
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Skip to comments.Iran: Death Sentence Upheld
Posted on 07/04/2011 4:45:14 PM PDT by wmfights
The Iranian Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence of a pastor convicted of apostasy and accused of evangelizing Muslims. Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani, 34, has been in prison since October 2009, and the appeal of his death sentence was rejected by the Iranian Supreme Court on June 28, 2011. He is to be executed by hanging. If the death sentence is carried out, it will be the first court-ordered execution of a Christian in Iran in 20 years.
At this time, there is no more action that can be done inside of Iran to overturn this sentence, a VOM contact said. It can be carried out at any time. The only options right now are to immediately and swiftly bring international attention to the issue.
Nadarkhani, a pastor from Rasht, about 750 miles northwest of Tehran, was arrested in October 2009 after he protested a government policy that required children, including his 8- and 9-year-old sons, to study the Quran in school. Nadarkhani told school officials that the Iranian constitution allows for freedom of religious practice. As a result of his protest, secret police called him before a political tribunal and arrested him for protesting. The charges were later amended to apostasy and evangelism of Muslims. Nadarkhani was tried on Sept. 2122, 2010, by the 1st Court of the Revolutionary Tribunal and sentenced to death on Nov. 13 for apostasy.
Nadarkhani is imprisoned in Lakan prison, where authorities have used various methods, including medication, to convert him back to Islam, according to Present Truth Ministries. After Nadarkhani refused to convert to Islam, his wife was arrested, put on trial without an attorney and sentenced to life in prison. She was later released after an attorney appealed her sentence. The Nadarkhanis children were cared for by a relative while they were both in prison.
Please lift up Pastor Nadarkhani urgently before the Lord and ask for his release. Go to his profile on www.prisoneralert.com to email government officials on his behalf.
Pastor Nadarkhani has been sentenced to death in Iran simply for preaching the Gospel.
Please pray for Pastor Nadarkhani and his family.
Thank you and God Bless.
Thanks for the ping Wagglebee. He's been in my prayers, but I hadn't seen this update.
I pray for Pastor Nadarkhani. What a tragedy.
Prayer said.
A martyr for his religious beliefs. Many prayers for him.
Anyone who calls this pack of Islamic trash a religion of peace is a damned fool, including George Bush, especially George Bush, since he knows better.
Now we have our Muslim President opening talks with the Muslim brotherhood, while Iraq is asking Iran for aid and kissing their ass. How many men dod we lose over there so these p[eople could stab us in the back.
Get out now. Leave the Middle East to their nefariopus games.We are not going to change these people. Open our doors to any Middle eastern Christian who wants to come here and close it to Muslims.Middle Eastern Christians are a doomed religious people.
I will pray for this man and his family.
How utterly horrible and evil.
How long, oh Lord...how long?
Don't forget to give Jimmy Carter full credit for this.
Amen Brother!
It shows how much damage an incompetent fool in the White House can cause.
May Angels release him from prison as he did for Apostles.
Then, the proconsul urging him, and saying, Swear, and I will set thee at liberty, reproach Christ.
Polycarp declared, Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He never did me any injury: how then can I blaspheme my King and my Savior?
Martyrdom of Polycarp, 155 AD.
Where is Hillary's/Soetoro's outrage? Where is Jesse Jackson, Jr.? This needs to be exposed, big time! We pray for an answer.
Executing Christians is the secret dream of every liberal.
This is the case that can be used as proof that Islam needs to be banned in the United States. A nation's Supreme Court ruling based on the doctrine of its religion.
Interesting point, I hadn't thought of it. In the past there have been churches that burned people at the stake for not holding to the State religion. Wouldn't we have to ban them as well?
I join in earnest prayer for Pastor Nadarkhani and his loved ones.
Islam isn't a religion, it's a political movement focused on your death.
It wouldn't apply here. That happened in the Old World, and has no application for the US. Furthermore, it can be argued that whereas capital punishment does presently exist in Islam, it does not exist in Christianity. The issue of Islamic violence has always been rebuffed by its appologists: but now we have a nation's Supreme Court on record issuing capital punishment merely for evangelizing. In my opinion, Iran has the sovereign right to do so: but in doing so it exposes Islam for what it is, at its core doctrine. And that is the case that needs to be made in each state house in the United States.
Islam isn't a religion, it's a political movement focused on your death.
Actually, it is a religion with a political aim. As it is one of the seven major world views (and one of the three monotheistic religions), it retains its religious worship and framework of beliefs alongside its overarching political goal of domination.
How can a religion be both religion and a political system? By being Islam. True Islam functions within a community (the umma) that optimally carries its own political identity.1
Corduan, Winfried "Neighboring Faiths: A Christian Introduction to World Religions", pg 77, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove IL, 1998.
More recent information from Voice of the Martyrs indicate that it has been suspended. Praise God.
Prayers offered up for Pastor Nadarkhani. May God's Will be done.
Thx for the ping. Will check it out.
Yes, Lord, be dramatically with him in ways that shock, humble and humiliate his captors.
If they persist to the hanging, Please, Lord, translate him out of this dimension right before their eyes—perhaps leaving his clothes behind or not and seeing him white robed ascending into Glory.
PLEASE Put the fear of Almighty God Jehovah—GOD ABOVE ALL GODS—GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB, OH, LORD—put the fear of GOD IN THEM TO THEIR BONE MARROW SUCH THAT THEY CANNOT SLEEP UNTIL THEY SEEK JESUS.
It's anti-Christian, anti freedom and anti-American. It should be outlawed.
May he stay strong and his loved ones be lifted up.
Don't expect Zero do do a thing.
Pastor Nadarkhani will give more credibility to Christianity. He will be honored in heaven.
These are the people about whom we are supposed to be tolerant?
The free world had better wake up, or when these INTOLERANT people become the majority and begin voting their laws into place, non-muslims everywhere will be exterminated.
Very worthy call to prayer for Iranian Pastor sentenced to death . . .
If you have time to sift through the youtube stuff about military convoys, military materiel movements on a massive scale . . .
to come up with the more credible, it would be a great service to post that on the Agenda 21 thread.
Some warnings sound a bit shrill . . . on the other hand . . . with different fingers . . . given Janet Napolitano's warnings to several of her closer friends for them to stock up on 6 months of food and water ASAP . . . we should NOT be the least bit complacent.
Where did you see this? I just went to the VOM homepage and it says that the sentence is upheld.
Sounds good.
However, it's better news than that he had been hung an hour ago.
Hopefully, the Iranians will back down on this quietly. Unfortunately, a big problem with that part of the world is that saving face is incredibly important, they believe that if they say they are going to do something that the world will think less of them if they change their mind later.
Yeah, yeah, yeah...
How can a religion be both religion and a political system? By being Islam.
Like I said, it's a political movement based on mass murder and world domination...no further examination is needed.
It is absolutely anti-everything American and its murdering control-freak leaders have no legitimate place within the USA other than prison.
If you want to call it a religion, it's nothing more than Satanism...islam is a big lie.
Prayers said. How sad it is that religious persecution is going on in so many countries.
yup, like the Puritans and their successors in the Presbyterian USA based cult you go to.
good point Sal. Unfortunately too many folks have a 1500s chip on their shoulder.
Infidels: freepmail me if you want on or off this list.
Lord our God,
May Thy enemies be confused and destroyed; may the witness of Thy holy martyrs bring Thy light to the corners of the world; may all false religions be forgotten starting with Islam; may the life of Pastor Nadarkhani Thy servant be spared if that be Thy will.
In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, amen.
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This course also meets CME/CEU requirements for ARDMS. Note: While offering the CME credit hours noted above, activities are not intended to provide extensive training or certification for exam performance or interpretation. Back to top
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