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Helpful advice to the governor on water crisis
Dear Gov. Sonny Perdue:
When you decided to run
for governor a few years ago, I’U bet
you never thought you had signed
on to manage
the worst water
crisis in our
state’s history.
Usually, our gov
ernors just make
a lot of speeches
and issue proc
lamations and
talk about how
they are going to
improve public
education.
Dick Yarbrough
Columnist
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net
According to the polls, most
Georgians think you are doing a
good job with an issue that has
been around for the past 20 years
or more. So do I.
Oh, there are some Democrats
who claim the crisis would never
have occurred had their party
Punked - faking the hate, manufacturing the news
You' don’t have to be a
Harvard University
researcher to figure
out that the media is infected
with liberal bias - or to real
ize that
some left
wing jour
nali s t s
will use
any means
necessary
to create
ideologi
cal narra
tives that
fit their
worldview.
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Michelle Malkin
Columnist
malkin@comcast. net
The Rathergate debacle at
CBS News involving faked
National Guard memos to
smear President Bush was
an extreme example. But if
you look closely, you’ll find
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church building, we’re not
building this for “us”. We’re
building it for others. We
really want to build some
thing that everyone can
enjoy.”
Q: How would you
describe a worship ser
vice at Harvest?
Jim: “It’s casual and
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be demanding or understanding. The under
standing manager reflected the same respect to
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they will need to enter heav
en’s gates. As a result, many
converts abuse the unmer
ited gift of God’s grace. They
walk the isle at revivals
to accept Christ, and then
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and in a short time resume
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ously believing their salva
tion is secured. Likewise,
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for sin.
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been misunderstood to imply
that individuals are saved
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still been in power, but they had a
decade or so to deal with the issue
and didn’t do squat.
Now they and their media bud
dies are tiying to blame you for the
mess you inherited, please remem
ber they have also blamed you for
global warming, the war in Darfur
and the heartbreak of psoriasis.
My purpose in writing is to offer
you my assistance in bringing the
crisis under control. I would have
written sooner, but I have been
veiy busy lately kicking a plethora
of pompous people in their poste
riors.
I know being governor of Georgia
is a hard job at times, but being a
modest and much-beloved colum
nist is no piece of cake either.
Fortunately, I am here now and
ready to help. First off, let’s all
remember that the water flows
through Georgia before it gets to
Alabama and Florida. If we don’t
send it, they don’t get it, which
everyday examples of Serious
Journalists manufacturing
the news and concocting
social crises. Amazingly, they
always manage to make con
servatives look racist, intol
erant and evil. Funny how
that works.
On Monday, the local Fox
affiliate in Birmingham, Ala.,
blew the whistle on an ABC
News sting operation intend
ed to elicit bigoted responses
from local residents. The
national ABC News program
“Primetime Live” hired
actors to pose as same-sex
couples and engage in public
displays of affection on a park
bench. Birmingham police
department sources told the
Fox affiliate about the social
experiment; a local mer
chant spotted an RV where
friendly. I wear jeans to
preach in. The band plays
a cool southern rock sound
and we use a lot of media.
And the kids programs are
really great. We want them
to have fun while they learn
important life lessons from
the Bible.”
Q: OK, I probably know
what you will say but who
should come to Harvest?
Everyone?
Jim: “I really don’t think
regardless of their continua
tion in evil behavior. Granted
God’s grace covers all sins,
both great and small, but
should we continue to sin
with the presumption that
God’s unlimited grace will
save us? Paul asked the same
question, “Shall we con
tinue in sin that grace may
abound?” “Heaven forbid,”
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who said, ‘Yes, we are work
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Welcome to Media Theatrics
101. Instead of simply inter
viewing folks in the South or
staking out real gay couples,
ABC News thinks it’s fair
and objective to stage-man
age social experiments and
call it journalism. Next thing
you know, they’ll hire celebri
ty prankster Ashton Kutcher
to jump out and yell, “You
just got Punk’d!” as passers
by get ensnared and - ABC
News hopes - exhibit the
signs of prejudice they are so
everyone will like Harvest.
Everyone is welcome of
course, but our music is loud
and our atmosphere is inten
tionally casual. We don’t
require anything from our
attenders. You don’t have to
dress up.
You don’t have to be a
Christ-follower. You aren’t
expected to give money. You
can come just like you are.
You don’t have to clean your
self up physically or spiritu-
his employees as was expected from them, creat
ing a favorable working relationship.
A favorable working relationship is the only
kind we have with God when we carry out our
Christian responsibilities under His manage-
he answers, “certainly not.”
Righteous thoughts,
actions and deeds are the
visible evidence of faith.
Without works, there can be
no legitimate faith. According
to Revelation’s description
of God’s final judgment, the
dead of all ages will be judged
by their deeds.
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means that the governor of Alabama
needs to work on his attitude if he
wants some of our water.
I’m tired of his smart mouth. If
he wants to keep using the execu
tive potty, I would suggest he be a
little nicer and quit threatening us.
I suspect you could cold-cock him
into West Virginia if you wanted
to, but cutting off his water supply
and making him use the outhouse
would accomplish the same thing.
Besides, it’s no big deal. I have
been to Alabama. They have lots of
outhouses.
Florida’s governor acts like he
doesn’t have a dog in the fight.
He is probably embarrassed that
his state university got its butt
whipped by our state university a
couple of weeks ago and he doesn’t
want to do anything to rile us up.
We might sic Knowshon Moreno
on him again. Let’s keep sending
him some water. He can decide on
his own whether he wants to share
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it with his constituents or with
a bunch of inedible mussels that
can’t vote.
I know the Army Corps of
Engineers controls how much
water gets sent downstream. How
to handle that complex matter
stumped me until I went to consult
with Tommy the Barber. Tommy
reminded me that all the lakes
in the state that are operated by
Georgia Power seem to be Ml all
the time.
Therefore, he thinks you should
turn the rest of the lakes over
to the power company to run.
Tommy says you need to call out
the National Guard and give the
Corps of Engineers five minutes to
get off the property. If they make
a fuss about it, Tommy suggests
you shoot them. As with most of
Tommy’s ideas, it is a bit different,
but I told him I would be sure and
pass it along to you. Tommy is a
great American.
sure exist in Southerners.
Does this politically cor
rect set-up sound familiar? It
should. Last spring, I exposed
a similar news media pro
duction engineered by NBC’s
“Dateline,” which recruited
Muslim males to be sent to
sports events and NASCAR
races in the South and across
the heartland to expose fans
as anti-Muslim, anti-Arab
bigots.
Yes, the same program and
network that were humili
ated for faking GM pick-up
truck explosions attempted
to manufacture another cri
sis to give “Dateline’s” talk
ing heads yet another oppor
tunity to farrow their brows,
shake their heads and win
more Emmy awards.
For many left-wing do
ally. You can remain anony
mous and check it out. Our
goal is to help people who are
far from God become active
followers of Jesus Christ. So
we often say, “We love you
right where you are. But we
love you enough not to let
you stay there.” What we
mean by that is we want to
help people grow. But you
can’t really grow until you
get to know Jesus for your
self.
ment.
“The Lord will guide you continually and sat
isfy you with all good things and keep you healthy
too; and you will be like a well-watered garden,
like an over-flowing spring. ”
attain God’s standards for
holiness, we must never quit
trying. How do we gain God’s
favor? Jesus summed it up
in two commandments: “love
the Lord with all your heart,
all your mind, and all your
soul, and love your neighbor
as yourself.”
Once we accept Jesus as
Lord and Savior, we should
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gooders in the media, the
ideological end - exposing
America as an irredeemably
racist, sexist, homophobic,
elitist nation - justifies these
manufactured means. That
destructive philosophy has
manifested itself on count
less college campuses, where
professors and students alike
have been caught cooking up
fake hate crimes to show how
racist our society is.
On Monday, in a sepa
rate but rather related inci
dent, a student journalist/
College Democrat at George
Washington University in
Washington, D.C., admitted
that she had drawn swasti
kas on her own dorm room
door. Sarah Marshak signed
a confession, according to
campus officials, after secu
Even though we don’t
expect much from our
“attenders”, we do expect a
lot from our members. There
is a required membership
class and we lay out the mis
sion of the church and expec
tations of members such as
tithing and serving in a min
istry. Every Sunday we want
our members to “work one,
worship one” which means
to help in one service and
worship in another.
constantly strive to walk
closer with Him, to love our
families, to show Christian
friendship and to take the
path of righteousness in the
many decisions that confront
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Finally, I saw that we canceled
a couple of bass tournaments that
were part of the “Go Fish Georgia”
program you created. No need to
do that.
Tell the fisherman to come on.
Instead of sticking hooks in their
thumbs and puttering around in
expensive bass boats looking for
fish, they can just walk out in the
middle of the lake and pick up those
suckers with their bare hands. We’ll
have more happy fishermen than
we know how to handle. (Now you
see why I get paid the big bucks.)
I hope these suggestions will be
helpful as you manage our water
crisis. Keep up the good work. It
will please your friends and con
found your enemies.
-DICK
You can reach Dick Yarbrough at
yarb24oo@bellsouth.net. P.O. Box
725373, Atlanta, Georgia 31139, or
Web site: www.dickyarbrough.com.
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the act.
Her campus publication,
The Hatchet, said she told the
staff that she “only drew the
final three of six swastikas
on her door in an attempt to
highlight what she charac
terized as GW’s inaction.”
It’s a short leap from hoax
crimes to hoax news. Marshak
could get expelled, but there
may yet be an opening for her
at the stage production unit
of ABC News, NBC News or
CBS News.
The de facto dinosaur net
work news motto, after all,
is “All the news that’s fit to
stage.”
Michelle Malkin is author of
Unhinged: Exposing Liberals
Gone Wild. Her e-mail address
is malkinblog@gmail.com.
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churches in Middle Georgia.
If you already attend a
church, I’d say stay there.
Eveiy church needs faithful
people. But if you don’t go to
church and are curious about
having a real relationship
with God then I’d say, ‘We
built this place for you’.”
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