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As if the U.S. Secret Service didn’t have anything better to do with their time, now they are seizing obviously fake $1,000,000 bills from a church.

The U.S. Secret Service has seized 8,300 one million-dollar bills printed as religious tracts by a Denton-based evangelical ministry.

Agents say the handbills too closely resemble real money. But the head of the ministry says he’ll keep handing out the bills until the government orders him to stop.

Anyone who mistakes these religious tracks for real money has completely lost it.  Besides the fact that Christian messages dominate both the front and the back of the bill, the largest bill the US government prints is a $100,000.  It is a fairly intricate tract which asks the million dollar question, “Will you go to heaven?”  Along the outside of the tract this message is printed:

The million dollar question: Will you go to Heaven? Here’s a quick test. Have you ever told a lie, stolen anything, or used God’s name in vain? Jesus said, “Whoever looks upon a woman to lust after her has committed adultery already with her in his heart.” Have you looked with lust? Will you be guilty on Judgment Day? If you have done those things God sees you as a lying, thieving, blasphemous, adulterer at heart. The Bible warns that if you are guilty you will end up in Hell. That’s not God’s will. He sent His Son to suffer and die on the cross for you. Jesus took your punishment upon Himself -”For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” Then He rose from the dead and defeated death. Please, repent (turn from sin) today and trust in Jesus, and God will grant you everlasting life. Then read your Bible daily and obey it.

My daughter says the tracts are really good to hand out.  They are very obviously fake.  Like I said, the raid was a waste of time.  See if you can see any difference.

Tags: Corruption, Politics by Chuck
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What has the media wrought?  With people like John Murtha calling our troops murderers, word is spreading around the world about the deaths of civilians in Haditha.  The Tehran Times gives even less credit to our troops quoting Murtha and others at length.

In the wake of the new U.S. scandal in Iraq, the Haditha massacre which involves the U.S. Marines’ unjustified killing of about 25 Iraqi civilians, the United for Peace and Justice, (UFPJ), a coalition of more than 1400 international and U.S.-based organizations opposed to the U.S. “government’s policy of permanent warfare and empire-building,” issued a press release, likening the brutal massacre in the Iraqi town to My Lai Massacre committed by the U.S. soldiers on hundreds of unarmed Vietnamese civilians in 1968, in the village of Mai Lai, during the Vietnam War.

When our own media turn against our troops, leave it Tony Blankley to put the entire Haditha matter (and the media’s take on the episode) into perspective.

The Marine incident, and its aftermath, at Haditha tells us much more about the media than it does about the Marines. And what it tells us ought to outrage us to the core.

Isn’t that the truth.

On every radio and television show I appeared on last week (and all I observed) in which this topic came up, without exception at least one of the media people immediately attempted to implicate not just the still-presumed-innocent Marines, but the American military’s leadership and methods in general.

The “Drive By Media” (Rush Limbaugh’s scientifically accurate description) has already started to report this story in a manner that is likely to do vast damage that may last for several years to the morale (and possibly recruitment) of our military. It will create a propaganda catastrophe of strategic proportions in our mortal struggle with radical Islam and its terrorist spear point.

And all this is being done by journalists who are seemingly oblivious to the consequences of their acts. (snip)

But what further cuts is to listen to media people casually perpetrate libel against not just the still-presumed-innocent Marines but against our services more generally. To see the gleam in the eyes of reporters happily cackling on about “other possible incidents” — about which they know not whether they even exist — is to be filled with a fury that we have a system of journalism that permits people with such mentalities to poison the minds of the world with their malice. (snip)

The media have never lost sight of Vietnam in their reporting. Every story about the military begins and ends with this thought in mind. How else would you explain their enthusiasm in denigrating the fighting men and women of the United States military?

Hat tip: Powerline

Tags: History, Heroes, Bias, Iraq, Politics, War by Chuck
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