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From Dusty Rhodes
Muncie’z, Cave JunctionCome see our new door. Well actually, come see the new plastic replacement for glass in our door.
A neighborhood vandal shot a half-inch metal ball at our door and shattered the glass. A boy, who was barred from the store for strong-arming younger children for their milk money, reportedly has been bragging about the incident at the school he attends.
The replacement plastic is said to be unbreakable and cost $296. A report has been filed with Josephine County Sheriff’s Office.
Perspective offered on ‘Family of God’
From Zabriel Zadravetz
O’BrienAs the Christmas season nears once again we still find nowhere the kingdom of Heaven as Jesus taught it, but Jesus’ personality was such that we find that one out of every three on this planet call themselves Christian?
The kingdom idea as Jesus taught it has largely failed on this world, and in its place is the Christian church.
It has been estimated that the entire Bible covers approximately 50 days in the life of Jesus, and the first 30 years of his entire life is hardly mentioned at all, and yet the ideals of his life and teachings have dominated art, writings, and ethics of Western civilization for more than 20 centuries.
Most people are formed by the age of which they live in history. But Jesus made history; his life was not just modeled by the ideas of his century, he molded the ideas of his ideals for centuries still to come, around the supernal Truths of the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of all mankind.
Jesus came not to create a creed, but to teach a truth; not to build a temple, but to create the Kingdom of God in the hearts of men upon Earth; not to chain men by dogmas, but to free all people by faith; not to tell us what we should be, but to tell us what and who we are.
He lived and proclaimed a vital truth that you and I can personally know God, not just to find out about God.
His teaching was that man is a child of God, a son of the Universal Father, that all people are in God’s family, the indwelling in the mortal mind is the spirit of God; by seeking to do the will of God one cooperates with Divine Purposes, thereby obtaining eternal life by loyalty to eternal values, Truth, and Beauty and Goodness.
Love God with all your heart and soul and love your neighbor as yourself.
Our time is separated by centuries from Jesus’ time, yet our problems are much the same today and hence the need to hear today the words Jesus spoke them, the words of Faith and Hope, that changed people’s lives and made them new by teaching God is not a leaden-heart lord of wrath, but a Father and a friend and a God of Good and of Love and a forgiving God. And a God that loves each one of us as a son or daughter.
He died without ceremony or funeral, yet today we still know Him by his life and the words proclaiming the Living Love of God for all human kind.
As a child he came to us, born much like we are born, and lived not at all as men live, for dignity surged within his veins. In Jesus we got a look at God as never prior or since. And we have not forgotten it.
The world can never be the same again for we have seen what God is and seen what man can be. God is Love and so are we.
Dog ownership equals responsibility
From Mary J. Guerra
Cave JunctionA couple of weeks ago, my 5-year-old grandson and I were walking our dog on a leash across the street from the Cave Junction Library.
I noticed a car being parked on the library parking lot. A woman, her daughter, and two dogs (off leash) got out of the car. The women went into the library.
Suddenly, the two dogs spotted us, and ran across the street. One dog immediately started biting my dog. I was yelling and kicking at the dog to stop the attack. At the same time I was trying to pick up my dog and protect my grandson.
Finally, the daughter and another woman came to help get the dog off mine and into their car.
By then the mother and owner of the dogs left the library and came over to see if my dog was OK. She said that she hadn’t intended for her dogs to get out of the car, thus no leash. They had just jumped out of the car.
I want to warn people who do use a leash on their dogs. They should carry a walking stick and be prepared to defend themselves.
People should keep their dogs on a leash when they take them in a car. They are responsible for their dog.
About the president, Iraq, Henry Kissinger
From Kristine Strohl
Cave JunctionIt’s disconcerting that our president is consulting with Henry Kissinger, a war criminal and former Secretary of State, who said, “Military men are just dumb stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy.”
Is this alliance the rational for our government’s continued use of depleted uranium in Iraq? Is this the same rational that sparked in the use of Agent Orange during Vietnam?
As a virtual killing field, our military’s casual use of 800 tons of nuclear tons of nuclear waste (DU), an atomicity equivalent to 83,000 Nagasaki bombs, has not only contaminated most of Iraq, but also the countries downwind from there, leading scientists to believe that our use of depleted uranium in Iraq will double the number of malignancies (cancer cases) worldwide by 2020.
According to scientist Leuren Moretince, since the end of Gulf War I, some 11,000 troops have died from DU poisoning, and now we have the potential of losing 518,739 more veterans who have been added to the permanently disabled list from our current war contaminated with DU poisoning.
During WWII the disabled numbered 5 percent; in Vietnam it was 10 percent; and from the Gulf War it is 56 percent who served who have now become permanently disabled, according to Moret.
As the number of American casualties continues to grow will we even notice, since the administration and the V.A. have been hiding the numbers from the public and the press, even going as far as threatening doctors who interfere. Or will we “stay the course” adding to this outrageous number of “dead men walking?”
Suddenly “collateral damage” becomes a double-edged sword, a chilling reality backfiring in the face of our blind patriotism. Knowing these facts shouldn’t we put more pressure on our politicians to bring our troops home rather than putting more ribbons on our cars?
More information is available from Art Bernklau, Veterans for Constitutional Law, at (631) 474-4261 or Google “depleted uranium” or war crimes “committed in all our names” “crimes against humanity; radiation poisoning.” The truth is out there, you just have to find it.
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