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Text Box: only is there no evidence this is what occurred; the newspaper article actually does not even begin to imply the Fed chief initially lied. It is by such innuendoes and false implications that overt lies are promoted by what are today termed “journalists”. POLAR BEARS: Twenty years ago there were approximately 15,000, polar bears. Today there are approximately 25,000, polar bears. An increase of 10,000. Yet the United States government has decreed polar bears to be an endangered species. ALTERNATE FUELS: The rush to require use of and to use fuels other than coal and petroleum derivatives has lead to some disastrous results. Since grains can be converted into alcohol in larger amounts and with greater efficiency than can be vegetation “wastes”, grains which once were sold as food are being sold to produce alcohol which decreases the amount of food available for humans and as feed for animals which in turn serve as food for humans. This drives up the cost of food for humans, and decreases the amount of food available for humans, causing increased starvation. The amount of corn (maize) required to make ethanol sufficient to fill an automobile’s gas tank is sufficient to feed one human for a year. And the mileage is terrible. Electric hybrid automobiles must be “plugged in” to a source of electricity so that the batteries may be recharged. Solar panels, wind turbines, and similar “non polluting” electrical sources cause pollution in their manufacture and do not provide sufficient energy so-as-to-be cost effective, or to operate an automobile. Therefore, the electricity must be obtained from “the electric company” which will need additional petroleum and coal (or the building of nuclear power plants) . . . Coal can be inexpensively liquified to provide fuel, especially for aircraft, with an increase of carbon emissions of under 5% over conventional sources - but this has been blocked. Can you determine what sins are at the root of these situations? You may wish to begin with the sin of presumption, follow up with greed, and be sure to include idolatry, paganism, and nature worship as opposed to true God instructed conservation. +

Text Box: IMITATION OF CHRIST By Thomas a Kempis BOOK FOUR (Cont’d) The Seventh Chapter The Examination of Conscience and the Resolution to Amend The Voice of Christ Above all, God's priest should approach the celebration and reception of this Sacrament with the deepest humility of heart and suppliant reverence, with complete faith and the pious intention of giving honor to God. Carefully examine your conscience, then. Cleanse and purify it to the best of your power by true contrition and humble confession, that you may have no burden, know of no remorse, and thus be free to come near. Let the memory of all your sins grieve you, and especially lament and bewail your daily transgressions. Then if time permits, confess to God in the secret depths of your heart all the miseries your passions have caused. Lament and grieve because you are still so worldly, so carnal, so passionate and unmortified, so full of roving lust, so careless in guarding the external senses, so often occupied in many vain fancies, so inclined to exterior things and so heedless of what lies within, so prone to laughter and dissipation and so indisposed to sorrow and tears, so inclined to ease and the pleasures of the flesh and so cool to austerity and zeal, so curious to hear what is new and to see the beautiful and so slow to embrace humiliation and dejection, so covetous of abundance, so niggardly in giving and so tenacious in keeping, so inconsiderate in speech, so reluctant in silence, so undisciplined in character, so disordered in action, so greedy at meals, so deaf to the Word of God, so prompt to rest and so slow to labor, so awake to empty conversation, so sleepy in keeping sacred vigils and so eager to end them, so wandering in your attention, so careless in saying the office, so

Text Box: lukewarm in celebrating, so heartless in receiving, so quickly distracted, so seldom fully recollected, so quickly moved to anger, so apt to take offense at others, so prone to judge, so severe in condemning, so happy in prosperity and so weak in adversity, so often making good resolutions and carrying so few of them into action. When you have confessed and deplored these and other faults with sorrow and great displeasure because of your weakness, be firmly determined to amend your life day by day and to advance in goodness. Then, with complete resignation and with your entire will offer yourself upon the altar of your heart as an everlasting sacrifice to the honor of My name, by entrusting with faith both body and soul to My care, that thus you may be considered worthy to draw near and offer sacrifice to God and profitably receive the Sacrament of My Body. For there is no more worthy offering, no greater satisfaction for washing away sin than to offer yourself purely and entirely to God with the offering of the Body of Christ in Mass and Communion. If a man does what he can and is truly penitent, however often he comes to Me for grace and pardon, "As I live, saith the Lord God, I desire not the death of the wicked, but that the wicked turn from his way and live";[50] I will no longer remember his sins, but all will be forgiven him. ----- [50] Ezek. 33:11. The Eighth Chapter The Offering of Christ on the Cross; Our Offering The Voice of Christ As I offered Myself willingly to God the Father for your sins with hands outstretched and body naked on the cross, so that nothing remained in Me that had not become a complete sacrifice to appease the divine wrath, so ought you to be willing to offer yourself to Me day by day in the Mass as a pure

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