It may not last long but the Raiders are finally back on top of our division.
We’re 25 points and 7 touchdowns ahead of the nearest team in the standings.
Of course we’re only a quarter of the way into a sixteen game, seventeen week season.
So we’ll have to see how it pans out.

There is debate over whether the current Immigration & Naturalization test is too challenging or simply designed to ensure new Citizens have the knowledge to be truly American.
How would you score?
It took me an hour and I only scored 90 of 100.
I got a B+.
Here are some sample questions and the answers are below.

Current USCIS Test Questions:

1. What are the colors of our flag?
2. How many stars are there in our flag?
3. What color are the stars on our flag?
4. What do the stars on the flag mean?
5. How many stripes are there in the flag?
6. What color are the stripes?
7. What do the stripes on the flag mean?
8. How many states are there in the Union?
9. What is the 4th of July?
10. What is the date of Independence Day?
11. Independence from whom?
12. What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War?
13. Who was the first President of the United States?
14. Who is the President of the United States today?
15. Who is the vice-president of the United States today?
16. Who elects the President of the United States?
17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die?
18. For how long do we elect the President?
19. What is the Constitution?
20. Can the Constitution be changed?
21. What do we call a change to the Constitution?
22. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?
23. How many branches are there in our government?
24. What are the three branches of our government?
25. What is the legislative branch of our government?
26. Who makes the laws in the United States?
27. What is the Congress?
28. What are the duties of Congress?
29. Who elects the Congress?
30. How many senators are there in Congress?
31. Can you name the two senators from your state?
32. For how long do we elect each senator?
33. How many representatives are there in Congress?
34. For how long do we elect the representatives?
35. What is the executive branch of our government?
36. What is the judiciary branch of our government?
37. What are the duties of the Supreme Court?
38. What is the supreme court law of the United States?
39. What is the Bill of Rights?
40. What is the capital of your state?
41. Who is the current governor of your state?
42. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the vice-president should die?
43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
44. Can you name thirteen original states?
45. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”?
46. Which countries were our enemies during World War II?
47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?
48. How many terms can the President serve?
49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
50. Who is the head of your local government?
51. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements.
52. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?
53. Who selects the Supreme Court justice?
54. How many Supreme Court justice are there?
55. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
56. What is the head executive of a state government called?
57. What is the head executive of a city government called?
58. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists?
59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
60. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?
62. What is the national anthem of the United States?
63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
64. Where does freedom of speech come from?
65. What is a minimum voting age in the United States?
66. Who signs bills into law?
67. What is the highest court in the United States?
68. Who was the President during the Civil War?
69. What did the Emancipation Declaration do?
70. What special group advises the President?
71. Which President is called the “Father of our country”?
72. What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?
73. Who helped the Pilgrims in America?
74. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
75. What are the 13 original states of the U.S. called?
76. Name 3 rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.
77. Who has the power to declare the war?
78. What kind of government does the United States have?
79. Which President freed the slaves?
80. In what year was the Constitution written?
81. What are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution called?
82. Name one purpose of the United Nations?
83. Where does Congress meet?
84. Whose rights are guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
85. What is the introduction to the Constitution called?
86. Name one benefit of being citizen of the United States.
87. What is the most important right granted to U.S. citizens?
88. What is the United States Capitol?
89. What is the White House?
90. Where is the White House located?
91. What is the name of the President’s official home?
92. Name the right guaranteed by the first amendment.
93. Who is the Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?
94. Which President was the first Commander in Chief of the U.S. military?
95. In what month do we vote for the President?
96. In what month is the new President inaugurated?
97. How many times may a Senator be re-elected?
98. How many times may a Congressman be re-elected?
99. What are the 2 major political parties in the U.S. today?
100. How many states are there in the United States today?

1. What are the colors of our flag?
Red, White, and Blue.
2. How many stars are there in our flag?
50
3. What color are the stars on our flag?
White.
4. What do the stars on the flag mean?
One for each state in the Union.
5. How many stripes are there in the flag?
13
6. What color are the stripes?
Red and White.
7. What do the stripes on the flag mean?
They represent the original 13 states.
8. How many states are there in the Union?
50
9. What is the 4th of July?
Independence Day.
10. What is the date of Independence Day?
July 4th
11. Independence from whom?
England
12. What country did we fight during the Revolutionary War?
England
13. Who was the first President of the United States?
George Washington
14. Who is the President of the United States today?
Currently George W. Bush
15. Who is the vice-president of the United States today?
Currently Richard B. (”Dick”) Cheney
16. Who elects the President of the United States?
The electoral college
17. Who becomes President of the United States if the President should die?
Vice - President
18. For how long do we elect the President?
Four years
19. What is the Constitution?
The supreme law of the land
20. Can the Constitution be changed?
Yes
21. What do we call a change to the Constitution?
An Amendment
22. How many changes or amendments are there to the Constitution?
27
23. How many branches are there in our government?
3
24. What are the three branches of our government?
Legislative, Executive, and Judiciary
25. What is the legislative branch of our government?
Congress
26. Who makes the laws in the United States?
Congress
27. What is the Congress?
The Senate and the House of Representatives
28. What are the duties of Congress?
To make laws
29. Who elects the Congress?
The people
30. How many senators are there in Congress?
100
31. Can you name the two senators from your state?
(insert local information)
32. For how long do we elect each senator?
6 years
33. How many representatives are there in Congress?
435
34. For how long do we elect the representatives?
2 years
35. What is the executive branch of our government?
The President, vice president, cabinet, and departments under the cabinet members
36. What is the judiciary branch of our government?
The Supreme Court
37. What are the duties of the Supreme Court?
To interpret laws
38. What is the supreme court law of the United States?
The Constitution
39. What is the Bill of Rights?
The first 10 amendments of the Constitution
40. What is the capital of your state?
(insert local information)
41. Who is the current governor of your state?
(insert local information)
42. Who becomes President of the United States if the President and the vice-president should die?
Speaker of the House of Representative
43. Who is the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court?
William Rehnquist (or whoever is next)
44. Can you name thirteen original states?
Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Rhode Island, and Maryland.
45. Who said, “Give me liberty or give me death.”?
Patrick Henry
46. Which countries were our enemies during World War II?
Germany, Italy, and Japan
47. What are the 49th and 50th states of the Union?
Hawaii and Alaska
48. How many terms can the President serve?
2
49. Who was Martin Luther King, Jr.?
A civil rights leader
50. Who is the head of your local government?
(insert local information)
51. According to the Constitution, a person must meet certain requirements in order to be eligible to become President. Name one of these requirements.
Must be a natural born citizen of the United States; must be at least 35 years old by the time he/she will serve; must have lived in the United States for at least 14 years.
52. Why are there 100 Senators in the Senate?
Two (2) from each state
53. Who selects the Supreme Court justice?
Appointed by the President
54. How many Supreme Court justice are there?
Nine (9)
55. Why did the Pilgrims come to America?
For religious freedom
56. What is the head executive of a state government called?
Governor
57. What is the head executive of a city government called?
Mayor
58. What holiday was celebrated for the first time by the Americans colonists?
Thanksgiving
59. Who was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence?
Thomas Jefferson
60. When was the Declaration of Independence adopted?
July 4, 1776
61. What is the basic belief of the Declaration of Independence?
That all men are created equal
62. What is the national anthem of the United States?
The Star-Spangled Banner
63. Who wrote the Star-Spangled Banner?
Francis Scott Key
64. Where does freedom of speech come from?
The Bill of Rights
65. What is a minimum voting age in the United States?
Eighteen (18)
66. Who signs bills into law?
The President
67. What is the highest court in the United States?
The Supreme Court
68. Who was the President during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
69. What did the Emancipation Declaration do?
Freed many slaves
70. What special group advises the President?
The Cabinet
71. Which President is called the “Father of our country”?
George Washington
72. What Immigration and Naturalization Service form is used to apply to become a naturalized citizen?
Form N-400, Application to File Petition for Naturalization
73. Who helped the Pilgrims in America?
The American-Indians
74. What is the name of the ship that brought the Pilgrims to America?
The Mayflower
75. What are the 13 original states of the U.S. called?
Colonies
76. Name 3 rights of freedom guaranteed by the Bill of Rights.

If you haven’t heard about Yangon, Myanmar, you’ve been living under a rock.
It’s gotten so bad out there that the government has cut off the internet so that all the videos of their human rights violations and other crimes can no longer be released to the world as they had been.
They’re even hunting down journalists and going room to room through hotels looking for every camera in the city.
A journalist from Al-Jazeerah (THE moslum/islamic news agency) called in a report that he feared for his life and was hiding from the hunters; reporting that journalists were being beaten and some even shot on sight!

All I can say to his call:

“How does it feel?”

Wait a second.
They’re striking?
At 11am Eastern time, the United Auto Workers Union, 73000 workers, set out a Strike against 82 General Motors plants in the U.S.
Why?
GM, trying to make itself viable and increase its longevity, is proposing that all new employees sign up for a 401K plan rather than the traditional pension plans.
They also want to change the health care benefits plans for new hires and retired workers to allow for managed healthcare plans with preset account balances and limited co-pay and out of pocket expenses.
Of course the workers want everything they can get and rather than give a little to keep their jobs, they’d rather squeeze all they can out today and take the chance that they’ll be let go, retired early or have the company go bankrupt tomorrow.

These folks are asking too much.
Where else can a man with a high school education make $60 an hour?
I’m glad to be making a fraction of that, with my college education and to have a steady job.

There’s an obvious reason that American Employers are out-sourcing to foreign nations.
Americans are demanding too much for too little and eventually we’ll have no jobs left for Americans to do without having to go South across the border to Mexico to work every day!

We need to remember what the Word of God tells us about this:

Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire men to work in his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard.

About the third hour he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. He told them, `You also go and work in my vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.’ So they went.

He went out again about the sixth hour and the ninth hour and did the same thing. About the eleventh hour he went out and found still others standing around. He asked them, `Why have you been standing here all day long doing nothing?’
`Because no one has hired us,’ they answered.
He said to them, `You also go and work in my vineyard.’

When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, `Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last ones hired and going on to the first.’

The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. So when those came who were hired first, they expected to receive more. But each one of them also received a denarius. When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. `These men who were hired last worked only one hour,’ they said, `and you have made them equal to us who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.’
But he answered one of them, `Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn’t you agree to work for a denarius? Take your pay and go. I want to give the man who was hired last the same as I gave you. Don’t I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?’

“So the last will be first, and the first will be last.”

FINALLY!!!
I actually endured a half hour long interview with Presidential candidate Senator Hilary Clinton on Meet the Depressed this weekend.
The host, Tim Russertt, is a huge liberal and Hilary supporter but during the interview, Hilary would not answer many of his questions directly.
BUT…
When asked about Universal Health Care, Hilary admitted she was wrong!
If you’ll recall back during her husband ’s term as President, he allowed his wife to run the Nation’s Healthcare programs.
During those eight years, Hilary did everything she could to turn our programs into Universal Healthcare and in the process, screwed our systems all to hell.
Tim Russertt quoted one of her Democratic brethren, Chris Dodd, calling her out for her mismanagement of the Health Care program.
I’m please to say that she admitted she tried and made a lot of mistakes.
Unfortunately she plans to try again if she’s elected which means that she’s only going to further screw up the programs that she didn’t finish screwing up during the first eight years of trying!
Jeesh.
And liberals blame Republicans and our current President for the state of health care yet seem to have forgotten that it was Hilary and their own President who screwed the system in the first place!
Hilary even had the brass tacks to tell Tim after he asked her about her past record that we can continue to focus on the past or we can look to the future but then she tried to say that we need to hold the President accountable and he needs to take responsiblity.
But she couldn’t even do it herself when asked point blank!

She was so greasey and evasive during the interview, continually saying, “…The real question is..” rather than answer the question asked by a fellow liberal and supporter.
She’s going to be just like her husband and she’s going to tear this Country apart should her evil hide actually make it into the White House.

I pray that the political analysts are correct when they say that while the liberals love Hilary, nobody’s ready to vote her into the White House just yet.
Not that I’d rather Osama (Obama) make it in but he is the lesser of two very great evils.

Check out Hilary’s interview on Meet The Press from Sunday, 23, 2007.
Listen very closely and you can hear Tim muffling laughter in the background during her responses.

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In the last few years, so many people have been pushing murdering our loved ones in old age homes, hospitals and clinics.
It’s not enough for them to go around killing the unborn babies in this Nation, they’ve got to kill the rest who are unable to speak for themselves.
Terry Shaivo is the first name who comes to my mind.
So because of all of this motivation to kill Americans who believe in God, I’ve come up with a tattoo to place on my chest.
It’s “instructions” if you will.
This way, whether I’m a veggitable, unconscious or simpky unable to express my opinion, everybody will know what it is I want before somebody else makes the attempt to speak for me and misrepresent me.

I AM A CHRISTIAN
I LOVE JESUS CHRIST
UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCE
ARE YOU TO BY ACTION
OR INACTION, CAUSE OR
ALLOW ME TO DIE UNLESS
YOU ARE ATTEMPTING TO
SAVE MY LIFE.

Nobody can assume I want the plug pulled, to be allowed to die, or to be left “declared dead” and not recussitated.
But when all is said and done, I still believe in God so I’m sure they’ll find an excuse to kill me.

But its source may not be what you’d have expected.
We all know that there are plenty of white racists carrying around their KKK bedsheets and cone heads.
We all know of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan.
Those are all the obvious examples when Americans think of racism.

Over on YouTube the discussion roils over the Jena 6 issue in Jena, Louisianna.

The average Joe and Jane have made some very disturubingly racist comments.
Normally you expect to hear some inbred fidiot spouting his drivil but in a few statements, you get the sense that these people truly believe what they are saying and that they are serious in their racist hate.
Let me give you some examples:

I made the comment that people of all ages were drawn to the same race, from kids on the playground to criminals in prison.
That it wasn’t always about race but familiarity and comfort.

“…yeh, in prison, but out here, all feel as though whites are the enemies and minority…”

Was a poster’s response.
She believes that whites are the enemy and that they are the minority.

Then…

When talking about Louisianna two years ago, these comments were made:

“…the president saw a predominant percentage of black people in new orleans and still thought iraq was a top priority…when the highest held person in the country doesn’t care, what can you do?”

And…

“…If you want evidence of his indifference to black people look at New Orleans…”

Another in a line of movies that span generations.
“Across the Universe” staring Evan Rachel Wood, Jim Sturgess and Joe Anderson, by Revolution Studios was released this weekend.
It’s nearly as good as going to a Beatles Laser Show.
For those of us who loved “The Commitments” back in 1991, “Across the Universe” is a treat.
Here’s a clip from “The Commitments - Mustang Sally” and below that I’ve tossed in the “Across the Universe” trailer.

Enjoy!

MTV.
Always the leader in morally depraved television, they’ve nearly out done themselves this year.
“A Shot At Love with Tila Tequila” is a new reality television show styled after “the Bachelor”.
Tila, a MySpace soft porn star, is stuck in a house with 16 single men and 16 single women.
All 32 will vie for her attention and affection.
Tila announces that she’s not sure whether she loves men or women.
The trailers show Tila making out with the guys and with the gals.
MTV has plenty of homosexual and homosexual friendly shows but this one is going to be their crown jewel as Tila will bring in her millions of horny juvenile worshippers.
One more way MTV can rip another stitch out of the Moral Fabric of the good ol US of A.
I’m not even sure why I’m giving this the time of day but I’m sure that I’m sick of this channel.
Perhaps that’s why MTV’s target audience is 13 through 34?
Once you grown up and mature, you tend to realize what crap that station is!
That and the fact that when I was a kid, MTV made its debute and I’m used to being fed music videos 24/7.
If y’all saw the awards show recently, you heard Justin Timberlake make the comment a couple of times during his acceptance speeches about MTV no longer playing music videos.
They’ve taken away the music video and replaced it with crap such as the new show with Tila Tequila.
MTV is all about the sex and drugs but no more rock and roll.
Not that I’m sure I’d watch anymore even if they did bring back the videos since they’re all about how much oral, booty and homosexual sex one can get.
Raping, sodomizing, prostituting and fornicating is all I’ve seen in the current videos.

Dire Straits would be sad to hear that I’m no longer singing their song because now I no longer want my MTV.

I know that is going to shock many of you to read but it’s true:

God loves homosexuals.

He also loves murderes, pedophiles, rapists, thiefs, adulters, fornicators and every other sinner on this planet; past, present and future.
That’s why the Father gave His only begotten Son to die for us so that we may have eternal life with Him.
Seriously.
God loves all of us and He hates our sins.
Our sinful lifestyles are so detestable that He sent His Son to die, the perfect sacrifice, the spotless Lamb, in order to remove sin from us.

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
Whoever believes in him is not condemned, but whoever does not believe stands condemned already because he has not believed in the name of God’s one and only Son.
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but men loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil.
Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.
But whoever lives by the truth comes into the light, so that it may be seen plainly that what he has done has been done through God.”