I’ll Tell You What…

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This is cool. Radio Free Asia has instructions on how to put together an anti-jamming antenna so that a person can listen to RFA in countries where the authorities try to jam the radio signal. The article tells what you need and how to put it together.

From Radio Free Asia.

A former overseer of labor camps from the northeastern city of Shenyang, Han Guangsheng, has said he defected while on a trip to Canada because he was sickened by the level of brutality, human rights abuses and corruption in the Chinese Communist Party.

Read on for more details.

Here’s a very basic verse of the day-type application that I wrote while playing with Perl and the Tk module. This version is platform independent, ie, it works with Windows, Linux, Solaris, Mac OS X, etc.

In order to run this under Windows, you must have ActiveState Perl installed and have the Tk module installed. […]

Woman Gets Cable Bill With Derogatory Name

Why can’t WordPress make available a “changed files” downloads like phpBB does. Their upgrade instructions are basically a new installation of WordPress minus the database stuff. The upgrade instructions for the latest release consist of the following:

Delete /wp-admin/ folder.
Delete /wp-includes/ folder
Delete all the wordpress files in the root directory […]

You scored as Anselm. Anselm is the outstanding theologian of the medieval period.He sees man’s primary problem as having failed to render unto God what we owe him, so God becomes man in Christ and gives God what he is due. You should read Cur Deus Homo.

Anselm 87%
John Calvin 73%
Karl Barth 60%
Friedrich Schleiermacher 60%
Jonathan Edwards […]

I’m not sure I totally agree with the results here but it’s pretty close.
Your results for Christian Traditions Selector
1: Pentecostal/Charismatic/Assemblies of God (100%)
2: Baptist (non-Calvinistic)/Plymouth Brethren/Fundamentalist (98%)
3: Anabaptist (Mennonite/Quaker etc.) (90%)
4: Baptist (Reformed/Particular/Calvinistic) (88%)
5: Congregational/United Church of Christ (83%)
6: Eastern Orthodox (82%)
7: Lutheran (75%)
8: Anglican/Episcopal/Church of England […]

Winston Churchill once said, “You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
Another famous person once said these things.

“Everyone will hate you because you are committed to me.” (Matthew 10:22, Mark 13:13, Luke 21:17)
“Blessed are you when people hate you, avoid you, insult you, and […]

Here’s a quiz I found over at John Dekker’s Journal.
You scored as Christianity. Your views are most similar to those of Christianity. Do more research on Christianity and possibly consider being baptized and accepting Jesus, if you aren’t already Christian.
Christianity is the second of the Abrahamic faiths; it follows Judaism and is followed by Islam. […]

Well, last Wednesday I went to the specialist (a gastroenterologist). All my symptoms appear to point in different directions. I could potentially have mononucleosis, diabetes, a gall bladder infection, any number of liver diseases or a combination of all the above. If this were a multiple choice exam I might choose gall […]

I received this today from the American Center for Law and Justice. This is really a sad attempt to discredit Supreme nominee, John G. Roberts, Jr.

Should activist groups be allowed to fabricate complete deceptions - and broadcast them across America - in order to try to derail the nomination of John G. Roberts, Jr., […]