The Insecurity Of The Wicked
Topic: Personal
Psalm 37 Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. 2 For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb. 3 Trust in the Lord, and do good; so shalt thou dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. 4 Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart. 5 Commit thy way unto the Lord; trust also in him; and he shall bring it to pass. 6 And he shall bring forth thy righteousness as the light, and thy judgment as the noonday.

7 Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for him: fret not thyself because of him who prospereth in his way, because of the man who bringeth wicked devices to pass. 8 Cease from anger, and forsake wrath: fret not thyself in any wise to do evil. 9 For evildoers shall be cut off: but those that wait upon the Lord, they shall inherit the earth. 10 For yet a little while, and the wicked shall not be: yea, thou shalt diligently consider his place, and it shall not be. 11 But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace. 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13 The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 14 The wicked have drawn out the sword, and have bent their bow, to cast down the poor and needy, and to slay such as be of upright conversation. 15 Their sword shall enter into their own heart, and their bows shall be broken. 16 A little that a righteous man hath is better than the riches of many wicked. 17 For the arms of the wicked shall be broken: but the Lord upholdeth the righteous. 18 The Lord knoweth the days of the upright: and their inheritance shall be for ever. 19 They shall not be ashamed in the evil time: and in the days of famine they shall be satisfied. 20 But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.

21 The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth. 22 For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off. 23 The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and he delighteth in his way. 24 Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. 25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. 26 He is ever merciful, and lendeth; and his seed is blessed. 27 Depart from evil, and do good; and dwell for evermore. 28 For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off. 29 The righteous shall inherit the land, and dwell therein for ever. 30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment. 31 The law of his God is in his heart; none of his steps shall slide. 32 The wicked watcheth the righteous, and seeketh to slay him. 33 The Lord will not leave him in his hand, nor condemn him when he is judged.

34 Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it. 35 I have seen the wicked in great power, and spreading himself like a green bay tree. 36 Yet he passed away, and, lo, he was not: yea, I sought him, but he could not be found. 37 Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright: for the end of that man is peace. 38 But the transgressors shall be destroyed together: the end of the wicked shall be cut off. 39 But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble. 40 And the Lord shall help them, and deliver them: he shall deliver them from the wicked, and save them, because they trust in him.

Cheer Up!

P.S.
Topic: Misc.
P.S. You can feel good about the man who you are about to make the next President of the United States. He's a good hearted, strong, intelligent and reasonable man. I believe he'll make us all proud.

Ladies and Gentleman I present to you the next President of the United States, JOHN F. KERRY!!!

PRESIDENT JOHN FORBES KERRY

Shame! Shame!
Topic: Hopefully Humorous
Look what someone had the audacity to send The Independent Voice today in an email:

No one, I repeat, NO ONE, should make a mockery of a sitting and non-lame duck President.

Just wait until tomorrow and then you can make as much fun of him as you want!

P.S. The Independent Voice's prophecy, as told to me by God, is that Kerry is going to win by 5%, and it will be all over November 3rd. All the polls are wrong. All the preparation for fighting this election in the courts is for naught. The Lord actually said that he can't wait until this S.O.B. is out of office (he didn't actually use the term, but I know he was thinking it).

In addition to the traditionally strong Democratic states (especially Pennsylvania) Kerry is going to win Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, New Mexico, Florida, and Ohio.

P.P.S. Notice that God is no longer angry. He told me so much right before he let slip that Florida was going to Kerry by 4%. He wanted me to let the Floridians know that future acts of Him are on hold for the present moment.

P.P.P.S. Let's see how the Republicans hold up after losing the election. Do you think they won't make any court challenges so that our union can remain stable and power can change hands smoothly (like the Democrats did in 2000)? I wonder... Betcha they'll be glad they have a trial lawyer at their side if they do decide to make any court challenges.

P.P.P.P.S. God also told me to tell everyone that if you see Pat Robertson give him a good kick in the nuts for the Lord (he didn't use the word "nuts", he actually said "testicles" but you know like the bible, close enough).

P.P.P.P.P.S. <--- (I know that's wrong you damn nerd).

From A Republican
You know The Independent Voice has been telling you this stuff for months now but maybe you'll believe it coming from the mouth of a long time Republican. This is why you shouldn't vote for George W. Bush and it's something loyal Republicans need to understand.


Elmer L. Andersen: Why this Republican ex-governor will be voting for Kerry
Elmer L. Andersen
October 13, 2004
Republicans Voting Kerry


Throughout my tenure and beyond as the 30th governor of this state, I have been steadfastly aligned -- and until recently, proudly so -- with the Minnesota Republican Party.

It dismays me, therefore, to have to publicly disagree with the national Republican agenda and the national Republican candidate but, this year, I must.

The two "Say No to Bush" signs in my yard say it all.

The present Republican president has led us into an unjustified war -- based on misguided and blatantly false misrepresentations of the threat of weapons of mass destruction. The terror seat was Afghanistan. Iraq had no connection to these acts of terror and was not a serious threat to the United States, as this president claimed, and there was no relation, it's now obvious, to any serious weaponry. Although Saddam Hussein is a frightful tyrant, he posed no threat to the United States when we entered the war. George W. Bush's arrogant actions to jump into Iraq when he had no plan how to get out have alienated the United States from our most trusted allies and weakened us immeasurably around the world.

Also, if there as well had been proper and careful coordination of services and intelligence on Sept. 11, 2001, that horrific disaster might also have been averted. But it was a separate event from this brutal mess of a war, and the disingenuous linking of the wholly unrelated situation in Iraq to 9/11 by this administration is not supported by the facts.

Sen. John Kerry was correct when he said that seemingly it is only Bush and Dick Cheney who still believe their own spin. Both men spew outright untruths with evangelistic fervor. For Bush -- a man who chose to have his father help him duck service in the military during the Vietnam War -- to disparage and cast doubt on the medals Kerry won bravely and legitimately in the conflict of battle is a travesty.

For Cheney to tell the hand-picked, like-minded Republican crowds in Des Moines last month that to vote for John Kerry could mean another attack like that of 9/11 is reprehensible. Moreover, such false statements encourage more terrorist attacks rather than prevent them.

A far smaller transgression, but one typical of his stop-at-nothing tactics, was Cheney's assertion in last Wednesday's vice-presidential debate that he'd never met Sen. John Edwards until that night. The next day -- and the media must stay ever-vigilant at fact-checking the lies of this ticket -- news reports, to the contrary, showed four video clips of Edwards and Cheney sitting next to each other during the past five years.

In both presidential debates, Kerry has shown himself to be of far superior intellect and character than Bush. He speaks honestly to the American people, his ethics are unimpeachable and, clearly, with 20 respected years in the Senate, he has far better credentials to lead the country than did Bush when he was elected four years ago. And a far greater depth of understanding of domestic and foreign affairs to do it now.

Not that the sitting president has ever really been at the helm.

I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been -- because this country is in the hands of an evil man: Dick Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush.

Bush's phony posturing as cocksure leader of the free world -- symbolized by his victory symbol on the aircraft carrier and "mission accomplished" statement -- leave me speechless. The mission had barely been started, let alone finished, and 18 months later it still rages on. His ongoing "no-regrets," no-mistakes stance and untruths on the war -- as well as on the floundering economy and Bush administration joblessness -- also disappoint and worry me.

Liberal Republicans of my era and mind-set used to have a humane and reasonable platform. We advocated the importance of higher education, health care for all, programs for children at risk, energy conservation and environmental protection. Today, Bush and Cheney give us clever public relations names for programs -- need I say "No Child Left Behind? -- but a lack of funding to support them. Early childhood education programs and overall health care are woefully underfunded. We have not only the largest number ever of medically uninsured in this nation, our infant mortality rates, once among the lowest in the world, have worsened to 27th.

As taxes for the wealthy are being cut, jobs are being outsourced if not lost and children are homeless and uninsured, this administration is running up the biggest deficit in U.S. history -- bound to be a terrible burden for future generations.

This imperialistic, stubborn adherence to wrongful policies and known untruths by the Cheney-Bush administration -- and that's the accurate order -- has simply become more than I can stand.

Although I am a longtime Republican, it is time to make a statement, and it is this: Vote for Kerry-Edwards, I implore you, on Nov. 2.

Elmer L. Andersen was Minnesota's governor from 1961 to 1963.

War Of Our World: 66th Anniversary
Topic: State Of The Union
It is the 66th anniversary of the broadcast of "War Of The Worlds" but the issues raised then seem to be even more pervasive today. To commemorate this thought provoking event The Independent Voice is republishing an article from Sept 8th.

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Oct. 30, 1938 Orson Welles leads millions of people to believe that aliens from Mars were invading New Jersey. The production caused widespread panic. Thousands evacuated their homes. Highways were filled with escaping cars. Weeks later, those that had "escaped" to the mountains had to be convinced to come back. The aftermath of this broadcast was so traumatic it spurred legislation banning the use of "news" format in fictional radio plays for years afterwards.


Columnist Dorothy Thompson, New York Tribune, November 2, 1938:
All unwittingly, Mr. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air have made one of the most fascinating and important demonstrations of all time. They have proved that a few effective voices, accompanied by sound effects, can convince masses of people of a totally unreasonable, completely fantastic proposition as to create a nation-wide panic.

They have demonstrated more potently than any argument, demonstrated beyond a question of a doubt, the appalling dangers and enormous effectiveness of popular and theatrical demagoguery....

Hitler managed to scare all of Europe to its knees a month ago, but he at least had an army and an air force to back up his shrieking words. But Mr. Welles scared thousands into demoralization with nothing at all.

Howard Koch, the scriptwriter for the H.G. Wells classic the "War Of The Worlds" wrote,

"... the submerged anxieties of tens of thousands of Americans surfaced and coalesced in a flood of terror that swept the country. Between nine o'clock Eastern Standard Time and the dawn of the next day, men, women and children in scores of towns and cities across the nation were in flight from objects that had no existence except in their imaginations."

The questions and implications are no different today then they were the day before Halloween, 1938. How can we be so sure that our reality is really "real"? What would we do in a situation like that? Would you flee to the mountains? Would you kill yourself to avoid the perceived inevitability of a horrible death? Can our fears override our rational minds? Can people be led to incredible actions by manipulating their perception of reality through fear? Are you being manipulated right now?

Who's reports should we believe? Who's telling us the truth and who's playing on our fears?

This guy?



...or this guy?

Is it still possible that our fears can be played on in such a way that "theatrical demagoguery" can coalesce "in a flood of terror that" sweeps the country?

Those kinds of things don't go on today, do they?

The Ostrich Syndrome
Topic: State Of The Union
Despite what the media hasn't fully reported, this is what Bin Laden actually said today:

Why the attacks are never going to end:

"Each state that does not mess with our security, has naturally guaranteed its own security."

How he formulated the idea for 9/11:

"God knows that it had not occurred to our mind to attack the towers, but after our patience ran out and we saw the injustice and inflexibility of the American-Israeli alliance toward our people in Palestine and Lebanon, this came to my mind. While I was looking at these destroyed towers in Lebanon, it sparked in my mind that the tyrant should be punished with the same and that we should destroy towers in America, so that it tastes what we taste and would be deterred from killing our children and women".

His thoughts on George W. Bush:

"It appeared to him that a little girl's talk about her goat and its butting was more important than the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers. That gave us three times the required time to carry out the operations, thank God".

Despite entering the fourth year after September 11th, Bush is still deceiving you and hiding the truth from you and therefore the reasons are still there to repeat what happened.

I never thought that the supreme leader would leave 50,000 of his people in the two towers to face the terrifying events alone at the time they were in need for him."

His message to the people of the United States:

"To the U.S. people, my talk is to you about the best way to avoid another disaster. I tell you: security is an important element of human life and free people do not give up their security. Your security is not in the hands of Kerry or Bush or al-Qaida. Your security is in your own hands.

If Bush says we hate freedom, let him tell us why we didn't attack Sweden, for example. It is known that those who hate freedom do not have dignified souls, like those of the 19 blessed ones.

We fought you because we are free .. and want to regain freedom for our nation. As you undermine our security we undermine yours."

It is not appeasement to know what our enemy is thinking and saying.

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle."
- Sun Tzu

Now you know our enemy. Do you truly know your government?

The Problem With Penises
Topic: Satire
You may have heard it said that this is the "most important election of our lifetime". Have you noticed that no one tells you why? What's interesting about this statement is that both sides overwhelmingly agree but do so for completely different reasons. The prevailing belief by the one side is that if a man of weak character, a Vietnam traitor, and a vacillating liberal like John Kerry is elected President it will be asking for more terrorists attacks. The other side believes that if you elect a sanctimonious and self-righteous arrogant know-nothing like George Bush, he may succeed in blowing up the world just yet. Some think that our domestic policy under the direction of the "other" candidate is asking for calamity.

The situation is analogous to the problem with penises. Some say that it's the size that matters. Some say it's the "motion of the ocean" not the "size of the ship" that counts. Most males think, or at least talk like the have big ones, but rarely does a man talk about his superb "motion". That would be a dead give away to his diminutive size.

There is a basic difference between these 2 men in terms of how they talk about their penises. Of course, people subconsciously recognize that strength is a metaphor for penis size. According to the followers of George Bush, he has an insanely huge one and that qualifies him to be President and John Kerry has a very small one. The followers of John Kerry recognize that it is usually the man that walks around talking about his huge member, that has neither the supreme "motion" or "size".

Examples of metaphorical penis size comparisons in our foreign policy have been exhibited throughout the history of our country (and the world). Ronald Reagan is credited by some with causing the collapse of the U.S.S.R. What most people don't realize is that when Reagan looked over and saw the size of Kruschev's member he got jealous. He wanted his to be at least equal in size to Kruschev's. So Reagan embarked upon a dangerous cold war game of catch up. He saw how large the Russian's cock was and instead of realizing that eventually he was going to become a eunuch, just like Kruschev wound up, Reagan decided to join him. After seeing what happened to the Russians due to their artificially inflated penis and the resulting bursting, did we change our ludicrous policies.

Now you make think that this penis comparison is crazy, but anyone who has boys or has seen a boy at the moment of discovery of their penis, understands. When a boy discovers his penis he pisses all over everything. Then he realizes that other boys have penises and they either have contests (a.k.a. pissing contests) to see who can shoot the furthest, or they compare the size.

You see the reason why this election is so important revolves around penises. One man thinks his is bigger than everyone else's and doesn't care if he whips it out and pisses all over you. He believes that his penis qualifies him as a strong capable leader. He doesn't recognize that other men have bigger penises despite their humility. He doesn't get that smaller membered men can "do it" better than him.

Now the verdict is still out on the question of size v. motion, but what is dangerous about having a prick for President who thinks it's the biggest and the best, is in the words of my father, crazy, because someone is always bigger and better.

NEWS FLASH!
Topic: State Of The Union
"The American Conservative" magazine has confirmed everything The Independent Voice has been telling you. George W. Bush is NOT a conservative. No one knows exactly what he is but he's definitely NOT a conservative. In fact he appears to be the worst of both the left and the right.

Read this article throroughly:

The American Conservative Magazine Endorses John F. Kerry

What's even more interesting than the endorsement is that the magazine recognizes that another 4 years of Bush would be absolutely cataclysmic for the REAL conservative ideology (sounds familiar, hum?).

That just goes to show you that the American people can either get a good helping of liberal pie now or wait another 4 years and they'll be screaming for a Ralph Nader/Howard Dean, as far left as you can go without falling off, liberal ticket. It's up to you. Personally I opt for now. Just the thought of more balloning deficits, unnecessary war, lies, deceit, excuses, and unfortunately needless death and destruction, just scares the be-jesus out of me.

But hey, if you think a Presidential election should be decided on one issue like gay marriage, vote for Bush. Just remember that a vote for Bush is a vote for a liberal in 4 years and for a long time to come. It's in your hands.

VOTE WISELY

New World Cinema
Topic: Hopefully Humorous


In a time when people just don't care... In a place where people can't see past their own borders... Lies a man in a court appointed position of inscrutable power...

Coming Soon To A World Theater Near You!

VOTE!!!

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