Secured Loans are probably one of the most flexible forms of borrowing in the UK with regards to what you can use it for. Uses for a secured loan may include:

Debt Consolidation — Many people choose to take out a secured loan in order to reduce their monthly outgoings if they have a lot of debt. This can save money and lead to a better quality of life

Home Improvements — You could use a secured loan to improve your home, perhaps by adding an extension or new kitchen. The advantage of doing this is that you enjoy the extra benefits of your improved living space, and add extra value (often in excess of what the loan has cost you) to your home.

Business Start up — Although sometimes there are start up grants available from the government, loans for small business start up are one of the most popular uses of a secured loan.
University Fees — University costs are increasing on a yearly basis and many young people end up with mountains of debt from attending university. You could help shoulder the burden your children will be feeling with a secured loan.

School Fees — A secured loan could be used to give your children the best start in life by sending them to a private school with a great reputation.
Holidays — A secured loan could be used for that once in a lifetime holiday, the sort of holiday that you remember for the rest of your life. Perhaps a round the world trip, or a 6 month cruise. The possibilities are endless.

Car Purchase — A secured loan could be used to purchase your dream car. Secured loans can offer lower interest rates than loans generally offered for car purchases. You can most likely borrow more as well so that luxury car that you have had your eye on may be closer than you think.
These are just some things that you could use a secured loan for, of course there are hundreds of different uses, and only you know what you could want the money for. But whatever you are dreaming about, a secured loan could help you achieve those dreams.

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Don Imus is out of a job for making an unwise joke about the Rutgers lady basketball team. MSNBC and CBS have completely cancelled his program. Leaving aside the fact that these two corporations canned his program despite the fact that Imus was joking and apologized ad nauseam, far bigger issues remain. One primary issue concerns whether this kind of censorship (particularly after profuse apologies) is wise and justifiable. Another issue is the level of hypocrisy surrounding this censorship issue.

Here we have a man who has told questionable jokes for decades. He has either fired staff members when they crossed the line or apologized as in this latest case. In other cases, he has not done so because he apparently felt there was no need to apologize for an obvious joke. Now, after all these years, they bring down the entire hammer all at once after giving Imus virtually full reign to showcase his brand of humor for years. At any rate, he is gone now, so there’s no point in belaboring this particular firing. On the other hand, what happens next may shape the future of free speech in this country that supposedly values open dialogue and expression and second chances.

I am personally a PC hater. It is a kind of censorship that will creep up out of the dark and bite you the moment you have a slip of the tongue or be so human as to occasionally speak without thinking. But it is not so much PC that is the problem. It is the actions of PC thugs like Al Sharpton that create the problem. Sharpton has made mistakes and is still alive and well on the radio. Jesse Jackson is still alive and well despite making some of these same mistakes. Yet they are front and center calling for people like Imus to be fired for an unfortunate joke without so much as a line of dialogue with Imus to try and fix the problem.

Even after Imus offered to go on Sharpton’s show (which he did) and apologized for hours, Sharpton and his PC thug wannabees never let up the pressure until Imus got the boot. And this is the behavior of a reverend? Shocking but true.

Now, let’s get to the good part. We all know of the foul language in rap music these days. Sharpton and his two faces have been asked time and again about rap music. He conveniently concedes it’s an issue to discuss while refusing to call out a single rapper by name.

Let’s look at this more closely. Imus makes a three-second joke that was clearly unwise and, taken out of the context of his brand of humor, can certainly be seen as racist and sexist. Although that was most likely not his intent (he apparently spoke without even thinking about it), the response is understandable. Like I said, though, it is not so much the outrage after the comment. It is the herd mentality that takes over to shut people down and the hypocrisy. Calls for Imus’ firing came immediately without serious discussion. Here we have a white guy who tells a three-second joke and should be fired immediately according to the PC thugs. Yet the same PC thugs give feeble lip service to rap lyrics with a highly generic statement and a refusal to call out a single rapper.

If someone doesn’t see the double standard here, it’s really scary. Why does Sharpton merely have a conference on rap lyrics to see if there is a problem but immediately call for the firing of someone like Imus? Well, let’s speculate a little since I can’t read his mind. Let’s posit that Sharpton and goons like him are afraid that the black community will not agree with him. This in turn threatens to destroy his little empire. With no black community to follow him, Sharpton is pretty much out of business. As always, it appears that Sharpton will give a little lip service to things like rap music so as not to seem too biased and hypocritical but won’t cross the line to where he thinks he might alienate his target audience. In other words, he simply can’t be trusted to push the issue against black offenders. Only the whites are called out by name and led to slaughter. Again, I can only speculate here because I can’t read his mind, but the hypocrisy is clear. The fact that he won’t call out a single rapper or label speaks volumes.

This brings us to the other dirty political players in this game - the corporations. Why they would bow this far to legal blackmail artists like Sharpton and Jackson is beyond me. They didn’t let the market decide. Instead, they pulled the plug on Imus before he even had a chance to change his format. The ultimate aim of PC thugs like this is to control the media. If they don’t like it, they will go after you. It is oddly much like the Religious Right. While the Religious Right seeks to force non-believers into faith-driven situations like school prayer or forced births, these lefties seek to control speech. It is quite ironic if you think about it. Both sides are attacking different parts of the First Amendment, but both are destructive in their own right.

Personally, my opinion is that the shock jocks and the rappers and everyone else should say what they want to say. If the market supports it, let them say it. My vision of America is a country where both intelligent and stupid people say what they want to say while others respond to either support or oppose those comments. But what we see here is not mere opposition. We see a kind of legal blackmail. Get rid of the people we don’t like or we will boycott and harm your company. But the problem is the corporations are not on the same page. Imus goes, and the rappers thrive. And Rosie stays for jokes about Asians. For that, she saw fit to apologize for the insensitivity, and that dealt with the problem. Don’t get me started on Rosie’s other comments. That would take volumes.

Therefore, there is no need to have these silly arguments that you hear about rap. Rappers claim they are different because they portray real life. But Imus told a joke. In actuality, neither appears to be malicious. There is no real distinction here. We can argue over semantics or forget it and let the market make these decisions. Further, we can leave the hypocrisy and scattershot firings behind. Bring the era of open discussion back if the corporations can’t police uniformly and fairly. This uneven and unpredictable treatment most likely breeds more resentment than could ever be caused by crude rap lyrics and badly worded jokes.

So here is the bottom line - most of these media corporations are only interested in money. They will not respond to any pressure unless they fear financial harm. And since people like Sharpton have shown a complete inability to treat all “offenders” the same, the best solution would seem to be to let the market decide.

If rap music like this sells, let people buy it. If Imus continues to have good ratings, let people watch or listen. If the sales or ratings go down, then the corporations can replace them. Besides, I thought that was what America was about, anyway. Please give us our freedom back, Big Business. As it stands now, two groups are being created. The ones who say what they want with virtual impunity and the ones who get accused of racism and sexism and get fired. This is certainly not the America that our forefathers envisioned.

Jimmy Boyd

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Search engines are internet venues where billions of people congregate to search for information. The most prominent search engine giants are Google and Yahoo. The kind of traffic these dot-com companies receive per hour is phenomenal.

So naturally, companies would gravitate towards placing their links and sites in an attempt to garner more visits to their web sites. In order to maximize ranking and placement, companies have used tools such as search engine optimization or SEO. Search engine optimization is the method or process of improving a web site’s ranking in a search engine listing.

They are many SEO techniques webmaster use to improve their rankings on organic searches. In this article, we look at one small aspect of the website that can improve our rankings by several fold. Content. Just by tweaking the content of your website, you will be amazed how your rankings can improve by leaps and bounds.

Here are a 9 tips on improving content for a much more improved result in organic searches:

1. Expertise.

Follow your strengths. Sites you set up must be on subject you consider yourself an expert on. People can smell an amateur a mile away.

2. Plan the site.

A good layout for the site can improve usability. This in turn will not unnecessarily aggravate the browser.

3. Research.

Check out the competition and see what they have set up. See what works and what does not. If possible try to communicate with users in forums and get feedback on what should or can be improved further.

4. Keywords

Decide on important keywords. Decide on the most important keywords to use for your sight. Include these keywords in the metatags, copy page, page title, and file names.

5. Your Buddy

The Search Engine is your friend. Make friends with your search engine and don’t give it a hard time. Being nice and friendly to it will make its job easier to serve your site up to your target audience.

6. Focus.

Focus on the topic at hand and nothing else. The rule is one topic per page.

7. Join the directories.

Directories are repositories of knowledge done by human hands while search engine are huge databases collected by mostly machine methods. The relevancy of your page when joining the right directory may shoot through the roof. Of course, make sure you know what you are talking about.

8. Start a linking campaign.

A most effective SEO method. This is a must to do. Ask your allies, strategic partners, friends and acquaintances to place your site’s URL link on their sites. With a short description this can draw traffic from other sites and increase exposure. Google especially ranks the importance of its sites by the number of sites linked to it.

9. Repetition

Repetition is the key to victory. Keep repeating the above tips, supporting and increasing what works and killing what does not as fast as possible until the desired result is achieved.

In the world of search engine optimization, content matters a lot. If a site has amateur or worse falsified information, fewer and fewer browsers will want to visit it. They will even spread bad news faster than good news so expect a garbage site to be ignored even in a week’s time.

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Most consumers like the convenience of having a credit card.

There is no need to carry large amounts of cash plus if the card gets lost or stolen it usually takes just a single phone call to deactivate it.

Combine these amenities along with fraud protection and most feel they have gold in their wallet.

However, having this convenience often leads to spending beyond one’s means. Combine a high spending limit with high interest rates and you have a recipe for disaster.

This can lead to desperation and a search for debt relief.

Following are a few tips on how to eliminate credit card debt:

1) Write down expenses for the last three months and work out a budget. Be sure to include the necessities such as food, gas, rent, utilities and insurance.

Doing this will allow you to find where the extra cash is and how much you can put towards a credit card payment each month.

2) It is highly recommended by financial experts to carry only two credit cards in your wallet. One to be used regularly and one strictly for emergencies.

Cancel all other cards immediately or as soon as you pay them off if there is a balance due.

3) If you get so far into debt that the bank or card issuing company have started to call, make sure you start a dialogue with your creditors to see if you can make arrangements for payments.

Most creditors will be more than willing to make deals with you rather than have you completely default on the card.

4) Review your lifestyle and make changes accordingly. Ditch some of your expensive toys and possibly buy a more economical vehicle.

5) Use the collateral you already have.

If you own a home you could always look into a home equity loan. Beware though that with the sudden windfall of cash you may be tempted to make unwise buying decisions.

If you are currently carrying a large debt load on credit cards, these simple tips may help you find the debt relief you are looking for.

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Well, are you a net savvy who may fit into one of the following categories?

• You are usually in hurry and looking for something specific without wanting to waste your valuable time.
• You think staring at computer screens hours together can be tiring for the eyes. So prefer scanning text instead of reading word for word.
• You frequently end up on some webpage (not through the homepage) and do not know how it fits into the rest of the website!
• You are a person expecting the information on the web to be up-to-date.
• You like to have privacy on the information you are interested in and control over the numerous unwanted information popping and earning your irritation.
• You welcome with great interest the latest methodologies, if that cannot only save your precious time but also prove to be a powerful, versatile method to keep you well updated faster than the conventional methods.

Are you an organization/marketer/publisher who has opted for Internet marketing strategies, having created your website and has been on the constant run to win more visitors to your site? Glance through the following points of which at least some have caught your attention at one time or the other in your path of business:

• Presence of millions of web pages gives you the challenging job of hooking the visitors who may very easily move on to somebody else’s website.
• Having spent thousands of dollars creating your website, you feel it does nothing to promote your organization. Should it not help you grow your business at least to some extent, when so much pain is involved?
• You are on a long hunt for a suitable method of conversational marketing on Internet, which can replace the so-far passive Internet marketing.
• Visitors do not trust web contents unless its credibility is clear.
• You wish to give a distinguishable look to your company with the help of a blend of audio and video elements in your website.

Whichever category you may fall into – the former or the latter – here comes an incredible solution, to your long-pondering questions! A drastic change from traditional solutions to a highly effective methodology – RSS is the buzzword, creating waves in today’s Internet world. RSS, an acronym for Really Simple Syndication or Rich Site Summary, is a very cost effective method to bring your information to your clients and ‘to-be-clients’. It is a viable alternative to produce effective solutions to your numerous business needs.

RSS opens a new gateway to ever-flooding effective business strategies, never existed before, and creates a new dimension in the way you reach out to the public. When you, as a marketer/ businessman/company, decide to promote your business through the marketing strategies of Internet, try to take the maximum advantage of this interactive medium. When your website does not engage visitors, then your web-based promotional efforts have been crippled. What are the means to attract visitors to your website, when there exists a million dollar question – whose website to visit? Given innumerable choices, just think of the visitor’s plight to decide which one and whether he wishes to really come back after his first visit.

RSS has a lot of advantages over the other existing methods, to turn it into the most sought-after, powerful, influential tool, which will take over the Internet world very soon, if understood fully and properly. It is basically a ‘push-based’ communication method, which can be published and subscribed to easily. It can be explained as a file containing the latest information and accessed by subscribers who are interested.

Consider a website as a real-world conversation. We need to adopt the same things just like while trying to sell our product to a sales prospect in person. RSS has wonderful features, which embody the techniques of conversational marketing in a very flexible way. Don’t you go through the following while reaching out to the visitors? Glance through and see how RSS helps:

• First, you decide your goal and try to analyze what kind of audience your website can get.
• What do the visitors get on visiting your website? Interview customers for their feedback, do a research and make changes to your website accordingly. The last part can be done very easily done using RSS feeds (which we will see in detail in the later chapters).
• The look of your website is very important. RSS has made it very easy to understand, see and feel your message for the visitors by mixing video and audio channels to your contents. Also, keep in mind that not only is it enough to have a good website but an appropriate one to your business also, to catch your visitor’s eye.
• Make your website work well in all the browsers. Your website is open to a variety of visitors who can prefer browsers of their choices. RSS is a convenient way since it works on all platforms. Most of the browsers may not face hurdles accessing RSS.
• Your website is the gold mine of information on how the public respond to what you say. RSS provides an unbelievable platform to discuss the views of the public without wasting time. Instead, you can spend your time on crafting quality contents. RSS has got many special features such as dialog facilitators, RSS radars, and automatic responders to enhance the significance of conversational marketing.
• You can collect a lot of information such as the number of subscribers, their interests, their reading frequency, the topics they are more interested in etc using RSS feeds. These are definitely going to be vital for improving your standards of business.
• Your search engine ranking reflects how good your website is! RSS increases the search engine ranking remarkably and well, again helps develop your business.

Not only these! You can go on listing down the various advantages of RSS which we will explore one by one after knowing about RSS in detail.

And do not think it’s a super-techie thing that you cannot use! Once you are familiar with the tool, you are open to the amazing world of RSS and one day, sure to find yourself hooked to it! Its going to be the beginning of an unbelievable era, exploring deeper and deeper the many faces of RSS and of course, the web world, through it! Though it can’t be an all-out replacement for other technologies, it can be a standard to optimize your Internet experience.

So, what are you waiting for? Get going to know more about RSS in the following chapters and unleash the power of this incredible, powerful tool!

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Time has played witness to a host of developments in every single sector in this daily evolving world. These developments not only reflect the future of human existence, it also delves into the vast potential of a revolution invoking calibre prevalent in human minds. Brilliant minds have worked their magic in shaping the architecture of a progressive society under various industrial platforms. In the midst of a dizzy list of such industries, the mobile phone industry has shown worthwhile progress with favourable backup by a steadily emerging technology. A string of some dominantly successful mobile phones provide testimony to the commendable growth of this industry, the LG Shine being one of that elite list.

After tasting phenomenal success in its home base, South Korean electronics leader LG has taken a confident leap into the mobile phone segment, and rightly so, as is evident from the market trends. One of the most successful phones by LG as yet has to be the LG KE970, which is popularly known as the LG KE970 Shine. Wrapped in an immaculately beautiful stainless steel body, the LG KE970 is a slider phone that showcases a 2.2 Inch TFT colour screen with a lovely mirror effect. A 2.0 megapixel camera with digital zoom, flash, and autofocus provides high quality photography to users, and one more reason to opt for its enchanting experience. The Tri Band phone imbibes all the features of a technically advanced mobile to give compatriots a good fight in this apparent rat race for popularity. A 3G variant of this phone is also available in the market, which goes by the name of LG U970 Shine. One attribute of this variant that sets it apart from its predecessor is a Schneider Kreuznach lens that has been included in the package to boost its photography prowess to a new level. Both these beauties have made a grand entrance into the mobile market, and left an indelible imprint courtesy of their innovative abilities.

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Dish Network and DirecTV are the top satellite TV companies in United States. As both companies offer their service based on the similar technology, we are not surprise to see that their offers are more or less the same. However if you study their deals detail enough, you should be able to notice the different between their offers and then select the deal that suits you the best.

Monthly subscription pricing

Both Dish Network and DirecTV programming package are more or less the same. Both offer more than 200 programming channels in their top level package; and both offer about 40 channels for their entry level package.

Nevertheless, these programming prices are not quite the same. Dish Network entry package – DishFamily charge $19.99 per month, while for DirecTV charge $29.99 per month. For the rest of the programming packages, the price differences are more or less the same – with DirecTV selling about $10 higher than Dish Network for similar package.

Standard Programming choices

When it comes to programming, both Dish Network and DirecTV offer excellent entertainment packages in high quality digital transmission.

Over 256 channels are available for Dish Network programming. Dish Network has advantage over DirecTV in term of International programming choices. For example, Dish Network offers 17 Chinese programming channels (via Great Wall TV Package); while DirecTV has only 9 Chinese channels. Also, up to 35 Latino language channels are offered by Dish Network!

DirecTV supports up to 225 channels. Compare with Dish Network, However, DirecTV has a few premium packages like NFL Sunday Ticket that Dish Network doesn’t have. Thus, it would be wise to advise someone to go for DirecTV if he or she is a football fans; and if you prefer to have more International programming, Dish Network seems like a better choice.

The cost of satellite equipment

In US market, most TV viewers are with the cable for years, to win the market over cables, both Dish Network and DirecTV give out their satellite equipment for free. This enables first time customer to pay nothing for the switch and made satellite TV the fastest growing house hold products.

So what’s the difference between Dish Network and DirecTV since both of them are giving out free equipments? If you study detail enough, you should notice that Dish Network’s equipments are granted with 18 months warranty; while DirecTV has only 1 year. Further more, DirecTV charge extra $4.99 per TV if you want to connect your system to extra TVs; while Dish Network cost zero. In other words, you get better bargains when subscribe to Dish Network when compare with DirecTV.

Winding up

Dish Network or DirecTV? The choice isn’t that hard when it’s told. The tricky part is that you should have learn more about both satellite TV provider’s offers before go for anyone of them.

You can get more consumer info at http://www.sunsatellites.com in case you would like to know more about the comparisons between Dish Network and DirecTV.

Article by Claudia Walters.

The only phone in the market that combines forces of the 3 Generation technology with looks that could kill is the Nokia N95. The phone has chockablock features. Interface is powered by the Series 60 Symbian Operating System. It supports synchronization, browsing, and downloading … in short all operations of the phone. Nokia N95 is an inimitable phone. This is reflected in its colour. The handset is available in a single colour – silver – which is sophisticated and snazzy, both at the same time. The slider hosts a 5 mega pixel camera. This is a potent imaging tool for it is laced with a Digital Zoom, Carl Zeiss Optic Tessar Lens, Video Player, Video Recorder, Video Streaming et al. The list is truly exhaustive.

The Nokia N95 phone flabbergasts by evincing the sheer mettle of its myriad features. It offers power messaging by hosting a variety of messaging modes. The list includes SMS, MMS, Email with attachments, Instant Messaging, and Picture Messaging. The phone supports an array of email clients that determine the format of an email. With 3G capabilities, the Nokia N95 phone supports video calling. The feature is acquiescent with users’ needs. This makes it a complete communication device. If music determines your happiness, this phone would give you enough reasons to smile.

The Nokia N95 phone can play all kinds of music on the in-built Music Player. It has Stereo FM Radio, Visual Radio, Nokia Music Manager and much more in its store of music functionalities. The Nokia N95 phone renders a choice of Java games and applications besides other embedded games to animate tedious hours. It facilitates web browsing via WAP, HTML, and XHTML browsers. Data traffic such as downloading, speed etcetera are guided by Blue tooth, USB 2.0, Pop Port, EDGE, HSCSD, and HSDPA technologies. Memory exchange is supported by a large expandable storage space. The Nokia N95 phone is a dynamite of a phone. It explodes not with a bang but with a ring.

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Before I answer this we need to clear up one very important issue and that is the issue of whom we are talking about. Things that we often think are very straight forward frequently turn out to be not quite as straight forward as we first thought. They are still simple to understand (too simple for some) but not as straight forward.

The issue here is this: which God are we talking about - god the Devil or God the Godhead, consisting of the two personages - The Father God and The Lord Jesus Christ? This issue is crucial, for one is a God (Godhead) of love and the other is a god of hate, e.g. the god of all wars. He is the god that sets men against men and wherever there is a war the Devil is involved through his powerful agents on earth - the real powerbrokers behind the politicians. The fact that mankind in general is oblivious to the fact is by the by.

The Devil god is the god of this world - this age. When people use that expression or exclamation ‘Oh my god!’ they are not blaspheming God’s name, they are making blind reference to the Devil. The Father God is not their God because they do not believe in Him so in their eyes and in their minds He does not exist, yet they are still saying ‘Oh my god!’ This is a god they claim to be theirs and of course he is their god, the god of this world (age) - the Devil.

2 Cor 4:4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

Now there he is, as mentioned in Holy Scripture, the one who has blinded the minds of them i.e. those people or rather the great majority of mankind who do not believe and cannot believe. Notice: lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them. There we have it, one of the most over read passages of Scripture in the Holy Bible and a Scripture that mainstream Christianity completely ignores. This Scripture plainly tells us that mankind cannot believe and it is not a matter of human choice to believe. Satan the Devil - the god of this world, has blinded them to The Truth i.e. Jesus Christ and His glorious Gospel.

So why is the devil the god of hate? He is the god of hate because we human beings are destined to hold positions of higher authority than him and just the thought of this makes him wild with jealous anger? Some of us (The Elect) will actually judge angels: 1 Cor 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life? The Devil also knows that his days are numbered as the god of this world (age). He knows his days of power are soon to come to a dramatic end and his power taken away from him. We are now living in the last days of the last days and he knows it and his hatred for mankind grows stronger each day.

OK, that’s enough about the Adversary, but what about The Father God, does He hate anything or anyone? He doesn’t hate people, but He does hate the things people do. What things - sinful things? The Father God hates sin - all sin. There is not a sin that He does not hate and that is why He sent His Son The Lord Jesus Christ to deal with sin once and for all.

Hang on a minute, what about all those people who died in the flood - men women and children? What about all those Canaanites The Lord told Joshua and the Israelites to slaughter and wipe out, again, men women and children? If that’s not hateful, what is? Then there were all the first born males in Egypt at the time of the Exodus, followed by the Pharaoh’s army in the Red Sea, and all the people of Sodom and Gomorrah - this all sounds very hateful to me I hear you say. Yes and there are many in mainstream Christianity that think that way too - especially their clergy. These Biblical historical events give them all kinds of problems and that is because they do not understand The Godhead, they do not understand the “potter and the clay” arrangement, nor do they understand The Godhead’s plan for mankind or the “big picture”. In their deluded narrow view and mindsets they think the ‘God is Love’ portrayal of God’s character is a contradiction of the God that brought about the above cataclysmic events. 1 John 4:8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

The Father God’s vengeful acts also go against their insipid liberal contaminated minds. Minds that have been corrupted and poisoned by a hate filled false gospel on one hand, and liberal politics on the other. Many of these liberal ideas originated with the ideology of the liberal reformers and do-gooders who came to prominence in 19th century Britain and the USA. Am I saying liberal reformers were/are bad people? No, they were well meaning people, totally misguided yes, if they thought they were doing God’s will, but misguided just the same. For a fuller explanation of this topic and on man and his ‘achievements’ please see my article “Was Jesus Christ an effeminate looking wimp? - Part 4″

We can now see from the events that took place in Old Testament times why people in general think God hates mankind or at best they think He is capable of very hateful actions. Now because they do not believe in God and cannot believe in God they can never understand God. What about ‘Christians’ though, for there are many them who have a similar opinion of God and also consider Him hateful? In theory they are supposed to know God and know Him personally, yet when you quiz them about The God that destroyed all those people in times past they are usually stumped for an answer. Why, they’re believers aren’t they!? Well yes in theory they are but in reality they’re not. How do I know this? I know this because they believe a lie and part of that lie is the lie of the teaching that all unbelievers will be thrown into hell fire - about 95%+ of mankind!!

Just recently I was made aware, via a TV documentary, of the teachings of a so called minister of God in the USA who states quite clearly, on bold colourful placards, that God hates America, God hates Britain and God hates Sweden too. According to this ‘minister’, God hates all these countries because of their tolerance towards homosexuals and their lifestyles. In brazen ignorant boldness, this ‘minister’ sends forth his followers (mostly his own family) across the USA instructing them to tell their fellow Americans that God hates America, God hates fags (homosexuals) and God hates those in power who send their young men to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. This family group actually attends the funerals of deceased military personnel to tell their loved ones they died because God hates America and because God is not blessing their military campaigns. Needless-to-say God will also send them all to hell unless they turn from their evil ways. This is what this so called minister of God preaches and teaches. The thing is, is any of this stuff Biblical, is any of it The Truth or is it just evil religious bluster, hogwash and hot air? To find out we need to turn to the Scriptures:

Scripture 1 - Romans 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

And so all Israel shall be saved, this means that all the Israelites and all the Jews that have ever lived from the time of Jacob/Israel to this day will be saved. Now the question we have to ask ourselves here is this. How many of these Israelites and Jews will have been homosexuals in this life and yet will be saved? How many of these homosexual Israelites and Jews will have been Americans? Answer, thousands upon thousands of them and all of them will be saved. There it is, a complete contradiction of everything this ‘minister’ is saying.

To expound further, here we have a little conundrum. This ‘minister’ is telling us that God hates all these homosexual Americans and is going to throw them all into hell - a fiery hell no doubt. Now this is very interesting because while he is saying that, The Lord Jesus Christ has promised that His Father will enable them all to be saved. How will He do that, by giving them new hearts of flesh instead of hearts of stone and turning ungodliness (which includes homosexuality) from Jacob? It looks as though what this ‘minister’ is saying is the opposite of what the Godhead is saying and planning on doing!! Well would you believe it - I hope so?

I will continue with the remaining Scriptures in Part 2 and reveal whether or not this so called minister is a minister of God or a minister of the Devil.

Charles Crosby

Anyone who’s looking for satellite TV deals will be asking this common question: Dish Network or DirecTV? Both Dish Network and DirecTV offer quite the same programming packages in close price ranges; more over, their satellite system, DVR functions, and promotion free gifts are quite alike as well. Considering all the similarities on their services, it is not surprise that most satellite shoppers faced dilemma when choosing between Dish Network and DirecTV. However, there are still substantial differences between these two satellite companies when you dig deep enough. The purpose of this article is to sort out the plus and minus point for both Dish and DirecTV which in turn, help you to choose between them.

Dish Network

There are lots of advantage with Dish Network when compare to DirecTV.

If you own a HD television, I am sure you wish to have as much HD channels as you can. In this case, Dish Network is the choice you should go with, as Dish Network is offering the most HD channels in the States (31 national HD channels plus a big chunk of local channels in HD including their latest release in HD regional sports network). In contrast, DirecTV has less HDTV programming to offer (11 national HD channels at time of writing).

Despite HD channels availability, monthly subscription fees is also lower with Dish Network. Dish Network monthly fees starts from $19.99/mo (with DishFamily); DirecTV, $29.99/mo (with DirecTV Family). Both programming package offers 40+ programming choices but the monthly price turned out $10 in difference.

For other standard programming packages, Dish Network America’s Top 100, Top 200, Top 250, and Everything Pak cost $29.99, $42.99, $52.99, $89.99 monthly; compare with DirecTV similar package: Choice $39.99/mo, Choice Xtra $54.99/mo, Plus $59.99/mo, and Premier $99.99/mo – the difference should tell you clearly who’s the winner.

On the other hand, there is weakness with Dish Network services as well. The main negative point with Dish Network services is their customer service. Dish Network does provide 24-7 live call customer support. However, the quality of the support is where it should be improved. Many complain that the persons who answer customer calls hardly speak English and do not have sufficient technical knowledge in answering their questions. A simple search of ‘Dish Network complains’ on the Internet should provide you enough customer feedbacks on the problem.

DirecTV

DirecTV is so far the top satellite company in United States in term of customer subscriptions.
The main advantage DirecTV has in the competition is their special sport package subscription. On top of their standard programming, DirecTV subscribers get more sport actions than Dish Network users. A good example is DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Tickets; you will get 14 live games per week! That’s a whole lot more NFL actions than what Dish Network subscribers getting. Beside NFL, DirecTV also owns some other sport event broadcast rights such as HotPass (for Nascar race) and Mega March Madness (extra college basketball games). The amount of live sport game broadcast in DirecTV is incredibly big.
Nevertheless, as said at above, there are a few minus points with DirecTV when compare with Dish Network – mainly in term of the price and the HD channels.

Conclusion

The choice between Dish Network and DirecTV is simple. If you want the tons of live sport games more than anything, DirecTV is your choice. In case you can live with a little lesser live sport games on your TV, but more HD programs and in a cheaper monthly price, then you should go with Dish Network.

In case you would like to know more about how Dish Network and DirecTV stack up, learn more at http://www.sunsatellites.com’s Dish Network vs DirecTV guide.

Article by Claudia.