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Texas
State Senator, Dan Patrick, was on FoxNews this morning at 8:45am. He
said he had some “breaking news to share”. Boy was it!!! The Texas
State Legislature had been trying very hard to get the Obama
Administration to respond to a critical situation on the Texas Border.
The Administration had not gotten back with Texas as of last night. So
the State of Texas told Washington D.C. basically they could go jump,
and “we’ll take care of Texas!”. As of last night… the Texas National
Guard has been put on High Alert!!! This is the first time in history!
Texas tried, desperately to get Washington’s approval… but when they
could not get it… they acted on their own. Which I say…. it’s about
damn time!!! I personally applaud the guts it took to defy the Fed’s
and act in our best interest! In case you are unaware of what the
problems are …. Sen. Dan Patrick spelled it out nicely!

1) 100’s
of PRO-DRUG CARTEL Mexicans were blocking the entrance to the United
States, yesterday and today, banging cars, shouting and holding signs.
10 people were killed Wed. and 12 more yesterday at the border (5 of
which were children!!!)
2) They aren’t sure … but they think the Drug Cartel is paying the demonstrators to do what they’re doing.
3)
This will spill over into the States! Mr. Patrick, and the other State
officials,. are convinced that road-side bombs and car bombs will make
it across the border and WILL NOT allow that to happen!!
4) Mexico
is breaking out in Civil War in the western part of the border and they
expect it to spread the entire border with no end in sight.
5) The
National Guard will be activated as the scenario worsens and is on
Alert now and will remain so until (and IF) Washington does something
to end the danger on the border (Yeah… like that’s gonna happen!).

FoxNews
has yet to put this on their website which absolutely ticks me off!!!!
I will post it IF they get the stones to do what’s right!

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Adam and that 'missing' rib

by Carl Wieland

A head-on impact with a fully laden fuel tanker at highway speeds¹ is an experience I would hope for none to share. The surprise was to have survived it —God clearly had other plans for me.²

During the 5 ½ months in hospital, and for years afterwards, I had a series of operations to reconstruct various parts of me, particularly the bones of my face.³

These operations often required using my own bone for grafting. I noticed that the plastic surgeon would keep going back to the right side of my ribcage, through the same horizontal scar, actually, to get more bone for these procedures. One day, I asked him why he hadn't 'run out of bone'. He looked at me blankly, and then explained that he and his team took the whole rib out, each time. 'We leave the periosteum intact, so the rib usually just grows right back again'.

Despite having trained and practised as a family doctor, I was intrigued; I had never realised this before. The periosteum (the literal meaning of this word is 'around the bone') is a membrane that covers every bone — it's the reason you can get things stuck between your teeth while gnawing on a leg of lamb, for instance. The periosteum contains cells that can manufacture new bone. Particularly in young people, 'rib periosteum has a remarkable ability to regenerate bone, perhaps more so than any other bone'.⁴

Thoracic (chest) surgeons routinely remove ribs, and these often grow back, in whole or in part. A lot depends on the care with which the rib is removed; it needs to be 'peeled' out of its periosteum to leave this membrane as intact as possible. A major reason why the rib is the ideal situation for such regeneration is that the attached intercostal muscles provide it with a good blood supply.

When the surgeon originally told me this, my immediate thought was —'Wow, that's really neat, Adam didn't have to walk around with a defect!' In Genesis 2:21, referring to the creation of Eve, we read:

'And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept. And He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh underneath.'

Surprisingly, some Christians have grown up believing that men have one less rib than women. They have the same number, of course. Some anti-creationists have used the fact that men don't have any missing ribs today to mock a literal Genesis.

For years before my accident, when asked about this, I would give a reply something like this: 'If your father had lost his finger in a circular saw, would you really expect all his children to have one less finger, too? Or all of his sons, but not his daughters? Of course not. The DNA instructions that are passed on from parent to child are in the form of a code, like writing — removing a rib (or finger) would not change the instructions on the code, so all the offspring will have all their ribs (or fingers).'

While all that is still very true and pertinent, this information about rib regrowth adds a new and fascinating dimension. God designed the rib, along with the periosteum. He would certainly have known how to remove the rib in such a way that it would later grow back, just as ribs still do today — without requiring any sort of special miracle.⁵

Adam would not have had any permanent area of weakness in his rib cage, but would have had, for all of the hundreds of years of his life, the same number of ribs that you and I have today.

For the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David.

 1 O LORD, You have searched me and known me.
 2 You know my sitting down and my rising up;
         You understand my thought afar off.
 3 You comprehend my path and my lying down,
         And are acquainted with all my ways.
 4 For there is not a word on my tongue,
         But behold, O LORD, You know it altogether.
 5 You have hedged me behind and before,
         And laid Your hand upon me.
 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me;
         It is high, I cannot attain it.
         
 7 Where can I go from Your Spirit?
         Or where can I flee from Your presence?
 8 If I ascend into heaven, You are there;
         If I make my bed in hell, behold, You are there.
 9 If I take the wings of the morning,
         And dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea,
 10 Even there Your hand shall lead me,
         And Your right hand shall hold me.
 11 If I say, "Surely the darkness shall fall^[a] on me,"
         Even the night shall be light about me;
 12 Indeed, the darkness shall not hide from You,
         But the night shines as the day;
         The darkness and the light are both alike to You.
         
 13 For You formed my inward parts;
         You covered me in my mother's womb.
 14 I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;^[b]
         Marvelous are Your works,
         And that my soul knows very well.
 15 My frame was not hidden from You,
         When I was made in secret,
         And skillfully wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
 16 Your eyes saw my substance, being yet unformed.
         And in Your book they all were written,
         The days fashioned for me,
         When as yet there were none of them.
         
 17 How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God!
         How great is the sum of them!
 18 If I should count them, they would be more in number than the sand;
         When I awake, I am still with You.
         
 19 Oh, that You would slay the wicked, O God!
         Depart from me, therefore, you bloodthirsty men.
 20 For they speak against You wickedly;
         Your enemies take Your name in vain.^[c]
 21 Do I not hate them, O LORD, who hate You?
         And do I not loathe those who rise up against You?
 22 I hate them with perfect hatred;
         I count them my enemies.
         
 23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
         Try me, and know my anxieties;
 24 And see if there is any wicked way in me,
         And lead me in the way everlasting.

  What Would Martin Luther Say?
        An Excerpt From Martin Luther's Spiritual Last Will & Testament
             CONFESSION CONCERNING CHRIST'S SUPPER (1528), Part 3
                          by Martin Luther, 1483-1546
                      Translation by Rev. Robert E. Smith
                           From the German text in:
              DR. MARTIN LUTHERS WERKE: KRITISCHE GESAMTAUSGABE.
            (Weimar: Herman Boehlaus Nachfolger, 1909), pp.499-500.
      
       Because I see that the mobs are always growing, the number of
       errors are always increasing and Satan's rage and ruin have no
       end, I wish to confess with this work my faith before God and the
       whole world, point by point. I am doing this, lest certain people
       cite me or my writings, while I am alive or after I am dead, to
       support their errors, as those fanatics, the Sacramentarians and
       the Anabaptists, have begun to do. I will remain in this
       confession until my death (God help me!), will depart from this
       world in it, and appear before the Judgment Seat of our Lord Jesus
       Christ.

       So that no one will say after my death, ``If Luther was alive, he
       would teach and believe this article differently, because he did
       not think it through sufficiently,'' I state the following, once
       and for all: I, by God's grace, I have diligently examined these
       articles in the light of passages throughout the Scriptures.  I
       have worked on them repeatedly and you can be sure that I want to
       defend them, in the same way that I have just defended the
       Sacrament of the Altar.

       No, I'm not drunk or impulsive. I know what I am saying and
       understand fully what this will mean for me as I stand before the
       Lord Jesus Christ on the Last Day. No one should think that I am
       joking or rambling.  I'm serious! By God's grace, I know Satan
       very well. If Satan can turn God's Word upside down and pervert
       the Scriptures, what will he do with my words -- or the words of
       others?