No Prince Charming...Audio

Saudi Arabia: Macintosh

I was out for a dinner a couple of times this weekend, but I am home tonight rather than deciding to go out dressed as Bobby Buff attempting to earn Maple Ridge candy...

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BY BIL BROWNING OCTOBER 23 2015 1:24 PM EDT

Advocate October 23

'Saudi Prince Dodges Felony Charges, But Faces Lurid Lawsuit'

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'Saudi Prince Majed Abdulaziz Al-Saud avoided felony charges after a bloodied woman scaled the wall of his Beverly Hills mansion and accused him of sexually assualting her earlier this year. But now three female employees have filed a lawsuit that outlines more of what they claim happened at the compound, including new accusations that the prince had sex with men.

Gay sex is illegal in Saudi Arabia and is punishable by life in prison, castration, or even death. Gay men are regularly arrested and severely punished in the conservative Muslim nation.'

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'The case made national headlines when Al-Saud, the son of the late King Abdullah, was arrested in September after police rescued a bleeding woman screaming for help as she tried to climb an 8-foot wall to escape the prince's rented $37-million mansion. The woman claimed he had tried to force her to have oral sex, according to the Los Angeles Times. Prosecutors later said they didn't have enough evidence to charge Al-Saud, and he was released on $300,000 bail.

Now three former female employees have filed a lawsuit against the prince, claiming he attacked them in the mansion over the course of several days.

The lawsuit, filed on Thursday, seeks unspecified damages. They claim they tried to escape three times before the police arrived and arrested the prince. Al-Saud has denied the charges, claiming the women are trying to extort money from him. The women say the prince forced himself upon them at drug- and booze-fueled parties, including forcing the women to watch as a male aide masturbated the prince and another aide bent over to "break wind" in the prince's face.'

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By RUTH STYLES FOR DAILYMAIL.COM PUBLISHED: 13:02 GMT, 26 October 2015 | UPDATED: 13:17 GMT, 26 October 2015

Daily Mail October 26 2015

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'EXCLUSIVE: Perverted Saudi prince ordered his entire staff to strip naked at his Beverly Hills mansion's pool'

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'Alleged that he had male aide break wind in his face to order and that he was also pleasured by the man - gay sex is punishable by death in Saudi'

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'The claim is made in legal documents laying out details of the civil case against Prince Majed bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, 29, who was arrested in Los Angeles last month after neighbors spotted a crying, bleeding woman attempting to scale a wall of his compound.

He is also accused of failing to prevent aides from mistreating three female members of his domestic staff – with the result that they now also face charges, although Prince Majed remains the lead defendant. The women, who all allege sexual harassment and say they were imprisoned at the mansion against their will, have filed a civil claim '

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'One of the most eye-catching incidents came shortly before Prince Majed's arrest on September 25th and saw him demand that his entire household go down to the pool and strip off.'

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'He also threatened to kill one of the women if she refused to 'party' with him and jumped on top of another and began rubbing himself against her in a 'sexual and aggressive manner'.

When asked to stop, he allegedly then yelled: 'I am a prince and I do what I want. You are nobody!''

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'When asked to stop, he allegedly then yelled: 'I am a prince and I do what I want. You are nobody!'''

Philippians 2: 3

English Standard Version

Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.

New American Standard Bible

Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves;

1 Peter 4: 3

English Standard Version

For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry.

New American Standard Bible

For the time already past is sufficient for you to have carried out the desire of the Gentiles, having pursued a course of sensuality, lusts, drunkenness, carousing, drinking parties and abominable idolatries.

Galatians 5:20-21

English Standard Version (ESV)

20 idolatry, sorcery, enmity, strife, jealousy, fits of anger, rivalries, dissensions, divisions, 21 envy,[a] drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Footnotes: Galatians 5:21 Some manuscripts add murder

Galatians 5:20-21

New American Standard Bible (NASB)

20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, disputes, dissensions, [a]factions, 21 envying, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these, of which I forewarn you, just as I have forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God. 

Footnotes: Galatians 5:20 Or heresies

But Is There A Good Point To This?

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Daily Mail October 24

By APP

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'Huge crowds of black-clad Shiite faithful massed in the Iraqi city of Karbala Saturday, crying and beating their chests to commemorate the 7th century killing of the prophet's grandson.

The holy day of Ashura was marred by attacks in Pakistan and Bangladesh but unfolded peacefully in southern Iraq, where last year's security fears have given way to political grievances.

Gathered under the golden dome of Imam Hussein's mausoleum in Karbala, devotees clutching paper tissues wailed and wiped their tears as they listened to accounts of Hussein's death.'

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'The dirge cantor himself repeatedly choked back tears as he sang the praise of Hussein, whose 680 AD killing by the armies of Caliph Yazid lies at the heart of the Sunni-Shiite schism.

Many Shiite worshippers travel from neighbouring Iran and other countries each year to visit the shrine, which lies about 80 kilometres (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad.

Millions of others across the Shiite world, from Lebanon to south Asia, hold processions in their home towns, performing a variety of rituals, many involving flagellation.

Some beat their backs to a drumbeat using chains or blades. Others beat their heads with a sword until their faces and their white mourning robes are covered in blood.

Karbala and other cities hosted traditional reenactments of Hussein's martyrdom, complete with horseback warriors and the torching of the camp where the third Shiite imam and his vastly outnumbered followers made their last stand.

The 10th day of the mourning month of Muharram has been marred by attacks in the past and Iraq deployed tens of thousands of security forces across the country.'

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From a Christian perspective, I would point out that non-Christians can definitely be spiritual but the human being and human spirit is of a sinful nature (Romans 1-8) since the Biblical fall (Genesis 3). Spiritual does not necessarily equate with connection to the true God in a direct sense.

Although I acknowledge in a Western societal context the rights of other law abiding worldviews to exist and do so publicly, I would state that Islam and Shiite Islam has a different worldview and different core theology than does Biblical, New Testament Christianity which also uses the Hebrew Bible for historical and religious support.

1 John 1:5-10

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5 This is the message we have heard from him and proclaim to you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

6 If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.

8 If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

10 If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

Verse 7, the blood of Christ Jesus Christ cleanses those of Christ from sin.

In other words, the atoning work of Christ, covers and is applied to the sins of those that are in Christ, those that believe. This also connects to the resurrection of Christ and the future resurrection of believers (1 Corinthians 15, Revelation 21-22).

Another New Testament example

Hebrews 9:18-22

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18 Therefore not even the first covenant was inaugurated without blood.

19 For when every commandment of the law had been declared by Moses to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, with water and scarlet wool and hyssop, and sprinkled both the book itself and all the people,

20 saying, “This is the blood of the covenant that God commanded for you.”

21 And in the same way he sprinkled with the blood both the tent and all the vessels used in worship.

22 Indeed, under the law almost everything is purified with blood, and without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins.

Jesus Christ was both perfect man, that did not sin (1 Peter 2: 22) and was God incarnate (John 1, Colossians 2: 9).

Therefore there was a reasonable and meaningful eternal point to the shedding of his blood.

The atonement.

However this Islamic Shiite ritual is in my mind misguided spirituality. The core views on God and theology are in error by a theological system that arose hundred of years after the New Testament in a different era, from a different group of persons in a different part of the world. Islam and the Qur'an, not in reality connected to the religious history of the New Testament and Hebrew Bible although claiming its own connection with its own newer revelation.

The gospel rejected.

But, I do acknowledge within a Western context, the need for lawful exercise of religious and intellectual freedom, private and public.

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High Hopes, High Profit

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I just heard this story on Denver via Albert Mohler: The Briefing.

In Canada with the new Liberal government, it will be interesting to see what occurs here...

Denver Post October 20

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'Your nose isn't lying: One in 11 industrial buildings in central Denver is full of marijuana'. 

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'Between 2009 and 2014, the industry's appetite for real estate was voracious, with marijuana cultivation gobbling up more than a third — 35.8 percent — of all industrial space leased in Denver during that five-year period.'

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'"It really kick-started the recovery of the industrial market in Denver," said Jessica Ostermick, director of research and analysis for CBRE in Denver.'

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This (economic reasons) in Western societies is philosophically a key in any discussion of marijuana being illegal, legal, or somewhere in between as in de-criminalized. 

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'"It's a new and disruptive industry," he said, "one that's making a huge impact, some positive, some negative, to mainstream businesses."'

CBC October 21

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'How legalized marijuana could change Canadian cities

Advocates hopeful prime minister-designate Justin Trudeau will act on vow to make pot legal'

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'Trudeau has already said he's not comfortable with marijuana being sold at local corner stores, stressing that any changes would need to make it more difficult for minors to get their hands on the drug.

He insists legalization would make it tougher for minors to buy pot and would also keep the profits away from organized crime.'

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'Similarly, it will likely be up to the provinces to determine whether the sale of marijuana will be done through a provincial Crown corporation, as is the case for wine and spirits in Quebec, or through private businesses, as is the case for alcohol in Alberta, he said.

Some jurisdictions may even choose to ban the sale of marijuana outright, he said. One thing is for certain — there will be an added sales tax on marijuana.

"It comes down fundamentally to tax collection," Greenblatt said.'

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There is another key with the marijuana issue as in taxation opportunities for City and local, Provincial (State) and Federal governments.

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'The trick, he said, will be to keep the tax low enough so that marijuana users don't turn to the black market. Some of the revenue, he suggested, could be used to raise awareness among teens about some of the risks of using marijuana.'

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'The Liberals have said Colorado, which last year became the first U.S. state to legalize marijuana for recreational use, could be used as a model for legislation here in Canada.

In Colorado, an individual over the age of 21 is allowed to possess up to about 28 grams of marijuana for personal use.

The Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police has been pushing since 2013 for officers to have the ability to ticket people found with 30 grams of marijuana or less. 

Mario Hamel, the association's vice-president and the chief of the Gatineau police, said legalizing marijuana could free up officers to address other issues. But his association has other concerns. 

"Organized crime is there to make money," he said. "The opportunity could shift to other drugs — maybe cheaper drugs, chemical drugs."'

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In the end, profits for business, growth for economy, a growth of GDP/GNP and more taxation for governments will place legalized marijuana as normal in most, at least, Western societies.

These issues will take precedence over concerns of marijuana being produced and distributed by organized crime, an argument often used by many pro-marijuana supporters. And after all, there are still all kinds of other drugs, some more dangerous that organized crime can be involved with as in production and distribution.

These economic issues also in at least, most Western societies, will take precedence over health and social concerns often raised by those that hold to anti-marijuana views. At least for recreational use.

I realize that marijuana can be used for medical purposes which should be considered differently than recreational use.

Personally, I hold to the idea of seeking a sober mind, in the spiritual, intellectual and physical context.

1 Peter 5:8 ESV

Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour.

1 Peter 1:13 ESV

Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. 

1 Peter 4:7 ESV

The end of all things is at hand; therefore be self-controlled and sober-minded for the sake of your prayers.

Therefore, I would abstain from marijuana, and because of sleep apnea, although being less of an issue because the condition has become less. 

I would not smoke anything.

I consume alcohol rarely and always in moderation, perhaps one drink on special occasions.

Thankfully Not What Work Is Like

Cascade Regional Park: Deroche BC

My two academic Blogger blogs, not the Facebook blog page, now feature new modern templates.

Stat Counter, now having very helpful technical support, informed me finally after many years of Elvis Presley dead silence that my classic templates were unable to work properly with Stat Counter as far as reading mobile pageviews.

I have therefore made attempts at customizing the modern templates which I hope are at least good and somewhat colour wise like previous classic templates, which I did not think were visually outdated at least.

I spent several years with HTML code developing those sites with classic templates into a look I really preferred and in reality they are not much different than the present custom templates. The previous templates were custom as well, just now outdated.

Well, I actually hope the new custom templates are excellent, but I am male and happen to like solid and dark colours; therefore my templates will not be everyone's cup of tea...



Thankfully Not What Work Is Like

I presently work in corporate security for a multi-trillion dollar asset corporation and so far the worst thing I have had to do is yell at some man for urinating near the corporate sign.

And of course stay away from the teeth of the K-9 unit with an attitude.

Quite a funny video in places. I do not know if they are all non-fictional. I sense some theatre...

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I never attempt to be offensive on my blogs, but I think there is some truth in the above Dos Equis parody. Those who have read through the blog comments section, yes, few people, will realize that I have shared a like philosophy.

By the way, I think Dos Equis beer is very good, but as I drink little, I have not had one in several years.

Internet trolls are abusive.

Internet trolls intentionally cause negative environment.

Therefore, internet trolls can be reasonably blocked or deleted.

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Worldview, theology, philosophy, cultural and social issues can be discussed intellectually.

Worldview, theology, philosophy, cultural and social issues can be discussed academically.

Worldview, theology, philosophy, cultural and social issues can be discussed objectively.

Worldview, theology, philosophy, cultural and social issues can be discussed in non-personal terms.

Therefore, a block or deletion is not reasonable.

Further

I am not stating one should not share Christian faith as well as philosophy, but I am stating that it can be discussed objectively as opposed to subjectively as in person versus person.

Personal issues could also be discussed without becoming a person versus person debate.

A block or deletion shows weakness by the blocking or deleting side.

Is the blocking or deleting side afraid the other side may be right on some points?

Is the blocking or deleting side afraid that the other side may provide points that may influence one to have to consider changing their views?

Trillion dollar points to consider...

Unsolicited Textbooks: So Is Someone Sending Me A Message?

Apologies for the sound quality which is somewhat distorted. I turned the system volume down but I still needed to be too close to the camera microphone in order to open the book wrapping. Also, although the Wonder Share text size varies with the videos, it is too large here...

Therefore I provide the original Microsoft version as well.

So, is someone sending me a message?

trekearth-Vancouver

I Was Invited To A Party Tonight And Nobody Was Home

Starbucks/Indigo buys. as the party changed sites

A girl phoned me the other day and said... 'Come on over, there's nobody home.' I went over. Nobody was home.

Rodney Dangerfield

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