(Tokyo)Stand as a Single One (The Gospel of Thomas)
Folks, stand as a single one to the God or the Constitution, since they do not know what era they are living in.
SECTION I: THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION
Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s appointment to the Secretary of State is welcomed by about 70% of American voters, according to a noon TV news program in Japan.
Mr. Robert Gates’ re-appointment to the Secretary of Defense is welcomed by about 80% of American voters.
That is why I am telling you that Mr. Barack Obama is not an exceptional member of African races but of European races, though he is classified as an African American only for his color of the skin.
It is not desirable for any lady to become the First Lady, a Senator, and also Secretary of State in her one and only life on the earth.
The American Constitution might be more profoundly wiser:
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Hillary Clinton Constitutionally Ineligible to Serve as Secretary of State
December 3rd, 2008
Not that the Clintons have ever allowed the U.S. Constitution to stand in the way of their political agenda or pursuit of power, but it appears Hillary Clinton is constitutionally ineligible to serve as Secretary of State in the Obama administration. In fact, she cannot serve in this capacity until 2013.
Allow me to explain.
According to the “Emoluments” or “Eligibility” Clause of the United States Constitution, no member of Congress can be appointed to an office that has benefited from a salary increase during the time that Senator or Representative served in Congress. A January 2008 Executive Order signed by President Bush during Hillary Clinton’s current Senate term increased the salary for Secretary of State, thereby rendering Senator Clinton ineligible for the position.
(Specifically, Article I, section 6 of the U.S. Constitution provides "No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time." The provision is seen by most as designed by our Founding Fathers to protect against corruption.)
Former President Richard Nixon did manage to circumvent this constitutional provision after appointing former Ohio Senator William Saxbe to the position of Attorney General. The Nixon administration forced legislation through Congress to reduce the salary for the position of Attorney General to the level that existed prior to Senator Saxbe’s appointment. This scheme, known thereafter as “The Saxbe Fix,” was also used to allow Senator Lloyd Bensen to assume the position of Treasury Secretary under President Clinton.
Still, there has hardly been a consensus on the “Saxbe Fix” at the presidential level. President Ronald Reagan reportedly did not appoint Senator Orin Hatch to the Supreme Court because of this emolument provision and rejected the “Saxbe Fix” as a legislative remedy. Why?
Because “The Saxbe Fix,” does not address the constitutional problem. This type of legislative “remedy” may reduce the salary of Secretary of State to previous levels, but it would not change the fact that the salary had been increased while Senator Clinton served in Congress. Simply put, the Constitution does not provide for a legislative remedy for the “Ineligibility Clause.”
Barack Obama was wrong to appoint Hillary Clinton as his Secretary of State for a long list of reasons. But now that we know there are constitutional barriers to Hillary’s appointment, clearly Obama should select someone who is eligible for the position and save the country from a constitutional battle over her confirmation. No public official who has taken the oath to support and defend the Constitution should support this appointment.
http://blog.thehill.com/2008/12/03/hillary-clinton-constitutionally-ineligible-to-serve-as-secretary-of-state/#more-7870
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Mr. Barack Obama should have asked Ms. Condoleezza Rice or Mr. Colin Powell to take up the post again, in my personal view as a member of an allied nation with the U.S.
SECTION II: The Gospel of Thomas
Following are part of descriptions in the book by Thomas I like to take notes of here:
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(5) Jesus said, "Recognize what is in your sight, and that which is hidden from you will become plain to you . For there is nothing hidden which will not become manifest."
(9) Jesus said, "Now the sower went out, took a handful (of seeds), and scattered them. Some fell on the road; the birds came and gathered them up. Others fell on the rock, did not take root in the soil, and did not produce ears. And others fell on thorns; they choked the seed(s) and worms ate them. And others fell on the good soil and it produced good fruit: it bore sixty per measure and a hundred and twenty per measure."
(17) Jesus said, "I shall give you what no eye has seen and what no ear has heard and what no hand has touched and what has never occurred to the human mind."
(20) The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us what the kingdom of heaven is like."
He said to them, "It is like a mustard seed. It is the smallest of all seeds. But when it falls on tilled soil, it produces a great plant and becomes a shelter for birds of the sky."
(23) Jesus said, "I shall choose you, one out of a thousand, and two out of ten thousand, and they shall stand as a single one."
(25) Jesus said, "Love your brother like your soul, guard him like the pupil of your eye."
(29) Jesus said, "If the flesh came into being because of spirit, it is a wonder. But if spirit came into being because of the body, it is a wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth has made its home in this poverty."
(to be continued…)
http://www.gnosis.org/naghamm/gthlamb.html
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The Gospel of Thomas is regarded as work in the first or the second century. The author Thomas might have really written what he had directly heard or he had believed himself to have directly heard from Jesus Christ.
(The Nag Hammadi "sayings" Gospel of Thomas begins: "These are the secret sayings that the living Jesus spoke and Didymos Judas Thomas recorded."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_the_Apostle)
Anyway the Devil must have been all around Jesus Christ while He was preaching to people including Thomas.
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That is all for today.
The Obama Effect has already manifested itself in India, Thailand, and Nagata-Chou, Tokyo, good or bad.
(If you do hate Black Magic Woman, the sound sounded so impressive in 1970’s when nobody could predict that Hillary would be surely State of Secretary but just after Condoleezza. What will become of you in 2030’s just after whom?
http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/santana/Black_Magic_Woman.mid
Source: http://www.geocities.com/midicentral2000/santana/santana.html)
Joh 12:3 Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.
Joh 12:4 Then saith one of his disciples, Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, which should betray him,
Joh 12:5 Why was not this ointment sold for three hundred pence, and given to the poor?
Joh 12:6 This he said, not that he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief, and had the bag, and bare what was put therein.
Joh 12:7 Then said Jesus, Let her alone: against the day of my burying hath she kept this.