Saturday, February 10, 2007















Jake Butler Mccathran is now here. Amy went in for an induction early on Thursday, Feb. 1st. The monitor's in the rooms kept up with not only Amy's contractions but everyone's on the floor. This is the left picture. We spent the day taking bets on who would get to the green screen mode first (as shown in the picture on the right). Amy's labor lasted 15 hours so we had plenty of time to find out that the OB was a LSU alumnus and that the delivery room nurse and I had a friend in common. The 3 of us helped bring Jake into the world at 10:06 PM weighing 8 lbs. 7 oz. and measuring 21.5 inches long. Our family anxiously waited outside of the room excited to meet little Jake.








Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Iran Holocaust Conference

I’ve heard many times over the past few years that the reason America is so hated by others around the world is because (including some U.S. citizens who don't claim to hate America but share the same beliefs) we as a country are arrogant, we’re too materialistic, we’re too focused on oil, people don’t like Bush, etc. and that those are the reasons why we are under the continuing threat of terrorism from radical Islamic fundamentalists. Some people blindly accept the above reasoning because they do not recognize or choose to deny that we are dealing with truly evil people.

See the following link to “Iran's leader: Zionist regime will soon be wiped out”:

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/12/12/iran.holocaust.conference.reut/index.html

Print this article out, save it, post it, remember it, and send to as many people as you know so that people will know about this before it gets buried by other news CNN will somehow deem more important.

While it’s briefly referred to in the article Iranian President, Ahmadinejad has previously been directly quoted as saying, "As the Imam said, Israel must be wiped off the map," said Ahmadinejad, referring to Iran's revolutionary leader Ayat Allah Khomeini”. What will be reported about this conference and believed by many in places around the world is that this conference is just a tool to promote free speech in Europe regarding the Holocaust. That’s just a cover for the true beliefs of any one who would take part in this conference. People have to realize that Ahmadinejad is as evil as evil can be.

Whether we like it or not the U.S. will eventually be drawn into any major conflict Israel becomes involved with, and unfortunately this will most likely not include just sanctions and diplomatic talks with others, but will require an all out concentrated war to defend what is right. So we have to pay attention to what is going on in Israel because these events will change our future.

This sounds possibly like a depressing scenario but we do have some hopes such as:

The Mossad, Israel’s primary intelligence agency needs to be allowed to put forth every effort possible in dealing with Ahmadinejad’s threats.

The Israeli government will not cave to international pressure to defend their right to sovereignty like they did in the latest Palestinian conflict (summer of 2006) and this included pressure from the U.S. to tame their defense.

Other primarily Muslim Middle East Countries such as Saudi Arabia will speak up and take action to ensure Ahmadinejad poses no continuing threat to the rest of the world.

The U.S. elects a President in 2008 who has the wisdom and belief system to deal with this situation whether he/she is a Democrat or Republican. I say this because David Duke, who is in Tehran taking part as a featured speaker in this conference, was elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives as a Republican (81st Representative District, Suburban New Orleans) in 1989 after he had been the ‘Imperial Wizard’ of the KKK but before he spent time in prison for tax evasion and fraud. Isn’t LA proud. He claims not to share the same beliefs as others in the conference and only wants to promote freedom of speech regarding the Holocaust. Why do you need to travel half way around the world and associate those who are willing and wanting to do harm to a whole race of people unless you have other motives? So we have to be very careful in electing our next President realizing that the belief system/morals/Faith of the next President truly matters.

We can only hope!