Count your blessings, see what God has done!
Count your blessings, name them one by one
And it will surprise you what the Lord has done.
Hymn by Johnson Oatman, Jr., 1897
It’s Friday. Count your blessings!
Oatman wrote over 5,000 gospel hymns, but supported himself in insurance and retail while being a Methodist pastor.
In 2010, the federal government spent 61% of its finances on housing and community services, welfare and social services, recreation and culture, health, education, retirement benefits, disability benefits and unemployment benefits. This amounts to 2,124 billion dollars or $19,316/household. "Government Current Expenditures by Function, Table 3.16." U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis. Sept. 14, 2011.
http://www.justfacts.com/socialspending.basics.asp
It’s inappropriate language, but at least he’s telling the truth. He’ll probably be sent to reeducation camp so that he can learn to be more obfuscating in explaining EPA’s methods.
“A video surfaced on Wednesday showing a regional administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency comparing his agency’s philosophy with respect to regulation of oil and gas companies to brutal tactics employed by the ancient Roman army to intimidate its foes into submission.
EPA’s “philosophy of enforcement,” said EPA’s Region VI Administrator Al Armendariz, is “kind of like how the Romans used to conquer little villages in the Mediterranean: they’d go into little Turkish towns somewhere, they’d find the first five guys they’d run into, and they’d crucify them.”
“That town was really easy to manage for the next few years,” Armendariz added.
His comments are indicative of the “EPA’s war on fossil fuels,” claimed Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK) in a news release on Wednesday.”
“In 2011, the Old-Age and Survivors Trust Fund, which pays for retirement and survivors’ benefits, took in $698.8 billion, which includes $106.5 billion that came from a paper transaction that credited interest to the trust fund. Excluding the interest, the retirement and survivors program had income of $592.3 billion but paid out $603.8 billion in benefits, leaving a deficit for 2011 of $11.5 billion. Additional deficits were suffered by Social Security’s disability program.
Counting both programs together, in 2011, Social Security spent $45 billion more in benefits than it took in from its payroll tax. This deficit is in addition to a $49 billion gap in 2010 and an expected average annual gap of about $66 billion between 2012 and 2018. These deficits will quickly balloon to alarming proportions. After adjusting for inflation, annual deficits will reach $95 billion in 2020 and $318.7 billion in 2030 before the trust fund runs out in 2033. Now is the time to focus on solutions.”
It’s the Medical Center’s new Chiller Plant, an environmental air conditioner that will cool the new James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute and Critical Care Center and several other Medical Center buildings at the Ohio State University. This 95,737-square-foot building will provide 30,000 tons of chilled water. This water can also be used for critical operations during power outages.
http://projectoneblog.osumc.edu/2012/04/02/spotlight-on-the-south-campus-chiller-plant/
Are words referring to Islam and Muslim being removed from training manuals and documents for Homeland Security, Pentagon and CIA under pressure from the Muslim Brotherhood and other groups?
Yes.
It was reported in October 2011 by Deputy U.S. Attorney General James Cole. http://www.justice.gov/dag/training-guiding-principles.pdf
“I recently directed all components of the Department of Justice to re-evaluate their training efforts in a range of areas, from community outreach to national security,” Cole told a panel at the George Washington University law school.
The move comes after complaints from advocacy organizations including the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and others identified as Muslim Brotherhood front groups in the 2004 Holy Land Foundation terror fundraising trial.
In a Wednesday Los Angeles Times op-ed, Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) president Salam al-Marayati threatened the FBI with a total cutoff of cooperation between American Muslims and law enforcement if the agency failed to revise its law enforcement training materials.
Maintaining the training materials in their current state “will undermine the relationship between law enforcement and the Muslim American community,” al-Marayati wrote.
Multiple online sources detail MPAC’s close alignment with CAIR.
There are Muslims with close ties to terrorist groups within the Obama administration. They sit on advisory boards and meet with high officials, including the president.
“Texas Rep. Louie Gohmert is one of a handful of representatives on Capitol Hill who grasps the severity and nature of the Islamic jihadist threat -- including the Muslim Brotherhood's infiltration into sensitive U.S. government positions -- and is not afraid to speak out about it.”
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/2011/12/08/mohamed-elibiary-homeland-security/
I guess the only question now is "who's zoomin', who's foolin', who's zoomin', who's foolin' who?"
I have no idea, but he must be part of state teacher’s plans in several states, federal employees’ plan, and military.
“Dr. Ron Sega is Vice President and Enterprise Executive for Energy and Environment at The Ohio State University and Vice President for Energy and the Environment and Woodward Professor of Systems Engineering at Colorado State University. Sega is a retired astronaut and Major General of the US Air Force. Sega was the Under Secretary of Defense for energy projects and was recognized for his committee's achievements and previously led DARPA. ‘ Energy Challenges, the next 50 years
Vice President at Ohio State University
Vice President at Colorado State, also tenured professor
Adjunct professor University of Houston
Former faculty US Air Force Academy
Retired U.S. Air Force
NASA astronaut, 1994, 1996
Air Force Reserves
Former Director of Research and Engineer under GW Bush, 2001-2005
Former Under Secretary of Defense under GW Bush, 2005-2007
We lived in Forreston, Illinois, when I was in 1-6 grades, and I remember the Swift family well, but didn’t know what had become of them. Jon’s sister Sue was a childhood friend and in my class, and I remember their parents. I still remember calling their mom (she was a nurse) about a babysitting problem. Many tributes to Jon’s accomplishments for athletics and his college. When we were children, Carthage College was in Carthage, Illinois, but it relocated to Wisconsin.
“Torchie” is the official mascot of Carthage College, but Jon D. Swift could just as well have been. To hear his former colleagues and players tell it, there is perhaps no one who has ever loved the NCAA Division III institution more.
Swift, who died April 15 at age 74 after a seven-year battle with scleroderma and lung cancer, just about did it all at Carthage. He received a bachelor’s degree from the liberal arts school in 1960 and that same year began a 36-year career at Carthage.
A native of Forreston, Ill., Swift coached men’s basketball (1973-83), men’s golf (1983-96), men’s tennis (1965-78), men’s cross country (1964-71, 83) and women’s cross country (1983), along with serving as a professor and founding the school’s athletic training program.
http://www.kenoshanews.com/sports/swift_filled_many_voids_at_carthage_365842675.html
http://www.oglecountynews.com/2012/04/19/jon-d-swift/aqtaetn/
http://www.carthage.edu/athletic-training/facilities/
http://www.tausigmachi.org/files/Download/Swift,%20Jon%20D.pdf
Google this set of letters and numbers--R136a1. It's a star 265 times larger than our sun, and 10 million times brighter. And it used to be even bigger and brighter—but is now middle aged. I'm a Christian—I believe God spoke the world into existence (His word) in 6 days, sent his Son (the Word) and gave us Scripture to tell and remind us of the creation/salvation story (the word). Jesus created and is in charge of the physical universe and reveals himself that way from turning water into wine as a miracle at a marriage of a man and woman, feeding 5,000+ people with a tiny amount of bread, to offering his body and blood in the bread and wine of the Eucharist. It’s simply the physical elements he created, whether bread or star, and he’s in charge. If you think this is crazy talk, how come the brilliant minds of today didn't know about this enormous star until it was discovered in 2010? What other simply obvious and enormous things, right out there in plain sight, don’t you know about?
“Nancy Pelosi and congressional Democrats, frustrated by the fact that the Bill of Rights interferes with their desire to muzzle their political opponents, have proposed to repeal the First Amendment.”
She wants to make it this big.
Our nation's capital boldly depicted on porcelain! These plates measure 12" across, with DC's downtown core printed on a black background. Key buildings and monuments are represented with red icons, while rivers and public spaces are shown in blue and green. Each plate is boxed and includes a key to the buildings and spaces included on the plate.
This is an item for sale at the AIA Convention website. National convention in DC in May. Architects struggle without government money.
Historically, the Democratic Party always attracts more women voters than Republicans. This year however, women voters are disenchanted with Barack Obama’s leadership, and that is why we see the unexpected windfall of FREE contraceptives for women! It’s quite a generous offer, especially considering that there hasn’t been a peep out of women from either party, complaining about a shortage!Continue reading here for the talking points.
More than six percent of democratic-voting women already confirm that they will not repeat their votes for the President. It is no surprise then that Obama strategists are desperate to find a way to distract women who feel the pinch of a bad economy.
Deputy Guide of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) Khairat Al-Shater outlines the strategy after his release from prison in March 2011.
“Everywhere, the Ikhwan [militant Islamic brothers] are working to restore Islam in its all-encompassing conception to the lives of people, and they believe that this will only come about through the strong society. Thus the mission is clear: restoring Islam in its all-encompassing conception; Subjugating people to God; instituting the religion of God; the Islamization of life, empowering of God’s religion; establishing the Nahda of the Ummah on the basis of Islam. All of these synonymous phrases give the same meaning, intention or definition, and that is the overall mission which we are seeking to accomplish as Ikhwan.
We were also taught in method of the Muslim Brotherhood that with regard to this overall mission: Imam Al-Banna, may he rest in peace, through his understanding of the Prophet’s method (PBUH) and his way of instituting religion, outlined for us a number of stages or secondary objectives which, after their completion, eventually lead to the achievement of this overall mission. Thus we’ve learned [to start with] building the Muslim individual, the Muslim family, the Muslim society, the Islamic government, the global Islamic State and reaching the status of Ustathiya[12] with that State. If all of these secondary objectives are completed, the overall mission is achieved, that is the Empowerment of God's Religion.”
Further details. It’s very detailed, with some history, words defined at the end, but not difficult to understand. First the individual, then the family, the society and the globe. “A fundamental transformation”
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