National City Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in Washington, D.C.
I don’t care if they bless their pets. I wonder about the unborn. The vice moderator is Rev. Steven Baines, assistant field agent for Americans United for the Separation of Church and State.
Sitting on the deck he helped build in September 2010 for our 50th wedding anniversary celebration at our daughter’s home.
The colander that brought fresh banana peppers from our son’s garden which were added to the salad.
A wonderful meal of baked salmon with teriyaki sauce, green beans and tossed salad prepared by our daughter.
In Ohio, home of the Northwest Ordinance, where it states that, “Religion, morality, and knowledge being necessary to good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of education shall be forever encouraged and established in the Northwest Territory,” a religious gathering at Sinclair Community College in Dayton were told they'd have to put their signs on the ground. This group, "Stand up for Religious Freedom", had all the proper permits, there is no prohibition on signs or posters or banners, but apparently the tax supported school has a right to decide what is freedom of speech AND freedom of religion.
http://www.wnd.com/2012/06/put-your-sign-on-the-ground-and-step-away/
Bryan Kemper, Priests for Life youth outreach director, told WND police officers with the Sinclair Community College Public Safety Department in Dayton, Ohio, informed the organizers of the local Stand Up For Religious Freedom event that no signs of any kind could be held by individual members of the public attending the Sinclair campus rally, which was just getting under way.
All signs were ordered by police to be laid down on the ground.
“As the rally was starting, the campus police informed us that all the signs and banners people were holding must be put on the ground after a complaint from a homosexual advocacy group leader,” Kemper told WND. “The police walked around the crowd telling people to put their signs down, that they could not hold them in their hands.”
According to organizers of the rally, police offered the Sinclair Community College Campus Access Policy as the reason no signs could be held in the hands of citizens, yet the policy can be found online and says nothing about signs.
3 King Nebuchadnezzar made an image of gold, sixty cubits high and six cubits wide,[a] and set it up on the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon. 2 He then summoned the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials to come to the dedication of the image he had set up. 3 So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials assembled for the dedication of the image that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.
4 Then the herald loudly proclaimed, “Nations and peoples of every language, this is what you are commanded to do: 5 As soon as you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. 6 Whoever does not fall down and worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.”
I thought it interesting that a ruler first has to get the satraps, prefects, governors, advisers, treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial officials in place before he makes changes in religion.
I wonder if people will ever stop talking about how bad the Cleveland speech was. I didn’t hear it—who could possibly sit through 54 minutes of that nonsense unless it was your job? Have only seen snippets and heard sound bites, but whew! it was really awful, even by my low standards for his speeches.
Obama: “That’s how we built this country — together. We constructed railroads and highways, the Hoover Dam and the Golden Gate Bridge. We did those things together,”
Steyn: he said, in a passage that was presumably meant to be inspirational but was delivered with the faintly petulant air of a great man resentful at having to point out the obvious, yet again.
Obama: “Together, we touched the surface of the moon, unlocked the mystery of the atom, connected the world through our own science and imagination. We haven’t done these things as Democrats or Republicans. We’ve done them as Americans.”
Steyn: Beyond the cheap dissembling, there was a bleak, tragic quality to this paragraph. Does anyone really believe a second-term Obama administration is going to build anything? Yes, you, madam, the gullible sap at the back in the faded hope’n’change T-shirt. You seriously think your guy is going to put up another Hoover Dam? Let me quote one Deanna Archuleta, Obama’s deputy assistant secretary of the interior, in a speech to Democrat environmentalists in Nevada:
“You will never see another federal dam.”
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/303015/ground-control-president-obama-mark-steyn
Deroy Murdock reports at NRO that federal red tape has squelched at least 779,203 potential jobs. If these positions were filled, today’s unemployment rate would fall from 8.2 percent to 7.7. Federal employment boomed under George W. Bush, but regulatory employees soared under Obama. . . 291,676 of them regulate, up 17 percent under Obama.
http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/301802/over-regulation-pricey-deroy-murdock#
Meeting today to plan strategy. Romney spoke to the group via video because he’s campaigning.
Marco Rubio speaking at the conference. What we have is worth preserving he says. In your every day life is where you will make the biggest difference. Christianity spread because of the way they lived and treated people, not because of preaching, and the source of this was Christ.
“President Barack Obama is supposed to be a constitutional scholar of some sort. On the subject of his decision yesterday to unilaterally enact sweeping changes to U.S. immigration policy on nothing but his own say-so, we would like to introduce Barack Obama to Barack Obama, who during a Univision interview just last year affirmed: “America is a nation of laws, which means I, as the president, am obligated to enforce the law. . . . There are enough laws on the books by Congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president.” A little softness in the polls and one executive order later, the president has reversed himself.”
Obama did learn one thing from Bush. Don't let the people decide about amnesty, either from representative government or input directly to the President. Just go ahead, be a dictator/statist and declare that adults who entered/crossed the border as children are on the path to citizenship. No problema. But even young immigrants should realize that this is just one step closer to the bad government and economy their parents fled. The one with no opportunity; no middle-class; no religious freedoms as we have come to define them; no brown or black people on TV; the one with strict racial and ethnic laws for immigration and citizenship.
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2012/jun/16/its-not-dream-act-obamas-immigration-order-buoys-l/
“Spring Commencement 2012 wasn’t a typical graduation ceremony. For starters, it was Ohio State’s 400th commencement. The June 10th event was also Ohio State’s last spring quarter commencement, marking the end of a tradition that began in 1923. Another milestone? There were 10,642 Buckeyes in the Class of 2012--the largest spring quarter class ever for the fourth consecutive year.”
http://www.osu.edu/connect/#one June 2012
and told lies in Cleveland,
http://www.extratv.com/2012/06/15/barack-in-the-city-his-2-million-dinner-with-sarah-jessica-parker/
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2012/06/15/at-opposite-ends.html
Mitt Romney is on the road talking about the economy as a businessman.
"I've been talking to small employers and big employers. And I hear day in and day out they feel this administration sees them as their enemy. They feel that the Obama policies have made it harder for them to put people back to work. Almost everything the president has done has made it harder for entrepreneurs to start a business, has made it less likely for businesses like this to be able to hire more people. So as you look at the president's record, it is long on words and short on action that created jobs. ...
[T]alk is cheap. Action speaks loudly. Look what's happened across this country. If you think things are going swimmingly, if you think the president's right when he said the private sector is doing fine, well then he's the guy to vote for. ...
"I happen to be convinced, having been able to go all across the country, that we're poised to see a resurgence of American economic vitality with companies growing, with jobs growing, with employers bringing jobs back to America, as opposed to sending them elsewhere. That won't happen under this president. That'll happen if we change the course of this country. I spent my life in private enterprise, 25 years. I know how businesses work. I know what causes them to leave and what will bring them back.
Love this annual sale! Spent $6.50 at the Advent Lutheran Church Tag sale. I got "The chocolate Deck" for $.50, not sure what I'll do with it but if I'm ever hungry for Grilled chocolate-stuffed bananas, I'm all set. Also got 4 CDs, 2 were Phil Dirt and the Dozers, a very popular 50s-60s group in Ohio—when they play at Lakeside, they really pack the house and give a stunning performance.
TRACK LISTING: Vol. 1
1) Phil Dirt Theme 2) Denise 3) 16 Candles 4) Why Do Fools Fall In Love 5) Silhouettes 6) California Girls 7) Morse Code of Love 8) Ten Commandments of Love 9) Walk Like a Man 10) Papa Oom Mow Mow 11) My Girlfriend 12) Leader of the Pack 13) Dance, Dance, Dance 14) Gloria 15) Only You (skip version) 16) The Lion Sleeps Tonight 17) Hey There Lonely Girl 18) Don't Worry Baby 19) When You Dance 20) God Only Knows 21) No Particular Place 22) Baby Workout 23) Only the OnlyTRACK LISTING: Vol. 2
1) What's Your Name 2) Pretty Little Angel Eyes 3) Duke of Earl 4) Little Darlin' 5) Help Me Rhonda 6) Runaround Sue 7) Hurt 8) I Get Around 9) I Knew You When 10) And Your Dreams Come True 11) Mr. Bassman 12) Unchained Melody (Vito & the Salutations version) 13) Teddy Bear 14) Get A Job 15) Smoke Gets In Your Eyes 16) Higher & Higher 17) Twilight Time 18) The Way You Look Tonight 19) Unchained Melody (Righteous Brothers version) 20) Rag Doll 21) Summer of the Century 22) Sh-Boom 23) Marlena
An extra computer mouse for 50 cents, because you never know. . . And a small table for $3.00 with heart shaped shelves that appears to be hand made--maybe a shop class project. One of the volunteers told me she has one just like it made by her father-in-law, and her husband is 80. We have a small, cheap plastic table at the lake house collapsing from all the books I've put on it, so this will replace it. Mine is stained, but not varnished, but found a sample and a template to make it on the internet.
Ohio Right to Life PAC is confident these candidates “will represent the pro-life movement in our state and federal government. Ohio experienced never before seen growth in its defense of the unborn after electing every statewide candidate that Ohio Right to Life endorsed in 2010. With these victories, Ohio Right to Life worked with legislators to pass seven pro-life legislative measures, a feat unprecedented by any other General Assembly.”
Notable endorsed candidates include:
Isn’t it too bad that Obama has so little faith in capitalism. Woot! What a joke. He needs capitalists on his side to win, and he needs to create division among ordinary Americans who will think they are the bad guys, the evil Wall Street guys.
In January 2012 Jim Messina, former White House Deputy Chief of Staff began a new job as “Barack Obama’s campaign manager, and being a diligent student with access to some very smart people, he arranged a rolling series of personal seminars with the CEOs and senior executives of companies that included Apple (AAPL), Facebook (FB), Zynga (ZNGA), Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Salesforce (CRM), and DreamWorks (DWA). “I went around the country for literally a month of my life interviewing these companies and just talking about organizational growth, emerging technologies, marketing,” he says at Obama’s campaign headquarters in Chicago. . .
“This time, you have to program content to a much wider variety of channels—Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter, YouTube (GOOG), Google—because people are segmented in a very different way than they were four years ago.” When Obama declared for president, the iPhone hadn’t been released. Now, [Steve] Jobs told him, mobile technology had to be central to the campaign’s effort. “
http://www.businessweek.com/printer/articles/30696-obamas-ceo-jim-messina-has-a-president-to-sell
Not a one of these got could have gotten where they are today without investors and venture capital, but Steven Spielberg according to this article designed the Bain attacks against Romney.
And also. How much fancy technology will it take to convince people he’s doing a good job if after almost 4 years he can get back to the economy Bush had for 7 years, or keep them from noticing he’s expanded the wars, and that he not only has suspicious friends like Bill Ayers, but shady appointees like Eric Holder, his Attorney General? How long will even the most loyal Democrat swallow this nonsense?
According to this Community Guide task force report, "Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to attain his or her full health potential and no one is disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances."
My good health is first of all, 1) genetic--my parents and their parents, etc., then 2) personal life style choices by my parents and myself about alcohol, cigarettes and food, and of course, 3) being born in the 20th century with the advantages of vaccines, antibiotics, and safe water, most of which was not available to my parents and grandparents. Many of these government health reports are simply advocating for government policy makers to move money from group A to group B while syphoning off a generous amount for their salaries as social workers, academicians and researchers. http://www.thecommunityguide.org/healthequity/index.html
“First, Obama unleashed a broadside against the justices during his 2010 State of the Union address for their ruling on a campaign finance case known as Citizens United. With the justices seated directly in front of him, Obama publicly scolded the court for its decision-making. It was an unusual step for a lawyer-president to take the high court to the legal woodshed during a State of the Union address.
Second, still desirous of blurring the lines of constitutional demarcation between the executive and judicial branches of government, in April, Obama once again took aim at the Supreme Court. In an encore performance at a press conference, Obama said it would be an "unprecedented, extraordinary" step for the Court to rule against his health care law. The former law professor must have forgotten his first day of law school, when Marbury v. Madison and the concept of judicial review were discussed. He must have also forgotten that in 2008, the Supreme Court invalidated an act that suspended habeas for Guantanamo detainees. Obama favored the court's outcome in that case, applauding the court's "unprecedented" overruling of a federal statute at that time.
Third, Obama has directed his administration to file papers claiming that if the Supreme Court were to rule against his health care plan, it would risk the "extraordinary disruption" of Medicare — never mind that Medicare has been chugging along for its entire existence without the benefit of the Affordable Health Care Act.”
From The Detroit News: http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20120612/OPINION01/206120324#ixzz1xhX6yRLf
The author is a Republican. Obviously. No Democrat can speak the truth about blurring the lines of responsibility and authority.
“Attorney General Eric Holder has refused to provide written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee in response to "questions for the record" submitted to him by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R.-Ala.) that focus on Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan's involvement in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act--AKA Obamacare--while she was President Barack Obama's solicitor general.”
http://cnsnews.com/news/article/holder-refuses-provide-testimony-kagan-s-involvement-obamacare
“So far it appears that only Republicans and conservatives want Kagan to recuse herself from hearing the case, while liberals and Democrats take the opposing view. I have been a liberal constitutional law professor for more than 20 years, and a loyal Democrat. I believe the Affordable Care Act is constitutional and that it would be truly unfortunate for the country (and the party) if the court strikes it down. I also recognize that there is a much greater chance of the court erroneously striking down the PPACA if Kagan recuses herself. That said, I believe that as a matter of both principle and law, Kagan should not hear the case.” Eric Segall http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2011/12/obamacare_and_the_supreme_court_should_elena_kagan_recuse_herself_.html
I've been looking through the MEDTAPP grant of about $10 million (1.5 years) for seven Ohio medical schools for "underserved" populations. It reportedly comes from The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) which I assume got it from the federal government. That sounds like a lot of money--except the universities skim about 55-60% for overhead (or did when I worked at OSU). But imagine how big the amount was before the federal and state governments took their cuts! Then it is split 7 ways and the money goes first to set up and administer those programs which are primarily for curriculum bloat, training experiences, coordination, outreach, etc. in everything from mental health to pediatrics to gerontology to expansion of faculty. It's no wonder the medical practices and hospitals have low reimbursement for treating the low income sick and elderly.
I couldn’t find within the several websites I checked whether the 1,000 students and trainees who go through these programs have any obligation to actually work with the “underserved.”
Government programs provide a very fine living for “public servants.” No one in this pass through of funding is poor, underserved, mentally ill, elderly, or low income. Let’s hope something at the end of the line helps the needy (aka underserved).
https://ckm.osu.edu/sitetool/sites/grc2public/documents/11MEDTAPPHAIOVERVIEW.pdf
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