Dishonorable mention—non profits that support Planned Parenthood

“The Boycott List includes a “Dishonorable Mention” section, which identifies nonprofits that are associated with Planned Parenthood and/or its agenda.

The only addition to this section is The Lance Armstrong Foundation. Other groups in the “Dishonorable Mention” section include: AARP, American Cancer Society, Boys & Girls Clubs, Camp Fire, Dr. Phil Foundation, Girl Scouts, Girls Inc., Kiwanis Clubs, Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, March of Dimes, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Muscular Dystrophy Association, Ronald McDonald House Charities, Rotary Clubs, Salvation Army, Save the Children, Sierra Club, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, YMCA, and YWCA.”

http://www.lifenews.com/2012/03/22/new-planned-parenthood-donors-include-gq-bob-evans-hotels/  March 22, 2012

2009-10 income was over one billion.

Obama’s budget—unprecedented deficits

“The President is responsible for submitting an annual budget to Congress and has the authority to veto legislation, including irresponsible spending. Most Administrations have run small but manageable deficits, but President Obama's unprecedented budget deficits pose serious economic risks.”

http://www.heritage.org/federalbudget/budget-create-deficits#

It seems obvious the the Republicans, until Obama, were the big time spenders.

Will Romney be able to stop Taxmageddon?

Not unless he can take office before January 1.

Taxmageddon* is a one-year $494 billion tax increase slated to strike the economy on January 1, 2013. Taxmageddon is made up of several expiring tax policies and the beginning of some major tax increases from Obamacare.

*And they gathered them together to the place which to Hebrew is called Armageddon" (Rev. 16:12-16).

Although these tax increases will not start raising new revenue until next year, they are having a negative impact on the economy today. Families, businesses, and investors need to know how much tax they will pay in the future before making important economic decisions. The uncertainty caused by Taxmageddon means they are stuck in neutral while they wait for President Obama and Congress to act. This is slowing job creation and stopping many of the millions of unemployed Americans from going back to work.

http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2012/04/taxmageddon-massive-tax-increase-coming-in-2013

Abortion is big business

In 2010, Planned Parenthood made 841 adoption referrals; in 2000, 2,486. Why the change? More profit in abortion than in adoption. It's a money making industry. 2009-10 income was over one billion, of which almost $500 million was our tax money and $18.5 million was profit. Not bad for a "non-profit" organization that sucked up almost $224 million in donations from gullible Americans. 22 of Planned Parenthood CEOs make over $300,000 a year in these killing fields. President Cecile Richards earns $353,819. Perhaps women hit the glass ceiling in other industries, but they do very well in this one. Only 2 of the top 20 money makers are men.

The Imperial presidency

Allen West (R-FL) says the last time we had this was King George III.  Nai Nai agrees—“I do feel disrespected and disregarded. Permanent legal status isn't cheap and my parents paid for themselves and their four children. I can't get my citizenship because the cost of it goes up every year and I just can't afford it. I've paid my taxes every year since I became old enough to get a job and my parents paid their taxes every year that they've been in this country. This is a slap in the face to those of us that did things the right way. It also sends the message to others that want to come to this country that they don't have to go thru the legal channels to get here. That they may as well save their money 'cause the current president will just hand them legal status and citizenship as long as they are illegal. Whereas those that are legal have to pay the ever-increasing costs of for naturalization, which includes the costs associated with the "free" service for illegals. So it's paid for no matter how you look at it. As if my tax dollars supporting them to live off of the system weren't enough, now I have to pay for their legal statuses/citizenships as well. I'm a little more than just angry right now. “

http://www.mrctv.org/videos/allen-west-obama-last-time-we-had-was-king-george-iii

The amnesty pandering for votes

Obama's trying to change to the subject to immigration (to get votes he violates the constitution), but if he's smart, Romney won't let him.  I hope he stays focused on Obama’s many weaknesses.

A better plan for Mexico’s citizens would be to pressure that government to correct its flaws so Mexico's poor can share in the vast riches of that country. Roughly 10% of Mexico's population of about 107 million is now living in the United States, estimates show. About 15% of Mexico's labor force is working in the United States. One in every seven Mexican workers migrates to the United States. 

“These are challenging times in America. And because of (Obama’s) failed record, his campaign is having a hard time deciding what to talk about,” Romney told the Janesville crowd. “They’d like to talk about the economy and his record, but they know the last time his campaign slogan was ‘hope and change.’

“This time they’re going with ‘we hope to change the subject.’ But we’re not going to let him do that. We’re going to talk about the economy and jobs and getting Americans back to work,” Romney said, garnering laughter and applause, the crowd apparently pleased with a political line the GOP challenger has pushed on his campaign trip.

Romney spent most of his speech ripping into Obama’s economic policies and highlighting some reforms he’d make.

http://www.wisconsinreporter.com/romney-turns-up-heat-on-obama-during-wi-stop

Obama’s lies about the Bush years

"Obama's depiction of the Bush years is wrong in just about every possible way. First, Bush was hardly a deregulator. In fact, the nation's regulatory budget nearly doubled in his eight years, and regulatory staffing climbed 42%, according to an annual report on the federal regulatory state by George Mason University's Mercatus Center. Nor did Bush's tax cuts devastate the budget. In fact, revenues as a share of gross domestic product hit 18.5% in 2007, which is above the post-World War II average. And deficits fell three years in a row to a low of $160 billion.

Unemployment, meanwhile, dropped to 4.4% just before the recession hit. And as we've pointed out on countless occasions, the financial crisis that caused the recession was not the result of too little government, but of far too much government intervention in the banking industry.

Then again, Obama can't even keep his own complaints straight. Moments after lambasting Bush's tax-cutting, deregulating ways, he was bragging about how he's imposed fewer regulations than Bush, cut taxes more than a dozen times and how he's not a big spender. (None of that is true.)

The real question before voters isn't whether they want to return to some dark, mythical past of Obama's imagination, but whether they want four more years of a dismal present characterized by stagnant growth, chronic unemployment, massive deficits and a president who is utterly clueless about how to fix any of it."

--Investor's Business Daily

Does this church also bless the unborn?

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.

Monday Memories—Father’s Day 2012

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.

Sinclair Community College and Cops stomp on religious freedom at religious freedom rally

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.

This morning’s sermon was based on Daniel 3

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.

Mark Steyn on Obama’s Cleveland speech

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

Federal red tape strangles small businesses

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#

Will Christians be able to unite behind Romney?

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.

Meet King Obama the First

“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.”

Continue the NRO article here.

Amnesty, Bush vs. Obama

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/

The last Spring Commencement at OSU

“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

With the university’s change to semesters, OSU faculty, staff and students can now borrow items from the Libraries for longer periods of time.

The loan period for faculty, staff and graduate students increased to 120 days (from the previous 70 days); the loan period for undergraduate students is 42 days (up from 21 days). All items will be available for unlimited renewals, provided another patron does not place a hold on the item, and the patron remains in good standing. From News Notes, June 13, 2012

Friday family photo—Tech Reunion June 8

While Obama dined with Sarah Jessica Parker

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.

Advent Lutheran Tag Sale

                                 

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 Only

TRACK 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.