Conservative and fundamentalist—there are significant differences

"Conservative" and "fundamentalist" are not synonyms for certain Christians who are not main stream or liberals. Conservatives prefer to go slow, reflect on the wisdom of the past, enjoy hymns, perhaps liturgy and resist cultural changes that infringe on the faith. Fundamentalists are heavy users of technology and media, they increasingly cooperate with the culture in dress and rock music, services that are events and shows, and preachers might appear in bright spangles or torn jeans. ()Christian History, Issue 102. They may work together, however, on social justice issues like abortion or education or saving the constitution.

Offended by abortion facts?

Pictures offensive?  Minority statistics offensive?  Cancer and suicide links offensive?  Well, it’s a messy business you support.

Tuesday at the Lake

This morning I walked the lakefront in Lakeside with one of Columbus' finest--a police officer. She's been on the force for 30 years and is a proud patriot and solid Christian. Strong in mind, heart and body.

Paula Deen is being held to a higher standard than the elected officials in our highest levels of government. So yesterday I bought one of her products at Wal-Mart--yes I did. I made a political statement for a Peaches and Cream cake.

We’ve hardly had any TV for 2 weeks—we think our renters in June moved the antenna and we can’t get it to move.  But this evening during a storm, channel 5 from Cleveland appeared.  About every 10 minutes they are running the video of the 3 women  held hostage in Cleveland. Michelle Knight, who was held hostage for 10 years by Ariel Castro in Cleveland, speaks out about her faith and new life. Good advice for us all. "I may have been through hell and back, but I am strong enough to walk through hell with a smile on my face and my head held high," she said. "I will not let the situation define who I am. I will define the situation. I don't want to be consumed by hatred." And she testifies to her faith in God in the video, although that was not included in the AP summary I read.

I have a tip for Lakesiders who have hit the Patio Restaurant for too many hot fresh donuts in the morning or the Whistle Stop or Coffee N Cream for ice cream after the concert at night. If you walk into the Fountain Inn (3rd St. side) there is a slight slope down and a glass door that will pick up your reflection. This will give you 3 inches more height and slim you down by about 20 lbs. Works every time.

Lakeside Week 3—Sustaining and Appreciating Nature and the Environment

Today's speaker at Lakeside, David Kline, is an Amish farmer. He described how the Amish decide what advances in technology they will accept based on what it will do to their community and family life. He asked the youngest in the audience, a college student, if she would rather give up the automobile or her cell phone, and she said the car. Same with the Amish. He said their young people have ...little problem giving up their driver's license (when they are baptized), but the cell phone has been a different matter. As I left the lecture I walked past a family of 5, 3 small children, with Mom totally engrossed in her smart phone while walking with the kids. I guess there were no birds or flowers or puddles to talk about.

He is the editor of Farming Magazine for the small scale farmer and an author.  I learned that Amish buggy horses are Standard Breds that didn't make the cut for racing. He's quite a story teller. http://www.amazon.com/Letters-Larksong-Naturalist-Explores-Organic/dp/1590982010

Monday Memories--Looking like an aging July 4th queen

That’s sort of an odd compliment, but that’s what a high school friend wrote when I sent her this photo, my husband and son in the front and me in the back of a 1973 Oldsmobile Delta 88 convertible in the July 4 parade at Lakeside, Ohio.

Actually, I never went in for that queen stuff.  When I was growing up our town had a July 4 queen, the county had a Pork Queen, Forreston had a Sauerkraut Queen, I think 4-H had a queen and king, our high school had a homecoming queen and court.  Not me.  Never entered any of them.  Was I a snob about queen contests, or was I insecure.  Probably both, but I wasn’t about to have a panel (usually of men) judge me!  Until.  Once I did—in 1959.  The Arnold Air Society was having a “contest” for college women to be in their auxiliary. So I read the rules, and showed up.  I didn’t get in.  I had the brains but not the legs.  However, one young cadet noticed me and called me for a date for St. Patrick’s Ball.  On our first date he told me would marry me, and he did.

Over the rainbow in Lakeside with music

           

Tonight in the park at Lakeside we enjoyed four performers from The Musical Theater Project  performing “Families Love Musicals!”  And we certainly did.  They did an outstanding job.  About 30 minutes before the performance we had another rain storm, but the skies cleared and the show went on!

“Created expressly for families, this cabaret offers something for all generations to enjoy together, from the very young to the very young-at-heart! You’ll hear classic songs from more than 50 years of stage and screen musicals – songs including “I Won’t Grow Up,” “Getting to Know You,” “Pure Imagination” and “The Rainbow Connection,” plus sage advice like “Be Kind to Your Parents.” And it wouldn’t be a family cabaret without timeless songs that kids, their parents and even their grandparents cherish.”

Ice Cream Bread

I haven’t made this yet—my oven caught on fire last night, so it may be awhile, but I wanted to save the recipe which appeared on FB At Home with Terri.

Ingredients:
2 Cups Ice Cream, any flavor, softened (for best results use full fat)
1 1/2 cups Self-Rising Flour

Directions:
1. Preheat your oven to 350 Fahrenheit. Spray and flour a 8 x 4 loaf pan, or line it with parchment paper.
2. In a medium bowl mix the ice cream and flour together until just combined.
3. Scoop into the loaf and smooth out.
4. Bake for about 45 minutes or until a toothpick stuck in the loaf comes out with a few crumbs stuck to it.
5. Remove from the pan and allow to cool.

The picture is an example of butter-pecan ice cream -

For those that are scratching their heads wondering how this could work - let’s consider that most ice cream is made of eggs and fat/dairy. Toss in some self-rising flour and you have some basic ingredients for a bake-capable product. Just choose the flavoring of ice cream that seems promising and have a fun weekend of experimentation.

You must use self-rising flour or make your own.

You must - MUST have a rising agent in the flour. Self-rising flour is an easy solution (and commonly available). However, if you don’t have self-rising flour accessible, you can make it very simply:
For every cup of flour add 1 1/2 tsp baking powder and 1/2 tsp salt (sift together).

Who is worthy of the great one?

There's a pattern. It's always someone or everyone else's fault when Obama flops or fails.

"President Barack Obama’s communications director, Dan Pfeiffer, says that our political system isn’t “worthy” of Obama and the opportunity the president presents. He made the remarks to the Washington Post.

“There’s a moment of opportunity now that’s important,” Pfeiffer tells the paper. “What’s frustrating is that we don’t have a political system or an opposition party worthy of the opportunity.”
A narcissist served by blind and deaf lackeys.

More instability for the economy

“U.S. debt-escalation leads to poverty and is theft from citizens. 76% of people living paycheck to paycheck (CNN Money). This is tragic, immoral, unbiblical, and wrong. So why is Obama/Soros/Reid/Pelosi so determined to beget an influx of foreign labor, adding more debt and instability to our country?”  Christians for a Sustainable Economy

What a stinking mess!

http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2013/07/02/white-house-to-delay-obamacares-employer-mandate-until-2015-far-reaching-implications-for-the-private-health-insurance-market/

http://bridgepostpolitics.wordpress.com/2013/07/06/postponement-of-employer-mandate-highlights-obamacare-troubles/

The War against Christians

From Evangelicals for Biblical Immigration: The Obama/Clinton/Kerry/Soros administration's "Arab Spring" has become an Anti-Christian decade, with jihadists destroying much of the partially-Christian Middle East, Europe and also here in America, and more coming if the asylum Gang of 8 "immigration bill" is approved by Congress.

On June 23, Catholic Syrian priest Fr. François Murad was murdered in Idlib by rebel militias. How he was killed is not yet known and his superiors “vigorously deny” that he was a victim of beheading, as some news sources are claiming. It is apparent, however, that he was a victim of the shadow war against Christians that is being fought by jihadists alongside the larger Syrian conflict. This is a religious cleansing that has been all but ignored by our policymakers, as they strengthen support for the rebellion.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/352494/shadow-war-against-syrias-christians-nina-shea

Cover ups are worse than the truth

“Must I Repeat? Quit Making Things Up! says Sarah Palin

Outrageous. Once again the cover-up is worse than the “crime.” Secretary of State John Kerry WAS on his boat while Egypt fell into turmoil resulting in an overthrow of its new government ruled by the Muslim Brotherhood that the Obama Administration had so recently supported and may still support. (That, however, we do not know because President Obama's absolutely dithering foreign policies, his "leading from behind," and his benign statements on the Muslim Brotherhood make no sense to sensible people.)

The State Department categorically denied Kerry was on his boat. Yet CBS had pictures to prove it. Goodness. There is no need to lie, even on such a "little" thing as the location of a government leader during a military confrontation happening in real time. (Benghazi? Ring a bell? There still isn't anyone in the media who'll find out where our Commander-in-Chief was that night.) Come on, Obama Administration! It's no big darn deal that Kerry was on his boat! We expect, and deserve, to assume that our highest ranking public servants to whom We the People have given the most responsibility are always working – even when they're clearing their heads and breathing in some fresh air on a yacht, or sweating away stress on a basketball court, or yukking it up with pals on the fairway... let's trust they're always preparing for the proverbial 3:00 AM phone call.

Being on his boat isn't the issue. Blatantly deceiving the American people is the issue.”

Better on a boat than in a bunny suit. https://www.facebook.com/sarahpalin/posts/10151711904498588

http://truckerphoto.com/kerryfunphotos.htm

Watch for the book by Gerhard Maroscher

In February 2013 I blogged about a letter I saw in the Columbus Dispatch written by a man from Circleville, Ohio warning Americans about giving up their guns. He told about the end of WWII when criminals roamed the streets in Austria and his mother protected her children with her illegal gun.  He is in the process of writing a book now (no title yet), and has completed the section he told about in his letter. “Writing the book has been an interesting journey. At times it has been emotional. Writing about my family’s experiences has made me appreciate my parents and America even more. It has also heightened my concern about the direction we are heading as a nation.”

In his letter to the CD he wrote:

Based on the experiences of my youth, I do not share many people’s blind trust in governments, especially big powerful governments. My father read the Constitution before he decided to request to immigrate to the U.S. with his family. He had had his fill of communism, National Socialism (Nazism) and governments that feel the need and have the power to arbitrarily confiscate weapons.

Of course, Europeans generally accept that they can’t own guns. But their history is such that they started out as serfs and always had a lord, king or emperor. There was always a powerful leader who had control over the lives of his subjects. We Americans threw off the yoke of aristocracy and had a new birth of freedom.”

Update: The book is nearing the finish line! I heard today from the author Gerhard Maroscher, and the title of the book is, “Why can’t somebody just die around here?” The first page of the book (after the preface) explains why that title was chosen.

Global warming folly sprinkled to cover scandals

Wall Street Journal: We were too soft on Obamacare

"These columns fought the Affordable Care Act from start to passage, and we'd now like to apologize to our readers. It turns out we weren't nearly critical enough.”

"The law's implementation is turning into a fiasco for the ages, and this week's version is the lawless White House decision to delay the law's insurance mandate for businesses, though not for individuals."

"This is more than a typical government snafu. It relates directly to the design of the law, which was thoughtlessly written and rammed through Congress with instructions for the bureaucracy to figure it all out," the editorial said.

Obama’s interference in Egypt isn’t popular there either

 

 

Ann Paterson is the U.S. Ambassador to Egypt.

July 4 blessings—if we can keep them

 

I'm thankful this July 4 for the First Amendment. "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

Can we keep these freedoms of religion, speech, press and assembly or will we allow the President and the courts to dream up work arounds? Our president forces the HHS Mandate which violates the religion of millions; he calls peaceful assembly by hundreds of those who disagree with his policies "domestic terrorism;" our free press is eroded by his personal lapdog journalists and crony capitalist cyber giants; citizens speaking out brings out the thuggery at the IRS. Don't lose this treasure!

Obama supports the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt

"An honest, capable and representative government is what ordinary Egyptians seek and what they deserve." President Obama, commenting on the removal of Morsi as leader of Egypt.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/07/03/statement-president-barack-obama-egypt

Yes, that's what Americans deserve too, but he calls peaceful opposition to his policies terrorism, and the Tea Party has just had a few posters and town meetings, not 33 million people in the streets.

Wendy Davis

"Depending on your point of view, Davis is either a brave hero fighting for women everywhere or the second coming of Kermit Gosnell, the notorious Philadelphia doctor recently found guilty of murdering babies." Nick Gillespie, Reason.com

Me?  I think she’s much closer to Gosnell than a hero.

Gettysburg and Uncle Jacob

My great great grandparents lived in Adams County, Pennsylvania, home of Gettysburg.  In early letters to their son David living near Ashton, Illinois, they weren’t too concerned about the war.  Later as things deteriorated, they sent their youngest son, Jacob, to Illinois to live with his older brother David, my grandmother’s father, who really didn’t know him because of the age difference.  But young Jacob got caught up in the war fever anyway, and at age 16 went to Dixon, Illinois, and enlisted.  He died in Tennessee of dysentery a few weeks before the war ended in 1865.  He is buried there in a national cemetery.  It was over 100 years before we even knew of his existence, let alone where he was buried.  One of his sisters in Iowa received a letter from him and his last pay record, which was also his death certificate. When genealogies were being assembled in the 1980s we found out about poor Jacob. His name was listed in the Lee County History compiled 50 years later, but no one in the family thought to read that.