Colorado residents--you are about to lose your 2nd amendment rights. Speak up. Keep in mind that serious loss of civil rights by race, ethnicity or gender, historically happens under Democrats.
Gun control opponents say the proposals will not reduce violence. They say lawmakers should focus on strengthening access to mental health services for people who could be dangerous to communities.
Today I heard that an official in APHIS requested permission to decide on how to make cuts in his county’s service, but it was denied because it wouldn’t have met Obama’s goals of the sky is falling and it’s all the GOP’s fault.
I wonder if Mr. Brown will have a job next week. Not even a union can save him from questioning the White House.
Inefficiency, inaccuracy and underuse in managing federal property costs taxpayers at least $1.6 billion each year, according to a report the House Subcommittee on Government Operations issued in February. Of course, this can't be put at the feet of the current administration--the federal government has been growing for years regardless of who was President. But this one could stop it.
http://oversight.house.gov/hearing/failures-in-managing-federal-real-property-billions-in-losses/
http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-13-283
It could even be a 2-fer if the Department of Education were dismantled and its property sold. Educational accomplishment in the U.S. has flat lined while federal spending has soared since the ED was established in 1979 under Carter.
The mission of the Center for Inquiry is to “foster a secular society based on science, reason, freedom of inquiry, and humanist values.” Oh, are they (all 10 of them if that many) upset that there are religions represented in the military. No freedom for the men and women who protect their rights to be atheists. That's how they are.
“Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
‘Cause I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman. “
Written by George Harrison, Beatles, 1966, when he found out about Britain's progressive tax system (his was 95% so he could support their social welfare system) and wrote a protest song.
I visit a lot of church web sites. There are two persuasive, inviting messages I seek on the first click before the description of programs, services, and what a great, friendly staff and congregation it has: 1) The timeless message--Jesus and the Gospel--who he is and what he does; and 2) the targeted message--an address, including the city and state (a squished Google map of the streets isn't much help without that).
In the U.S. we have hundreds of different denominations within the “Protestant” family of Christians, and even if they have the same grouping, like ELCA or American Baptist, that doesn’t say anything about what the local congregation stands for.
Just for fun, put your denomination into the Google or Bing search window and add a medium to large city. Then select a few. What does it say about Jesus; can you find the address easily if it passes the first test?
This one got the address part (first), but no gospel or who is Jesus. The other had the address at the top, right under the name. Is mentioning the Good News the same as proclaiming it?
Book club today--I have a fresh cold, so I will pass and NOT pass it on. Our March selection is a very interesting and heart warming story that takes place for the most part in Canton, Ohio. The secret gift, by Ted Gup. His grandfather, Sam Stone, had secretly given $5 to needy families in 1933, and Gup follows up on the outcome, plus the dark secrets of his grandfather's past.
I was left with the question of why does Gup know so little about how FDR's programs (aka New Deal), intended to help, extended the Depression for over 10 years. Also, I wondered as I read the inspiring stories of struggle and accomplishment, whether our country today that already has about 50% of the population receiving some sort of government benefit (some of it we paid up front like Social Security and Medicare), could ever rebound or even know how, from such a disaster. Gup is a college professor, and in that environment where over 98% vote "progressive" or Democrat or liberal, there is little room for peeking under the covers of the accepted wisdom that FDR was a great guy and helped the country recover.
“It will remember him as the greatest and most learned intellect ever to occupy the Chair of Peter. No public official in our time has been anywhere near his intellectual equal. This disparity is itself the cause of much disorder, if we grant, as we must, that truth is the essence of intellect and indeed order. In reading Benedict, I have always been struck by how familiar he is not just with the Old and New Testaments (in their original languages) but with his constant referring to the Fathers of the Church, especially Augustine, and the intellectual popes like Gregory the Great and Leo the Great, and also Irenaeus, Basil, Maximius, Origen, Bonaventure, and I do not know them all.
He knows German philosophy well, and always cites Plato. He is at home with all the Marxist philosophers. Indeed, in Spe Salvi, he cited two of the most famous ones as witness to the logical need of a resurrection of the body. Benedict is a member of one of the French academies. No one has really begun to do his homework on what this pope has thought his way through. The media and most universities are, basically, hopeless. I suspect his final opera omni in a critical German edition will equal in length that of Augustine, Aquinas, and Bonaventure.”
“What Benedict did [in Jesus of Nazareth, 3 vol.] was to state, in brief, his considered opinion and research. He concluded that all the evidence available to us over a 2,000-year period, including the latest scientific evidence, indicates that Jesus Christ is who He said He was.”
Father James Schall, Georgetown University political science professor
According to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in a report on February 11, about one-sixth of federal spending went to “means-tested welfare” in 2011 through 10 major programs. Medicaid is the biggest chunk, and the second-largest is the food stamp program.
Eligibility for these programs has expanded as has the generosity of the benefits. They are a disincentive both to work harder or smarter or advance, and a disincentive for marriage, so they have probably hurt women and children the most.
“RIO GRANDE VALLEY, Texas - Every day students in Texas public schools pledge allegiance to the flags of the United States and Texas.
But when teacher Reyna Santos in a Rio Grande Valley high school assigned students to stand and pledge allegiance to the Mexican flag and sing Mexico's national anthem, one student, Brenda Brinsdon, refused.
The resulting controversy has one East Texas lawmaker wanting changes in the state's curriculum on how culture and patriotism are taught in schools.”
“As an alternative task to reciting the pledge and anthem, she was assigned an essay on the history of the Mexican revolution — an assignment for which she received a failing grade.
According to a lawsuit, filed in federal court Wednesday (Feb. 27), Brinsdon was not allowed to return to the Spanish class after her story received media coverage. She was made to sit in the office each day instead of attend class and ultimately failed the course.”
A teacher asked her 6th grade class how many of them were Obama fans.
Not really knowing what an Obama fan is, but wanting to be liked by the teacher, all the kids raised their hands except for Little Johnny.
The teacher asked Little Johnny why he has decided to be different…AGAIN.
Little Johnny said, “Because I’m not an Obama fan.”
The teacher asked, “Why aren’t you a fan of Obama?”
Johnny said, “Because I’m a Republican.”
The teacher asked him why he’s a Republican. Little Johnny answered, “Well, my Mom’s a Republican and my Dad’s a Republican, so I’m a Republican.”
Annoyed by this answer, the teacher asked, “If your mom were a moron and your dad were an idiot, what would that make YOU?”
With a big smile, Little Johnny replied,
“THAT WOULD MAKE ME AN OBAMA FAN.”
A retired doctor posted this on Facebook today and it is the direction our President is taking us in healthcare faster than even his most loyal supporters could have imagined in 2007. It is from Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (1957):
“I quit when medicine was placed under State control some years ago,” said Dr. Hendricks. “Do you know what it takes to perform a brain operation? Do you know the kind of skill it demands, and the years of passionate, merciless, excruciating devotion that go to acquire that skill? That was what I could not place at the disposal of men whose sole qualification to rule me was their capacity to spout the fraudulent generalities that got them elected to the privilege of enforcing their wishes at the point of a gun. I would not let them dictate the purpose for which my years of study had been spent, or the conditions of my work, or my choice of patients, or the amount of my reward. I observed that in all the discussions that preceded the enslavement of medicine, men discussed everything—except the desires of the doctors. Men considered only the ‘welfare’ of the patients, with no thought for those who were to provide it. That a doctor should have any right, desire or choice in the matter, was regarded as irrelevant selfishness; his is not to choose, they said, but ‘to serve.’ That a man’s willing to work under compulsion is too dangerous a brute to entrust with a job in the stockyards—never occurred to those who proposed to help the sick by making life impossible for the healthy. I have often wondered at the smugness at which people assert their right to enslave me, to control my work, to force my will, to violate my conscience, to stifle my mind—yet what is it they expect to depend on, when they lie on an operating table under my hands? Their moral code has taught them to believe that it is safe to rely on the virtue of their victims. Well, that is the virtue I have withdrawn. Let them discover the kind of doctors that their system will now produce. Let them discover, in the operating rooms and hospital wards, that it is not safe to place their lives in the hands of a man they have throttled. It is not safe, if he is the sort of man who resents it—and still less safe, if he is the sort who doesn’t.”
http://blog.aynrandcenter.org/the-forgotten-man-of-socialized-medicine-and-us/
You’re nothing but a yeasty, milk-livered maggot pie; Oh yeah? Take that, you paunchy, rump-fed pignut.
While Obama threatens the rest of us with miniscule cuts, look what's going up for Homeland Security employees--a palace--the largest ever--1.3 million square foot complex (phase 1) the largest since they built the Pentagon in WWII. My, what do they have in mind for the little people? And this is just one of the many construction projects in and around Washington. There has been no recession there either for gov't employees or private "partnerships" with construction firms and banks. http://www.gsa.gov/portal/content/133423
“I remember my first abortion like it was yesterday. There are times I revisit those days and play back all chaos in my life. I think about some of the words spoken to me: "This is for the best" "Trust me", "You are too young, this will ruin your life." "How will you finish school ; what kind of life will you be able to give this child?" I even remember the moment in the room, when I changed my mind and said, "Hello, is there anyone out there, I want change my mind." and the nurse came by and said it was too late. I remember every moment so clearly sometimes and it always sends me to a place of what if. I wonder what he would have looked like, I wonder how it would have changed my life, I wonder what he would have been today?
Yes, there is great sadness, but it is okay because in the end I have let my children live and the lord says that in letting our children live we can find Joy. John 16:21 - A woman when she is in travail has sorrow, because her hour has come: but as soon as she is delivered of the child, she remembers no more the anguish, for joy that a man is born into the world.
This is part of why so many woman have such pain and shame. They suffer in silence, never admitting to the sin of killing their child and thus never letting go of the burden or travail of pregnancy. In coming out and letting the child live even in such a small way as this, we allow healing to begin. It is hard to relive such painful memories, but I remember the times when I did not even admit I was in pain. I would rather feel the pain and release the shame than live in darkness and allow the enemy to win.
I get to imagine he would have been a great man of God, whom the Lord is well pleased....”
Shared from her Facebook post, March 1, 2013, with permission.
In January 2009 the stock of Starbucks was about $7, and today it’s in the mid-fifties, down a little from a few months ago. So how did they turn it around without a government stimulus package?
“The company cut costs when a serious recession hit the economy in 2008. Raises were slashed to a minimal amount, vacation and personal time was cut and the health plan was altered to require more out-of-pocket expenses on the part of employees. The company pushed product sales hard, requiring managers to more aggressively market retail items such as coffee mugs, coffee makers and ground coffee to their walk-in customers.
Recently, the company has made some changes to improve its compensation for management employees. Starbucks has maintained health-care coverage as well as a stock-option program, known as Bean Stock. The company has also increased its contributions to its 401(k) program a retirement savings plan that is available to hourly and salaried employees.”
Read more: The Average Salary of a Starbucks Store Manager | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_7486618_average-salary-starbucks-store-manager.html#ixzz2MIILv2l9
Sadly, no one in this administration and very few in Congress have business experience, and when they get to Washington it’s like having play money to spend.
Perhaps this is apocryphal, but apparently there was a reporter assigned to the Holy See by a major news agency who got to Rome and wanted to know where the sea was. It was told as an example of how little the regular media know about spiritual matters.
I wondered about Shepard Smith today on Fox Report, when in the afternoon show he gave a few minutes to today's historic event of the Pope becoming emeritus and instead used his time to mention sex scandals in the church involving boys and priests. Fortunately, there was a guest who set him straight (no pun intended). If he had said gay priests, he could have narrowed it down to a few, but then would have been accused of homophobia. But to be anti-Catholic and condemn a faith of l.2 billion people is OK.
Shepard Smith needs to open a newspaper and see what’s going on in the schools.
I watched his 7 p.m. show on Fox News to see if he’d actually report just the news of this historic day. He did. Maybe he got my e-mail.
“You know that today is different than previous ones. I’m no longer the Pope. Until 8:00 p.m. I am, but then afterwards I am no longer Pope of the Catholic Church,” he said.
Pope Benedict then offered a window into how he sees this stage of his life.
“I’m simply a pilgrim that is starting the last stage of his pilgrimage on Earth,” he remarked, “but I would still like with my heart, with my love, with my prayer, with my reflection, with all my inner strength to work for the common good of the Church and of humanity, and I feel very supported by your sympathy.
“Let’s go ahead together with the Lord for the good of the Church and of the world,”
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/popes-last-words-thank-you-for-your-friendship-and-love/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/27/us-usa-fiscal-woodward-idUSBRE91Q11620130227
I searched through 4 pages of Google trying to find this reported in the MSM.
The media decided the death of Trayvon Martin, a black teen, a story worthy to be trumpeted across the nation as race hatred because the man who killed him in FL was, they thought, white (actually he was Hispanic). But when black teen Olijawon Griffin was robbed of his jacket and phone by nine other black teens and then stabbed to death when he tried to get it back in DC, it only made a blip on the local news there. Black on black crime just doesn't sell or get the journalism award. (He had a FB page—I looked at his football and h.s. graduation photos).
When his mom, Lunette Griffin, wept and went to court, it didn't make the news in Columbus or LA or the cable news channels like when Trayvon's parents did. The president didn't expand on or stir up racial tensions with the story and say Olijawon could have been his son. The one year anniversary of Olijawon's death in November will not be observed except by family and friends. Trayvon's mom is interviewed on gun violence. No one will interview Lunette about knives or gangs of teens who roam the streets of DC. Why? It would meet no political agenda for the President or the media. Black teens robbing and killing a black teenager with a knife will not set any racial fires smoldering or pass any new gun laws.
It’s been interesting to see Rome the last few days on TV via Vatican TV as the final 48 hours of Pope Benedict XVI have been broadcast. But 700 years ago, things weren’t looking good for the mighty city.
"In the early 1400s the Eternal City must have been, in most respects, a wretchedly uninspiring sight, a parent that the Florentines may well have wished to disown. A million people had dwelled in Rome during the height of the Empire, but now the city's population was less than that of Florence. The Black Death of 1348 had reduced numbers to 20,000, from which, over the next fifty years, they rose only slightly. Rome had shrunk into a tiny area inside its ancient walls, retreating from the seven hills to huddle among a few streets on the bank of the Tiber across from St. Peter's, whose walls were in danger of collapse. Foxes and beggars roamed the filthy streets. Livestock grazed in the Forum now known as il Campo Vaccino, 'the Field of Cows.'
"Other monuments had suffered even worse fates. The Temple of Jupiter was a dunghill, and both the Theater of Pompey and the Mausoleum of Augustus had become quarries from which the ancient masonry was scavenged, some of it for buildings as far away as Westminster Abbey. Many ancient statues lay in shards, half buried, while others had been burned in kilns to make quicklime or else fertilizer for the feeble crops. Still others were mangers for asses and oxen. The funerary monument of Agrippina the Elder, the mother of Caligula, had been turned into a measure for grain and salt.
"Rome was a dangerous and unappealing place. There were earthquakes, fevers, and endless wars, the latest of which, the War of the Eight Saints, witnessed English mercenaries laying waste to the city. There was no trade or industry apart from the pilgrims who arrived from all over Europe, clutching copies of Mirabilia urbis romae (The Wonders of Rome), which told them which relics to see during their stay. This guidebook directed them to such holy sights as the finger bone of St. Thomas in Santa Croce, in Gerusalemme, the arm of St. Anne and the head of the Samaritan woman converted by Christ in San Paolo fuori le Mura, or the crib of the infant Savior in Santa Maria Maggiore. There was a hucksterish atmosphere to the city: pardoners sold indulgences from stalls in the street, and churches advertised confessions that were supposedly good for a remission of infernal torture for a grand total of 8,000 years.
"The Mirabilia urbis romae did not direct the attention of the pilgrims to the Roman remains that surrounded them. To such pious Christians these ancient ruins were so much heathen idolatry. Worse, they were stained with the blood of Christian martyrs. The Baths of Diocletian, for example, were built with the forced labor of early Christians, many of whom had died during the construction. Antique images that had survived a millennium of earthquakes, erosion, and neglect were therefore deliberately trampled underfoot, spat on, or thrown to the ground and smashed to pieces."
From Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture by Ross King, Penguin Books, 2000
Thank God for the nanny state. I truly believed Death by Chocolate had fewer calories than mixed vegetables. Now that I know better, I'll never, never eat that bad stuff again.
“Section 4205 of Obama’s law requires restaurants and similar retail food establishments with 20 or more locations to list calorie content information for standard menu items on all menus and menu boards, including drive-through boards. The law also requires vending machine operators who own or operate 20 or more vending machines to disclose calorie content for certain items.”
Notice how these regulations on size just keep businesses from expanding, denying jobs to people who need them?
She’s been in the President’s cross hairs for years.
"I’m appalled to learn the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has begun to release hundreds of illegal aliens from custody, the first of potentially thousands to soon be freed under the guise of federal budget cuts. This is pure political posturing and the height of absurdity given that the releases are being granted before the federal ‘sequestration’ cuts have even gone into effect.
This represents a return to exactly the kind of catch-and-release procedures that have long made a mockery of our country’s immigration system. The news is especially concerning when coupled with DHS’ acknowledgment that it may not be able to maintain operation of 34,000 immigration jail beds, as mandated by Congress.
Everyone knows the federal government must get a handle on spending, and it is well past time that the President begins working with Congress to find real budget solutions. But we cannot let public safety and the rule of law be collateral damage of the President’s failed leadership to pass a budget."
Although the title of this article is called Why Jews are Better off in the Catholic Church than in the Jews for Jesus, it contains a lot of rather detailed history from how the Torah was made, what is tradition, the Crusades, Martin Luther, The inquisition, a sprinkle of Wicca and Scientology and the “way home” for Jews. I came across it while looking for something else.
The Torah
Every Torah scroll is made from living creatures. The parchment is lambskin, ritually prescribed sinews hold the pages together, and plants provide the ink. Jewish tradition holds that God dictated Torah to Moses as a stream of Hebrew letters, one at a time. Jewish scribes who hand copy Torah scrolls are extremely careful to preserve the exact sequence, not adding or subtracting even a single letter. Jesus referred to that tradition when He said, "Till heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the law until all is accomplished." (Mt 5:18) An iota is a yod, the smallest Hebrew letter. A dot is the smallest part of a Hebrew letter. The Torah in every synagogue is an exact copy of an exact copy of an exact copy of the Torah that God inspired Moses to write down by hand. . .
The Scriptural Cafeteria
All Christendom had accepted the Catholic Sacred Scriptures for 1,500 years when Luther altered Romans 3:28. But Luther altered a lot more Scripture than one word. He removed from his Scriptures the entire books of Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, and 1 and 2 Maccabees as well as Esther 10:4-16:24 and Daniel 3:24-90 and chapters 13 and 14.
The Jews for Jesus respond that Luther chose only those Scriptures for the Old Testament that were recognized by the rabbis as the Tanach, the Palestinian canon, rather than those recognized by the Catholic Church, the Alexandrian canon.
For three centuries before Christ arrived, Judaism used two different versions of Scripture. Jews living in Palestine used the Hebrew Palestinian canon, which did not have these seven books, while Jews who lived outside Palestine used the Greek Septuagint version, called the Alexandrian canon, which did. When St. Jerome translated the Bible into Latin, he used the Greek Septuagint because it contained all of the books recognized by the Church as inspired. All Christendom had accepted the St. Jerome Bible for a thousand years when Luther suddenly decided to use the Palestinian canon because he did not accept the doctrine of purgatory implied in 2 Maccabees. Luther, in fact, wanted to delete as well the books of Hebrews, James, Jude, and the Revelation, but was persuaded by the other Reformers to leave them in place. Luther chose for his Old Testament only those books historically accepted by people who did not recognize Jesus, rather than those who did.
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Oh, but there’s more. Obama's plans (actually Janet Napolitano) to be "fiscally responsible" includes releasing criminals ready for deportation--before sequestration (which he refuses to negotiate while he's on the campaign trail). Now this move, folks, is totally transparent--he's trying to scare people into accepting more tax increases with no cuts. Where is the savings as these really bad guys are released in the SW states (who then have to do the mop up on their dime). I wonder if while robbing or raping, these guys will be able to tell a Democrat from a Republican from an apolitical know-nothing who has never voted?
Napolitano whined: “Look, we’re doing our very best to minimize the impacts of sequester. But there’s only so much I can do.” Imagine that. Absolutely no fat in the ICE or Homeland Security to cut except to let criminals go loose to make more mayhem. This is blackmail.
http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-detained-immigrants-sequester-20130226,0,7739089.story
The President really likes to hit on Brewer, governor of Arizona. Look out Arizona supporters of Obama. The released criminals that Obama is setting free could be in your neighborhood, all in the name of blaming Republicans for budget cuts he agreed to when he got his tax increase.
Fidel Castro did this too. Opened the jails and mental hospitals and told them to go to the U.S. in 1980. Saddam Hussein did a similar thing in 2003 with his jailed criminals--just turned them loose to create panic. When leaders don’t know how to lead, they just create panic.
"Mrs. Obama has been all over pop culture. Her Oscar outing followed hard on the heels of a mean “mom dance” on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Her husband, meanwhile, has been golfing with Tiger Woods. Some members of what used to be (long ago, boys and girls, when non-cool presidents were in office) the adversarial press corps joined forces to chant a question at the returning President Obama after his golf outing. They had lodged complaints with the press secretary about lack of access, apparently crestfallen that the White House refused to permit pictures of Obama and Woods on the course. Their shouted question wasn’t about the sequester, or Benghazi, or Syria, or Hagel; no, the pressies chanted in unison (Occupy-style) “Did you beat Tiger?” Their crush on Dear Leader is undiminished.
The president makes himself available to friendly questions from the press — see the latest 60 Minutes interview — and is always available to chat about his basketball final-four picks or what’s on his iPod. In short, both he and his wife have mastered the art of being celebrities-in-chief. The man who wrote two autobiographies before he was 45 (earning a tidy fortune in the process) is a genius at marketing himself. Together, the Obamas provide “circuses” aplenty for the masses. As for bread, that’s another matter."
Did you know that in order to coerce the Republicans into higher taxes and no cuts, they are releasing criminal illegal immigrants due for deportation as an early sequestration move? But dance on Bo.
The Bible will air on the History Channel beginning March 3, with the last episode in the series airing on Easter Sunday. I've been a bit suspicious about how TV treats the Bible, but this one started with prayer, according to Roma Downey (Touched by an Angel) one of the producers of the 10 hour mini-series.
Even if it doesn't fit your denomination's interpretation, if it follows the basics, it can't go wrong.
Man disobeys,
God forgives;
Man disobeys again,
God forgives;
Repeat as needed.
If Christians support this, perhaps we can get better quality TV.
Christians quibble the Bible to death—the number of sacraments; whether there even are sacraments; divorce and remarriage; do miracles still happen in the 21st century; who needs to interpret speaking in tongues; does the gift of tongues exist; which is better happy clappy songs or hymns; what is Mary’s role; were prophecies of the O.T. fulfilled in Christ; dip, dunk or sprinkle; and on and on.
I may have posted this before—but I enjoy it each time I read it.
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous pasture in Montana when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit, Gucci® shoes, Ray Ban® sunglasses and YSL® tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell® notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T iPhone® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ...
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot® that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL® database through an ODBC connected Excel® spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet® printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?"
"You're a Congressman for the U.S. Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep.”
“Now give me back my dog.”
Passed along from 98.9 F. The Answer in central Ohio. New station as of last fall (November?), and some great conservative talkers like Medved, Prager, Bennett. The news and interviews you’d never get from commercial, liberal media.
Tonight Glenn Beck interviewed five women who had been raped.
**One was in a church parking lot at noon putting her two children in their car seats; he hit her with a brick and raped her in front of her children.
**One was in a parking garage and had walked there with friends in a group. She said if a call box had been above her head, it wouldn’t have helped. The campus was a “safe zone.” She could see the campus police station—it was closed.
**One was in her own home, in bed asleep with a roommate in the next room who didn’t hear it.
**One experienced date rape after her drink was drugged.
**One was jogging and was attacked from behind and dragged into a woods. She was raped for six hours, and afterwards he carefully cleaned her up to destroy any evidence.
Only one of the five actually had a concealed carry permit, but she was in a gun free zone (she was law abiding) and didn’t have the gun; but the rapist had a gun and raped her. Maybe she couldn’t have stopped it, but he went on to rape other women and even murdered one. One woman said she was within 50 ft. of a police car. Another said she could smell bacon frying in a near by house. There was no one to call; no one to help.
These were the lucky ones—they weren’t killed. All own guns now. Four of the five rapists are in jail—one isn’t. He’s out there. Rape is not about sex, it’s about power, and it’s about evil. The mother with 2 children said only 3% of rapists ever go to jail—and they know it. Twenty years ago a woman was raped every 6 minutes said the jogger about her experience; now it’s every 2 minutes.
Call boxes don’t work. Closed police stations can’t help. They are no match for a knife or gun. All the women thought Democratic Senator Salazar was a sexist who ridiculed women’s ability to protect themselves ( “if you feel like someone’s been following you around or if you feel like you’re in trouble and when you may actually not be, that you pop out that gun and you pop — pop a round at somebody”) and denied the reality of the dangers rapists present for women.
Why is it a War on Women if taxpayers don’t want to pay for free contraception, but not a War against Women to deny them the right to protect themselves? How does making one woman defenseless protect another woman against a violent crime?
The country didn’t collapse in 2009, why will it in 2013. This is not CUTS, it’s a reduction in the increase. Why doesn’t he stay in Washington and do his job. He’s campaigning for 2016!
Today in Columbus at this moment 3 young women are making decisions about the lives of their unborn children. One is pregnant by her married boyfriend; one doesn't believe in abortion but hasn't even examined the alternatives or people willing to help her; another is in an abusive relationship. Pray they will decide to let the children live. Yes, six people have made bad choices; let the next step be wiser. (Stories from PDHC newsletter)
When the Catholics were faced with an updated English version of the Mass in 2011, one woman responded to the new wording, “I was offended at the insertion of "I have sinned greatly" into the Introductory Rite. "I don't go around sinning greatly," she said. "I am not going to say this."
Of course, we Lutherans don’t get big and little, grievous and ordinary. We just sin constantly by violating all commandments as summarized into two by Jesus. In the Lutheran Book of Worship (1978) we say,
Most merciful God, we confess that we are in bondage to sin and cannot free ourselves. We have sinned against you in thought, word, and deed, by what we have done and by what we have left undone. We have not loved you with our whole heart; we have not loved our neighbors as ourselves. For the sake of your Son, Jesus Christ, have mercy on us. Forgive us, renew us, and lead us, so that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the glory of your holy name. Amen. ( Lutheran Book of Worship, p. 56, based on 1 John 1:8)
Thought, word, and deed. That about covers it. And that’s sinning greatly.
The B side of Red Sails in the Sunset (1963) was Song for Rosemary. He married Rosemary in 1948; they were married for 60 years (I think she died in 2008). Also to my knowledge he never grabbed his crotch to sell a song.
The YouTube of Song for Rosemary (instrumental) shows it's on Philips Record. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JL3dmEec6ww
If you had a friend/acquaintance who was upside down on his mortgage, had credit card debt of about $30,000, had borrowed not only from his parents and his children, but his shyster Uncle who was known to be a knee-capper, had not yet paid off his college loans and it was time for his kids to enroll, who nickel and dimed his church, who was known to cut corners at work, invested in Ponzi schemes and lied a lot, would you tell him it was a good idea to spend even more to cover his debts? Of course not. But that's what about 50% of the voters did in November in selecting a known spend thrift as their leader. And even now they swoon when he chatters on about everything except how to get out of the mess he made.
“During Barack Obama’s first term as president of the United States, the debt of the federal government increased by $5.8 trillion, which exceeds the combined debt accumulated under all presidents from George Washington through Bill Clinton.
The new federal debt accumulated in Obama's first term equaled approximately $50,521 for each of household in the country.”
What does NYC chief nanny Mayor Bloomberg say about fruit/veggie drinks? A 12-ounce can of cola has 33 grams of sugar and about 136 calories. He limits the sale to 16 ounces (this will cost the consumer and the environment more). I have a Bolthouse Farms Green Goodness drink, 15.2 ounces, 60 grams of sugar, 280 calories. It has apple, pineapple, mango, banana, kiwi, (all in concentrate or puree) green tea, spinach, broccoli, barley grass, wheat grass, Jerusalem artichoke, and some other stuff. However, no sugar has been added--it's a natural ingredient in fruits and vegetables, especially in corn which is high in fructose a main ingredient in a lot of pop and fruit mix drinks. Now, my green drink (it's really tasty) is a lot more nutritious than pop with vitamins C, A, B, zinc and manganese, but I don't think Mr. Nanny is even looking at anything except sugar per ounce.
Black history month. . .
Blacks voted long before the 1965 Voting Rights Act (which Democrats fought). The infamous 1856 Dred Scott decision in which a Democratic-controlled US Supreme Court observed that blacks “had no rights which a white man was bound to respect; and that the Negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.” Non-Democrat Justice Benjamin R. Curtis, one of only two on the Court who dissented in that opinion, provided a lengthy documentary history to show that many blacks in America had often exercised the rights of citizens – that many at the time of the American Revolution “possessed the franchise of [voters] on equal terms with other citizens.”
State constitutions protecting voting rights for blacks included those of Delaware (1776), Maryland (1776), New Hampshire (1784), and New York (1777). Pennsylvania also extended such rights in her 1776 constitution, as did Massachusetts in her 1780 constitution.
As a result of these provisions, early American towns such as Baltimore had more blacks than whites voting in elections; and when the proposed US Constitution was placed before citizens in 1787 and 1788, it was ratified by both black and white voters in a number of States. (All references are to free blacks, not slaves.)
For citations and information about how Democrats fought against rights for blacks even into the 1960s, see http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1072053/posts
When you live with an artist (or two if you count me), you have a lot of art in the closets (we also buy it), so we're always rearranging. Last week we did a major shift. I've been hearing really creepy noises in the living room in the early a.m. I’ve decided it is the painting of the big house near Delaware, Ohio, It is so large it has acrylic instead of glass in the frame to reduce the weight. When the heat comes on it makes expanding noises, then contracts.
He was an architect before he was a painter, so as architects will do, he remodeled it a bit for the painting--took off an addition that detracted from the original bones of the house. I think he also gave it a coat of paint. It had been refurbished about 20 years ago, but had fallen a bit in recent years. So if you drive by this house, it may not look quite like this.
The environmental regulations have become so restrictive that it is very difficult to save homes like these—lead paint, sometimes buried fuel oil tanks, etc. Plus the heating costs with 12’ ceilings is often prohibitive.
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