The Great Distributor

For all of you who think that somehow Obama is going to create a fair distribution of wealth in the U.S., check out this Milton Friedman clip:

Are you male or female?

The citizens of Gainesville, Florida, are set to do battle over a gender-identity ordinance passed by the city council.

The ordinance passed by the civic leaders defines gender as follows: "An inner sense of being a specific gender, or the expression of a gender identity by verbal statement, appearance, or mannerisms, or other gender-related characteristics of an individual with or without regard to the individual's designated sex at birth."

Gives new meaning to being in touch with one's "feminine side," eh?

See the whole story at: http://www.alligator.org/articles/2008/07/15/news/local/080715_ordinance.txt

 

we are the world's largest and most successful 100% gender selection program

This from "The Fertility Institutes" web site, available at: http://www.fertility-docs.com/

 

Really? Maybe I'm ignorant, but this was news to me, and maybe I'm fashioned, but it kind of bugs me. Should we really be doing this kind of thing?

Fiscal Responsibility?

Check out this little Glen Beck piece.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62Vsgl6SUZ0&eurl=http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=447448

 

Wow.

"America is great because she is good. If America ceases to be good, America will cease to be great." -- Alexis de Tocqueville

Prop 8 - It's Got Nothing to do With Civil Rights

I found the following article in a British newspaper online at http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1160736/RICHARD-LITTLEJOHN-Celebrate-gay-history-P-p-pick-penguin.html

Proponents of "gay marriage" often argue that their cause is one of "civil rights," and that we have no reason to "force" our morals on others. This article from the U.K. is strong proof that it ain't about civil rights folks. It's about forcing someone else's immorality upon society. It's about the eventual destruction of families, religious freedoms, and parental rights. Methinks such stories as the below are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to "recognizing" "gay rights" in America.  Consider the following quote from within the article: "when it comes to so-called tolerance, the new, intolerant state religion of 'diversity' trumps the old religions any day of the week." Sound familiar anyone???

I'm reminded of the spot on (to borrow a British phrase) prophesy of Isaiah: "The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin to be even as Sodom, they hide it not. Wo unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves." Isaiah 3:9

Enjoy the article...

Celebrate gay history. P-p-pick up a penguin

By Richard Littlejohn
Last updated at 3:22 AM on 10th March 2009

Education, education, education. How's that going? Let's take a snapshot of the state of our schools. For instance, here's three stories from the past few days. Official figures revealed that nearly half of all children from low-income families fail to achieve a single pass at GCSE.

More than 42 per cent of the 75,000 pupils entitled to free lunches last year could not manage a single 'C' grade in any subject, which is the minimum level recognised by potential employers. As many as 7,500 of them are classified as 'persistent truants'.

They left school virtually unemployable, fit only for a life on benefits or a career in crime. These were the very children Labour came to office promising a better future, pledging to raise them out of a cycle of permanent low achievement.

Pervez Latif removed his two sons from school during Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month

Twelve years on and billions of pounds squandered later, they're still bottom of the heap.

Yesterday, another report showed that despite the Holocaust supposedly being an integral part of the National Curriculum, an alarming number of secondary-school children think Auschwitz is a brand of beer. Six out of ten had never heard of the Final Solution. They probably think it's some kind of washing powder.

Against this horrifying backdrop, you might think any drive to elevate history teaching in schools and clamp down on truants would be welcome.

So, on the face of it, you'd applaud the decision by Waltham Forest Council to prosecute parents who fail to send their children to school.

More than 30 pupils were absent without leave last week at the George Tomlinson Primary School, in Leytonstone, East London, one of the country's most deprived areas.

Waltham Forest is treating this as mass truancy and says parents could be dragged into court, fined and forced to sign parenting contracts.

But these aren't the usual feckless mothers and absentee fathers content to let their children bunk off school. They are deeply moral and religious people who object to their children being force-fed homosexual propaganda in the classroom.

As such, they exercised their right to withdraw their sons and daughters from lessons 'celebrating' Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender History Month.

Devout Christian and Muslim parents had warned the school in advance that they had strong religious objections.

Pervez Latif, a 41-year-old accountant, kept his nine and ten-year-old sons at home and is now facing prosecution. He wrote to the chairman of the school governors, but his protests were ignored.

Sarah Saed, 40, withdrew her eight-year-old daughter with great reluctance. It was the first blemish on her 100 per cent attendance record. 'This was the only choice I had,' she said. 'It is not an appropriate age for children to be learning about homosexual relationships.'

As the law stands, parents have the legal right to exempt their children from religious education and sex lessons. That's why this is being smuggled in under the radar in the guise of 'history'.

Yet the 'lessons' on offer include a story called King & King - about a prince who turns down three princesses before falling in love with their brother - and another featuring a pair of gay penguins at a New York zoo.

Regular readers may remember these fairy stories from a couple of years ago, when they were part of a £600,000 government-sponsored project designed to peddle gay propaganda to children as young as five.

What has any of this got to do with 'history'?

It's about as historical as Andy Pandy. (Come to think of it, I'm surprised the relationship between Andy and Teddy isn't being explored as part of gay history month. Goodness knows what they got up to in that box.)

And why a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender month, anyway? Why not a Foot Fetishists, Spankers, Sadists and Masochists History Month?

Risibly, Waltham Forest said that action was being taken against the parents as part of a policy of 'promoting tolerance'.

So why not tolerate parents who, for sincerely-held reasons, consider their children too young to be taught about gay relationships?

That's because when it comes to so-called tolerance, the new, intolerant state religion of 'diversity' trumps the old religions any day of the week. (emphasis added)

Parents who choose to tell their children about homosexuality only when they feel the time is right have to be pummelled into submission, using the full might of the law if necessary.

This isn't education, it's cultural fascism.

As I've written before, I have no problem with homosexuality being discussed in secondary schools. But not with children who won't even hit puberty for another few years. Let them enjoy their innocence, for heaven's sake.

And what about some respect for decent, law-abiding parents, trying to bring up their children in line with their own belief system?

Instead of hounding caring mums and dads like Pervez Latif and Sarah Saed, the education establishment should be targeting the tens of thousands of selfish, wastrel parents who never send their children to school.

Rather than filling the heads of impressionable boys and girls with fatuous drivel about gay penguins, schools should be ashamed of the fact that they are sending children out into the world barely able to read, write and add up properly.

Labour's deranged obsession with social engineering over genuine education has betrayed an entire generation, especially those unfortunate enough not to be blessed with conscientious, loving parents like Pervez Latif and Sarah Saed.

Is it any wonder some leave school unable to tell the difference between a concentration camp and a can of lager?

this is the best description of being a Mom!

"I go into their rooms and watch them sleeping, their faces creased and rosy. Finally, they squirm and stretch themselves awake, reaching out for a hug. I gather them up, bury my face in them and breathe deeply. They are like towels just pulled from the dryer, tumbled warm and cottony."
"...my children curl around me on the sofa in the evening, often falling asleep, limbs limp and soft against me like the folds of a well-worn nightgown. For now, we still adorn each other, and they are content to be clothed in my embrace. ...of small hands clasped in mine. This time fits me. I plan to wear it well."

the complete article is at: http://www.beliefnet.com/Inspiration/Chicken-Soup-For-The-Soul/2009/03/Second-Skin.aspx

I am glad I am not alone in thinking children are a blessing unto all! : )

Pork, Anyone?

This from the New York Times

Stage of Fools

By MAUREEN DOWD

Published: March 3, 2009

WASHINGTON

Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Maureen Dowd

If only Shakespeare had known how to Twitter.

There was a bit of King Lear in the scene on the Senate floor, a stormy, solitary John McCain on “this great stage of fools,” as the Bard wrote, railing against both parties and the president in fiery speeches and rapid-fire tweets.

“He’s mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf, a horse’s health, a boy’s love, or a whore’s oath,” the Fool told Lear.

And he’s truly mad that trusts in the promise of a presidential candidate to quell earmarks.

The 72-year-old senator who seemed hopelessly 20th century when he confessed during the campaign that he didn’t know how to use a computer or send an e-mail has now mastered the latest technology fad, twittering up a twizzard to tweak his former rival.

Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork, including:

• $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York. “quick peel me a grape,” McCain twittered.

• $1.7 million for a honey bee factory in Weslaco, Tex.

• $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa.

• $1 million for Mormon cricket control in Utah. “Is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?” McCain tweeted.

• $819,000 for catfish genetics research in Alabama.

• $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi.

• $951,500 for Sustainable Las Vegas. (McCain, a devotee of Vegas and gambling, must really be against earmarks if he doesn’t want to “sustain” Vegas.)

• $2 million “for the promotion of astronomy” in Hawaii, as McCain twittered, “because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy.”

• $167,000 for the Autry National Center for the American West in Los Angeles. “Hopefully for a Back in the Saddle Again exhibit,” McCain tweeted sarcastically.

• $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii. “During these tough economic times with Americans out of work,” McCain twittered.

• $200,000 for a tattoo removal violence outreach program to help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past. “REALLY?” McCain twittered.

• $209,000 to improve blueberry production and efficiency in Georgia.

“When do we turn off the spigots?” Senator McCain said in his cri de coeur on the Senate floor. “Haven’t we learned anything? Bills like this jeopardize our future.”

In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign.

He’s been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on “wasteful spending” on Wednesday.

“You know, there are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation,” he said recently about the “hard choices” we must make. Yet he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget.

He reckons he’ll need Congress for more ambitious projects, like health care, and when he goes back to wheedle more bailout billions, given that A.I.G. and G.M. and our other corporate protectorates are burning through our money faster than we can print it and borrow it from the ever-more-alarmed Chinese.

Team Obama sounds hollow, chanting that “the status quo is not acceptable,” even while conceding that the president is accepting the status quo by signing a budget festooned with pork.

Obama spinners insist it was “a leftover budget.” But Iraq was leftover, too, and the president’s trying to end that. This is the first pork-filled budget from a new president who promised to go through the budget “line by line” and cut pork.

On “Face the Nation” on Sunday, Obama’s chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, dismissed the bill as “last year’s business,” because most of it was written last year.

But given how angry Americans are, watching their future go up in smoke, the bloated bill counts as this year’s business.

It includes $38.4 million of earmarks sponsored or co-sponsored by President Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis; $109 million Hillary Clinton signed on to; and $31.2 million in earmarks sought by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood with colleagues.

(Even Barack Obama was listed as one of the co-sponsors of a $7.7 million pet project for Tribally Controlled Postsecondary Vocational Institutions until he got his name taken off last week.)

And then there are the 16 earmarks worth $8.5 million that Emanuel put into the bill when he was a congressman, including money for streets in Chicago suburbs and a Chicago planetarium.

Blame it on the stars, Rahm, or on old business. But as Shakespeare wrote in “Lear”: “This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune — often the surfeits of our own behavior — we make guilty of our own disasters, the sun, the moon, and the stars.”

SAFE Cesarean?

Can Humanity Survive the Safe Cesarean?
Human beings react differently from other mammals to interference with the birth process. When delivery of non-human mammals is disturbed, the effects are immediate and easily detected. For example, when animals give birth by c-section or with an epidural, the general rule is that the mother is not interested in the baby. Among humans, on the other hand, we need extensive statistics to detect what are mere tendencies and risk factors. These are much more complex in our species: We speak and we create cultural milieux. In certain situations, particularly in the perinatal period, human behavior is less directly under the effects of the hormonal balance than the effects of the cultural milieu. For example, a human mother knows when she is pregnant and can anticipate maternal behavior, while other mammals must wait until the birth when they release a flow of love hormones to kindle their attachment to their newborns.
Today, we understand that to have a baby, a woman—like any other mammal—has been programmed to release a cocktail of love hormones. Today the number of women who actually "give birth" to babies and placentas thanks to this hormonal release is ever-decreasing. First, because many women give by birth by cesarean. Second, most of those who give birth vaginally receive pharmacological interventions. Unfortunately substitutes block the release of the natural hormones and do not create the same behavioural benefits. We have to wonder what will happen, in terms of civilization, if this trend continues in future generations. Can humanity survive the safe cesarean?
— Michel OdentExcerpted from "The Future of Obstetric Technology," Midwifery Today, Issue 85

Do you know who is getting your money?

I discovered this website http://www.nglcc.org/corporate/partners this is the National Gay Lesbian Chamber of Commerce. This is a list of companies that PUSH the homosexual agenda.

If you are not interested in PUSHING the Homosexual agenda, look to see if your bank, realtor, restaurant, hotel, etc is listed. You will be surprised!

I don't think a depression would be so bad...

I have been thinking... My Grandmother lived through the depression. She used items until they were not good for anything.

I have been comparing people's trash containers. We have two neighbors that are stark contrasts. Which has got me thinking. An older couple, they do not have ANY trash pickup. They recycle or reuse or compost all their "trash". Then we have three college students that have their trash receptacle full for pick up, which can be twice a week. Then us, we could have pick up once every two weeks.

Are we just such a throw a way society that we don't save our money or are things?

This is what has got me thinking... maybe a depression would force our society to save. I have heard stories: of mothers giving haircuts and saving the hair for pillows or quilts, etc.

Maybe a depression would help us appreciate what we have and cherish it?

The High Cost of Immorality

So, I've been thinking lately about the cost of living in the U.S. today - particularly about how we have so many drags on our economy both directly from immoral and irresponsible behavior (of both corporations and individuals) and from the high cost of the resultant government oversight.

 

For instance, I was recently discussing with a contractor friend of mine the invasive nature of litigation in the construction field. He related to me that for every project he begins, government regulations require him to procure insurance to ensure that his subcontractors get paid if he fails to pay them. (Apparently this is a BIG issue in contracting; subcontractors are often fighting with general contractors over how much they were supposed to get paid and whether they actually got paid). This insurance costs $3,500.00 a job. After about 4 years of acting as a general contractor, my friend has never needed this insurance because he is always honest, upfront, fair, and well managed. Despite this fact, he has still spent a few tens of thousands of dollars on insurance that he has never needed, but the government still requires.

 

Of course, that may not be the best example because other factors besides general contractor unscrupulousness may play into the government's decision to require such insurance, but I think it at least illustrates the point.

 

Anyway, this conversation got me to thinking about the high economic cost of immorality in America today, and I'm curious. If you have any suggestions or ideas of specific ways in which immorality has or is costing us money here in America, please post those ideas here. I'm taking a collection, so to speak...

Profound insight from a 12 year old!

Louisa takes just one class at school every other day, at my insistance. She loves homeschool and we have a great time learning together, but since she is my last child, I wrestle with the notion that she needs to get out of the house and go to school a little bit. Louisa has described to me her "take" on what makes for popularity in junior high school. She thinks she knows how to be "in", but it wouldn't be a very comfy fit for her, she feels. As she sees it, the requirements include dressing trendy and fashionably, being disinterested in learning, being immodest, and acting catty and "butt-sy" (pushy), acting disrespectful of teachers, showing a big interest in boys and sex and doing a lot of outrageous and unlady-like flirting, saying you hate school, texting your friends all through class without letting the teacher see, talking critically of parents, breaking rules whenever possible, treating your siblings like enemies, not being too smart, and being so saturated in the popular music and PG-13 movies of the current teen culture that you can easily recite movie lines. This is how she feels she would have to act to be well accepted and popular in our current world, outside of her circle of homeschooled friends.

the whole article can be read at: http://dianehopkins.blogspot.com/

More of the financial crisis!

You can read the whole article on: http://www.newsmax.com/ruddy/obama_recession_economics/2008/11/30/156592.html

"Knowing as we do that the housing bust was propelled by adjustable rate mortgages, which were nothing more than marketing gimmicks tricking consumers into mortgages they could never afford when they readjusted, they should have been banned. "

We are God's children!

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26942419/
Michelle Duggar is 42. She has two sets of twins and has been pregnant for 12 years of her life. Curry asked her if 18 are enough.
“We would love more,’’ Michelle said. “We really believe that each child is a gift from God. We would love to receive more gifts if the Lord sees fit. I guess we’ll just wait and see.”

I have not seen the "reality" show of their family... but I love how she speaks of "children as a gift of God" in this article. That is sooooooooo true.

We will have as many as the Lord will give us too. : )

Please! May we have the right to vote without fear!

The Christian Post — Chuck Colson: So Much for Tolerance
“Two days after the election, 2,000 homosexual protesters surrounded a Mormon temple in Los Angeles chanting ‘Mormon scum.’ Protesters picketed Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church, holding signs reading ‘Purpose-Driven Hate.’ Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills was spray painted. Church members’ cars have been vandalized, and at least two Christians were assaulted. Protesters even hurled racial epithets at African-Americans because African-Americans voted overwhelmingly in favor of traditional marriage. What hypocrisy from those who spend all of their time preaching tolerance to the rest of us!”

I have not seen all the ugliness that has been directed to people of Christian background, we do not have cable, but seeing all these hateful articles is disturbing! If I lived in CA, which I wanted to do at one point in time, I would move somewhere else! Why live in a place where you would live in fear because of your religion...

Here is the link if you wanted to see more articles... http://newsroom.lds.org/ldsnewsroom/eng/news-releases-stories/measured-voices-provide-reason-support-amidst-proposition-8-reaction

May I have my Country Back Please?

The latest word from DC is that Speaker Nancy Pelosi and many other prominent Democrats are asking Henry Paulson to carve $25 Billion out of the recent financial industry bailout package and loan it to the Auto Industry in an effort to “save” the industry. http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/12/congress.automakers/index.html?iref=topnews This, of course, is in addition to the $25 Billion loan package already approved of by Congress. Of course, these loans will mean that the government will also now have equity in the U.S. Auto Industry.

Anybody else see a problem with this?

I’m wondering if I’ll ever get to see my share of those dividends, or if the new administration will decide who needs those dividends the most and funnel them in that direction? Who knows, maybe if we play our cards right, by the end of the next 4 years we can just sell everything to ourselves, er, our government. That way, we can always print more money, nothing will ever fail, the government can make all those hard decisions like what businesses are worth maintaining, how much of that money I’m entitled to, how much I get to retire on, what products should be produced, how much toilet paper my family is allotted every month, which doctor I get to see… We’ll never have to worry about inflation, deflation, or anything crazy like that. We can just ignore that disgusting old demand curve and enjoy the flatness of government funded, government directed mediocrity.

Frankly, it’s more than a little scary to me that our government has recently passed a $700 Billion Financial Industry Bailout package that apparently gives the Treasury Secretary power to loan U.S. taxpayer dollars DIRECTLY FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT to any private entity he sees fit.

I’m not totally naïve about how things work in government. I get, and am frankly appalled at, the expansive power the executive branch has assumed through, inter alia, this wonderfully unconstitutional creature we call the administrative agency (and I also get that the US Supreme Court has said that they are constitutional – so what? It wasn’t the first “pragmatic,” extraconstitutional ruling by the Court – and it’s guaranteed not to be the last), but if Paulson really has this kind of power, that is a reach that takes uncabined administrative power to a whole new level.

What ever happened to minor government intrusion in the economy, giving American entrepreneurial spirits free rein to find success and enjoy the fruits of their success, and letting failed business fail because they aren’t economically viable? President Elect, Barack Obama, supports giving aid to the Auto Industry because it is the “backbone” of the U.S. economy. If that industry is failing it is only because it is NO LONGER ECONOMICALLY VIABLE. If it is no longer economically viable, then what good is it to our economy??? If it is no longer economically viable then perhaps what we need is a new backbone. Memo to Congress and the incoming administration: LET IT DIE!

I ask, whatever happened to having faith in American ingenuity to rise to a challenge, to survive and to create the next best thing? IMHO, politicians in this country have become so afraid of losing power that they are willing to sap away the strength of this great country by coddling its every special interest at every turn. Our government is no longer a government by the people, for the people, but instead has become the people’s doting nursemaid, willing to continually incubate future weakness because it is unwilling to endure present pain. Let the auto-industry die and many will suffer in the short term, but in a few short years, a new, strong, and independent industry will rise from the ashes as a true contributor to the American Economy, and not another leach on the American people’s wallet, sucking money into a government hierarchy where it is redistributed as an increasingly socialistic institution sees fit. Prop it up now with government equity and it may well survive and eventually become strong, but never independent, never as strong and as real as it could be, and the message will continue to ring true to the American Conglomerate – you need not be strong enough to survive in today’s American economy, as long as you are big enough that the government is afraid to let you die.

I did not live in the Great Depression, and I would never wish pain on any one individual, but I personally don’t think this country will ever get anything but weaker, morally, economically, and socially until we finally collectively remove our own diapers and training wheels and kindly inform our government that we are big enough to handle our own messes and our own scratches and even broken bones, thank you very much, and if doing that results in another Great Depression, then so be it. Maybe then we would learn once more to work together as a people in our own families, community’s, cities and even states. Maybe then we would learn once more as a people what things are really important, what it means to sacrifice and what it means to be strong and independent. Maybe then we would begin to remember God and finally start to realize that so many of our problems in society would finally be resolved if instead of creating more government oversight and intervention, we created greater spiritual insight and principled foundations in our own lives and in our children. Maybe then we would finally begin to realize that it isn’t our government and our schools that have left our children behind; it is we who have left our children behind. Maybe then we could get back to living as Americans, instead of begging for another shot of federal painkiller just before we get our next tube feeding and the doctor, er, Federal Government, finally shoves the breathing tube down our lifeless throat and turns on the machine.

As the fiery Patrick Henry infamously decreed: “Give me liberty, or give me death!”

Somebody pull the plug. I want my country back.

Right on the Button

I don’t forward things like this around too much, but Ron Paul’s article hits it right on the button.

 

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/11/paul.republican/index.html?iref=werecommend

 

 

The core of what he is espousing is exactly what has bothered me for the last decade in politics and especially throughout this last election. We have placed so much power in the Federal Government, especially the Executive Branch, and have such high expectations for government to fix everything that our government is rapidly ceasing to become the protector of our liberties and is instead becoming a national directorate. Instead of protecting our right to achieve our own success we are creating and expecting a government that will prevent everyone’s failure.

 

Enough of my soap box. The article is dead on. I hope you enjoy it.

 

A good idea!

The Father's Home Birth Handbook is a groundbreaking new resource for fathers-to-be and the professionals who support them. Thorough research is balanced with stories from home-birthing men around the world, making this an essential addition to your lending library, and a wonderful holiday gift for clients and friends.
Available only at: www.homebirthbook.com

I have not read this yet... but I really like the idea. : )

Politics are like Chess

Obama visited Indiana 57 times since March 2008. Indiana was known as a Republican state. Obama had placed 40 or 50 some headquarters in Indiana. Strategically placing himself.

Politics is a chess game. Those that get the media on their side and "attack" those states that are dominately the other party... will win.

Even when I voted today, there was "electioneering" for Obama. Not legal!

No Wonder I Homeschool Our Children!

I am appalled! I have been researching candidates to make sure I make an informed decision in voting November 4th... Well what an eye opener! I have discovered all kinds of personal agendas, mostly the homosexual kind. I believe in a marriage between one man and one woman, no other! And then strict fidelity within that marriage.

Here is a excerpt from http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2005/04/17/local/doc42619c80c2118508533264.txt
My commentary is in black, the article is in dark green.

"Donations are big issue in District 3 race

LEA-PAC co-chairwomen Chelli Olsen and Connie Duncan said (Barb) Baier impressed the screening committee with her knowledge of the needs and concerns for families and children in District 3. The screening committee liked that she had experience working with a diverse population and "understands the challenges and opportunities faced daily by teachers and parents."

Sounds impressive doesn't it? Guess where she got her funds from?

...the Victory Fund requires of candidates it supports. The agreement ensures the candidate will send all campaign literature and press releases to a Victory Fund liaison, communicate about campaign strategy and fund-raising, share the cost of mailings done by the Victory Fund for the campaign, send thank-you letters to donors and help with fund-raising for the organization.

Outside of the signed agreement, the organization also asks candidates to:

n Be openly gay or lesbian.

n Demonstrate they are viable candidates.

n Endorse federal gay/lesbian civil rights legislation and similar state and local antidiscrimination laws or legislation.

n Advocate for aggressive policies and positions relevant to HIV/AIDS research, education and treatment; gay and lesbian health and wellness; and women's reproductive freedom."

This woman is in the State Board of Education, District 3. She seems impressive, but the "agenda" she now "has" to represent because of the money she recieved, is NOT IMPRESSIVE!

BE CAREFUL WHO YOU VOTE FOR! DOES MONEY BUY THEM?

We are the cause for the Financial problems!

I have been thinking about the passed recent bailout in the Senate. Which I am not pleased by! Anyway... In the scriptures in mentions all the time of how people would get prideful and then have a social hierarchy and then not take care of each other and forget God. Then what happened??? Of course all of the following: pestilence, murder, famine, plagues, flying fiery serpents, and the list can go on. We have forgotten the Lord in our schools, in our every day life, in politics, etc.

I want to share an experience that happened while talking on the phone with a customer service representative of a corporation we had dealings with. While we were talking about "business" I had excused myself from our conversation to mention something to my child. I told my child that we would read scriptures after I was done with my phone conversation. The woman on the line whispered, "I am glad you read scriptures with your family. Because of my work environment I cannot say that too loud." paraphrased

Good Grief! What have we succumbed to? When we cannot even mention our belief in God?

So how does this relate to the bailout? We have become a people that are prideful! Our wants have become our needs, and we just cannot live without. So now our Government has taken it upon themselves to "fix" everything! It is not a fix! It is a bandaid on a leaking sore. The bandaid will not stay affixed! Finally and I think the most important, we have forgotten Heavenly Father.

Quote of the day...

“This is a huge cow patty with a piece of marshmallow stuck in the middle of it and I am not going to eat that cow patty,” said Representative Paul Broun, Republican of Georgia. - referring to yesterday's proposed bailout package

 

What does the Book of Mormon have to do with Granola Forever?

You may have noticed (if you are even reading this) that we recently added the Book of Mormon to our recommended reading list.

 

While this may appear to have nothing in common with pregnancy, birth, life, etc (like the Brett Farve post did, anyway...), the fact of the matter is that it has everything in common with all of these things.

 

Regardless of whether you are pregnant, already raising kids, just thinking about it, or just living your life, this book is the best written guide in existence, bar none.

 

It has changed my life, and it guides me and my family on a daily basis. It holds the answer to every situation, including every difficult child raising situation. I often here people say that they wish children came with a manual. Well, this is it.

 

Taken from the introduction: "[the Book of Mormon] tells men [and women] what they must do to gain peace in this life and eternal salvation in the life to come."

 

I know that is true because I have lived and am living it. If you haven't already, try it for yourself. It will change your life.

 

Enjoy,

 

 

You know you're in the midwest when...

you dry off after taking a shower, but you don't feel like you dried off...