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For Christian American readers of this blog:


I wish to incite all Christians to rise up and take back the United States of America with all of God's manifold blessings. We want the free allowance of the Bible and prayers allowed again in schools, halls of justice, and all governing bodies. We don't seek a theocracy until Jesus returns to earth because all men are weak and power corrupts the very best of them.
We want to be a kinder and gentler people without slavery or condescension to any.

The world seems to be in a time of discontent among the populace. Christians should not fear. God is Love, shown best through Jesus Christ. God is still in control. All Glory to our Creator and to our God!


A favorite quote from my good friend, Jack Plymale, which I appreciate:

"Wars are planned by old men,in council rooms apart. They plan for greater armament, they map the battle chart, but: where sightless eyes stare out, beyond life's vanished joys, I've noticed,somehow, all the dead and mamed are hardly more than boys(Grantland Rice per our mutual friend, Sarah Rapp)."

Thanks Jack!

I must admit that I do not check authenticity of my posts. If anyone can tell me of a non-biased arbitrator, I will attempt to do so more regularly. I know of no such arbitrator for the internet.











Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Bringing Christians back to church


Bringing Christians back to church
church members singing bigAs National Back to Church Sunday approaches, supporters hope to bring wayward believers back to the pews.

The campaign, scheduled this year for September 8, aims to energize Christians to contact people they have not seen in church and invite them to return. Philip Nation, national spokesperson for National Back to Church Sunday, points to the event website, as it makes available different resources to promote the event.

"This year, one of the funny things that has arisen is the pastor rap video," he notes. "It's kind of a viral video that was created that people can share in social media in order just to pique the interest of their friends about what's going on at their churches."

Philip NationChurches can log into the registry to become part of the event, which hopes to attract 10,000 or more online supporters to help publicize participation.

"Also there [are] all sorts of resources," Nation adds. "Everything from the mailers that you'd want to use to send out to your community, to door hanger cards, to bulletin inserts, and there [are] even some sermon helps and some PowerPoint templates and other videos that are there to help church leaders engage their members in National Back to Church Sunday."

The spokesperson says that there are too many empty pews in churches today.

"There are too many believers who have bought into the Chicken Little idea that the sky is falling and nobody wants to come back to church," he offers. "In reality, what we see is that the majority of people are interested to find out about your church, if you'll invite them."

Nation asserts that the personal touch is what gets people to walk through the church doors again on Sundays.

Ryan no liability and debates need of reformatting

From Today's Columbus Dispatch:
TUESDAY, AUGUST 21, 2012 03:11 AM
Mitt Romney’s selection of Paul Ryan was supposed to be a problem for the Republicans. So said a chorus of chortling Democrats. So said a gaggle of anonymous seasoned Republican operatives. All of which was echoed gleefully by mainstream media.

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The deaf Italian Bookkeeper ... thanks Judi C.!


The Deaf Italian Bookkeeper
A Mafia Godfather finds out that his bookkeeper, Guido, has cheated
him out of $10,000,000. His bookkeeper is deaf. That was the reason he
got the job in the first place. It was assumed that Guido would hear
nothing so he would never have to testify in court. When the Godfather
goes to confront Guido about his missing $10 million, he takes along
his lawyer who knows sign language. The Godfather tells the lawyer,
"Ask him where's the money? The lawyer, using sign language, asks
Guido where's the money?. Guido signs back, "I don't know what you are
talking about." The lawyer tells the Godfather, "He says he doesn't
know what you're talking about." The Godfather pulls out a pistol,
puts it to Guido's temple and says, "Ask him again!" The lawyer signs to Guido, "He'll kill you if you don't tell him.."
Guido signs back, "OK.!!!! You win! The money is in a brown briefcase,
buried behind the shed at my cousin Bruno's house." The Godfather asks
the lawyer, "What did he say?" The lawyer replies, " He says you don't
have the balls to pull the trigger."
Don't you just love lawyers ...

Dancing with a wounded warrior ... thanks Ramey H.!



Don’t expect to see this on the elite media outlets. If it were Obama dancing with a wounded warrior, it would be plastered all over the evening news. But Obama is too busy trashing and demonizing Romney and Ryan to do anything nice for a wounded soldier.
I doubt we will ever see a story like this on the news.

Energy is neither created nor destroyed- Nor Government agencies



One minute clip--you won't believe it.
No matter what you think of Glenn Beck, you should watch this.

He is just the messenger here.

There is no commentary. It's only one minute long.

And we wonder why OUR government is out of control!


FDR, JFK,BHO, ?,?,?



FDR, JFK, BHO, WTF?


“We’ve tried it the Republican way, and it has failed”.
Ah, Proglodytes. They always manage to step up and make it easy. I now know why Al Franken wanted to expand government control of the web. Any doofus with a search engine can take the government’s argument apart in a matter of seconds. I mean, earlier this week a famous Constitutional Law professor actually forgot Marbury v. Madison! Ladies and Gentlemen, I am proud to be that doofus.  This week’s little gem came courtesy of the highest office in the land, inhabited by one of the lowest men to ever hold its title. I could not find the exact quote, since it was buried somewhere in the hackneyed rhetoric about taking health care away from weather balloons or some such stuff. (Stuff in this article, even if it is a hyperlink, is a euphemism for what Rick Santorum said the Mainstream Media is constantly guilty of. Yes liberals, congratulations, you found the coded language.)
But the passage, and message, that I want to focus on goes something like this, and stop me if you’ve heard it before: “We’ve tried it your way before, and it didn’t work.” I actually stopped myself in the middle of that phrase because The Baracken Record has said it many times. In fact, he is so good at loading the same speech on the teleprompter that RNC actually finally had the guts to call him on his “recycling”. But I digress. Here’s the President saying something very similar to what he said on Monday and Tuesday back in 2010:
And just to make sure we didn’t forget what he was trying to do, the Imperial Scribes at the L.A. Times actually wrote this on March 30th:
Framing the November election as a defining moment for the middle class, President Obama said voters would have a choice between his policies and Republicans’ “you’re-on-your-own economics” as he sought to energize his most devoted supporters after a deflating week.
In a pair of campaign speeches to supporters, Obama cast the Republican Party as controlled by its most conservative wing and described his own policies as driven by American values.
“You know, if you’re out of work, can’t find a job, tough luck; you’re on your own. If you don’t have healthcare, that’s your problem; you’re on your own. If you’re born into poverty, lift yourself up out of your own — with your own bootstraps, even if you don’t have boots; you’re on your own,” Obama said in remarks before a cheering crowd in Burlington, Vt. “Hey, they believe that’s how America has advanced. That’s the cramped, narrow conception they have of liberty.”
If I weren’t so offended, I’d be amused. So the theme he’s going to run on is the idea that America has tried it the conservative, liberty-driven, free market way, and it failed miserably? Let me decode this for you, as if you couldn’t for yourself, if you’ll permit me. Barack Obama’s re-election message is going to be that it was all George W. Bush’s fault, and Mitt Romney is just another George W. Bush. It’s bigger than that, of course. But to his base, and to the media, (but I repeat myself) the marching orders are out. Already, the comparisons are beginning to trickle down (tee hee), and this one comes from Zbigniew Brzezinksi, a man whom I am convinced was named by Klingons.
But there are two major problems with President Obama’s assertions, and they are not only major, they are 180 degrees out-of-phase with history. First, there were many things George W. Bush did that conservatives didn’t like, such as Medicare part D, No Child Left Behind, signing McCain-Feingold, a pseudo-amnesty proposal, going to war without a declaration, and running up massive debts and deficits. But worse than that is President Obama’s perpetuation of many of these very same policies. Don’t bash Bush when you are a Super Dubya, and far worse on character and love of country. The second is the 
fallacy
 outright lie that we have tried free markets and deregulation. This is so disgusting on so many levels, my brain actually struggles to contain it all. Please pardon the following run on sentence: It isn’t just the false idea that we are under regulated, it is also the truth that the increases in the governemnt deficit spending under this man’s administration are such that the real inflation rate is 8% and the printing of fiat currency is driving down consumer spending power so rapidly that pretty soon the entire middle class will be so safely concealed below the poverty line, the President won’t have to worry about who believes his stuff.
The Super Dubya explanation is pretty easy. Well, a more accurate description would be Bizarro Dubya. (Please note, I have plenty of respect for President Bush, I am using Dubya to mock the left, not to demean the man). All the powers of President Bush, but twisted and evil. Afghanistan? Don’t worry, after surging the troops, President Obama calmed down the post Koran-burning situation with his words. A recurring theme of this administration is, “it could have been worse”, but that’s a subject for another post. Iraq? Not done there yet, but let’s make sure not to invite George W. Bush to the victory celebration. Medicare? I see your Medicare, and I raise you Obamacare! Amnesty? He’ll do that through the DOJ, no problem. War without a declaration? Illegal, unless his campaign is looking for the Qadaffi bump. Deficits? Hello? Anybody? Bueller?
But next we have the coup de grace. The campaign message is going to be that we’ve tried it Bush’s way, and it failed. Remember, for their purposes, Republicans = Bush = Rush Limbaugh = Racists = Rich White People. This one is a whopper. First of all, let’s get something out of the way. The definition of a free market (from investorwords.com, an online investment glossary) is as follows:
1. Business  governed by the laws of supply  and demand, not restrained by government  interference, regulation or subsidy.
2. A foreign  exchange market that is not controlled by the government.
3. A security with  sufficient liquidity that its price is not  significantly affected by availability.
Let’s look at that first one. Can you think of a single industry that truly fits that bill? Even the internet benefited from subsidies! That’s why Al Gore took credit for it, and that’s why Franken wants control over it. They think its theirs, plain and simple. Oil companies get subsidies. Money flows into our health care markets at a geometric rate, not to pay doctors, but to pay administrators. And while we cannot put a specific date on man’s first idea to let government penetrate the market, and penetrate is a fantastic word, we can point out a very specific timeframe when this behavior became so codified and second nature: The New Deal.  So with that in mind, I would like to direct you to a list, located here. The list is from a website called FDR heritage, so you know it is unbiased. Did you notice anything about that list? Did you notice how closely the list parallels the achievements of this President, this administration, and the stimulus? Here are some of the more glaring examples: FDR created the FDIC and the SEC, President Obama says they are not enough and creates the CFPB and signs Dodd-Frank. FDR creates The Civil Works Administration (CWA), Public Works Administration (PWA), Works Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA). How many times did we hear “shovel-ready”, “infrastructure jobs”, ”job retraining”, and “investing in green energy”?  I mean, even FDR’s own website has to admit in the margins that some of these programs were failures! And the others? Well, FDR created a homeowners loan assistance program, which nobody has ever proposed again. He also created the NLRB, which has done great things for the people of South Carolina and America. He also created Social Security, and as was intended, died before he could collect any benefits. Oh, that’s not what it was meant to do? Then how the hell were they supposed to keep it solvent? Since sharper minds than mine have done great research on these exact failures, I now defer to my favorite economist of all time, not once, but thrice.
Pretty amazing, huh? Wait, it gets better.
Wow. Just. Wow.
Amazing. The period in which man enjoyed the most freedom was the latter part of the 19th, and earlier part of the 20th century. You know, the Old Deal. Mr. President, your argument is invalid. You said when you got elected that we had tried it the Republicans way for eight years, and it failed. Stuff.
The truth is, we’ve tried it your way for the past 80 years, and it has failed us all, collectively.

Joseph Kurt is an individual, and is damn certain of his societal responsibilities.

Amazing fish story in Ohio ... thanks Judi C.!



Amen to this!


Subject: Amazing Story...and true!
A Fish Story.........
This is true!

A guy who lives at Lake Saint Marys

(60 miles north of Dayton , OH ) saw a ball bouncing

around kind of strange in the lake and went to

investigate.

It turned out to be a flathead catfish that had

apparently tried to swallow a basketball which

became stuck in its mouth!!


The fish was totally exhausted from trying to

dive, but unable to, because the ball would

always bring him back up to the surface.


The guy tried numerous times to get the ball out,

but was unsuccessful. He finally had his wife cut

the ball in order to deflate it and release the hungry

catfish.


You probably wouldn't have believed this,

if you hadn't seen the following pictures:







Be kinder than necessary
because everyone bites off
more than they can chew
sometime in life...
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