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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.











Friday, January 25, 2013

Chambliss bowing out- Good! ... Tea Party effect

Chambliss Bowing Out After Two Terms in Senate

Friday, 25 Jan 2013 01:12 PM
By Lisa Barron
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Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, who angered the tea party by voting in favor of the fiscal cliff deal, is expected to announce that he will not seek re-election to a third term, according to a congressional aide who spoke with the Associated Press.

Chambliss was one of the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Six” working to reach a deficit reduction compromise. The group’s plan for a mix of tax increases and spending cuts did not gain enough support from senators in both parties to succeed.

Chambliss was elected to the House of Representatives in 1994 and became a senator in 2002 after defeating Democratic incumbent Max Cleland, a Vietnam War veteran and triple amputee, in a bitter campaign.

When asked about his plans for 2014 during an interview with Newsmax earlier this week, Chambliss offered no direct indication that he planned to leave office at the end of his second term. But he said, "I’m going through the same process I go through before every re-election cycle and look at the reasons why and why not. I’ve done this every time I’ve been up for re-election and I’ll continue to do that."

Chambliss set off threats of a tea party primary challenge with his efforts to reach a bipartisan compromise on controversial budget issues, which included a call for tax rate increases on the wealthy. Tea Party Express Chairwoman Amy Kremer delivered on those threats in a CNN interview on Jan. 3.

“I can tell you I live in the state of Georgia and Saxby Chambliss is going to be primaried,” she told CNN. “It’s unacceptable to have somebody who votes with the Democrats more than they do with the conservatives, and he has proven time and time again he’s all about the spending.”

In the Newsmax interview, Chambliss insisted he was not concerned about a challenge from within his own party.

“I don’t worry about that," he said. "What I do worry about is doing my job and doing what the people in my state want me to do, and that is to come to Washington to make the hard and tough decisions that, frankly, some of these people who are mentioned as running against me, obviously, have not been willing to make.”

Among those who have expressed an interest in challenging Chambliss are U.S. Reps. Tom Price and Paul Broun, both Republican doctors.

Conservative blogger Erick Erickson also has threatened to mount a primary challenge. After Chambliss dismissed concerns about violating Grover Norquist’s anti-tax pledge, Erickson, a Georgia native, told CNN, "Back in December of 2008, I wrote that Chambliss found himself in a runoff because he sided with every bad compromise from immigration to energy, to the farm bill to the bailouts.”


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obama's "Organizing for Action

Obama’s New Nonprofit Courts Big Liberal Donors

Friday, 25 Jan 2013 10:54 AM
By Lisa Barron
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President Barack Obama has apparently had an about face in his thinking about the influence of large corporations in American politics as he moves to create a nonprofit outreach group with links to special interests.

Within days of his second inauguration, Obama's new political group, Organizing for Action, began seeking corporate backing and establishing ties with big-money, liberal organizations, according to a report Friday in Politico.

From the first, the group has closely affiliated itself with organizations funded by liberal mega-donors like currency titan George Soros, who has given millions over the years to websites like MoveOn.org that target Fox News and conservative candidates.

The tax-exempt, nonprofit grew out of Obama’s presidential campaign operation and has the express purpose of promoting his second-term agenda and advocating on key issues such as gun control and immigration.

The president’s 2012 campaign manager, Jim Messina, will serve as the nonprofit's national chairman, while former White House aide Jon Carson will be its executive director, Politico reported.

Obama initially declared that Organizing for America would be funded by grassroots activists, but none were in attendance at the invitation-only unveiling of the group at the Newseum on Saturday. The “Road Ahead” meeting, as it was called, was sponsored by Business Forward, a trade association allied with the White House. Business Forward is funded by major corporations including Microsoft, Walmart, and PG&E, all of whom were represented at the event by senior executives.

Messina and Carson pleaded with the guests to support the outreach effort, according to a Politico reporter who attended the event.

“We need you. This president needs you,” said Messina, adding that the organization is “building a national advisory board filled with people in this room.” Carson told the donors, “There’s going to be a place for each and every one of you.”

In response to the meeting, Fred Wertheimer, head of the political watchdog group Democracy 21, issued a statement saying, “President Obama has set out on a dangerous and unprecedented path as he begins his second term in office. The new organization has the stated purpose of advocating the President’s agenda and will accept unlimited contributions from corporations and individuals to pursue this goal.”

“As far as I know, this is the first time a President has outsourced an important responsibility of his presidency to a private sector organization that is financed by unlimited private funds and that is, in effect, operating as an arm of the presidency,” he continued.

“In taking this step, the President has opted for the ends justify the means approach that is fraught with danger. It opens the door to opportunities for government corruption, by allowing corporations and individuals to provide unlimited amounts of money to directly benefit the President’s interests and potentially to receive government benefits and favors in return.”

Added Wertheimer, “This would take President Obama about as far away as he could possibly get from the goal he set in 2008 to “change the way business is done in Washington.” He urged Obama to immediately shut down Organizing for Action.

As for the grassroots activists shut out of the unveiling on Saturday, they were allowed to attend an open meeting at the Washington Hilton on Sunday called the “Obama Campaign Legacy Conference." Carson told reporters that Organizing for America would “absolutely” be funded mostly by grassroots donors like those Obama highlighted in his campaign.



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Customer Service ... Thanks Tom and Carolyn L.!









On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Tom and Carolyn L wrote:
> I think this is interesting.  Our computer would not connect to the internet
> - we could still get our EMails, etc but it worried us so I called Microsoft
> yesterday at about 3PM and hung up at 7:30.  This young man said it was all
> fixed, but when I turned it back on the same message was still there--guess
> where was, the Phillipines.  I called back  and got someone that I couldn't
> understand but finally figured he was someplace in Latin America. It was
> about 11PM by then and I had waited for someone to help me for about an hour
> so I hung up and called again today.  Very nice lady who did help me after
> about 2 hours and she was in Costa Rico.  I had to give the first young man
> in the Phillipines my credit information and he asked unusual  things and
> the way things are todayI called my credit card company to ask her to let us
> know if there were any unusual charges and............she was in India.
> Wouldn't you think somebody in the United States is smart enough to take
> care of a small problem?  Also I had talked to the man in the Phillipines
> about hour or two when he asked me if I knew where Mound Park was - it
> shocked me but I said yes and he said he had a friend that lived on Robinson
> Ave.  Might be a facebook friend or something but as I said the way the
> world is and you can call up a map and it will show you exactly where our
> house is even to someone in the Phillipines, it makes us uneasy.


Sam Kegley
5:39 PM (1 minute ago)

to Tom
That is customer service today T & C.  The yuppies are paying
attention to only two
 of the four things customers are interested in 1.) Price, 2.)
Delivery, 3. Quality, and 4.) Service.  You can get price and delivery
at Walmart or a desirable store, assuming you have quality.  If later
quality isn't there and you seek service, just hike over to the
Phillipines or India or Brazil.    The telephone takes no less than a
few hours or days to get absolutely nowhere.

Then there are the secular progressives here in America guiding our
government.

Thank heaven our God is still in control.


Sam, I really had a good laugh with this one and the one before on your experience with custom
service.  Yea even our banks here in VA  use people in India and other countries to do their
accounting booking keeping. When someone calls regarding their bank statement, you get
a person in India, or some other country where you cannot understand a word he/she is saying.
Very sad.  Then we American's cannot get jobs!!  Why, USA is giving them to all these foreigners
and we cannot understand anything they say.  I know, I have problems with the two banks I use
here in Alexandria.  I have to go in person so I can see who I am talking to. I never understand
them over the phone.    So your customer service situation is really the God's truth in today's servicing thepublic.
Marge    1/25/13  11;00pm

Shampooing n the shower ... Thanks T. & C.!

Shampooing in the shower...be sure and read this one!




this is the first bit of good advice I've had all year!  I'm going to start today......xox

Don't wash your hair in the shower! 
It's so good to finally get a health warning that is useful!!! 
INVOLVES THE SHAMPOO WHEN IT RUNS DOWN YOUR BODY WHEN YOU SHOWER WITH IT. WARNING TO US ALL!!! 

Shampoo Warning! 
I don't know WHY I didn't figure this out sooner! 
I use shampoo in the shower! 
When I wash my hair, the shampoo runs down my whole body, and printed very 
Clearly on the shampoo label is this warning, "FOR EXTRA BODY AND VOLUME." 
No wonder I have been gaining weight! 

Well! I got rid of that shampoo and I am going to start showering with Dawn dishwashing soap instead. Its label reads, 

"DISSOLVES FAT THAT IS OTHERWISE DIFFICULT TO REMOVE." 

Problem solved! 

Surely not for me ... Thanks Judi, I think!



I think this was intended for you. Sent to me in error !!! J


 

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