Dec. 28, 2008 at 19:53
by BrendaBee
Doug Giles is a preacher I could enjoy listening to. I certainly enjoyed reading this article where he gives his readers 7 guide lines for surviving the current or any other crisis in their lives. He used straight down to earth nitty gritty language about serious things, not the rice cereal of infants first solid food language churches have spoon fed us for several decades now. We have lived on rice cereal for far too many years and it has produced a couple rice cereal generations.
Giles points out that "God’s not in the least bit interested in your carnal comfort but in His crafted character reflected in your life. Y’know . . . who you are at your core, who you are when no one sees, the habits of your heart,.....:" When was the last time anyone, preacher or otherwise, looked you in the eye and called what you are espousing bullshit and challenged you to look deeply into yourself for what you really believe? Actions, not words reveal the character and beliefs of an individual!
Giles rightly informs us that this is exactly what God does. So if you are running around spouting ideas that you do not yourself believe you are certainly in for a behind the woodshed lesson when the moment of truth arrives. Or as Giles says, "I learned at an early age that cow crap helps make plants grow. God allowing the poop to hit the fan in our lives is the only way to produce the fruit He likes."
This brought to mind all the people out there crying about the poor and needy and advocating for more government handouts and universal health care and that all people are entitled to all the perks and bennies far beyond the "life, liberty and PURSUIT of happiness" our forefathers thought of as the only necessities of any people who were proud and self reliant new Americans. It also reminded me that these same people in studies have been found to be the very ones who are cheap when giving their own earnings to charity, or their own time to the needy.
A good article that I highly recommend to anyone. If nothing else you may get a chuckle out of his non-preacher-like language.
Saturday, December 27, 2008
If You’re Going Through Hell, Keep Going
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Dec. 26, 2008 at 16:16
by BrendaBee
This really is a must read for everyone, but especially those of you who are supporting the so-called Employee Free Choice Act which would take away the free choice and protections of employees by taking away the secret ballot when voting for or against a union. The vote would be an open signature on a card leaving those who don't sign the card to the bad manners of those who want them to sign the card for a union. Funny that back when the unions were being organized in the 1930 to 1950 era it was the companies who wanted the votes for a union to be "open". The workers and the unions demanded a secret ballot so the companies could not "intimidate" workers into not voting for a union. Now the unions are falling out of favor with workers and union membership is very low it is the unions who want the right and privilege of intimidating workers!
The Democrats in Congress who have been generously funded by the hoodlums who own the unions and the workers union dues during their 2006 and 2008 campaigns are backing this bill. The newly Obama appointed Labor Secretary is all for it too having gotten her fair share of union workers dollars. So unless the Republicans can filibuster in Congress it is a sure bet to give the mobsters who control the unions control over the American work force and the largest piggy bank in the country with all the union dues they extract from workers. This article however tells you what this newly appointed Labor Secretary wants for herself when her vote is at stake. A case of good enough for me but too good for you! BB
Busted: Obama's New Labor Secretary Demanded Secret Ballot For Herself, But Wants to Take It Away From Workers
American's for Prosperity Blog Friday, December 19th 2008
http://www.americansforprosperity.org/121908-obamas-new-labor-secretary-secret-ballot-me-not-you
" Like most Congressional Democrats, U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis - President-elect Obama's pick to be the next Labor Secretary - is a co-sponsor of the controversial "card check" bill that would essentially do away with the secret ballot for America's working men and women in union elections.
However, it turns out Congresswoman Solis is a big supporter of the secret ballot - but only for herself! Check out this Washington Post report from February 2007, when Solis and three of her colleagues sent a letter to Congressional Hispanic Caucus Chairman Joe Baca protesting the fact that the Caucus' recent election wasn't conducted with secret ballots:
"When Baca was elected, Solis, Sanchez and her sister, Rep. Linda Sanchez (D-Calif.), disputed the election procedure and unsuccessfully pushed for a new vote by secret ballot. They now say they want the governance to be restructured along the lines of the Blue Dog caucus, which disperses power among three co-chairs instead of a single chairman."
According to this article, Solis signed a letter to Baca saying that a secret ballot was necessary to protect the "integrity" of the Caucus election:
"...in a letter to Baca earlier this month, she, her sister, Solis and Velazquez contended the vote did not follow procedure because secret ballot votes were not taken.
"The letter requested a new vote, by secret ballot.
“While this request is not likely to change the results, and while it may seem like a mere formality, it is important that the integrity of the CHC be unquestioned and above reproach,” it said.
Typical. A secret ballot for me, but not for thee!"
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Dec. 24, 2008 at 17:14
by BrendaBee
Christmas Cookie Rules
1. If you eat a Christmas Cookie, fresh out of the oven, it has no calories because everyone knows that the first cookie is the test and thus calorie free.
2. If you drink a diet soda after eating your second cookie, it also has no calories because the diet soda cancels out the cookie calories.
3. If a friend comes over while you are making your Christmas cookies and needs to sample, you must sample with your friend. Because your friend's first cookie is calories free, rule #1, yours is also. It would be rude to let your friend sample alone and being the friend that you are, that makes your cookie calorie free.
4. Any cookie calories consumed while walking aroun d will fall to your feet and eventually fall off as you move. This is due to gravity and the density of the caloric mass.
5. Any calories consumed during the frosting of the Christmas Cookies will be used up because it takes many calories to lick excess frosting from a knife without cutting your tongue.
6. Cookies colored red or green have very few calories. Red ones have 3 and Green ones have 5 - one calorie for each letter. Make more red ones!
7. If you eat cookies while watching "Miracle on 34th Street" these also have no calories because they are part of the entertainment package and not part of one's personal fuel.
8. As always, cookie pieces contain no calories because the process of breaking causes calorie leakage.
9. Any cookies consumed from someone else's plate has no calories since the calories rightfully belong to the other person and will cling to their plate. We all know how calories like to CLING!
And finally...10. Any cookies consumed while feeling stressed has no calories
because cookies used for medicinal purposes NEVER have calories. It's a rule!
Sounds good to me!! there is only one thing: I just got this information this year so next year I am going to be sure to have more friends to share cookies with! You betcha. BB
"Merry Christmas
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Dec. 23, 2008 at 17:28
by BrendaBee
This article is a must read for everyone; both those who supported Obama and those who opposed him. It is vital that we Americans understand fully what he plans and where he wants to take our nation in its relationship with the world. Outlined in this article are treaties that other Presidents and Congresses turned down or outright fought against that as President Obama wants to push thru and make the law of the land. Treaties that will put Americans and American institutions under the control of the United Nations and other world organizations. Organizations where the United States would have only one vote just the same as all other nations.
These treaties can not be allowed to become the law of our land! They are dangerous and will undermine our national sovereignty. Please pay very close attention to everything you read in this article.
Some excerpts to get you started:
http://townhall.com/columnists/PhyllisSchlafly/2008/12/23/obamas_plan_to_rejoin_the_world_community
1) "The U.N. Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), which Ronald Reagan rejected in 1982, is high on Obama's list. LOST has already created the International Seabed Authority (ISA) in Jamaica and given it total regulatory jurisdiction over all the world's oceans and all the riches on the ocean floor.
Corrupt foreign dictators dominate LOST's global bureaucracy, and the United States would have the same vote as Cuba. Likewise for LOST's International Tribunal in Hamburg, Germany, which has the power to decide all disputes.
Even worse, LOST gives the ISA the power to levy international taxes. The real purpose of the taxing power is to compel the United States to spend billions of private-enterprise dollars to mine the ocean floor and then let ISA bureaucrats transfer our wealth to socialist, anti-American nations"
2) "Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, which was signed by Bill Clinton but rejected by the Senate in 1999. It would prohibit all nuclear explosive testing and thereby allow our nuclear arsenal to deteriorate until the American people are defenseless against rogue regimes such as Iran and North Korea"
3) "U.N. Treaty on Women, known as CEDAW. It was signed by Jimmy Carter in 1980 and persistently promoted by Hillary Clinton, but the Senate has so far had the good judgment to refuse to ratify it. This treaty would require us "to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women," to follow U.N. dictates about "family education," to revise our textbooks to conform to feminist ideology in order to ensure "the elimination of any stereotyped concept of the roles of men and women" and to set up a federal "network of child-care facilities."
4) "Another U.N. Treaty on the list is the U.N. Treaty on the Rights of the Child, which was signed in 1995 by Bill Clinton but wisely never ratified by our Senate. ...........
This treaty would give children rights against their parents and society to express their own views "freely in all matters," to receive information of all kinds through "media of the child's choice," to use their "own language," and to have the right to "rest and leisure." This treaty even orders our schools to teach respect for "the Charter of the United Nations."
Please don't take this article's word for what these treaties mean, look them up and really study them yourselves. They are dangerous to us as a nation and to us as individual Americans. Do you really want to give control over your life and things that will affect you and your family to people you have no control over? Ask yourselves this questions and then watch Congress closely and voice your opinion when these treaties come up for discussion. And especially watch for them not to come up for discussion but to be rammed thur under cover of another bill altogether. BB
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Dec. 22, 2008 at 08:08
by BrendaBee
Banks were asked where the bail out money they got from us tax payers has gone. Their answers? Hell no! We won't tell!
Are there any surprises here? I don't think so. Rep. Barnie Frank (House Banking Committee chairman) and Senator Dodd (Senate Finance Committee chairman), House Majority Leader Rep. Nancy Pelosi, Senate Majority Leader Sen. Harry Reid and Democrats in House and Senate, President Bush and Treasury Secretary Paulson all jumped on the soap box to tell the nation the sky was falling in September. The House Republicans stopped the bills passage. Then in early October after much back room bargaining and adding $2 billion in pork spending to the already massive $700 Billion bail out bill the Senate Republicans caved in and joined the "Crisis Crazies" in the biggest scam yet to be perpetuated against American tax payers.
And that was just the beginning as more and more of our great grandchildren's tax dollars were, and are, being poured into the hands of banks, mortgage companies, insurance companies and the lastest, the Big 3 Auto Makers.
Reference my post:
The Debt Goes Up and the Beat Goes On, La De Da De De, La De Da De Da
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Dec. 16, 2008 at 11:47
by BrendaBee
"The receipts are coming in and being added up by numbers crunchers and the picture ain't pretty. Our Congress and President Bush have flashed the tax payers credit card to the tune of $8.7 TRILLION to date. And this is only the beginning because when Obama gets into the action he promises even more gigantic "stimulus packages". We are witnessing a government gone mad with apparently no way to stop them."
So finally some in the national media and our Congress are starting to catch on and ask some questions. Questions that should have been asked by someone, any one!, in the beginning. Questions like: Where is the money going? What are you doing with the money? Show us how the bail out money you were given is helping the economy?
And the answers are all quite the same as given by all those who have been asked to date and typified by this one by Thomas Kelly, a spokesman for JPMorgan Chase, which received $25 billion in emergency bailout money (when he said), "We have not disclosed that to the public. We're declining to."
Read more of the story in detail here if you have the stomach for it. Oh, if you are prone to hypertension or deep depression upon hearing arrogance reported I suggest you take your meds before reading the story below:
Headlines: Where'd the bailout money go? Shhhh, it's a secret
By MATT APUZZO, Associated Press Writer
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081222/ap_on_bi_ge/meltdown_secrets
One more thing to remember: President elect Obama has promised another bail out package of some $850 billion as soon as he takes office. And, the same group of Crisis Crazies mentioned above (minus President Bush) are all gearing up to give it to him. BB
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Dec. 18, 2008 at 10:19
by BrendaBee
The Big 3 Auto Makers and greedy bankers have nothing on these fat cats for chutzpah. Check out this article. BB
Headlines: 'Shovel-Ready' on Campus
Guess who wants a bailout now. DECEMBER 17, 2008,
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122956325068716801.html?mod=djemEditorialPage
"With the Big Three seeking a bailout from Washington, the Big Ten are following suit. Earlier this week the Carnegie Corporation of New York took out a two-page ad in the New York Times, signed by executives of 36 public universities, state university systems and higher-education associations, urging Congress and President-elect Obama to rescue them."
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Dec. 16, 2008 at 11:47
by BrendaBee
The receipts are coming in and being added up by numbers crunchers and the picture ain't pretty. Our Congress and President Bush have flashed the tax payers credit card to the tune of $8.7 TRILLION to date. And this is only the beginning because when Obama gets into the action he promises even more gigantic "stimulus packages". We are witnessing a government gone mad with apparently no way to stop them. Certainly tax payers can't do it with emails, letters and phone calls as we learned when this snow ball started down hill with the $700 billion bail out of banks was in the works and tax payers actually overwhelmed and shut down the Capitol's and White House switchboards with calls of protest to no avail.
I don't know how you feel but I am just watching in heartsick dread as our leaders lead of from bad to worse and then beyond. The following article gives an outline and some facts about the spending frenzy to date that you may find of interest if you are trying to keep score.
Headlines: Bailout payout tops $8 trillion
By JEANNE CUMMINGS | 12/16/08 4:41 AM EST
"The New Deal, for instance, cost an estimated $32 billion in its day, which would be about $500 billion in today’s dollars. The Marshall Plan cost about $12.7 billion, which is the equivalent of a paltry $115.3 billion. The Louisiana Purchase? The French got $15 million, which would be worth about $217 billion today.
If you take those three items, add in the adjusted costs of the Race to the Moon, the savings and loan crisis, the Korean War, the Iraq war, the Vietnam War and assistance for NASA, you still get to just $3.92 trillion — not even half of the taxpayers’ exposure today...."
"There is a bright side, sort of. Only about $2.9 trillion of the government money, loans and guarantees have actually been spent or committed."
After this great start the article goes back to the MSM hipe that this all was necessary to keep the country from "going into a depression that would make the Great Depression look like a hiccup". I agree about the hiccup part since I have been saying this for years as I and many others saw this day coming. We were flying too high not to crash land. And no matter how bad it gets the yea sayers can always claim it could have been worse as this is a safe statement because there will be no way to prove otherwise. In the meantime we who are making this huge debt have the very good fortune of not having to pay it and most of us will be dead when the tab really comes due so we won't have to suffer any hardship nor will we have to hear our progenity railing at us fopr our stupidity and greed. BB
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