Saturday Shorts – 6-28-14

Posted on June 28, 2014

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
The Vinyl Revival Shows Quality Trumps Efficiency ~ Interesting… seems vinyl records are making a comeback; can’t beat the sound. Newer isn’t always better.
 
Presbyterian Church Votes ‘No’ on Protecting Babies Born Alive During Botched Abortions ~ Not sure what faith Presbyterians profess these days, but it sure ain’t Christianity. As the American Spectator puts it ~ Presbyterians Become the Silly Church.
 

The World Cup “Flopping” Rankings ~
Geoff Foster at the Wall Street Journal takes a strictly empirical look at the phenomenon of phony injury theatrics in World Cup soccer ~

Turning a small foul into a death performance worthy of La Scala can draw cards for opposing players, kill time from the clock or just give one’s winded teammates a breather. What’s interesting about the World Cup is that not all national teams are the same. Some embellish all the time, some hardly at all.

 
Refugee Resettlement Watch ~ A site I just happened upon that’s doing a great job of documenting the illegal immigrant invasion.

 
Drastic action needed to halt world’s worst Ebola outbreak: WHO ~ This has gotten hardly any news coverage… just a couple African countries… no biggie right? Hmmm… ~

The crisis is already the deadliest outbreak since Ebola first emerged in central Africa in 1976, and the number of infections continues to rise (635 infections; 399 deaths) […]
 
Ebola – with a fatality rate of up to 90 percent, no vaccine and no known cure – has not previously occurred in the West Africa region. People there have become frightened of health facilities, blaming them for importing and spreading the virus.

 
The Death And Decay Of Detroit, As Seen From The Streets ~ Sad but fascinating before & after photo-essay, focusing on various residential streets, captures the rapid deterioration of the Motor City.

 
Appeals Court Orders Atheists to Justify Lawsuit Against 9/11 Cross ~ Let’s hope the non-believers jumped the shark on this one ~

“Lawsuits for violations of the Establishment Clause should be limited to circumstances where the government is truly coercing people to engage in religious activity,” said Eric Baxter, a lawyer for the Becket Fund. “The Constitution is not a personal tool for censoring everyone’s beliefs but your own.”

Related: Cross Can Stay – for now, anyway

 
Meet Mitzi Bickers ~ A scandal-plagued Democratic operative worked the black vote for Cochran ~ The plot thickens. But will we ever get to the truth of what happened in the Cochran:McDaniel Mississippi primary farce?

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Quick fix for a sweet tooth

Posted on June 27, 2014

Here’s a summery take on the traditional chocolate chip cookie ~
 
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After sampling a “gourmet” batch of lemon-blueberry treats at the local food emporium, I adapted the original Toll House recipe to come up with a similar version. Yummy! 🙂
 

Lemon-Blueberry Cookies
 
• 2 ¼ cups flour
• 1 tsp salt
• 1 tsp baking soda
• ¾ cup sugar
• ¾ cup brown sugar
• 1 cup butter softened (2 sticks)
• 1 ½ tsp lemon extract
• 2 large eggs
• 8 oz white chocolate chips (2/3 of a 12 oz bag
• ¾ cup Craisin™ blueberries
 
Combine flour, soda and salt. Set aside. Beat butter and sugars and lemon extract together until creamy. Add eggs one at a time, beating well after each addition. Gradually add the flour mixture, then the chocolate chips and blueberries. Drop by heaping teaspoons on ungreased cookie sheets.
 
Bake at 375° for about 11 minutes
Yield: 5-6 dozen

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Our Man-made Border Crisis

Posted on June 26, 2014

While Obama is out speechifying, once again pretending AGW (antropological global warming) is threatening our very existence, and mocking those with the temerity to dispute the “settled science,” we’re facing a real meltdown on our southern border that he and the rest of ruling class are all but ignoring. And no wonder – since they’re primarily the ones responsible!
As Breitbart is reporting, Zack Taylor, Chairman of the National Association of Former Border Patrol Officers (NAFBPO), has confirmed what many of us suspected about the illegal tidal wave ~

This is not a humanitarian crisis. It is a predictable, orchestrated and contrived assault on the compassionate side of Americans by her political leaders…

 
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NAFBPO issued a press release on June 23rd describing the government-caused stampede ~

The present invasion of thousands of unaccompanied minors is the obvious desired result of the current administration, the United States Senate that passed S-744, and every other elected official in the United States that has not stood up and demanded that the immigration laws of the United States be fully enforced. […]
 
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This is not a humanitarian crisis, this is a manufactured crisis. Any media outlet that calls this a humanitarian crisis is concealing what is actually happening. This is the result of American leaders taking America into a lawless state over time and this latest invasion by opportunistic law breakers is a direct result of their actions. Period.

 
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Even if the climate fear-mongers were telling the truth (and not just trying to redistribute wealth and create equal-misery-for-all) and we’re facing carbon-induced Armageddon – the way Zack Taylor sees it, the U.S. won’t be around long enough to drown under rising seas if we can’t first stop the made-made flood on the border ~

“There is only one solution that will turn the tide toward safeguarding America,” the NAFBPO press release concluded. “That solution is a total effort by the United States Active Duty Military to ensure that every single one of these law breakers are returned to their country of origin as expeditiously as possible …. There is no other solution that will benefit America. The onslaught on our nation must not only cease, the incentives to violate our borders must be totally removed. There must be consequences to the lawbreakers. Anything less is a stalling tactic and will encourage more illegal immigration. This is not just another of the administration’s manufactured crises, this time the Republic hangs in the balance.“

 
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Related:
UN Report Warned of Crisis, says 58 Percent are ‘Refugees’ ~ the report, issued months ago, specifically warned about tens of thousands of kids headed for our southern border!

Ex-border agents: Immigrant flood ‘orchestrated’

Infectious Disease Outbreaks a ‘High Risk’ for Border Immigrants

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Access Blocked: Can’t get to “Conservative Worldview” from here

Posted on June 24, 2014

infoSuperHiwayBack in the day, when the internet was “the web,” or “the net,” when it was brand-shiny new, it was often enthusiastically referred to as “the information superhighway.” Zoom-zoom. 🙂
And for a long time it actually lived up to that billing. Once you grasped the Boolean logic behind search engines, if your quarry was out there in cyberspace, you could track it down fairly quickly. Unfortunately those heady days are long gone.
 
Part of the difficulty now is simply the mind-blowing amount of information that’s available. But the larger – and much more insidious – reason that you can’t always seem to find what you’re looking for, is the deliberate filtering of certain subjects and sites.
 
There’s been growing evidence that search engines, Google in particular, blocks conservative websites. Or they at least position them so far down into a particular search (you need to click through to page 5 or 6 at least) that users just get frustrated and stop looking. (Maybe we’re each trapped inside our own filter bubble…?!)
 
This is particularly nefarious when it’s a topic like say – global warming. Rather than being able to fairly research both sides of the contentious issue, the first several pages of links all seem to direct you to climate alarmists. As if there were no other legitimate position on the subject.
 
Recently there’s been a really disturbing report about at least one public high school (in Connecticut) restricting internet access. Oh, they’re not blocking things like porn, violence or profanity. No, it’s Faith, Family and Freedom Websites.
 
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The story involves student Andrew Lampart, who was attempting to do research for an upcoming school debate ~

After being blocked from websites supporting Americans’ constitutional right to bear arms as stated in the Second Amendment, Andrew soon learned his school’s computers prohibited him from viewing any website or information that wasn’t liberal in nature.
 
National Rifle Association website — blocked. The Republican Party website — blocked. National Right to Life website — blocked. Pro-traditional marriage websites — blocked. Vatican website — blocked. 😯
 
But here’s what wasn’t blocked in his continued Internet search: pro-gun-control websites, the Democratic Party website, the Planned Parenthood website, an LGBT website and an Islamic website.

 

Chuck Norris discusses the implications of this blatant censorship in an article today at TownHall ~

A high school’s prohibiting conservative views isn’t shocking to any of us who for decades have watched the dilapidating state of public education. It’s just one more sign that public schools are little more than secular progressive indoctrination camps.
 
Andrew was exactly right when he said about his Internet education experience — or lack thereof: “This is really borderline indoctrination. Schools are supposed to be fair and balanced towards all ways of thinking. It’s supposed to encourage students to formulate their own opinions. Students aren’t able to do that here at the school, because they are only being fed one side of the issue” […]
 
Roughly 30 years ago, Dr. Allan Bloom wrote these words of warning about a country and educational system that were mimicking fascism more than they were freedom, in his now classic book “The Closing of the American Mind”: “True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.”
 
There is also no doubt about this: When we fear alternative views to the extent that we eliminate them from curricula, we have reduced education to nothing more than tyranny and indoctrination.

 

And if the progressives have their way the “the information superhighway” will just become one endless loop of leftist propaganda.

 

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“The most successful tyranny is not the one that uses force
to assure uniformity but the one that removes the awareness
of other possibilities.” ~ Dr. Allan Bloom

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EPA’s war on American productivity

Posted on June 23, 2014

Making good on his campaign promise to sky-rocket energy costs, Obama’s EPA is pushing through new carbon restrictions based on pseudo-science, that will not only launch prices into the stratosphere, they’ll also destroy hundreds of thousands of jobs.

 

This map shows the estimated loss of productivity and employment by region ~
 
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These figures are from the Institute for 21st Century Energy which just issued a study projecting the impact of the latest EPA dictates ~

Our analysis shows that Americans will pay significantly more for electricity, see slower economic growth and fewer jobs, and have less disposable income. In fact, the cumulative impact to the economy could be $859 billion by 2030 (an average of over $50 billion every year). Potential EPA regulations would result in a very slight reduction in carbon emissions, which would be overwhelmed by global increases.

 

Murray Energy CEO Robert Murray is more than a little alarmed at the administration’s assault on his industry ~

“I am scared to death for our country, as a man who grew up poor, for people on fixed incomes, for retirees, for the poverty-stricken, and for people that manufacture a product.”

 

Video via Right Scoop

 
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Related:
EPA Administrator Denies New Regulations Are a ‘War on Coal’ ~

According to Heritage Foundation research, nearly 600,000 people will lose their jobs by 2023, the majority being in the coal industry.

 
The ‘Cure’ for Climate Change Is Far Worse than the Disease ~

And even if we were to stop emitting greenhouse gas emissions entirely, we would not moderate the Earth’s temperature more than a few tenths of a degree Celsius by the end of the century.

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Saturday Shorts – 6-21-14 (Sunday version)

Posted on June 22, 2014

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Random links of interest, concern or curiosity from the past week or so, that deserve at least a SHORT mention:

 
Slovakia enshrines true marriage in nation’s Constitution ~ Hope it works out better for them than it did for us with DOMA. Laws are worthless if administrators are lawless.
 
Soccer: The Single Greatest Threat to American Exceptionalism ~ Hyperbole perhaps, but not by much ~

The World Cup, rather, is a working model of President Obama’s foreign policy vision: a world in which America has no special role, where inferior countries are no longer humbled by American greatness, where every country is exceptional, and free shots on goal are not earned, but given away as a handout to those who have mastered the art of falling down.

 
Just what is so great about America? Well…
AMERICA – Imagine a World Without Her ~ Dinesh D’Souza’s latest documentary is due out in theaters July 2, 2014. You can influence distribution – get your local theater to screen the film – by going HERE.
The NYT is running cover for Obama as usual by ignoring the book that the movie is based on ~ Dinesh D’Souza’s ‘America’ banished from New York Times best seller list

 
What’s Lost as Handwriting Fades ~ Are we embracing technology at the cost of brain development?

… psychologists and neuroscientists say it is far too soon to declare handwriting a relic of the past. New evidence suggests that the links between handwriting and broader educational development run deep.

 
Five Questions for Christians Who Believe the Bible Supports Gay Marriage ~ Some really thought-provoking questions for those inclined to go along with the progressive pressure on same-sex marriage. For instance, how have all Christians at all times and in all places interpreted the Bible so wrongly for so long?
 
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau already sinking into scandal ~ And the hits just keep on coming. The CFPB was established as part of the Dodd-Frank debacle and right out the gate it’s proving to be another shining example of D.C. ineptitude; another bloated, bureaucratic waste of taxpayer money.
Related: Dodd-Frank – Paved with Good Intentions

 
A fed-up veteran blasts VA’s “lie, delay, deny” abyss ~ Heart-breaking testimony from a former Special Forces soldier and medic (who) served his country for 25 years. This Veterans Affairs scandal is an absolute disgrace!
 
Why the Redskins Trademark Ruling Should Terrify You ~ The court decision is yet another encroachment by the progressive PC police, but it’s much more than that. Trevor Thomas, at the American Thinker, weighs in on the ruling also ~ Liberals Wage War on the Redskins ~

All one needs to know is that the moral code employed by liberals in this matter is the same one that has allowed for the slaughter of tens of millions of Americans in their mothers’ wombs, that tells us that homosexual sex is good and right, that a redefinition of the sacred institution of marriage is necessary and just, that it is immoral to refer to someone born with testicles as a man, that guns are immoral, and that it is “compassionate” to confiscate forcibly the wealth of one and give it to another. So yes, please, let us actually debate the morality and the justness of “Redskins” and all of these matters. Let us each clearly cast our moral standards before the American people, the courts, and most importantly, the Creator and see where we stand.

 
Rep. Stockman introduces ‘The Dog Ate My Tax Receipts Act’ ~ Offering numerous “excuse” options for tax-payers, Stockman declared:

“Taxpayers should be allowed to offer the same flimsy, obviously made-up excuses the Obama Administration uses.”

 
No tickets needed for the Creator’s Daily Morning Orchestra ~ Want to hear nature sing? Go out on the deck just before dawn on a summer morning. 🙂

 

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Getting back on the Right road

Posted on June 20, 2014

Everything that’s gone wrong with America for the past several decades really can be traced back to the big LEFT turn the country made; when we exited what Wild Bill calls the One Nation Under God Highway ~
 

 
Realizing where we went off track tells us where we need to go to turn things around…
 

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If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves
and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then I will hear them from heaven, and will forgive their sin
and heal their land. ~ 2 Chronicles 7:14

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More of that Old Barack Magic

Posted on June 19, 2014

So let’s say you happen to be Barack Obama. You flip on the TV – to catch up on the latest news – and learn that you’re currently faced with:
 
• an illegal immigrant crisis on the border
• “lost” IRS emails
• a healthcare scandal at the VA
• the Bergdahl traitor-for-terrorists debacle
• Putin ignoring your empty threats over Ukraine
 
Dang it!
And all you really want to do is work on your golf game and schmooze with the glitterati at fundraisers.

Time to distract the drones by pulling another fake rabbit out of the hat…
 

Shazzam!

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What a joke. Obama’s arrest of the Benghazi suspect is just another grand illusion.

 

Peeling back the curtain… what we find is, not only was Ahmed Abu Khattala – the suspect in question – freely walking around Libya when CNN interviewed him last year, he was actually working security at the compound in Benghazi before he attacked it!
 
As Walid Shoebat relates ~

What is unknown by many in the western media is that Khattala’s role was with groups connected to Abu Obayda Bin Aljarah Brigade (and F17MB), the very group the Obama Administration assigned to and entrusted to watch over the U.S. embassy.
 
It was Ansar al-Sharia that prompted the attack and is actually made up of former members of Abu Obayda Bin Aljarah Brigade and the February 17 Martrys Brigade (F17MB) […]
 

There is no disputing the fact that Khattala was at the scene of the Benghazi attacks and that he is an Ansar al-Sharia commander who was involved. There is also no disputing his close connections to the terrorist group the U.S. State Department put in charge of security of the SMC – F17MB […]
 
Conveniently, this figure has been roaming free and giving interviews to media entities like the AP, Reuters, Fox News and CBS for nearly two years without consequence and all before (CNN reporter Arwa) Damon sat down with him last year!?

 

So they’ve known where Khattlaa was all along. They’ve just been keeping tabs on him, waiting until they needed a timely distraction from all the other scandals swirling around the White House.
 
Furthermore, the suspect may have an additional role to play in this charade. As Bob Barrack speculates ~

The same thoroughly discredited New York Times writer who gave us the Benghazi propaganda novel disguised as journalism last December – David Kirkpatrick – may be helping to lay the groundwork for helping the Obama administration to resurrect the video narrative. He’s using the apprehended “lead suspect” to do it. After all, what could be better than the “lead suspect” admitting the video did have something to do with the attacks?

 

Just all part of the Barack Hussein Obama Spectacular Smoke and Mirrors Show folks. He’ll get away with anything as long as his adoring fans in the mainstream media continue to applaud the performance.

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Related:
Obama: Capture of Benghazi Mastermind “a Milestone” – Will “now face the full weight of the American justice system.” ~ What a crock.
 
It Took 645 Days to Arrest Benghazi Terrorist, 16 Days to Arrest Filmmaker
 
CIA Operation “Zero Footprint”, Qatar, Benghazi and The Connection To Ahmed Abu Khattala – The Real Motive For The Obama Administration’s Recent Arrest

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The World’s War on Christendom – Latest Dispatch from the Front

Posted on June 18, 2014

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Lost amid the latest news from the Middle East is another tragic report from the African continent ~ Christians Targeted in Massacre by Al Shabaab in Kenya ~
 
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Somalia’s Islamic extremist Al Shabaab rebels attacked a predominantly Christian town (of Mpeketoni) on Kenya’s coast Sunday night (June 15), selecting out Christian males as they killed more than 57 people, area sources said […]
 
Sources told Morning Star News the assailants were chanting “Allahu Akbar [God is Greater]” and killing whoever could not recite verses from the Koran.
 
“The attackers entered my house, took my boy out of the house, then killed him by shooting him, leaving my wife and daughters inside,” one pastor told Morning Star News […]
While several banks were damaged by grenades, the police station was the hardest hit; sources said eight policemen were killed, several police vehicles were destroyed and the station lay in ruins. The militants also reportedly went door-to-door asking residents their religion and killed them if they answered “Christian.”

 
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Besides Al Shabaab claiming responsibility for the attacks, some eyewitnesses said that they saw the Islamic extremist militia’s black flag.
 
“The attackers were speaking in Somali and Kiswahili language,” said one source. “Some of the attackers looked like Arabs with light skin.”
 
All area churches were affected in some way by the attack, including the Full Gospel Church of Kenya in the town center.
 
“The majority of the residents of Mpeketoni are Christians; less than 5 percent are Muslims,” said one pastor.

 
The targeted violence against Christians in Kenya escalated last fall with the attack on a shopping mall. As the UK Independent reported ~

The (June 15th) assault is the worst since last September when al-Shabaab gunmen attacked Nairobi’s Westgate shopping mall, killing 67 people. At the time, al-Shabaab said they would continue their attacks until Kenya withdraws its troops from Somalia.
 
But Kenya has said it will not withdraw its troops, who are deployed as part of an African peacekeeping force battling militants.

 
The troop withdrawal demand is really just a convenient ploy to kill more infidels… as the “Religion of Peace” continues its relentless reign of terror.
 
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The dog ate Lois Lerner’s emails

Posted on June 17, 2014

The lies coming from the O’Ministration are getting so preposterous you just don’t know whether to laugh or cry anymore. What’s really pathetic is that they have so little respect for the American people, and so much confidence in the media’s continued compliance, that they no longer bother even trying to sound plausible.
 
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The IRS targeting of conservatives is much worse than anything Nixon & Co. did. Yet each new response from the White House about the ongoing scandal strains credulity more than the last. And the mainstream media simply nods and moves on to the next distraction.
 
Lois Lerner’s lost emails are just the latest scam we’re supposed to fall for. As if the IRS – who would demand 20 years worth of detailed tax return information from YOU if you were ever audited (no excuses!) – just happened to lose the exact emails that could incriminate Lerner, and who knows who else in the administration.
 
Of course the real truth about the IRS targeting, as Investor’s Business Daily points out, is that it’s a deliberate obstruction of justice; Lost Lerner Emails Mirror Nixon’s 18 1/2 Minute Gap. In fact…

The entire Obama administration is in contempt of Congress, the American people, the law and the Constitution. As in Watergate, more than a few individuals warrant prosecution and incarceration. But that would have to come from Eric Holder’s Justice Department, an organization shown to be as corrupt as the IRS.

 
In other words… it ain’t happenin.

 

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“Every violation of truth is not only a sort of suicide in the liar,
but is a stab at the health of human society.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Related:

CSI-IRS: What do you know, Jay Carney’s replacement is also a computer forensics expert ~ Doubling down on the “computer crash” ruse
 
Lois Lerner’s emails — a former IRS IT specialist’s take
 
Cleta Mitchell to the IRS: Answer this ~ The IRS is required by law to make sure nothing happens to electronic communications ~

… the failure for the IRS to preserve and provide these records to the Committees would evidence either violations of numerous records retention statutes and regulations or obstruction of Congress.

 
In light of the disappeared emails, Mitchell (the attorney for True the Vote, one of the groups illegally targeted by the IRS) has several questions for the agency. It might be fun to watch them squirm their way out of this one.

[Hat-tip: Bobo]

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Michele Bachman channels Benjamin Franklin

Posted on June 16, 2014

Although our friends on the Left like to pretend otherwise, America really was founded by men who were almost exclusively Christian. Their personal philosophies, and the principles on which they established the Constitution, were informed by their Judeo-Christian heritage. Even Benjamin Franklin, one of the revisionist historians’ favorite “deists,” suggested a direct appeal to heaven when the delegates were contentiously debating at the Constitutional Convention in 1787.
 
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And so, when Michele Bachman asked Americans to join members of Congress in prayer this week, she was simply continuing in a tradition that goes back to the roots of our nation.

From WND ~ Bachmann issues call to prayer ~

In light of al-Qaida-affiliated terrorists advancing toward Baghdad, Russian tanks rolling into Ukraine, Iran looking to deploy forces to ‘assist’ in Iraq, Iran continuing its nuclear weapon program, the Obama administration’s decision to release from Gitmo and potentially return to terrorism five of the Taliban’s top operational and policy leaders, China advancing both territorial claims and an aggressive cyber war against United States, the recent surge of thousands of illegal immigrants entering the United States with little to no resistance from our government, daily debt accumulation, the growing government intrusion in our health-care system and more, I am sending out a bipartisan invitation to all of my congressional colleagues to join together next week in Washington, where we can bow our heads and hearts and bend our knees before the Lord in prayer […]
 
I hope my colleagues, along with citizens across the country, will join together next week in prayer, asking the Lord for wisdom, mercy, grace, protection, forgiveness and insight on behalf of our nation.

 
If we want to continue being a sovereign nation, if we hope to ever restore our Constitutional Republic, this may very well be our last – and best – option. Please join me in answering Rep. Bachman’s appeal. We’ll be following in some impressive footprints.
 

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founders-quote-BFranklin“In this situation of this Assembly groping as it were in the dark to find political truth, and scarce able to distinguish it when to us, how has it happened, Sir, that we have not hitherto once thought of humbly applying to the Father of lights to illuminate our understandings? In the beginning of the contest with G. Britain, when we were sensible of danger we had daily prayer in this room for the Divine Protection. — Our prayers, Sir, were heard, and they were graciously answered. All of us who were engaged in the struggle must have observed frequent instances of a Superintending providence in our favor. To that kind providence we owe this happy opportunity of consulting in peace on the means of establishing our future national felicity. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? or do we imagine that we no longer need His assistance.
 
“I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth — that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that “except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.” I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall be become a reproach and a bye word down to future age. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing Governments by Human Wisdom, and leave it to chance, war, and conquest.”
 
~ Benjamin Franklin ~ from the Constitutional Convention Address on Prayer, 1787

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The Sad “Anonymous Dad” Effect

Posted on June 15, 2014

Even if your father wasn’t perfect (who the heck is!), imagine how you would feel if he cared so little about you that he just walked out of your life. Or was so self-centered that he never considered the long-term implications of selling his sperm for a quick buck.

 
God’s design for “family” starts with a mother and a father. As part of His plan, each of them provides different yet complementary attributes that are essential for the well-being of their offspring. And no amount of atheist, progressive or angry feminist proclamations can make that simple truth go away. The lack of either parent leaves a huge hole in a child’s heart. Many will spend the rest of their lives searching for someone – or something – to fill it back up ~

 

“Should we be conceiving children in the first place who will be deliberately denied the ability to know and be known by their father?”

 

We humans frequently believe that we know better than God. Sure, let’s invent – as the cable networks tout – a “new kind of family.” It may sound all warm and fuzzy, in a morally relative way, but this brave new world of sperm donors simply causes more brokenness; confusion, sadness, emptiness.

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Our Father in heaven already knows each of us intimately. He alone can heal the broken, and fill the void in each of us…

 

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