The irony of headlines… one for preventing birth, one promoting. Nancy Pelosi will likely regret the faulty logic she’s employing to suggest birthcontrol will help the economy. A proponent of big huge government, Pelosi seems to forget or ignores the fact that socialism needs lots of new little producers (read: taxpayersandpayersandpayers) to support the regime. The Canon corporation in Japan sees the negative result of low birthrate and is scrambling to reverse the trend of negative population numbers. Simple economics reveals the crisis of a pregressive nations’ aging population and low birthrate (to support that aged population). Same thing will…
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Now it will begin to be very clear as to why I wrote the blog entry: one-of-the-saddest-days-in-the-history-of-this-nation. I knew I wasn’t alone in holding that opinion — and I know I’m not alone now. Tens of millions of *innocent* children — unborn babies — have been murdered in this nation since the legalization and government sanctioned abortions. It doesn’t seem to matter one iota what George Bush did in his tenure as President — but if nothing else, he did stand for life — he stood in the gap for millions and did so publicly and through legal policy. …
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Today, Barack Hussein Obama was sworn in as the 44th President of these United States of America. It is a new day in this land as the 44th President began his speech, “My fellow citizens…” Yes, indeed, change has come to America. But what is this change, really? I listened to the speech… and I marveled: here is a man who has few (name some?) notable political accomplishments — what track record demonstrates what he says is what he will do. Nothing really — other than becoming a US Senator, delivering attention grabbing, dazzling speeches, and being elected President…
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I suppose that I might have cause to celebrate. It’s a sunny day. The water surrounding our home receded at such a significant rate that we’re now able to see all of our property and much of the surrounding farmland. This is amazing. O, and I didn’t get Sbx cup #280. Maybe, had I gotten cup #280, I’d not have written the previous two posts this afternoon. I don’t know. So, today’s cup reads: TheWayISeeIt #76 “The irony of commitment is that it’s deeply liberating – in work, in play, in love. The act frees you from the tyranny of…
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I’m thinking about blind acceptance and emperors… the events of the days behind us and before us and a book and a movie come to mind. And I wonder what really matters to people — if it matters that there’s nothing there or if there’ll be a little child standing in the crowd pointing out the obvious. And will anyone there have the courage to see? The Emperor’s New Clothes… a book. Being There… a movie. Just thinking. I remember reading the book as a child, reading to our own children along the way and seeing that movie…
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Blind trust is a dangerous thing sometimes. It’s what makes us vulnerable to accepting things we’d not ordinarily accept and makes us do things we’d not ordinarily do. Hope’s like that sometimes too. We sometimes want something so badly that we’ll believe just about anything for that need to be met or filled. Some will sacrifice just about anything to have deep seated longings fulfilled. When I was six years old my mother was dating a man she would eventually marry. I so wanted to call him daddy. We took a train to his home and we visited him. While…
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January 20, 2009 will be, no doubt, a day marking the beginning of some of the most significant political decisions this country has ever experienced — and, in my opinion, one of the saddest days in the history of this once great nation. I decided not even to comment on the planned events of the inaugural week — for some are so vile it’s actually shocking to read. I write this two and a half days before the actually “swearing in” of the next President of the United States of America… One nation, so divided, with liberty and…
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Literally. Since my last blog entry to this, there has been a ‘record’ amount of water under the bridge… and the normally green farmland that surrounds our home now appears to be a lake. One of the captions in the local paper read, “A series of homes and barns cling to strands of dry land in Snohomish on Friday.” I don’t know if I’d have described our home as clinging to a strand of dry land, but it was certainly sitting in the floodwater and the LORD surely had it anchored. Someone commented to us, “You’re fortunate that you have…
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Just watching the weather reports… working, watching, waiting, working, watching, waiting… praising the LORD for His *goodness!* to us all. How great is the love that God has *lavished* on us… Snohomish River Flood Watch
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They all run together. The following *sobering* video… not for the fainthearted. Watch CBS Videos Online