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ConservativeChristianRepublican-Report-20081107

From: "Daily Motivations"

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. -- Carl Jung



From: "The Patriot Post"

"The government is best which governs least," - Thomas Jefferson

"That wise Men have in all Ages thought Government necessary for the Good of Mankind; and, that wise Governments have always thought Religion necessary for the well ordering and well-being of Society, and accordingly have been ever careful to encourage and protect the Ministers of it, paying them the highest publick
Honours, that their Doctrines might thereby meet with the greater Respect among the common People." -- Benjamin Franklin

"The most important consequence of marriage is, that the husband and the wife become in law only one person... Upon this principle of union, almost all the other legal consequences of marriage depend. This principle, sublime and refined, deserves to be viewed and examined on every side." -- James Wilson



From: "The Web"

"The...thing you can do to make your agency a more interesting place to work and consequently less bureaucratic is to enable those under you to feel they control their own areas of work. In this way they acquire a sense of ownership in what gets done and how they do it." -- Kenneth Ashworth

"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be set right." -- Carl Schurz

From: "Find Law" - The "radical left-wing" homosexuals are already at work to defeat "Same Sex Marriage Ban". It was approved in CA on November 4, 2008. Conservatives did win several issues in different states on Nov. 4.



Why doesn't "almost all" civil citizens in America fight homosexuality as a crime; a crime against the Bible; a crime against morality; a crime against nature? Many times, homosexuality is a crime of rape, even though it may not be reported! Why are so many so silent on this issue? - oyh

FEATURED DOCUMENT
Challenge to California’s Same Sex Marriage Ban as Invalid Constitutional Revision
STRAUSS V. HORTON
(California Supreme Ct., Nov. 5, 2008) - Six same sex couples, along with Equity California, filed a petition for relief from the recently passed Proposition 8, which sought to change California’s Constitution by adding "only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." The suit argues that Proposition 8 is an invalid revision, rather than an amendment of California’s Constitution, which cannot be enacted through ballot initiative. Petitioners seek an immediate stay against enforcement of Prop 8 until its validity is determined. Read more...

Related Resources
• California Constitution Article 18 on Amending versus Revising the Constitution
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Historical Introduction
• March 2005 California Supreme Court Opinion Recognizing Same Sex Marriage Rights
• FindLaw Special Coverage: Same Sex Marriage



From: "Business And Media Institute" Click on the "link" below or copy and paste to see and hear Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va. explain his version of why Americans should "spread the wealth"! - oyh

Dem Congressman: 'Simplistic Notion that People Who Have Wealth are Entitled to Keep It'

http://www.businessandmedia.org/articles/2008/20081104173709.aspx

Video shows Va. Rep. Moran blasting rich people for having 'an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth.'

By Jeff Poor
Business & Media Institute
11/4/2008 5:44:46 PM

It’s this type of political rhetoric that brings out the “Joe the Plumber” in all of us.

Rep. Jim Moran, D-Va., thinks it’s a “simplistic notion” for people who are successful in their bid to become wealthy to hold on to that wealth and not have it “redistributed” by the government.

“Now in the last seven years we have had the highest corporate profit ever in American history,” Moran said in a video posted to YouTube on Oct. 31. “Highest corporate profit – we’ve had the highest productivity. The American worker has produced more per person than at any time, but it hasn’t been shared, and that’s the problem because we have been guided by a Republican administration who believes in this simplistic notion that people who have wealth are entitled to keep it and they have an antipathy towards the means of redistributing wealth.”

Moran represents the 8th congressional district of Virginia that makes up the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. He is serving his ninth term in the U.S. House of Representative. According to the American Conservative Union, Moran has a “zero” 2007 conservative rating and a 14.57 lifetime rating. Phone calls to Moran's spokesman Austin Durrer were not immediately returned.

Mark Ellmore, a mortgage executive, is Moran’s Republican challenger and recently blamed him for the economic downturn.

“I just want the people who have given Congress this 9 percent approval rating to get the change they want,” Ellmore said to The Washington Post on Oct. 30. “Whether it’s Jim or anyone else, they just don't want to accept responsibility for a lack of involvement and oversight when the whole potential for economic meltdown came about. You are what your record is. You are what the results are.”



From: "WTHR - TV" - Indianapolis, IN

Obama campaign workers angry over unpaid wages

http://www.wthr.com/global/story.asp?s=9299280

Posted: Nov 5, 2008 03:38 PM EST

Updated: Nov 6, 2008 10:47 AM EST

Political paychecks
1:59

Former Obama workers claim they were short-changed

Diane Jefferson

Indianapolis - Lines were long and tempers flared Wednesday not to vote but to get paid for canvassing for Barack Obama. Several hundred people are still waiting to get their pay for last-minute campaigning. Police were called to the Obama campaign office on North Meridian Street downtown to control the crowd.

The line was long and the crowd was angry at times.

"I want my money today! It's my money. I want it right now!" yelled one former campaign worker.

A former spokesman for the Obama campaign said 375 people were hired as part of the Vote Corps program and said people signed up to work three-hour shifts at a time. Three hours of canvassing got workers a $30 pre-paid Visa card.

The workers showed up to get their cards Wednesday morning at 10:00 am.

"There was a note on the door saying 1:00 pm and then at 1:20 pm everybody was like why is nobody here. They just got here and they're trying to get it organized," said Heather Richards, a former campaign worker.

The large gathering of around 375 people prompted police to call in extra officers and set up temporary barricades. The barricades helped keep the crowd from spilling out onto Meridian Street. Police say the several hundred people in line were for the most part orderly.

"No arrests. Some of the people were upset at first because the line wasn't moving as fast as they thought it should. But we really haven't had any problems," said Major Darryl Pierce, Metro Police.

Eventually people did start getting paid, but some said they were missing hours and told to fill in paperwork making their claim and that eventually they would get a check in the mail.

"Still that's not right. I'm disappointed. I'm glad for the president, but I'm disappointed in this system," said Diane Jefferson, temporary campaign worker.

"It should have been $480. It's $230," said Imani Sankofa.

"They gave us $10 an hour. So we added it. I added up all the hours so it was supposed to be at least $120. All I get is $90," said Charles Martin.

"I worked nine hours a day for 4 days and got paid half of what I should have earned," said Randall Waldon.

Some people weren't satisfied with filling out a claim form for money they felt was still due to them.

"They say that they gonna call you or they going to mail it to you, but I don't know. We'll see what happens," said Antron Grose.

"Talking about they'll mail it to us. I ain't worried about that, man. They're not going to mail nothin'," said Martin.

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From: "Rick Santorum"

A New President, Same Problems

The verdict is in. We have a new President, a new Congress, and a new chapter in American political life. Hopes are high in some quarters, despairing in others. It remains to be seen how President-elect Barack Obama will impact the long-term state of international relations, but for the time being, Iran, Russia, and Venezuela remain active agents of mischief…and worse.

Iran continues to bear bad tidings. Even as Obama purports to represent a chance for diplomacy, radical Islamists are not happy about the change. On the eve of the U.S. elections, thousands of Iranians burned American flags and chanted anti-U.S. and anti-Israel slogans at a demonstration marking the 29th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy. Fliers calling for young people to sign up for Hezbollah suicide attacks against the U.S. have also been re-distributed throughout Tehran this week.

While Iranian officials have implied a preference for Obama over Sen. John McCain for president, other analysts say that Ahmadinejad is not pleased with the Obama victory.

“A credible U.S. president who wants to talk to Iran – instead of singing songs about bombing it – is not in the interest of Iranian conservatives. Calling the U.S. a warmonger is one of the few battle cries they have left,” an Israeli analyst wrote on Tuesday.

Indeed, no olive branch has yet been extended to President-elect Obama. Instead, Iranian military officials announced on Wednesday that any U.S. violation of Iranian air space would be met with force. U.S. Army helicopters had been observed flying a short distance from the Iran-Iraq border, sparking fears that U.S. commandos might stage an operation inside Iran like the recent U.S. raid from Iraq into Syria.

Ahmadinejad also suffered a humiliating setback on Tuesday when the country’s parliament impeached Interior Minister Ali Kordan for fabricating a degree from Oxford University. It was the first high-profile confrontation between the new parliament and Ahmadinejad and seen as a no-confidence vote in the president.

Meanwhile, Russia and Venezuela continue to cooperate, with a Russian floating platform poised to start drilling deep test wells tomorrow to prospect natural gas fields in the Gulf of Venezuela. The Venezuelan air force chief also announced that Venezuela and Russia will conduct joint air force exercises in 2009.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said in mid-August that the Bush administration was unhappy with flights by Russian strategic bombers near US borders and accused Moscow of playing a 'dangerous game'.

However, Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denied any American antagonism as being the cause behind military cooperation between the two countries.

“I do not know how such conclusions are drawn. Neither Russia nor Venezuela has any plans to attack anyone. Russia and Venezuela enjoy cooperation based on the norms of the international law,” Lavrov said.



From: "The email Bag"

Encouraging Election Day Message - from Beth Moore :

Psalm 118:24

A few things I'm so thankful for on this election day, regardless of the outcome:

*We live in a democracy where we have the right to a vote and a voice. We have the God-given responsibility to use both wisely and in the way that best reflects what God conveys through Scripture.

*God "works out everything in conformity with the purpose of His will" and "according to the plan." Ephesians 1:11

*Not only does God work out everything in conformity with His will, He has promised to work out everything for the GOOD of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose.

*God sets up kings and deposes them and gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. Daniel 2:21

*We, the beautifully diverse family of God, are never - not at any time - powerless. Nor are we ever victims of a system. Believing prayer takes us through doors we'll never be invited to enter and into judges chambers we'll never grace. Take a look back at Genesis 18 once again with astonishment over the dialogue between God and His servant and friend, Abraham. Rejoice that God is ever mindful of a faithful remnant. The Judge of the Earth will always do right.

*Even if persecution should await believers in Christ or harrowing circumstances hound us, God will use hardship to bring unity and purity to a people who need it desperately. The best of circumstances do not always produce the best in the Bride of Christ.

*The living God is firmly established upon His Throne and there at His holy feet we can always find grace and mercy in our time of need.

*No matter what happens today, we are GOD'S elect. He has elected us to show His heart and to walk in His ways in the culture that surrounds us. We are called to walk in the challenging balance of grace and truth.

May we be filled with Christ's Spirit today and our mouths given to praise and to believing, receiving prayer. God IS faithful and He has us firmly in His hand. We will not fear. We will not doubt. We will not hate.

"Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in Him, for He shields him all day long, and the one the Lord loves rests between His shoulders." Deuteronomy 33:12

I remain your servant,

Beth