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"Daily Motivations"
In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
"Daily Devotions" (NIVB)
Deuteronomy 28:1 If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations on earth. 2. All these blessings will come upon you and accompany you if you obey the LORD your God: 3. You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.
Matthew 6:12 "Forgive us our sins, just as we have forgiven those who have sinned against us."
"The Patriot Post"
"A people ... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything." -- George Washington
"If lawmakers really want to trigger a recovery, they'll shelve their massive 'stimulus' bill -- a trillion-dollar debt plan that would actually weaken the economy. They'd do much better to take a simple but powerful step: reduce the corporate income tax rate to zero. Our nation's convoluted tax code (so confusing that even a high percentage of President Barack Obama's nominees apparently can't understand it) keeps a small army of accountants and tax lawyers employed. A simplified code might put them out of work. But that would be a small price to pay for a fairer system, one that helps create many more jobs for ordinary Americans. And creating jobs is what a federal stimulus is supposed to be all about. Lawmakers should think carefully before they borrow hundreds of billions of dollars, digging a deeper debt hole and expanding the size and scope of government. Far better to eliminate corporate taxes -- and unleash the job-creation power of our nation's entrepreneurs." -- Heritage Foundation President Edwin Feulner, free enterprise economist
The BIG lie: "We will go through our federal budget -- page by page, line by line -- eliminating those programs we don't need, and insisting that those we do operate in a sensible cost-effective way." -- Barack Obama, 25 November 2008
2nd Amendment: Crime is down, some call for more gun control
The FBI has recently released 2008 statistics showing that violent crime in the United States has dropped to a 35-year low, with the murder rate at its lowest in 43 years. In fact, since peaking in 1991, the rates of murder and violent crime as a whole have fallen 41 percent and 46 percent respectively. But despite this positive news, the anti-gun Brady Campaign is continuing to wage war on our Second Amendment right to bear arms.
The Campaign is claiming, "Most states have weak or non-existent gun laws that help feed the illegal gun market, allow the sale of guns without Brady background checks and put families and children at risk.." This statement flies in the face of the cold, hard fact that violent crime stats have fallen during a time when laws restricting the purchase of firearms have become less stringent.
Manipulating data is nothing new to the Brady Campaign. Each year, the group issues a scorecard for each state, on which the state scores anywhere from zero to 100. The more gun control laws it has on the books, the higher the score. The problem is, they don't bother to check whether the laws are having any effect on crime. In truth, it's more guns, less crime.
Faith and family: Tragedy in Florida
The Florida Board of Medicine has revoked the medical license of Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique after an infant girl was born alive following a botched abortion -- and then placed in the trash and left to die. An 18-year-old was 23 weeks pregnant when she scheduled an abortion, but Renelique failed to arrive for several hours after the mother was medicated, and she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.
According to the lawsuit, the baby -- named Shanice -- was placed in a biohazard bag and discarded with the trash. Authorities discovered Shanice's body a week later.
In 2002, President Bush signed the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act, which guarantees full legal rights under federal law to every infant born alive, whether or not the birth occurred as a result of a botched abortion and regardless of the baby's stage of development. Yet, tragically, Florida's case is far from isolated and represents only the latest incident to come to light in which abortion survivors are deliberately left to die. Abortion advocates argue the humanity of their position, but make no mistake: Shanice's experience is the gruesome reality of "Pro-choice" America.
"Simple Truths"
We learn to walk by stumbling. -- Bulgarian Proverb
It’s our attitude in life that determines life’s attitude toward us. -- Earl Nightingale
"The Web"
The American form of government.
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These foreclosure “victims” deserve no sympathy
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008
It shouldn’t be long before ACORN recruits “Octomom” Nadya Suleman to serve as the radical, left-wing group’s new foreclosure poster child. The jobless, unmarried mother of 14 faces eviction from her family home in two weeks. Suleman’s mother, who owns the residence, hasn’t sent mortgage checks in 10 months and owes $23,000 in back payments. Nonetheless, the plastic surgery-enhanced, welfare-dependent Octomom was photographed this week at a video store splurging on games for her brood.
With her warped financial priorities, Suleman fits right in with the militant moochers at the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now. As I reported last week, ACORN launched a lawless “civil disobedience” campaign across the country to demand their housing entitlement rights. With this well-oiled propaganda campaign buoying his efforts, President Obama used his State of the Union address last night to advance his push for a massive government home foreclosure plan that will help “responsible homeowners avoid foreclosure.”
But a closer look at ACORN’s sob stories shows that the prototypical foreclosure “victims” by the Left don’t deserve an ounce of sympathy – or a cent of our money.
Earlier this week, ACORN activists broke into a foreclosed home in Baltimore. With a mob cheering and camera crew taping, ACORN leader Louis Beverly busted a padlock and jimmied the door open at 315 South Ellwood Ave. The home once belonged to restaurant worker Donna Hanks, who assailed her evil bank for raising her mortgage by $300 and leaving her on the street. “This is our house now,” Beverly declared with Hanks by his side at the break-in.
What ACORN didn’t tell you: Hanks’ house was sold in June 2008 for $192,000. She bought the two-story home in the summer of 2001 for $87,000. At some point during the next five years, she re-financed the original home loan for $270,000. Where did all that money go? (Hint: Think house-sized ATM.)
The property initially went into foreclosure proceedings in the spring of 2006. Hanks soon filed for bankruptcy and agreed to a Chapter 13 plan to pay back her bank and other creditors. In September 2006, the bankruptcy court ordered Hanks’ employer to deduct $340/month from her salary to pay down the debt. Hanks did not comply with the legally binding plan. In December 2007, the loan servicer issued a notice of default on nearly $7,000 past due.
While she was reneging on her mortgage IOUS, she somehow managed to collect rent on her basement (for which she was taken to court) and rack up a criminal record on charges of theft and second-degree assault. The house was sold seven months ago after two years of court-negotiated attempts to allow Hanks to dig herself out of her debt hole.
Baltimore ACORN leader Louis Beverly, who also claims to be a foreclosure victim himself, was charged with burglary for the break-in and released. He is literally a housing thug – having been charged with separate second-degree assault and property destruction charges earlier this year and battery, assault, handgun possession and possession of a deadly weapon with intent to injure in 1992; and slapped with a peace order issued against him in 2006.
The Washington Post spotlighted Beverly and Hanks’ activism without ever following up on their criminal records and financial negligence. The paper also shilled for ubiquitous ACORN foreclosure “victim” Veronica Peterson of Columbia, Md., recycling uncritically her accusation that she had been tricked into buying a $545,000 home by a broker who inflated her income and misrepresented her assets. “These loans were weapons of mass destruction,” the single mom of three and home daycare provider who couldn’t keep up with her mortgage bills told the Post reporter. “They destroyed our credit, our lives, and they blew up in our face.’”
But a look at court and real estate records exposed the truth. Edward Ericcson, Jr., a reporter for the independent Baltimore City Paper discovered that the “victim” — who took out a full mortgage with no down payment on a house she couldn’t afford — looks more like a predatory borrower. And amazingly, Peterson lived in the home more than year without paying rent or mortgage.
“The online court and land records show that Peterson closed on the house on Nov. 3, 2006, with two loans from Washington Mutual. The main mortgage, for $436,000, had a starting interest rate of 8.5 percent, adjusting in December…The second loan, often called a “piggyback,” totaled $109,000 with an interest rate of 11.25 percent…Those two payments together would have totaled $3,386.17 per month.
That’s before property taxes, upkeep, utilities, etc. Peterson would have to earn at least $50,000 per year just to make her house payments.”
The foreclosure was filed in July 2007. “The balance on the main note then was $435,735.86,” Ericcson reporters, plus unpaid interest and late fees – suggesting she made at most one payment on the house. “Had she made all of her payments, Peterson would have spent about $64,335 so far. Had she rented a similar place, she would have been charged around $2,500 per month–a total of $47,500 — since January 2007. Instead, she apparently paid nothing.”
Who are the real suckers? Who are the true victims? If only the reporters swallowing their stories were half as diligent about background checks of ACORN racketeers as they were with Joe the Plumber.
HOW TO CALL THE POLICE WHEN YOU ARE OLD
George Phillips of Meridian, Mississippi was going up to bed, when his wife told him that he'd left the light on in the garden shed, which she could see from the bedroom window. George opened the back door to go turn off the light but saw that there were people in the shed stealing things.
He phoned the police, who asked "Is someone in your house?" He said "No." Then they said "All patrols were busy. You should lock your doors and an officer will be along when one is available." George said, "Okay". He hung up the phone and counted to 30.
Then he phoned the police again...
"Hello, I just called you a few seconds ago because there were people stealing things from my shed. Well, you don't have to worry about them now because I just shot them" and hung up.
Within five minutes, six Police Cars, a SWAT Team, a Helicopter, two Fire Trucks, a Paramedic, and an Ambulance showed up at the Phillips' residence, and caught the burglars red-handed.
One of the Policemen said to George, "I thought you said that you shot them!"
George said, "I thought you said there was nobody available!"
(a True Story) -- I love it!!! Don't mess with old people!!
Who Teaches This?
A teacher was doing a study testing the senses (taste) of
first graders using a bowl of lifesavers.
The children began to identify the flavors by their color:
Red.....................Cherry
Yellow............. ....Lemon
Green...................Lime
Orange .................Orange
Finally the teacher gave them all HONEY lifesavers. After eating them, none of the children could identify the taste.
'Well,' she said, 'I will give you all a clue. It's what your mother may sometimes call your father.'
One little girl looked up in horror, spit her lifesaver out and yelled, 'Oh my God!! They're ass-holes!
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Supreme Court Allows City to Choose Which Donated Monuments Belong In Public Park
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A unanimous United States Supreme Court has ruled 9-0 in favor of a city that refused to display Summum's Seven Aphorisms in a public park. Liberty Counsel filed an amicus brief with the Court in support of the City.
Liberty University School of Law and Liberty Counsel also hosted a moot court with Jay Sekulow at the law school's Supreme Courtroom prior to the argument. Sekulow is the Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice and argued the case.
Liberty Counsel's brief argued that this case is not about the right to freedom of speech, but it is about the government's right to speak without inviting the multitudes into the same forum to counter the government's message. It would not make sense to force the government to include a display devoted to atheism every time it displays a Nativity scene.
The Court's opinion only deals with government speech and does not impact the right to private displays or private speech on government property.
The Supreme Court ruled that by accepting donated displays and transferring ownership to the city, the city did not open a forum for everyone wishing to display a monument in the public park. Justice Samuel Alito, Jr. stated in the majority opinion that the city "is entitled to say what the city wishes." The Court found that the park was not a public forum for private speech, noting that permanent displays typically represent government property.
Read our News Release for more details.
Read the Supreme Court opinion
Read Liberty Counsel's Amicus Brief.
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Pecans in the Cemetery
On the outskirts of a small town, there was a big, old pecan tree just inside the cemetery fence.
One day, two boys filled up a bucketful of nuts and sat down by the tree, out of sight, and began dividing the nuts.
"One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me," said one boy.
Several dropped and rolled down toward the fence.
Another boy came riding along the road on his bicycle. As he passed, he thought he heard voices from inside the cemetery.
He slowed down to investigate.
Sure enough, he heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me."
He just knew what it was. He jumped back on his bike and rode off.
Just around the bend he met an old man with a cane, hobbling along. "Come here quick," said the boy, "you won't believe what I heard!
Satan and the Lord are down at the cemetery dividing up the souls."
The man said, "Beat it kid, can't you see it's hard for me to walk."
When the boy insisted though, the man hobbled slowly to the cemetery.
Standing by the fence they heard, "One for you, one for me. One for you, one for me..."
The old man whispered, "Boy, you've been telling' me the truth.
Let's see if we can see the Lord." Shaking with fear, they peered through the fence, yet were still unable to see anything.
The old man and the boy gripped the wrought iron bars of the fence tighter and tighter as they tried to get a glimpse of the Lord.
At last they heard, "One for you, one for me. That's all.
Now let's go get those nuts by the fence and we'll be done."
They say the old man made it back to town a full 5 minutes ahead of the kid on the bike.
In honor of the mother of the octuplets, Denny's is offering a new breakfast meal.
You get fourteen eggs, no sausage, and the guy next to you has to pay the bill.
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