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"Daily Motivations"
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. -- Richard Bach
"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)
"He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When others are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us." (2 Corinthians 1:-4)
Have you ever watched geese fly south for the winter? By flying in their famous "V" formation, the birds fly 71 percent farther than if they flew independently. The beating wings of the lead flyer create an updraft for the goose directly behind it. Then, when the lead flyer tires out, it drops back and a fresher member of the flock takes its place.
Sick or wounded geese fly inside the "V," where there is the least wind resistance. The others help an ailing goose if it is forced to land. Two other geese follow the sick one down, nursing and protecting their fallen comrade until it either recovers or dies. Only then do they fly off.
God teaches us a lesson through those geese. When we stand together, we are far greater than the sum of our parts. God will often place someone who needs you right in your path. You will speak to someone at work or receive a phone call from an old friend. That little prompting in your spirit will tell you, "This is a time for ministry. The Lord wants me to help and encourage this person."
You should also expect God to send comforters when you are the one who needs comfort. Some Christians are prideful about accepting help. They have learned this not from the Bible but from the world, which teaches independence and self-sufficiency. Let your trial become an opportunity to draw closer to other believers.
"The Patriot Post"
"The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is not, that the judges will be too firm in resisting public opinion, and in defense of private rights or public liberties; but, that they will be ready to yield themselves to the passions, and politics, and prejudices of the day." -- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"One single object ... [will merit] the endless gratitude of the society: that of restraining the judges from usurping legislation." -- Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Livingston, March 25, 1825
"ADF" Alliance Alert
ADF: Court order ends unconstitutional St. Louis policy banning literature distribution
http://www.alliancedefensefund.org/news/story.aspx?cid=4980
ALLIANCE DEFENSE FUND NEWS RELEASE
June 12, 2009 – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT ADF MEDIA RELATIONS: (480) 444-0020 or www.telladf.org/pressroom
Court order ends unconstitutional St. Louis policy banning literature distribution
ADF-allied attorney secures permanent injunction allowing Christian ministry to share faith at “PrideFest” event and other public locations
ST. LOUIS — A federal judge issued an order Thursday permanently prohibiting the city of St. Louis from banning a Christian ministry from distributing literature and speaking about their religious viewpoint at an annual “PrideFest” event celebrating homosexual behavior. An Alliance Defense Fund allied attorney secured the order on behalf of the Apple of His Eye ministry, which means that city officials can no longer enforce an unconstitutional policy they used to keep the organization from sharing its faith three years ago.
“Christian groups shouldn’t be prohibited from expressing their beliefs at public locations,” said ADF-allied attorney Rick Nelson of the American Liberties Institute. “We are pleased with the court’s decision to lift an unconstitutional ban on expression in these areas throughout the city, allowing members of Apple of His Eye to peacefully exercise their First Amendment right to free speech at the PrideFest event.”
In June 2006, members of Apple of His Eye were threatened with arrest by St. Louis officials for handing out Christian literature and speaking about their faith at Tower Grove Park during the PrideFest event, which celebrates homosexual behavior. In April 2008, Nelson filed a lawsuit and a motion for preliminary injunction on behalf of the ministry against the city of St. Louis. The preliminary injunction order was granted last June, just four days before the 2008 PrideFest event took place.
The permanent injunction issued this week comes in time for members of the ministry to express their viewpoint at this year’s event, which takes place on June 27 and 28. The order protects the ministry’s literature distribution activities in the future at all public parks, public squares, and other public places within the city of St. Louis–including public sidewalks.
Permanent injunction issued by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, Eastern Division, in Apple of His Eye v. City of St. Louis
ADF is a legal alliance of Christian attorneys and like-minded organizations defending the right of people to freely live out their faith. Launched in 1994, ADF employs a unique combination of strategy, training, funding, and litigation to protect and preserve religious liberty, the sanctity of life, marriage, and the family.
www.telladf.org
"FRC"
Sign our petition to House and Senate Leaders that abortion should be excluded from health care coverage
Will Health Care Reform Force You to Pay for Abortions?
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President Obama and the Democratic leadership are putting health care reform on a fast track, hoping to take control of 17 percent of the national economy in 6-8 weeks.
Any health care reform must address a number of factors, including affordability, accessibility, portability and transparency. Families, not government, should control how health care dollars are spent.
No health care reform should force us to perform or be complicit in actions we find offensive. A right of conscience protects physicians and other health providers from being compelled to do things that violate religious or moral briefs.
Of highest importance, under no circumstances should taxpayers be forced to give up what they have now, which is a firewall between their tax dollars and abortion. Because of the many ways health policy can be crafted to finesse this issue, as happened under the health insurance connector in Massachusetts, our position must be explicit: "If the legislation that is put to a vote in Congress does not explicitly exclude abortion, it will unquestionably include it and we will oppose it."
Please watch this video and then sign our petition to House and Senate leaders telling them that you oppose forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions in any health care reform plan.
Will Health Care Reform Force You to Pay for Abortions?
"The Web"
Uncle Jay Explains
http://unclejayexplains.com/2009/06/01/uncle-jay-explains-june-1-2009/
Palin Dodges Talk of Running for Governor Again
Monday, June 15, 2009 3:20 PM
By: Jim Meyers
http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/palin_governor_alaska_/2009/06/15/225337.html?s=al&promo_code=8189-1
Alaska Gov. Sarah has fueled speculation that she'll seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2012 by declining to say — at least for now — whether she will run for re-election in Alaska next year.
Asked by CNN's Wolf Blitzer if she definitely plans to run for re-election, Palin said: "I'm not definitely going to do anything yet.
"What I'm trying to get done for Alaska right now is to get that Alaska [natural] gas line built. We need those energy sources flowing through North America. That's what my focus is. That and raising my family, doing those good things that we need done up there in Alaska. That's my focus."
Blitzer asked: "So, no decision yet on either 2010 or let alone 2012, is that right?
The former GOP vice presidential candidate responded: "No decision that I'd want to announce today."
Running for re-election would be "a move unlikely for someone seeking the White House," CNN observed.
According to the Los Angeles Times, "other Alaskan politicians are positioning themselves for a governor's bid should she drop out."
Asked by Blitzer for her thoughts on President Barack Obama, Palin said she thinks he is "growing government way too quickly."
Obama Administration May Have First Real Scandal
One of the most precious freedoms in America is an open and free election process. Why would President Obama and/or his Attorney Journal dismiss the case against New Black Panther Party for threatening, intimidating, hurling racial slurs, and taunting voters at the election precincts? - oyh
By Hans von Spakovsky, Human Events
http://www.centerforajustsociety.org/press/article.asp?nav=publications&pr=5034
Lawyers everywhere are scratching their heads. Who among us has ever heard of a prosecutor dismissing a successful case?
Well, it’s happened in Philadelphia, where the Department of Justice dismissed a civil lawsuit it had already won against the New Black Panther Party (NBPP). This represents the worst form of political tampering with the administration of justice -- actions that are far more serious (and inexcusable) than the often alleged but always disproved claims of so-called “politicization” during the Bush administration.
Back then, the Voting Rights section of the Bush DOJ was frequently pilloried for being “politicized.” Exhibit A was its approval of Georgia’s voter identification law. But this accusation was shown to be thin gruel when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of photo ID laws.
The recent action -- or inaction -- by the Voting Rights section is a different situation entirely.
On Election Day last year, FOX News and other witnesses saw members of the New Black Panther Party in military-style uniforms and jack boots (one carrying a billy club) threatening, intimidating, hurling racial slurs, and taunting voters -- white and black alike. One of the Black Panthers was a member of the Democratic Committee of the 14th Ward and a credentialed poll watcher for the Democratic Party.
Bartle Bull, a distinguished New York lawyer who worked in the civil rights movement in the 1960s, saw the event and said it was “the most blatant form of voter intimidation I have encountered in my life.”
The Chairman of the NBPP, Malik Zulu Shabazz, explained he’d organized a program to “patrol election sites nationwide to counter voter intimidation and other threats of violence against blacks.” He appeared on FOX News three days after the election and endorsed the behavior of his members in the Philadelphia precinct. They were responding to an “emergency” situation, he explained, because there were Nazis and skinheads at the precinct. The FOX News reporter on the scene literally laughed at that false claim...
Click here to read the rest of this article: Obama Administration May Have First Real Scandal. http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=32174
DEMOCRATS JUST CAN'T GET ENOUGH GOVERNMENT
By Neal Boortz
http://boortz.com/nealz_nuze/index.html
Yesterday I spelled out for you the "suggestions" and "guidelines" the Obama administration has for executive pay. These guidelines are meant for executives at any publically traded company. Are you letting that sink in, folks? We are talking about the government setting guidelines for how CEOs at private companies will be paid, whether or not they have received bailout funds, TARP funds, fun funds or whatever. A top counselor to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner says, "We believe that compensation practices must be better aligned with long-term value and prudent risk management at all firms, and not just for the financial services industry." That's what the tax cheat's counselor believes. I believe the government has no business whatsoever getting involved in how private companies compensate their employees. The role of the government is to provide a forum where employment and pay contracts can be adjudicated and enforced ... nothing more.
As for companies that have received bailout money, the government's new "master of pay" will be setting the actual specific compensation levels. You don't have to be government educated to realize that this is going to mean that the brightest and most capable talent out there. What capable executive wants to work for a private-sector company where government hacks with not one-tenth of his ability will be setting his salary?
Some Democrats are upset. Any rational person would be upset over the fact that the government will be meddling in the compensation levels of private businesses. But this is not what they are upset about. They are upset because they feel that the Obama administration's efforts to reform private sector executive pay haven't gone far enough.
One of those Democrats would be Rep. Brad Sherman of California. He says that the government's plans to have shareholder's vote on compensation packages should be made binding on board of directors. In other words, Brad Sherman should write the incorporation by-laws for America's businesses.
Of course, slobbering Barney Frank is another Democrat who believes that the administration hasn't gone far enough. He says, "I do differ with the administration in that hope springs eternal and their position seems to be that if we strengthen the compensation committees we will do better ... I believe the structure of compensation has been flawed." In other words, the government can do it better.
Judge Sotomayor?
http://www.collegerepublicans.org/blogs/charlie-smith/judge-sotomayor
Submitted by Charlie Smith
The disastrous implications of Republicans losing control of Congress and the Presidency are hitting home for the first time for many people with President Obama's nomination of Judge Sonia Sotomayor to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Judge Sotomayor, a current judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, has a compelling personal story - one only made possible in our great country. The big concern lies with the fact that Judge Sotomayor uses her own guidelines in making judgments from the bench instead of referring to our Constitution that provides and protects our freedoms and liberties. In fact, according to The Washington Times, 60% of Judge Sotomayor's rulings that have been reviewed by the U.S. Supreme Court have been overturned.
Judge Sotomayor's unethical and inconsistent practices are a threat to our Constitution. We must safeguard the supreme law of the United States by ensuring nominees to the highest court are dedicated to interpreting the Constitution, not their life experiences.
Our outnumbered House and Senate Republicans must stop the confirmation of Judge Sotomayor. It won't be an easy battle against the Democrats and will probably require a filibuster in the process, but it's imperative Republicans put up a good fight. Here's why:
According to The New Republic, even Democrats who are familiar with her record have concerns about her suitability for the court:
"The most consistent concern was that Sotomayor, although an able lawyer, was 'not that smart and kind of a bully on the bench,' as one former Second Circuit clerk for another judge put it. She has an inflated opinion of herself, and is domineering during oral arguments, but her questions aren't penetrating and don't get to the heart of the issue."
Even more distressing are her remarks made back in 2001:
"Justice O'Connor has often been cited as saying that a wise old man and wise old woman will reach the same conclusion in deciding cases. I am also not so sure that I agree with the statement...I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." (Time magazine)
A Supreme Court Justice is supposed to strictly interpret the Constitution and treat everyone fairly under the law. Judging by her past statements, Judge Sotomayor has instilled zero confidence in the American people that she will follow that standard:
"Our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging...Personal experiences affect the facts that judges choose to see." (The New York Times)
A judge should render judgments based on the law, not based on their "gender and national origins".
If confirmed by the Senate, the consequences of Judge Sotomayor's unprincipled practices from the bench will impact all Americans for years to come.
Friendship remain and never can end
Think about this for a minute...If I happened to show up on your door step crying, would you Care?
If I called you and asked you to pick me up because something happened, would you come?
If I had one day left, to live my life; would you be part of that last day?
If I needed a shoulder to cry on, would you give me yours?
Do you know what the relationship is between your two eyes?
They blink together, they move together, they cry together, They see things together, and they sleep together,
BUT THEY NEVER SEE EACH OTHER... that's what friendship is.
"The e-mail Bag"
Two Mexican detectives were investigating the murder of Juan Gonzalez..
'How was he killed?' asked one detective.
'With a golf gun,' the other detective replied. 'A golf gun! What is a golf gun?'
'I don't know. But it sure made a hole in Juan.'
Moe: 'My wife got me to believe in religion.'
Joe: 'Really?'
Moe: 'Yeah.. Until I married her I didn't believe in Hell.'
Gun Purchase
A woman goes into a sporting goods store to buy a shotgun..
"It's for my husband," she tells the clerk.
"Did he tell you what gauge to get?" asked the clerk.
"Are you kidding?" she says. "He doesn't even know that I'm going to
shoot him!"
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