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"Daily Motivations"
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow. -- Melody Beattie
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes." -- Hugh Downs
"Daily Devotions" (KJV and/or NLT)
Won't You revive us again, so Your people can rejoice in You? (Psalm 85:6)
For years, Evan Roberts yearned to preach the gospel. One day in 1904 while he was in prayer, God revealed to him that He was going to send a revival to Wales.
Roberts was a young Welsh miner with coal dust in his hair and grime beneath his fingernails. He possessed no skills as an orator. The only book he knew was the Bible. But his heart burned with a passion for God.
Roberts begged his pastor to let him preach. At first the bewildered minister said "No." Finally, after much pleading, the pastor relented. "All right, Evan, you can preach following the Wednesday night service," he said, "if anyone chooses to stay and listen."
Seventeen curious seekers stayed behind. The young evangelist boldly proclaimed that he had heard from God. Although Roberts was unskilled in preaching, the pastor and those 17 church members began to burn with a fiery touch from God.
The next night more came to hear the young preacher, and the fire quickly spread to other churches. In the next thirty days, 37,000 people came forward to repent of their sins and receive Jesus. Within five months, 100,000 responded!
Just as God had shown him, Roberts saw the revival leap to England. There, an estimated 2 million people received Christ. Then the Holy Spirit coursed out into Western and Northern Europe, Africa, India, China, Korea and to America. Historians estimate that 20 million people began a personal relationship with Christ while this revival burned in America.
Your View of God Really Matters …
Does your heart burn with a passion for God? Have you confessed all known sin? Do you tolerate any doubtful habits? Do you listen for the Holy Spirit's voice? Do people around you even know you are a follower of Jesus? Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Follow Jesus today.
"The Patriot Post"
"I hope, some day or another, we shall become a storehouse and granary for the world." -- George Washington, letter to Marquis de Lafayette, 1788
"The cause of America is in a great measure the cause of all mankind." -- Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776
The Founding Fathers on Jesus, Christianity and the Bible
Josiah Bartlett
MILITARY OFFICER; SIGNER OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE; JUDGE; GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE
Called on the people of New Hampshire . . . to confess before God their aggravated transgressions and to implore His pardon and forgiveness through the merits and mediation of Jesus Christ . . . [t]hat the knowledge of the Gospel of Jesus Christ may be made known to all nations, pure and undefiled religion universally prevail, and the earth be fill with the glory of the Lord.16
Endnotes:
16. Josiah Bartlett, Proclamation for a Day of Fasting and Prayer, March 17, 1792.
"FRC"
Call your Senators NOW at 202-224-3121 and ask them to vote for the 'Nelson Amendment' on abortion funding
URGENT: Vote on Abortion Amendments to Health Care
The Senate is voting as early as today on an amendment to the health care bill being offered by Senator Ben Nelson (D-Neb.) which will ensure that abortion is not funded by government dollars.
Please call the U.S. Capitol switchboard NOW at 202-224-3121 and ask your state's two U.S. Senators to vote for the Nelson Amendment on abortion funding.
Sincerely,
Tony Perkins
President
"The Web"
White House Won’t Let Social Secretary Testify About Gate Crashers
http://www.breitbart.tv/white-house-wont-let-social-secretary-testify-about-gate-crashers/
Copenhagen Conference Begins While The Global Warming Scare Ends
http://blog.heritage.org/2009/12/07/copenhagen-conference-begins-while-the-global-warming-scare-ends/
The United Nations climate change conference begins in Copenhagen today, but it may spell the beginning of the end to the global warming scare.
For nearly two years, this meeting was touted as the biggest global warming conference since the 1997 meeting in Kyoto, Japan. That conference resulted in the Kyoto Protocol, with emissions reduction targets for developed nations. These targets expire in 2012, thus Copenhagen was seen as the pivotal time and place to expand the Kyoto approach into the future. American wisely stayed out of Kyoto – which has been a failure, as developing nations like China were exempted from reductions, and many developed nations have failed to live up to its commitments - but many thought President Obama would sign the U.S. up to a post-Kyoto deal.
But economic, political, and scientific reality is intruding. Even with the President promising to attend the conference on the critical final day, it does not look like much will come of Copenhagen other than the usual consolation agreement to try again next year.
The economic reality is that substantially reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels is prohibitively expensive, especially given the lingering recession.
The political reality is that China and other fast developing nations insist on being exempted from binding, verifiable, and enforceable targets. But since these nation’s emissions are rising much faster than those of the developed world, exempting them would render any treaty almost meaningless.
The scientific reality is that global warming is proving to be far from a crisis. Climategate – the leak of emails showing gross misconduct amongst scientists with important roles in promulgating the official UN science – further adds to the doubts. The fact that temperatures have been flat for over a decade doesn’t help either.
Pro-Kyoto negotiations will try their best to make Copenhagen their big moment. But most likely, action on any new emissions reduction targets, both via treaty or domestic legislation (currently stalled in the Senate) will be punted into 2010. However, the above mentioned economic, political, and scientific realities aren’t going away. And 2010 is an election year, making it harder for Washington to sign on to something unpopular like a de facto energy tax in the name of addressing global warming.
Global warming alarmists have long thought of Copenhagen as a turning point on this issue. They may be right, but not as they intended.
For background on the Copenhagen conference as well as live updates from it during the critical final week of December 14 – 18th, go to www.heritage.org/copenhagen.
Inhofe: It’s ‘Dishonest’ for Obama to Attend Global Warming Summit and Say America Will Cap Carbon Emissions
By Terence P. Jeffrey, Editor-in-Chief
http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=58079
(Update: The White House now says President Obama will attend the U.N. climate change conference on Dec. 18, the final day, when most other heads of state are expected to show up.)
(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, ranking Republican on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, says it is “dishonest” for President Barack Obama to announce at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen that the United States will cap its carbon emissions because legislation to do so has no chance of passing in Congress.
The White House announced on November 26 that Obama will personally attend the climate summit on December 9 (the date was later changed to December 18). While he's there, the president will announce that the U.S. intends to reduce its carbon dioxide emissions by the year 2020 to 17 percent below what they were in 2005.
This 17% reduction mirrors the reduction that would be mandated in the United States if the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House by a 219-212 vote on June 26 were enacted into law.
Cap-and-trade legislation has stalled in the Senate, however, and Inhofe told CNSNews.com in a video interview this week that he is certain it will not even get a Senate vote during this Congress.
When asked if he predicted that the cap-and-trade bill would not come up for a Senate vote in this Congress, Inhofe said: “Yes, I do. Absolutely. It cannot come up. It won’t come up.”
Inhofe estimated that at this point carbon-capping legislation may have as few as 28 Senate supporters, while sixty votes are needed in the Senate to end debate on a bill and bring it to a final vote.
“They need 60 votes. They’re not even halfway there. And they know this,” Inhofe said of the Senate advocates of carbon-capping legislation.
In light of this, Inhofe said it is “dishonest” of Obama to go to Copenhagen and tell the world that the U.S. will cap carbon emissions.
“I think it is dishonest for him to go,” Inhofe told CNSNews.com. “I know that’s a strong word. But if he goes, we have seen what he is going to release there. He’s going to say that the United States of America will commit themselves to reducing our CO2 emissions by 17% by the year 2020. Now, that’s essentially the Markey bill--the Waxman-Markley bill that passed--the same targets. And yet he knows when he says that, that we’re not going to pass it.”
The cap-and-trade bill that passed the House in June was sponsored by House Energy and Commerce Chairman Henry Waxman (D.-Calif.) and Rep. Ed Markey (D.-Mass.), who chairs the House Subcommittee on Energy and Environment.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, from Dec. 7 through Dec. 18. More than 190 nations are expected to participate. The original agenda of the conference was to finalize an international climate-change treaty in which the nations of the world would pledge to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions to targeted maximum levels. The hypothesis behind the proposed treaty is that if all the nations of the world curtail carbon emissions it will reduce the chances that the planet will catastrophically overheat as a result of human industry.
Last month, at the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation summit in Singapore, leaders of some of the key nations that will be attending the Copenhagen summit decided to postpone finalizing a treaty at Copenhagen and instead seek a “politically binding” agreement that would form the basis for a climate-change treaty that would be finalized next year.
“There was an assessment by the leaders that it is unrealistic to expect a full internationally, legally binding agreement to be negotiated between now and Copenhagen, which starts in 22 days,” White House Deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman told the New York Times on Nov. 15. The Times reported then that a major obstacle to obtaining a treaty at Copenhagen was the fact that the U.S. Congress had not enacted a bill to cap carbon emissions in this country.
Inhofe said that he has done interviews recently with European media outlets that seem not to understand that Obama cannot cap carbon emissions by U.S. industries without securing legislation from Congress.
“There saying: Well, the president says you are going to do this,” said Inhofe. “They don’t understand that the president has to bring something like that in our government system--this is not a king, this is a president--and he has to bring anything like that to Congress,” said Inhofe.
Global warming in the hot seat
By Ken Connor
"... to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough — the prime requisite is rightly to apply it." -Rene Descartes
"Don't bother me with facts, Son. I've already made up my mind." -Foghorn Leghorn
As world leaders prepare to gather in Copenhagen to discuss a global strategy for combatting climate change — a strategy likely to involve a substantial growth of government power at the expense of individual and economic liberty — a shock wave of controversy threatens to shatter what many have come to view as settled science.
As a result of the intrepid work of several warming skeptics skilled in the art of hacking into computer systems, an extensive network of corruption at the heart of the international climate change movement has been exposed. According to thousands of e-mail exchanges now made public, it has been discovered that several of the individuals responsible for the scientific evaluation and verification of global warming theories are guilty of systematically manipulating, withholding, or destroying data that threatened to undermine the veracity and legitimacy of arguments for man-made climate change.
This is a classic example of the politicization of science. In a gross affront to their vocation's guiding credo, men and women of science allowed an emotionally and politically charged ideology to muddle their thinking and corrupt their work. Guided, no doubt, by a fierce conviction in the righteousness of their cause, these scientists have abused the public's trust in their professional integrity; they have abused the power of their position to take an entire industry hostage. Without hesitation or shame, they sought the professional ruin of dissenters within their ranks and knowingly perpetrated intellectual fraud upon the global community — all in service of a narrow political agenda that resonated with them on a personal level.
Ironically, these scientists have done irreparable damage to the cause they so cherish. Instead of acknowledging the mixed data and encouraging an open dialog within the scientific community and beyond, these self-appointed data despots — aided and abetted by a cadre of celebrity spokesmen and political operatives — chose a path of deception and manipulation. This tactic, now exposed, will only lend added weight to conspiracy theories and criticisms that have surrounded the issue of global warming for the last decade. A cloud of shame now hangs over an issue that — if couched in moderate terms of conservation, or heaven forbid, the Biblical principles of stewardship and human exceptionalism — might have garnered widespread momentum from across the political and ideological spectrum.
But just as parochialism and intolerance within the scientific community have smothered productive dialog and sparked a bitter social divide on the issues of intelligent design and stem cell research, the Machiavellian tactics of climate change activists posing as legitimate scientists threaten to spell the end of a movement that — if couched in less revolutionary terms — had the potential to unite millions and define a generation.
As President Obama prepares for Copenhagen, it will be interesting to see how he responds to Climategate. In light of the controversy now surrounding this issue, it would be imprudent of the President to push forward with his ambitious Green agenda. Then again, the economic welfare of the American people hasn't dissuaded him from pursuing a $200 billion annual tax on energy consumption, and he does have his Liberal benefactors to consider. At the end of the day, the President may well decide that a little academic fraud is a small price to pay for the "noble" cause of change.
Tea parties gain ground in healthcare battle
Jim Brown - OneNewsNow
http://www.onenewsnow.com/Politics/Default.aspx?id=798258
Tea Party activists are being encouraged to continue their fight to derail Democrats' planned government takeover of America's healthcare system.
South Carolina Republican Senator Jim DeMint addressed a gathering of Tea Party activists last week and credited them with blocking Democratic efforts to enact a government-run health insurance program. He also said grassroots activists have a chance to prevent passage of healthcare legislation currently being debated in the Senate.
Pete Sepp, vice president of the National Taxpayers Union, one of the lead organizers of the massive 912 March on Washington two months ago, believes Tea Party activists are the biggest single reason members of Congress have been reluctant to pursue big government initiatives, but notes any grassroots effort aimed at changing Washington's big-spending ways faces an uphill battle.
"That's why Tea Party activists, along with members of established organizations over the years, have to band together and make sure that members of Congress don't get away with ramming through healthcare while no one's looking," he states. "And that's one reason why, for example, we need to have more rallies on Capitol Hill, more rallies in local areas, and keep up the fight."
Sepp says Senator DeMint has been an effective spokesman in helping grassroots activists "recognize their power and understand that they can change the way Washington works if they put enough energy and time into the effort."
President Obama Loans 2 Billion to Brazilian Oil Exploration to Drill For Oil Offshore
http://www.nhinsider.com/blogger-alerts/tag/president-obama
Received the following via email…Unable to locate any information on this topic at Snopes.com. If it is true it sure does tick a person off! Bob DeMaura NHInsider.com
This is a perfect example why I refrain from watching the news on ABC, NBC, CBS, or MSNBC. Today (20 August 2009) on a segment of the "Glen Beck Show" on FCN (Fox Cable News) was the following:
"Today, even though President Obama is against off shore drilling for our country, he signed an executive order to loan 2 Billion of our taxpayers dollars to a Brazilian Oil Exploration Company (which is the 8th largest company in the entire world) to drill for oil off the coast of Brazil! The oil that comes from this operation is for the sole purpose and use of China and NOT THE USA! Now heres the real clincher...the Chinese government is under contract to purchase all the oil that this oil field will produce, which is hundreds of millions of barrels of oil". We have absolutely no gain from this transaction whatsoever!
Wait, it gets more interesting. Guess who is the largest individual stockholder of this Brazilian Oil Company and who would benefit most from this? It is American BILLIONAIRE, George Soros, very Liberal businessman who is a radical left wing supporter, finances MoveOn.org as well as other liberal programs and was President Obama's most generous financial supporter during his campaign. If you are able to connect the dots and follow the money, you are probably as upset as I am. Not a word of this transaction was broadcast on any of the other news networks!
"The e-mail Bag"
GOD'S E-MAIL
One day God was looking down at Earth and saw all of the evil that was going on. He decided to send an angel down to Earth to check it out. So He called one of His best angels and sent the angel to Earth for a while. When she returned she told God, yes it is bad on Earth, 95% is bad and 5% is good.
Well, He thought for a moment and thought maybe He'd better send down a second angel to get another point of view. So God called another angel and sent him to Earth for a time too. When the angel returned he went to God and told him "Yes, the Earth is in decline. 95% is bad and 5% is good." God said this was not good.
So He decided to send e-mail to the 5% that were good. He wanted to encourage them, give them a little something to help them keep going.
Do you know what that e-mail said?
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Oh, you didn't get one either, huh? Bummer.
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