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Plan B -Chuck E Cheese December 31, 2007

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Plan B worked out much better than Plan A.-Hershey Park-freezing rain.

CJ & Chuck E Cheese

CJ and Madison

My kids

3 generations

Reasonable Person for President December 31, 2007

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Peggy Noonan expresses some pre-primary thoughts worth consideration here

“This is my 2008 slogan: Reasonable Person for President. That is my hope, what I ask Iowa to produce, and I claim here to speak for thousands, millions. We are grown-ups, we know our country needs greatness, but we do not expect it and will settle at the moment for good. We just want a reasonable person. We would like a candidate who does not appear to be obviously insane. We’d like knowledge, judgment, a prudent understanding of the world and of the ways and histories of the men and women in it.”

16 bells December 21, 2007

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16 years of marriage

Which candidate really supports the issues you care about? December 21, 2007

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Forget the hype, forget the snippets, forget the make-up and make-overs. Take the 11 question quiz on the main issues and see which candidate you agree with the most.

Take the Quiz.

Christmas got you stressed? December 21, 2007

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Does Christmas get you stressed ? Does me even asking you that stress you out?! Who doesn’t have stress ?

Stress is defined as: a mentally or emotionally disruptive or upsetting condition occurring in response to adverse external influences and capable of affecting physical health, usually characterized by increased heart rate, a rise in blood pressure, muscular tension, irritability, and depression. (American Heritage Dictionary)

Stress is said to be one of the most pandemic fruits of our society and culture. That’s interesting because as Christians the fruits that are to typify of our lives is to be that of the Spirit … love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control (Gal 5:22) … and yet we are all stressed out. I heard a sermon about three months ago on stress that was so far off the mark biblically, and wasnt that great of a seminar either! But I am not going to duplicate that poor stress management seminar cloaked as a sermon, bujt rather look to see what God has to say about it.

I would say instead of looking at stress we need to look for peace instead. We are given prescriptions for peace that dont require a doctor or a pharmacy to fill either. We will never be able to escape or eliminate stress from our lives. But with God’s help we can lose the weight of it in our lives. Stress plagues us as Christians for a couple major reasons ; first, we don’t take God at His Word, because second, we don’t trust God.

Proverbs 3:5-7 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; 6 In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your paths. 7 Do not be wise in your own eyes; Fear the LORD and depart from evil.

Listen to the psalmist … As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands. (Psalms 119:143)

The joy the psalmist finds in God’s commands is not merely in knowing about God’s Word or being able to quote it. But his joy (fruit of his life) is based on taking God at His Word knowing he can trust God and therefore he applies God’s Word to the stress and pressures of life.

No application of God’s Word leaves us weighted down with stress filled living.We want peace in the midst of strife and stress on our own terms. We think we know better than God. In stressful times are we are more likely to trust our own instincts and to lean on our own intuitions, being wise in our own eyes?We stress ourselves out seeking for some stress reliever, when all the while if we take God at His Word we will find His peace.

So how do we find peace?

Psalms 119:165 NIV Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.

Isaiah 26:3 NLT You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, whose thoughts are fixed on you!

Isaiah 48:18 Oh, that you had heeded My commandments! Then your peace would have been like a river, And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Psalms 119:143 As pressure and stress bear down on me, I find joy in your commands

Philippians 4:6-7 Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God; and the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Christmas and life in general got you stressed? God’s Word is full of applicable scriptures to help us to lose stress. Give yourself a Christmas present and take God at His Word, give the stress to Him and He will give you His peace in return.

This is the perfect time to give Him all your phony righteousness and attempts to please Him through being good enough, religious enough, going to church enough or trying to earn your salvation or impress your neighbor with your good works. That is enough to stress anyone out because it is a losing formula, a proven failure.

Instead accept His righteousness, and find His peace. It’s the only righteousness and peace you will ever have.

Are we voting for a president or preachers? December 21, 2007

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Are we voting for a president or what?

Your thoughts?

See the original ad and Ron Paul’s response below.

Your thoughts?

See the original ad and Ron Paul’s response below.

Who’s the Worst Nanny of 2007? December 11, 2007

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The Center for Consumer Freedom is handing out its annual Nanny Awards, and we want you to vote for the worst food cop of 2007. The competition is fierce. Vying for the title: Overzealous state legislators pushing bans on common food ingredients; health officials prohibiting full-grown adults from eating dessert; prominent food activists caught in acts of rank hypocrisy; and animal-rights fanatics using the force of law to make food companies conform to their radical anti-meat dogmas.
	Michael Jacobson, “No Yummies for Dummies’ Tummies ” Award — It would be quicker to list all the foods the Executive Director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) didn’t attack in 2007. Chinese take-out, margarine, quesadillas, and caffeine all made it onto his blacklist. In February, Jacobson told CBS Radio that “restaurants have every right to make these foods and you have every right to eat them.” But CSPI’s lobbying efforts suggest otherwise. The group has sued restaurants for using margarine (trans fat) and is petitioning the FDA to control how much salt you can have.
	Pamela Anderson, “Tuna Tacos Make Merry Marriage” Award — The publicity-starved spokes-blonde for the animal rights wing nuts at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) was caught yet again flouting her veggie “principles.” In June, Anderson got married (for a third time). The menu at her post-ceremony dinner? Pigs in a blanket, tuna tacos, and lobster.
	Adria Hinkle and Andrew Cook, “Dumped Dogs Tell No Tales” Award — Let’s get this straight: PETA employees Hinkle and Cook admitted in court to picking up perfectly healthy dogs and cats from North Carolina-area shelters, killing said animals in the back of their PETA-owned van, and tossing the bodies into nearby dumpsters. Yet PETA President Ingrid Newkirk criticized them only for using the dumpster!
	Putnam County Office for the Aging, “86-ing Octogenarians’ Food Choices” Award – Everyone knows the expression, “Like taking candy from a baby.” But health officials in this small New York county got it backwards: They tried to take donuts from the elderly. To protest the ban on donated baked goods at local retirement centers, senior citizens wore signs to remind officials that they’re “86, not 8.”
	Meme Roth, “Real Cops Need to Arrest Food Cop” Award — This self-appointed obesity activist crammed a whole lot of crazy into the past year. She called out the Keebler Elves, Girl Scouts, and even Santa Claus as obesity culprits. Roth had to be physically restrained from vandalizing a YMCA snack table. And when asked on The Daily Show if “eating a cupcake is the same as putting a gun in your mouth,” she agreed.
	Thomas Frieden, “Der Kommissar” Award – As commissioner of New York City’s humorously named “Department of Health and Mental Hygiene,” Frieden spearheaded a ban of trans fat, a common ingredient in crackers and pastries. In November he reintroduced complex mandatory menu labeling legislation. No word yet on the proof his version of menu labeling works any better.
	Wayne Pacelle, “If You Can’t Beat Them, Kill Them” Award – It was a pretty rough year for the president of the $152 million Humane Society of the United States. In May, Pacelle got battered during a Congressional hearing for his claims about mad cow disease. In the wake of the Michael Vick dog fighting scandal, HSUS promised to care for the disgraced NFL star’s pit bulls. When it was later revealed that HSUS was doing nothing of the sort, Pacelle publicly recommended that government officials kill the dogs.
	Dan Kinburn, “Suing Everything Under the Bun” Award – A lawyer for the PETA-affiliated Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) has been encouraging trial lawyers to use California’s Proposition 65 (a notorious “bounty hunter” law) to sue “virtually every restaurant in the state of California that is not serving an all-vegetarian diet.”
	Harold Goldstein, “PhD Most in Need of Summer School” Award – He heads the California Center for Public Health Advocacy (CCPHA), the food cops for the West Coast. Though Goldstein holds a doctorate in public health, he failed his own organization’s quiz on basic nutrition. CCPHA designed the test to support government-mandated calorie-posts on menus. But it really only shows the need for high academic standards for Public Health degrees.