I don’t care what is supposed to be politically correct. I don’t care that there may be a few in this country that the words Christ or Christmas or any other thing about my Savior may offend. This song is about my Savior and I want to it share with you.

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Celtic Woman, starring the angelically lovely Chloe Agnew, performs ”O Holy Night,” from the Celtic Woman concert at Slane Castle, in Ireland.

This song was never broadcast on television, or released in the DVD of the concert.

I first discovered Chloe on the plus-size modelling/ fashion site, http://www.judgmentofparis.com Chloe is not only a brilliant singer and incredibly talented performer, but also a positive role model for young women today – showing them that they don’t need to be anorexic to be beautiful and successful, but can be even more gorgeous at a naturally curvy size.

Reading the Idaho Press-Tribune today, Eric Muhr in For the Record, reports that – Of the world’s 17 leading nations, the United States tops the list for having the largest percentage of it’s population living in poverty.

I wonder if we don’t have our wants and appetites set too high in this country. I have been in the third world as I am sure many of you have. I never went as a tourist and always have stayed or lived with or among the natives. Out where they have none of the things we think we can’t live without, they have never had and never will. Do they miss them? No. Even many homeless people here live better than the general population in some places.

The first time I spent time in several nations of Asia I came home and looked at how we live, how spoiled we are, the waste, and I got mad. We don’t even appreciate the freedoms we have enjoyed in this great Republic we have and all we do is want, we become slaves of our wants. I think there is something in the Ten Commandments and other places in the Word of God about that but our government is telling us we can’t have them anymore. I bet you have a Bible laying around somewhere though if you look hard enough, if you don’t you can go to E-Sword and download an excellent program with lots of bibles and resources for free.

I hope this raise’s a few hackles, look around, read about the founding of this nation. A good book to start is “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and David Manuel.

I had to post this, don’t know who wrote it but he/she is very intuitive.

I don’t think I’ve ever seen the differences explained any better….

If a conservative doesn’t like guns, he doesn’t buy one. If a liberal doesn’t like guns, then no one should have one.

If a conservative is a vegetarian, he doesn’t eat meat. If a liberal is, he wants to ban all meat products for everyone.

If a conservative sees a foreign threat, he thinks about how to defeat his enemy. A liberal wonders how to surrender gracefully and still look good.

If a conservative is homosexual, he quietly enjoys his life. If a liberal is homosexual, he loudly demands legislated respect.

If black or Hispanic men are conservative, they see himselves as independently successful. Their liberal counterparts see themselves as victims in need of government protection.

If a conservative is down-and-out, he thinks about how to better his situation. A liberal wonders who is going to take care of him.

If a conservative doesn’t like a talk show host, he switches channels. Liberals demand that those they don’t like be shut down.

If a conservative is a non-believer, he doesn’t go to church. A non-believing liberal wants all churches to be silenced.

If a conservative decides he needs health care, he goes about shopping for it, or he may choose a job that provides it. A liberal demands that his neighbors pay for his health care.

Hi from Nampa Idaho

Well I lost most of this week, had a heart attack last Sunday and had a stent put in my heart. Guess I never thought it would happen to me. We never know about these things but thankfully we have a Great God who takes care of us if we let Him.

Everything worked out fine since I got to the hospital quickly and have little damage to the heart. Kind of a wake up call though, doc said even smoking 35 years ago can have lasting effects on the heart. I am mostly vegan so eat pretty healthy and thought the heart was healthy but remember having some trouble a month and a half ago when I loaded the last load of trailers and took them to California. Had trouble getting enough air and was dragging when I got done. It was the same way when I unloaded in CA, by the time I got all my chains and binders stashed on the tractor I was beat.

Now time to get back to giving you some important news so watch the blog. Maybe a day or so.

Bob

Have you heard about this gag order? Is this what a government “of the people, for the people, and by the people” is supposed to be? How can this be in a republic? We have came a long way from a battle for freedom that Almighty God made possible over two hundred years ago. In a letter to the editor in the Press Tribune in Nampa, Idaho, today 9/25/2009 the writer talking about this kind of thing, said at the end, “look in your bible at Galatians 4:9″. If you don’t understand what this is talking about or how it relates to today, please tell me and I will explain where I am coming from. Start in Galatians 4:3 to get more idea about 4:9.

It appears we are returning to the bondage that was fought against and won over only by the Divine help of Father God. If you don’t believe me go back to your history books. A great book to read about this is “The Light and the Glory” by Peter Marshall and David Manuel.

But, they say “history repeats itself”, but they also say ”experience is a great teacher”. It seems that any great society only lasts for about 200 years, I guess that is about how much time it takes to forget what was fought for!

In other words folks, We Have Had It Too Easy For Too Long!

This report from the Republican National Committee was emailed to me by a friend yesterday. I did not know about the gag order and maybe you didn’t either so here is the message I received.

Contact:Josh Holmes 202.228.NEWS
John Ashbrook

SENATE GOP LEADERSHIP, GRASSLEY, ENZI CALL ON SECRETARY SEBELIUS TO RESCIND “GAG ORDER”

“Until Your Department Rescinds Its Gag Order And Allows Seniors To Receive Information About Matters Before Congress, We Will Not Consent To Time Agreements On The Confirmation Of Any Nominees To Your Department Or Associated Agencies”

WASHINGTON, DC – Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, Republican Whip Jon Kyl, Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander, Policy Chairman John Thune, Vice Conference Chair Lisa Murkowski, NRSC Chairman John Cornyn, Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee Charles Grassley, and Ranking Member of the Senate HELP Committee Mike Enzi released the following letter calling on Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius to rescind the “gag order” issued by CMS this week.

September 24, 2009

The Honorable Kathleen Sebelius

Secretary

Department of Health and Human Services

200 Independence Avenue, SW

Washington, D.C. 20201

Dear Secretary Sebelius:

America’s 11 million seniors enrolled in the Medicare Advantage program deserve to be informed of any potential actions that could be taken by the federal government that could have broad implications on the Medicare program.  Medicare Advantage Plans and Prescription Drug Plans that provide services through the Medicare program have a constitutional right to provide information about these Medicare programs to their customers. Therefore, we hope you understand our grave concern with the recent Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services directive barring all such providers from any and all communications of this kind with America’s seniors. This gag order must be immediately lifted.

As the Supreme Court has repeatedly recognized, our constitutional tradition is one of “a profound commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open.”  Health plans, of course, have the right to speak on matters of public concern, a fundamental principle that your department, until recently, recognized and respected.  Specifically, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) had previously noted that there was no legal authority to justify prohibiting a health plan “from informing its members of proposed legislation and exhorting them to express their opinions” about it.  In fact, HHS had previously determined that shutting down communication of this sort “would violate basic freedom of speech and other constitutional rights of the Medicare beneficiary as a citizen.”

Now, the Obama administration has reversed this longstanding HHS decision – in the midst of a critical debate about the future of health care services in our country – to shut down communication between private companies and America’s seniors on an issue that has a direct impact on their health care.  Your department has done this by imposing an industry-wide gag order without apparent justification or basis in law, contradicting your past public guidance and the plain language and spirit of the First Amendment, among the most sacred tenets of our democracy.

America’s seniors and the health plans that serve them deserve to have their free speech rights respected.  Their rights should not be subject to the whims of any administration, and the health plans that serve them should not be threatened with punishment if they speak out on a matter of public concern simply because the administration disagrees with their position.

Until your department rescinds its gag order and allows seniors to receive information about matters before Congress, we will not consent to time agreements on the confirmation of any nominees to your department or associated agencies.

Thank you for your consideration of this matter of such great importance to America’s seniors.

Signed,

Republican Leader Mitch McConnell
Republican Whip Jon Kyl
Republican Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander
Republican Policy Chairman John Thune
Vice Conference Chair Lisa Murkowski
NRSC Chairman John Cornyn
Ranking Member on Senate Finance Committee Charles Grassley
Ranking Member on Senate HELP Committee Mike Enzi

SENATE REPUBLICAN COMMUNICATIONS CENTER
202.228.NEWS

Republican National Committee | 310 First Street, SE | Washington , D.C. 20003
p: 202.863.8500 | f: 202.863.8820 | e: info@gop.com

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BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: HELP US STOP A NEW CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION! Dear Friend, BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES ARE TRYING TO CHANGE THE U.S. CONSTITUTION WITHOUT FOLLOWING THE AMENDMENT PROCESS — IN FACT, THEY’RE TRYING TO REWRITE THE ENTIRE CONSTITUTION — AND THEY’RE CLOSE TO SUCCEEDING! What would you think if an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced by liberal Democrat Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, which repealed the First Amendment in the Bill of Rights — taking away our right to Free Speech? What would you think if an amendment to the U.S. Constitution was introduced by liberal Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, which repealed the Second Amendment in the Bill of Rights — taking away our right to Keep and Bear Arms? (A right that the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld!) “That could never happen,” you say. “No one would allow it!” Right? Well… Did you know that there are TWO ways that our Constitution can be changed? And did you know that Pelosi, Reid and Barack Obama are using the less well-known way, without having to actually introduce amendments? IT’S TRUE — and WE have to stop it NOW! One way to change the Constitution is to go through the amendment process — a long and tedious process requiring two-thirds of both houses of Congress to pass an amendment, and then three-fourths of the states to ratify it. That means a “super-majority” of our representatives at the National and State levels would have to be in favor of the amendment — which safeguards us from the possibility of really “bad” amendments. BUT… there is one other way that our Constitution can be changed… and it DOES NOT require all of those elected representatives to be in favor of it. It’s called a Constitutional Convention, and all that it requires is 34 states to ask Congress to call one. In fact, right now, all that is needed is for two more states to ask for a Constitutional Convention… and the basic law of the land could be changed forever by Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and Harry Reid!

WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW! Most people don’t realize that Article V of the Constitution requires Congress to call a new Constitutional Convention (a “Con Con”) if two-thirds (or 34) of the states request it. We’ve only had one other “Con Con” in our history: the one where the original Constitution was written in 1787! The language of Article V is mandatory: it says that Congress “shall call a Convention for proposing Amendments” whenever requests are received from two-thirds of the states. Note that the word “amendments” is used in the plural. These are the only instructions we have about a Constitutional Convention. There are no other rules or guidelines. We don’t know how a Constitutional Convention would be apportioned, or how the delegates would be elected. We don’t know what rules the Convention would operate under. We don’t know whether changes to the Constitution could be proposed by a simple majority, or would require a super majority, of those attending. We don’t know if the agenda could be limited or would be wide open to any proposal. We don’t know ANYTHING about how a Con Con would work — which means that it will come down to Congress setting the rules! And Congress is controlled by the most radically liberal Democrats in American history! Is that who we want to be in charge of a new Constitutional Convention? Do we want BARACK OBAMA, NANCY PELOSI, and HARRY REID to completely rewrite our most basic document of law?

WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW! The fact is, under the vague language of Article V, a Constitutional Convention cannot be limited. It would be wide open, and able to consider ANY change in the Constitution that was proposed! Former U. S. Supreme Court Chief Justice Warren Burger once said, “There is no effective way to limit or muzzle the actions of a Constitutional Convention. The convention could make its own rules and set its own agenda.” The Stanford Law School Professor whose case-book is used in the majority of U.S. law schools, Gerald Gunther, said that, even if Congress tried to limit the Convention to one subject, the delegates could decide for themselves that the Convention “is entitled to set its own agenda.” This means that, even if supporters of a “Con Con” claim that the convention would only cover one issue — whether it’s a balanced budget amendment or removing the requirement that to be eligible to serve as President, one must be a “natural born citizen,” or anything else — there is NO WAY to stop the Convention from changing EVERYTHING that we hold dear in America! Barack Obama and his far-left supporters would be able to get THEIR people appointed as delegates to the Convention, so that THEIR agendas would be the Convention’s agenda, and THEIR plans for socialism in America would come to pass. Say BYE-BYE to the First Amendment’s freedom of speech — Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity could be taken off the air. Say BYE-BYE to the Second Amendment’s right to bear arms — a total gun ban could be the law of the land! Say BYE-BYE to the Constitution’s requirement that to serve as President a man or a woman must be a “natural born citizen”! You KNOW that’s what they’ll do if given the chance — and we’re only TWO STATES AWAY from seeing a Constitutional Convention convened! You see, Article V says that it takes a request from two-thirds of the states to force a “Con Con” — but it doesn’t say there’s any time limit on getting to that total! Thirty-two states have already issued a call for a “Con Con” over the last few decades, including Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Wyoming. It only takes 34 states to REQUIRE a Constitutional Convention be convened! Some states, like Georgia, Virginia, and others, have since voted to “rescind” their call for a “Con Con” — BUT no one is sure whether those “rescission” votes are actually Constitutional…so the danger is REAL!

WE NEED YOUR HELP, RIGHT NOW, TO STOP BARACK OBAMA AND HIS ALLIES FROM CHANGING THE U.S. CONSTITUTION: CLICK HERE NOW! The United States Justice Foundation is launching a major campaign to STOP a “Con Con” from taking place — WE MUST CREATE a tremendous outpouring of publicity and public scrutiny to be given to this danger, so that Barack Obama and his radical liberal allies can’t “sneak this past us” without anyone noticing, until it’s too late. Right now, our staff is conducting legal and historical research, and preparing legal opinions, to submit to every state legislature, if necessary, and we’ll be offering to represent any state, or state legislator, in fighting the Con-Con based on those documents. We’re also going to be leading a grassroots effort to attack this issue at both the state and federal levels: At the state level, leading the charge in every state to either NOT VOTE for a “Con Con” (if they haven’t voted yet) or to RESCIND their past vote in favor (if they have). And, at the federal level, we’ll be mobilizing citizens across the country to contact their Representatives and Senators to DEMAND that they come out, NOW, and announce their support for a state’s right to rescind, and that they won’t support a call for a “Con-Con.” In addition, we’ll be calling on the Attorney General of the United States, and the Attorney General of each and every State that has passed a “Con-Con” resolution, to issue an official Opinion on the legality of rescission. THIS DANGER IS REAL. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called for the exclusive purpose of amending the Articles of Confederation. Once the Founding Fathers assembled in Philadelphia, however, they threw out the Articles of Confederation and wrote an entirely new Constitution, and even changed the ratification procedure so they could get it adopted more easily. The 1787 Convention is the only precedent we have for a national Constitutional Convention. There’s no guarantee that all of the changes to our Constitution passed at a Constitutional Convention would need to be ratified by 34 states this time — if a “Con Con” can change our structure of government as defined in Articles I, II, and III, of the Constitution, then it can also change the Article V requirement that three-fourths of the states are needed to ratify any changes. The Convention of 1787 reduced the number of states required to ratify a change from 100% of the states to 75%, and a Convention today could “follow their example” and reduce it further, to 66%, or 60%, or even 51%! WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN! There’s very little time to ramp this project up to FULL SPEED — we need to raise at least $100,000 to prepare and distribute legal opinions, lobby state legislators and begin our grassroots activism campaign this coming month. Please, CLICK HERE NOW to make your best possible donation, and let’s STOP Obama, Pelosi and Reid from ripping our Constitution to shreds, and re-writing it to their own socialist goals! Sincerely, Gary Kreep, Executive Director United States Justice Foundation P.S. President Barack Obama has already expressed his belief that the U.S. Constitution needs to be interpreted in the context of current affairs and events. Can you imagine what he and his supporters would DO to that document if given the chance to re-write it completely? Our Bill of Rights could disappear overnight! In fact, all the way back in 2006, Obama already had his lawyers researching how someone could get around the eligibility requirements to serve as U.S. President — these people simply don’t CARE about whether we preserve the supreme law of the land! Remember — when the last Constitutional Convention met in 1787, the original goal was to amend the Articles of Confederation. Instead, delegates simply threw them out and wrote a whole new Constitution. That’s EXACTLY what Obama, Pelosi and Reid would do this time — but this time, the result would destroy our freedoms. Please, CLICK HERE NOW to help us STOP them. Thank you!

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