Sunday Faith Blog; BURNED BISCUITS!?

I got this wonderful email and wanted to share it with you:
"When I was a kid, my mom liked to make breakfast food for dinner every now & then. And I remember one night in particular when she had made breakfast after a long, hard day at work. On that evening so long ago, my mom placed a plate of eggs, sausage and extremely burned biscuits in front of my dad. I remember waiting to see if anyone noticed! Yet all my dad did was reach for his biscuit, smile at my mom and ask me how my day was at school. I don't remember what I told him that night, but I do remember watching him smear butter and jelly on that biscuit and eat every bite!
When I got up from the table that evening, I remember hearing my mom apologize to my dad for burning the biscuits. And I'll never forget what he said: "Honey, I love burned biscuits."
Later that night, I went to kiss Daddy good night and I asked him if he really liked his biscuits burned. He wrapped me in his arms and said, "Your Momma put in a hard day at work today and she's real tired. And besides a little burnt biscuit never hurt anyone!"
You know, life is full of imperfect things.....and imperfect people. I'm not the best at hardly anything, and I forget birthdays and anniversaries just like everyone else.
What I've learned over the years is that learning to accept each others faults - and choosing to celebrate each others differences - is one of the most important keys to creating a healthy, growing, and lasting relationship.
And that's my prayer for you today. That you will learn to take the good, the bad, and the ugly parts of your life and lay them at the feet of God. Because in the end, He's the only One who will be able to give you a relationship where a burnt biscuit isn't a deal-breaker!"

"Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use; it will be measured to you." Luke 6:35-38

Z: And, no...you will NOT find a recipe for burned biscuits at Mac 'n GeeeeeZ BUT, you WILL find an excellent and rather inventive recipe for the perfect roast chicken and chicken stock made all at the same time! Have a wonderful, blessed Sunday....
z

Could AL GORE go to JAIL?

UPDATE: CHECK THIS OUT...RAINFOREST CLAIMS BY THE UN PROVEN WRONG


You'll all remember how the British scientists had emails going back and forth which showed they had information against global climate change and wouldn't release it.....well, it looks like have skipped out on their fates (of prison time) because there's a law in England that says that doing a crime more than six months ago exonerates you from accusation...
Do you think GORE could GO TO JAIL? or is it just unethical here in America to lie or not invite the other side to what are supposedly world climate change meetings, meetings whose 'findings' can change drastically our whole economy in a very negative way to propagate incorrect assumptions and agendas, etc etc........? Is it illegal or just unethical to deny the natural variabilities which scientists, including Lord Monckton who'd originally worked with Gore, say might be changing surface temperatures? Why won't Gore DEBATE people from the other side? (see video) When I got the email including the link above, it brought all this up again and, when I heard Obama say something about scientists who ignore "the obvious evidence" of global climate change, it kind of scared me (is he that uninformed or unable to see two sides? I thought the left billed themselves as those with the big open hearts and minds?). Is NOBODY doing any even-handed investigating? WHY NOT?
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Obama's statement about the Supreme Court and its latest decision was WRONG.........

.......if you, too, were confused about how he was wrong, READ HERE....it's also another glimpse into the liberal media.

UPDATE: I just saw THIS article critical of the Court's decision. It's informative, too, and I want to be fair and show more on the issue. Do you have any thoughts on this?

(thanks, Gail)

The PIMP arrest in Landrieu's office....Not QUITE what you've already heard. Check this out:

Did you all see that story about the "pimp" who, together with a 'prostitute', video taped ACORN employees showing their corrupt actions in several offices, the story which got some federal funding ripped from ACORN? The "pimp", the big city newspapers like the Washington Post REPORTED HERE, had been found in Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu's office trying to tamper with her phones; it was a terrible charge with jail time associated to it and also made the ACORN stories seem not QUITE so valid since the perp was now arrested for something like breaking and entering. It also got Conservatives who'd backed him quite nervous as you can READ HERE.

I have to admit I, too, was slightly devastated, if one can be 'slightly' devastated. I believed the Post! "How could O'Keefe DO this? He should have KNOWN BETTER! All that good reporting, down the drain...DAYUM!" I was so not a happy camper.

But, not so fast, Z. And not so fast, all the rest of you. (and we should all know better by now) We're hearing now that it's not the truth at all. HERE is the story you MUST READ....that says IT ALL (super blog post, by the way, but you have to scroll down when you open that link to find the piece).

MY POINT IS THIS: I Googled WASHINGTON POST JAMES O'KEEFE and other words in various permutations and never could I find the RETRACTIONS of the Washington Post on the first Yahoo Page (I didn't even bother looking further, I figured it's a retraction, it's a later date than the damning articles, and you'd THINK it would be right there on top! But, no.) HERE is some info on what really happened, by the way, the REAL STORY.

Here is the WASHINGTON POST RETRACTION (I had to find it in 2 conservative blogs): Earlier versions of this story incorrectly reported that James O’Keefe faced charges in an alleged plot to bug the office of Sen. Mary Landrieu. The charges were related to an alleged plot to tamper with a phone system. The headline incorrectly referred to a plot to bug the phone and a caption incorrectly referred to an alleged wiretap scheme.
Wouldn't you think you'd see that right up on top of the Google page, for the sake of TRUTH and HONEST JOURNALISM? Ya, you'd THINK...
(thanks to my friend Hoosier Army Mom for the great information that the first info was wrong!)

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Beamish has a REBUTTAL to Obama at HIS PLACE...check it out! (but not until you've read and commented on my post below, of course! Let me pull an Obama here "READ MY POST....and don't you DARE disagree with it!" heh)

OBAMA SAYS, SIMON SAYS?.........Am I the ONLY ONE?....

.........or do you, too, find no REACTION to the list of Obama comments to the Republicans in THIS AP ARTICLE during his visit to their meeting? Surely, the Republicans responded? Surely the AP journalist was still there to hear them? Surely we haven't come to "Obama said it...now you have to DO it," have we? And, when he's pushing for ideas Republicans have been all over for years, he acts like they're his ideas....lower taxes, keeping jobs here, spending freezes, etc etc.......

Would most Americans see the news article and wonder why his comments are there but the Republicans' are not, or would most Americans just read his comments and take them on face value, never question their ramifications, and think they sound so nice and wonder, too, why Republicans won't just come on aboard!? The journalist DID say there was a "barbed exchange"...where IS IT? Let's see it. Here's ONE Republican reaction...but notice how AP writes it off with Obama's comment which makes utterly no sense at all?:

"GOP lawmakers pressed the president to pledge to support a line-item veto for spending bills and across-the-board tax cuts. Obama demurred, saying billionaires don't need new tax cuts."

"Billionaire tax cuts?" Um...the GOP asked for line-item veto for spending bills and across-the-board tax cuts. Wouldn't that benefit more than BILLIONAIRES? WHAT?

And, of course, you know the impression Obama tries to make when he says things like BILLIONAIRE TAX CUTS. Most Americans hear that and immediately say "Oh, he's RIGHT! NO WAY!" (Americans have now come to hate billionaires, as you all know...it's not REALLY good to be TOO successful in America, according to the Democrats). He's very cunning, Mr. Obama......knows just the buzz words Americans won't question him on. Very effective.

z

"SORRY", but sometimes a picture with a few words says it better than anything else...........

Well, okay...Some aren't quite as unhappy as some of US are.........

Chris Matthews: “[Obama] is post-racial by all appearances. You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.”

Howard Fineman (Newsweek): “If presidential leadership were only about giving speeches, the jackhammers would already be at work on Mt. Rushmore.”

Katie Couric (misquoting another liberal journalist): “[Obama is] better at making us smarter than making us angry.” Soon thereafter, CBS News reported that it’s quick poll revealed 83 percent support for the “proposals made in [Obama’s] speech.”

AND GET THIS: With the way Obama's thugs treated Joe the Plumber, and the way they insulted Palin and her family, with the way they wouldn't allow the Republicans into any discussions regarding the health care bill, the disdain Robert Gibbs so obviously displays for anyone who doesn't totally agree with him and his boss, with the way they've railroaded and been so UNtransparent, how can he say this (From THIS LINK that's full of amazing quotes from him) ?: "I want the Republicans off the sidelines. I want them to work with us to solve problems," Obama said. And then he added: "I don't want an attitude `If Obama loses, then we win.' I mean, that can't be a platform. ... All of us should be rooting for each other." ROOTING FOR EACH OTHER? Wouldn't that be unbelievably nice? How about rooting for Americans and realizing most aren't going for so many of his platforms!? He doesn't do anything which remotely reflects that supposed desire! How I wish that were something we COULD all do.
AND...Imagine if any Republican had said they forgot Obama was black tonight? What do you suppose Matthews MEANT by that? That Obama wasn't hip hopping all over the dais, or he had on a nice clean suit or didn't talk Ebonics? I mean, is it a 'compliment' to say one forgot a black man is black? Isn't that INSULTING AS HELL?
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TWO Americans are not PC enough to back down? Are things changing?

Animal Rights groups are angry at U.S. figure skater Johnny Weir for having a little fox fur on his skating outfit. He took in their comments and told them HIS THOUGHTS., one of which is: “I tend to focus my energy, if there is a cause, on humans. While that may be callous and bad of me, it’s my choice.”
While nobody at geeeeeZ advocates cruelty to animals, and the blog owner actually loves animals, I think Weir got it right when he reminded the groups that “Every skater is wearing skates made out of cow...”
The animal groups can whine and complain all they want, we Conservatives honor and respect that, but FINALLY, somebody in the limelight who demanded HIS truth be listened to, as well, and didn't back down. We respect THAT, too.
Kudos, Johnny Weir.

THEN THERE IS THIS, EVEN MORE IMPORTANT STORY FROM JUST N. OF LOS ANGELES!
This councilman said he was a "PROUD RACIST" and he's not backing down BECAUSE, his actual comment was "If believing in America causes people to think he's a racist, "then I'm a proud racist." Here's THE STORY............you'll want to see what's going on. This guy's holding to his statement and you'll see why.

Gosh..maybe something's happening...maybe we can get to where people can actually say what they think in this country without intimidation ....ya THINK?
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HOWARD ZINN has died

I will resist the urge to say what I'd like here. The man is dead. . May he rest in peace. And may America recover. Somehow.
z

THE OBAMA MIS-STATE OF THE UNION?

What did you guys think of the speech?
I was out this evening so I'm off to watch it now. A friend said he went back to blaming Bush at the end...can it BE?
And another told me that he accosted the SUPREME COURT OF THIS COUNTRY for their last decision regarding campaign finance. That's presidential, huh? :-)

Tell me a part that REALLY BUGGED YOU the most...........if you can narrow it down.
I'm off to my TV. And some wine. Think I'll need it?
By the way, I just saw on the Yahoo homepage that Obama says he "won't quit".... Man, I hadn't even hoped that high! :-)
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