Thursday, December 12, 2013

Monday, November 25, 2013

BBC News - The victims of Syria's war finding care in Israel

BBC News - The victims of Syria's war finding care in Israel

Houston man hopes surveillance video, reward helps him find stolen dog | khou.com Houston

Houston man hopes surveillance video, reward helps him find stolen dog | khou.com Houston

Jews were targets before Israel's creation

Jews were targets before Israel's creation

Court bans Christian radio advertisement | Christian Concern

Court bans Christian radio advertisement | Christian Concern

Investigation continues in fatal shooting of country music singer Wayne Mills by downtown bar owner | The Tennessean | tennessean.com


 A lifestyle can get you killed. I came close myself
nvestigation continues in fatal shooting of country music singer Wayne Mills by downtown bar owner | The Tennessean | tennessean.com: Wayne Mills had prior convictions for driving under the influence and for reckless endangerment.



 A lifestyle can get you killed. I came close myself

Christians File Ballot Initiative to Protect Businesses That Decline to Service Same-Sex ‘Weddings’ | Christian News Network

Christians File Ballot Initiative to Protect Businesses That Decline to Service Same-Sex ‘Weddings’ | Christian News Network

Sunday, October 13, 2013

Thomas Sowell: Who Shut Down the Government?

Thomas Sowell: Who Shut Down the Government?


Jewish World Review Oct. 4, 2013/ 30 Tishrei, 5774
Who Shut Down the Government?
By Thomas Sowell







http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | Even when it comes to something as basic, and apparently as simple and straightforward, as the question of who shut down the federal government, there are diametrically opposite answers, depending on whether you talk to Democrats or to Republicans.
There is really nothing complicated about the facts. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted all the money required to keep all government activities going — except for ObamaCare.
This is not a matter of opinion. You can check the Congressional Record.
As for the House of Representatives' right to grant or withhold money, that is not a matter of opinion either. You can check the Constitution of the United States. All spending bills must originate in the House of Representatives, which means that Congressmen there have a right to decide whether or not they want to spend money on a particular government activity.
Whether ObamaCare is good, bad or indifferent is a matter of opinion. But it is a matter of fact that members of the House of Representatives have a right to make spending decisions based on their opinion.
ObamaCare is indeed "the law of the land," as its supporters keep saying, and the Supreme Court has upheld its Constitutionality.
But the whole point of having a division of powers within the federal government is that each branch can decide independently what it wants to do or not do, regardless of what the other branches do, when exercising the powers specifically granted to that branch by the Constitution.
The hundreds of thousands of government workers who have been laid off are not idle because the House of Representatives did not vote enough money to pay their salaries or the other expenses of their agencies — unless they are in an agency that would administer ObamaCare.



Since we cannot read minds, we cannot say who — if anybody — "wants to shut down the government." But we do know who had the option to keep the government running and chose not to. The money voted by the House of Representatives covered everything that the government does, except for ObamaCare.
The Senate chose not to vote to authorize that money to be spent, because it did not include money for ObamaCare. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says that he wants a "clean" bill from the House of Representatives, and some in the media keep repeating the word "clean" like a mantra. But what is unclean about not giving Harry Reid everything he wants?
If Senator Reid and President Obama refuse to accept the money required to run the government, because it leaves out the money they want to run ObamaCare, that is their right. But that is also their responsibility.
You cannot blame other people for not giving you everything you want. And it is a fraud to blame them when you refuse to use the money they did vote, even when it is ample to pay for everything else in the government.

Friday, August 16, 2013

August 16, 2013
Foolish Talking
"Neither filthiness, nor foolish talking, nor jesting, which are not convenient: but rather giving of thanks." (Ephesians 5:4)
In the book of Ephesians are included several guidelines for the Christian's speech—how we should talk and what we should talk about. These are not easy rules to follow, but are necessary if we would please our Savior and be effective in our Christian lives and witness.
As our text indicates, vulgar talk, idle chatter, and coarse jesting should "not be once named among you, as becometh saints" (5:3). "Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers" (4:29).
The same applies to bitter, angry, malicious speech. "Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamor, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice" (4:31). And certainly our communications should be true and trustworthy. "Wherefore putting away lying, speak every man truth with his neighbor" (4:25).
Thus, our words should not be crude or obscene, idle or foolish, bitter or angry, false or malicious. Instead, they should be good words, true words, gracious words, intended to edify—that is, build up—our hearers in their own Christian lives.
Further, if we would win others to Christ, we must always be "speaking the truth in love" (4:15). What we say to them must be fully in accord with both biblical truth and genuine Christian love. Finally, we should "be filled with the Spirit; Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ" (5:18-20). Gracious, edifying words can only come from a thankful heart. HMM

 http://www.icr.org/articles/type/6/

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

I have a new incoming scale for my Pottery work. It on it's way. Will be here today.
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Happy day!