God’s Mercy

http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/02/06/florida.abortion/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

I wouldn’t recommend reading this if you are feeling emotional. It is about an “abortion doctor” in FL who lost his license in a live birth abortion case. After reading it, the second coming can’t come soon enough. I am amazed that God has not shown his wrath to us. If anything, this is showing that He is so full of mercy towards us poor wretched sinners.

Abortion is has not offered a “choice” for women, it has created a prison. If you think about it, a woman who becomes pregnant and the time is not “right” or the conditions are not “ideal” she is “encouraged” to have an abortion. The pressure is intense. The reasons tossed out “You won’t be able to finish school”; “You don’t want your parents to find out”; “I will not support this baby”; “Your child will be a criminal because his father is”. The list could go on.

So then a woman ends up at an abortion clinic to “remove” the “problem”. Then we get cases like the one linked above.
Lord Jesus, have mercy on us.

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From the cnn.com article http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/01/22/virginity.value/index.html

“A recent study in the journal Pediatrics showed that religious teens who take virginity pledges are as likely to have sex before marriage as their religious peers, and less likely to use condoms or birth control when they become sexually active.”

In an early blog post, I mentioned that we tell kids the reasons to wait for marriage then send them out into an oversexed world. Of course, it doesn’t help that often times youth put themselves in to a position where they “get on the bus” and there aren’t any stops between the bus stop and “the end of the line” (being sex). And that bus stop is  fine line. A young man or woman may have all the plans in the world to wait but putting on the breaks once the bus starts moving can be very hard.

I also think the quote from the article above seems to be making religous people look like freaks. Pleanty of people say “no” and plan to wait who have no religious affiliation. I have helped out with a friend who did an after school program to teach abstinence and they were asked to sign a pledge to wait. This program did not have a religious affiliation. As a matter of fact, when working with the group, my friend was not able to talk about God at all, due to the source of her funding.

To keep kids from engaging in sex once they made a pledge to wait, we need to teach them how to stay off the bus.

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Unplugging Fox News

I have family members who worship the Fox News Channel. When you go to their house, it is always on. One family member even went as far as saying that it was a very Catholic news channel. Sure if you can call the CINO: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Steve Doocy and so on Catholic. I have found their “fair and balanced” not to be “fair and balanced” at all. It seems to be very sensational and trying to draw peoples ire.

But my real issues is with their website. Why worry about young children accessing p*rn when foxnews.com is full of it. Britney and Madonna kisssing, links to overseas news with nudity, pictures of women mostly naked, talking about their “fat factor”. The stories have been awful lately. Completely sensationalized. Very graphic headlines about the little girl in Florida whose body was found last month. Graphic headlines about how young children die, about abuse cases, about who is gay and who isn’t.

It is a sad day when I think that CNN is more “fair and balanced” then Fox News. It is also a sad day when I would rather use CNN.com as my news source.

foxnews.com, consider yourself unplugged.

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Dear President Obama

Please tell me why it is so important to make sure abortions are kept legal in this country. Legal to the point that no state can set its own laws on the subject.

Please tell me why when the majority of the people of the United States of America do not favor late term abortions, you plan to sign legislation that will allow abortions to be performed during all stages of  pregnancy, even when the baby is viable outside of the womb?

What does Planned Parenthood have on you that you would cater to their wishes and believe their lies? What does Planned Parenthood have on your Vice President that he would go against the Catholic Church (the religion that he claims to be a member of) reason his way in to accepting abortion as a “good” thing.

Mr. President, if you love this country as much as you claim to love it, keep in mind the words of a wise man “…a country cannot kill 50 million of its own and stay on top forever.”

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Dear President Obama

Were you aware that Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, the biggest provider of abortions in the United States of America, believed in “more children for the fit, less for the unfit.”? Do you know who the unfit were? Mainly Black People. YOUR people.

Think about that, sir.

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Still not impressed….

No matter how awesome the soon to be President Obama is, he still supports abortion, therefore, everything he does will be tainted. If he does sign the FOCA bill, he will be siging the death sentence of our country. First and foremost, he will be permitting the killing of millions of innocent children. That in itself it the most henious act a man can commit, but there is more.

Our country is founded on the basis of small government. The Federal government was not to interfer with state issues. (Read up on the civil war, it wasn’t fought to free the slaves, it was fought because the Federal government interfered with the rights of a state to makes its own laws). FOCA takes will take any laws a state has passed regarding abortion and throw them out the window and allow them to be performed during all 9 months of a pregnancy without parental notification for girls under 18 and without any reason. Hmmm, why do we even bother to have state governments if the Federal government can come in and change them.

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abstinence-only sex education = Failure?

Today I read that critics of abstinence-only sex education will be asking the soon to be President Obama to cut off federal funding of abstinence education programs. Of course this charge is being led by Cecile Richardson, the head or Planned Parenthood.

Oh and of course abstinence education is going to be a failure in our over-sexed society if we don’t give the kids tools to succeed. We can sit in a classroom with 12-18 year olds and telling them the disadvantages of pre-marital sex. They can hear about sexually transmitted diseases, unplanned pregnancies, emotional let downs then make the promise to wait until marriage. Then we send them out into the world full of beer ads, lingerie ads, internet, popular music, prime time television (complete with teenage soaps that are nothing more then bed hopping shows) and so on.

This doesn’t sound like a good set up for sucess does it?

Filed under: Social Commentary

Aldi too expensive? What?

Yesterday I took Karol out with me to grocery shop. I haven’t taken him shopping in a while as he is a fussy butt and will melt down at any time over just about anything. Yesterday he did very well. He helped me to get things off the shelf at Aldi and helped me to pick out things at Kroger.

So while at Aldi, I had an experience to blog about. If you have ever been to Aldi, you know it is pretty cheap. Sure somethings are no better a deal then at a “regular” grocery store, however, thier canned goods are good and much cheaper then even the store brand at our local Kroger. Cereal is the same price as store brand at Kroger, milk is cheaper at Aldi and meats are about the same.

I was standing in line (the only line open as is usual at any Aldi, anywhere in America) when I over hear a woman saying “…the milk at Kroger is cheaper…” then said that “…everything here is more expensive then Kroger…” I looked over to see a woman walking around with her skinny jeans, heals and Starbucks with a look of great distain on her face over the prices at Aldi. Her husband said “…yeah, let’s go, Kroger is much cheaper.”

Seriously? Are you on crack? The milk at Kroger was 2.79, milk at aldi was 2.42. I would like to know which Kroger this couple goes to, so I can get things cheaper then Aldi and get our milk and fresh fruits and veggies all in one spot. Perhaps these people were truly sucky, but their attitudes needed major adjusting.

Change of subject here.

We are getting ready to make a big change in our lives. I don’t want to go in to detail until we know for sure, so if you could all offer up a few prayers that things go well over the next few weeks and that we accept His will, we would really appreciate it!

Happy Sunday!

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Stealing from Anne again

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1. Started your own blog
2.
Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5.
Watched a meteor shower
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12.
Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18.
Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21.
Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23.
Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24.
Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29 Seen a total eclipse
30.
Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33 Seen Niagara Falls in person
34.
Visited the birthplace of your ancestors – Define ancestors? Medford, WI, yes. Fulda Germany, no.
35.
Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41
Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45.
Walked on a beach by moonlight
46.
Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52.
Kissed in the rain
53.
Played in the mud
54.
Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64
Donated blood, platelets, or plasma – sort of, I clotted too much.
65. Gone sky diving
66 Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67
Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69.
Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75.
Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79 Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem

84. Had your picture in the newspaper

85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88.
Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90.
Sat on a jury
91.
Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93.
Lost a loved one
94.
Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98.
Owned a cell phone
99.
Been stung by a bee

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