Hello 912er's! In light of the current political news and executive fiats, I find this quote a clarion call to each of us:

Recall Santorum’s final admonition to the Catholic bishops, regarding how their moral purposes ought best to be achieved:
“And it’s time to wake up and realize that government isn’t the answer to the social ills.
It’s people of faith, and it’s families, and it’s communities, and it’s charities that need to do this….”

Read more at http://www.canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/...

Wow this has been dumped in my email quite a few times. Knowing now that the author maliciously attributed to Dr. Williams is egregious I cannot weigh the arguments presented. Was this a Sorosian script to infect our thinking?
Read and weigh Dr. Williams true commentary instead.

In the slip stream of digital chattering gossip, i.e., texts, tweets, chats I and others get caught in wasted hours of whine and groan.

It's refreshing to spend quiet time in classic history books of our nation and biographies on Adams and other founding patriots. We don't need the powder wigged artifice of their time, but from their devoted reflections, actions, and sacrifices to birth a free nation, our America, we can learn how to better walk and talk as true patriots.

ON WISCONSIN! Tomorrow we have pivotal state recall elections. Here's a great analysis on the races. Please pray the brave senators who withstood the thuggery and stood with Walker, pray they stay in their seats!
Badger Hunting
Recall elections have six Wisconsin Republicans under the gun.
Madison, Wis. — For Wisconsin progressives, the winter protests in the capitol were just the beginning. On Tuesday, six Republican state senators could be ousted from office for supporting first-term Republican governor Scott Walker, whose fiscal reforms have shocked the state bureaucracy and public-sector unions. If Democrats pick up three seats, they will take control of the upper chamber, which currently has a 19–14 Republican majority. The August elections were spurred by labor activists who collected enough signatures earlier this year to force the state to hold recall votes. Since then, more than $30 million has been poured into the contests, which both parties view as a proxy fight over Walker’s record in the run-up to the 2012 cycle. . .
READ MORE AT http://tinyurl.com/wisconsinrecallanalysis

Over the airwaves I keep hearing voters say they are "owed" entitlements because they "paid into [the system.]" The verbal blame game is a waste of productive energy. In our individual ways we have selfishly promoted and suckled BIG government programs. All the name calling and cursing will not shirk our personal culpability. Let's get the Pharisaic logs out of our eyes before we pull out the reflected splinters out of the eyes of leaders past or present.

Time for individuals and families to redirect their energies, tighten the belts, prep, and be locally reliant.

Well I wouldn't get all ad hominem about the answer, but yes, it is the current occupant of the WH, while he was a zip by, voting only "present" Senator.

Bomb Tears Through Norwegian Capitol as Gunman Targets Children in Summer Camp
OSLO, Norway – DEVELOPING: Norwegian police -- reportedly including anti-terror units -- were responding Friday to a shooting at a youth camp run by the ruling Labor Party, where authorities confirmed that several people were killed. The shooting came just hours after a powerful car-bomb tore through government buildings in Oslo. . .
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/world/2011/07/22/explosion...
Dear Father of Heaven and Earth,
We beg the LORD of grace and mercy to bring saving and healing faith
into this horrid situation, this terror abomination.
We look to you, LORD that many Norwegians find comfort and love
in the true and only Savior of the World, Jesus the Christ. Amen

Good to hear this news. God bless your DH with renewed strength. God give your mind His peace, marypieri.

Oh my, oh my! Friday morning, by a flash voice vote the House prohibited funding on the mandated 2007 light bulb regulations via an amendment by Republican Rep. Michael Burgess of Texas. :)
http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/house/17171...

I have sent this story out yesterday evening to a prayer chain of two churches of which I am head facilitator. May God hear our prayers for mercy and protection for this pastor.