Thanks Jess!

Thanks LouAnn, I'm so glad you enjoyed them! I'll be sure to let Jill & Steve know that you said hello. I hope the pictures, videos, & blogs were able to allow you to reminisce fondly of your time in the Holy Land!

Thanks Majda, glad you enjoyed them!

And how do you know I didn't allot enough money?!

Thanks Ron, and thanks for covering over at church for me!

Haha that's what was waiting for us when we arrived from the airport, no options.. I had my shwarma today though! Delicious!

Thanks brother! I wanted to get these online ASAP, they're all just too good to not check out again just a few days later, haha! Glad you enjoy....we'll have to do it up again soon...real soon!

Yea, I know it'd be cool to see. It's just hard to justify the airfare....just about $500 right now for less than 72 hours!

As a side note, seeing the Grand Canyon would probably be worth it indeed, haha!!

I think it's very fair to compare. No other job compares to the POTUS, so comparison's of spending in administrations will be made; when spending in the first 20 months of one presidency will outspend the 8 years of another, that's a cause for comparison.

As for RomneyCare not being a reason for a write off of ObamaCare, I also think that's false. Both had many similar qualities and I'm more inclined to see, especially as of late, that this is not the reform folks are looking for.

Now as for "war"/defense spending compared to healthcare spending, yea, sure is pretty goofy. However, to offer the ability to even have a life to have healthcare for, our security needs to be in place. Should it be a goal to reduce defense spending, indeed, but our security is of utmost importance so that we even have life to care for as a domestic issue.

Therefore, healthcare reform should take place. As you pointed out to me via this article, (http://www.care2.com/causes/health-policy/blog/ma... Massachusetts isn't to blame for killing healthcare reform. Therefore, real solutions need to be be-partisan for something of this magnitude to be done.....and done right.

Thanks for pointing that out, that was a typo because I didn't mean to imply Healthcare was an "outlandish pet project". I did a strikethrough of the word "these".