Miss California USA

Beauty pageants are nothing new. The Biblical Esther became queen because she won a beauty pageant.

But the most recent Miss USA pageant got downright ugly.

Miss California answered a really loaded question with her honest opinion, an opinion shared with the majority of USA residents and citizens. However, the person who asked her the question has a different opinion.

When she gave her opinion he immediately launched into the most vicious, vile, profane and mean personal attacks imaginable. He didn't just disagree - he personally attacked her. He threw verbal temper tantrums and called her all sorts of derogatory names. His behavior exhibited a total lack of class.

And he wasn't the only one. She actually received death threats. Her mother had to get a new cell phone number.

Throughout this all, she has remained gracious and polite, respectful and tasteful. Says a lot for one so young.

In fact, the ONLY people who I have EVER heard say ANYTHING negative about her don't even know her.

The people who actually know her all say positive things about her. All of them.

Queen Esther was put where she was "for such a time as this." The same can be said about Carrie Prejean.

Obama is NOT Cutting the budget

President Obama's team is lying about the "budget cuts" in Obama's 1,500-page, $3.5 trillion budget.

They are not cutting the budget. In fact, Obama's budget is over $400 billion larger than President Bush's 2009 budget and $100 billion larger than the bloated budget resolution Congress just passed!

The fact is, the budget Obama released this week is basically the same budget his team released two months ago in "outline" form...

--This is the largest budget ever proposed by a President with the largest deficits in American history.

--It adds over $9 trillion to the national debt -- doubling the total debt accumulated from the start of our country through the Bush presidency.

--It includes the Carbon Tax, which could be as high as $2 trillion.--It includes the massive socialized health care program.

--It even ignores the $3.4 trillion budget Congress passed and reverts to Obama's original $3.5 trillion budget.

+ + The "budget cut" slight of hand

What about those "budget cuts"? As the Chicago Tribune Reported, the "news" of the budget cuts grabbed the headlines even though the supposed "cuts" were all in Obama's original budget!

There is nothing new. No new budget cuts.

Obama has simply repackaged his bloated budget -- ignoring Congress' budget resolution -- in terms of supposed budget cuts.

Obama fed this headline to the liberal media and they ran with it. Sadly, Republican leaders are trying to downplay the supposed budget cuts when, in reality, THERE ARE NOCUTS IN THE BUDGET!

+ + Expose this blatant, manipulative lie that is designed to portray Obama as a fiscally minded budget cutter when, in fact, he is the biggest spender EVER to sit in the White House.

+ + Action #1 -- Push the petition to 275 k. Please forward this to your friends and ask them to sign the "Stop The Spending" petition by going here:http://www.grassfire.net/r.asp?u=18902&PID=19941563

+ + Action #2 -- Spread the Word! We cannot allow the President to get away with this gross misrepresentation.

Also, call the White House and your members of Congress and express your disappointment about the Obama budget cut deception.

White House Switchboard: 202-456-1414

Talking Points:

#1--President Obama's announced budget cuts are nothing more than a political deception.

#2--Obama's budget is actually LARGER than the budget resolution just passed by Congress.

#3--The budget cuts are nothing new. In fact, this is the same bloated budget Obama proposed earlier in the year.

#4--Oppose the Obama budget that will nearly double our national debt and impose a massive Carbon Tax and a socialized health care program.

P.S. Again, even most Republican leaders are missing the real story here -- and the liberal media are pushing Obama's propaganda of "budget cuts."

Obama's proposal is by far the largest and most debt-ridden budget ever proposed.

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Walk By Faith

There is a song entitled Walk By Faith by Jeremy Camp which I believe was written after a very tragic personal loss. The lines that stand out to me are:

I will walk by faith

Even when I cannot see

I think of the Old Testament prophet Daniel who was taken captive into exile as a teenager. As a member of the evil and wicked Nebuchadnezzar's court, Daniel was likely "shifted into neutral" to live out the remainder of his life as a eunuch. When he was older, he was tossed into a den of starving lions.

None of this happened because of bad behavior or lack of faith on the part of Daniel. In fact, it was quite the contrary. But he never cried out, "Why is this happening to me? What have I done to deserve this?" Instead he prayed daily, facing Jerusalem, and trusted God.

When the 70 year exile was up and his people allowed to return home, Daniel was likely too old to make the journey; he would have been in his mid-80's and it's a r-e-a-l-l-y long walk from Babylon to Jerusalem.

Throughout his life, Daniel walked by faith, even though he had no way of seeing the extent to which he was being used by God.

We need to walk by faith also, even though we too cannot see what God is up to.

You asked for it - you got it

What he said

A Lost Teachable Moment

Recently a teacher took a lot of flak for the way in which students were taught about slavery. It seems the teacher chose two students, tied their arms and legs and had them spend a few minutes under a desk as a way to demonstrate how slaves were brought from Africa to the new world.

It seems the students didn't like being bound and tied.

Ya think?

Unfortunately, as I said, the teacher took a lot of flak.

IMHO, everybody (except maybe the teacher) missed the mark on just what a teachable moment this was. Somebody should have quietly told those kids and the rest of the class that the slaves didn't like it, either. And there weren't just a couple of slaves in the hold of the ship - there were hundreds. And the air was bad. The trip lasted a whole lot longer than a few minutes, and there were no potty breaks - use your imagination.

Furthermore the slaves had no mommy to complain to about the wrongs being done to them.

Let that sink into the kids' heads for awhile. Maybe they would develop a deeper and more meaningful understanding of what the slaves went through and how degradingly awful it must have been for them.

Yup - somebody missed the mark on this one, but it was NOT the teacher.

Change

Back in March I posted that a friend of my daughter's had squandered two college scholarships and was now neither going to school nor walking with the Lord.

All of that is still really sad, but I guess that she just disliked school so much that it just wasn't worth it to her to go to school in order to continue the activity for which she received the scholarships.

She may live to regret the decision - I don't know.

Pray for her and her family.

TV Commercial Review - Baskin Robbins

Apparently I am a minority of one, but I just have to speak out against the latest rash of Baskin-Robbins commercials. So far there are three - all of them seeming to say that there is no level of unacceptable behavior that can't be overlooked for an ice cream cone.

1) Mom comes to pick the kids up at Grandma's and announces that if Grandma says they have been good they can all go for BR ice cream. They have obviously not been good. Guilt is all over their faces and Grandma's house has been trashed. But Grandma says, "These little angels? I'll get my coat."

Proverbs 6:16 There are six things which the LORD hates, Yes, seven which are an abomination to Him: 17 Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood, 18 A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that run rapidly to evil, 19 A false witness who utters lies, And one who spreads strife among brothers.

I guess Grandma missed that part, and BR has no problems teaching kids that lying is an OK way to get what you want.

2) A kid is outside playing in the dirt in the front yard when his mom comes out and says that as soon as he gets cleaned up they can all go for BR ice cream. Unbelievably enough, the dad turns the hose on him child abuse style. Not fun run through the sprinkler style, but think surveillance video from the Florida car wash where the mom turned the car wash hose on her kid and was arrested for doing it. If her attorney sees that commercial, she will walk away scott free. But apparently child abuse is OK if that's what it takes to get some BR ice cream.

3) A soccer coach hollers to his team that if they win everybody goes to BR for ice cream after the game. A pink business-suited soccer mom on the sidelines makes a professional quality kick, screams "SCORE" and then bends over and nose to nose with an eight year old (more or less) from what must be the opposing team screams "IN YOUR FACE!"

All of this disgusting and despicable behavior for ice cream?

I suppose they are trying to say that people will go to great lengths for BR ice cream. What they have really said is unjustifiably bad behavior can be overlooked if it gets you what you want.

Talk about an ugly and tasteless message.

Open Challenge To The Homosexual Community

It is extremely doubtful that any of you will wander by this blog, but just in case, let me toss out a challenge.

You are no doubt aware of all the Biblical verses that specifically and explicitly define your sexual conduct as an abomination before the Lord. You are aware of these verses because well-meaning but misguided folks have rubbed your noses in them in a less than loving way.

So I'm not gonna do that. All I ask is that you find an equal number of verses that just as specifically and explicitly justify said behavior on your part.

Psalm 12:8

Homosexuals will gather near where I live this weekend and march down the street with pride, flaunting their chosen sin in the face of God. In years past, unspeakable and unprintable behaviors and utterances have been common.
Appallingly, people will actually take their kids to watch.


The wicked freely strut about when what is vile is honored among men.

Ps 12:8 NIV