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prayer request:

Michele (Reformed Chicks Blabbing) has cancer.  Please pray not only that she recover (God willing), but that she use her cancer as best that she can - there will be many learning and teaching moments.  Also pray that she see the comments of her more vitriolic leftist readers as what they are...a remarkable demonstration of the "T".

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Say "hello" to the "welfare state".

But, thanks to the simple phrase slipped into the legislation, the new "stimulus" bill abolishes the limits on the amount of federal money for the so-called Emergency Fund, which ships welfare cash to states.

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From CBMW's "Gender Blog":

"Florida Conservatives Fighting Transgender Restroom Law"

The Associated Press calls it a “dark ad,” but Florida conservatives are trying to show the potential fallout of transgender anti-discrimination law the city commission passed in Gainesville last year. The law allows “transgendered” people to use either a male or female restroom, the restroom of their choosing. The television advertisement, sponsored by Florida conservatives, shows a blonde girl heading into the women’s restroom from the playground. A scruffy man, lurking outside, rushes into the restroom behind her. The words, “Your City Commission Made This Legal.” The city commission approved the measure, 4-3, last year.

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HT:  Ric's Blog:
I AM A REPUBLICAN.

from:  Rebuild the Party.

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My (sometimes) weekly collection of interesting links, along with a few sprinkled thoughts...

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Lesbian students sue a Christian school for expelling them for breaking the rules.

We know that persecution is on the way...the more we cling to orthodoxy, to historical values and truths...the closer it gets.

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WTF?

Think that the use of WTF? is offensive?  So is the murder of unborn children.

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"Stimulas Proposal Facts"

Remember...change is good...

hope...change...hope...change...pork...pork...pork...

(From the Heritage Foundation:  If Government Spending solved recessions, we would never have recessions.)

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nuff said.

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President Obama's pick for Treasury Secretary?  Owes the IRS.

hope...change...hope...change...

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No...it's not what it looks like...

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How long did it take?

It's not as if it surprises me.

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A quote by an early women's movement leader:

“We have made a fetish of the Bible long enough. The time has come to read it as we do all other books, accepting the good and rejecting the evil it teaches.” --Elisabeth Cady Stanton

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more later (on lunes)

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"A Modest Proposal" at Christianity Today.

A couple of thoughts from the article...

egalitarians and complementarians can work together to oppose abortion on demand, an issue on which egalitarians stand together with complementarians against mainstream feminism

I don't know what rock he's been under...It took me about a minute to find the "Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice".

  • United Methodist Church (UMC website officially lists RCRC as an abortion resource.)
  • The Episcopal Church ("General Convention resolutions have expressed unequivocal opposition to any legislation abridging a woman’s right to make an informed decision about the termination of pregnancy)
  • Presbyterian Church (USA) (also lists RCRC as a ministry resource)
  • United Church of Christ (A founding member of RCRC)

What do these churches also have in common?  They are also egalitarian.

There are no complementarian denominations that show up on the members list of the RCRC.

So the author of the article should have said "complementarians and some some/many egalitarians..."

And

...egalitarians and complementarians can agree that homosexual activity is not a God-ordained lifestyle that should be approved within the Christian community...

Again, the word "some" (some/many) should appear before "egalitarian"...

which brings me to the next link:

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"O god of our many understandings..."

Opening inaugural prayer by (gay)(egalitarian)(bishop of the Episcopal Church) Gene Robinson.

Somehow I doubt that Robinson would like to unite with complementarians in defense of life and traditional marriage

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Underwater:  possible "stonehenge" in Michigan?

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From Huffington Post: Was "Jack the Ripper a Woman?"

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The desecration of the American Flag

(HT:  Michele Malkin)

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At some point I'll get "official" on Thursday 13 again...but for now...

13 "baby steps" - goals that I won't meet, but that are good enough to try for

  1. drink all my water
  2. take my supplements half the time
  3. exercise a little every day (almost)
  4. remember moisturizer during the day
  5. take a "beauty rest" (nap) twice a week
  6. blog 30 posts each month
  7. read my Bible every day
  8. knit a little every day
  9. read a little every day
  10. eat 7 fruits and veggies every day
  11. drink green tea every day
  12. listen to music every day
  13. enjoy life every day

Oh...my...goodness...

Time with my sisters-in-law is not good for the diet.  And winter is not good for the exercise plan.

So...baby steps.

This week I will:

follow Weight Watchers Flex Plan (that leaves me lots of room for treats)

Emphasis is on:

Supplements

I split my supplements into 4 groups, AM, Lunch, PM, and bedtime.  That gives me 28 groups of pills.  The habit of the week is to remember my supplements 25/28 times.

A Michigan blog I've just discovered:  Torch Lake Views.

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From Dark Roasted Blend (one of my favorite photo blogs)

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Gay activists are angry at Barack Obama;

Pro-lifers are angry at Rick Warren...

heh.

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The Dugger family welcomes child #18.  (profanity alert:  the link goes to the Huffington Post and evidently the only time "pro-choice" applies is when a family is "choosing" a small family...or better yet, abortion.)

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A "New Years Resolution" of a different sort?  Lignon Duncan will be reading and blogging through "Calvin's Institutes" in 2009

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