Psalm 33:1-5
1 Sing for joy in the Lord, O you righteous ones;
Praise is becoming to the upright.
2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre;
Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.
3 Sing to Him a new song;
Play skillfully with a shout of joy.
4 For the word of the Lord is upright,
And all His work is done in faithfulness.
5 He loves righteousness and justice;
The earth is full of the lovingkindness of the Lord.
Open Thread, so what have you got?
Here’s a couple to start.
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Welcome to the Arab Winter.
From TheTelegraph/UK
“Tens of thousands of Egyptian Christians are leaving the country in the wake of the Egyptian revolution and subsequent Islamist takeover of politics, priests and community leaders say.”
“Coptic Christian churches in the United States say they are having to expand to cope with new arrivals, as priests in cities like Cairo and Alexandria talk of a new climate of fear and uncertainty.
“Most of our people are afraid,” Father Mina Adel, a priest at the Church of Two Saints in Alexandria said. “Not a few are leaving – for America, Canada and Australia. Dozens of families from this church alone are trying to go too.””
Here’s more on why, from AsiaNews.it
“The criminal court of Beni Suef (115 km south of Cairo) has sentenced an entire family to prison for converting to Christianity. Nadia Mohamed Ali and her children Mohab, Maged, Sherif, Amira, Amir, and Nancy Ahmed Mohamed abdel-Wahab will spend 15 years in prison. Seven other people involved in the case were sentenced to five years in prison.
The case of the family of Nadia Ali Mohamed began in 2004 when, after the conversion, she and her children decided to replace their Muslim names on their identity cards with their Christian names and city of residence change. To do this she was aided by seven Registry office employees e. Born Christian, she had changed her religion to marry her husband Mustafa Mohamed Abdel-Wahab. After the man’s death in 1991, Nadia decided to return to her religion of origins and to push her seven children to convert. In 2006, one of the boys was arrested by police in an information center in the city of Beni Suef. Suspicious of the young man from the documents he as carrying, where he had changed its name to Bishoy Malak Abdel-Massih, police agents interrogated him for hours until he confessed his conversion to Christianity as desired by the mother. The judges then decide to stop not only the woman, but all of her children and seven clerks from the registration office, responsible for changing the documents.”
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And this one. Yes, it should be considered, if necessary.
From Politico
“Rep. Steve Stockman (R-Texas) is threatening to file articles of impeachment against President Barack Obama if he moves to change gun regulations through executive order.
“I will seek to thwart this action by any means necessary, including but not limited to eliminating funding for implementation, defunding the White House, and even filing articles of impeachment,” Stockman said.
In a statement, Stockman didn’t hold back, saying Obama is launching an “attack on the very founding principles of this republic.”
“The President’s actions are an existential threat to this nation,” Stockman said in a statement. “The right of the people to keep and bear arms is what has kept this nation free and secure for over 200 years. The very purpose of the Second Amendment is to stop the government from disallowing people the means to defend themselves against tyranny. Any proposal to abuse executive power and infringe upon gun rights must be repelled with the stiffest legislative force possible.””
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What should we talk about today?
Quote of the Day
“Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.”
Abigail Adams
QoD
What was your Pastor’s sermon about yesterday?
Psalm 100
1 Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
2 Worship the Lord with gladness; come before him with joyful songs.
3 Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise; give thanks to him and praise his name.
5 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Today I give you 2 videos, for your consideration. After that, Open Thread.
The First, from MarchForLife.org
President Obama’s Newtown Massacre Speech Turned Into A Pro-life Video
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The Second, from FoxNews’ Judge Jeanine Pirro
And on a related note, from FoxNews
“The home of a gun owner, whose address was published by a New York newspaper, has been burglarized and police believe the burglars targeted the homeowner’s gun safe.”
“The residence in White Plains, was identified in a controversial list published by The Journal News — a Gannett Co. newspaper. The elderly homeowner, who legally owns weapons, was not at home at the time of the burglary.”
Now that this has happened to an outed party, let the lawsuits against the paper begin. There will be more victims like this too.
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Happy Saturday!
Quote of the Day
“The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.”
Vince Lombardi
QoD
So which NFL team will win it all?
I gotta go with the other Manning, and the Broncos.
You can’t go wrong with them Manning boys.
😉
Who can we pray for today?
Tomorrow is Sunday, a work day for our Pastors. Let’s make sure we remember them today.
Psalm 95:1-3
1 O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2 Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
3 For the Lord is a great God, and a great King above all gods.
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Bob Costas will be crushed by this news, Ed Schultz as well I’m sure..
From FoxNews
“The NBC Sports Network, a subsidiary of the communications giant Comcast, is helping to sponsor the largest gun trade show in the country despite anti-gun rhetoric on the NBC family of television networks, including a controversial monologue by one of its sports announcers.”
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This one? Well you would think someone famous like the Senator would have thought to buy their domain name, but no…..
Someone could have a lot of fun with this, especially with her wanting to limit gun rights for us, while packing herself. Seems a tad hypocritical.
From TheDailyCaller
“California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein — a staunch supporter of gun control — may soon regret not registering her own domain name, since senatorfeinstein.com will now be run by a firearm parts and accessories store that will use the site to promote gun rights.
“COMING SOON! Senator Feinstein’s Biggest Fan Page,” reads the title of the new pro-gun site, senatorfeinstein.com. “Someone didnt [sic] register their own name… This should be fun. Thats right Dianne your biggest fan site is going to be run by AresArmor.com…””
A LOT of fun. 🙂
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I find it interesting that at the same time they’re making a move to restrict gun ownership thru Executive Order, some of the same Senators are encouraging a dictatorship by Presidential decree in other areas as well.
From Politico
“Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other top Democrats are putting new pressure on the White House to circumvent Congress to boost the nation’s debt ceiling if no bipartisan agreement can be reached.
In a strongly worded letter to President Barack Obama obtained by POLITICO, Reid and his leadership team argue that failing to raise the $16.4 trillion debt ceiling would threaten the full faith and credit of the United States. Reid and Sens. Dick Durbin, Chuck Schumer and Patty Murray asserted that Obama “must make clear that you will never allow our nation’s economy and reputation to be held hostage.””
Still no budget huh Harry? A total fraud, who once again refuses to fulfill his elected duties.
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These next 2 are ObamaCare related, so of course, yeah, it’s bad.
From FoxNews
“Obamacare Medical Device Tax: As of Jan.1, Obamacare imposes a new tax of 2.3 percent on medical device manufacturers, including those who make dental braces. The tax is imposed on gross sales — even if the company does not earn a profit in a given year. While the tax will be paid to the IRS by the manufacturer, the tax will be passed along as a higher cost of the product, ultimately to be borne by the parent buying the braces for their child. With the cost of braces being as high as $7,625 this new tax could raise the cost of these braces by $175.”
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They want you to know they’re watching you evil businesses, so don’t try nothin’ funny.
From CNSNews
“The Internal Revenue Service warned employers in a new regulatory proposal not to come up with clever schemes to avoid Obamacare’s employer health insurance mandate.
The IRS said it would soon issue “anti-abuse rules” to discourage employers from taking advantage of any regulatory loopholes.
“The Treasury Department and the IRS are aware of various structures being considered under which employers might use temporary staffing agencies (or other staffing agencies)… to evade application of section 4980H [the employer insurance mandate],” the IRS said in a proposed regulatory announcement issued December 28.”
And now you know why they needed all those new IRS agents.
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This last one is just maddening.
From NewsBusters
“”Congress could lower individual rates across the board by 44 percent and come up with the same amount of revenue if it eliminated all tax breaks” Washington Post reporter Josh Hicks noted in a January 10. Given the ongoing battles over taxes, spending, and the national debt in Congress, you’d think this would be worthy of front-page placement in the Post. Editors apparently disagreed, placing it on the bottom of page A13, today’s edition of The Fed Page.
“Congress should simplify the tax code to ease the burden on filers, as well as take a hard look at the myriad tax breaks that cost nearly as much revenue as the government generates from individual income taxes,” Hicks noted in his lead paragraph, referring to National Taxpayer Advocate Nina Olson’s annual report to Congress. “[T]he existing code of 4 million words imposes a ‘significant, even unconscionable’ burden of compliance on taxpayers,” Hicks noted, quoting Olson.”
See? Told ya’.
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What’s on your mind today?
Quote of the Day
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
C. S. Lewis
Anybody have a QoD?
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