Last Friday I asked you to pray for Mitch as he had surgery for a brain tumor. From what I can gather it wasn’t good news, but I am not sure. I hope I am wrong.
I also am asking that you cover BG in prayer. We are facing some challenges with her.
Does the President have authority to rename mountains?
Is there anything he doesn’t have authority to do?
Only if someone stops him.
He will soon declare Friday, not Sunday, to be the official day of rest.
A few evangelical Christians will push back, but no one listens to them.
So last century.
I thought it was renamed Denali 30 years ago. I was really surprised over the weekend when friends who had recently been to Alaska kept referring to Mt. McKinley.
I had to really think about what they were talking about. Now you tell me it wasn’t renamed???
It was the interviewer who twice raised the Canadian border. NBC host Chuck Todd challenged Walker to explain the focus on the south and, in doing so, he referenced terrorists coming from Canada.
It’s unclear whether he was referring to the repeatedly debunked canard about the Sept. 11 hijackers. The most famous incident of a terrorist crossing from Canada was failed millennium bomber Ahmed Ressam, although several American political figures over the years have repeated the erroneous claim about the Sept. 11 hijackers coming from the north.
Todd asked the governor: “The most famous incident that we had of terrorists coming over our border was on our northern border. Why aren’t you talking about securing the northern border?”
Walker replied that he favoured securing borders in general but said the more rampant current problem was on the southern border.
Todd pressed him again, prompting Walker to mention the northern frontier, in passing.
Turns out when you read her bio–which isn’t there–my Pinterest board suggests I “pin” her photo. So I made up a new board “Favorite Living Writers” and Donna is the first pin!!! 🙂
“One of the most disturbing aspects of living through the Obama presidency is reading every week or two about some new decision that has been decreed by the executive branch rather than voted upon by the legislative branch. Time and again, things that — in a constitutional republic — should be decided by the people’s representatives are instead being decided by a man who never again has to face the people’s verdict, or by those serving underneath him and at his discretion. This is not the way America is supposed to work.
The latest example, of course, is President Obama’s decreeing, king-like, that the tallest mountain on the continent will henceforth have a new name — because he thinks it should. This comes on the heels of his administration’s declaration that Alexander Hamilton will be taken off the $10 bill in favor of a person to be named later (although her sex has been named now). The truly disturbing thing in both instances has not been the decision itself — unjust as that is at least in Hamilton’s case. Rather, it is the dangerous precedent that is being set of a citizenry being ruled by the branch whose very name conveys that its primary responsibility is to execute the decisions made by others — namely, by Congress. “
“Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders will be breaking from the Democratic Party and running for president as a third party, a move that “would all but guarantee a catastrophic split in the Democratic vote and ensure a Republican victory,” Ed Klein confidential reports, citing sources inside Sanders’ campaign.
“Sources say Sanders believes that despite his ever-growing crowds of fired-up supporters, he’ll never overcome Hillary’s — or, for that matter, (Vice President Joe) Biden’s — advantage in money, organization and endorsements,” Klein writes.
“In Bernie’s opinion, Hillary is owned by Wall Street and is a hawk,” according to a source characterized by the political columnist as a “Sanders’ top campaign officials.”
“The decision hasn’t been made when to make the announcement to go independent,” according to the source, thought it’s likely to occur when Clinton “starts piling up delegates with the help of Wall Street money and her formidable ground operation.”
“Right now, things are going great and he very well may upset Hillary in the New Hampshire primary.””
“A new poll in early battleground Iowa has former brain surgeon Ben Carson surging into a tie with Donald Trump for the first time in the GOP presidential contest — a stunning jump for a political novice who is the latest outsider to shake up the race.
Trump and Carson, who came to prominence when he laced into President Obama at a televised prayer breakfast in 2013 as the president looked on, each got 23 percent in the Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina — another outsider who has never held elective office — is third at 10 percent.
It’s the first time in a month that Trump hasn’t had the lead all to himself in one of the four early-voting states.””
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Note the popularity of the top 3, all non-establishment candidates, none are career politicians. A refreshing change I must say. :):)
The RINO’s are getting so desperate they’re even floating Romney’s name again. 🙄
That homeless story was frustrating as it was all from an anonymous source, not our ideal for sure so I was a little uneasy about it but trusted the source and it provided the information we’d been trying to get for a week. The source’s mom volunteers at the program and I’d sought her out after last week seeing a comment she’d left on our earlier story posted on FB (a more bare-bones story last week that simply told about the posted sign on the church door). It sounded like she knew what the situation was within the program so I offered her anonymity if she’d tell me what was going on to cause the closure (other than the vague “aggressive behavior” comment) because I certainly didn’t want to leave her mom open like that.
I’d called the church and the feeding program organizers repeatedly over the past week for comment — even hung out there for a while Monday morning — and they just won’t call back or talk.
And my profile, I just never got around to filling it out. I should do that someday …
We hate it that they run those lame photos with our stories now (no one likes their pics). I was in desperate need of a haircut when that was taken 1-2 years ago, as I recall.
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Last Friday I asked you to pray for Mitch as he had surgery for a brain tumor. From what I can gather it wasn’t good news, but I am not sure. I hope I am wrong.
I also am asking that you cover BG in prayer. We are facing some challenges with her.
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I’m praying for BG.
Does the President have authority to rename mountains?
Is there anything he doesn’t have authority to do?
Only if someone stops him.
He will soon declare Friday, not Sunday, to be the official day of rest.
A few evangelical Christians will push back, but no one listens to them.
So last century.
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You need to see this. Takes about three minutes.
http://www.liveleak.com/ll_embed?f=51fe948515b4
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Walker was just on FOX. As I expected, the northern border remark was an out of context joke.
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I thought it was renamed Denali 30 years ago. I was really surprised over the weekend when friends who had recently been to Alaska kept referring to Mt. McKinley.
I had to really think about what they were talking about. Now you tell me it wasn’t renamed???
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On the Walker story, I saw the story on the weekend and had a good chuckle; but didn’t take it seriously. The CBC did a good job of putting Walker’s comments into perspective: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/scott-walker-canada-u-s-border-wall-worth-considering-1.3209152
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I know nothing about this, but perhaps he’s being clever and trying to make a point? Contrasting a northern border with a southern border problem?
Otherwise, why bother?
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A friend just posted on FB a “great story in today’s paper” about the homeless issue.
Written by Donna. 🙂
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Michelle, do you have a non-Facebook link?
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Nope, the park is Denali but the mountain has been McKinley for what? a hundred years? Before that, it was Denali.
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http://www.dailybreeze.com/social-affairs/20150831/san-pedro-churchs-free-lunch-program-resumes-amid-concern-over-aggressive-clientele
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Turns out when you read her bio–which isn’t there–my Pinterest board suggests I “pin” her photo. So I made up a new board “Favorite Living Writers” and Donna is the first pin!!! 🙂
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It’s King Barry’s World. We’re just livin’ in it.. 🙄
http://m.weeklystandard.com/blogs/president-who-gets-name-mountains_1023445.html
“One of the most disturbing aspects of living through the Obama presidency is reading every week or two about some new decision that has been decreed by the executive branch rather than voted upon by the legislative branch. Time and again, things that — in a constitutional republic — should be decided by the people’s representatives are instead being decided by a man who never again has to face the people’s verdict, or by those serving underneath him and at his discretion. This is not the way America is supposed to work.
The latest example, of course, is President Obama’s decreeing, king-like, that the tallest mountain on the continent will henceforth have a new name — because he thinks it should. This comes on the heels of his administration’s declaration that Alexander Hamilton will be taken off the $10 bill in favor of a person to be named later (although her sex has been named now). The truly disturbing thing in both instances has not been the decision itself — unjust as that is at least in Hamilton’s case. Rather, it is the dangerous precedent that is being set of a citizenry being ruled by the branch whose very name conveys that its primary responsibility is to execute the decisions made by others — namely, by Congress. “
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This one…..
OH YES PLEASE!!!!!!
🙂 🙂
http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/ed-klein-bernie-sanders-run-independent/2015/08/25/id/671805/
“Vermont socialist Bernie Sanders will be breaking from the Democratic Party and running for president as a third party, a move that “would all but guarantee a catastrophic split in the Democratic vote and ensure a Republican victory,” Ed Klein confidential reports, citing sources inside Sanders’ campaign.
“Sources say Sanders believes that despite his ever-growing crowds of fired-up supporters, he’ll never overcome Hillary’s — or, for that matter, (Vice President Joe) Biden’s — advantage in money, organization and endorsements,” Klein writes.
“In Bernie’s opinion, Hillary is owned by Wall Street and is a hawk,” according to a source characterized by the political columnist as a “Sanders’ top campaign officials.”
“The decision hasn’t been made when to make the announcement to go independent,” according to the source, thought it’s likely to occur when Clinton “starts piling up delegates with the help of Wall Street money and her formidable ground operation.”
“Right now, things are going great and he very well may upset Hillary in the New Hampshire primary.””
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And this is good news too.
http://nypost.com/2015/08/31/surging-carson-pulls-even-with-trump-atop-iowa-poll/
“A new poll in early battleground Iowa has former brain surgeon Ben Carson surging into a tie with Donald Trump for the first time in the GOP presidential contest — a stunning jump for a political novice who is the latest outsider to shake up the race.
Trump and Carson, who came to prominence when he laced into President Obama at a televised prayer breakfast in 2013 as the president looked on, each got 23 percent in the Monmouth University poll released Monday.
Former Hewlett-Packard executive Carly Fiorina — another outsider who has never held elective office — is third at 10 percent.
It’s the first time in a month that Trump hasn’t had the lead all to himself in one of the four early-voting states.””
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Note the popularity of the top 3, all non-establishment candidates, none are career politicians. A refreshing change I must say. :):)
The RINO’s are getting so desperate they’re even floating Romney’s name again. 🙄
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Novices, however, are not particularly effective either. Think J. Carter and he had been a governor. 😦
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That homeless story was frustrating as it was all from an anonymous source, not our ideal for sure so I was a little uneasy about it but trusted the source and it provided the information we’d been trying to get for a week. The source’s mom volunteers at the program and I’d sought her out after last week seeing a comment she’d left on our earlier story posted on FB (a more bare-bones story last week that simply told about the posted sign on the church door). It sounded like she knew what the situation was within the program so I offered her anonymity if she’d tell me what was going on to cause the closure (other than the vague “aggressive behavior” comment) because I certainly didn’t want to leave her mom open like that.
I’d called the church and the feeding program organizers repeatedly over the past week for comment — even hung out there for a while Monday morning — and they just won’t call back or talk.
And my profile, I just never got around to filling it out. I should do that someday …
We hate it that they run those lame photos with our stories now (no one likes their pics). I was in desperate need of a haircut when that was taken 1-2 years ago, as I recall.
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