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AWARD TIME

October 26, 2008 by tonja No Comments


Many thanks to my friend, Earth Mommy, at At Shore’s End, who awarded me the Kreativ Blogger Award. Thanks so much. As I told her, I like to think that I am a creative person. God has blessed us all with such varied talents. We should always be on the lookout for ways to use them. Thank you, my friend,for reminding me to use my talents more.

One of the requirements is to list 6 things that make me happy.

1. I am happy when Alex is feeling well enough to be up.

2. I am happy when there is a cold Diet Dr. Pepper in the refrigerator…waiting for me!

3. I am happy when the scales announce that I have gone down in weight!

4. I am happy when I can spend an afternoon with my Mom and Sister.

5. I am happy when one of my boys gives me a huge bear hug!

6. I am happy when my dog, Scooter, smiles at me.

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FUNNY…and SCARY !

October 26, 2008 by tonja No Comments

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ANOTHER OPINION

October 25, 2008 by tonja No Comments

Because I think the outcome of this election is the most important issue facing America at this time, I ask that you read this article from The Illinois Review from September 21, 2008. It is written by Huntley Brown, a Christian and a concert pianist with awesome musical talent. Some of this is a little hard to read, but, friends, it is the truth…and we need to tell everyone we know.

http://illinoisreview.typepad.com/illinoisreview/2008/09/why-i-cant-vote.html
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Why I Can’t Vote For Obama

by Huntley Brown

Dear Friends,

A few months ago I was asked for my perspective on Obama, I sent out an e-mail with a few points. With the election just around the corner I decided to complete my perspective. Those of you on my e-list have seen some of this before but its worth repeating..

First I must say who ever wins the election will have my prayer support. Obama needs to be commended for his accomplishments but I need to explain why I will not be voting for him.

Many of my friends process their identity through their blackness. I process my identity through Christ. Being a Christian (a Christ follower) means he leads I follow. I can’t dictate the terms he does because he is the leader.

I can’t vote black because I am black I have to vote Christian because that’s who I am. Christian first black second. Neither should anyone from the other ethnic groups vote because of ethnicity. 200 years from now I wont be asked if I was black or white. I will be asked if I know Jesus and accepted him as Lord and savior.

In an election there are many issues to consider but when a society gets abortion, same-sex marriage, embryonic stem-cell research, human cloning to name a few wrong economic concerns will soon not matter.

We need to follow Martin Luther King’s words don’t judge someone by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I don’t know Obama so all I can go off is his voting record.

His voting record earned him the title of the most liberal senator in the US Senate in 2007.

NATIONAL JOURNAL: Obama: Most Liberal Senator in 2007 (01/31/2008)

To beat Ted Kennedy and Hilary Clinton as the most liberal senator, takes some doing.

Obama accomplished this feat in 2 short years.

I wonder what would happen to America if he had four years to work with.

There is a reason planned parenthood gives him a 100 % ratings.

There is a reason the homosexual community supports him.

There is a reason Ahmadinejad, Chavez, Castro, Hamas etc loves him.

There is a reason he said he would nominate liberal judges to the supreme court.

There is a reason he voted against the infanticide bill.

There is a reason he voted No on the constitutional ban of same-sex marriage.

There is a reason he voted no on partial birth abortion.

There is a reason he voted no on confirming Justices Roberts and Alito. These two judges are conservatives and they have since overturned partial birth abortion. The same practice Obama wanted to continue.

Lets take a look at the practice he wanted to continue.

The 5 Step Partial Birth Abortion procedure

A. Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps.

(Remember this is a live baby)

B. The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

C. The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.

D. The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.

E. The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

God help him.

There is a reason Obama opposed the parent notification law.

Think about this you can’t give a kid an aspirin without parental notification but that same kid can have an abortion without parental notification. This is insane.

There is a reason he went to Jeremiah Wright’s church for 20 years.

Obama tells us he has good judgement but he sat under Jeremiah Wright teaching for 20 years. Now he is condemning Wrights sermons. I wonder why now?

Obama said Jeremiah Wright led him to the Lord and discipled him. A disciple is one in training. Jesus told us in Matthew 28 v 19 – 20 Go and make disciples of all nations. This means reproduce yourself. Teach people to think like you, walk like you, talk like you believe what you believe etc. The question I have is what did Jeremiah Wright teach him?

Would you support a White President who went to a church which has tenants that said they have a

1. Commitment to the White Community

2. Commitment to the White Family

3. Adherence to the White Work Ethic

4. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the White Community .
5. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting White Institutions
6. Pledge allegiance to all White leadership who espouse and embrace the White Value System
7. Personal commitment to embracement of the White Value System.?

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NOT EXACTLY….

October 24, 2008 by tonja No Comments

TERRY ANDERSON, A BLACK LOS ANGELES TALK RADIO HOST, WENT DOWN A LIST OF THINGS SENATOR OBAMA HAS SAID THAT AREN’T EXACTLY CORRECT.

******Obama’s Not Exactlys:*******

1.) “Selma March Got Me Born” – NOT EXACTLY, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965. (Google’Obama Selma ‘ for his full March 4, 2007 speech and articles about its various untruths.)

2.) “Father Was A Goat Herder” – NOT EXACTLY, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.

3.) “Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter” – NOT EXACTLY, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had.

4.) “My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom” – NOT EXACTLY, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya . It is the first widespread violence in decades. The current government is pro-American but Odinga wants to overthrow it and establish Muslim Sharia law. Your half-brother, Abongo Oba ma, is Odinga’s follower. You interrupted your New Hampshire campaigning to speak to Odinga on the phone. Check out the following link for verification of that….and for more.
Obama’s cousin Odinga in Kenya ran for president and tried to get Sharia muslim law in place there. When Odinga lost the elections, his followers have burned Christians’ homes and then burned men, women and children alive in a Christian church where they took shelter.. Obama SUPPORTED his cousin before the election process here started. Google Obama and Odinga and see what you get. No one wants to know the truth.

5.) “My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian” – NOT EXACTLY, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man .

6.) “My Name is African Swahili” – NOT EXACTLY, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
Barack Hussein Obama is not half black. If elected, he would be the first Arab-American President, not the first black President. Barack Hussein Obama is 50% Caucasian from his mother’s side and 43.75% Arabic and 6.25% African Negro from his father’s side. While Barack Hussein Obama’s fa ther was from Kenya , his father’s family was mainly Arabs.. Barack Hussein Obama’s father was only 12.5% African Negro and 87.5% Arab (his father’s birth certificate even states he’s Arab, not African Negro). From….and for more….go to…..
http://www.arcadeathome.com/newsboy.phtml?Barack_Hussein_Obama_-_Arab-American,_only_6.25%25_African

7.) “I Never Practiced Islam” – NOT EXACTLY, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years, until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
4-3-08 Article ‘Obama was ‘quite religious in islam” http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60559

8.) “My School In Indonesia Was Christian” – NOT EXACTLY, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
February 28, 2008. Kristoff from the New York Times a year ago: Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as ‘one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.’ This is just one example of what Pamela is talking about when she says ‘Obama’s narrative is being altered, enhanced and manipulated to whitewash troubling facts.’

9.) “I Was Fluent In Indonesian” – NOT EXACTLY, not one teacher says you could speak the language.

10.) “Because I Lived In Indonesia , I Have More Foreign Experience’ – NOT EXACTLY, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn except how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.

11.) “I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs” – NOT EXACTLY, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.

12.) “I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion” – NOT EXACTLY, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify – your classmates said you were just fine

13.) “An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office” – NOT EXACTLY, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

14.) “A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life” – NOT EXACTLY, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.

15.) “I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ’08” – NOT EXACTLY, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.

16.) “Voting ‘Present’ is Common In Illinois Senate” – NOT EXACTLY, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.

17.) “Oops, I Mis-voted” – NOT EXACTLY, only when caught by church groups and Democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.

18.) “I Was A Professor Of Law” – NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

19.) “I Was A Constitutional Lawyer” – NOT EXACTLY, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.

20.) “Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill” – NOT EXACTLY, you didn’t write it, introduce it, change it or create it.

21.) “The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass” – NOT EXACTLY, it took just 14 days from start to finish.

22.) “I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill” – NOT EXACTLY, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.

23.) “I Have Released My State Records” – NOT EXACTLY, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.

24.) “I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess” – NOT EXACTLY, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens . You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.

25.) “My Economics Bill Will Help America” – NOT EXACTLY, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.

26.) “I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois” – NOT EXACTLY, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.

27.) “I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year” – NOT EXACTLY, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.

28.) “No One on my campaign contacted Canada about NAFTA” – NOT EXACTLY, the Canadian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.

29.) “I Am Tough On Terrorism” – NOT EXACTLY, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction off Israel .

30.) “I Want All Votes To Count” – NOT EXACTLY, you said let the delegates decide.

31.) “I Want Americans To Decide” – NOT EXACTLY, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.

32.) “I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate” – NOT EXACTLY, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.

33.) “I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics” – NOT EXACTLY, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.

34.) “I Don’t Take PAC Money” – NOT EXACTLY, you take loads of it.

35.) “I don’t Have Lobbysists” – NOT EXACTLY, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.

36.) “My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad” – NOT EXACTLY, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.

37.) “I Have Always Been Against Iraq” – NOT EXACTLY, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time.

38.) “I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care” – NOT EXACTLY, your plan leaves us all to pay for the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.

39.) “My uncle liberated Auschwitz concentration camp” – NOT EXACTLY, your mother had no brothers and the Russian army did the liberating.

So, who EXACTLY is this Obama guy and what is he trying to sell us?! Why would anyone believe ANYTHNG he says?

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ISLAND GREENS

October 22, 2008 by tonja No Comments

Beautiful red ginger against lush greenery.
Ferns and more ferns!
Mossy tree on hotel grounds.
Shades of stone,sticks and greens.
After following a scary, narrow, one lane road for miles up the mountain, we came upon this tiny village. Here, in this sure-to-be-seen green stand, they were selling homemade banana bread!
Beautiful little green church, beside the road.

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