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  • Not My Brand

    "Americans can actually go to dinner parties and cocktail receptions around the world today and not have to apologize for the United States the way they have had to do the last several years," he said. "The election has made life a little bit easier for Americans living and traveling abroad to hold their head up high again."

    This quote was in this article.  This article ticks me off.  It goes beyond my dislike of our President-elect.  Well, sort of.  Why are Americans apologizing?  Why aren't they already holding their heads up high?  I am proud to be an American.  I will never apologize for the United States. 

  • Blessings

    Number of Christmas gifts to make:  Too numerous to count

    Number of loads of laundry to do:  See above

    Number of children's lessons to update in their folder for the week:  3

    Number of things above accomplished:  Zero

    Number of happy smiles after a day out geocaching and finding dinosaur footprints:  6 + 1 friend who led the way

    Cost of a day like today:  Priceless

  • I’m a Bit Embarrassed

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    Movie Reviews

    HT:  Maryan

  • Thanks and Remembrance

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    Ben-Dave FOB Falcon 

    Thank a vet for their sacrifice. 

  • Doomed to Repeat It

    I'm awful with remembering quotes, but isn't there one about not knowing history and doomed to repeating it?

  • General Musings about the Election

    I'm disappointed in the Catholic vote.  I'm saddened to think that there are so many Catholics who voted for someone who is the biggest pro-abortion candidate.  EVER.  This even after so many bishops stated that it's a grave sin to do so because abortion is intrinsically evil.  There's no way around that. 

    Another thing that bothers me.  The end never justifies the means to me.  Too many people voted for our new president because of his race.  To do was not called racist but to vote for McCain because he is white would have been called so.  To me there's no difference.  Voting for our president elect just to have an African American as president despite what his beliefs are is plain wrong.  Race shouldn't have been an issue for the African American community.  Values and ideals should've been.  Don't tell me that race wasn't an issue.  It was.  Check out the Harlem videos of people who had no idea what the issues were.  Oh, and I'm not a racist.  I've been on the receiving end of discrimination and racism.  I know what it feels like and I don't discriminate.  EVER.

    One more thing.  In California, they passed a measure that would require egg-laying chickens have bigger cages.  What a great country we live in that the chickens are given more room but the unborn are sacrificed.

    ETA:  I feel robbed too because I can't celebrate the first election of an African American to the highest office of this country. 

    This morning when Sister woke up, I told her who had won.  Her response?  "Impossible."  She could not understand why people would choose the culture of death over life.  I couldn't even begin to explain to her that people were choosing to sacrifice the life of the unborn for economic policy.

  • Red Cardigan says it plainly and says it well:

    Never before in the history of America have the nation's citizens selected as their leader a man so steeped in the support of evil as Barack Obama. Never before has America so sullenly turned her back on God and on His laws as she did this day; never before has America so unquestioningly played the harlot to the new false gods of modernity and relativism. Never before have Americans so blindly chanted slogans while secretly lusting after their neighbor's goods; never before have Americans been so naked in their covetousness, their demand that the federal government feed them and clothe them and wipe their snotty noses in times of illness–all to be paid for by the open theft of the honest incomes of other men, who now have no incentive to work hard and strive for success, since that success will be stolen from them and used to line the public coffers.

    Read the rest of what she says.  I did my part to try to stop this.  Did you?

  • Bare Bones

    Children have a way of getting to the heart of the matter.  Sister, this evening, asked Ben, "Is life going to win tomorrow?" 

    We are praying.

  • I’d Been Looking For This Video

    HT:  Become What You Are

  • Something Other Than Politics

    Your result for What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test…

    Conscientious, Fulfilled, and Spiritual

    24 Renaissance, 14 Islamic, 11 Ukiyo-e, -35 Cubist, -36 Abstract and 8 Impressionist!

    The Renaissance was a cultural movement that profoundly affected European intellectual life. Beginning in Italy, and spreading to the rest of Europe by the 16th century, its influence affected literature, philosopy, religion, art, politics, science, and all other aspects of intellectual enquiry. Renaissance artists looked at the human aspect of life in their art. They did not reject religion but tended to look at it in it's purest form to create visions they thought depicted the ideals of religion. Painters of this time had their own style and created works based on morality, religion, and human nature. Many of the paintings depicted what they believed to be the corrupt nature of man.

    People that like Renaissance paintings like things that are more challenging. They tend to have a high emotional stability. They also tend to be more concientious then average. They have a basic understanding of human nature and therefore are not easily surprised by anything that people may do. They enjoy life and enjoy living. They are very aware of their own mortality but do not dwell on the end but what they are doing in the present. They enjoy learning, but may tend to be a bit more closed minded to new ideas as they feel that the viewpoint they have has been well researched and considered. These people are more old fashioned and not quite as progressive. They enjoy the finer things in life like comfort, a good meal, and homelife. They tend to be more spiritual or religious by nature. They are open to new aesthetic experiences.

    Take What Your Taste in Art Says About You Test at HelloQuizzy

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