We Can Rap Too

I forgot who gave me this link, probably Logan, but I finally got around to watching it and it made me chuckle. So thanks to whoever shared it with me.

Just A Few Random Things

HAHA!

This lady sort of knows what shes talking about. Minus the whole civil rights part but that's a debate for later.

It will be interesting to see what happens in 2010.

Conservatives in Hollywood???

He may have been evil in 24, an extremest who thought he was helping America, but in real life Voight seems to have his head on more straight. Its not too often where you hear about the Hollywood Conservatives nor is it too often they speak out. So good for him. I respect that.

I was very happy to hear that Gary Sinise is also a Conservative Republican. I was never sure though I did know he did a lot for our soldiers. I do like this dude and NCIS : New York.

Other notable Conservatives in Hollywood:

Kelsey Grammer
Drew Carey
Fred Thompson - of course
Patricia Heaton
Dennis Hopper-for the most part
James Woods - almost majored in political science and as in Ghosts of Mississippi. Great movie!
Joel Surnow- executive producer of Fox’s “24″ for those who don't know him. I heard him speak once and he was awesome.
Dennis Miller- a bit more libertarian
Adam Sandler - I am not a 100% positive about this but Id like to think it was true
Chuck Norris
Heather Locklear - I am still trying to figure out if I believe this.
Bo Derek
Pat Sajak
Shannen Doherty
Mark Vafiades
Jonathan Jackson
Clint Eastwood
Rick Schroder - Also LDS

Emma Caulfield - a Ron Paul Supporter

Lisa Kennedy - more libertarian
Tom Selleck - more libertarian but hey he likes the NRA and so do I

I once saw the documentar Rated "R" (Republicans in Hollywood). It was pretty good. My favorite part was when Patricia Heaton tells of the time she was having dinner with a few Hollywood friends. The subject of politics came up and she mentioned that she voted for George W. Bush. According to her account the chatter turned to awkward silence. She stated "You'd think I'd crapped in the middle of the table."

I really do love trying to figure out who in Hollywood is Republican. I know I have missed many so who in Hollywood do you know is Republican?

Tis Time for News

I love D.C. for everything is has to offer, including its political news.

I had hoped this woman had disappeared for good.

I don't make fun of fashion too much but I can't let it go this time. I need to say how ugly I think her outfit is. Did her daughters make that tunic.

"The British Conservative Party, led by David Cameron, secured a crushing defeat of Gordon Brown's governing Labour Party. In fact, Labour suffered their worst election results since 1918, being forced into third place behind the Conservatives and UKIP." Hope to see the same positive results in our upcoming elections.

It sucks when you try to do something nice and it blows up in your face.

All I wanna know down the road is if this money actually improves the education system.

Abe Lincoln Is Speaking to You So Listen

“Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right”

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it." The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, "Letter To Henry L. Pierce and Others" (April 6, 1859), p. 376.

"...I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side." The Inner Life of Abraham Lincoln: Six Months at the White House by Francis B. Carpenter (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1995), p. 282. Also, Recollections of Abraham Lincoln by Ward Hill Lamon (Lincoln, Nebraska, University of Nebraska Press, 1994), p. 91.

“I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for that day.”

“I have often wished that I was a more devout man than I am. Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other reason, I would place my whole reliance in God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right.”

"No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God, who, while dealing with us in anger for our sins, hath nevertheless remembered mercy. It has seemed to me fit and proper that they should be solemnly, reverently and gratefully acknowledged as with one heart and voice by the whole American people. I do therefore invite my fellow citizens in every part of the United States, and also those who are at sea and those who are sojourning in foreign lands, to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."

"And to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord. And, insomuch as we know that, by His divine law, nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world...We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven. We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"

"Well, I will tell you how it was. In the pinch of the campaign up there (at Gettysburg) when everybody seemed panic stricken and nobody could tell what was going to happen, oppressed by the gravity of our affairs, I went to my room one day and locked the door and got down on my knees before Almighty God and prayed to Him mightily for victory at Gettysburg. I told Him that this war was His war, and our cause His cause, but we could not stand another Fredericksburg or Chancellorsville... And after that, I don't know how it was, and I cannot explain it, but soon a sweet comfort crept into my soul. The feeling came that God had taken the whole business into His own hands and that things would go right at Gettysburg and that is why I had no fears about you."


Note: I looked up all these quotes in multiple sources to make sure they were accurate but only linked one of those sources. A few of these quotes are from documents that he signed, though did not write but I figure, based on what he has said, that he believed in them all the same.

Just for Enjoyment Purposes

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This article makes me laugh!!!

Oh Joy!!!

This just warms my heart.

Yup!

Another one doesn't bite the dust thanks to gun rights.

"It is a poverty that a "child must die", So that you may live as you wish... - Mother Teresa

If you have any fears about pro life protesters after the resent murder please watch this video.

Thine Eyes - A witness to the March for Life from thineeyesthemovie on Vimeo.

"Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." - Ronald Reagan 1982

"As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free" - The Battle Hymn of the Republic

I had the opportunity the other night to go to a great lecture by Mathew Staver of the Liberty Council sponsored by the LCRC. I was unsure of what to expect from the lecture but am beyond grateful that I took the time to go. What I learned willonly benefit me in the future. The lecture was titled "The Role of Faith in Public Life." It kind of all centralized around the following quote of Reagan's "The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's being a great nation." Basically Mathew spoke about the faith of the founding fathers and its relationship to the founding and success of this great nation. Not only did he inform us of many facts and information that I never knew, but his words struck a cord with me and has made me want to do more research.

Before I get into what he told us, let me tell you quickly about the Liberty Council. It is a nonprofit litigation, education, and policy organization. It is dedicated to advancing religious freedom and the sanctity of family and human life. They have been involved in the front lines of many of the recent issues including gay marriage and partial birth abortion. Think of them as the ACLU's number one enemy. Now you can see why their director was chosen to speak to us about faith in public life. They are fighting for faiths good name against a government that wants to get rid of all religion in this nation.

Speaking of which did you know Obama signed a proclamation that makes this month GLBT month. But hes the same person that would not honor the national day of prayer. And this only one of the many reasons why faith in public life was an important topic to speak on.

Now moving onto what I learned from this lecture as I view it to be of the utmost importance today. Most, if not all, of those who signed the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence had a strong faith in something and a majority of them had a strong faith rooted in God and Christianity (doctrinal, not denominational). They were church goers, bible readers, head of bible groups, and head of churches. They were our founding fathers. They were men who knew what could make this country great. They set up a Republic, a form of government that had never before succeeded for very long periods of time. They were laughed at around the world, but those who laughed stopped laughing and started questioning when they saw that this new republic was succeeding. The answer was that they had rooted this new republic in something greater than the intelligence of a human being, they had rooted it in religion, God, and morality.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.
John Quincy Adams

This great nation was not set up so people could be regulated and run by the government. The government was just to watch over a group of people who were living their lives based on morality and their belief in a higher being. Laws were really morals written down on paper. Sure not everybody believed in God the same way but this morality that came from Christianity became rooted in the culture through education and social life. The importance of God in the founding of this nation and its expansion can clearly be seen in the fact that God made it into the constitution of all 50 states, and are still in them.

Why Christianity though? Was it only because many were Christian? Yes and no. They felt that the way of life that Christians were suppose to be leading was best for this new republic. Christians believe in God, believe that they have standards they have to live up to or face consequences in this life or after. The key to this is that they have the choice to live as they want but all good Christians would seek to do that which God would want them to do. Now take for example, another strong religion at the time, the Muslims. Their religion was not rooted in choice per say. It was more about a way of life being forced on people, and not as much about choosing to live that way. The government at that time had already had run in with Muslims and knew that it was not to be the religion that would make this republic work.

Now what about the Separation of Church and State? This phrase can be tracked down to a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802 to Danbury Baptists. He referred to the First Amendment as creating a "wall of separation" between church and state. It was picked up again in 1878 by the United States Supreme Court. The interesting part is that Jefferson only used this phrase once and it was referring to the national government. On a state level he never separated church from religion in the way that people believe in now when referring to this phrase. How could they completely separate church and state if they had based the success of this country on peoples morality? Could it be that they meant you could not have religion or the state run each other, not could the government withhold this freedom from anyone or regulate it, but that they still could interact?

I liked the part of the Danbury letter that says, "that the legitimate power of the civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbors." Religious freedom was an inalienable right, not to be regulated by government. The government use was to enforce the laws, not to regulation religion. And please do not think that the Constitution includes the phrase "separation of church and state." It actually says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof." They did not want their nation to become another England. They did not want a government run by a specific church and vise versa.

So what does this have to do with us? Religion has been getting attacked on all fronts. We are damned to hell by liberals for voting based on our religious beliefs. They claim we are immoral, racist, sexist, etc. We have to hide our religion, or it will be seen as forcing it on others. But we have to remember that those who attack us do not allow themselves to believe that this nation was set up by God fearing men. That this great nation was originally rooted in the basic morality of men. That as soon as religion is thrown out the door, morality forgotten, this nation, as it was set up, can no longer succeed. It can no longer be a Republic or a Democracy. "Morality" will become the whims of men. Someone declaring who is good, whose not, what is ruining society, whats not, when drugs are good, when they are not. There will be nothing and no one to answer too so the government will have to step in for that role. It is happening now, and will continue to occur. We have two choices. We can let it happen and pray that the second coming will occur soon or we stand up for ourselves, be loud, and declare that what they are doing goes against everything this nation was built on.