Unnecessary Roughness...(AKA) Is this guy for real?

I read this article by Gene Lyons in our local paper last week. This excerpt REALLY caught my attention:

...But hasn’t Alaska’s one-time “Miss Congeniality” a right to believe anything she likes ? Absolutely. But the rest of us are not compelled to take her views on Biblical “prophecy” more seriously than rival forms of soothsaying, such as Tarot card reading, crystal ball gazing, or examining the entrails of sheep. Persons who practice such rites, whether in the wholesome suburban confines of the Wasilla Bible Church or a cavern in the tribal areas of Pakistan are either frauds, fools or both. It’s time the rest of us quit being polite about it.

I don't believe I have EVER seen this country so polarized at election time. It seems like Christians with Christian values are being labeled as "right wing delusional, war-mongering, intolerant idiots". I guess it just depends on which main stream media channel you watch, as shown in this video:



***Note to self***Never trust Main Stream Media...

Hang on folks...it's gonna get a lot bumpier! And I am not talking about the election.

Voice of a Savior

This song is performed by Mandisa. (Some of you may remember her from American Idol two years ago. Simon gave her a pretty hard time...) Anyway, this is the first song I have listed on my playlist over on the right of my blog. It just seemed to go along with Pastor Kris' sermon last Sunday regarding addictions.

Don't forget to pause my playlist before viewing the video. Enjoy!

Are there ANY Patriot fans in the house???

Could there POSSIBLY be any in the whole state of Indiana? LOL

If there are, now you know how I felt when "Kimo the Assassin" took Carson out 3 years ago...

Read about The Patriots' woes here:

I hate to kick a man when he is down, but I do have to post this from last year:



Anybody notice how I am trying to deflect attention away from the PATHETIC showing my beloved Bengals put on yesterday? Once again, you can see why this is my desktop:



More to follow. It is gonna be a LOOOONG season... (Jeremy, you were right!)

How we spent our "Free Friday" - the finale and pictures from Bloomington...

As promised here, these are the items we purchased from National Road Antique Mall a week ago yesterday. (I can't believe it has taken so long to finish this post...for all you "non-bloggers", this stuff is harder to do than it looks. At least it is for me. By the time I get the pictures from my camera to this blog, I have taken several steps, which I am sure I could avoid if I knew what I was doing. LOL)

First up, a really cool casserole dish with carrier that I got for $4.00:







notice the built in "steam escape":



here is a picture of the manufacturer's label:



The next items are a green dish:



In another post someday, I may show you my OTHER green dishes and planters so you can see what I bought this to go with...

and these 2 pictures (remember, old, vintage pictures are my favorites...gotta find more wall space!!!)







The green dish and both pictures were half price so everything came to ten dollars and some change. So we didn't break the bank, which is always a GOOD thing!


Next up are some pictures of our trip to Bloomington to see Lauren for the first time since she moved down there. Of course we got lost (I was navigating...) and got stopped in a traffic tie up due to the state police letting the buses in from Western Kentucky University (I think) for IU's first football game of the season. Believe me, Jim was NOT a happy camper! But once we got there everything was good to go...

This is the entrance to her complex:



I LOVED her "backyard"! The first thing I saw was this rhododendron bush:



Maybe next spring this:



will look like this:



You can't see ANYTHING from the back patio except for huge evergreen trees!





Here is the side view:



The inside is very nice and spacious too, but Lauren wasn't too enthused about having her home plastered all over my blog. LOL Here is Grandma and Lucy:



This is Lauren's roommate, Kristin with her dog Riley and Lucy again:



We couldn't stay as long as I would have liked since we left Scooby at home and had to get back to him. Here is Lauren and Jim as we were leaving:



One last thing. Lauren must live in a pretty posh part of town since this was the gas station down the street. All the gas pumps had flower arrangements on top!



Well, this post is FINALLY finished, except for a cartoon I found regarding Labor Day that I didn't post on Monday. Unfortunately, it reminded me so much of Connersville this year, I couldn't resist:



See you all in church tomorrow!

journey AT the center of the earth

Found this on You Tube...

Don't forget to pause my playlist over on the right.

(Steve Perry...THOSE were the days!!!)

FINALLY...

I hear the sound of rain.
Oh, for a nice, long, slow, soaking rain to fall asleep with tonight...
Or a thunderstorm. We sooooo need rain!

Thank you Lord.

Palin comes out throwing punches

Not decided yet...McCain/Palin (at this point, I would rather have Palin/McCain, frankly) or Ron Paul...but gotta love it. For a totally "unknown" entity, she nailed that speech, IMHO!

ETA: As stated in an earlier post, the only time I have voted Republician is when a former pastor told the congregation, "You had better vote your conscience and not your pocketbook." This time, I feel that is the correct thing to do as well. Obama's platform is way too liberal for me to embrace. Knowing that Supreme Court judges' appointments could be made by him and his party is a MAJOR concern. That is just one of the many reasons I am not hopping on the Obama bandwagon. Here is a cartoon I found over on Mike Messerli's blog which I really enjoyed: I think it pretty much sums up how the MSM (main stream media) views Obama and would hope we view him as well.




Believe me, this decision doesn't come easily...this is the calendar I used all last year at work:



and this is the one I am using this year



so for me to admit to possibly voting Republican again is not an easy statement for me to make! But knowing that God is ultimately in control is the reason I am not totally freaked out about this election.

As Mr. Messerli so eloquently put it:

There is an interesting balance between personal responsibility and divine sovereignty. As Christians we know that God rules on planet earth. He elevates one and brings down another. The governments that exist are there because God has placed them there. But in the midst of this is our part in his work. We are divinely in a country where we are allowed to be part of the government by our vote. Our responsibility? We must pray, and then vote. Vote for the person you believe is the right person to lead our country, but do it knowing that in the background God is orchestrating the election to accomplish his will. It's a strange thing to be involved by our vote and yet know that God will put the man in office he wants.

As far as Ron Paul...a vote for him is a vote to express the belief that the 2 party system in this country NEEDS TO GO!!! Remember, "absolute power corrupts absolutely". There is just too much money, greed and corruption involved in the 2 party system operating in this country, in my opinion. Did you realize that St. Paul received 50 million dollars in federal money just for security for the RNC? Don't know how much Denver was awarded. Just throwing it out there...



Please pray for our country at this CRUCIAL time in history. You don't have to look very far to see we need God's blessings now more than ever!