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Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 4:08:54 PM









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'More than just a child custody case'

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:25:51 PM
The case of a ten-year-old homeschooled girl who was forced into public school by a New Hampshire judge now makes its way to the state's Supreme Court. (See earlier article)

The original order was issued July 14 in the case, In the Matter of Kurowski and Kurowski (Voydatch). The ruling stems from a divorce and child custody case where the mother, a Christian, was home schooling her daughter, but the child's father disagreed and believed the girl should be sent to public school. According to child custody agreements, any time the parents fail to agree on a situation involving the child, the decision is then left up to the courts. ('More than just a child custody case'  )

In this case, the judge noted the child's Christian faith and decided that her beliefs should be challenged in a public school setting. Alliance Defense Fund-allied attorney John Anthony Simmons filed a motion to reconsider, and the New Hampshire Supreme Court has agreed to hear the case.
 
"The court wanted the child to have her Christian views challenged, which is very different than just sort of benevolently wishing someone a well-rounded education in the arts and travel, arts and entertainment, and literature and the sciences and all that," the attorney contends. "So it wasn't so much a question of wanting proactively something for a child, but rather trying to take away from her something, which is of course her Christian worldview, and challenging that and [saying] that she held those beliefs too firmly.

(Say this had been a child who was of the Islam faith. Can you guess what would have happened? The job of the courts is  to decide what is best for the child not to change or challenge her Christian faith. This judge was 100% wrong in what he said and did.) 

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Say No to Christmas Store Boycott Instead Show Jesus

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:16:25 PM

The American Family Association (AFA) is suspending its Christmas-season boycott of Gap, Old Navy, and Banana Republic.

 

 

The suspension of the boycott is in effect until at least Saturday. A Gap official has reported to the pro-family group that it will unveil a new Christmas-themed commercial this weekend. AFA says it is suspending the boycott "in good faith" until it has an opportunity to view the new commercial.
 
The boycott was initiated after the clothing company refused to use the word "Christmas" in its ads and promotions. Also, some people were upset over a Gap television ad that mentioned a host of other holiday traditions along with Christmas.

(As I have posted before I am not a fan of these boycotts trying to make a store use Merry Christmas. Think about it the one who's birthday we honor at Christmas do you think he wants his  name used to sell such and such game, movie, book, etc. and that he is concerned that some company isn't wishing people Merry Christmas. I think what would make him more please is if followers of Jesus went to the places who don't say Merry Christmas and showed them Jesus through words and actions. Don't boycott instead touch hearts and souls for the Lord. Read about the above issue Gap boycott on hold.)

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Blame Nelson or Iowa Gov. Branstad for Health Care Vote

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 1:08:44 PM

It's the story of a nine-year-old campaign endorsement, a vote on the Senate floor and a long-term political friendship between an Iowa Republican and a Nebraska Democrat.

Clashes over the Senate health care bill apparently have no bounds.

Iowa, governor hopeful Bob Vander Plaats criticized former Gov. Terry Branstad, a fellow Republican, on Monday for endorsing Nebraska Democrat Ben Nelson in his 2000 campaign for the U.S. Senate. (Pinning Nelson vote on Branstad?  )

That endorsement, Vander Plaats said, helped Nelson eke out a 15,000-vote victory over his opponent, which gave him his first Senate win and put him in the position to advance the health care bill last Saturday.

“Ben Nelson gave Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid the vote he needed to get the 60 votes to steamroll Republican opposition,” said Vander Plaats.

“Whatever happens from here on out, Terry Branstad is going to have to accept some responsibility, because he was a very active supporter of Ben Nelson in his first campaign for the Senate.”

(As a Nebraska voter I believe Ben Nelson vote last Saturday night was wrong and I hope he pays for it at the next election. However,  I don't think we can blame Terry Branstad who lives in Iowa. At the same time we all need to be thinking about what those who we put in office will do. Ben Nelson last Saturday night put his party ahead of what was best for  the voters of his state and every American. He voted to raise taxes and for all tax payers to pay for abortions. He can never again  tell the pro life voters of Nebraska with a straight face that he is pro life. ) 

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Hindu sacrifice Is Wrong and Thanksgiving For

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:57:46 PM
I have posted some new postings on my faith based blog. Here are the links...


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Oprah Winfrey most successful woman that we will ever know in the history of this country

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:43:40 PM
(It's one of those statements that makes you think more and more how low can our culture go.  )
Oprah Winfrey's expected announcement that she'll end her show -- and the prospect that she'll say goodbye to Chicago – has Mayor Daley placing some blame on the media.

CBS 2's Mike Parker reports.

Daley said Thursday evening he's going to call Oprah to get the real story. But he's obviously concerned that if she says farewell to this city it'll be a blow to Chicago's image.

"I think she was the most successful woman that we will ever know in the history of this country," Daley said at a fundraising event.

(There have been a lot of women who have done things to make America, the world, and our culture better but Mayor Daley thinks Oprah is not only the most successful so far but will be the most successful.  I like what my friend  Denny  Hartford posted on his Vital Signs Blog last week. 
"For in the mind of Chicago Mayor Richard Daley (and probably many other celebrity worshipers), Oprah Winfrey, a New Age egotist who talks about mostly inane, irrelevant topics on a TV program, soars above all mothers, scientists, political leaders, doctors, educators, policewomen, missionaries, First Ladies, soldiers, philanthropists, writers, social activists, adventurers, athletes, nurses, artists and caregivers." Amen Denny!) 

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Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents

Posted by Billy email MADBillyD@aol.com on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 12:27:59 PM
The federal government spent $3.5 trillion during President Obama's first year in office. This far exceeds the spending for any other first-year president. 

President Obama has shattered the budget record for first-year presidents -- spending nearly double what his predecessor did when he came into office and far exceeding the first-year tabs for any other U.S. president in history. 

In fiscal 2009 the federal government spent $3.52 trillion -- $2.8 trillion in 2000 dollars, which sets a benchmark for comparison. That fiscal year covered the last three-and-a-half months of George W. Bush's term and the first eight-and-a-half months of Obama's. 

That price tag came with a $1.4 trillion deficit, nearly $1 trillion more than last year. The overall budget was about a half-trillion more than Bush's for 2008, his final full fiscal year in office. 

Click here to read FOXBusiness.com's Elizabeth MacDonald describe what the interest on the debt can buy.

(President Obama even in these hard times is showing us he is  a tax and spend liberal. While the rest of us has to cut back Uncle Sam under the leadership of Obama is spending in  record numbers. Those of you who voted for Obama how do you like this change and how does your check book like it? Read more of the above story Obama Shatters Spending Record for First-Year Presidents.) 

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