International Bowl
At Toronto
South Florida (7-5) vs. Northern Illinois (7-5):  I admit I don't know much about either one of these teams. I am going to flip a coin and take South Florida. 
Cotton Bowl
At Dallas
Oklahoma State (9-3) vs. Mississippi (8-4), 1 p.m. (FOX): I am going to take OK State but I would not be shocked if Mississippi won. 
PapaJohns.com Bowl
At Birmingham, Ala.
Connecticut (7-5) vs. South Carolina (7-5), 1 p.m. (ESPN):  I am taking South Carolina. 
Liberty Bowl
At Memphis, Tenn.
East Carolina (9-4) vs. Arkansas (7-5), 4:30 p.m. (ESPN): For some reason I am taking Arkansas. 
Alamo Bowl
At San Antonio
Michigan State (6-6) vs. Texas Tech (8-4), 7 p.m. (ESPN):  With all the trouble that has been happening with Texas Tech you would think any sane person would pick State but I am not like any person , and I know some  might  question weather I am sane or not I'm picking Texas Tech.

There were two snow jobs in Washington over the weekend. One came from the sky as a record December snowfall blanketed the city. The other came from Capitol Hill where the Senate labored to cover up the real effects of its massive "health care reform" bill.

Below is a post I did on Jan. 1, 2009. Review it and see if any of my picks were right for last year. 

I  Hope and Pray All of You Have a Blessed and Happy New Year! 

Here are my picks for today's bowl games. 

So what were the top stories from this pass year, 2009: If you would like to see a video of me reading some of this post check out my video channel on You Tube later tonight,  right here. 

Health care debate: Moderate Democrats like my US Senator Ben Nelson going along with the wishes of those on the radical left:

War with radical Islam kept going on like that   suicide bomber  on Christmas somehow getting on the  that plane which was going  to Detroit thank God his will was prevented . What happen shows our current White House and some of our leaders aren’t committed to defeating the radicals as much as they are to defeating us.

President Obama moves into the Whitehouse and takes over the nation and pushes the  radical left's will  on most issues.

A  new lady  justice is named to the highest court in the land. The  media avoids questions about things she has done and said and gives her a pass.

On the web FACEBOOK and TWITTER becomes popular to see who is doing what.

FLUE illness becomes a main news story.

 

 

President Obama poll numbers going down. Also leaders in the Senate and the House not following the will of the majority of Americans.

The  movement of the Tea Parties:

The death of US Senate Kennedy:

So what was the top story of the year the war with radical Islam was pretty close to being number 1 but to me the top story was  the Health care debate: Moderate Democrats like my US Senator Ben Nelson going along with the wishes of those on the radical left to get a health care bill passed in the US Senate. No longer can Sen. Ben and others like him claim   they are middle of the road Democrats. Nelson sold out and let many pro lifers down in supporting a bill that will fund the killing of the unborn.

 

 

 

What will we be talking about next year at this time. I am not a prophet so call these guesses in some cases educated   guesses

Obama will keep pushing his radical left politics. Which makes me keep thinking  something I said last year will happen in a few years and that is Obama will end up being a term President just like President Carter was.

The leaders of America will keep from acting like radical followers of Islam hate us.

Many Democrats in the House and Senate will lose their jobs because of their support for health care.

Spending and higher taxes will increase by this current White House.

The debate over force government health care will keep going on.

The war against people of faith here in America and around the world will increase. People of faith will have to decide if their faith is in a leader, government, a political party, or political system or in the one true God who gave his life for all of us. 

People of faith being murdered, abused, and even put in prison around the world will keep going on and us in America will have to see people around the world are truly suffering for the Lord and get over some little things like the sermon going longer than ten minutes so we miss watching the kick off of our NFL team. 

Happy New Year I hope and Pray.

A Swedish family is faced with the prospect of losing their children simply because they home school.

 

 

The Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) is reporting that Swedish authorities in June boarded a plane scheduled to depart for India and removed Christer and Annie Johansson's seven-year-old son Dominic from the custody of the Christian couple. HSLDA attorney Mike Donnelly says Swedish officials did not have a warrant and were acting in accordance to the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child. (Swedish authorities frown on home schooling  )

 
Donnelly notes that the Swedish government does not believe that home schooling is a proper way to educate a child.

(So a government knows what is best for your children? This is an outrage. If this was a case which showed facts of the children being abused I would agree it was the right move to take the children but there are no facts outside that  the Swedish government hates home schooling. This is sad for this family and an outrage that should concern all of us who care about children. Could this be coming to America?) 

Senator Ben Nelson (D-Nebraska) is attempting to subdue the anger of pro-lifers who feel he betrayed them with his support for the Senate healthcare bill.

 

 

Senator Nelson aired a new television ad last night during the Nebraska-Arizona Holiday Bowl game in an attempt to justify casting the 60th vote in favor of the Senate healthcare bill. Nelson claims in the ad that he "took a commonsense approach to improve the bill," however the two-term senator alienated many of his past supporters who are pro-life when he supported legislation that allows taxpayer funding of abortion.
 

Julie Schmit-Albin, executive director of Nebraska Right to Life, says her group had a great relationship with Nelson and his staff until he went back on his word.
 
(Sen. Nelson can do all the political talk he wants to but he  no longer can run on theme that he is pro life. What he did by going along with the pro. abortion left  will allow tax money to be used to kill unborn babies. Thanks Sen. Nelson for selling out the unborn. You can read more of this story Nelson feeling the heat in Nebraska.)

Republican attorneys general in 13 states say congressional leaders must remove Nebraska's political deal from the federal health care reform bill or face legal action, according to a letter provided to The Associated Press Wednesday. (13 state AGs threaten suit over health care deal )

 

"We believe this provision is constitutionally flawed," South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and the 12 other attorneys general wrote in the letter to be sent Wednesday night to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.

 

"As chief legal officers of our states we are contemplating a legal challenge to this provision and we ask you to take action to render this challenge unnecessary by striking that provision," they wrote.

(Good for these  attorneys general. Even us in Nebraska who got this political deal don't think it was right. Why should one state not ever have to pay something that the rest of America has to.) 

As news broke Wednesday night of radio show host Rush Limbaugh's hospital visit due to chest pains, many of his political counterparts on the left put down their ideological swords and wished him well on Twitter.

 

"All best wishes to Mr. Limbaugh tonight, for a full and speedy recovery," wrote MSNBC's Rachel Maddow.

 

Mediaite's Rachel Sklar cautioned Rush's detractors: "No stooping to wishing him ill, people! (Karma.)"

 

Salon's Joan Walsh: "I can't enjoy the news of Rush Limbaugh's illness. Is there something wrong with me? He has a family. Aren't we better than that?"

 

And radio show host Alan Colmes said that "we wish him well."

 

There were others who weren't quite sure how to react. Mother Jones's David Corn begrudgingly offered this: "Rush, you've slimed me in the past. But, I suppose, good luck to you, too." But earlier, Corn wrestled with how to react to Rush's illness given Limbaugh's own reaction to the medical fortunes of others.

 

"Resist the snark about Rush's rush to the hospital?" asked Corn. "Yeah. But remember what he said about Ted Kennedy." Corn provided a link to a Huffington Post article that referenced a March Limbaugh show in which "Limbaugh suggested that Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-MA) would be dead by the time health care reform legislation passes. 'Before it's all over, it'll be called the Ted Kennedy memorial health care bill.'"

(This is what I along with most Americans from both the left and right hate about politics. We are in a war with those who hate America and all of us Americans, so why do we hate those who have different politics than we do. We all should wish Rush the best and pray  for him. I would post the same if he was from the left. Read more on the above story Lefties wish Limbaugh ill.)