I feel like Paul, “Apart from other things, there is the daily pressure on me of my anxiety for all the churches.”
2 Corinthians 11:28
“Remember the word that I said to you: ‘A servant is not greater than his master.’ If they persecuted me, they will also persecute you.”
John 15:20
“Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings, that you may also rejoice and be glad when his glory is revealed. If you are insulted for the name of Christ, you are blessed, because the Spirit of glory and of God rests upon you.”
1 Peter 4:12-14
“You will be delivered up even by parents and brothers and relatives and friends, and some of you they will put to death. You will be hated by all for my name’s sake. But not a hair of your head will perish. By your endurance you will gain your lives.”
Luke 21:16-19
“I do not account my life of any value nor as precious to myself, if only I may finish my course and the ministry that I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify to the gospel of the grace of God.”
Acts 20:24
I will leave the speech analysis to the conservative political pundits. See my sidebar under “Right is Right” for some links. My favorites are Hot Air and Newsbusters.
Personally, I think Sarah Palin did great during the VP debate. I believe she connected to the people and proved she can take on the “old boys”. Since my website focus is parenting, here are some photos of Sarah Palin and her family following the debate last night.
Todd and Sarah Palin Hugging after Debate
Sarah Palin embracing daughter Piper
Piper Palin is getting quite the experience for a seven-year-old
Sarah Palin reaching out for her Baby Trig Palin
Sarah patting Baby Son Trig
Todd and Sarah Palin and Daughter Willow and
Daughter Piper carrying Baby Brother Trig
It was fun to see Sarah Palin in another pair of red high heels. (more here)
For many more Sarah Palin Family Pictures, click here and scroll down.
I could write post after post of personal stuff, but I hesitate to do that these days. I owe three people detailed emails (sorry), and I must get around to posting a ton of pictures. I will write what comes to mind right now.
~ Tonight at Tae Kwon Do, I overheard a mother discussing bullies at her child’s school. She said, “School isn’t for feeling terrified, school is for learning.”
~ We TRIED to drive past, but we just had to get fish ‘n’ chips after Tae Kwon Do tonight. We had Chinese food the other day with chicken balls that tasted exactly the same. I still have to do the dishes that are in the sink.
~ Tonight, I found out that tomorrow is parent/teacher day. I was surprised the other mothers didn’t ask me why I didn’t know that. (The Tae Kwon Do mothers have yet to find out we homeschool.) I will have a good long talk with myself tomorrow while the children are doing their schoolwork.
~ It was such a warm afternoon that C7 and L4 played outside in the water sprinkler. We also walked to the river where they and B10 “fished” with long reeds/seaweed.
~ N14 mowed the lawn until he ran out of gas today, and B10 washed the van as high as he could reach. He couldn’t get the windshield.
~ I got a new red leather jacket in Montreal the other day. Ooooh.
~ Derek finished all his exams for the course he has been taking. He is much smarter now.
~ I am almost caught up in laundry, and most things are put away.
~ L4 got very little schoolin’ this week. He loves to play by himself or with his imaginary friends or with his sister.
~ I went yesterday to get much needed new make-up. The sales lady told me I needed a moisturizer to prevent more wrinkles. She gave me a “hypo-allergenic” sample to put on my face. I told her I don’t use them because they always give me a rash, but she insisted, and I became a guinea pig yet again. A few hours later, my face was red, blotchy, swollen, and itchy. Fortunately, every time this happens, the reaction is a little less.
~ I had a hard time choosing mascara, so the sales lady pointed to the brand she was wearing. I looked at her eyes, and said “Sure, that would be great” which was sort of a lie, but I couldn’t tell her I didn’t like it, so I went out the door with her mascara. It isn’t too bad, I guess.
~ While shopping yesterday (in the middle of the day), I had an interesting conversation about homeschooling. I like to shock and awe.
~ I bought C7 two lovely dresses in NY, and I can’t believe I left the store with one in the wrong size. Argh!
~ Most importantly, I bought a new pair of Sarah Palin RED SHOES!!!!! Go Sarah!!!
Global slavery at a high, but reasons for hope
Modern-day abolitionists cite rising public attention to the problem, honor quiet heroes working to eradicate human bondage. http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0916/p01s01-usgn.html
“A senior Canadian doctor is now expressing concerns that such a prominent public role model as the governor of Alaska and potential vice president of the United States completing a Down syndrome pregnancy may prompt other women to make the same decision against abortion because of that genetic abnormality. And thereby reduce the number of abortions.”
“Published reports in Canada say about 9 out of 10 women given a diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate the pregnancy through abortion.”
“In addition to Barack Obama making history as the first African American to be nominated for president and Sarah Palin taking her shotgun to the glass ceiling, there was a third civil rights barrier broken at the political conventions this year.”
“Trig Paxson Van Palin — pronounced by his mother “beautiful” and “perfect” and applauded at center stage of the Republican convention — smashed the chromosomal barrier. And it was all the more moving for the innocence and indifference of this 4-month-old civil rights leader.”
“It was not always this way. John F. Kennedy’s younger sister Rosemary, who was born in 1918, had a mental disability that was treated as a family secret. For decades Rosemary was hidden as a “childhood victim of spinal meningitis.” Joseph Kennedy subjected his daughter to a destructive lobotomy when she was 23. It was the remarkable Eunice Kennedy Shriver who talked openly of her sister’s condition in 1962 and went on to found the Special Olympics as a summer camp in her back yard — part of a great social movement of compassion and inclusion.”
“Yet the pro-choice radicalism held by [Sen Edward] Kennedy and many others — the absolute elevation of individual autonomy over the rights of the weak — has enabled the new eugenics. It has also created a moral conflict at the heart of the Democratic Party. If traditional Democratic ideology means anything, it is the assertion that America is a single moral community that includes everyone. How can this vision possibly be reconciled with the elimination of children with Down syndrome from American society? Are pro-choice Democrats really comfortable with this choice?”
“The family struggles of political leaders can be morally instructive. Contrast the attitude of Joseph Kennedy with that of Charles de Gaulle, who treated his daughter Anne, born with Down syndrome in 1928, with great affection. The image of this arrogant officer rocking Anne in his arms at night speaks across the years. After her death and burial at age 20, de Gaulle turned to his wife and said, ‘Come. Now she is like the others.’”
“Obama makes the ‘lipstick on a pig’ joke, and his crowd is out there chanting, ‘No more pit bull!’ So it is very obvious that his crowd knew. They laughed and applauded. They didn’t think it was just a standard political cliché overused by politicians of all stripes. His audience laughed, and this is his problem.” (Hat Tip)
I found this Freudian? slip hilarious: (Freudian - a slip of the tongue that is motivated by and reveals some unconscious aspect of the mind)
Obama: “My Muslim Faith” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw
This bright-eyed, alert, and beautiful baby boy certainly looks like he is being well cared for - by his whole family.
Baby Trig in Sarah Palin’s Arms
Picture of Trig Palin
The entire Palin family (including mother, father, and siblings) is obviously active in helping this little guy grow to his full potential.
When Sarah Palin finished her acceptance speech during the convention, I loved how she greeted her family and embraced her baby.
Sarah Palin Holding Trig (with family)
Proud Mama, Sarah Palin, Holding Baby
Just because Sarah Palin’s baby boy happens to have Down Syndrome does not mean the mainstream media has the right to label him as “disabled” and “requiring so much extra time”. He needs his physical and emotional needs met just like any other baby.
Trig Palin has a loving mother who keeps him with her as much as possible AND a father who is a capable stay-at-home dad. He also has siblings that love and care for him.
Here is an endearing video of seven-year-old Piper Palin and her baby brother Trig. A child doesn’t learn to be this nurturing without the example of good, loving parents.
Left-wing pro-aborts do not care about this baby. They are playing politics. LIke 90% of people with a prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome, they would likely have “chosen” to have killed him in utereo, or they would have hung a “Do not feed” sign on the door of the utility room.
Sarah Palin Holding Trig Following Speech
Trig isn’t missing a thing
Sarah Palin cuddling baby Trig
Sarah Palin Holding Son, Trig
Todd and Sarah Palin and Trig
(Sarah talking to Trig)
Baby Trig still watching what is going on
Some of the Palin Family (Sarah holding baby)
Todd and Sarah Palin - Future First Dude and Vice President
(with Baby Trig)
“Village life in Israel ceased, ceased until I, Deborah, arose, arose a mother in Israel.
“When they chose new gods, war came to the city gates, and not a shield or spear was seen among forty thousand in Israel.”
“My heart is with Israel’s princes, with the willing volunteers among the people. Praise the LORD!” Judges 5:7-9
Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lappidoth, was leading Israel at that time. She held court under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, and the Israelites came to her to have their disputes decided. She sent for Barak son of Abinoam from Kedesh in Naphtali and said to him, “The LORD, the God of Israel, commands you: ‘Go, take with you ten thousand men of Naphtali and Zebulun and lead the way to Mount Tabor. I will lure Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’ ”
Barak said to her, “If you go with me, I will go; but if you don’t go with me, I won’t go.”
“Very well,” Deborah said, “I will go with you. But because of the way you are going about this, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will hand Sisera over to a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh, where he summoned Zebulun and Naphtali. Ten thousand men followed him, and Deborah also went with him. Judges 4:1-10
Remind you of anyone? (arose a mother, Barak, hand country over to a woman)
Speaking of Sarah Palin, “She is so absolutely, remarkably, spectacularly ordinary. I think the magic of Sarah Palin speaks to a belief that so many of us share: the sense that we personally know five people in our immediate circle who would make a better president than the menagerie of candidates the major parties routinely offer. Sarah Palin has erupted from this collective American Dream — the idea that, given nothing but classic American values like hard work, integrity, and tough-minded optimism you can actually do what happens in the movies: become Leader of the Free World, the President of the United States of America. (Or, well, you know, vice president.)
“Sarah Palin has stolen Barack Obama’s glamour. She’s stolen his excitement, robbed his electricity, burgled his charisma, purloined his star power, and taken his Hope and Change mantra, woven it into a cold-weather fashion accessory, and wrapped it around her neck.”
“A candidate who is young, funny, well-spoken, intelligent, charming, drop-dead gorgeous — and one of ours?”
“I’ve seen post after post on Hillary forums about how much they love Sarah, how they are energized and lifted out of depression by her (and the sight of an actual Roll Call made some of them weep). They gush about how she reminds them of their hero, how tough and savvy and unafraid she is. And I have seen these women, hard-core, feminist Democrats for 30 years and more, sit in slack-jawed amazement at Palin and at how fiercely Republicans — Republicans!— are defending her, backing her, and cheering her to the rafters. These Clinton supporters say they don’t know what to think any more: The Republicans are behaving like Democrats and the Democrats are behaving like Republicans!”
“If you think that’s an insult, you’ve got it exactly backwards. That is not only a huge compliment from these abandoned, centrist Democrats who bemoan the loss of their party to the radicals, it is an early rumbling of a tectonic shift in American politics which we are only dimly beginning to grasp. Who are the real feminists?“
I love that. Exactly!! We are the ones who believe God created all men equal - male AND female!!
“That, my long-suffering and now giddy and sleepless friends — that is the smell of victory. That is conservatism with a future. And we started on that path not by nominating a Democrat-lite, but the polar opposite. The nomination of a woman with perfect conservative credentials is causing some significant number of Democrats to re-examine everything they believe. I say: Welcome Home. Welcome to the party of individual achievement, regardless of race or gender.”
“John McCain did something Thursday night more powerful and astonishing than Sarah Palin did the previous evening. Sarah stole Obama’s glamour. McCain stole his message. (Granted, that may not be a lot, apart from the glamour, but it was all Obama had left.)“(source)
November 4th will be amazing! It will be the day when the RIGHT will defeat the mainstream media, Hollywood, and the radical left in a landslide! Even lefty, pro-abort Oprah (who sometimes has a great show) will lose her position as the most powerful woman in the world to Sarah Palin!
I think John McCain’s age is an advantage in spite of the relentless jokes and nasty comments. Doesn’t the media worry about offending all the older voters?
Age does bring wisdom and experience.
When I saw John McCain’s MOTHER with Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention, I was rather impressed. She looked great!!! She is 96!!
Sarah Palin and Roberta McCain
Here is a quote from Ronald Reagan (when questioned in the 1984 campaign about concerns over his advancing age.)
“I refuse to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.”
Either I am a pretty good journalist *smirk* or I regularly read conservative blogs, because I was hoping all summer that John McCain would pick Sarah Palin as his running mate. I kept annoying my husband by saying, “I hope he picks her!” over and over. So then when she was nominated, I was more excited than surprised at the VP pick. GO SARAH!!!
The mainstream media didn’t see her coming because they had fallen down while worshipping Barack Obama.
This is funnier than you think, because I AM CANADIAN!!!
The best thing that has come out of this nomination (besides Sarah) is that people are finally beginning to recognize the media bias.
(Scroll down for pictures of Todd Palin with his Children)
When the folks in the mainstream media talk about Sarah Palin, they emphasize that she has FIVE children!! How could she ever do it!!! They make it seem like she is a single mother and all five of her children are only TWO YEARS OLD!
Well… Alert the media. Sarah is married to a very capable man who happens to have sacrificed his job to play a larger role in raising their children. I understand they have never hired a full-time babysitter (at least since the last two children were born).
The Palin family did just fine while Sarah worked as governor. It seems her children were with her when possible, and her husband worked as a full-time dad. It certainly seems like Todd and Sarah Palin know what they are doing.
And about those FIVE children… Their oldest son, Track, happens to be going to war in Iraq. I think he’s pretty grown up.
I guess the mainstream media believes that conservative women should stay at home. Have they noticed that both Barack Obama AND his wife work fulltime? Don’t they care about the Obama children?
Isn’t this an AWESOME photo?? A teenage boy doesn’t just do this unless he REALLY cares.
Bristol Palin’s Boyfriend Levi kissing Baby Trig (in Bristol’s arms)
Little Piper with her soon-to-be Brother-in-law and her Big Sister
Bristol happily holding Baby Brother During Sarah Palin’s Speech
I see Bristol and Levi as a young couple in love. They had been planning to get married anyway, and just because they (wrongly) jumped the gun and are now expecting, that does not mean this is a CRISIS pregnancy. How do we know how they felt about the baby? I never did understand how pregnancy is a shock to people (unless they don’t know where babies come from), although I realize people sometimes DO feel “shocked”. Maybe Bristol and Levi were worried at first, especially before sharing the news, but then became happy because their families were supportive, and they have a good excuse to be together. These days, even marriage before twenty-five is frowned upon.
The pro-abortion left is bewildered because the Christian right is not outraged. They cry, “Hypocrites”, but they just do not understand. They do not understand forgiveness. They do not understand love. They do not see new life as a blessing. And they do not see children as gifts from God.
I am reminded of these verses:
“Then said Jesus, ‘Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’” Luke 23:34
“This day I call heaven and earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose life, so that you and your children may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19
“He shall gently lead those that are with young.” Isaiah 40:11
For many more Sarah Palin Family Pictures, click here and scroll down.
I had intended to leave the previous post at the top for the night, but I just had to add these pictures and video of John McCain greeting both his family and Sarah Palin’s family.
Don’t Bristol and Levi make an adorable couple?? So cute. I can’t wait for the wedding pictures. “The two teens had made plans to wed before it was known she was pregnant. ‘This is just a bonus,’ Johnston [Levi’s mother] said.” (source)
I think I am turning into a stalker or paparazzi with all the Sarah Palin pictures, but I haven’t been this excited since Charles started dating Diana (with a little Ronald Reagan on the side).
NOTE: Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech is tonight. Tune into FOX News.
McCain hugging Sarah’s Daughter Bristol
Meeting Bristol’s Fiance Levi
He was homeschooled. (Source Wikipedia)
John McCain with Sarah’s Oldest Daughter and Boyfriend
John McCain with Dear Little Baby Trig - Awwww!
Adorable Couple
Todd & Sarah Palin and John & Cindy McCain with their families
Did you know the two couples have twelve children between them?
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My grandmother was conceived in 1920, the same year that national women’s suffrage finally came to America. My grandmother, living in New York, is now 87 years old, and at last, after all these years, a woman will be elected Vice President of the United States. Governor Sarah Palin is not just any woman. Governor Palin is a woman with Christian, conservative family values and principles. She brings hope and enthusiasm to this election with her strength, character, and courage.
Sarah Palin is obviously one very intelligent lady. She became mayor and then governor and cleaned up her state and even her own party while maintaining a very high approval rate.
She has respect for all life - born and unborn.
I love that Sarah embraces her role as a mother and does not hide her children or view them as inconveniences. I am very impressed with her belief in mother/child togetherness. She takes her children to work, breastfeeds, and wears her baby in a sling. It seems that Sarah’s husband plans to homeschool with distance education.
Strong, healthy women CAN have it all, but keep in mind, they are not necessarily DOING it all. Most women ARE working women whether in or outside the home. Some delegate the cooking, dishes, laundry, and cleaning to hired staff, and replace it with talking with people, paperwork, and giving speeches. Either way, a woman can still be a devoted wife and mother - as long as she stays connected to her children. It seems that Sarah Palin has the energy, strength, and courage to be a wonderful vice-president, while at the same time, she will continue to be a great mother to her children.
“Palin has carefully portrayed herself throughout her career as someone committed to both family and profession — and tough enough to handle both. She made a show of dismissing the chef at the governor’s mansion saying she wanted to do her own cooking, and that the kids were old enough to make their own sandwiches.And no one can recall her ever having a full-time babysitter.
(I understand that before this time, she did have a nanny when her oldest children were little.)
“‘You walk into her office and Piper is sitting there, the baby is in the crib — that’s just the way it is. This is how she lives her life. Someone who was in a meeting with her recently said she was discreetly nursing Trig,’ said Palin’s biographer Kaylene Johnson.”
Sarah and Piper in the Office
Baby Trig with Mommy and Daddy
“From interviews with those closest to Palin emerges a description of a hectic lifestyle, but one in which the hominess and rural community of Alaska have enabled her to have her kids around her while she works and have offered a deep bench of family and friends for child-care support. She has shown up to meetings and news conferences carrying Trig in a baby pouch.“
Sarah Working with Baby in Sling
Happy Baby / Happy Mother
On the Job with Trig in a Baby Carrier
Sarah Babywearing
“She and her husband kept their family house in the small town of Wasilla, where her parents, three siblings and closest friends live. Most of the year, she is able to commute back and forth from Anchorage daily, except when the legislature is in session in Juneau. Todd Palin is currently on leave from his job as an oil field worker, making it possible for him to be a full-time dad, said two friends. Sarah Palin’s mother said in an interview Sunday that Palin’s two youngest girls, Willow and Piper, attended school in Juneaufor the second semester last year when the legislature was in session to be near their mother. The baby was also with Palin.“
Sarah Holding Trig At Work
Sarah Palin Working with Baby Trig
“Even in the story of Trig’s birth, Palin paints herself as feisty and fearless. She told the local media that she noticed her amniotic fluid was leaking right before she gave a speech in Texas last April. After her keynote address to the National Governors Association, and obtaining the consent of her doctor, Palin boarded an eight-hour flight to Anchorage. She never told the airline she was in labor. She and her husband drove 45 minutes to her hometown medical center; the baby was born seven hours later.”
I like the fact that she didn’t treat pregnancy as an illness. I think it was awesome that she gave a speech after her water broke. I thought I was pretty smart in shaving my legs, labouring at home for the first 24 hours of a 26-hour labour, and going for a walk around the hospital just before giving birth. But, obviously, I am no Sarah Palin.
Sarah Palin Giving a Speech During Her Pregnancy
Sarah Palin Expecting
Sarah, Pregnant with Trig
I also think it is awesome that Sarah Palin had another baby at 44 years of age.
Sarah Palin chose life for her son even though 90% of prenatally diagnosed babies with Down Syndrome are killed before birth in the United States.
“The McCain campaign said it could not confirm that Palin was still breastfeeding Trig, but the governor said as much in a interview with People magazine on Friday. “What I’ve had to do . . . is, in the middle of the night, put down the BlackBerrys and pick up the breast pump,” she worked into an answer to a question about whether she was a morning person.”
“Palin kept her pregnancy secret for seven months, stunning even her staff with the announcement. She pointedly said at the time she would not miss work. ‘I had Piper on a Monday, and I was back to work on a Tuesday. I even brought her to work with me,’ she said, referring to the birth of her daughter.”
Again, this demonstrates great strength. Sarah has wisely chosen the kind of work that enables her to have her children with her. There are so many photos of Sarah and her daughter on the job.
“Sarah Palin, in ruby red peep-toe platform heels that showed off a pink French-style pedicure, first ducked into a holding room to change the diaper of her just-up-from-a-nap 4 1/2-month-old son, Trig.”
Sarah Palin with Baby and Future President and First Lady
SARAH PALIN: “Morning person. Yup. We don’t sleep much. Too much to do. What I’ve had to do, though, is in the middle of the night, put down the BlackBerries and pick up the breast pump. Do a couple of things different and still get it all done.”
Sarah Palin with Baby and Blackberry
“As a new mom, how are you going to juggle all this?”
SARAH PALIN: “I am thankful to be married to a man who loves being a dad as much as I love being a mom, so he is my strength. And practically speaking, we have a great network of help with lots of grandparents and aunties and uncles all around us. We have a lot of help.”
“So will your husband be on leave now indefinitely to be Mr. Mom?”
SARAH PALIN: “I would say so, yes.”
Her husband is a capable full-time dad. As vice-president, she will also have a huge staff. And she will be able to continue having her children with her.
Todd Palin and Baby Son
Sarah Palin with husband Todd holding Baby Trig
On the Job with Sarah
Todd Palin holding Daughter Piper
On the Job with Sarah
Todd Palin holding Daughter Piper
Older Photo of Palin Family
Todd Palin Holding Piper
“Mr. Palin, you have this tiny baby with special needs. Do you worry that people may wonder if she’ll be giving short shrift to her family?”
TODD PALIN: “She’s heard that her whole life – the challenges of being a female and mother in the work force. I remember the first time she ran for mayor one of her fellow council members told her you can’t run because you’ve got three negatives: Track, Bristol and Willow. Those are the three kids we had at the time. So when you tell her that kind of stuff, she just gets fired up. We’re an Alaska family that adapts.”
Supportive Family
Sarah’s Oldest Daughter Bristol Holding Baby Brother Trig
The daughter who is pregnant is seventeen years old. My grandmother married at seventeen, and my mother married at sixteen, and I had my first date with my husband at fourteen. I think Sarah’s oldest daughter will love being married and having a baby. I think she will also love being the daughter of the first female vice-president. The young man Bristol plans to marry was homeschooled. Sarah said, “We’re proud of Bristol’s decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents. . . . Bristol and the young man she will marry are going to realize very quickly the difficulties of raising a child, which is why they will have the love and support of our entire family.”
CINDY MCCAIN: “I disagree with anyone who would say she can’t do both. Any woman who’s been in a situation where they are working and have children know that you give 300 percent; no one will be slighted in any of this, least of all her baby. She has a lot of energy, she’s a woman with great drive and great vision.”
“Mrs. McCain, do you even remember the last time he changed a diaper?”
CINDY MCCAIN: “No. And I’m not sure he does.”
JOHN MCCAIN: “Heh-heh. I remember. There’s some experiences you never forget.”
Todd and Sarah Palin
(Note Baby in Sarah’s Arms)
John and Cindy McCain
MCCAIN/PALIN 2008
For many more Sarah Palin Family Pictures, click here and scroll down.
“Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan Governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the Union — and won — over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.”
“Let’s be clear … the selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.”
“And I can say without fear of contradiction that she is the only nominee in the history of either party who knows how to properly field dress a moose … with the possible exception of Teddy Roosevelt.”
“She and John McCain are not going to care how much the alligators get irritated when they get to Washington, they’re going to drain that swamp.”
“They tell you they are not going to tax your family.”
“No, they’re just going to tax “businesses”! So unless you buy something from a “business”, like groceries or clothes or gasoline … or unless you get a paycheck from a big or a small “business”, don’t worry … it’s not going to affect you.” (sarcasm)
“They say they are not going to take any water out of your side of the bucket, just the “other” side of the bucket! That’s their idea of tax reform.”
“And we need a President who doesn’t think that the protection of the unborn or a newly born baby is above his pay grade.”
“The man who will be that President is John McCain.”
“Barack Obama, descended from the heavens to heal our souls and deliver our nation; and Sarah Palin, who wandered in from the Alaska wilderness with a rifle under one arm and a baby in the other.” Quoted from here.
The differences between Obama and Palin are also blatantly obvious. Obama would have abortion survivors die. Remember when Obama listened to Jill Stanek testifying about holding an aborted Down Syndrome baby boy until he died. Sarah Palin knew that her own unborn baby had Down Syndrome and even though 90% of Down’s babies are killed before birth, she chose life.
Due to a mini-vacation, I haven’t been at a computer since Friday morning. At that time, rumours were floating around about a certain plane flying from Alaska. Eventually I learned that it was confirmed that Sarah Palin had been selected as John McCain’s running mate. She was my number one pick all spring and summer, but I wasn’t sure if John McCain would choose her. I hoped and I hoped (just ask Derek), and you can only imagine my excitement when it was confirmed. My only disappointments were that I couldn’t get access to a computer or even watch FOX news. As a last (pathetic) resort, I turned to CNN and laughed at them calling it a “shocker” and scrambling to find “something” negative about Palin.
It is exciting to see such a contrast in the two parties. The Republican party represents a REAL choice for LIFE and conservative values. It stands as a stark contrast to the radical liberal pro-death Democratic party that is supported by both the mainstream media and Hollywood.
I found links to these images in my inbox as soon as I got home.
Sarah Palin with her baby in a sling
Sarah Palin with her baby in a sling
When I checked my blogroll, I was delighted to read that some of my favorite bloggers like Sarah Palin as much as I do.
In my anguish I cried to the LORD, and he answered by setting me free.
Psalm 118:5 NIV
I run in the path of your commands, for you have set my heart free.
Psalm 119:32 NIV
I will walk about in freedom, for I have sought out your precepts.
Psalm 119:45 NIV
The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners and recovery of sight for the blind, to release the oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor.
Luke 4:18-19 NIV
Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
John 8:32 NIV
So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
John 8:36 NIV
Into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Romans 8:21 NIV
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 NIV
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1 NIV
You, my brothers, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the sinful nature; rather, serve one another in love.
Galatians 5:13
Be careful, however, that the exercise of your freedom does not become a stumbling block to the weak.
1 Corinthians 8:9
In him [Christ] and through faith in him we may approach God with freedom and confidence.
Ephesians 3:12 NIV
But the man who looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues to do this, not forgetting what he has heard, but doing it—he will be blessed in what he does.
James 1:25
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom.
James 2:12
Live as free men, but do not use your freedom as a cover-up for evil; live as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16
They promise them freedom, while they themselves are slaves of depravity—for a man is a slave to whatever has mastered him.
2 Peter 2:19
"Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Abraham Lincoln
"I freed thousands of slaves. I could have freed thousands more, if they had known they were slaves."
Harriet Tubman
"No one is free when others are oppressed."
Author Unknown
"Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry
"A Christian man is the most free lord of all, and subject to none, a Christian man is the most dutiful servant of all, and subject to every one."
Martin Luther
Freedom of a Christian
Free from the law, O happy condition,
Jesus has bled and there is remission,
Cursed by the law and bruised by the fall, Grace hath redeemed us once for all.
Once for all, O sinner, receive it,
Once for all, O brother, believe it;
Cling to the cross, the burden will fall, Christ hath redeemed us once for all.
Now we are free, there’s no condemnation,
Jesus provides a perfect salvation.
“Come unto Me,” O hear His sweet call,
Come, and He saves us once for all.
“Children of God,” O glorious calling, Surely His grace will keep us from falling;
Passing from death to life at His call;
Blessèd salvation once for all.
My soul is filled with joy and gladness
Since Jesus came to me.
His love has banished all my sadness, From sin I am set free.
He set me free, He set me free,
I was blind, but hallelujah, now I see!
I shall ne’er forget the day When He washed my sins away,
And He set, He set me free.
The Comforter divine is dwelling
Within my soul today;
His love to others I am telling
Since Jesus came to stay.
The grace of Jesus hath abounded
For all my sins I see,
Salvation walls have me surrounded, From sin I am set free.
Once I was bound by sin’s galling fetters;
Chained like a slave, I struggled in vain. But I received a glorious freedom,
When Jesus broke my fetters in twain.
Glorious freedom! Wonderful freedom!
No more in chains of sin I repine!
Jesus the glorious Emancipator—
Now and forever He shall be mine.
Freedom from all the carnal affections;
Freedom from envy, hatred and strife;
Freedom from vain and worldly ambitions;
Freedom from all that saddened my life!
Freedom from pride and all sinful follies;
Freedom from love and glitter of gold;
Freedom from evil temper and anger;
Glorious freedom, rapture untold!
Freedom from fear with all of its torments;
Freedom from care with all of its pain;
Freedom in Christ, my blessèd Redeemer—
He Who has rent my fetters in twain.
Why should I feel discouraged, why should the shadows come,
Why should my heart be lonely, and long for heaven and home,
When Jesus is my portion? My constant friend is He:
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
I sing because I’m happy,
I sing because I’m free,
For His eye is on the sparrow,
And I know He watches me.
“Let not your heart be troubled,” His tender word I hear,
And resting on His goodness, I lose my doubts and fears;
Though by the path He leadeth, but one step I may see;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
Whenever I am tempted, whenever clouds arise,
When songs give place to sighing, when hope within me dies,
I draw the closer to Him, from care He sets me free;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me;
His eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me.
She gave me a “hypo-allergenic” sample to put on my face. I told her I don’t use them because they always give me a rash, but she insisted, and I became a guinea pig yet again. A few hours later, my face was red, blotchy, swollen, and itchy. Fortunately, every time this happens, the reaction is a little less.
