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Come on Edwards, you go first…..sacrifice the bazillion square foot house for a pull behind your car mobile home and we’ll talk.  Click here for the entire article. 

Most of us already know how devoted to this country our own Jeff Sessions is.  We all know him and admire his strong stance for what’s right even in the face of adversity, sometimes from our own party.  Recent Past AFRW President, Rhonda Rutledge has been named Organizational Director of the campaign to re-elect Jeff Sessions.  She is getting the grassroots organization up and running for the upcoming campaign.  You can be a part.  Go to Senator Sessions’ website by clicking here.  Sign up to receive emails and volunteer.  Let’s all do what we can to re-elect one of the finest Senators this country has ever been blessed with. 

The Dems are repeatedly hacking at the right for trying to bring morality into the public arena.  They evoke the "separation of church and state" mantra. 

Click here.  How often do you see GOP politicians standing in the pulpit and campaigning?  Dems who read this blog be aware your "separation of church and state" mantra means nothing to us because of things just like this.  The word hypocrite lingers in my mind when I see things like this. 

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STATEMENT FROM ALGOP CHAIR MIKE HUBBARD ON STATE SCHOOL BOARD VOTE

Birmingham – Alabama Republican Party Chairman Mike Hubbard on Thursday released the statement below regarding today’s action by the State School Board that prohibits employees of the two-year college system from holding public office beyond the year 2010.

In addition, the board voted to require current community college employees serving in the legislature to use accrued leave time in order to fulfill their obligations in Montgomery.

Hubbard’s statement reads:

“The actions taken today by the school board will do more to bring integrity, accountability and transparency to state government than any other action in our history.

Regardless of race, party or class, this policy will apply to everyone from the governor to the legislative leadership to every lawmaker in Montgomery.  It is a great victory for the taxpayers, the citizens, and, especially, the children of Alabama.

We must now redouble our efforts to ensure the Democrat Legislature doesn’t undo all the good that has been done today.

I cannot understand how the Democrat Party, its elected officials and its leadership can continually defend a system that has been mired in a cesspool of corruption for so many decades.

The union leaders and party bosses may control most of the Democrat legislators in Montgomery, but it is gratifying to see that they no longer control the State Board of Education.  The people of Alabama do.”

Please be reminded of the meeting in the last post.  It is vitally important that all who can attend.

AFRW President Virginia Howard is encouraging members of AFRW to attend this hearing.   

!!!   IMPORTANT PUBLIC HEARING   !!!

 On Thursday, August 23, 2007, at 9:30 a.m.

 The Alabama State Board of Education

 will vote on Chancellor Byrne’s and Governor Riley’s proposals

to prohibit the hiring of legislators and other elected state officials

in the state’s two-year college system.

 Before voting, the Board will hear comments from the general public.

 The Board meeting will be held in

the Auditorium of the Gordon Persons Building

50 North Ripley Street

Montgomery, Alabama

AFRW’s won Elois Zeanah has been appointed by Governor Riley to serve on the
Joint Interim Patriotic Immigration Commission".  Elois requests all our prayers as she serves in this roll.

 

If you are a believer of God.  This letter should alarm and humble you. It should make it clear why there is a the need to stand up and be invovled in politics.  It should be a call to arms.  It should make us all ashamed. 

 

I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don’t feel threatened. I don’t feel discriminated against. That’s what they are: Christmas trees.

It doesn’t bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me I don’t think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn’t bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a crche, it’s just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.

I don’t like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don’t think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can’t find it in the Constitution and I don’t like it being shoved down my throat.

Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren’t allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that’s a sign that I’m getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.

In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it’s not funny, it’s intended to get you thinking.

Billy Graham’s daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response.

She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we’ve been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"

In light of recent events…terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O’Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn’t want prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn’t spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock’s son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he’s talking about. And we said OK.

Now we’re asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don’t know right from wrong, and why it doesn’t bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.

Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."

Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world’s going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send ‘jokes’ through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.

Are you laughing?

Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you’re not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.

Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us.

Pass this on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it… no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don’t sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in. My Best Regards.

 

Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein