Hope you can swing by the BHCP boutique being held Thursday 12/3 and Friday 12/4. friendkidly will have a booth along with a myriad of other handmade vendors so you will be sure to find something great to giveaway this coming Christmas season! Check out the flier and we hope to see you there.
The girls and I were lucky enough to have lunch with Vallee and her dear mother (my sweet friend). Vallee is awesome and I thank you if you remembered her and her family even just once in prayer and I ask that you continue to do so. She is in a wheelchair but can walk at least 18 steps by herself, if need be. She might be pushing herself a little too hard but it seems to work for her. While at lunch I asked her if she remembered Delia and she said no and that her first day back to church when she saw me holding her she thought to herself, “wow, they had another baby?” Of course she remembered Charlotte who she graciously let sit on her lap while wheeling her around in her chair using her good leg…what a champ!
It was such a blessing to interact with her and see her humor in full force and more than anything to see her so happy. God blessed her with such a positive disposition and she sure needs it for the road he has paved for her. Vallee has yet to return to school but has multiple evaluations this week to determine therapy and what’s in store for the near future. Well, that’s all for now so please join me in thanking the Lord for her recovery up to this point and asking for his presence to be felt strongly by this beloved family. Thank you.
As most everyone knows the liberals have thought it a good idea to boycott Whole Foods because of the CEO’s denouncement of obamacare as stated in this article from the Wall Street Journal.
Wow, I don’t know why but for some reason I am truly baffled at the lack of tolerance the left has for those who hold views contrary to their own. You would think that “idealists” would realize that supporting Whole Foods for all of the store’s positive aspects is much more important than boycotting it because of the CEO’s personal opinions. Some of those positive aspects include but are not limited to fair trade, organically and locally grown produce, and the promotion of a healthy lifestyle (which ironically would lessen many of the health issues that face Americans).
In reaction to this boycott the TEA has decided to hold a “buycott” on Tuesday, September 1st. All of those in support of the freedom of speech, regardless of one’s personal opinion on obamacare, should step up and shop at your local Whole Foods. We need to fight back against those who bully others for simply sharing their personal views.
Yes, this place is nicknamed Whole Pay Check for a good reason but what an amazing place to spend our hard earned money. Better yet, what an amazing reason. Let’s go shopping!
This is a thought provoking article from the New York Post nonetheless…
Thank you for all of your prayers for this lovely young woman and her family. She is far from out of the woods yet but on the road to recovery. Please continue to pray when thoughts of her cross your mind. You can keep updated on her progress by visiting http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/vallee.
During my trip to the handmade brigade craft fair this weekend I happened upon the 31 Bits booth. Bold beaded necklaces and bracelets caught my eye which is strange because I am not a jewelry person, but I’m really glad I stopped. Not only did I get one of the sweet little bracelets below (love the colors) but I learned about a great organization. 31 Bits is a fair trade organization that sells hand-crafted jewelry made by woman in Gulu, Uganda out of recycled paper, posters and magazines. By selling their handmade goods and generating a dependable income these woman have the chance to provide for their families while bettering their situations. A really great cause that I just had to share. To learn more visit 31bits.com.
Sorry for the political post but things are getting kinda scary around here and I found this article putting in print many things I’ve been thinking…
The article below was written by Stanislav Mishin, a blogger and columnist for the Russian newspaper Pravda.
American capitalism gone with a whimper . . . . .
It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.
True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.
Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.
First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather than the classics. Americans know more about their favorite TV dramas than the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their “right” to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us (Russia) about our rights and about our “democracy”. Pride blinds the foolish.
Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different “branches and denominations” were for the most part little more then Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more then happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the “winning” side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the “winning” side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox (Russian Orthodox) churches are scandalously liberalized in America.
The final collapse has come with the election of Barack Obama. His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America’s short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more than another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.
These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, loses and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more than ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?
These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more then a whimper to their masters.
Then came Barack Obama’s command that GM’s (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of “pure” free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go dither, the centurion commands his minions.
So it should be no surprise that the American president has followed this up with a “bold” move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less then two months ago, warned Obama and UK’s Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our “wise” Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.
Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper…but a “freeman” whimper.
So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set “fair” maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.
The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.
The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.
Stanislav Mishin
OK, check this out. A couple in San Diego are being told that their weekly Bible study is against county laws. They’ve been told to apply for a “major use permit”, which could cost tens of thousands of dollars, or cease to meet. Does this outrage you as much as it does me? If so, click here for a link to a petition admonishing SD county for going after a home bible study of about 15 people…seriously, 15 people.
Hm, Maybe we should all move down to SD because it doesn’t sound like there’s any legit crime happening so the authorities have to go after these folks)
Read this article from a local news source for more info.
…is the National Day of Prayer, let’s take comfort knowing that many in our nation still pray and believe in it’s power.
Psalm 98:5
Show yourselves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands; sing, rejoice, and give thanks.
I found myself discussing this topic via email twice already this morning which seems to be a pattern of late. So I figure I should address it here as well since it is quite important. Instead of rewriting what can be found here, I’ll post a snippet of the article and encourage you to visit the site and send letters to your congressmen and senators. Here’s what I’m talking about…
…”The United States Congress rightly recognized that the Consumer Products Safety Commission (CPSC) lacked the authority and staffing to prevent dangerous toys from being imported into the US. So, they passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) in August, 2008. Among other things, the CPSIA bans lead and phthalates in toys, mandates third-party testing and certification for all toys and requires toy makers to permanently label each toy with a date and batch number.
All of these changes will be fairly easy for large, multinational toy manufacturers to comply with. Large manufacturers who make thousands of units of each toy have very little incremental cost to pay for testing and update their molds to include batch labels.
For small American, Canadian, and European toymakers, however, the costs of mandatroy testing will likely drive them out of business.
The CPSIA simply forgot to exclude the class of toys that have earned and kept the public’s trust: Toys made in the US, Canada, and Europe. The result, unless the law is modified, is that handmade toys will no longer be legal in the US.
