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About AmendmentX

Christian, patriot, old enough to know better, young and daring enough to do it anyhow.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day

This morning, while getting ready for church, I was listening to George Stephanopolis interviewing Senator John McCain (R-AZ). Now Senator McCain is more of a liberal than he is a true conservative and as such, has taken much scorn from … Continue reading

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A department of WHAT?!?!?!?!

Just when you thought it couldn’t get ANY sillier, comes this gem from Washington. It seems that my esteemed Senior Senator, Mark Dayton, has decided that our federal government needs yet another Cabinet level position (he obviously hasn’t learned any … Continue reading

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Hurricane aftermath

Much has been made, in recent days, of the attitudes of the evacuees from New Orleans. I have talked to many people in the shelters. Most have stories of grateful people who are thankful to be alive and truly astonished … Continue reading

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Anniversary of a tragedy

Tomorrow is the 4th anniversary of an American tragedy – the 9/11 attacks. To honor the passengers of Flight 93, the Discovery Channel is showing a program that “recreates” that doomed flight – based on phone conversations, voicemail messages and … Continue reading

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Howard Dean…what can you say…

More eloquent people than I have written about the DNC Chairman, the gift that keeps on givning. Hugh Hewitt, Mitch Berg, KvM just to name a few have waxed poetic on the utterances of Howard Dean. Today Chairman Dean was … Continue reading

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Just who is to blame for the suffering in New Orleans?

Much has been said, in recent days, about the failures that caused the massive human suffering in New Orleans apre Katrina. As I stated here there is certainly more than enough blame to go around, and most of it should … Continue reading

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My Sermon for today

Over the last few days we have heard certain “Christians” saying that the hurricane was proof that God had removed his hand of protection from a) the US and b) New Orleans for allowing sin to run rampant in our … Continue reading

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The rain of blame….

OK – I told y’all (I’ve been hanging out with my southern friends lately) on Wednesday that I was declaring a personal moriatorium of 24 hours on politics. I gave it almost 48 and now it is time….Over the last … Continue reading

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Another place to search for missing friends and family

NOLA.com has a page dedicated to finding lost friends and family. http://www.nola.com/forums/searching/ and here is a blogger who is there and reporting what is going on in Louisianahttp://slidell.weblogswork.com/

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A follow up to yesterday

WOW – after all of the bad news out of New Orleans, I had just about lost hope for mankind. But then yesterday the good people of this world came out in droves. Over 1400 bloggers in 23 countries got … Continue reading

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