News of the Day

I’m bombarded daily by news. It starts in the morning with husband’s look at the weather, today’s and the week. Then world/national news and local shootings and traffic accidents with a house fire or two through the night.

There isn’t any good economic news. The nation is set to collapse. The world is set to collapse too. Governments seek to ‘fix’ everything. Though, it’s the people who can make a difference, not rulers, presidents, representatives.

But we’re drowning in laws, regulations. We’re working hard to keep our heads above water and care for our families. But prices on everything are going up and our retirement savings have been taken away by stock market drops. There’s no place to put anything saved. We lose our principle in every place we used to sock a little money.

I’m looking for a person to run for president who will tell me there is hope. Real hope. Hope for my country. Hope for my family. Hope for the world. After Mr. Cain suspended his campaign, I see no one that fits that bill.

So I’ll just lean on Jesus. And do what I can to take his Gospel to those in need. I don’t know what others do without Him. He’s the only sanity in my world. He’s the only one with Good News. ♡♡♡

Is. 40:9 You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain; you who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength; lift it up, don’t be afraid; say to the cities of Judah, Behold, your God!

Scrap the Senate Immigration bill

Reblogged from Theoptimisticconservative's Blog:

It’s as bad as the Tea Party thinks it is.  It’s worse.  In some ways, it’s a pig in a poke: it’s not about immigration as much as it is about changing the way government business is done in the United States.

A couple of points up front.

Legal immigration is good

First, I am a pro-immigration voter.  Not only am I pro-immigration, I am happy to accept immigrants who aren’t Ph.D.s, IT professionals, and bioengineers. 

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Call your senators and congressman and tell them NO! to this immigration bill. It is suicide for our country.

Foundation Offers $10,000 Reward for Information Leading to Convictions in Firebombings of Worker’s Cars

Reblogged from Green Mountain Scribes:

Worker alleges union militants threatened non-striking workers and their families; police reports show two vehicles damaged during the same night

Chicago, IL – The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation has announced today a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrests and convictions of those responsible for damaging a South Water Market, Inc. worker’s personal and work vehicles during a Teamster union strike.

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You must share this man’s testimony with your liberal friends

http://www.wnd.com/2013/06/black-democrat-abandons-party-of-slaves/#ooid=dmMHRpYzotf5HgWYIKs942K8Qc4QdDJD

Mom, June 18

I brought mom home today. She wanted to come home so badly.

The bleeding stopped. Her doctors believe she has a malignancy but could not confirm without a surgical biopsy with anesthesia. She’s decided, for now, not to do this. So she’s home. She’s sad, worried. I see it on her face. She tells me it’s just too much to keep up with. She needs time to sort her thoughts and make decisions and she knows she can take her time. If she begins to bleed again, she can decide to go forward with the biopsy and treatment. She’s tired.

We stopped on the way home and got a hot fudge sundae since she forewent the pork chop lunch at the hospital. I told her she raised me to break the rules. 😊

She’s napping right now in her favorite chair with her cat, Spot, sleeping beside her legs.

It’s good to have her home. I love her so much.

 

PS

Thank you to all of you who prayed. God is good.

Mom

If you happen to read this, please pray for my mom. She is in the hospital with bleeding and ct scan shows a mass. At 93, and thinking very clearly, this is difficult for her. And for me.

God bless you.

Vote with your fingers

The data that the government received on us from the internet comes from those internet companies who save everything we do. They track us.

I read a short article from a tech expert who suggests that we all log out from those companies that track and save our data. Log out, cancel email accounts, cancel Facebook accounts, cancel all of those accounts that track you. Because those are the companies who then have no choice but to share all that data with the federal government.

There are many, most who do not save our data.

I had quit Facebook over a year ago. (Even posted about it-I learned how much people cared that I was even on Facebook and how much they didn’t read what I posted!) I’m quitting Google, Email, and everything they provide.

I’m not sure I can stop all of it but found an article that tells us which companies share their data on us with PRISM:

“Collection directly from the servers of these U.S. Service Providers: Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, Apple.” http://articles.washingtonpost.com/2013-06-06/news/39784046_1_prism-nsa-u-s-servers

Your ISP also probably keeps data on your internet perusal. It’s just so malignant!

Here’s an older article about what you can do to stop some of it. It’s several years old but I’ll bet some of it is helpful.

http://www.rd.com/home/cleaning-organizing/how-to-hide-anything/

 

How To Hide Anything

19 ingenious new ways to conceal everything from your personal info on the Internet to a few extra pounds on your hips.

 

By Joe Kita from Reader’s Digest | April 2009

 

• Your Tracks Online

Just as your computer’s browser maintains a history of the websites you visit, your Internet service provider (ISP) may keep an electronic log of the ones you peruse. Until recently, this was all just worthless data. But now some ISPs are considering selling these lists to companies that analyze them and then send targeted ads back to you. If you’re bothered by this, there are three things you can do:

• Go to vancouver.cs.washington.edu and let the site automatically check whether your ISP is using monitoring devices.
• Since this check is not comprehensive, call your ISP and ask if it’s contemplating selling browsing data; if so, object.
• Download a free software program called Tor from torproject.org, which will help block those prying ISP eyes.

Similarly, when you type a phrase into a search engine, you’re broadcasting your interests and personal information. Like ISPs, some search companies routinely gather, store, and sell analyses of such data strings. That’s why you should never search your full name and Social Security number or your name and password. Some other tips from the WPF:

• Don’t sign up for e-mail with your favorite search engine. This makes it easier to link you and your interests.
• Use a variety of engines and computers for searching. This makes it more difficult to profile you.
• Find out if your ISP uses a static IP address system, and if it does, periodically request a new IP address (essentially your computer’s address).
• Use software that masks your computer’s address, like anonymizer.com and anonymouse.org.

Read more: 
http://www.rd.com/home/cleaning-organizing/how-to-hide-anything/#ixzz2WJwusAEb

There are a few more tip on hiding things in that article on that page and on page 2. It’s kind of interesting! Privacy is so rare!

 

If anyone has any tips, please put them in comments.

Thanks.

Does this administration have something on everyone who works for them?

Yesterday at congressional questioning of Robert Mueller, FBI Director, the answers were frequently, “I don’t know”. He didn’t know who was heading up the FBI investigation of the IRS. (No Tea Party group has been contacted for this FBI ‘investigation’, by the way). http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/13/fbi-hasnt-contacted-a-single-tea-party-group-in-irs-probe-groups-say/

He couldn’t answer anything about the FBI investigation of Benghazi.

Next, Mr. Holder knows nothing about what goes on in his department.

In the IRS, Mrs. Lerner invoked the Fifth Amendment.

IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman didn’t know about the focus on conservatives by his organization until he was told by his deputy. He also visited the White House 159 times but could only site the Easter egg hung as a reason for his visit.

IRS commissioner Steven Miller, recently taking over this job, doesn’t know much about what’s going on with the IRS targeting conservatives.

Mrs. Clinton, former Secretary of State when questioned by congress on Benghazi, wouldn’t answer why the president and Mrs. Rice continued to push the story that the violence in Benghazi was caused by the ‘awful video about Islam’.

 

They’re all singing the same song: I didn’t/don’t know. What difference does it make?

And the president reads about these awful scandals ‘in the newspapers like everyone else’.

Oh, and one more. David Petraeus. There were these emails that alerted the FBI to his affair. And General Petraeus resigned 2 days before he was to testify.

Emails?

From today’s hindsight, can you spell PRISM?

Oh, wait.
None of this can be possible.
I’m sure I’ll wake up from this nightmare and everything will be back to normal.

Well, which is it? Is Snowden a traitor or a patriot?

Edward Snowden

I have read and heard people I admire and trust in media judge Edward Snowden as a traitor. I’m not talking about Speaker Boehner who called the man a traitor today. I don’t have very much admiration for our House Speaker.

Two of the people on the morning show, Fox and Friends, believe Mr. Snowden should never have released this information. They believe he’s a traitor. There have been several other conservative commentators that judge him a traitor also.

Of course, the left wing of America is happy with the vast collection of private data on Americans (as long as it’s not Bush doing it). They call Mr Snowden a traitor.

But Tea Party proponents, constitutional attorneys, many conservatives believe that though Mr. Snowden went against the promises he swore before he started work for the CIA and did commit a crime, he is still a patriot, a whistle blower. The information he has revealed has opened the eyes of Americans to the massive crime of our federal government. The law is stated here:

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

I am heartened that Mr. Snowden released this information.

At the time of President Bush’s term, after 9/11, I didn’t see any problem with the law that was passed to protect us from further terror attacks. Emotion was high. We went to war. Muslim organizations that were supporting terror were found and removed from IRS charity rolls. It all felt right.

But now this administration has stepped on my religious rights, put pressure on my faith to ‘shut up’, made Christians, conservatives the focus of IRS’s persecution and our president refuses to call terrorism a Muslim extremism end product. I see that this kind of spying on me and my fellow citizens is a lawlessness and I want it to stop.

It is important who is doing the data collection, or is it? NO ONE has the right to collect this data and use it against us. The Founding Fathers had  great wisdom in setting down our foundation of law in The Constitution and Declaration of Independence. When we allowed the federal government to step on these laws we allowed a geometric increase in federal power and the growth of a tyrannous federal government.

I believe we stand in great danger right now and not by terrorists.

By our own government.

A year has passed!

A year has passed since I last reported on a wedding anniversary.

A year has passed since I last posted about a weekend with my baby

French wines are usually made to accompany food. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

grand-daughter. (She’s really not a baby. She’s 12 1/2.)

First, the wedding anniversary. We found a lovely winery close by. It’s new and their grand opening was the day we were celebrating our anniversary. So we planned to break up the day (since my mom would be at home alone) and go out for a few hours in the afternoon-the winery. We would come home and get dinner for mom, sitting with her while she eats. Then we would get ready to go out for a nice meal. It was a great plan!

The winery was just lovely. Very country. Wine tasting. Some food. Great stone patio with tables and chairs under the trees, a band. We each got a glass of wine and just sat there and talked. Several people we knew came over and talked. When we were ready to leave, we tasted some wine and purchased a few bottles. Mom loves chicken wings so we bought her an order and took them home to her for dinner! I didn’t have to cook! She really enjoyed those wings! Then we were off to dinner. I splurged and had my favorite: a large lobster tail with vegetables, a salad and my anniversary drink, a brandy Alexander. We had a great time, just talking and eating. It was anniversary number 46. That is so hard to believe…

Back to my grand-daughter…

I got a call on Thursday from her. She wanted to come out and stay the night Friday and help finish getting the pool ready. (She really loves to swim). I told her the motor for the pump had quit and the water would not be healthy without the pump and filter. She asked if there were other things to get ready for the pool? And, yes, there were. The white plastic pool chairs and tables needed cleaned with bleach and soap and rinsed and put in place on the pool deck. She said she still wanted to come and help…

So her mom brought her out after her last half day of school. We had a wonderful weekend!

She told me that all her friends were staying over night with each other. She told them she was going to her grand parents’ house to stay! Now isn’t that something?! She could have made plans to go home with a friend; she has plenty of them. But she chose to come to our house to help get the pool ready though she could not swim this weekend. We always play a game or two and cook together. It’s fun doing things that each child prefers and enjoys.

I find it a wonderful thing when your grand kids actually want and choose to come to spend time with you! They are all just great kids who are turning into wonderfully responsible smart moral adults.

Thank you, God.

Amazing Story of Jeff Markin and Obedience in Prayer

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