Dude, this chick is just scary as Hades.  Details:

As Harry Reid’s health care bill moves to the Senate floor, the debate over Obamacare finally begins in earnest. Shouldn’t the Constitution be part of that debate? By what authority, after all, could Congress force all Americans to buy health insurance?

In a recent press release, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., argues that constitutional objections to the individual mandate are “nonsensical,” because “the power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.” We eagerly await your orders, ma’am!

Wow.  According to her logic (and that of statists like her), Congress can pretty much regulate anything without limit…that annoying and pesky Constitution thingy be damned.

‘It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.’   Winston Churchill

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Baroness Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Czech: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, German: Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach; September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer. Noted for her excellent psychological novels, she is regarded—together with Ferdinand von Saar—as one of the most important German-language writers of the latter portion of the 19th century.

She was born at the castle of Dubský (Graf von Třebomyslice) family in Zdislavice near Kroměříž in Moravia, Czech Republic, and died in Vienna, Austria.

She is credited with the famous aphorism “even a stopped clock is right twice a day.”

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_von_Ebner-Eschenbach

“He who dares to teach must never cease to learn.”

Richard Henry Dann

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

~Albert Einstein

Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear.  Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? 

Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet our heavenly Father feeds them.  Are you not much more valuable than they? 

Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?

                                                                 Matthew 6: 25-27  (New International Version)

“The power of Congress to regulate health care is essentially unlimited.”

~ Nancy Pelosi

John Bercow said…

“I cannot think of a single year in the recent history of Parliament when more damage has been done to it than this year, with the possible exception of when Nazi bombs fell on the chamber in 1941… We have to make it crystal clear that we will dynamite the past arrangements, practices and, crucially, cultures that allowed the expenses disaster to take place and will do so with as much vigour as Guy Fawkes intended to apply here in 1605.”

Who can say if I’ve been changed for the better? I do believe I have been changed for the better. Because I knew you, I have been changed for good.

Elphaba & Galinda- For Good: Wicked

“There is no indignity in being afraid to die, but there is a terrible shame in being afraid to live.”

 Yea, I know it’s not the doctor that says it…

“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” Erich Fromm

“feeling the urge to text and drive! speeding tickets SUCK! 45 in a 35 …really mr officer??”

Ughghghgh

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

“If the Republican Party gets any more conservative, they’ll need to reanimate the corpse of Mussolini to lead the ticket in 2012.”

– Melissa McEwan

“It is the secret of the world that all things subsist and do not die, but only retire from sight and afterwards return again.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Story of the day:  There are no replays in life, but there is forgiveness

Every Saturday, Jeff and I love to watch college football.  If any of you know how exciting it is to it watch on T.V., it is even more exciting when an awesome play gets shown a few times more through T.V.’s instant replay.  Though having our life replayed would be great during some of the best times in our life, it wouldn’t be a great reminder for those times in our lives that weren’t so good.

Could you imagine having to live a life, where replays existed, and we could never move beyond them?  I would hate to see all of my errors replayed over and over again.  Because of this, I am so grateful that there aren’t replays in life, but that there is forgiveness.  Forgiveness is like when we had VCR’s, back in the old days, and someone taped over a significant piece of footage.  You know it was there, but it’s not anymore?  Now, all you have to go on is the memory of what was, and not so much what is anymore.

I want to encourage those of you that may be struggling with something that you keep replaying over and over in your mind or life, and remember that Jesus paid the ultimate price for you.  His Grace washes over your life and He forgives you of all that you have done.  Let Him tape over that old life that you are trying to keep alive, and replace it with some new footage.  After all, what good are replays if they aren’t any good?

Quote of the day:  Christy Povolish

“Let God Grace tape over your past with the present.”

Bible verse of the day:  Ephesians 1:7

“In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, in accordance with the riches of God’s grace”

Prayer:

Dear Heavenly Father,

Thank You for Grace.  It is Your Grace that has washed away my sins and made me whole.  Your love covered my life and because of this, the replays of sin in my life have been erased.  Thank You for sharing this day with me and for loving me as You do!  I thank You for all the blessings, in the good and bad times in my life!

In Jesus Name I pray,

Amen

your birth is a mistake you’ll spend your whole life trying to correct. – chuck palahniuk

wait...so, what's the first rule of fight club again?

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The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

Confucius

“If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice would be that of  an expert saying it can’t be done.”

            -Peter Ustinoy(1924-2004)

The future, which is not a bad deal if you ignore all the collateral gore. Young men and women are still coming here to remake the world, they just won’t be stopping by the human resources department of Condé Nast to begin their ascent. For every kid that I bump into who is wandering the media industry looking for an entrance that closed some time ago, I come across another who is a bundle of ideas, energy and technological mastery. The next wave is not just knocking on doors, but seeking to knock them down.

David Carr, writer, New York Times, in his 11/30 must-read column, “The Fall and Rise of Media.”