Who does Michelle Obama think about on Presidents Day?    Washington, Lincoln, FDR ?

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RedGrandma, can you provide any feedback on Debbie Halvorson?  Does she actually stand a chance of beating 2J-Jr.? 

(NBC Chicago) — Jesse Jackson Jr. faces no small challenges in his re-election run in the Congressional 2nd District.  According to a Jackson surrogate, speaking at a news conference Monday, Satan is behind the opposition.

Between 40 and 60 ministers on Monday joined Jackson to endorse his re-election campaign. They’re prepared for a fight, and Pastor Willie James Campbell even denounced the “satanic forces” that want to defeat their man. (more…)

MIDLAND, Texas – Prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss charges against U.S. soldier Trey Scott Atwater after he was arrested following his attempt to board a flight from Texas to North Carolina with explosives in his luggage.

Atwater, 30, was detained Dec. 31 at Midland International Airport in Texas when Transportation Security Administration agents found C-4 explosives in his carry-on luggage. The Fort Bragg-based sergeant identified himself as a demolitions expert with the army’s 7th Special Forces Group who had recently returned from Afghanistan and told investigators that he did not know the explosives were in his bag.

He said it was standard procedure for him to carry at least two blocks of the explosive on a mission. He later appeared before a federal court in January and was released on a $50,000 bond. (more…)

Eight?   Eight Years Old?   “Typical”?   Seriously….  I must be living in a cave or something because that headline just about knocked me off my chair.   Eight?  What have I missed along the path of such significance where I can honestly say I have no cognitive reference to understand this?  

CHICAGO (AP) — A small but growing number of teens and even younger children who think they were born the wrong sex are getting support from parents and from doctors who give them sex-changing treatments, according to reports in the medical journal Pediatrics.

It’s an issue that raises ethical questions, and some experts urge caution in treating children with puberty-blocking drugs and hormones.  An 8-year-old second-grader in Los Angeles is a typical patient. Born a girl, the child announced at 18 months, “I a boy” and has stuck with that belief. The family was shocked but now refers to the child as a boy and is watching for the first signs of puberty to begin treatment, his mother told The Associated Press. (more…)

While campaigning in Georgia, Speaker Newt Gingrich mocked the green car lobby: “How DARE we go out and drive vehicles bigger than their bicycles!”

Did you ever wonder what data bank they were constructing under the new Denver airport.?   Millions of square feet of underground data storage and the worlds largest hub for data collection….  Well consider what is happening now in England and apply these same considerations to our future.

(Daily Mail)  Details about text messages, phone calls, emails and every website visited by members of the public will be kept on record in a bid to combat terrorism.   The Government will order broadband providers, landline and mobile phone companies to save the information for up to a year under a new security scheme.

What is said in the texts, emails or phone calls will not be kept but information on the senders, recipients and their geographical whereabouts will be saved.   Direct messages to users of social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter will also be saved and so will information exchanged between players in online video games. (more…)

I’m all in support to give the police dept the tools they need to do the job of “Protecting and Serving” but this trend is unnerving to say the least.  I mean, seriously?

NEW HAMPSHIRE – “We’re going to have our own tank.”  That’s what Keene, N.H., Mayor Kendall Lane whispered to Councilman Mitch Greenwald during a December city council meeting.   It’s not quite a tank. But the quaint town of 23,000 — scene of just two murders since 1999 — had just accepted a $285,933 grant from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to purchase a Bearcat, an eight-ton armored personnel vehicle made by Lenco Industries Inc.

But those plans are on hold for now, thanks to a backlash from feisty residents. Resistance began with Mike Clark, a 27-year-old handyman. Clark, who said he’s had a couple encounters with Keene police and currently faces a charge of criminal mischief, read about the Homeland Security grant in the newspaper. “The police are already pretty brutal,” Clark said, claiming he was roughed up in both his encounters with local police. “The last thing they need is this big piece of military equipment to make them think they’re soldiers.” (more…)

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Also, what do you think about this consideration …….

It is a time to coalesce the liberty movement into something distinct from Tea Parties. I will not disparage Tea Parties, they are what they are and they have put life to the Constitution, they have breathed life into a long dormant liberty movement. Many have been struggling for decades to be looked upon by our government as the rightful citizens we are, instead of children in need of guidance and scolding. (more…)

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name. Thy kingdom come. THY WILL BE DONE on earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but DELIVER US FROM EVIL.

For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory, forever and ever. Amen †