Happy Thanksgiving

"It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors."

–George Washington
Thanksgiving Proclamation
3 October 1789

Amazing, inspiring though heartbreaking video of Haleigh Poutre

Check out the amazing recovery of the girl the state condemned to die:

Video Shows Near Euthanasia Victim Haleigh Poutre Making Amazing Recovery

You can view the segments of the video in news reports here. When I watched, there were three different news segments that played in a row. It's absolutely amazing the progress she has made, though it's very sad that she has to suffer through all this. She should be in school and playing with friends. Hopefully, though, her story will show people the truth about the folly of human euthanasia as well as the horror of child abuse.

Baby Eric with big sister Jayme

Baby Eric and big brother Jonathan

Praise the Lord!!! Eric Joseph is here!!!

Born at 5:52 a.m. this morning via c-section (a day earlier than planned due to my wife going into labor late last night). 7 lbs., 3 and 3/4 oz. 19 in. Mom and baby are doing great!!! Pics soon!

UPDATE: As promised...





UPDATE 2: Home!

So, wait.... Who are the hateful ones again?

Lesbians, condoms go wild in attack on Christian church

Worshippers at a Bible-teaching church in Lansing, Mich., were stunned Sunday when members of a pro-homosexual, pro-anarchy organization named Bash Back interrupted their service to fling propaganda and condoms around the sanctuary, drape a profane banner from the balcony and feature two lesbians making out at the pulpit.

According to a blog posting by Nick De Leeuw on Right Michigan, the Bash Back organization orchestrated a protest in front of Mount Hope Church to draw the church's security staff away from the sanctuary.

Then Bash Backers who had dressed up and mixed in with church worshippers took action.

According to De Leeuw, "Prayer had just finished when men and women stood up in pockets across the congregation, on the main floor and in the balcony.

"'Jesus was gay,' they shouted among other profanities and blasphemies as they rushed the stage. Some forced their way through rows of women and kids to try to hang a profane banner from the balcony while others began tossing fliers into the air. Two women made their way to the pulpit and began to kiss," he wrote.

He cited the Bash Back organization's own announcement of other items members brought into the church, including "a megaphone, noise makers, condoms, glitter by the bucket load, confetti, pink fabric. ..."

According to the alternative Lansing City Pulse – which reported it was notified of the protest ahead of time and sent a reporter along instead of warning the church – the protesters also screamed at parishioners and pulled the church facility's fire alarm. Printed material protesters distributed said, "We specialize in confronting homophobia, transphobia and every and all other forms of oppression."

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"The church's response? After things settled down, the blasphemy ended, the lewd props removed and the families safe from fear of additional men and women running into and past them the pastor took the stage and led the congregation in one more prayer ... not for retribution, or divine justice or a celestial comeuppance (that's what I'd have prayed for) but instead that the troubled individuals who'd just defiled the Lord's house, so full of anger and hate, would know Jesus' love in their lives and God's peace that exceeds human understanding," De Leeuw wrote.

So the homosexuals angrily protested and shouted and swore and blasphemed in front of little kids, but the church congregation prayed out of love. Which side was the hateful one?

Don't read beyond this point if you are sensitive to even vague mentions of disgusting behavior. It gets worse.

Much, much worse.

While leftists blasphemed the Lord’s name outside, and while the left-wing thugs were busy disrupting the Sunday service, security guards of the church found two homosexuals sodomizing one another in the bathroom. “[O]nly by the grace of God,” Right Michigan observes, “did one of the hundreds of kids at the church not happen upon that particular restroom in those moments.”

Yeah. Real nice. And they wonder why Christians oppose their agenda so much.

UPDATE: Even worse than "much, much worse" from the paragraph preceding the above (which I missed while skimming):

(STRONGEST WARNING I CAN GIVE TO SENSITIVE READERS REGARDING READING THIS NEXT PART - IT'S REALLY AWFUL AND DISGUSTING)

The Right Michigan article notes that some of the condoms thrown at the Christians in church that Sunday morning were used. Calling these leftist sexual deviants “degenerate” is an understatement. Animals do not even act like this.

Is there a stronger, non-explicit phrase in the English language than "beyond the pale?"

Gays and their supporters attack peaceful little old lady

Watch the disgusting video here. Pay attention to what happens after the 2:26 mark. Keep your eyes on the cross. And the reporter's ridiculous "a lot of hate on both sides" comment at the end. Man alive! This woman was protesting peacefully and they assaulted her! They assaulted her physically and then continued assaulting her verbally.

Comedy break: Star Trek meets Monty Python

Say goodbye to all this

Come next year, everything in this video will be reversed. President Obama will pull the troops out and Iraq will be steamrolled by AQ and others. Millions and millions of people - far beyond any contrived, unverifiable figure the Lancet can pull out of its behind - will die. Thanks, Democrats! We'll be sure to lay it at your feet in 2012.

The change we have to live with

But Obama's not a Socialist! Really!

Hundreds of years before the Founding Fathers...

...someone else got it exactly right:

Do not put your trust in princes,
in mortal men, who cannot save.

When their spirit departs, they return to the ground;
on that very day their plans come to nothing.

Today's Founder's Quote Daily from PatriotPost.us

They predicted the next four years over 200 years ago.

"Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm."
—James Madison, Federalist No. 10

Obama's grandmother born in 1922 and lived through TWO world wars

Say what? So... World War II and World War III?

My sincerest condolences to him and his family, but of all the times to commit yet another gaffe...