It is always interesting when there is a late season Hurricane. Praying for all in harms way!! Get prepared and hunker down!!

Hopefully everyone is experiencing some fall like temperatures! We are, for Arizona. The highs are in the 80s and lows in the 50s.. We are very happy except for the fact that all our winter clothes are in storage! lol Just too much fun with the fourkings.

Speaking of which. Life is treating us pretty well. We are working - which is always a good thing and the kids are doing well in school and our health is all good! God is truly wonderful to bless our family in this way!

Nursing school starts January 19th! So, life will, once again, change for us. I am looking forward to FINALLY getting into this nursing program and look forward to all the challenges and learning that is coming my way.

Just wanted to give yall an update - if anyone out there still visits my page! :o) I know how busy everyone is!

Have a good one - whatever it is that you are doing!

Happy Fall!

As many of you already probably know, Chris Klicka is not doing well. The other morning, when I received an email asking for prayers for Chris and his family. I clicked on the link,

http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/chrisklicka

and was grateful for the chance and opportunity to follow what is going on with him and his family during this time. He is been a wonderful, brave and strong warrior for the thousands of homeschool families that he has helped. He has written books, spoken at conventions and helped so many persecuted homeschool families. He has been a strong and tireless worker for all of us. We are grateful and feel like the world is a much better place because of him!

The website, itself, surprised me, it shouldn't have - because you can find just about anything you want on the internet. But this website offers comfort and connectability to those that are hurting, going thru a treatment plan or thru the ending of their life. It was so heartwarming to see all the people reaching out to the Chris Klicka family.

So, I will remember the website and tell others who may find it benefit to keep friends and family close during illness.

Just my thoughts on a great website!

New version of The Ant and The Grasshopper





THE ANT AND THE GRASSHOPPER

This one is a little different. Two Different Versions! ................. Two Different Morals!


OLD VERSION: The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed.

The grasshopper has no food or shelter, so he dies out in the cold.


MORAL OF THE STORY: Be responsible for yourself!

MODERN VERSION:

The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.

The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.

Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while others are cold and starving.

CBS, NBC , PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food. America is stunned by the sharp contrast.

How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?

Kermit the Frog appears on Oprah with the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green.'

Acorn stages a demonstration in front of the ant 's house where the news stations film the group singing, 'We shall overcome.'
Rev. Jeremiah Wright then has the group kneel down to pray to God for the grasshopper's sake.

Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant has gotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.

Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Act retroactive to the beginning of the summer.

The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothing left to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar.

The story ends as we see the grasshopper finishing up the last bits of the ants food while the government house he is in, which just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around him because he doesn't maintain it.

The ant has disappeared in the snow.

The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders
who terrorize the once peaceful neighborhood.



MORAL OF THE STORY: Be careful how you vote in 2010.

I know that this is long - but as I started reading it, it just has to be shared...
This was forwarded to me thru various sources..
Vicki
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I checked Snopes and found that Michael Connelly is a real person.....

We had better pay attention

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Someone Who Read The Whole Thing...


If you have not yet heard about what's really in it.....

FROM AN EXPERT WHO HAS READ THE WHOLE THING!


From Michael Connelly - Retired attorney, Constitutional Law Instructor

Carrollton, Texas




Well, I have done it! I have read the entire text of proposed House

Bill 3200: The Affordable Health Care Choices Act of 2009. I studied

it with particular emphasis from my area of expertise, constitutional

law. I was frankly concerned that parts of the proposed law that were

being discussed might be unconstitutional. What I found was far worse

than what I had heard or expected.


To begin with, much of what has been said about the law and its

implications is in fact true, despite what the Democrats and the

media are saying. The law does provide for rationing of health care,

particularly where senior citizens and other classes of citizens are

involved, free health care for illegal immigrants, free abortion

services, and probably forced participation in abortions by members

of the medical profession.


The Bill will also eventually force private insurance companies out

of business and put everyone into a government run system. All decisions

about personal health care will ultimately be made by federal

bureaucrats and most of them will not be health care professionals.

Hospital admissions, payments to physicians, and allocations of

necessary medical devices will be strictly controlled.



However, as scary as all of that is, it just scratches the surface.

In fact, I have concluded that this legislation really has no intention

of providing affordable health care choices. Instead it is a

convenient cover for the most massive transfer of power to the

Executive Branch of government that has ever occurred, or even been

contemplated. If this law or a similar one is adopted, major portions

of the Constitution of the United States will effectively have been

destroyed.


The first thing to go will be the masterfully crafted balance of

power between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches of the

U.S. Government. The Congress will be transferring to the Obama

Administration authority in a number of different areas over the

lives of the American people and the businesses they own. The irony is

that the Congress doesn't have any authority to legislate in most of those

areas to begin with. I defy anyone to read the text of the U.S.

Constitution and find any authority granted to the members of

Congress to regulate health care.


This legislation also provides for access by the appointees of the

Obama administration of all of your personal healthcare information,

your personal financial information, and the information of your

employer, physician, and hospital. All of this is a direct violation

of the specific provisions of the 4th Amendment to the

Constitution protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures.

You can also forget about the right to privacy. That will have been

legislated into oblivion regardless of what the 3rd and

4th Amendments may provide.


If you decide not to have healthcare insurance or if you have private

insurance that is not deemed "acceptable" to the "Health Choices

Administrator" appointed by Obama there will be a tax imposed on you.

It is called a "tax" instead of a fine because of the intent to avoid

application of the due process clause of the 5th Amendment.

However, that doesn't work because since there is nothing in the law

that allows you to contest or appeal the imposition of the tax, it is

definitely depriving someone of property without the "due process of

law.


So, there are three of those pesky amendments that the far left hate

so much out the original ten in the Bill of Rights that are

effectively nullified by this law. It doesn't stop there though. The

9th Amendment that provides: "The enumeration in the

Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or

disparage others retained by the people;" The 10th

Amendment states: "The powers not delegated to the United States by

the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are preserved

to the States respectively, or to the people." Under the provisions of

this piece of Congressional handiwork neither the people nor the

states are going to have any rights or powers at all in many areas

that once were theirs to control.


I could write many more pages about this legislation, but I think you

get the idea. This is not about health care; it is about seizing

power and limiting rights. Article 6 of the Constitution requires the

members of both houses of Congress to "be bound by oath or

affirmation" to support the Constitution. If I was a member of

Congress I would not be able to vote for this legislation or anything

like it without feeling I was violating that sacred oath or

affirmation. If I voted for it anyway I would hope the American

people would hold me accountable.


For those who might doubt the nature of this threat I suggest they

consult the source.


Here is a link to the Constitution:

http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/constitution_transcript.html

And another to the Bill of Rights:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/bill_of_rights_transcript.html



There you can see exactly what we are about to have taken from us.


Michael Connelly


Retired attorney,


Constitutional Law Instructor


Carrollton, Texas


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