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Facebook humor/inspiration stream #6

My Facebook News Feed is like a river streaming so much humor and inspiration, I plan to do roundups of the best whenever I have a minute. In the random order they appeared (except the first three which I moved to the top of the line this morning):

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See all my facebook humor/Inspiration streams

American Minute: Herbert Hoover

American Minute with Bil Federer

American Minute for October 20th:

    He coordinated relief to millions when the Mississippi River
levees broke during the 1927 flood and he organized feeding 300 million
in 21 countries of Europe and Russia following World War I.



In 1928, he was elected the 31st U.S. President in a landslide victory.



His entire life he refused to receive any payment for public service.



This was Herbert Hoover, who died OCTOBER 20, 1964.



Born in 1874, his Quaker mother taught Sunday School and spoke at Friend's meetings before dying when he was ten.



Hoover lived on an Indian Reservation in Oklahoma before moving to Oregon.



He worked his way through Stanford University doing laundry, delivering papers and working for the U.S. Geological Survey.



Herbert Hoover served under Presidents Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Truman and Eisenhower.



During World War II, in a joint-statement with the widows of Presidents
Theodore Roosevelt, Coolidge, Taft, Harrison and Cleveland, Herbert
Hoover stated:



"We must seek revival of our strength in the spiritual foundations which are the bedrock of our republic.



Democracy is the outgrowth of the religious conviction of the sacredness of every human life.



On the religious side, its highest embodiment is the Bible; on the political side, the Constitution."

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You can sign up to receive the American Minute each day via email at The American Minute.  This is a great conversation starter at the dinner table.

Komen/breast cancer/Planned Parenthood/abortion

[image error]Some of you asked for more information on the Susan G. Komen Pink Ribbon Juggernaut Campaign and here it is.

First of all, the whole Pink Ribbon thing has become so pervasive and obligatory that anyone who doesn't jump o the bandwagon is considered suspect. I think many people feel bullied into supporting this "nice" organization.

And maybe it is "nice," - I don't know. But I do know one thing: the Komen Foundation refuses to stop funding Planned Parenthood with the donations women like us are making. They claim PP does mammograms. It does not. Let me say that again loud and clear: Planned Parenthood does not do mammograms.

I urge you to educate yourselves so you can educate your family, friends and neighbors. Please pass on this information:

Susan Komen's Dark Side

HT: Anne

More information at Life Issues Institute

Susan G. Komen Planned Parenthood link

Kohl's, Susan G. Komen and Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood lies: no mammograms

Abortion and breast cancer link

Tea Party vs. Occupy Wall Street - propaganda

This cartoon was actually published before last Sunday's New York Times piece contrasting and comparing the Tea Party protests and Occupy Wall Street..

Lies, lies, lies: NYTimes: 'Occupy Wall Street' Like Tiananmen Square; Tea Party Protests Akin to 'Weathermen' Terrorists

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Keep spreading the truth. We're bigger than they are. And we'll remember it all November 2012.

C. S. Lewis on Christianity and happiness

"I didn't go to religion to make me happy.

I always knew a bottle of
Port would do that.

If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable,
I certainly don't recommend Christianity."

-- C.S. Lewis

Belated Parental Advice to OSW protestors

Some Belated Parental Advice to Protesters

by Marybeth Hicks on Oct 19, 2011 
        

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it an occupational hazard, but I can't look at the Occupy Wall Street
protesters without thinking, "Who parented these people?"

As a culture columnist, I've commented on the social and political
ramifications of the "movement" - now known as "OWS" - whose fairyland
agenda can be summarized by one of their placards: "Everything for
everybody."

Thanks to their pipe-dream platform, it's clear there are people with
serious designs on "transformational" change in America who are using
the protesters like bedsprings in a brothel.

Yet it's not my role as a commentator that prompts my parenting
question, but rather the fact that I'm the mother of four teens and
young adults. There are some crucial life lessons that the protesters'
moms clearly have not passed along.

Here, then, are five things the OWS protesters' mothers should have taught their children but obviously didn't, so I will:

• Life isn't fair. The concept of justice - that everyone should be
treated fairly - is a worthy and worthwhile moral imperative on which
our nation was founded. But justice and economic equality are not the
same. Or, as Mick Jagger said, "You can't always get what you want."

No matter how you try to "level the playing field," some people have
better luck, skills, talents or connections that land them in better
places. Some seem to have all the advantages in life but squander them,
others play the modest hand they're dealt and make up the difference in
hard work and perseverance, and some find jobs on Wall Street and
eventually buy houses in the Hamptons. Is it fair? Stupid question.

• Nothing is "free." Protesting with signs that seek "free" college
degrees and "free" health care make you look like idiots, because
colleges and hospitals don't operate on rainbows and sunshine. There is
no magic money machine to tap for your meandering educational careers
and "slow paths" to adulthood, and the 53 percent of taxpaying Americans
owe you neither a degree nor an annual physical.

Read more at Catholic Lane - definitely a must-read start to finish.

Obama bus tour costing taxpayers big time

Surely the most corrupt president in the history of our nation. Along with his greedy wife Michelle, who just joined the bus tour with their daughters so they could campaign too "so they could get out of Washington and be themselves" -

October 18, 2011 4:39 PM

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If Mitt Romney, Rick Perry, Herman Cain or any of the other
presidential challengers were to embark on a three-day bus trip like the
one now underway by President Obama, it would cost their campaigns tens
of thousands of dollars. Perhaps more.

They would have to pay a variety of expenses, including:

air travel to their first destinationleasing of one or more buses appropriate to the journey rental for halls or meeting rooms for their candidates' appearancesthe cost of lodging and meals for their candidate and staff

But not the Obama campaign. The White House declared
that Mr. Obama's three-day trip through North Carolina and Virginia are
official events and not campaign appearances, even though the two states
are known to be political objectives of his re-election bid.

So Mr. Obama's expenses are borne by taxpayers, including:

the
pro-rated costs of his flights aboard Marine One and Air Force One that
brought him to his first stop yesterday in Asheville, NC the two buses used by him and his staff, owned and operated by the United States Secret Service costs associated with setting up speech sites including microphones, speakers, amplifiers, teleprompters and TV lightslodging and meals for the president and his political staff

It's
an advantage enjoyed by every incumbent president seeking re-election
-- and a disadvantage endured by his challengers. And though the White
House has said the trip is not political, Mr. Obama has repeatedly used
his speeches to take Republicans to task for opposing the provisions of
his jobs bill.

"They said no to putting
teachers and construction workers back on the job," the president said
yesterday in Asheville. "They said no to rebuilding our roads and our
bridges and our airports. They said no to cutting taxes for middle-class
families and small businesses when all they've been doing is cutting
taxes for the wealthiest Americans."

He continued: "They want to
gut regulations; they want to let Wall Street do whatever it wants.
They want to drill more. And they want to repeal health care reform.
That's their jobs plan."

On the Senate
floor Monday, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., raised concerns about the
partisan rhetoric from his 2008 presidential rival.

"In
fact, I was somewhat taken aback, since the president and his
spokesperson had billed his trip as a taxpayer-paid visit," said McCain.

He
said Mr. Obama has the right to express his views about GOP policies
but wondered, "is that appropriate on the taxpayers' dime? Since it is
clearly campaigning."

Read more at CBS News

Outrageous. But we will not forget in November 2012. ABO - Anyone But Obama!

A photo w/Michelle Obama - only $10,000

First Lady Asks for $10K Photo Fee

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How much would you pay to have your picture taken with First Lady Michelle Obama?

When she travels to Chicago
next week to tour Chicago food deserts with Mayor Rahm Emanuel and later
host a fundraiser at Plumber's Hall, she will be asking for a pretty
penny.

The going rate for a photograph at the near West Side fundraiser with the First Lady is $10,000 for a family of up to six members.

Source: NBC Chicago

Meet the new boss - Obama