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Herman Cain: the one to watch

In a shocking upset, Herman Cain won the Florida straw poll last weekend, leaving his opponent trailing well beyond the dust:

Herman Cain: 37 percent

Rick Perry: 15 percent

Mitt Romney: 14 percent

Rick Santorum: 10.9 percent

Ron Paul: 10.4 percent

Newt Gingrich: 8.4 percent

Jon Huntsman: 2.3 percent

Michelle Bachmann: 1.5 percent

Gary Johnson (not on ballot)

In case you feel like you don't know Herman Cain well enough, please take 10 or 15 minutes this morning to bring yourself up to speed. Keep in mind that the best candidate can lack name recognition because our propaganda press ignores his presence.

I'll report, you decide:

Herman Cain at Faith and Freedom Coalition

9-9-9: A Vision for Economic Growth

Rather than reinventing the wheel, I'm just going to link you to some pieces that will quickly bring you up to speed and get you paying serious attention to an authentic American leader:

Man of the Hour - Herman Cain

Top Ten Reasons to Support Herman Cain for President (pulished 1/26/11 - and as true today as ever)

Is this man Obama's worst nightmare? 'The One' may have met his match in emerging presidential candidate

Interested in following Cain's campaign? Click the banner below:

MommyLife Giveaways - last day to enter

Last day for giveaway entries.  Scoot
over to my giveaway page (link in the right sidebar) to check out some very special items. Leave a
comment there under each one you want to enter. I will be drawing
winners tonight.

Allen West on Palestinian statehood

Why a knowledge of history is necessary for leaders to make sound decisions:

Allen West Schools on Palestinian Statehood

Missing Kentucky boy w/autism found!

I know many parents with children with autism - whose tendency to wander off plus their nonverbal nature has given us more than our share of worry - have been waiting anxiously for news of 7-year-old Randall Chesser, who went missing Saturday.

 Thanks to everyone involved in the search - and to God for his faithfulness.

UPDATED | 2 Mercer firefighters tell how they located missing Washington County boy

By Greg Kocher -- gkocher1@herald-leader.com

Posted: 10:10am on Sep 26, 2011; Modified: 7:16pm on Sep 26, 2011

WILLISBURG -- After two days of searching, two firefighters
found Randall Leon Chesser, a 7-year-old Washington County boy who had
been missing since Saturday.

Randall, who is autistic, was found
alive and well off Coulter Lane, about two miles northeast of the
Willisburg fire station and three miles northeast of his house, shortly
after 2:30 p.m.

Randall's discovery came on a day when crews
intensified efforts to comb the area to find him. Police expanded the
search area and made a plea to nearby residents to check their property
for Randall. The search involved all-terrain vehicles, search dogs and
about 250 people, including volunteers and state and local authorities,
many of whom walked the area.

Randall was found by Mercer County firefighters Chris Goodlett and Montey Kelly, who saw the boy lying near a creek.

"We
got down in there and something kept telling us to stay," Goodlett told
the Herald-Leader. "When we found his little boot track in that creek
we knew we were onto something."

Goodlett said they had actually
passed by Randall, but they went back. He said there were buzzards
flying around, and "that was our sign."

Kelly said he went up to the boy and asked whether "he was OK and he raised up and looked at me."

"I offered him water and crackers and we sat there and ate until everybody showed up," Kelly said.

Goodlett said Randall kept saying "thank you sir, thank you sir!"

When
the boy saw his rescuers, the first words out of his mouth were, "I
want to go home," said John A. Settles, Washington County
judge-executive.

"We praised God just for the fact that we found him and found him alive," Settles said.

Read more at Kentucky.com

Obama campaign daily plea for money 9/26

Really, you all should consider signing up for BarackObama.com.  You'll find something new and interesting in your Inbox every day.  Something begging, pleading, cajoling for $$$$$.  Today's pitch was really imaginative:

Barbara --



Here's something you don't have in common with 28,767 other supporters of this movement who tell us they live in Virginia.



That many of your neighbors have decided to own a piece of this campaign
by making a donation of whatever they could afford. For some, that
meant just $5. For others, it meant $100 or more. But each had their own
personal reason for giving.



Our records show that you aren't one of the 28,767 people in your state
who have stepped up for 2012. Now's your chance to change that.

Make a donation of $3 or more today to support the campaign before the critical September 30th deadline.



Here's why you should join your neighbors in supporting this campaign:
We've been running the numbers, and with hundreds of thousands of
individual donors across the country -- we are now well on our way to a
million people.



In the 2008 campaign, it took us more than a year to reach that
milestone. This time around, we could cross it as soon as October --
just six months after the launch of the campaign.



Between now and then, we have an important fundraising deadline.



Our opponents have significant operations on the ground in key
battleground states, full-time candidates without day jobs, and a lot of
media attention to fuel their campaigns.



President Obama has you. And when you're building a grassroots
organization from the bottom up, the first person gets the next one
involved. And the first 28,767 provide the foundation and inspiration
for the next 28,767.

Support the campaign before the deadline, and bring us closer to one million donors -- give $3 today:

https://donate.barackobama.com/One-in-a-Million



Thank you,



Messina



Jim Messina

Campaign Manager

Obama for America

Meanwhile, Obama continues a dizzying pace: 7 fundraisers in 3 days - including an appearance by Lady Gaga (I kid you not):

markknoller
Mark Knoller












3 more fundraisers today
brings his 2-day total to 7, a record. It brings his total for the year
to 51. GWBush did 24 during same period.


10 hours ago
 

Safety Alert: Button battery danger to toddlers

Health Watch: Button Battery Surgery: MyFoxATLANTA.com

Health Watch: Button Battery Dangers

Published : Thursday, 03 Jun 2010, 6:09 PM EDT

By: BETH GALVIN/myfoxatlanta

ATLANTA - Sixty seconds was all it took for 1-year-old Gabriel McNutt to take out the battery in his parents' remote control and swallow it. Six weeks later, the Stone Mountain toddler underwent surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta to try to repair the damage left behind.

The toddler rolled into surgery at about 4:40 p.m. Thursday afternoon after being in the hospital for a month and a half and eating through a feeding tube.

McNutt's parents, Adam and Leslie have been praying a lot lately.

"We're grateful. We're thankful that we still have our son," said Adam McNutt.

On Thursday, the 13-month-old Gabriel, needed their prayers as he headed into surgery at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Egelston to repair the damage done by a little battery no bigger than a nickel.

"He started throwing up profusely and he wouldn't stop. And we thought at first, maybe he was just getting a stomach bug or something," said Leslie McNutt.

Instead, the toddler had gotten a hold of the remote control to his parents' DVD player and once he got it, he swallowed it.

"It only takes a minute. For our son, it took one minute to get the backing off the remote, and get the battery in his esophagus. And put him in the state that he was," said Adam McNutt.

"They put him [to sleep] and they used a scope to pull it out," said Leslie McNutt.

"The doctors told us 99 percent of the time, its recovery, there's no complications, no infections," said Adam McNutt.

But a week later, there were complications.

"As soon as we laid him down, he started choking. He wasn't able to breathe," recalled Adam McNutt.

The toddler was rushed back to the hospital in critical condition.

A follow-up test showed that the little battery had eaten a hole in Gabriel's esophagus, so that every time he tried to swallow food or water, he was choking.

Read more at MyFoxAtlanta

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Obama Regime bans OTC asthma inhalers

From The Weekly Standard:

Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns



3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011
By MARK HEMINGWAY

Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:

Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers
will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the
federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.

The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the
epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31
to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol
substance once found in a variety of spray products.

The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other
nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region
in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the
Sun.

But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more.
Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20,
whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from
$30 to $60.

The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a
while back that when consumers are forced to use environmentally
friendly products they're are almost always worse:

Er, industry also knew how to make low-flow toilets,
which is why every toilet in my recently renovated rental house clogs at
least once a week.  They knew how to make more energy efficient dryers,
which is why even on high, I have to run every load through the dryer
in said house twice.  And they knew how to make inexpensive compact
flourescent bulbs, which is why my head hurts from the glare emitting
from my bedroom lamp.    They also knew how to make asthma inhalers
without CFCs, which is why I am hoarding old albuterol inhalers that,
unlike the new ones, a) significantly improve my breathing and b) do not
make me gag.  Etc.

Well, tough cookies asthma sufferers! You should have written bigger checks to the Democratic party while you had the chance.

Mark Steyn: Fourth Trimester Abortion

And back in the day when we Second Wave Feminists were fighting for legalized abortion ("to prevent all those back-alley coat-hanger deaths"), we scoffed at the old fuddy-duddies who spoke of slippery slopes.

Aside from the fact that for nearly 40 years we have been killing 1.5 million/year, fully one third of the younger generations (who, btw, are supposed to be footing the bill for the humongous demographic bulge known as the Baby Boomers). turns out the Slippery Slopers were downfight prophetic:

FOURTH-TRIMESTER ABORTION

by Mark Steyn

National Review Online: The Corner

September 13, 2011

From the Court of Queen's Bench (the appellate court) in Alberta:

The Wetaskiwin, Alta., woman convicted of
infanticide for killing her newborn son, was given a three-year
suspended sentence Friday by an Edmonton Court of Queen's Bench judge.

Katrina Effert was 19 on April 13, 2005, when
she secretly gave birth in her parents' home, strangled the baby boy
with her underwear and threw the body over a fence into a neighbour's
yard...

Effert will have to abide by conditions for the
next three years but she won't spend time behind bars for strangling
her newborn son.

Indeed. As Judge Joanne Veit puts it:

"While many Canadians undoubtedly view abortion
as a less than ideal solution to unprotected sex and unwanted
pregnancy, they generally understand, accept and sympathize with the
onerous demands pregnancy and childbirth exact from mothers, especially
mothers without support," she writes... "Naturally, Canadians are grieved
by an infant's death, especially at the hands of the infant's mother,
but Canadians also grieve for the mother."

Gotcha. So a superior court judge in a
relatively civilized jurisdiction is happy to extend the principles
underlying legalized abortion in order to mitigate the killing of a
legal person - that's to say, someone who has managed to make it to the
post-fetus stage. How long do those mitigating factors apply? I mean,
"onerous demands"-wise, the first month of a newborn's life is no picnic
for the mother. How about six months in? The terrible twos?

Speaking of "onerous demands", suppose
you're a "mother without support" who's also got an elderly relative
around with an "onerous" chronic condition also making inroads into your
time?

And in what sense was Miss Effert a
"mother without support"? She lived at home with her parents, who
provided her with food and shelter. How smoothly the slick euphemisms -
"accept and sympathize... onerous demands" - lubricate the slippery slope.

from National Review's The Corner

HT: von

If you're not familiar with Mark Steyn, your world will be richer if you make his acquaintance. He is a brilliant writer with an exceedingly quick wit. Visit all his writing at Mark Steyn Online.



Mark will also be subbing for Rush today. His commentary/analysis is up-to-the-minute and laced with humor - plus his lovely British accent makes it even more fun to listen to him.

A Prayer for Loudoun Public Schools

I am privileged to live in a county which, though besieged by militant atheists, still has a strong majority of believers and people with common sense who understand that no matter how tenuous their own belief system, students encouraged in a holistic approach to life - intellectual, physical and spiritual - will have a greater chance of success than those forbidden to express an important component of their being.

Then too, there is the First Amendment, which guarantees Freedom of Religion, not Freedom from Religion.

Mark Gunderman works tirelessly to network and inform.  Here's his latest at Ashburn Patch:

A Prayer for Loudoun's Schools
Posted on
September 20, 2011







 
 








Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" (Matthew 19:14).
Those who are given to Christ, as part of his purchase, he will in no
wise cast out. Therefore He takes it ill of all who forbid and try to
shut out those whom He has received.

In 1999, I served as president of the Loudoun Education Alliance of
Parents (LEAP). Back then the monthly meetings were held at J. Lupton
Simpson Middle School. The LCPS enrollment was 26,787 and the school
system had 44 schools. Enrollment is now estimated at 66,266 students in
80 schools. The number of students has expanded by approximately 3,000
students from last year.

I am again compelled to begin the 2011-2012 school year with
community prayer. Someone recently told me that prayer is not a
substitute for action; it is an action for which there is no substitute.
Therefore I am requesting all the intercessors in Loudoun County to
please join me in praying for an increase of God's presence in our
schools. 

A Prayer for Loudoun Schools

Dear Father God in heaven,

We welcome and invite a powerful move of God's presence in our
schools. We shall provide a canopy of prayer over every school and
college in Loudoun County. We dedicate each learning institution to the
Lord.

We ask that you send your ministering spirits into our classrooms. We
ask you to send angels as guardians to the entrances and breathe your
refreshing Holy Spirit throughout the hallways and classrooms. We ask
for barriers to your presence to be broken down in the name of Jesus. We
invite your constant presence and influence back into our school
buildings.

We speak blessings over the principals and administrators that they
may have wisdom, inspiration, peace, patience and strength as they lead
their teachers and children. We pray for blessings of abundant health
and energy for the teachers and staff throughout these buildings. We ask
that all the staff and teachers receive a special blessing of
ingenuity, inspiration, wisdom, peace and overflowing satisfaction in
their work. May they be restored, refreshed and strengthened daily in
body, soul and spirit. May they be appreciated and respected by parents
and students and their hearts filled with peace and joy.

We ask special blessings over all the children who attend our
schools, that you may help keep them hungry for learning, that each
child may know he is precious and important. We pray for overflowing
health and protection for all our students. We pray for them to respect
and give full attention to their teachers. We ask for clarity and focus
for their minds and a hunger for learning and excellence both in
academics and behavior. We claim a blessed and prosperous future for all
the children who attend our schools in Jesus' name.

We ask for blessings on the parents and guardians of these children,
that their burdens be lightened. We ask for parents to be anointed with
patience, wisdom, peace and joy, That they get inspired to be involved
in teaching their children to have respect, compassion, honesty and
pride in their choices.

We thank you for your favor in our schools, for keeping the
buildings, classrooms, hallways and playgrounds safe. We ask for
protection from harm for everyone on our school grounds. We praise you
and thank you for your mercy and forgiveness. Amen.

If anyone is interested in publishing a faith article, please contact Mark Gunderman at gunderman2001@aol.com.

A Prayer for Loudoun County Public Schools

I am privileged to live in a county which, though besieged by militant atheists, still has a strong majority of believers and people with common sense who understand that no matter how tenuous their own belief system, students encouraged in a holistic approach to life - intellectual, physical and spiritual - will have a greater chance of success than those forbidden to express an important component of their being - are the reason for our First Amendment Rights.

Mark Gunderman works tirelessly to network and inform, despite the slings and arrows of our bitter Loudoun atheists/Chrostophobes/hatemongers. Keep in mind that the First Amendment guarantees Freedom of Religion, not Freedom From Religion:

A Prayer for Loudoun's Schools
Posted on
September 20, 2011







 
 








Jesus said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them,
for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these" (Matthew 19:14).
Those who are given to Christ, as part of his purchase, he will in no
wise cast out. Therefore He takes it ill of all who forbid and try to
shut out those whom He has received.

In 1999, I served as president of the Loudoun Education Alliance of
Parents (LEAP). Back then the monthly meetings were held at J. Lupton
Simpson Middle School. The LCPS enrollment was 26,787 and the school
system had 44 schools. Enrollment is now estimated at 66,266 students in
80 schools. The number of students has expanded by approximately 3,000
students from last year.

I am again compelled to begin the 2011-2012 school year with
community prayer. Someone recently told me that prayer is not a
substitute for action; it is an action for which there is no substitute.
Therefore I am requesting all the intercessors in Loudoun County to
please join me in praying for an increase of God's presence in our
schools. 

A Prayer for Loudoun Schools

Dear Father God in heaven,

We welcome and invite a powerful move of God's presence in our
schools. We shall provide a canopy of prayer over every school and
college in Loudoun County. We dedicate each learning institution to the
Lord.

We ask that you send your ministering spirits into our classrooms. We
ask you to send angels as guardians to the entrances and breathe your
refreshing Holy Spirit throughout the hallways and classrooms. We ask
for barriers to your presence to be broken down in the name of Jesus. We
invite your constant presence and influence back into our school
buildings.

We speak blessings over the principals and administrators that they
may have wisdom, inspiration, peace, patience and strength as they lead
their teachers and children. We pray for blessings of abundant health
and energy for the teachers and staff throughout these buildings. We ask
that all the staff and teachers receive a special blessing of
ingenuity, inspiration, wisdom, peace and overflowing satisfaction in
their work. May they be restored, refreshed and strengthened daily in
body, soul and spirit. May they be appreciated and respected by parents
and students and their hearts filled with peace and joy.

We ask special blessings over all the children who attend our
schools, that you may help keep them hungry for learning, that each
child may know he is precious and important. We pray for overflowing
health and protection for all our students. We pray for them to respect
and give full attention to their teachers. We ask for clarity and focus
for their minds and a hunger for learning and excellence both in
academics and behavior. We claim a blessed and prosperous future for all
the children who attend our schools in Jesus' name.

We ask for blessings on the parents and guardians of these children,
that their burdens be lightened. We ask for parents to be anointed with
patience, wisdom, peace and joy, That they get inspired to be involved
in teaching their children to have respect, compassion, honesty and
pride in their choices.

We thank you for your favor in our schools, for keeping the
buildings, classrooms, hallways and playgrounds safe. We ask for
protection from harm for everyone on our school grounds. We praise you
and thank you for your mercy and forgiveness. Amen.

If anyone is interested in publishing a faith article, please contact Mark Gunderman at gunderman2001@aol.com.