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It is often adversity that brings out the greatest of our virtues, and as the Good Book says, the Greatest is LOVE….. enough said!!
http://www.buzzfeed.com/txblacklabel/true-love-in-pictures-only-28m7
I, too, heard this growing up on one of my grandparent’s “vinyl” (33rpm or a 45?)— I think it was Tex Ritter:
A special thanks to Gumply!
UPDATE: Sen. Inhoufe and Rep. Frank Lucas, both representing Oklahoma, sent a pointed letter to Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke asking if he stood by the Federal examiners actions. Later in the day, the examiners personally returned to the bank in Perkins, OK to retract their request for the removal of all Christmas and religious items.
The government warned a small town bank this week to remove the Christian symbols from its counters and off its website.
KOCO reported:
A small-town bank in Oklahoma said the Federal Reserve won’t let it keep religious signs and symbols on display.
Federal Reserve examiners come every four years to make sure banks are complying with a long list of regulations. The examiners came to Perkins last week. And the team from Kansas City deemed a Bible verse of the day, crosses on the teller’s counter and buttons that say “Merry Christmas, God With Us.” were inappropriate. The Bible verse of the day on the bank’s Internet site also had to be taken down.
“I don’t think there should be a problem with them displaying whatever religious symbols they want to display,” said Amy Weierman, a Perkins resident.
Specifically, the feds believed, the symbols violated the discouragement clause of Regulation B of the bank regulations. According to the clause, “…the use of words, symbols, models and other forms of communication … express, imply or suggest a discriminatory preference or policy of exclusion.”
Note: The home office of the bank we deal with ordered that no Christmas trees or Menorahs be displayed in the branches….. only poinsettas. The cite the need to “not offend anyone else.
My response… I told them that THEIR ACTIONS OFFEND ME !!
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – Trevor Keezer calls himself an American patriot, a man who loves his country, God and religion. He never imagined his beliefs would get him fired.
But that’s exactly what the 20-year-old says happened when he reported for work at The Home Depot in the rural Florida town of Okeechobee, about 140 miles north of Miami.
Keezer said he’d been wearing an American flag button on his Home Depot apron since he began working as a cashier at the store in March 2008. The button read, “One nation under God, indivisible.”
“I’ve worn it for well over a year and I support my country and God,” Keezer said Tuesday. “I was just doing what I think every American should do, just love my country.”
http://www.startribune.com/business/66554657.html
Related Story: Trevor Keezer to file a religious discrimination suit
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/oct/27/fired-home-depot-worker-to-file-religious-suit/
Comment from the Star Tribune/Minneapolis:
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Yet our government demandsthat employers provide time and places for Muslim worship. What is wrong with this picture?
The Bible teaches that we are to “give unto God that which is His, and unto Ceasar (Government) that which is Ceasar’s”
So, that being the foundation, if God expects me to tithe 10% of my earnings to Him, through the Church, where does the Government think that it has the right to expect as much, if not more, than God Himself expects from us!!
In a realistic sense, does this not give credence to the argument for a flat tax program! If my wife and I give 10% to the Church each year, and 10% to the Government, and this was done by all patriotic Americans (Biden says its patriotic to pay taxes), we can leave the social programs to the Church, as it was historically, and the government can use its portion for our defense and for our infrastructure.
I guess that would be too simplistic!!
With the Obama administration having an impromptu “2nd Oath of Office” done without notice, and only having a few print writers and one wire service representative voice record it and a staff photographer to capture the photo record, the disgruntled media may already be ending the honeymoon and love affair with President Barack Obama.
Giving Obama the Oath of Office a 2nd time is not the first time this has occurred. Both Chester Arthur and Calvin Coolidge were administered the Oath twice. But, as the Drudge Report highlighted today, the 2nd Oath was done without the use of a Bible. And as Glen Beck pointed out, that marks the first time in our Presidential history that a President was sworn in without using a Bible. Of course, there is no Constitutional requirement that the Oath be administered using a Bible, but given the controversies that surround the Muslim and “non-believr” upbringing of Barack Obama, a Bible should have been present, if, for no other reason than it was tradition in our JudeoChristian Republic.
I am not a body language expert like Tanya Reiman, who appears on the O’Reilly Factor to discuss the “real” meaning of people’s actions and words, but as an average American, one of those who holds tightly to the First and Second Amendments to the Constitution (you know, Bible and gun-toting), I was a bit taken aback listening to Sen. Barack Obama answer a certain question in his interview this morning with George Stephanopolous.
Obama was trying to blame the McCain campaign for reigniting the questioning of Obama’s Christian faith, and when he ultimately conceded that the bloggers have fanned these flames, he acknowledged that “John McCain has never questioned my Muslim faith”….. “I mean Christian”. To be sure that I heard correctly, the marvels of TIVO enabled me to hear Obama proclaim his Muslim faith OVER and OVER again. To be clear, the statement is not, nor can it be, taken out of the context it was stated within.
Let us remember that this is also the Senator who proclaimed that sounds of the noon prayers toward Mecca are music to his ears.
Herein lies the fundamental problem in an Obama Presidency. It is the uncertainty of the character of the candidate that will create the uncertainty of our future. This country grappled with the Catholicism of John Kennedy and the Mormonism of Mitt Romney. The uncertainty that Obama creates in the hidden nature of his dealings creates an uneasiness about his ties to the Muslim community of the world.
Despite his denials of any lingering association with the Muslim teachings he received as a child from the primary male figure in his early years through pre-adolescence, his stepfather Lolo Soetero, his words often give another message. The years of learning from Lolo Soetero are part of the most formative years of the child’s life.
So, was Obama’s slip of the tongue today just a simple gaffe, or will we see one of the “many faces” of Obama, as a recent TIME Magazine cover implied?
Update: It has been highly noted that come November, we will have a President and/or a Vice President, whose sons are serving in our military. The irony that Obama was the only one of the four candidates without any military connection was not lost, not even to our liberal biased Obama-fawning media. Thus, for the first time in this extremely long campaign, Obama told George Stephanopolous that he had considered entering the military service when he graduated high school in 1979. http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/09/obama-to-step-6.html
