A Walk for the President!

http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=FKhVnAgt0EY

Winning the election on merit?

Listening to the radio is often a hair-tearing endeavor. On the liberal stations, you hear the stretched truths and downright lies. You switch to the more conservative stations that explain what is really going on and you have to wonder where the media is on this and if they'd treat the same untruths told by Republicans with as much silence as they do for the Democrats.

The latest is that the Welfare Act signed by Democratic President Clinton in 1996 and passed by a Republican Congress has now been changed, and illegally so, by the obama administration. Where is the outcry? The 1996 act has a provision by which recipients of welfare checks had to fulfill certain work requirements one of which was spending a certain amount of time actively looking for work. The whole program was basically a success and weeded out the entitlement people from the people who really needed the help. The law had some 'wiggle room' but the one point that could not be changed was the work requirement. It took months of discussion and argument before this reached President Clinton's desk for signature.

The current administration bypassed all this checks and balance 'nonsense' and just took out the work requirement provision with a flourish of the pen. You have to wonder why . . .

I was listening to AM 590 and one of the producers ventured that if people do not have to actively look for work, they probably will not look for work. If they take their names off the list of unemployed looking for work, the unemployment numbers go down . . . No incumbent president has ever won re-election with high unemployment numbers and as we all know from the nightly news, this president's numbers are not good in that area. It seems that the numbers are being 'adjusted' to improve the president's chances. It also seems that he will stop at nothing to bring down his opponent and try and fool the American people into voting him in for another four years.

As all this garbage goes back and forth and he promotes political ads that are untrue about the Republican candidate, you have to wonder where his heart is in this campaign. Actually, it is pretty evident . . . His record of the last four years hasn't panned out well and the only agenda he can run on is lying about the Republicans and trashing their candidate. In doing this, he obscures the real issues of economy, citizens' rights and freedoms, unemployment, and the massive debt he has accrued and forced on future generations.

All I can say is that I hope that November 2012 with give us some change!

Even when things seem impossible . . .

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

- William Shakespeare

Buttery Cinnamon Biscuits

Here is a really quick way to treat your family with either a great dessert (add some whipped cream or ice cream!) or a warm, happy breakfast. Very little work except to remember to put canned biscuits on the grocery list this week.

Buttery Cinnamon Biscuits
3 cans of refrigerated biscuits
2 tablespoons ground cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon ground cloves
1/4 teaspoon ground nutmet
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1 stick of butter (margarine doesn't work as well)
1 cup brown sugar

Cut each biscuit into fourths. Combine the cinnamon, sugars, and spices. Melt the butter. Dip each piece of biscuit into the melted butter and then roll in the sugar/spice mixture. Place in a greased baking pan. A Bundt pan works but you can be creative with what you have on hand. Drizzle whatever butter and sugar mixture may be left over the top of the biscuits.

Bake in a 350-degree, preheated oven for 20-25 minutes depending on your oven and the pan you used.

Ideas . . .
Glaze the top with lemon icing when it comes from the oven.
Scatter finely chopped nuts over the top before baking.

Morning smiles, especially the first quote!

"I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience."
-- Mitch Hedberg

"The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on."
-- Joseph Heller

"Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough."
-- George Bernard Shaw

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allan Poe

The Daily Prayer For Priests - St. Theresa of the Child Jesus

The Daily Prayer For Priests by St. Therese of the Child Jesus

O Jesus, I pray for your faithful and fervent priests;

for your unfaithful and tepid priests;
for your priests laboring at home or abroad in distant mission fields.
for your tempted priests;
for your lonely and desolate priests;
For your young priests;
for your dying priests;
for the souls of your priests in Purgatory.
But above all, I recommend to you the priests dearest to me:
the priest who baptized me;
the priests who absolved me from my sins;
the priests at whose Masses I assisted and who gave me Your Body and Blood in Holy Communion;
the priests who taught and instructed me;
all the priests to whom I am indebted in any other way (especially …).
O Jesus, keep them all close to your heart,
and bless them abundantly in time and in eternity. Amen.

Can't argue with that!

"If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food."
Errick McAdams