Each Day Already is a Challenge

Catching up on emails

The next time I'm going to be away from home for a week, I need to have a laptop to check emails. Yikes, did I have a mess of email when I came home.

I had the latest newsletter from Modest Needs. Never heard of them? Check it out:
http://www.modestneeds.org/ They are dedicated to helping people with unexpected financial emergencies.

I have never heard of this one, but it was in my inbox too:
People-to-people lending - http://www.prosper.com/prm/borrower3.htm

Also:
Writer's Digest competition - https://www.writersdigest.com/contests/annual/76th/

And:
Ford Sweepstakes - http://www.edgeacrossamerica.com/thankyou/process.php?107459889


Here's part of an email I read this morning - from Townhall Spotlight, Silencing Faith in America:

". . . those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord . . ."
-President Abraham Lincoln, Proclamation Appointing a National Fast Day, March 30, 1863

"The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
-President John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, January 20, 1961

"Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!"
-Martin Luther King Jr., "I Have a Dream," August 28, 1963

"If we ever forget that we're one nation under God, then we will be a nation gone under." -President Reagan, August 11, 1984

Are Christians being silenced?

Baton Rouge, Louisiana - A church ministering to refugees of a Hurricane Katrina emergency housing project through barbecue suppers was ordered to eliminate a post-meal gospel presentation, even though attendance was completely voluntary.

Frenchtown, New Jersey - An elementary school student told she couldn't sing about God in an after-school talent show.

San Diego, California - The ACLU and its allies - in courts for 17 years - demand removal of the cross at the Mount Soledad National War Memorial that honors veterans who gave their lives in service to our country.

Springfield, Missouri - A college student at Missouri State University threatened with her degree being withheld if she did not compromise her religious beliefs on homosexual adoption.

Go here: http://www.myreligiousrights.org/main/default.aspx?referral=E0207SC6&source=sile...

Watch the video. Sign the declaration. Make a donation if you can.

Are you a Christian woman with a secret - of abuse, adultery, regret? Stories of 1000-2000 words are being collected for a book. Accepted stories will receive $50 and a copy of the book. Here's the link: http://sistahfaith.com/content/submissions.html

From Newt Gingrich's newsletter:
The (New) Largest Tax Increase in History

Americans take tax increases personally -- and so do I. Liberal tax-and-spend policies helped motivate Americans to elect a new center-right House majority for the first time in 40 years.

But guess what? Liberals are at it again. Just three months into their majority, Democrats are once again proposing the biggest tax increase in history.

This month, the House of Representatives will debate the Democrats' 2008 proposed budget. If it is passed, this budget will impose the largest tax increase in history on American taxpayers -- totaling nearly $400 billion over five years. Families with children, low-income families, and small businesses all would be hit with hundreds if not thousands of dollars in increased taxes.

Just what taxes will be raised? Here are some of the specifics of the liberal proposal:

The 10% Tax Bracket Will Become 15%: More than five million families and individuals who previously owed no taxes will become subject to taxation.

Marriage Penalty Relief Will Be Eliminated: 23 million Americans will owe an average of $466 in additional taxes in 2011.

The Child Tax Credit Will Be Cut in Half: 31 million Americans will pay an average of $859 more in taxes in 2011.

Go to http://www.humanevents.com/ and click on The Return of the Liberal Tax Increase by Newt Gingrich. Or click on any of the other conservative news links.

I'm tired. I think I'll take a short nap before attacking the boxes that are still left in our living room.

Oh, before I go... Tiff had a kid's joke book with her this past weekend and insisted on telling us a gazillion jokes. Of course we laughed (or smiled).

Here's one:

What did the mommy broom say to the baby broom?
It's time to sweep.

Hmmm. TexansBeatTheMiamiDolphinsBy3 said she didn't get this one. Maybe it's supposed to say as she tucked him into bed?