I certainly don’t know them all, but please join me in watching this short video where my four-year-old granddaughter Chloe sings the President’s song – with all their correct names!
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Pennies and $Billions
This YouTube video has apparently existed for over a year and has been viewed over 1.2 million times, but I saw it for the first time yesterday. It gives an excellent visual perspective of how much (or little) $100 million in proposed budget cuts really is when compared to the federal budget as a whole.
Now, please tell me once again, who is going to pay for all the pennies on the right of the blue line?
Joyce Shaffer: Takin’ Back our Country
Please join me in enjoying the thought-provoking music video featuring Joyce Shaffer expressing the anti-incumbent sentiment evident in yesterday’s primary elections.
My favorite line: “where our voices are heard, and Senators aren’t bought.â€
Stephanie Nielson: My New Life
Please take a few minutes from your busy life to watch and ponder this touching video where Stephanie Nielson, a young mother who lived across the street from us in Mesa, AZ, tells her own story of courage and faith following a near-fatal airplane crash.
Stephanie continues to recount her “new life†experiences in her widely read blog, NieNie Dialogues.
Floral Flag
Thanks to my friend Grant Palmer for leading me to this beautiful flag.
“This Flag is 6.65 acres and is the first Floral Flag to be planted with 5 pointed Stars comprised of White Larkspur. Each Star is 24 feet in diameter; Each Stripe is 30 feet wide. This Flag is estimated to contain more than 400,000 Larkspur plants with 4-5 flower stems each for a total of more than 2 million flowers. You can drive by this flag on V Street south of Ocean Ave. in Lompoc, CA.â€
“The 2002 Floral Flag is 740 feet wide and 390 feet high and maintains the proper Flag dimensions as described in Executive Order #10834.â€
Aerial photo courtesy of Bill Morson
SweetTweet: Choose Your Character
@MarkOOakes: The content of your character is YOUR choice – what you choose, think and do, you become.
Stephen Studdert: Sacrifice for Liberty
“Sacrifice for Liberty” is an excellent article published by Stephen Studdert, reviewing his feelings about freedom and liberty as he watched brave military personnel returning home from assignments abroad.
“Those aboard these enormous vessels of war were men and women dedicated to peace. Tired, homesick, and battle-worn, they were deservedly and quietly proud of a job well done. Duty and honor and country had new meaning for the 6,000 professional and deliberate sailors and Marines aboard. …
“Looking at these young shipboard Americans, our inclination to cheer their safe return home was quickly overtaken by our own personal feelings of gratitude for God and family and country, and for a country which allows my love of family and my free and unhindered worship of God. These sailors and Marines, each a serving citizen, had willingly gone into harm’s way to defend freedom and liberty, not to conquer but to vanquish, and with no thought of self.
“For us this moment was not a time of idle words. Our only spoken expression to each other that day was “May God bless America, this land of liberty, and those who defend her.†Such is my grateful prayer today.”
May we all salute the courage of brave men and women who defend our freedom and thank our God for establishing this land as the bastion of liberty in the world.
About the author: Steven M. Studdert served as a White House Advisor to three US Presidents, beginning with his appointment as a Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan. He is the author of “America in Danger: What You Must Know to Protect Yourself.”