What Will The New Year Bring In 2010?

What are you expecting from the New Year in 2010? I will tell you what I expect in 2010: a multi-billion dollar Health Care Bill, a slew of conservative seat pick-ups in the House, increased interest rates on home mortgages and more unemployed Americans.




Does this mean we cannot have a prosperous year? No, it most certainly does not mean that at all. I whole heartedly believe each of us has the power to our own destiny through our God given power of FREE AGENCY.



What each of us should ask ourselves is will we be spectators or participators in 2010 and beyond? Will we allow life to happen or make it happen?




We must never forget this is America where every voice, effort, movement and vote counts. Decide early to be active in America this year. With all of us working together to make it a better place is surely will be just that!

Favorite Christmas Song -- "Mary Did You Know" is my fav!

What is your favorite Christmas song?


Mine is "Mary Did You Know"... Everytime I hear it tears flow.


Several Artists have recorded it but my fav is Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd...


Here are the lyrics to Kenny Rogers & Wynonna version:

Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day walk on water?


Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will save our sons and daughters?


Did you know,
that your baby boy has come to make you new?
This child that you've delivered,
will soon deliver you.


Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will give sight to a blind man?


Mary, did you know
your baby boy will calm a storm with his hand?


Did you know,
that your baby boy has walked where angels trod?
When you kiss your little baby,
you've kissed the face of God.


The blind will see
The deaf will hear
The dead will live again.
The lame will leap
The dumb will speak
The praises of The Lamb.


Mary, did you know
that your baby boy is Lord of all creation?


Mary, did you know
that your baby boy will one day rule the nations?


Did you know,
that your baby boy is heaven's perfect lamb?
This sleeping child you're holding, is the great I AM.


Happy Birthday Jesus! And we wish A Very Merry Christmas to ALL Of You! Please Remember... Always and forever -- JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON!!!

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Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Bill Cosby or Alan Alda who is your role model?

Tiger Woods, Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant and many other star athletes have let their families down with all the world watching. Robert Reed, Bill Cosby and Meredith Baxter each represented the wholesome American family on television and chose personal paths off screen that were very opposite of the characters they played on screen. JFK, Bill Clinton, John Edwards and other key politicians have also made big mistakes that played out over and over again in the media.


In a time when the family unit is under assault everywhere we look, we need role models in the public eye. It’s not often you hear stories about the successful family. Why we don’t see more stories about the likes of Paul Newman & Joanne Woodward who were happily married for over 50 years or Bob Hope & Delores DeFina who were married 69 years or Alan and Arlene Alda who are 50+ years and going strong?


Tom Brady and his wife Gisele Bundchen had a baby this week but that story of happiness is buried beneath the stories of the many women Tiger Woods is rumored to have committed acts of infidelity with. That is who the media has helped us become, a society that loves scandals more than births.


Society loves a good scandal. This behavior was born from the desire to see something outside of the norm. Unfortunately now it seems to have become far too normal.


As parents we need to remind our children that the best role models are found in the home. More importantly though we need to make sure that is true, always. Too often kids seek role models on TV when they are missing in the home. Do you want your kids seeking advice or examples from the likes of those mentioned above?


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President Obama in Hot Water w/ Angelina Jolie

I am very confused. I thought Obama had all of Hollywood on his side. I am sure we all remember the large line of drooling movie stars that helped anoint him to the highest office in the free world. It would seem not even a full year into office he’s losing that coveted big screen support already.

In celeb news President Obama and his administration gets called out for its approach to the situation in Sudan by actress Angelina Jolie.

"Their policy, though, raises a number of questions," Jolie wrote in a Newsweek editorial. "How is the Obama administration's approach to Sudan an evolution of justice? In addition, when the administration says it intends to work to 'improve the lives of the people of Darfur,' I would like to know what that means, besides the obvious point that their lives could hardly get worse."

It is obvious her frustration for the administration’s lack of action is reaching a boiling point. What really grabs you about this comment is the timing (being just days before Christmas).

I expect as the “Change We Can Believe In” continues to not come true there will be more and more stars and everyday people speaking out.

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Spend Our Way Out Of Trouble? Mitt We Need You!

Well it official the Obama Administration has declared that we can spend our way out of this mess. We'll just use TARP money. GREAT, real freakin' GREAT.


More now than ever we need a LEADER that knows how to balance a budget. Mitt Romney has a proven record of successfully doing just that. When asked to take over the 2002 Olympic Games held in Salt Lake City they were facing a HUGE $379 million budget shortfall. He not only directed and lead efforts that made up that shortfall but also produced a tidy $100 million profit.


Governor Romney has made his life on knowing what business levers to pull and when to pull them.


I know what lever I am ready to pull!


Some polls are indicating that less than half of Americans would rather have Obama in office than George W. Bush. If that isn't a telling stat I don't know what is...


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Mitt Romney's Speech vs. JFK's

Both of these men gave eloquent speeches. They will both be remembered and quoted for years to come. Both speeches were given to define religion within a campaign. The similarities basically end there.


JFK sought to make it known to America that Church and State were indeed completely separate. Romney reminded us that GOD belongs in some form or another in anything we do in the name of liberty. He even strongly suggested one cannot be without the other.


Some have even blamed JFK for the overdone separation of church and state that we have today. I am certainly not ready to do that but will say it is born of liberal roots.


Both of these men were great leaders that had faith in their lives and would not suppress or deny it for the sake of gaining the world. That makes me smile and even proud.


Both of these speeches are years removed now but the problem of "Faith in America" still exist. I cannot help but wonder where do we go from here, where do we go from here...

JFK's Speech on Religion and Mitt Romney's

Yesterday marked the two year anniversary of Mitt Romney's historic speech "Faith in America". We are nearly 50 years removed from JFK's famous speech on religion.


I thought it was only fitting since we posted Mitt's speech yesterday to come back and post JFK's today. Tomorrow we'll take a look at how they compare.

Here's the transcript from September 12th, 1960:


Kennedy: Rev. Meza, Rev. Reck, I'm grateful for your generous invitation to speak my views.
While the so-called religious issue is necessarily and properly the chief topic here tonight, I want to emphasize from the outset that we have far more critical issues to face in the 1960 election: the spread of Communist influence, until it now festers 90 miles off the coast of Florida; the humiliating treatment of our president and vice president by those who no longer respect our power; the hungry children I saw in West Virginia; the old people who cannot pay their doctor bills; the families forced to give up their farms; an America with too many slums, with too few schools, and too late to the moon and outer space.


These are the real issues which should decide this campaign. And they are not religious issues — for war and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers.


But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured — perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in — for that should be important only to me — but what kind of America I believe in.


I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute, where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom to vote; where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference; and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him.


I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all.


For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew— or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you — until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril.


Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood.


That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of presidency in which I believe — a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group, nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office.


I would not look with favor upon a president working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty. Nor would our system of checks and balances permit him to do so. And neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test — even by indirection — for it. If they disagree with that safeguard, they should be out openly working to repeal it.


I want a chief executive whose public acts are responsible to all groups and obligated to none; who can attend any ceremony, service or dinner his office may appropriately require of him; and whose fulfillment of his presidential oath is not limited or conditioned by any religious oath, ritual or obligation.


This is the kind of America I believe in, and this is the kind I fought for in the South Pacific, and the kind my brother died for in Europe. No one suggested then that we may have a "divided loyalty," that we did "not believe in liberty," or that we belonged to a disloyal group that threatened the "freedoms for which our forefathers died."


And in fact ,this is the kind of America for which our forefathers died, when they fled here to escape religious test oaths that denied office to members of less favored churches; when they fought for the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom; and when they fought at the shrine I visited today, the Alamo. For side by side with Bowie and Crockett died McCafferty and Bailey and Carey. But no one knows whether they were Catholic or not, for there was no religious test at the Alamo.


I ask you tonight to follow in that tradition, to judge me on the basis of my record of 14 years in Congress, on my declared stands against an ambassador to the Vatican, against unconstitutional aid to parochial schools, and against any boycott of the public schools (which I have attended myself)— instead of judging me on the basis of these pamphlets and publications we all have seen that carefully select quotations out of context from the statements of Catholic church leaders, usually in other countries, frequently in other centuries, and always omitting, of course, the statement of the American Bishops in 1948, which strongly endorsed church-state separation, and which more nearly reflects the views of almost every American Catholic.


I do not consider these other quotations binding upon my public acts. Why should you? But let me say, with respect to other countries, that I am wholly opposed to the state being used by any religious group, Catholic or Protestant, to compel, prohibit, or persecute the free exercise of any other religion. And I hope that you and I condemn with equal fervor those nations which deny their presidency to Protestants, and those which deny it to Catholics. And rather than cite the misdeeds of those who differ, I would cite the record of the Catholic Church in such nations as Ireland and France, and the independence of such statesmen as Adenauer and De Gaulle.


But let me stress again that these are my views. For contrary to common newspaper usage, I am not the Catholic candidate for president. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for president, who happens also to be a Catholic. I do not speak for my church on public matters, and the church does not speak for me.


Whatever issue may come before me as president — on birth control, divorce, censorship, gambling or any other subject — I will make my decision in accordance with these views, in accordance with what my conscience tells me to be the national interest, and without regard to outside religious pressures or dictates. And no power or threat of punishment could cause me to decide otherwise.


But if the time should ever come — and I do not concede any conflict to be even remotely possible — when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same.


But I do not intend to apologize for these views to my critics of either Catholic or Protestant faith, nor do I intend to disavow either my views or my church in order to win this election.
If I should lose on the real issues, I shall return to my seat in the Senate, satisfied that I had tried my best and was fairly judged. But if this election is decided on the basis that 40 million Americans lost their chance of being president on the day they were baptized, then it is the whole nation that will be the loser — in the eyes of Catholics and non-Catholics around the world, in the eyes of history, and in the eyes of our own people.


But if, on the other hand, I should win the election, then I shall devote every effort of mind and spirit to fulfilling the oath of the presidency — practically identical, I might add, to the oath I have taken for 14 years in the Congress. For without reservation, I can "solemnly swear that I will faithfully execute the office of president of the United States, and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution, so help me God.


Transcript courtesy of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.


Check back tomorrow for an engaging comparison...