The Sniffling Season

Here we are again, in the middle of what I’m calling The Sniffling Season. . .everyone coughing, sniffling, and sneezing all around us. . .as we pray for immunity from it all.  What can we do to protect our bodies and our family from it all?

This product has remained in our home for about 5 years now and it has helped us avoid many sniffles along the way.  As I’ve been researching lately for some of the best supplements and herbs to build the immune system and fight off viruses, I realized that this product has them all.  Ingredients such as Vitamin D-3, Olive Leaf Extract, Echinacea, Garlic, Vitamin C, Goldenseal Root Extract, and Zinc.  They are horse pills, I will admit, but the testimonies from my family about how this supplement has lessened the severity of our colds or helped us avoid them altogether are numerous.

It is called Wellness Formula and I highly recommend it as an all-in-one herbal defense formula.

 

 

 

 

 

 

If you like to “double up” on those immune-boosting supplements as we do, you can supplement your supplements by adding extra garlic (there are odorless capsules available), Vitamin C, Vitamin D-3 (I add the liquid and tasteless drops to my tea or water), and liquid Echinacea for kids.  As a family, we are on the kids formulas and adult formulas of all of these.  Just follow the suggested use on the bottles, but understand that many times those are even under what you can take in a day, but do your research.

And here’s to good health this Sniffling Season!

No Better Feeling Than Serving Together

When I woke up this morning, I had the thought that maybe I was thrown out of a second story window overnight. My husband and I (with about 8 others from our Life Group) had just spent 14 hours remodeling the family room of a disabled couple. Now we were incredibly sore.

But after I started to adjust to the fatigue and pain, I had the best feeling in the world–that feeling of having spent a whole day thinking of someone other than myself, of helping a couple that was stuck in a rut of disability and a house in such need of repair that it probably only contributed to their ill-health, and of working side by side with my husband as we served the Lord.

I even enjoyed learning a new skill–installing a Swiftlock wood floor with a vapor barrier underneath. And as I looked at the finished room, with the newly painted taupe-colored walls and fresh trim, the new wheelchair ramp that our friend spend a few hours carefully and meticulously constructing, and the beautiful floor, I thought back over the day and how the Lord’s hand was in it all. I saw the family that uses this home standing around us with a glimmer of hope in their eyes–hope that the physical pain and limitations, the hospital visits, and the daily frustrations will somehow be made more bearable because of this newly remodeled room to lift their spirits. I think back over how God worked through other people’s hands–people that were not there physically helping us transform this room, but people that were a part of God’s work nonetheless. The manager at Lowe’s who gave us a steep discount on the Swiftlock floor. . .yet another generous manager at a second Lowe’s who bought us the floor trim out of his own money and was ready to give up his Saturday to come help us himself after just meeting us. . .the Grandma’s and Papa’s who babysat all the kids and entertained them for a full day and night in order for the Moms and Dads to work. . .the restaurant owner who provided a free and delicious lunch for all of us. . .the owner’s son who bought us a pizza dinner. . .the grandchildren of the home owners who pitched in and helped paint the front door. . .and God’s favor in that the city dump (which normally costs $30 per truckload) was FREE on the day we needed four loads (this happens once a quarter, and we had no idea when we went). God was there, leading up to this day and during the day. He provided. He encouraged. He uplifted. He enabled. And He showed many people His glory that day, many of whom may have been unbelievers.

The body of Christ in action is a beautiful thing. We could not have completed that room without every single person that contributed to that day, with their unique and God-given spiritual gifts and their willingness to step outside of themselves and help another family. I feel closer to those in our Life Group as a result and I know our lives are changed for the better. I am especially grateful that the Lord allowed me to serve with my husband, as I am now convinced that it is also a beautiful thing to see the one you love serving another human being. It is an experience that I hope we can have together many times over again, and it’s something that I will recommend during those times that we encounter a difficult period in our marriage. . .for I’ve learned this weekend that there really is no better feeling than serving together!

Be Healthy: An Easy Reference Guide

I feel a bit like I’ve stumbled upon a treasure chest full of gold!  I stumbled upon it by way of www.NaturalNews.com, an excellent health website I’ve been visiting lately.  It is called the Honest Food Guide, created by a holistic nutritionist named Mike Adams, a.k.a. “The Health Ranger.”  This is an excellent resource to study, keep in your kitchen, or take to the grocery store with you.  It is a handy reference guide as to what food choices can lead to disease and which ones lead to better health, and why.  The only thing I would add to this chart (and this is my personal opinion and choice) is organic, free-range poultry, which I don’t see on here now, but maybe I missed it. 

I’ve included the thumbnail here, but click to visit the full-sized version. 

More Swine Flu Vaccine News

Although I didn’t intend to write another blog about the swine flu vaccine since I covered it a couple of weeks ago (link here), I came across some interesting news today that I wanted to share.  This is from Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center, who says this:

“If you or your child are injured from getting a flu swine flu shot, you are on your own. Because Congress shielded the vaccine manufacturers and any person giving swine flu shots from lawsuits if people get hurt. There is no funded government vaccine injury compensation program for swine flu vaccine.”

The question is do we trust the government to give us something safe for our bodies and those of our children when there is no recourse–they have no responsibility whatsoever–should anything happen as a result?  Could that affect how carefully (or carelessly) they test the vaccine to begin with?

From the FDA’s website directly:  “Safety and effectiveness of Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Monovalent Vaccine have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers or children less than 4 years of age. (8.1, 8.3, 8.4).”

In addition, if any adverse reactions do occur as a result of this swine flu vaccine, there is a good chance that those reactions will be seen as “coincidences” by federal health officials anyway (see below).  I remember reading about parents who heard those words when their child developed autism or were never the same after receiving their massive doses of  vaccinations.  “It was a coincidence. . .your child would have developed autism anyway. . .it’s just a coincidence that it started within a week of his or her vaccines.”

Fisher addresses this issue:  “But even if there was a funded vaccine injury compensation program - like the one that had to be created by the federal government in 1976 after that year’s swine flu vaccine paralyzed about 500 Americans and killed 25, there is little chance you would be compensated if you or your child does become vaccine injured.  Federal health officials are already pre-emptively warning Americans that most of the deaths and cases of brain inflammation, seizures, paralysis, multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, strokes, heart attacks, miscarriages and other serious health problems that develop after swine flu vaccination will be considered a ‘coincidence’ and not related in any way to the flu shots just given.”

I do not like to speculate as to the motivation behind what people do, but I’ll give you the facts and let you decide from there.

“We are witnessing a roll-out of the largest, most expensive mass vaccination campaign in the history of our nation. A rollout that is bigger than even the polio vaccine campaigns of the 1950’s. . .Swine flu shots are free for most Americans because the government has given $1 billion dollars to pharmaceutical companies to create the new swine flu vaccines and has given another $5 billion dollars to state and federal health agencies to promote and deliver the influenza vaccines to people. That is a lot of money. The push to get vaccinated is like nothing we have ever seen before.” (Fisher)

Let’s not forget that pharmaceutical companies such as those that manufacturer vaccines, are in a business. . .a business for profit. 

“The entire vaccination philosophy now believes that the human immune system is useless and should be hijacked with Big Pharma’s chemicals. It’s ridiculous. Sure, vaccines are warranted in laboratory workers who might be exposed to level-4 infectious agents that could be fatal, but pushing mandatory vaccines on all the children in the nation just to prevent non-fatal infections and winter colds is medical madness.  But it does, of course, earn profits for Big Pharma. And that’s the whole point of the big vaccination push in the first place. It has nothing to do with public health and everything to do with corporate profits” (source).

I can’t pretend that I’m not worried about this swine flu, but I also admit that, as a mother, I am worried about a lot of things with regards to my son.  However, when it is becoming increasingly obvious to me how little I can actually trust the government, there is no chance I can trust them with this vaccine.

An added note:  As I write this, there is a Homeland Security hearing going on regarding the news that came out yesterday that the swine flu vaccine has been slowly distributed and it may not reach all the Americans that want it in time.  This morning on the Fox News Channel, Dr. Marc Siegel pointed out this fact–the government is in charge of the H1N1 vaccine!  Is this a preview of government-run (ineptly) health care?  An excellent article from The Heartland Institute, addressing those concerns, can be found at  http://www.heartland.org/full/26089/H1N1_Vaccine_a_Preview_of_GovernmentRun_Health_Care.html.

For good information about the potential dangers of this vaccine and others, visit www.vactruth.com

Rush Limbaugh: Legitimate Consequences or Smear Campaign?

Rush Limbaugh is no favorite among the Left.  No one is denying that.  But how far will the Left go in order to silence their opposition?  Is that what is happening here in the case of Rush Limbaugh and the NFL?  OR, is this exactly what those involved in this decision say it is–a legitimate consequence for Rush’s alleged racist statements?

Here are some facts and thoughts about it. . .then you can decide. 

To begin with, just who are those that booted him out of the bidding process?

“The plot thickens on the media’s character-lynching of Rush Limbaugh. Of the four stories run on ESPN.com about Limbaugh’s bid for the Rams (October 6, October 12, October 15, and another October 15) none of them mention that NFL Players Association Executive Director DeMaurice Smith served as counsel to Attorney General Eric Holder and was a member of Barack Obama’s transition team.
 
The October 12 article references Smith’s anti-Limbaugh email meant to garner opposition against the radio host’s bid. The report refers to Smith only as the executive director of the NFLPA. Despite the fact that Smith’s opposition was based on Limbaugh’s political commentary, the report failed to mention that Smith’s political connections (including those to whom he donated thousands of dollars) have a vested interest in Limbaugh’s discrediting” (source).

Or how about an opinion piece from the Wall Street Journal:

“What happened here, and is happening elsewhere in American life, is that Mr. Limbaugh’s outspoken political conservatism is being deemed sufficient reason to ostracize him from polite society. By contrast, MSNBC’s Keith Olbermann, who fires off his own brand of high-velocity, left-wing political commentary but lacks Mr. Limbaugh’s sense of humor, appears weekly as co-host of NBC’s “Football Night in America.” We haven’t heard anyone on the right say Mr. Olbermann’s nightly ad-hominem rants should disqualify him from hanging around the NFL. Al Franken made it all the way to the U.S. Senate on a river of political vitriol. . .It is no secret that this country’s politics has become intense across the ideological spectrum. Rush Limbaugh lets his listeners blow off steam and then get on with the rest of their day. But if the people who claim to worry about such things want to see a truly angry right develop in this country, they should continue to remain silent while the left tries to drive Rush Limbaugh and others out of American political life. If that happens, the NFL by comparison will look like an afternoon tea. “

So what are the statements that have disqualified Rush, and are they true?  The comment about Philadelphia Eagles quarterback, Donovan McNabb. . .here is National Review’s Stephen Spruiell:

“In 2007, four years after Rush made his comments, McNabb told HBO’s Bryant Gumbel that, as a black quarterback, he felt pressured to live up to unreasonable expectations. “There’s not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra,” McNabb said. “Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn’t want us to play . . . is low, so we do a little extra.”

McNabb’s analysis is flawed in one respect: Black quarterbacks face more pressure not because people don’t want them to play, but because people — primarily the sports media and the NFL— want a black QB to hurry up and make history by joining the pantheon of the greatest QBs of all time. One will, eventually, but, in the meantime, average-to-good black QBs face unrealistic pressures to be that guy. That says more about the media and the league than it does about the ability of blacks to be great quarterbacks, and Rush said so. Six years later, he’s still being punished for it.”

Spruiell explains how Rush’s comment calls to mind other expectations that the public, the media, or the NFL have had over the years. . .for Dallas Cowboy’s quarterback Tony Romo. . .or even more recently, for once presidential candidate Barack Obama.

And Rush’s alleged comment about slavery?

MSNBC’s host, David Shuster, had something to say about that:

“And Tamron, speaking of influence, we do have an update involving talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the controversy over his effort to help buy an NFL football team. Limbaugh denies he said quote, ‘slavery has its merits,’ it was a quote that appeared on MSNBC this past Monday and Tuesday. MSNBC attributed that quote to a football player who was opposed to Limbaugh’s NFL bid. However, we have been unable to verify that quote independently. So, just to clarify.”

And in Rush’s words:

“Nobody can source it because it wasn’t ever made.  I never said it.  And look at all of these people who are repeating it without checking, and these are the people who tell us that they are the professionals, that they are the ones we should trust to week out what’s garbage and what’s not garbage in the ”sewer,” they say that is the Internet.  They are the sewer!  They are the sewer, and they are in the midst of it. . .These people repeat lies because it fits their already prejudiced agenda.  They are the ones with prejudice and bigotry coursing through their vanes, through their hearts, and through their souls.  They are consumed with jealousy and rage.  They are all liberals — and make no mistake:  That’s what this is about.  It is about ideology.  It isn’t about race.  It’s about their being jealous and attempting to discredit me, and they’ve now sunk to the low of repeating fabricated quotes that they cannot source.”

I have my opinion, and it is found in the Word of God:

^“But realize this, that in the last days difficult times will come.  For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy, unloving, irreconcilable, malicious gossips, without self-control, brutal, haters of good, treacherous, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to a form of godliness, although they have denied its power; Avoid such men as these.  For among them are those who enter into households and captivate weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth“ (2 Timothy 3:1-7).

It’s going to be more difficult in the coming days, years and decades to stand on Truth.  That doesn’t mean we should stop.

Star Parker Does it Again!

Ok, it’s official.  One of my new favorite commentators is Star Parker, and she delivers another excellent, eye-opening article.  In an article entitled, “Outrage over ACORN, but not abortion,” she wrote these observations and truths:

“The ACORN scandal shows that if Congress wants to act, it can.  Within weeks of Fox airing videos of a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute being advised by ACORN ‘community organizers’ on how to evade taxes and set up a prostitution ring, our stalwart Washington legislators voted to cut off federal funds to the organization.  But similar publicized abuses at Planned Parenthood — workers agreeing to cover up rape or earmarking funds to abort black babies — all captured on video and audio — produced no similar action in Washington to cut off funds.”

I had not thought of the disparity between how relatively swiftly ACORN was defunded after corruption and illegal activity was exposed there versus how little outrage was shown or action was taken when corruption and illegal activity was exposed at Planned Parenthood.

She then pans out and makes an observation about our culture in general.

“People all over our country are hurting and we are in widespread denial. A great lie has found its way into our national culture — a lie that has deadened our senses — that we can contend with life’s challenges in a morally relative way.”

And with regard to the health care bills. . .

“If we want to insist that a culture of responsibility means taxing one American to pay for another’s abortion we have a long way to go. But this is where we seem to be today.  C.S. Lewis said ‘pain is God’s megaphone to a deaf world.’ It appears that even today that megaphone is still not big enough.”

Wow!  I think there is nothing more to say.

Balloon Boy Hoopla a Hoax?

When news that 6-year-old Falcon Heene had been found safe and sound after yesterday’s heart-stopping news-making adventure, I was so relieved and thanked the Lord.  I’m sure that many mothers and fathers who were watching could tell you that it was as if they were experiencing this horror with the Heene parents.

What was thought to be a several hours-long flight that could have ended very tragically was simple a vacant, runaway balloon with a scared little boy hiding in an attic.  Every single part of me wants to believe that this is all there is to the story.  But today’s front page shows that there is some speculation as to whether this could have been a hoax.  Could this be the case of a family wanting to make a reality show of their own?

The Heene family is no stranger to reality tv.  They appeared in two episodes of “Wife Swap” and Falcon’s parents were reportedly aspiring actors and filmmakers for quite some time.  I remember thinking yesterday, while all of this was going on, how ironic it was that this was happening to a reality show couple.  What are the odds?  But never in my wildest dreams did it cross my mind that a parent would concoct this story, involve this many helicopters, emergency responders, and media, all the while letting the world think that your son could be in real danger or dead, all for notoriety and money.  I will believe that this family is innocent of any wrongdoing until proven otherwise. . .if only for the fact that my head couldn’t handle the alternative.

Motherhood VII: Measuring Up

Ah, the Comparison Game.  As moms, we are awfully good at it. . .we cower under it or rise up with it. . .we allow it to inflate our egos or deflate our spirits. . .and it can even come between good friends. 

Who doesn’t like the feeling of measuring up to the standards that we set for ourselves, or if reasonable, the ones others set for us?  But when the standards go beyond what God has planned for us or enabled us to do, or the comparison game gets out of control, we find ourselves between a rock and a hard place.  For 4 years I attended a “Moms Group” at my former church.  Every other week, about 50 moms would gather to have breakfast together, listen to a “wise, older woman” share her years of experience with us, and then we would discuss amongst our table members our difficulties and triumphs we were encountering raising our children.

Many times, the speaker, through no fault of her own, would stir up the comparison game within me, or one of the other moms.  How does she bake 3 dozen cookies for her son’s class, volunteer weekly with her daughter’s Girl Scouts Troop, keep a perfectly clean house, scrapbook every moment of her children’s lives, design and sew all the clothes for her family, cook like Rachel Ray, decorate like Martha Stewart, and still have every hair in place and not be wearing sweatpants when her husband comes home from work?  Whew!  Is it humanly possible?  Why am I not measuring up to her?

Or what about the reverse?  Suzie Q next door has only one child and she still can’t seem to get or keep anything together for her family.  They eat out every night, live in a pig-stye, and her child will soon be on America’s Most Wanted.  What is wrong with her?  Can’t she measure up?

Why can’t we fight the urge to compare?  What is it in us that is so tempted to measure ourselves or others against a higher standard, and then either resort to judgmentalism or self-condemnation? 

I think that if God has called us to be mothers, then that calling is something that we feel very deeply in our heart and soul.  We want to be the best at it.  We want the most success and the most achievement for our children.  We want them to be well liked and to love God above all else.  We have high hopes and dreams for them, and therefore, we are extra critical of ourselves when we do the slightest thing that can alter that ideal future for them.  We look at other mothers and wonder why we can’t be as creative, loving, disciplined, organized, or resourceful as they are.  We feel others looking at us (real or imagined) and know they are judging the peanut butter stain on our sweatshirt, the cobwebs in the corners of each room of our house, or the fact that our child just made a scene with his temper tantrum in the play zone at Chick-fil-A.  Or in the areas that we do manage to excel, we may be tempted to look at other moms and wonder why they can’t just get it together. . .like us. 

Can we agree that neither perspective is healthy, godly, or even works?  I’ve seen it tear apart friendships, dishearten an otherwise excellent mother or two, and plant seeds of either pride or insecurity in moms, undermining their ability to really be their best for their children, husbands, and God.

Kay Daigle, in an article entitled, “God’s Design for Life’s Priorities”, says this, “The Proverbs 31 woman was never a favorite of mine! I knew that I could never be as wonderful as she. She does it all: her own business, home, children, husband; she even works out! It was so freeing to me to see that she wasn’t doing all these things every day. I learned that it is her character rather than her activities that transfer from the culture of that day to our own. In that culture a strong woman would live out godliness in the ways listed. However you and your husband choose to fulfill your God-given mandate to work and to raise family (Gen. 1:26-28), your character must parallel hers.”

It’s about character, not activities.  But so often we compare activities, accomplishments and disciplines instead.

But what about those women who really do have great character as well?  Do we then have the right to compare ourselves to them?  Is it even beneficial?

Three things come to mind:

1.  The majority of us put our best foot forward when it comes to what others see (except with best friends and husbands maybe).  It’s our human nature.

2.  BUT, we all have “messy things.”  ALL.  “For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God” (Romans 3:23).  We aren’t perfect and will never be in this lifetime.

3.  This means that there is likely to be a range of one “messy thing” to a whole bunch of “messy things” about others that we don’t see when we are comparing.  Keep this in mind the next time you are tempted to assume “this other mother” is better than you.

As mothers, we can be an incredible support to each other.  We can uplift, love, and value another mom with the power of our words and actions.  Let’s commit to making that happen.  It is not our place to judge, and when we compare, we are either judging ourselves or each other.  “Do not judge or you too will be judged” (Matthew 7:1) and “I choose the appointed time; it is I who judge uprightly,” God says in Psalm 75:2.  We shouldn’t judge.  We don’t do it right and we shouldn’t assume that position in the first place.

As mothers, we can also fall into the trap (of the Enemy, no doubt) of comparing ourselves with someone who “looks more the part” of the perfect mother and wife.  That is dangerous and destructive territory.  God has given you a high calling, and when we put other human beings on a pedestal, we are just asking to either be gravely disappointed in ourselves day after day or disillusioned once you find out that the “pedestaled” mom is only human too.  (And yes, I know that’s not a word, but you get the idea.)

I don’t know about you, but I can only handle what God has called me to do and be for this one day. . .until tomorrow rolls around and he calls me to do something else and gives me the strength to do it then.  I’ve got to keep my focus on that. . .on Him.  Most of us can see the error of the “keeping up with the Jones” argument, can’t we?  It’s fruitless, meaningless, and exhausting.  Can we see that The Comparison Game among moms is no different?  Let’s commit to being women of godly character and throw the comparisons out the window!  Let’s commit to being the best moms and wives that we can be, and give ourselves a little grace when we go to bed with dishes in the sink or our children un-bathed.  Let’s fix our eyes on Jesus, “the author and perfecter of our faith” (Hebrews 12:2) and not on other moms!  He is our standard, not them.  Let’s answer the high calling God has given us and not let comparisons or judgments derail us!

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Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize

So President Obama is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.  Too fast?  On grounds that are not convincing?  Embarrassment?

Author and scholar Judith Miller says, “The decision to award Barack Obama the Nobel Prize rewards him for not being George W. Bush and for his aspirations rather than his achievements, his promise rather than his performance.”  I could not agree more.

I’m curious though.  Will this affect his decision about whether to honor General McCrystal’s request for more troops in Afghanistan or will he continue to hem and haw, vacillating between the far-left wing of his party and the General’s informed opinion?  Ms. Miller goes on to say, “The Nobel committe chairman readily acknowledged that he hoped the prize would encourage Obama’s ‘emphasis on negotiations’ in resolving that conflict, too.”

Hmm.  Interesting.  Manipulative?  Presumptive?  How will Obama respond?

Allan Lichtman, American University history professor, says this in an article by Joshua Rhett Miller, “his [Obama's] liberal base will be pushing him to live up to this” and “this [Nobel Peace Prize] was to encourage rather than to recognize an accomplished fact.”

Will President Obama continue trying to get the whole world (enemies, terrorists, unhinged irrational people) to sit down and have tea with us or will he realize that there are people with evil intent out there that want to kill us and kill us brutally and there is no way around that?  What will look like peace on the outside will be registered to terrorists as, “Wow, look at how weak (and foolishly trusting) this country is.  We can take ‘em!” 

Will he continue to be a puppet for the fascists, socialists, and pacifists of the world?  I’d take mean ol’ President Bush who had the guts to stand up to terrorist ideologies anyday.  I want to stay safe.  I want the world to respect us.  Anyone who thinks the world respects us more when we eliminate any perception of strength is mistaken.

What President Obama is being awarded for is seen by many of us as ignorant and idealistic at best, and reckless, foolish, and dangerous at worst.

Health Care Reform. . .It’s Getting Really Serious

Ok, I’m getting really scared here.  Even with 50% of the nation disapproving of the President’s health care proposals, there is talk that this health care reform including  a public option could pass as early as next week, with or without Republican support.  I’m just not quite sure enough people really and truly understand just how drastically this free country could (and will) change with this simple bill.  

Newt Gingrich has an excellent article at HumanEvents.com in which he outlines 8 contradictions between what is currently in the health care bill and what President Obama has promised not to do to the American people.  Although I have such trouble understanding the mindset of one who wants to turn over more of more of their life, freedom, money, constitutional rights, opportunities, and dreams over to a government that is widely believed to be inept at nearly everything they try to do, I won’t begrudge those that are coming from the mindset that we ought to love “the least of these” and take care of those who cannot take care of themselves.  I just happen to believe that there are many other ways to do that other than those that President Obama and Congress have devised.

The House GOP Study Committee has come up with nearly 30 alternatives that have gotten little to no attention from the President or the media.  There include some issues that, I believe, can be agreed upon without an entire takeover of the health care system.  I’ve heard it before, but I’ll say it too:  Why throw out the baby with the bathwater?  The United States has the best health care in the world. . .yes, it is broken in some areas. . .but Scott Rasmussen reports that “80% of those with insurance rate their own coverage as good or excellent.”  Why throw out the whole system–and don’t be fooled, that’s what President Obama is doing long-term–when we can just tweak the areas that need fixing?

And for those who are staunch pro-lifers like myself, it should be equally disconcerting that as of now there are no ammendments to the House or Senate health care bills that EXCLUDE abortion as being funded by tax-payers.  All were shot down by the democrats, including one by Senator Orrin Hatch and one by Senator Jon Kyl.  In fact, Baucus’ bill specifically includes abortion.  As for HR 3200, we know that what is not specifically excluded can be assumed to be included.

This is getting very serious, and in order to protect our nation’s freedom and protect the precious unborn, we need to get informed and support reform, yes, but not one that bankrupts our country, hands over our economy even more to corrupt government, and includes using our hard-earned money to fund the killing of babies.

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