Adult vs. Embryonic Stem Cells

Do you know the difference?

If you want to engage in intelligent conversation regarding Stem Cell Research, some very sound information can be optained at the site below. Just copy and paste the link to your browser.

http://www.stemcellresearchfacts.com/index.html

Woo Hoo!

It's been a LONG time since $25 would fill my gas tank!

Did you ever think we would be excited about paying $2.45 a gallon?

Why pray when you can worry?

For more on the Christian's Response to the Financial Crisis, there is a good article written by the Publisher of Charisma Magazine, Steve Strang. Copy and paste the link below to your Web Browser to read it:

http://www.strangreport.com/2008/10/christian-response-to-financial-crisis.html

Gramma's Dilemna

What do you do when you go from zero to six grandchildren in 2 1/2 yrs? After all, Christmas is coming!

The answer: MOM TO MOM SALES!

It is so hard not to go crazy here, but when you can buy 7 new or almost new outfits including a new Falls Creek winter coat all for only $24, how can you pass it up?

MOM 2 MOM has my vote!

Don't you just love the Internet?!

I mean you can find ANYTHING!

I remember one time being with a group of girlfriends in Shipshewanna where we had an authentic Amish meal in the home of one of the locals. The host was a story teller and proceeded to tell us some story about a farmer and a chicken. While he was telling the story, he was playing with a napkin (or maybe it was a towel); anyway, by the time he was done telling the story, he had folded the napkin in such a way that it looked like a chicken! Pretty funny (or maybe you had to have been there!)

Sooooooo, a few years later, when I was having a dinner for the friends who helped me move into my Condo, I remembered the story and wanted to dazzle my guests, and well, that's right - I went to the Internet, and guess what I found?!!
(Oh, you're so smart) I not only found the instructions on folding the napkin, but also the farmers story!






The Internet - a highway of knowledge indeed!

Is it back?............

I have spent the last week mourning the passing of summer sandals and capris; frowning over having to turn my furnace pilot light on; and pouting over having to wear the fall jacket.


Now, low and behold - the Sun!



Warm temps ahead! Happy, happy, joy, joy! :) I see a weekend of skating and bikeriding coming on!



Yes, I love fall and even snow (sometimes), but don't you just sometimes want to see summer last forever?

...isn't LIFE the most important thing?

Do you recall when I first stepped up on my soapbox over moral issues? (sure you do!)

Well, this was just sent to me today, and it's powerful! (Don't forget to turn on your speakers):

http://www.catholicvote.com/

We may all be from different denominations, but we all have the same moral responsibility, and I haven't seen anyone say it better yet. (Notice they don't tell them HOW to vote, but they sure do get their message across regarding their RESPONSIBILITY to vote.)

Wolf in sheep's clothing?

I got another one of those emails today claiming evidence that Obama is hiding the fact that he is Muslim. I am not one to forward emails without at least checking them out, and there was a reference to an article written in the Washington Post that does appear to back it up.
Here's my quandary, and I will pose a question to the reader: If you were Jewish, could you "accidently" slip and call your self Christian? Or, let's say you are Christian - would it be likely that you would "accidently" refer to yourself as Muslim? Let's see what Obama had to say - Heres the article:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2008/sep/07/obama-verbal-slip-fuels-his-critics/

Well, if you noticed at the end of the article, there was a link to go to the live interview where it looks like the statement was taken out of context - but you be the judge. The man's history and connections still scare me!

And, just for grins, as a Christian, would it take you nearly 20 yrs., or finally some pressure from the media for you to recognize that your 'Pastor' has had a long history of "inflammatory rhetoric," before you would finally seperate yourself from him and his church? Could it be that he was only 'using' the Christian church as a smokescreen? Just a thought......................or is it?

Back to Larry, Barry & Gary

O.k., I've been asked when I will reveal the answer to this one, so here it is (even though I think you all made the 'obvious guess' seeing as how you didn't tell me how you arrived at your answers - but that's O.K., it's all in fun!)

What he essentially said to the waiter was: "If Larry ordered the same thing as Gary, I'll have steak." Since Larry ordered steak and Gary ordered fish, Harry does not get steak.

On the lighter side.....Photo challenge

So I gave the three mothers of my grandchildren a challenge to take some photos of the babies at bathtime because Gramma needs pictures to put on the shelf in her newly decorated bathroom.
Here is the first................and, for now I have to say 'the only' entry so far.



Isn't little Gracie adorable?

Just one more thing.........

Why is it that the current Administration always gets blamed for the present problems we are having in this country? Aren't any of us smarter than a 5th Grader?

Here is something that came in through the AFA (American Family Association):
In an Article published in the New York Times on Sept. 3, 1999 regarding Fannie Mae (the nation's biggest underwriter of home mortgages), it states that they were "under increasing pressure from the Clinton Administration to expand mortgage loans among low and moderate income people". And, goes on the warn that in "this new area of lending, Fannie Mae is taking on significantly more risk, which may not pose any difficulties during flush economic times. But the government-subsidized corporation may run into trouble in an economic downturn, prompting a government rescue similar to that of the savings and loan industry in the 1980's."

Doesn't this sound like the current Administration is more correctly slated as the mess-fixer for lack of a better term?

And, why then are things like this not getting mentioned by the media who is supposedly all about reporting the facts?

And, hey, don't you love 'freedom of speech' when it's you that gets to express your opinion? Hee! Hee! Just a thought......

If you are interested in reading the article in it's entirity, here is the web address: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE7DB153EF933A0575AC0A96F958260&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink