Israel’s Prime Minister Ehud Olmert gave President Bush an Israeli made bicycle during his visit to Israel this past week.
Today, when President Bush asked the Saudi’s to increase oil production to help bring the price of a barrel of oil go down. he was told respectfully, “no”…maybe not that bluntly, maybe not that directly but the result is still “NO”.
Perhaps the Israeli bike is the new look for the Presidential motorcade?
Thanks Mr. President for once again taking the lead. One thing, next time you count on the Saudi’s because they are your friend, remember they are not really the friend of the rest of America.
Interesting article in today’s Seattle Times about young evangelicals who used to be solidly behind the GOP breaking ranks for this upcoming election…according to a Pew Report sited in the article they are not all flocking to the Democrats either…so where do they land?
I about fell out of my chair laughing at Amy Poehler opening monologue on SNL last night.
You should know that Amy is one of the founders of Upright Citizens Brigade which is one of the best Improv and Sketch Comedy groups in the United States.
Mat 5:7 God blesses those people who are merciful. They will be treated with mercy!
One of President Abraham Lincoln’s associates scolded him rather severely for being soft on his enemies. “Why do you insist on trying to make friends of them?” he chided. “You should be trying to destroy them.”
To which Lincoln replied gently, “Am I not destroying my enemies when I make them my friends?” In speaking of those who were his enemies during the Civil War, Lincoln is reported to have said, “Insane as it may seem, I hold malice toward none of them. I have neither the time nor the energy in this life to hold that kind of resentment.”
It’s Easter weekend and I’m once again reminded and challenged to TRY and live my life as an example of Christ among us. It isn’t easy, not for me and I imagine not for anyone, regardless of what they will tell you or even what you will tell yourself.
Few things can touch a persons heart, mind and spirit like a song. Over the last 10 years or so I have lost hope for the power of a song. That was until I heard the song “Forgiveness” by Peter Katz.
Listen to FORGIVENESS by Peter Katz by clicking HERE.
Here are the words to the song Forgiveness by Peter Katz
You ask me to explain it
Well there’s everything and nothing to say
Some things they happen
And once they do they never go away
They tell you that this life is eye for eye
Well man you know I think that’s all a lie
Oh I will not stoke the fire of this fight, when I know it isn’t right
So I guess I’m going to have to try forgiveness
‘Cause man you know that’s all that I’ve got left
My boy did not deserve this, but neither do the rest
I guess I’m going to have to try forgiveness
You can call me a coward
Call me whatever you chose
Once you could have hurt me
But now, I’ve nothing left to lose
Go on and spite me ’cause I will not curse his name
Tell me though I’m broken, I am to blame
Well go on, but I won’t participate, in spreading all this hate
So I guess I’m going to have to try forgiveness
‘Cause man you know that’s all that I’ve got left
My boy did not deserve this, but neither do the rest
I guess I’m going to have to try forgiveness
They shot at me for speaking out against this tired war
Said “How can you lose one life and not demand one more?”
Well what good will it do us in the end?
There’s nothing that should justify revenge
And I stand now here before you
Living out the hardest test
And still I swear the only answer is: ?forgiveness
Forgiveness
Forgiveness
Oh you know we’ve got to try forgiveness
‘Cause man you know it’s all that we’ve got left
Our boys and girls are watching and they’ve put us to the test
Come let’s show them forgiveness
Forgiveness
So Ron Paul has put together a team of people who are undoubtedly the envy of every other candidate running for President in 2008. Now he has all this money and yet he can’t get included in the national debates coming up on FoxNews and ABC. What gives?
I honestly don’t know too much about the guy other than he has been tearing up the Internet with his grassroots attack on YouTube, FaceBook, MySpace and the like.
He has raised almost as much money as Hillary Rodham Clinton for his Presidential bid and has accessed more funds than any of his GOP counterparts but how has he done it? THE INTERNET.
The question remains will the people who give him 30 and 50 dollars here and there through the Internet show up and actually vote? Polls by national news organizations suggest that he only has a following of 3% - 9% around the country. A decent showing to get some ideas heard but nothing to be too concerned about.
