Federal government to stop printing nautical charts | Fox News

Federal government to stop printing nautical charts | Fox News: "Nowadays, most people instead use the on-demand maps printed by private shops, which are more up-to-date and accurate, Smith said.

Still, NOAA sells about 60,000 of the old 4-by-3-foot lithographic maps each year for about $20 apiece, the same amount it costs to print them."

White House national security aide fired for Twitter account that criticized administration | Fox News

White House national security aide fired for Twitter account that criticized administration | Fox News: "A White House national security official has been fired for running a Twitter account that was harshly critical of the Obama administration.

Jofi Joseph served as non-proliferation director at the National Security Council and was involved in nuclear negotiations with Iran."

Free speech? Tolerance?

Debt Ceiling Deal: DC Wins, Americans Lose - Campaign for Liberty

Debt Ceiling Deal: DC Wins, Americans Lose - Campaign for Liberty: "Instead of setting a new debt ceiling, it simply “suspended” the debt ceiling until February. This gives the administration a blank check to run up as much debt as it pleases from now until February 7th. Congress can “disapprove” the debt ceiling suspension, but only if it passes a resolution of disapproval by a two-thirds majority."

Debt-Ceiling Deal: Overlooking the Real Problem - Campaign for Liberty

Debt-Ceiling Deal: Overlooking the Real Problem - Campaign for Liberty: "all Republicans got from the deal is a promise the Obama administration will obey the law"

Five Lessons from the Shutdown | Cato Institute

Five Lessons from the Shutdown | Cato Institute: "Greece is on life support by international aid and with little hope for the future.

Now ask yourself a rhetorical question. Wouldn’t it have been preferable if there was some sort of mechanism, say, fifteen years ago that would have enabled some lawmakers to throw sand in the gears so that the government couldn’t issue any more debt?"

"Instead of debating how to expand government or how to raise taxes, we had a battle over Obamacare."

Breastfeeding Mo. mom facing penalties for bringing son who doesn't take bottle to jury duty | Fox News

Breastfeeding Mo. mom facing penalties for bringing son who doesn't take bottle to jury duty | Fox News: "But when she showed up in September, she brought along her son, Axel, hoping the judge would grant an exemption. Instead she received a court order saying she "willfully and contemptuously appeared for jury service with her child and no one to care for the child."

Jackson County Presiding Judge Marco Roldan declined to discuss Trickle's case, but he said breastfeeding mothers can pump or nurse on breaks or bring someone along to care for their children when serving as jurors."

Save the Knives for ObamaCare: Four Ways to Actually Defund the ACA | Cato Institute

Save the Knives for ObamaCare: Four Ways to Actually Defund the ACA | Cato Institute: "The 34 states that have refused to establish Exchanges can actually block the IRS’s illegal ObamaCare taxes legislatively by suspending the licenses of insurers that accept the illegal subsidies. Since no insurer would then accept one, not a single employer in the state could be hit with the employer-mandate penalties those subsidies trigger."

"the IRS did almost no analysis of the law before deciding to tax, borrow, and spend $700 billion without congressional authorization"

Quotes

Honor is better than honors. - Abraham Lincoln

Lottery: A tax on people who are bad at math. - Ambrose Bierce

One man with courage is a majority. -- President Thomas Jefferson

If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.

When an old person dies, a library is lost. - Tommy Swann

Living on Earth is expensive, but it includes a free trip around the sun

The farmer allows walkers to cross the field for free, but the bull charges.

Life Doesn't Come With An Instruction Book - That's Why We Have Fathers. - An Anonymous Dad

Live in such a way that you would not be ashamed to sell your parrot to the town gossip. - Will Rogers

Men will spend their health getting wealth; then gladly pay all they have earned to get health back. - Mike Murdock

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. - Thomas Jefferson

Why is it that when we talk to God we're said to be praying, but when God talks to us we're schizophrenic? - Lily Tomlin

A child is not likely to find a father in God unless he finds something of God in his father. - Glen Wheeler

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. - Mark Twain

Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. -- President John Quincy Adams

"Nothing is gained, everything is lost, by subordinating principle to expediency. -- William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist newspaper editor, 1805-1879

Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves, and, under a just God, cannot long retain it. - President Abraham Lincoln, from a letter, 1859

Did you know that dolphins are so intelligent that within only a few weeks of captivity, they can train humans to stand at the edge of the pool and throw them fish?

bumper sticker: Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive.

Let the refining and improving of your own life keep you so busy that you have little time to criticize others. - A wise Dad

Most of us spend the first six days of the week sowing wild oats, then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure. - Fred Allen

Quit griping about your church; if it were perfect, you couldn't belong. - Msgr. Joseph P. Dooley, Martins Creek, Pennsylvania

If a church wants a better pastor, it can get one by praying for the one it has. - Rev. Robert E. Harris

Every evening I turn my troubles over to God - He's going to be up all night anyway. - Donald J. Morgan, Columbus, Ohio

I don't know why some people change churches - what difference does it make which one you stay home from? - Rev. Denny Brake

Young man, the secret of my success is that at an early age I discovered I was not God. - Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed up and permanently set. - Rev. Denny Brake

For many little girls, life with father is a dress rehearsal for love and marriage. - David Jeremiah

Happy is the child who happens in upon his parent from time to time to see him on his knees; or going aside regularly, to keep times with the lord.- Larry Christenson

O, Lord... Build me a son whoes heart will be clear, whose goal will be high, a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past. - General Douglas MacArthur

A young successful attorney said: The greatest gift I ever received was a gift I got one Christmas when my dad gave me a small box. Inside was a note saying, "Son, this year I will give you 365 hours, an hour every day after dinner." My dad not only kept his promise, he said, but every year he renewed it and it's the greatest gift I ever had in my life. I am the result of his time.

Every human being on this planet has someone who s/he disagrees with -- a spouse, a parent, a child, a boss, an employee. It is amazing that a parent can walk into a teenager's room, blow his top about the messiness of the room, the irresponsibility of the child, the impossibility of finding anything, the health hazards and the lack of consideration for others -- and expect his child to say, "Gee, Dad, I never thought of that before; thank you for pointing it out. I am definitely going to change!" When that doesn't happen, the parent often figures that maybe next time if he yells just a little bit louder, the message will get through. (Insanity is defined as doing the same thing and expecting different results.) - Rabbi Kalman Packouz

"Why, it appears that we appointed all of our worst generals to command the armies and we appointed all of our best generals to edit the newspapers. I mean, I found by reading a newspaper that these editor generals saw all of the defects plainly from the start but didn't tell me until it was too late. I'm willing to yield my place to these best generals and I'll do my best for the cause by editing a newspaper." -- Robert E. Lee

Mrs. Whittle on April 14th, 1996

I got parts of this poem from Mrs. Whittle on April 14th, 1996

You will not see the true light,
You will not sit at God's throne,
Without the cross in your sight,
with your heart, not as a drone.

Listen to the true call.
The call of God the Son.
Prick your ears up straight and tall.
Leave your ways and after him run.

Heart Road

There were Old when there were New.
The Old are No More and the New are Old.
Now the New are gone as the dew,
And you will be old and cold.

No No More old only ever more.
Some No More have more that some.
Some No More serve ever under the roar,
And some serve sver under the Son

You the New and you the Old,
Come and pore over your sore.
Will you recieve the ever Son cold?
Will you reign forever more?

Follow the Son, righteous and bold.
Start when new before you're stone.
Tis not easy to change when old.
Habits when new harden like bone.

Grow and learn.  Prolong your life.
Wisdom and understanding seek.
Read the Word and meditate.
You will learn the way of the meek.

Pity the Poor and walk upright.
Ear hear and hand keep the law.
Rejoice for glory in God's sight.
You will honor your Ma and Pa.

Confess and forsake thy sin.
Always fear the wrath of God.
Covet not of thy friend or kin.
Happy and saved from the rod.

No More will you graduate.
Eternal joy at his face.
Eternity is not fate.
You have fought and won the race.


    This is the first poem that I can remember every writing, so 
please tell me what you think.  I wrote it on Thursday night, April
12, 1996.  If you didn't get much out of it, some notes on it follow.


** Law of Death
There were Old when there were New.
 In the past there were old people and new(young) people
The Old are No More and the New are Old.
 The old people are dead(No More) and the new people are old
Now the New are gone as the dew,
 Now the people that were new are dead
And you will be old and cold.
 You too will follow their footsteps and become old and die

** Afterlife
No No More old only ever more.
 Once dead, people don't grow old, but their spirit is eternal
Some No More have more that some.
 Some dead are better off that others
Some No More serve ever under the roar,
 Some dead are under the roar of the lion(Satan) for eternity
And some serve sver under the Son
 Some serve under the Son of God for eternity

** Question
You the New and you the Old,
 You who are old and you who are young
Come and pore over your sore.
 Think about your sin and it's effect
Will you recieve the ever Son cold?
 Will you coldly recieve the Son of God?
Will you reign forever more?
 Will you reign with the Son for all eternity

** Answer
Follow the Son, righteous and bold.
 Follow the Son of God with righteousness and boldness
Start when new before you're stone.
 Start when you are young before you are set in your ways
Tis not easy to change when old.
 It isn't easy to change your ways when you are old
Habits when new harden like bone.
 Habits that you form when you are young will stay with you

 It is now assumed that you have followed the Son

** School
Grow and learn.  Prolong your life.
Wisdom and understanding seek.
 Seek wisdom and understanding
Read the Word and meditate.
 Read the word of God and meditate on it
You will learn the way of the meek.

** Public Life
Pity the Poor and walk upright.
Ear hear and hand keep the law.
 Listen to the law of God and the law of the land and do them
Rejoice for glory in God's sight.
You will honor your Ma and Pa.

** Private Life
Confess and forsake thy sin.
 Confess and stop your sin
Always fear the wrath of God.
Covet not of thy friend or kin.
 Don't try to get the posessions of others
Happy and saved from the rod.
 You will be happy and you won't be punished

** Your reward
No More will you graduate.
 When you die, you will graduate from your physical body
Eternal joy at his face.
 You will have eternal joy in God's presence
Eternity is not fate.
 What happens to you in eternity is not determined by fate
 It is determined by what you do now
You have fought and won the race.
 (I'll leave the last line up to you)