Ain't Complicated

The Best Eraser

Not Pink Pearl. Not…well, I don’t remember any other brands. But that’s OK since this is about God’s eraser.

I read the print version of Our Daily Bread this morning and was blessed.

So I looked up the online version and present to you the closing portion thereof:

You may not be able to forget your past. But the Lord offers to blot out, “like a thick cloud, your transgressions” (Isa. 44:22). — M.R. De Haan

The deep remorse that’s in the soul
No human eye may trace;
But Jesus sees the broken heart,
And can its woes erase. —Bosch

The best eraser is honest confession to God.

Another Woman

I’m not a woman, so I can’t make a difference for another woman’s heart.

OK, that clarification aside, a four-frame picture story….

Cheerios: Another woman's heart

Cheerios: Donation code inside

Cheerios: $1 donation code used by Mark Roth

I’m waiting and waiting for www.cheerioshelpinghearts.com to finish loading so I “can make a difference for another woman’s heart.”

still waiting….

I see now it’s a Flash page. I’m on a very slow (31.2 Kbps) dial-up connection. Sorry, no $1 donation for free cholesterol screening this morning.

I was anticipating feeling like a politician — giving away someone else’s money. 😯

On the other hand, politicians get paid to give away others’ money. 🙄

Thankfully, it’s Sunday so I can plan to put some offering money in the collection plate later this morning.

Today’s Featured Post Office

Here’s a scan of the upper right corner of a letter we got from a customer:

I guess we should move to Eugene, Oregon. Imagine how much money we could save on postage! (Last year we spent over $23,000 in postage.)

Alas, I don’t know which Post Office in Eugene so generously postmarked the stamp-less letter. 😆

Whichever it is, “Hip hip hooray for the USPS!”

😀

One of These Times…

…a report like this will end up being accurate:

Israel stands ready to bomb Iran’s nuclear sites

The Israeli military is preparing itself to launch a massive aerial assault on Iran’s nuclear facilities within days of being given the go-ahead by its new government.

Days?

I doubt that much time would elapse.

Tightening the Border

A week from this morning is scheduled to be my first morning in Mexico in almost a year.

So this headline just caught my attention: Dozen die in Mexico clash ahead of Obama trip

I clicked it to see where the latest mayhem happened and where President Barack Obama is planning to go.

In my quick scan (which answered both of my original questions), I saw this:

The Obama administration is tightening the U.S.-Mexico border

Good deal. Maybe that will slow down the illegal flow (of drugs and “undocumented workers”) northward.

But the sentence continues:

to prevent trafficking of U.S. guns to Mexican cartels

Oh.

(Over) Collection Agency?

In yesterday’s news from the New York Times…

Officials Say U.S. Wiretaps Exceeded Law

The National Security Agency intercepted private e-mail messages and phone calls of Americans in recent months on a scale that went beyond the broad legal limits established by Congress last year, government officials said in recent interviews.

Several intelligence officials, as well as lawyers briefed about the matter, said the N.S.A. had been engaged in “overcollection” of domestic communications of Americans. They described the practice as significant and systemic, although one official said it was believed to have been unintentional.

But despite my repeated warnings on this blog, you continue to discuss all manner of stuff via email and phone. Don’t you?! Yeah, I thought so.

I, too.

“I don’t have anything to hide,” is such a lame defense or explanation or boast or whatever it is.

If you have nothing to hide, you shouldn’t mind telling me anything and everything about yourself. 😆

Is Texas Too Big to Fail?

Drudge is reporting:

Gov. Rick Perry joined state Rep. Brandon Creighton and sponsors of House Concurrent Resolution HCR 50 in support of states’ rights under the 10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

:I believe that our federal government has become oppressive in its size, its intrusion into the lives of our citizens, and its interference with the affairs of our state,” Gov. Perry said. “That is why I am here today to express my unwavering support for efforts all across our country to reaffirm the states’ rights affirmed by the Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. I believe that returning to the letter and spirit of the U.S. Constitution and its essential 10th Amendment will free our state from undue regulations, and ultimately strengthen our Union.”

Perry continued: “Millions of Texans are tired of Washington, DC trying to come down here to tell us how to run Texas.”

A number of recent federal proposals are not within the scope of the federal government’s constitutionally designated powers and impede the states’ right to govern themselves. HCR 50 affirms that Texas claims sovereignty under the 10th Amendment over all powers not otherwise granted to the federal government.

It also designates that all compulsory federal legislation that requires states to comply under threat of civil or criminal penalties, or that requires states to pass legislation or lose federal funding, be prohibited or repealed.

Well, what does the 10th Amendment say?

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.