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I don't have to rant on this blog about the state of our country, and i'm not going to. I will say this.  I know that the solution is not in political campaigns.  Political campaigns, without God, will fail to bring new hope (the real kind of hope) to our nation. Today, i read something from our old pal, Glenn Beck. He has asked his viewers/listeners/fans to make a 40 days/40nights covenant to do a short list of items.  The first item on the list is prayer and reconciliation with God.  Please read this link.  It's not very long.  And add to your prayers, Glenn Beck.  Thousands of people are listening to him.  Let his words be from God. Glenn Beck's Pledge I can't not support a public figure who is asking the nation to pray.

Yesterday, following a full day wherein President Obama made his picks for the Final Four and then visited some manufacturers of "greener" cars, the president made an appearance on The Tonight Show, with Jay Leno. President Obama didn't say anything particularly new or different, and he was actually quite funny a couple of times. Too bad he's the president and not a public entertainer. Let me just say - this is the first thing - that public appearances are fine, and it's nice to let the nation see that you're a nice guy, but if you're the president of the United States of America, and your country is facing a potential depression, i would personally like to know that you are in meetings in deep dark corners of the white house at least 20 hours of the day, discussing and searching to find a real solution for the problems that have been caused BY THE GOVERNMENT. That was the first thing. The second thing is that i think that all the president's big pu...

Yesterday was the We Surround Them event i told you about. I watched it, and i was pleased with how it turned out. The pictures that were sent in to the show were thousands. They didn't say how many came in. What they did say is that onslaught of pictures being submitted shut down the FoxNews server FIVE TIMES and that the mosaic you can see here is made up of about ONE TENTH of the pictures that came in. The show was simple, not dramatic. But it was touching and impactful to me. First, i have great respect Glenn Beck. It seems to me that it takes great courage to be someone who works for a news network (Fox or not) to stand up on national television and do something honest and forthwright and transparent. To say, "i love this country, and i fear for it," and to make the appeal to the nation to pull together and talk about what's happening and what can be done. Basically, that's what he did. He said that when it comes down to it, faith in God is the most ...

Yesterday afternoon, i was multi-tasking with Glenn Beck on the t.v. while i was cleaning the kitchen. And i had just kind of stopped paying attention when Glenn said his next guest was Jeff Foxworthy. No offense to Jeff Foxworthy, but i didn't think he would have anything beneficial to say about politics; i figured he was there for comic relief. Anyway, the room got quiet at one point, and i heard a few words in Jeff Foxworthy's voice that made me think i had fallen into the twilight zone. The show went off just then, or something else required my attention, so i went online later to see if i could find out what he said. Here are some snippets from Jeff Foxworthy in a radio interview with Glenn Beck: Well, and we weren't intended to live that way. You know, I say to people, you know, if you look at a microwave oven, well, somebody created that, and when they created it and planned it and designed it, they had a purpose in mind for it. And the same thing with a coffee mu...

Usually a couple of times a week, i tune into a guy named Glenn Beck. I'm becoming a fan of Glenn because he wants people to use their voices to stand together for the principles they/we stand for. Glenn started a campaign a little while back, which i didn't really understand at first. It's called "We Surround Them." He finally explained it this way. He says there are probably only about 30% of the people in the United States who are die-hard, Republican or Democrat without regard for values and conscience. That leaves the 70% of us who believe in values more than political party. So we need to realize that there are more of us than there are of them. Them being the people who will willingly drive our nation into the ground for the sake of greed or pride or political standing. Glenn outlined 9 principles. He says that if you believe in 7 of the 9, that you are among the "we" that surrounds the "them." The Nine Principles 1. America is...