A Letter from Mike Huckabee-JUST SAY NO- Please Sign the Petition, if you live in Nebraska-go to the Rally

I just got this from Mike Huckabee-there is still time-please save our country from this outrageous bill, I personally am opposed to federal government paying for abortions, paying for illeagals healthcare, the government being in charge of my health and telling everyone that they must buy into this or be fined or jailed--If you are opposed to this health bill ( and I do agree we need health reform-but not this bill that was mostly drafted behind closed doors and against what the majority of what We The People want) please sign this petition, and if you live in Nebraska-please show your support and go to Nebraska.

I am sorry to send you this email so late this evening but things are moving quickly and I need your help to stop the Senate Health Care bill.

First, in case you haven't heard, Nebraska Democrat, Senator Ben Nelson has caved in his opposition to the Senate Health Care bill. Nelson's surrender paves the way for Senate passage of the bill sometime this week. Tomorrow morning I am headed to Omaha, Nebraska to headline a rally later in the day demanding Senator Nelson switch his vote back to NO.

The rally will be held at the Omaha Music Hall, 17th and Capitol. Doors open at 2 PM. Rally starts at 3 PM.

Other participants will include Congressman Terry, Auditor Foley, Senators McCoy, Fulton, Krist, Price and Lautenbaugh.

RSVP to kurt.hammond@afphq.org

If you live nearby or have friends or family that do, please tell them about the rally.

I am sending this email to my entire list and I know that most of you reading it do not live anywhere near Omaha but are fighting mad about this and want to do something.
Here is an immediate way to help.

Tomorrow when I attend the rally I want to be able to say to everyone there that overnight 25,000 Americans signed my petition to Senator Nelson asking him to JUST SAY NO and that they are standing together with everyone at the rally. My hope is that we will collect a total of 100,000 signatures before the final Senate vote.

Will you sign this petition now? And then forward this email to your contacts list and ask them to do the same?

Help me collect 25,000 signatures overnight. I will post updates from tomorrow from Nebraska at www.huckpac.com. In the meantime, please sign my petition today.

Fighting to stop Obama-care,

Mike Huckabee

Oppose the Managers Amendment

I regret to inform you that this morning the last pro-life Democratic holdout in the Senate, Ben Nelson (D-NE), publicly caved in to a "pro-life compromise" authored by Bob Casey (D-PA) and Harry Reid (D-NV).

This so-called "pro-life compromise" dresses up taxpayer funding of abortions with more fancy language, more conscience protections, and more federal funding for assistance to teenagers who are pregnant. The "compromise" also forces all states to carry a health care plan that does not offer abortion coverage and allows the states to "opt out" of having to carry a plan that covers abortion funding.

Tell your Senators that you reject this so-called "pro-life compromise."

Unfortunately, the citizens of any state that "opts out" will not be exempt from paying federal taxes, which will be used to fund plans that cover abortions in other states. This compromise forces you and me, no matter what state we live in, to fund abortions, and SBA List utterly rejects it.

Harry Reid intends to offer this "pro-life compromise" on the floor of the Senate within a larger Manager's Amendment designed to pick up all the votes he needs to pass health care reform. This Manager's Amendment also includes abortion funding to the Indian Health Services Program. Harry Reid could not pass the bill that funds abortions on Indian Reservations on its own because of its unpopularity, so he is sneaking it into the Manager's Amendment.

Urge your Senators to oppose this Manager's Amendment.

If Harry Reid passes this Manager's Amendment, he will have cleared the way to pass the bill through the Senate. We need to fight this bill every step of the away.

Sincerely,

Emily Buchanan
Executive Director, Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org

It's Not too late to defeat this Health Care Bill-call your senators tomorrow-its too important not to

The Democrats continue to push their health care scheme. They continue to craft a bill in secret, behind closed doors, while telling the rest of the Senate and the American people that they will pass a bill before Christmas.

It's not too late!! Don't give up the fight. The Senators listed below are important to the Democrat's chances of success. Call them now! Tell them to vote against the secret health care bill! Tell them not to invoke cloture! And while you are at it, remind them that the American people are paying attention and watching. If Congress doesn't heed the words of the people now, they surely will come November!

Call:

Blanche Lincoln, Arkansas 202-224-4843 202-224-4843
Ben Nelson, Nebraska 202-224-6551 202-224-6551
Olympia Snowe, Maine 202-224-5344 202-224-5344

Fighting For You!


Mike Huckabee

I am also calling my two senators tomorrow here in Missouri

Message from Susan B Anthony-contact your Senators to stop the health care bill-federal funds for abortion is in this bill

With time running out on the Senate calendar, votes are likely to unfold until the very last hour before Christmas. That's right. In a dramatic series of votes, Harry Reid could try to pass his deadly health care reform bill the night before Christmas.

While each of us is hurrying to wrap the final gifts, serving our family a Christmas Eve dinner, and honoring the birth of Jesus Christ, the Senate may pass the biggest expansion of abortion since 1973.

We cannot let this happen.

This has been a long, tiring fight but the good news is that we are winning. And it has just begun. The Democratic leadership thought that sneaking a massive expansion of abortion into the health care bill was going to be easy. Honestly, they did not know who they were up against. Pro-life Americans like you and I have stood up across the nation to say "NO."

We said "NO" to abortion funding. We said "NO" to allowing this debate to be shoved under the rug. We said "NO" to false compromises. We need to continue to say "NO" until this bill is defeated.

So once again today, I am asking you to contact your Senators and tell them NO to Harry Reid's health care bill.

What amazes me the most is that the pro-abortion Democratic leadership is so determined to include abortion funding that they are jeopardizing the entire health care bill.

Yesterday, Senator Bob Casey (D-PA) tried to win over Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE) on a 'pro-life compromise' with Barbara Boxer (D-CA). This so-called 'compromise' included dressing up taxpayer funding of abortions with more fancy language, a few increased conscience protections, and taxpayer funded assistance to pregnant teenagers.

The truth is that no matter how you dress it up, Americans do not want their taxpayer dollars to fund abortions. Senator Ben Nelson publicly dismissed this compromise as unacceptable.

Tell your Senators to join Senator Nelson in his principled stand in defense of Life.

Even if you have already contacted them before, please do it again. Whichever side has the most intensity will win this battle.

Urge your Senators to have the courage to take a public stand with Senator Nelson against abortion funding.

For Life,

Marjorie Dannenfelser
President, Susan B. Anthony List
www.sba-list.org

Holiday Recipe Share Fridays--Christmas Eve and Day Dinner

Christmas Eve Dinners are often large feasts. Because Christmas is a global holiday, Christmas Eve traditions, including the types of dinners served and eaten, vary largely from country to country and culture to culture.

For example, in America some families prefer a meal similar to a Thanksgiving dinner with turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes, while others dine on kielbasa (Polish sausage), cabbage, soup, ham, casseroles or lasagna. Still others prefer ham, or even going out to a restaurant for a meal fancier than one would want to prepare at home.

Taken from here http://www.mahalo.com/christmas-eve-dinner with lots more information, global traditions and recipes

When I was growing up at home, Christmas dinner was almost always spent with my Grandma on the farm, lots of food and lots of cousins to play with. We would go to a midnight candlelight service at our Methodist church Christmas eve, but Mom would never allow us to open any presents til Christmas morning. Sometimes day would persuade her to let us open one gift-as when he was a boy they always opened their gifts on christmas eve.

I know we always had wonderful home baked goodies that we made to eat and share, and Grandma always had a whole kitchen full too, I think we usually had a turkey dinner.

Thru the years I always worked all the sundays and holidays I could get, cause that's where I could make alot of overtime, we didn't have children, and no family close by, but I always found time to bake for us and to give away for gifts, and I always prepared a nice meal for us, that many years included friends that were away from their family and loved ones too.

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Enough of all my ramblings on-if you would like to share recipes, traditions of your Christmas eve and day-please tell us about it here in comments or link us to your blog post.

It Could Always be Worse

When ever I would get down about life stuff, my father would always tell me, you know it really is not all that bad, things will work out, and someone beside's you always has it worse off than you.

I have been reminded how true this is today.

I retired from the phone company at the end of 2003 with 25 years. If I would have stayed and gone for 30 years I would have had to commute 2 hours each way by train to downtown Chicago-no thank you, especially since our hours changed daily according to seniority, as did days off each week. At that time our office was surplus, and was offering $150,000.00 packages for us to leave-I really wanted that money-but this was taxed money, and I needed my "time in" with my pension secured and health benefits secured before I could take that offer. Alot of girls got lucky and were able to get their pensions and take that money. So I was always upset about that. I could have worked til the end of December 2003 as they offered that money again at that time, but we needed to finish packing and moving to Missouri and I didn't want to do that during the winter months.

So I get upset about that extra money sometimes, but at the same time so thankful to be living in a more beautiful place and have my pension too.

I just got an email from my friend that just retired out recently, and she informed me that the phone company just announced the closing of our office-with no chance of transfers anywhere else within the company. My friend is naming off all these friends I know who are 4 days short of their pension, 2 years short, 4 years short-can you imagine being that close to your life's pension and have it all taken away? I am so sick over this sad news.

Prayers for all these people who have just had their lives turned upside down and at Christmas time too.

Anyone Else up Early Making Chistmas Goodies This Morning??

For some reason I have been waking up around 4 am, can't get back to sleep so just get up-add logs to the woodstove and play on the computer a bit-catch up on emails and such.

Again this morning, but today I decided I am going to make my Grandma's crunchy bars. I bought all the ingredients, this was my very most favorite recipe at christmas time that my grandma made for us-and she made pans and pans of this as there were lots of grandkids. Thru the years I don't think I have ever been successful with this recipe. I don't always do good with candy recipes that need thermometers-lol

I have had a real taste for this treat again so today was the morning. I dove right in and did a double batch as I didn't want to do this twice hehe. It's very simple, fantastic when it turns out, and when it doesn't turn out it either is too hard-like the purchased rice krispie treats, or too soft and won't stick together.

You must use cream, Grandma used her own from her farm, but in the store you have to buy the whipping cream.

Everything was going well, but the thermometer was stuck on 220 and wouldn't rise, after 10 minutes I get out another thermometer-same thing won't go over the 220 and I need to get to the soft ball stage. So I am waiting and waiting, the candy is getting a little dark now-I am starting to panic a bit-oh no not again-I don't want it all to burn-then I remember Grandma Never used a thermometer she always used that ice water test-so I get out books quick to find the information on that, no luck, then I remember my old Joy of Cooking book-that will have it-and it did-so I do the test-and its perfect Right now-but the thermometer still says 220-so I take it off pour it over the mix-and Yeh!!perfectly made-Happy Dancing Here

Here is a copy of the recipe-it is included in that 2006 link in my last blog.

Crunchy Bars

This recipe comes from my Grandma Jones. She always made many pans of this treat at Christmas time. It would not be Christmas at Grandmas if we did not have these. This recipe does NOT work to change any of the ingredients-I have tried. So if I want to make these I have to bite the bullet and use ingredients as given.

1 cup sugar

1 cup cream-no subsitutes allowed

1 cup white corn syrup

2 cups crispy rice cereal

5 cups cornflakes

2 cups salted peanuts

Cook sugar, cream, and syrup to the softball stage.

Remove from heat and pour over the cereal and nuts.

Mix well and pack into a well buttered pan.

When cool cut into squares.