Happy Independence Day, a sacred American holiday only pro-lifers celebrate in its entirety according to the Declaration’s 3 underpinnings, Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.
Question 1: What are your weekend plans?
Question 2, submitted by friend Dr. Michael New: What should the official song of the pro-life movement be?
For example, Michael wrote his vote goes to, “Another somebody done somebody wrong song.”
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Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
Before you do anything read this first:
http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/folder/american_who_risked_everything_1.guest.html
Then read it to guests today.
Being in a strange new town, I’m not certain what my plans are for the 4th!
Most know daughter Daena worked as a writer for President Bush at the White House.
Then, beginning January 20, she took a position on his transition team in DC, tying up loose ends. (For instance, in the first weeks after leaving office, President Bush received 15k letters a week.)
Now Daena has accepted a writing position with the Bush Library Foundation in Dallas. So that’s where I’m at right now. We drove her here late last week and are in the midst of settling her into an apartment.
So, as I said, being in a strange (hot!) town, I’m not sure what we’re doing tonight!
My husband turned 40 today!! FINALLY! :)
The kids think the parade, carnival and fireworks are all in honor of Daddy’s birthday.
Hi there! My husband and I are visiting his grandparents in southern Indiana, but unfortuantly can’t stay into the evening for the fireworks over the Ohio river as we’ve got to get on back home since I work 3rd shift tonight (but hey, I’m getting paid double time!) My husband and I bought some fireworks, which we’ll set off in our yard, if we get back home in time.
Happy 233rd Independence Day to all!!! May we still be celebrating this special day next year in the midst of the Obamanation mess!
I pray that the all U.S. citizens wake up and get busy so we will get back to the dreams of our founding fathers. We have been complacent for too long and maybe the one thing Obama will be good for is to get us out of our comfort zones to fight for and protect our basic constitutional basic rights! Including the right to LIFE for preborn babies!
Happy Birthday to your dear hubby Carla!
I would like to submit some songs for your consideration as possible theme songs. You can hear them here:
http://www.corsanctum.com/stephens-solo-page/
God bless!
“We shall overcome,” That should be the song for the prolife movement.
Get thee to a Tea Party, Jill.
I’m here in 94 steamy degrees decorating the house in red, white, and blue streamers, my kids are rehearsing their 4th of July show for the grandparents, and I’m hungry.
Later it’s BBQ in the backyard, swiping mosquitoes, and wondering if this will be my last 4th in a free country.
Thanks North Korea.
1. Celebrating our Constitutional right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, as established by Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, Roe v. Wade and Lawrence v. Texas, of course. 2. Horst-Wessel-Lied
“1. Celebrating our Constitutional right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, as established by Griswold v. Connecticut, Eisenstadt v. Baird, Roe v. Wade and Lawrence v. Texas, of course”
Indeed. No one had a right to life until Griswold v. Connecticut came along. You could just shoot someone on the street and it was no problem. As we all know from history, Griswold changed all that, and now, thanks to Griswold, we can safely walk the streets because Griswold established my right to be alive. That’s where I ontologically ground my right to be alive; that is, in the Griswold case. Now no one can argue my right to life when I appeal to that transcendent cause of said right to life that is the Griswold case.
Posted by: Bobby Bambino at July 4, 2009 12:19 PM
I’m working. Blah. Then later tonight I’m on-call until 11pm for some job that isn’t even mine and basically consists of sitting in the production office waiting for the phone to ring (highly implausible). The likelihood of me getting called in is slim to none (the girl whose job it is got in a minor car accident last week and my boss just wanted someone she can call in case she is in pain, since she’ll be there all alone), and the “job” really just consists of sitting and breathing. I’m actually kind of peeved about giving up on some of the festivities (having a beer or two, heading over the river to watch fireworks, etc) when I’m not being paid to do so, it but I didn’t feel right saying no when they asked if I would make myself available. I didn’t want the girl to feel alone or unsupported, so I said yes with as much enthusiasm as I could muster, and told her that I would love the extra money so I am happy to wait by the phone. Whine whine whine.
Maybe I’ll write the Great American Novel with all my buckets of alone time today. Most likely I will just snack on mini-Snickers bars and make sculptures out of rubberized cube taps, as I’ve been doing since 8am.
Alexandra: call your Great American Novel “The Great American Novel.” :)
The official song for the pro-life movement ought to be written especially for the purpose of spreading tolerance, equality, and, of course, Fleetwood Mac music. So I vote on a Fleetwood Mac song, or, you know, let someone who’s survived an abortion pick…
Bobby: lol!
Jill, want some food from the road kill cafe? !possom, armadillo, and the like.. Just joking! RJ Sandefur(whose got nothing beter to do today, and waight for the pepicy 400. Carl edwards rocks!)
1: What are your weekend plans?
Celebrating with family and friends. Discussing the spiritual, social and political climate in 1776 as compared to now.
2: What should the official song of the pro-life movement be.
Battle Hymn of the Republic
Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord:
He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored;
He hath loosed the fateful lightning of His terrible swift sword:
His truth is marching on.
(Chorus)
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
Glory, glory, hallelujah!
His truth is marching on
I have seen Him in the watch-fires of a hundred circling camps,
They have builded Him an altar in the evening dews and damps;
I can read His righteous sentence by the dim and flaring lamps:
His day is marching on.
(Chorus)
I have read a fiery gospel writ in burnished rows of steel:
“As ye deal with my condemners, so with you my grace shall deal;
Let the Hero, born of woman, crush the serpent with His heel,
Since God is marching on.”
(Chorus)
He has sounded forth the trumpet that shall never call retreat;
He is sifting out the hearts of men before His judgment-seat:
Oh, be swift, my soul, to answer Him! be jubilant, my feet!
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
In the beauty of the lilies Christ was born across the sea,
With a glory in His bosom that transfigures you and me:
As He died to make men holy, let us die to make men free,
While God is marching on.
(Chorus)
He is coming like the glory of the morning on the wave,
He is wisdom to the mighty, He is succour to the brave,
So the world shall be His footstool, and the soul of Time His slave,
Our God is marching on.
(Chorus)
Original appearance of “The Battle Hymn of the
Republic” in The Atlantic Monthly magazine,
1862. Image credit: Wikipedia
yor bro ken
My evening plans are dinner, music and lakeside fireworks in Indiana.
Thanks be to God for our many freedoms and the majesty of our country!
LL
is it ironic to anyone here that we celebrate AMERICA’S INDEPENDENCE with fireworks MADE IN CHINA, a country where the citizens have very few freedoms?
I won’t be watching any fireworks. The people in my neighborhood and surrounding nearby neighborhood areas are going to probably shoot off fireworks all night (and cause me to not be able to sleep).
I spent from 1:00 to around 4:25 at my aunt and uncle’s house. I didn’t eat a hamburger or hot dog or braut/sausage because it was BUFFALO meat and I didn’t want to eat buffalo. :( I was hoping for regular hot dogs.
Right now I’m watching National Treasure 2 (already watched the first one) and then when its over setting my alarm, brushing my teeth and going to bed. I just hope the fireworks stop by midnight or I’ll get a bad night’s sleep. :(
I’m not a 4th of July scrooge, its just that certain people who live here in Lincoln like to shoot off LOUD BOOMING fireworks. Some which are ILLEGAL (purchased from Missouri or Colorado).
Celebrated by going to my cousin’s house for a bbq and swimming..it was my two year-old’s first time in a ‘big pool’. She was a little hesitant at first, but after she saw how much fun everyone else was having, she decided she liked it..then she didn’t want to leave! Cute story about the kids, Carla :) HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY & GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
Did some housework. Assembled some shelves. Thats about it for this 4th of July.
This goes out to the whole pro-life community.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onbDZmAwhE&feature=related
One Love / People Get Ready
One Love! One Heart!
Let’s get together and feel all right.
Hear the children cryin’ (One Love!)
Hear the children cryin’ (One Heart!)
Sayin’ give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Sayin’ let’s get together and feel all right. Wo wo-wo wo-wo!
Let them all pass all their dirty remarks (One Love!)
There is one question I’d really love to ask (One Heart!)
Is there a place for the hopeless sinner
Who has hurt all mankind just to save his own beliefs?
One Love! What about the one heart? One Heart!
What about…? – Let’s get together and feel all right
As it was in the beginning (One Love!)
So shall it be in the end (One Heart!)
All right!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Let’s get together and feel all right
One more thing!
Let’s get together to fight this Holy Armagiddyon (One Love!)
So when the Man comes there will be no, no doom (One Song!)
Have pity on those whose chances grows t’inner
There ain’t no hiding place from the Father of Creation
Sayin’ One Love! What about the One Heart? (One Heart!)
What about the…? Let’s get together and feel all right
I’m pleadin’ to mankind! (One Love!)
Oh, Lord! (One Heart) Wo-ooh!
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Let’s get together and feel all right
Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right
Let’s get together and feel all right
“One Love / People Get Ready ” is a Reggae / Rhythm and Blues song by Bob Marley & The Wailers from their 1977 album Exodus. It was first recorded in a ska style by Marley’s original group, The Wailers, on their 1965 debut album The Wailing Wailers. It has also been included on many of their compilation albums, making it an influential classic.
Bah! It rained all afternoon into the evening so the fireworks in Southern Indiana and downtown Indianapolis were either canceled or delayed. Hubby and I did get back home with a little time to spare so we set off some fireworks in light rain. As for neighbor’s fireworks, there was a beautiful display of the larger roman candles being launched off from somewhere in our neighborhood, however
(Continued from earlier, my phone died) …most of the fireworks were going off on the 3rd and some pretty loud ones too, but were discontinued by midnight. However, one of my co-workers was late this mornging because fireworks kept her up half the night & she overslept. You’re certainly not alone. Geez, don’t some people know what courtesy to others means!?
I ended up getting to the party anyway! Good times were had by all. I breathed fire at one point — I mean, like, circus-style: http://tinyurl.com/m7f4gu You can’t really see me in that but oh well.
Drank margaritas made from home-made sweet-and-sour mix — hand-squeezed limes and lemons, mixed with simple syrup made from vegan cane sugar (oh, hippies).
Mr. Alexandra grilled for all 60-ish people. No small feat when you are still operating with only one thumb. He’s got more than a month of dominant-thumbless experience at this point, but I was still surprised at his dexterity with the burgers.
After the keg ran dry, the annual keg-tossing competition commenced. I’m living here for work right now: http://tinyurl.com/mr3egc so the goal is basically to throw the keg far enough off the porch that it rolls down the hill and clears the stairs. I never win for distance, but I place respectably at least, middle-of-the-pack, which is fine by me.
This morning’s 7am work call was not a welcome sight. Oh, summer stock.
One fourth of July I went up on the roof of a two story building to watch the fire works. Just that little extra height made all the difference. The concussion from the larger ‘mortars’ was cool to feel when it hit my body.
Our civic fire works displays here in Texas generally only last about a hour. In most incorporated areas it is illegal to discharge fire works so the noise from private citizens pryotechnics is not too bothersome.
A couple of weeks ago we had some thunderstorms that rattled the windows in our house and lit up the night sky for several hours. Sometimes it sounded like an artillery barage. Now that kept me up. I love to watch the lightening trace across the sky and arc from heaven to earth and earth to heaven. The thunder reverberates to and fro like the lightening.
Happy Birthday Uncle Sam
yor bro ken
Held, Natalie Grant
“If hope is born of suffering
If this is only the beginning…
Can we not wait for one hour
watching for our Savior…”
My advice would be to avoid tying yourself to one particular song.
Man, I guess that’ll teach me to put pictures in my comment.
On the 4th, enjoyed viewing the fireworks from my seat on a jet. My wife, daugther and I spent most of our time trying to get back home from a week at the grandparent’s in Colorado. (Colorado – the four corners area – is absolutely beautiful during this time of the year) We loved it!
God Bless America, indeed! I’m so thankfull to live in such a great nation as this, at this time in history.
Your theme song should be:
“Praying for Time” by George Michael.
Our annual tradition is watching the fireworks at a beautiful, nearby resort with an army band playing before and during the fireworks. Just as the fireworks begin, the band plays the 1812 Overture, and canons are set off as the fireworks begin. The band plays Stars and Stripes Forever during the fireworks grand finale. It doesn’t get any better than that!
We always rent Mel Gibson’s The Patriot sometime around the 4th.
“Breath of Heaven” always helps me connect, in spirit, with my birth mother and her struggles before my birth and offers hope, a light in the darkness, to other women and girls who are troubled and uncertain during their pregnancies.
We have the Amy Grant version.
j sable,
“Breath of Heaven” is a beautiful song. Great suggestion.