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While paper money wasn't printed with "In God We Trust" until the one dollar bill on February 12, 1964, coins have carried this testament to faith in our Lord and Savior since April 22, 1864. The first of many appeals came from Rev. M. R. Watkinson, Minister of the Gospel from Ridleyville, Pennsylvania. He writes:
"Dear Sir: You are about to submit your annual report to the Congress respecting the affairs of the national finances.
One fact touching our currency has hitherto been seriously overlooked. I mean the recognition of the Almighty God in some form on our coins.
You are probably a Christian. What if our Republic were not shattered beyond reconstruction? Would not the antiquaries of succeeding centuries rightly reason from our past that we were a heathen nation? What I propose is that instead of the goddess of liberty we shall have next inside the 13 stars a ring inscribed with the words PERPETUAL UNION; within the ring the allseeing eye, crowned with a halo; beneath this eye the American flag, bearing in its field stars equal to the number of the States united; in the folds of the bars the words GOD, LIBERTY, LAW.
This would make a beautiful coin, to which no possible citizen could object. This would relieve us from the ignominy of heathenism. This would place us openly under the Divine protection we have personally claimed. From my hearth I have felt our national shame in disowning God as not the least of our present national disasters.
To you first I address a subject that must be agitated."
Response from James Pollock, Director of the Mint at Philadelphia:
"Dear Sir: No nation can be strong except in the strength of God, or safe except in His defense. The trust of our people in God should be declared on our national coins.
You will cause a device to be prepared without unnecessary delay with a motto expressing in the fewest and tersest words possible this national recognition."
During a time when the Civil War was ravaging the nation, people EVERYWHERE-north, south, east and west-rich and poor-the educated and the simple were lifting their eyes to God in faith and speaking out to glorify Him. Despite the war, these were a people UNITED not DIVIDED!
What are we now, if not a nation divided when we should be united under God? Is this world, this nation, and every person in it not His creation? Do we really dare to tell the Lord to stay out of the works of His own hands? Do we really think we know what this nation needs better than the Almighty Creator? We, with an expiration date, and a handful of years behind us call ourselves “experienced adults” while our Father God is eternal and ageless! We are but children playing pretend to Him! I shudder to think of living in such an egotistical world with people full of their own wisdom and self-righteousness!
Is God only to be called upon as a last resort? When we’ve made an impossible mess that we can’t possibly clean up? When arrogance led to demise, and good intentions to destruction? Are we doomed to repeat history and have our nation literally ravaged beyond human repair before trust is put in the Almighty? And most importantly, will it be too late?
His faithful daughter and servant,
Tuesday Moyle
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U.S. Government to Release New Dollar Coins
You guessed it - 'IN GOD WE TRUST' IS GONE!!!
If ever there was a reason to boycott something, THIS IS IT!!!!
DO NOT ACCEPT THE NEW DOLLAR COINS AS CHANGE
Together we can force them out of circulation.
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...if the milk and meat you bought at the grocery store was from a cloned animal? Make sure the bill gets signed:
http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/118
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Please watch her story and share it with others. It is a TRAGIC story but one that must be shared. Hopefully her story will touch your heart and you will be willing to step up to the plate and help children who can't help themselves.
If you want to help out, please repost.
She was such a beautiful little girl.
I cannot believe someone so heartless could allow something like this to happen.
Please, please, please repost this!
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Seth: "Guess what mom? I have a new best friend!"
Me: "Oh really? Who is it?" (I was thinking it'd be someone from church or his cousin Xander.)
Seth: "Him!" As he points to the thin air next to him.
Me: "Who?"
Seth: "HIM!" Pointing animatedly now.
Me: (As I finally get it) "Oh...what's your friend's name?"
Seth: "I don't know, Mom." (while he looks at me like that's the dumbest question on earth)
His friend didn't get a name until the next day when we were visiting Daddy at work. I tried again, and thus found out his friend's name is Tanger. Where he got THAT name, I have no idea. lol Then he proceeded to tell me that Tanger wanted a treat from the store. And, to make a long story short, Tanger has been popping up all over the place during the day. All of a sudden Seth will go "Tanger's here to watch The Wonder Pets with me, mommy!" And I just smile and tell him that's great.
Seth had Xander spend the night last night. For little guys, they sure can make alot of noise! lol They watched movies and ate popcorn and played in Seth's room. All three of the boys are in there now. They sound like monkeys in a zoo with all the noise they are making! heehee
Michael's vaycay from work started today. He'll be home for a whole nine days! Paid! Whoo-hoo! And the help around here will be nice. My house is offically trashed. I'm not exaggerating either. Every room has stuff on the floor and counters and walls...I'm getting overwhelmed just thinking about it. Not to mention the laundry...and the dishes...and the countless shelves that need to be dusted...and the vacuuming...and the sweeping and mopping and disinfecting. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Michael's going to be put to work. *evil laugh*
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NEW YORK - Five U.S. state prison systems allow the use of trained attack dogs to control inmates, Human Rights Watch said in a report issued Wednesday.
The report, "Cruel and Degrading: The use of dogs for cell extractions in U.S. prisons," says policies in Connecticut, Delaware, Iowa, South Dakota and Utah allow guards to use "aggressive, unmuzzled" dogs to compel uncooperative inmates to leave their cells. It said dogs may be ordered to bite prisoners if they resist.
"The entire world has seen the photo of Abu Ghraib detainee crouched in terror before a snarling dog, but the use of attack dogs against prisoners here in the U.S. has been a well-kept secret," said Jamie Fellner, U.S. director of Human Rights Watch. "Longtime corrections professionals were appalled when we told them that guards in some states use dogs on prisoners."
"Human Rights Watch knows of no other country in the world that authorizes the use of dogs to attack prisoners who will not voluntarily leave their cells," the report said.
The independent group, based in New York, said it does not object to the use of dogs to patrol prison grounds.
The report notes that in South Dakota, Utah and Delaware, dogs are rarely used in cells, if at all. In Connecticut, dogs were used in 20 cases in 2005, and in Iowa in 63 cases between March 2005 and March 2006, it says.
However, a spokesman for the Connecticut Department of Correction, Brian Garnett, said the number of Connecticut cases is closer to a half-dozen a year. He said the prisons currently have 22 dogs, and have used dogs since the mid-1980s.
"The Connecticut Department of Correction has only used trained canines for cell extraction under extreme circumstances and on minimal occasions," Garnett said. "When an inmate presents an imminent danger to staff or the public and only after all viable options have been exhausted."
Human Rights Watch said prison officials it interviewed in Connecticut and Iowa said using dogs to remove prisoners from cells reduces injuries to guards and keeps prisons safer.
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On the Net:
Human Rights Watch: http://www.hrw.org/
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Don't think me unfeeling, but I'm not quite sure how I feel about this yet. Anybody care to give me any feedback? This subject is bothering me, but without more info (and I don't mean from the overly-dramatic website up there) I'm having a hard time developing a solid opinion.
Yeah. I'm laughing again. I blame my husband. He's a bad influence. hahaha
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Check me out: http://myspace.com/tuesdayallweek
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NEVER AGAIN!!!!
That site is SO CONFUSING! "Subscribe to THIS to read THAT" "Click HERE to go THERE" I'm like "What the f---?"
I'm sorry LJ, I'll never stray again. *is remorseful*
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I am not there...
I do not sleep,
I am a thousand winds that blow,
I am the diamond glints upon the snow,
I am the sunlight on ripened grain,
I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awaken in the morning hush,
I am the soft uplifting rush
Of quiet birds in circled flight,
I am the stars that shine at night,
Do not stand by my grave and cry...
I am not there,
I did not die.
Written by an English soldier in WWI, just before he died. I found it beautiful and uplifting and felt the need to share it.
