“Firearms stand next in importance to the Constitution itself. They are the American people’s liberty teeth and keystone under independence. From the hour the Pilgrims landed, to the present day, events occurences and tendencies prove that to ensure peace, security and happiness, the rifle and pistol are equally indispenable. The very atmosphere of firearms everywhere restrains evil interference – they deserve a place of honor with all that’s good.” — George Washington, Commanding General of the Continental Army, Father of Our Country and First President of the United States in a speech to Congress, January 7, 1790

“The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in Government.” — Thomas Jefferson, Author of The Declaration of Independence, and Third President of the United States

“Laws that forbid the carrying of arms … disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants, they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man.” — Thomas Jefferson

“What, Sir, is the use of a militia? It is to prevent the establishment of a standing army, the bane of liberty. . . .Whenever Governments mean to invade the rights and liberties of the people, they always attempt to destroy the militia, in order to raise an army upon their ruins.” – Rep. Elbridge Gerry of Massachusetts, Signer of the Declaration of Independence, VP of the United States 1813-1814, spoken during floor debate over the Second Amendment, I Annals of Congress at 750, August 17, 1789

Sorry if my comment is long… thanks for posting the video Dean :)

Sharon Buss
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I did also read your Christmas letter. Thank you for sharing.

They are Christian Indians and they thanked God for the Pilgrims and acknowledged if God had not sent them, they as a people would have been dead, physically and spiritually. This struck me as an interesting observation.

The history books like to record the white man as the bad guy, but God had a purpose in sending us over here and it was to do good for us and the natives. Because of sin nature, there were bad people on both sides and horrific things were done to both peoples. It is too bad history gets clouded with our sin – because it drowns out the story of God’s provision.

I look forward to trying out your Lefse recipe with gluten-free flours – wonder how that will work since I understand that making lefse is tricky. I’m glad you took the time to learn it from her. I never did. But, it does also make me think – I should bring my krumkake baker with me when I go to Moses Lake for Christmas. Mmm, with gluten-free flour again, this will be interesting.

I feel you are right about how everyone is looking today to the government taking from those who earn it and giving it to those who don’t. I don’t look forward to achieving that personal future and having it stripped away from me. For now, I won’t let it hold me back. Onward to a successful, profitable future – by the grace of God.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Legal/Default.aspx?id=305734

A court has rejected a threat to ban prayer requests from church bulletins.

An invasion of privacy lawsuit was filed by a Jewish woman after her stepson printed a prayer request about her in a Christian newsletter. Mat Staver of Liberty Counsel has details. “This is a case where a prayer request was put in a newsletter, a prayer request by a stepson for his stepmother with regards to her relationship to Jesus Christ or her actual journey of faith –, and as a result of that, there was a subsequent lawsuit over a year later,” he explains.

The stepmother, Staver notes, was apparently embarrassed and offended over it; however, the Florida Supreme Court rejected her complaint. Staver was asked about the results if the court had ruled otherwise. “There’s no question that if ‘false light invasion of privacy’ was accepted by the Florida Supreme Court, then churches that publish prayer requests could have been liable for someone who says that ‘I am highly offended at this,’” he adds.

According to Staver, even church newsletters, websites, or e-mails could have been subjected to lawsuits had the court ruled differently. He believes false light invasion of privacy claims “choke” free-speech rights.

“To remain alive and well, speech needs to be free and robust,” he tells WorldNetDaily. “To allow one person to silence another, merely because truthful words offend, would result in no freedom at all.”