One thing I’ve learned from playing piano—if you miss a note…just stay with it and see where it takes you.  Sometimes it ain’t pretty, but it’s usually interesting.

Now voting is a little different.  Yes it sure can get interesting if you get it wrong, but interesting can turn to poverty, fear and even despair after four years of incompetence. And that always isn’t pretty. (See the chart if you don’t believe me.)

If we even hope to turn this country around we need a complete Republican / Tea Party takeover in every state and federal branch of government.

The Dimocrats had total veto and filibuster-proof control of the government for two years and screwed  the country up big time. 

Republicans have never had that much power, which up to now may have been a good thing—they haven’t always been reliable. (Though they are almost always better than Dimocrats!)

This fall please vote for Mitt Romney and every other Republican you can find on the ballot.  None of them are perfect candidates, but the alternative is just too horrible to contemplate.

 

The Manhatten Declaration

The Manhattan Declaration was drafted and released in 2009.  It is a declaration of Christian faith and responsibility and talks extensively about life, marriage and religious liberty. 

 

Here is the actual pledge:

 

We are Christians who have joined together across historic lines of ecclesial differences to affirm our right—and, more importantly, to embrace our obligation—to speak and act in defense of these truths. We pledge to each other, and to our fellow believers, that no power on earth, be it cultural or political, will intimidate us into silence or acquiescence. It is our duty to proclaim the Gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in its fullness, both in season and out of season. May God help us not to fail in that duty.

 

This is not a line in the sand.  It is a line etched in the granite of Mount Sinai.  I signed it two years ago, but have neglected to do my part in spreading the word.  Tonight I will try to rectify that.

 

Please read and prayerfully sign the pledge at http://www.manhattandeclaration.org/the-declaration/read.aspx .  Then please pass it along to your Christian friends.

 

Cliff Raymond

 

 

“If there were no God, there would be no atheists.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

 

“It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make

everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything.” 
― G.K. Chesterton

 

Chancey got a job!

In fact, Chancey got his dream job!!!  He’s going to be a game designer for Wizards of the Coast!  They flew him to Seattle on May 28 for an interview, along with three other prospects.  Tonight they called him and offered him the job.

I still can’t believe he’ll be getting paid to do stuff like that.  When he was 10 or so he would spend every weekend in a place called Heroes, full of kids playing card games like Magic, or Dungeons and Dragons.  He even designed several dozen cards of his own, making up new rules and other stuff I don’t pretend to understand.  (He took a portfolio of those cards to the interview.)

Now he’s going to work for the company that makes those games. 

It’s also a great company to work for, apparently.  It’s a division of Hasbro, which Money magazine ranks in the top 100 best places to work in the country.

My only regret is that it’s on the left coast—a long way off, both geographically and politically.

Please keep him in your prayers.  He will have to face challenges even a Wizard of the Coast can’t imagine!