As Yard Sales Boom in Hard Times, Sentiment Is First Thing to Go

By PATRICIA LEIGH BROWN

Published: October 24, 2008MANTECA, Calif. — As the classified ads put it, everything must go. Socks. Christmas ornaments. Microwave ovens. Three-year-old Marita Duarte’s tricycle was sold by her mother, Beatriz, to a stranger for $3 even as her daughter was riding it.

Yard Sales Boom in Hard Times

Homeless numbers ‘alarming’

By Wendy Koch, USA TODAY

More families with children are becoming homeless as they face mounting economic pressures, including mortgage foreclosures, according to a USA TODAY survey of a dozen of the largest cities in the nation…..article continues here

Palin is Failin by Peggy Noonan

• OCTOBER 17, 2008 by Peggy Noonan

Palin’s Failin’

What is it she stands for? After seven weeks, we don’t know.

Sarah is Failin

What’s God Got to Do With It? Victoria Osteen

Her relationship advice is retrograde dross. Submit to your man, or at least pretend, and then do what you want. …..Lisa Miller of Belief Watch

Published Oct 11, 2008

http://www.newsweek.com/id/163475

Titus 2:3-5 says this “the older women likewise, that they be reverent in behavior, not slanderers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things–that they admonish the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,to be discreet, chaste, homemakers, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be blasphemed. “

We are also to submit to the Lord through submitting to our husbands not manipulate them to do what we want. If we as women are to be a reflection of the church as the Bride of Christ, then we are saying we can control and manipulate Christ. Is that what we are to do?

This is a reflection of most women in the church today …….my husband would be embarrassed if I said such a thing publically let alone thought it.

The Miraculous Sanctification of Sarah Palin

The Miraculous Sanctification of Sarah Palin