Great Articles

I love this photo! Taken when he spoke at the National Wellness Conference in the Jenkins Theater at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. Thomas Kujawski/Stevens Point Journal. "A picture speaks a thousand words." To me this says, "Mine and my supporters prayers are finally being answered. AMEN!".

Here are three great articles to read.

If Only Huckabee Had Money

• Even though he isn't counted in the upper tier of most lists, Mike Huckabee has managed to generate more buzz for his presidential candidacy than other second-tier candidates. He was well-served by the debates, in which he was articulate, glib and funny. Many observers seem to lament the fact he has not been able to raise the money to compete with the big boys. While Mitt Romney, Rudy Giuliani and John McCain had their millions, Huckabee couldn't crack a single million. His response was predictable: Money isn't the best indicator of strength. He asserted that the candidates who were being hailed by the media would eventually fade...
• Click link above to read the rest of the article in the Arkansas News Bureau.

Huckabee Shows Faith-Based Action can be Nonconfrontational

• Gov. Mike Huckabee thought about that after Hurricane Katrina. The ordained Southern Baptist minister also knew that the summer camping season was over and that thousands of people fleeing New Orleans had to go somewhere."I saw on TV people on the bridges of Interstate 10 stranded for days without water, and I thought, this isn't Rwanda. This isn't Indonesia. ... This was the United States of America," said the former governor, who is now part of the throng of Republican presidential candidates. "These were the neighbors just to the south of us in Louisiana. It was beyond my comprehension that we could get TV cameras to those people but we couldn't get a boat or a bottle of water to them."Thus, he asked religious leaders to open camps all over Arkansas to the evacuees, while urging the public to rally around this blunt public policy: "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."...
• Click the above link to read the rest of the article in The Daily Dispatch.

Ex-Arkansas Governor Urges Culture Shift in Health Initiatives

• About five years ago, Mike Huckabee had a heart-to-heart conversation with his doctor that changed his life.
  
  "If you don't change your lifestyle, you're entering the last decade of your life," the former governor of Arkansas remembers his doctor telling him. "He then described for me the progression of how I would decline and then die."
  
  Huckabee is now 110 pounds lighter, a candidate for president and nationally recognized for the success of the wellness initiatives he instituted in Arkansas.
  
  His keynote address to the National Wellness Conference in the Noel Fine Arts Center on Tuesday afternoon was part pep talk, part stand-up comedy routine and part warning about the stark consequences the country faces if it doesn't start investing in health...
• Click the above link to read the rest of the article in the StevensPointJournal.com.

Tomorrow there will be another Bloggers Call with Mike Huckabee. It will take place a few hours after I come from work. So I may or may not be asleep. If I do partake I will let y'all know about the call.

I am working on a post about sex offenders and the Czech Republic. It's not what you think, knowing American stereotypes. It's actually a good response from the Czech Republic. As a woman I find these issues important.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Putting my Money Where my Mouth is/American Accumulation

As many of my readers know, I am passionate about how to help poor people save money and fix nutritious meals. Well, I decided to get in and help. I will be volunteering at the local thrift shop/food bank. It is within walking distance, so I can get exercise when going up there.

I go up there to shop once in a while and they are always getting new items donated. I can't believe how much stuff gets donated. It is amazing to see how much stuff people collect. Americans are probably the most accumulative people in society. It makes one stop and think...

I am poor, but there are many more people who are much poorer than me. Some of this stuff that some people think is junk, may be great treasures to others, just because they can not afford them when they are new. Sometimes I gotta realize that the only thing I need are Jesus, family, friends, food and shelter.

The best thing about this organization is that it is a co-op between all the local churches. I think it is great that the Methodists, Catholics, Baptists and everyone else can come together for a great purpose. As long as we all believe in Jesus' teachings we should all be able to come together for a common goal. Helping the hungry and poor are more important than church rules.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Mike Huckabee Ain't No Sissy

I came up with the title of this post after reading an article in newsobserver.com from North Carolina. "Huckabee's faith moves him past hot button issues"

• WASHINGTON - Mike Huckabee isn't what pundits would call a mainstream Christian conservative Republican.
  Sure, the candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination is a devout Christian. In fact, he's a Baptist minister and was the president of the Arkansas Baptist State Convention before he served as the governor of Arkansas for 10 years.
  But ask the 51-year-old Huckabee how his faith affects his politics, and he skips over the standard hot-button issues of abortion, gays or whether people should say "Merry Christmas" or "season's greetings" -- topics that dominate talk radio and cable TV and thus define Christian conservatives to much of the country.
  Rather, he talks passionately about the morality of helping parents send their children to college, the need to observe the golden rule in handling Katrina refugees mistreated by an uncaring federal government, and the immorality of corporate chief executive officers getting multimillion-dollar bonuses while taking pensions and jobs away from workers.

I think it is more important for someone in government to care about these things. While abortion is a major issue, it does not affect everyday issues. Does who's gay or how holidays are wished put young adults through college? No. Does it help victims of natural disasters? No. Does it put dinner on the kitchen table of the workers of the big corporations? No.

• But he says his version of moral conservatism makes sense in governing, and it could appeal to a broader audience at a time when many Republicans have lost support from independents and moderate suburbanites.
  "It is an appealing message to a broader cross-section of the voting public, not just a litmus-test list," said former South Carolina Gov. David Beasley, who recently endorsed Huckabee. "His sense of right and wrong is more than just a few issues."

David Beasley says exactly what I am thinking. Mike Huckabee is a multi-faceted candidate. He doesn't fit any mold. I think this is what scares some in the "party establishment," about him. They want some Pinocchio that they can mold, create and pull the strings. Well Mike ain't no sissy who will allow others to control him. There is no elitist Republican ventriloquist speaking behind Mike Huckabee. Soon, the noses of the "Pinochios" will grow long and the ventriloquists hands up the butts will be exposed. Then the American people will see who the true Conservative really is. And that person is Mike Huckabee.

• During a recent Republican debate in New Hampshire, Huckabee criticized his fellow opponents of abortion for appearing to lose interest in children after birth and for not talking about problems such as homelessness later in life.

I am glad that someone is speaking out that pro-life is more than just what happens up until birth. How is it pro-life if life is not taken serious? When life after birth is not taken serious then it is just "talking points" spin and drivel.

• Huckabee started in politics as Arkansas lieutenant governor in 1993. He moved up to the top job in 1996 when the governor resigned amid a corruption scandal. Huckabee cut income taxes, expanded health care for poor children, boosted elementary-school education and was re-elected twice.
• He noted that he's solidly against abortion -- he signed a state ban on late-term abortions -- but stressed that the issue didn't come close to dominating his agenda.
  "I was consistent in my views and values as it related to social issues," he said. "But 91 percent of our state budget is spent on education, prisons and Medicaid. So it didn't make sense to spend 91 percent of my time on issues that didn't reflect my real job."

• Huckabee insists on other examples to illustrate how his faith affects the way he governs. Nothing got him as agitated as the thought of people losing jobs or pensions.
  When a CEO makes $100 million while his workers lose pensions or jobs, he said, "that is immoral. ... That's not free enterprise. That's theft."

This is one of my biggest pet peeves about the party. They try telling everyone that these fancy pants guys deserve all the big raises and whatnot, because he went to college and got a BS degree. I am not knocking down someone who went to college and studied to graduate. But there is such an imbalance in the pay between the "fat-cats" and the blue-collar people who are struggling to put dinner on the table and pay their bills according to which utility company is threatening to shut them off.

Some people may disagree with me and even call me a liberal. But I don't care. Personally, I think whenever these CEOs and executives get raises and promotions it's because they got a new mistress. And he needs more money to buy her a car, jewelry, fur coats or "set her up" in a condo. Maybe he has to pay hush money. It also could be that his wife has found out about said mistress and is threatening to call the best divorce attorney in town. So what does mister fancy pants do? He buys her something shiny to keep her quiet. These are the same people who talk about morality and purity. Ha-ha!

Sometimes I can see communism in both parties. One party says they want to take from the poor and take from the rich. And yet they want to stay rich. Why? Because they know more than everyone else. They deserve it. That is wrong. Then you have another party that wants to see a major schism in pay between the haves and have nots. Whenever anyone questions this they are told not to question. We are told they know better than the rest of us. This too is wrong. How I got off on a tangent about communism is beyond me?

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Baptist Press Articles

I may have stated previously that I am Methodist. If not you know now. So why am I writing about Baptist articles? As someone who was Baptised in the Presbyterian Church and having grown up Presbyterian, went to a Baptist High School for two years, have a Catholic stepmother and became a Methodist, I have learned that all Christians have more similarities than differences.

When I had my previous blog I had found this excellent article about Mike Huckabee in Baptist Press on issues of character, morality and faith from Mar. 19. I was reading other articles and liked what I read. So I signed up to be on the mailing list.

There is a really nice article about how Virginia area churches will be helping VaTech students this Fall. On a lighter side are some cute Christian cartoons.

Mike Huckabee Distances Himself from Bush, Evolution

In this article in the Times Record of Fort Smith, Arkansas Mike Huckabee ain't afraid to tell it like it is. He talks about wanting to move away from questions about his creation beliefs, since they have nothing to do with how he will run the country when he becomes President. He talks honestly and candidly about why he feels that Republicans got what they deserved in the mid-terms. The article also discusses the money situation, compared with the other wellknowns and a few comments from Baptist pastors and educators. Read the link above for the full story.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

Mike Huckabee Right to Withdrawl from Leftist Baptist Convocation...

...says Tony Beam on his blog on Crosswalk.com. This is in regards to Mike Huckabee deciding not to attend the New Baptist Covenant Celebration. Mr. Beam is more surprised by the fact that Mike Huckabee had agreed to even attend in the first place. The organization is a division of the leftist World Baptist Alliance. Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton and Al Gore have teamed up on this attempt to form a new group of Baptists. Both Clinton and Carter claim that the goal is to “counter the negative Baptist image and demonstrate Baptist unity around social concerns.”
Here he talks of the true nature of the group to "counter the influence of conservative Christians in the Political arena." He goes on to say that the speakers have leftists beliefs that go against the beliefs of true conservative Southern Baptist Convention, who in 2004 overwhelmingly voted to withdraw from the Baptist World Alliance.
Read the entire article here.

God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!

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From the Union Leader-Huckabee vs. Richardson Would be a Dream Presidential Contest

From the Union Leader in New Hampshire. David Broder writes that Huckabee vs. Richardson would be a dream Presidential contest. Beginning paragraph, "THE LIVELIEST pair of candidates in the large fields of Democratic and Republican long shots, Bill Richardson and Mike Huckabee, are also -- not coincidentally -- the likeliest to break through into the top ranks of their parties if anyone ever does."

Some good things Mr. Broder says about Mike Huckabee.

"...Richardson and Huckabee communicate a good-humored enjoyment of the chase that is as refreshing as it is rare."

"Nonetheless, the early going has shown Huckabee and Richardson poking their heads above the others who are striving to break out of the second tier -- seven of them on the GOP side, five on the Democratic."

"Huckabee has been the source of some of the best lines at the two Republican debates, including his comment that Congress has 'spent money like John Edwards at a beauty shop.'"

"He is a good-natured fundamentalist, both in his religious values (a Baptist preacher before he entered politics) and in his basic conservatism. But he has an independent streak. He has the guts to call Alberto Gonzales an embarrassment to the administration and, at home, he defied the legislature in a losing battle to allow the children of illegal immigrants, when they graduated from an Arkansas high school, to go to college for the same tuition paid by other state residents. And he advocates a radical overhaul of the tax system, abolishing all federal levies in favor of a retail sales tax with progressive protections for the poor."


He also says of Mike "Huckabee is hurting for money and still searching for an early-voting state where he can plant his flag. He may never find it, but given the question marks hanging over the three Republican front-runners, Rudy Giuliani, John McCain and Mitt Romney, there could be room for him."
Yes, the money thing. Currently Mike doesn't have the money to bombard the people with advertising. That's where the grassrooters come in. All the Huckabee supporters need to do everything we can for him, whether it be through blogging, financial support or telling as many friends as possible about him.

Yes, there are question marks over the three biggies. There are no question marks lingering over Mike Huckabee. He is who he is, and that's a good thing!

To read the whole article click the link above.


God Bless from the Upper Peninsula in Michigan!