TLBC 12-1-13

It is always a blessing to attend the worship services of a true New

Testament Congregation of the Lord Jesus Christ like TLBC.  Services today began with Brother Turner taking the Sunday School hour and reading another portion from the Book "Lets Study Revelation" by Elder EG Cook.  click here  Pastor's morning sermon was "What Do YOU Think?" click here  We had another wonderful family style dinner at the noon hour for those that could stay and in the afternoon service, Pastor read a chapter from his book "25 of the Greatest Sermons Ever Preached."  We enjoyed the sermon "Payday Someday" by RG Lee.  click here 
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Yes, we are all still in the afterglow of a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday.  It was great to have all the family over for our Thanksgiving  Celebration.  Marion's sister, Hedy, in Germany was asking her by email all about the special holiday that they and the rest of the world know little about.  Unfortunately, even in America now days most folks have forgotten what Thanksgiving is all about.  My sermon in church last Lord's Day touched on this topic and gave a little history on the holiday.  Click HERE for the audio of that lesson.  We played a nice cartoon video DVD for the grand-kids to help reinforce for them what Thanksgiving in America is about. 

We took several pictures this year and will post some here to share a little bit of our holiday and Marion will help me with the commentary.  We of course went shopping big time ahead of time and did some preliminary preparation.  The day before, my grand-son Bailey came over and helped Opa set up extra tables and chairs. Both Cindi and Tammy helped Oma with preparation and cleanup afterwards.  We usually have so much food left over that we have an additional day of family fellowship on Friday too.  That has become a tradition at our house.  

Some of the pantry overflow awaiting the big day.

 Marion's kitchen organized and ready for action.

 The bird is in the oven and the roasting has begun.

 Marion has decorated one of her kitchen walls with memories from some of our trips to our condo in Kauai.

 The pictures and brochures are strategically located around the map on the wall to show the general location of the places on the island.  

 One of the recipes of a delicious orange flavored cheese cake that is a requested repeat desert even better than the traditional pumpkin pie.  

Home made dinner rolls are always a big hit - especially when they are fresh out of the oven and the butter is melting in them.

 Marion has saved an old chart from a former feast that helps to remember the time needed to thaw a frozen turkey and how many hours are needed in the oven at what temperature for certain weights of turkey stuffed and un-stuffed. 

 One of the several basting moments.  The aroma in the house on Thanksgiving day is heavenly.  Marion is usually up and at it as early as 4AM. 

 This year Kiersten and Andrum brought some Pilgrim and Indian friends with them and we have decided to have them back again next year and the next, and the next etc.  Lord willing.  

 Our lovely daughters 

texting.... 

 Bailey, Kiersten and Andrum in the family room doing crafts, visiting and playing board games.  

 Internal temperature is 180F and that means it is done all through and through and after it sets and rests for a few minutes it is time to start carving.  

 Gravy, extra stuffing, vegetables, going on the stove top and the dinner rolls are ready for the oven.

 Table is just about ready and Bailey is lighting some candles. 

We had a Thanksgiving Prayer Poem with parts for everyone that we read as we sat down for the meal. 

Can you tell the grand-kids were hungry?  

The next day, Friday, we had another wonderful family day.  Aunt Dea even came over to be with us.  This is Tammy and her talking jewelry.  Uncle Wally is down in Phoenix visiting his brother Sam.  

Jeff and Cindi.




                                   Tammy

Jon visiting with Marion in the kitchen... 

                    Cindi and Jeff

Kiersten had a cool set of ZEBRA pajamas that matches the decor of her bedroom at home. 

            Jon and Tammy

Our oldest granddaughter, Riley, and her hubby Gage.

They surprised us all with an announcement.  Marion and I are going to be ......
 Great-grandparents. 

Thanksgiving II.  Or leftover day or the Friday Feast.... A tradition we have adopted that I really, really like.  Try it with YOUR family.  I think you will like it too.  

I think the dressing (stuffing) is even better on the following day.

It is hard to remember to save room for desert.  

Yeah,  I think this is my 
favorite holiday.  

Oma (Marion) did such a wonderful job.  She always does.  

 Do you know the Dishwasher's Prayer?

“Thank God for dirty dishes, they have a tale to tell.
While other folks go hungry, we’re eating very well.
With our home, health and happiness, 

we won't make a fuss.
For by this stack of evidence, God’s very good to us.”

Opa (Me) bagging up some 
leftover chips for a snack later.

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What a JERK.

Alert: Barack Obama Just Instituted Another ObamaCare Delay To Hide – Until After The 2014 Elections – The Fact That YOUR Health Care Premiums Will Continue To Skyrocket And Tens Of Millions More Americans Will Lose Coverage Under ObamaCare.  

       Does Barack Obama actually think the American people are that stupid? Does he really believe he can continue to play political games with the health care of the American people and get away with it?

       Last week, the Obama Regime declared a one-month delay to next year's open enrollment season to purchase health insurance under ObamaCare until after the 2014 midterm elections. As Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) put it: "That means that if premiums go through the roof in the first year of ObamaCare, no one will know about it until after the election. This is clearly a cynical political move by the Obama administration to... keep this program afloat and hide key information from voters."

       The implications of this delay are crystal clear. Barack Obama knows - and has always known - that tens of millions of Americans will lose their health care or see their rates go through the roof when ObamaCare is fully implemented and he doesn't want people to know it until AFTER the 2014 election.

       This latest cynical move simply proves that his rollout of this evil law is no incompetent mistake. ObamaCare's clearly a FRAUD… an evil and cruel hoax that is being perpetrated on the American people and delaying it or fixing it won't stop it. Repeal is the only option.

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ABOLISH THE IRS, REPEAL THE
16th AMENDMENT

Out-of-Control IRS MUST BE SHUT DOWN and
OUR FINANCIAL FREEDOM RESTORED!

DEMAND CONGRESS PASS THE FAIR TAX

ObamaCare for now is rolling on like a juggernaut. And what cannot be denied is that its implementation calls for some 17,000 new IRS "enforcement officers" to audit the American people and impose the new taxes and mandates compelled under the so-called Affordable Care Act.

Despite the ObamaCare train wreck, and regardless of mounting evidence to the contrary in the IRS Tea Party scandal, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney recently stated that Obama wants the public to "understand and believe that the IRS applies our tax laws in a neutral and fair way to everyone." Fat chance.

STOP IRS ABUSE: DEMAND CONGRESS ABOLISH THE IRS
AND REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT!

DEMAND THE FAIR TAX WHERE YOU CONTROL
YOUR TAX OBLIGATION – NOT WASHINGTON
BLAST FAX CONGRESS – TELL THEM TO PASS H.R. 25 & S. 122 NOW

That play for plausible deniability and willful ignorance on behalf of Obama is exactly what the Obama administration is expecting from the American people – that like blind, trusting, ignorant sheep we will continue surrendering our privacy and handing over our hard-earned money to a tyrannical and corrupt tax system that is incompatible with liberty, to fuel Barack Obama's "fundamental transformation of America."
In the throes of the IRS Exempt Organizations scandal, Obama and his lawless administration have had to more or less admit that since at least 2011 more than 500 conservative groups have been victims of the IRS jackboots and the Obama campaign strategists. Tea Party, patriot, pro-life, pro-Israel, pro-Constitution – anything in opposition to the Obama regime was fair game, and many have been the victims of IRS felony violations of law, including the political leaking of their confidential donor data and other sensitive information.
We now know the roll out IRS "admission" of "mistakes" was the tissue of lies we said it was: that it was not just low-level IRS employees in Cincinnati, that the wrongdoing was not just isolated to a single cohort of Tea Partiers, that political appointees and higher ups were involved. The trail of Marxist thuggery, filth and corruption ranged from California all the way to Washington DC, and those low-level employees have since turned on their superiors saying they were just following orders…
Barack Obama pretended in a big announcement to oust the already scheduled-to-depart acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller as a show of doing something to contain the cesspool of corruption and abuse of power in his administration amidst the IRS scandal, Benghazi and the AP wiretapping.
And then it broke publicly that Miller was leaving in June anyway – a decision made before the scandal even hit the headlines. And then Lois Lerner, who had Obama's "full confidence," pled 5th Amendment protection against self-incrimination… ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. OBAMA IS A PATHOLOGICAL LIAR EVEN ABOUT HIS OWN LIES.

STOP IRS ABUSE: DEMAND CONGRESS ABOLISH THE IRS
AND REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT!

DEMAND THE FAIR TAX WHERE YOU CONTROL
YOUR TAX OBLIGATION – NOT WASHINGTON
BLAST FAX CONGRESS – TELL THEM TO PASS H.R. 25 & S. 122 NOW

And TODAY we face the onslaught of 17,000 NEW ObamaCare IRS "Enforcement Officers." Right now, today, getting this country back on track requires that the sovereign People take the legislative initiative into our own hands.

Congress has time and time again proven itself ineffective and unwilling to act UNTIL WE LEAVE THEM NO CHOICE!

Right now, with these latest scandals, we know that our only options to restore liberty are to demand Congress move toward fundamental tax reform that DISSOVLE the malign and abusive power of the IRS!
It's time to stop the IRS …

You see, this oppressive tax collection behemoth, created through the questionable passage of the 16th amendment 100 years ago, has amassed to itself virtual totalitarian powers over the American people, including YOU.

And with the advent of ObamaCare, it's only getting worse.

Today the IRS can, at the time of its choosing, confiscate everything you own without ever actually having to prove in court that you are indeed guilty of owing the taxes they claim. This, my friend, is a clear and dangerous violation of the 4th through 8th and 14th amendments of the United States Constitution!

What's more, as recent history proves, Obama's partisan thugs at the IRS can target you and your family for your political or religious views. If the Obama left remains unchecked they will inevitably deploy the IRS to confiscate bank accounts, car, furnishings, and even homes of political opponents … and then put us behind bars. The opprobrium with which terms like "tax cheat" and "the one percent" are being thrown around and the shrillness in the calls for "pay your fair share" for exorbitant ObamaCare policies tells us what is in store…

And once you become a target of the Obama-run IRS, no court in America can help you. You are at the mercy of politically motivated tax courts created to "oversee" the IRS but which, in reality, already rubber stamp almost all the agency's outrageous and illegal actions.
The net cast by Obama's storm troopers at the IRS is wide indeed …

• If you're a Christian, you're a target.
• If you're a conservative, you're a target.
• If you favor limited government spending, you're a target.
• If you fly a "Don't Tread on Me" flag, you're a target.
• If you're pro-life, you're a target.
• If you attend a Tea Party rally, you're a target.
• If you oppose ObamaCare, you're a target.
• If you stand up for the Second Amendment, you're a target.
• In fact, if you believe in the U.S. Constitution at all, you're a target!

And the list goes on. Obama and his sycophantic minions, with the aid of other powerful government agencies like the National Security Agency (NSA), have put together a huge database of political opponents – including patriots like us – that they want to silence … in any way possible.

My friend, it's vitally important that you fully understand the threat to American freedom posed by the IRS, how it can totally destroy lives in the blink of an eye. And it's also absolutely vital that you join American United for Freedom and me in our campaign to stop the IRS juggernaut once and for all … by repealing the 16th amendment and abolishing the income tax.

STOP IRS ABUSE: DEMAND CONGRESS ABOLISH THE IRS
AND REPEAL THE 16th AMENDMENT!

DEMAND THE FAIR TAX WHERE YOU CONTROL
YOUR TAX OBLIGATION – NOT WASHINGTON
BLAST FAX CONGRESS – TELL THEM TO PASS H.R. 25 & S. 122 NOW

voter quiz

Note:  this is current as of August 2013.........

This is a terrific test.  And it shows results in a number of ways.

It surely indicates that the majority of Americans don't know what's

going on.  It's astonishing that so many people got less than half right.

The results say that 80% of the (voting) public doesn't have a clue,

and that's pretty scary.  There are no tricks here -- just a simple test

to see if you are current on your information.  This is quite a good

quiz and the results are somewhat shocking.  Test your knowledge

with the challenge of 13 questions, then be ready to shudder when

you see how others did: If you get less than half correct, please

cancel your voter registration. Click here: Test Your News IQ - Pew Research Center

eh?

We are not very far behind our neighbors to the north on this issue...  eh?  Click Here

We stand with Israel

Iran "Deal" is Naked Attack on Israel as
Barack Obama Isolates America's Ally

URGENT: Israeli-American Analyst Caroline Glick has penned an op-ed that has it exactly correct. Barack Obama is well on his way to achieving his principal foreign policy objective in the Middle East, and it is NOT about peace, or disarmament or democracy.

Despite deceptive appearances of chaotic "reversals" and seeming shifts of course in the region, which are all feints, Obama's goal remains constant and is succeeding – to isolate and weaken the State of Israel.

TELL CONGRESS: WE WILL NOT STAND BY AS OBAMA
DELIVERS ISRAEL TO HER ENEMIES!

I-591

Protect Our Gun Rights Yes on 591

Dear Larry, Thank you! We’re very happy to announce we’ve received receipt of the 340,000 petition signatures we turned in last Thursday in Olympia at the Secretary of State’s office. We couldn’t have done it without your help. Every volunteer gathering signatures and donating helped get us over the top. Of course, we’ve got strong opposition, and they’re very well funded. Predictably, extremist anti-gun rights activists and gun control backers have already come out publicly against our common sense initiative. So if you’re concerned with protecting your rights, please remember to turn in your signed petitions and donate today. Obviously, the job is not finished. This is just the beginning, and next year with your help we will work to pass Initiative 591, protecting the rights of millions of citizens in Washington State. Sincerely, Alan Gottlieb Protect Our Gun Rights PS:  Donations and petition requests can be made via www.YesOn591.org

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Action Alert

Your Letter to Congress Larry, thanks for taking action on behalf of Conservative Action Alerts. Your messages are on the way. An individual copy of your letter will be sent to each official: November 27, 2013 Dear Representative Kilmer, Dear Senator Cantwell, Dear Senator Murray, In total violation of the Fourth Amendment, the National Security Agency has been monitoring and storing "hundreds of millions" of Americans' digital metadata held by "Microsoft, Yahoo, Google, Facebook, PalTalk, AOL, Skype, YouTube, and Apple." (See: See: Gellman, Barton and Laura Poitras. "U.S., British intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program." Washington Post. June 2, 2013.) It's time for you and your colleagues to act and stop the NSA's lawbreaking by passing reform legislation to end their warrantless, sweeping, and unconstitutional surveillance activities. To this end, I ask that you co-sponsor the bi-partisan "Uniting and Strengthening America by Fulfilling Rights and Ending Eavesdropping, Dragnet-Collection and Online Monitoring Act" -- the USA FREEDOM Act -- sponsored by Reps. Justin Amash, John Conyers, and Jim Sensenbrenner. I ask that you urge your colleagues to do the same. A bipartisan effort, the USA FREEDOM Act would: end warrantless mass surveillance; provide Congress access to FISA Court opinions, ending "secret" law; modify gag order policy allowing companies to publish NSA requests; and, establish a "privacy advocate" to defend Americans' rights in the FISA Court. With the NSA’s misinterpretation (abuse) of law – providing them “allowance” to spy on anyone anywhere – it’s clear this legislation is needed to start ending government’s ugly, unconstitutional surveillance programs Moreover, I ask that you oppose Feinstein's FISA Improvements Act as it is a "fake fix" -- the Feinstein bill does not provide the NSA reforms currently needed. (See: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/floor-not-ceiling-supporting-usa-freedom-act-step-towards-less-surveillance) Defend the Constitution always. Less Government Power & More Individual FREEDOM. I am watching you actions. Sincerely, Mr. Larry Killion 8423 S G St Tacoma, WA 98444-6316 Thanks again for taking action, and keep this email for your records. Also, be sure to visit http://petitions.conservativeactionalerts.com/ for more important action items. Help Spread the Call-to-Action: Tweet This

The GOONS are at it again

IRS is AGAIN Targeting Tea Party & Other Conservatives -- Select Here to DEMAND Congress TAKE ACTION Against the IRS!  ALERT: Once again, Barack Hussein Obama's IRS is deliberately TARGETING conservative groups like the Tea Party -- as one official put it, "trying to SHUT DOWN potential critics"! As reported at Fox News: The Obama administration launched an attempt Tuesday to limit the same class of politically active non-profit groups the IRS was accused of targeting last summer... Smaller organizations that are similarly classified were the subject of unfair targeting practices earlier this year by IRS employees, leading to the eventual resignations of several senior IRS officials... House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp, R-Mich., says he's skeptical about the administration's move. "There continues to be an ongoing investigation, with many documents yet to be uncovered, into how the IRS systematically targeted and abused conservative-leaning groups," he said in a written statement. "This smacks of the administration trying to shut down potential critics." You read that right: they're STILL trying to shut us down. THESE EVIL TYRANTS AREN'T GOING TO STOP TARGETING YOU AND I -- UNLESS WE FORCE CONGRESS TO MAKE THEM STOP NOW! SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEMANDING THEY MAKE IRS POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION A FELONY, NOT JUST A SLAP ON THE WRIST: SEND YOUR MESSAGE NOW! This is all part of yet ANOTHER Obama regime scandal that just WON'T go away: emails which were just discovered by the House Ways and Means Committee, between Lois Lerner, former IRS Director of Exempt Organizations, and her staff give us PROOF that the IRS has been covering up their operation to bust conservative organizations! As the Wall Street Journal has reported, these newly-discovered emails "raise doubts about IRS claims that the targeting wasn't politically motivated and that low-level employees in Cincinnati masterminded the operation" -- in fact, they blow the cover off of those claims: In a February 2011 email, Ms. Lerner advised her staff -- including then Exempt Organizations Technical Manager Michael Seto and then Rulings and Agreements director Holly Paz -- that a Tea Party matter is "very dangerous," and is something "Counsel and [Lerner adviser] Judy Kindell need to be in on." Ms. Lerner adds, "Cincy should probably NOT have these cases." That's a different tune than the IRS sang in May when former IRS Commissioner Steven Miller said theagency's overzealous enforcement was the work of two "rogue" employees in Cincinnati. When the story broke, Ms. Lerner suggested that her office had been unaware of the pattern of targeting until she read about it in the newspaper. "So it was pretty much we started seeing information in the press that raised questions for us, and we went back and took a look," she said in May... ...It also raises questions about Ms. Lerner's intentions in a separate email exchange she had when an FEC investigator inquired about the status of the conservative group the American Future Fund. The FEC and IRS don't have the authority to share that information under section 6103 of the Internal Revenue Code. But the bigger question is why did they want to? After the FEC inquiry, the American Future Fund also got a questionnaire from the IRS. DID YOU GET THAT? The IRS specifically targeted the applications of Tea Parties and other conservative groups, and directed that they be held up in 2011 in order to come up with an agency policy -- calling them"VERY DANGEROUS"! WE HAVE THE PROOF -- IT'S TIME TO PUNISH THE IRS FOR TARGETING GROUPS FOR POLITICAL PAYBACK! SEND A MESSAGE TO EVERY SINGLE MEMBER OF CONGRESS, DEMANDING THEY MAKE IRS POLITICAL DISCRIMINATION A FELONY, NOT JUST A SLAP ON THE WRIST: SEND YOUR MESSAGE NOW!

Handy tips

NOVEMBER 27, 2013 Remove Ugly Wallpaper   Wallpaper can be a great way to decorate a room. Unfortunately, the task of removing it can be so miserable that many won't even consider installing it. Worse yet, some people would rather live with ugly wallpaper than take on the potential nightmare of removing it. It really can be a tedious job, but there are ways to make it easier. No, we haven't discovered a new miracle tool that magically makes old wallpaper disappear. But, HANDY Senior Editor Jenny Stanley will show you that with the right tools and a few simple tips, you can eliminate a lot of the common problems. She might not change how you feel about removing wallpaper, but she'll help you get past your procrastination, take down that ugly wallpaper and move forward with a fresh new wall. these tips to remove your ugly, old wallpaper.

Patriot HQ

Dear Larry,              

Last year, Google made $15 billion by tracking users’ habits and selling that information…all without breaking any laws. Check out my latest blog post to learn three ways to limit Google’s ability to track what you do online.  
 
To your freedom,
 
Frank Bates
 
PS If the links above aren’t working, you can copy this link into your browser: http://www.patriotheadquarters.com/what-youre-giving-google/
 

who is special

America was built on the idea that everyone is...special. The Founders believed, no matter who you are or where you come from, you deserve a fair chance.    But when government panders to special interests, it tips the playing field and distorts the rule of law.   Last week's special session was another example of how special interests manipulate our government. Lawmakers scrambled to pass a series of favors for Boeing, hoping to entice the Goliath company to build its 777X jetliner here in Washington. In the end, even a tax break extension wasn't enough to keep the machinists from rejecting their union contract.     We know something is wrong with our state politics when one company is influential enough to prompt special treatment, even a special legislative session, from our elected officials. (Did you see that the same thing happened last December in Oregon-a one-day special session just for Nike?)   Rep. Matt Manweller-a former Freedom Foundation trustee-summarized the problem well: "The fact that we're here today is a tacit admission that there is something wrong in the State of Washington. If the B&O tax is burdensome for some of us, then is it not burdensome for all of us?...If we can save Goliath, we can save David, too."   Visit our blog to read our complete special session wrap-up. For Freedom,   Trent England Executive Vice President Freedom Foundation