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This is an excerpt taken from the Trinity UCC website.  This preacher is the man who married Barrack and his wife and baptised all of his children.  This is Obama's home church and what he, as a member, has pledged to do.  Today on the view, Elizabeth asked, what if we replaced the word "Black" with the word "white" or  "men" or "gays" What would the backlash be?  What do you think??

Trinity United Church of Christ adopted the Black Value System written by the Manford Byrd Recognition Committee chaired by Vallmer Jordan in 1981. We believe in the following 12 precepts and covenantal statements. These Black Ethics must be taught and exemplified in homes, churches, nurseries and schools, wherever Blacks are gathered. They must reflect on the following concepts:

1. Commitment to God
2. Commitment to the Black Community
3. Commitment to the Black Family
4. Dedication to the Pursuit of Education
5. Dedication to the Pursuit of Excellence
6. Adherence to the Black Work Ethic
7. Commitment to Self-Discipline and Self-Respect
8. Disavowal of the Pursuit of "Middleclassness"
9. Pledge to make the fruits of all developing and acquired skills available to the Black Community
10. Pledge to Allocate Regularly, a Portion of Personal Resources for Strengthening and Supporting Black Institutions
11. Pledge allegiance to all Black leadership who espouse and embrace the Black Value System
12. Personal commitment to embracement of the Black Value System.

The Pastor as well as the membership of Trinity United Church of Christ is committed to a 10-point Vision:

1. A congregation committed to ADORATION.
2. A congregation preaching SALVATION.
3. A congregation actively seeking RECONCILIATION.
4. A congregation with a non-negotiable COMMITMENT TO AFRICA.
5. A congregation committed to BIBLICAL EDUCATION.
6. A congregation committed to CULTURAL EDUCATION.
7. A congregation committed to the HISTORICAL EDUCATION OF AFRICAN PEOPLE IN DIASPORA.
8. A congregation committed to LIBERATION.
9. A congregation committed to RESTORATION.
10. A congregation working towards ECONOMIC PARITY.

A Benefit Auction in memory of fallen officer

Tom Ballman

is being held at the Ballwin VFW Post 6274. 

115 Mimosa Lane, Ballwin MO 63021 636-527-9555

Saturday April 12th

Doors Open at 3:00 with the auction beginning at 4:00

The cost is $10 per person, kids 14 and under are free

There will be food, live music and an auction

100% of the proceeds will go to the Ballman children and the Backstoppers organization.

Today a baby was thrown from a vehicle across the highway and survived.  It's a miracle.

Here's my question.  A few months ago a father parked his wifes car, unaware that their baby was in the backseat.  He left his child in the car and the child died.  It caused lots of discussion on these boards.  Many people felt that the mother should've been charged with murder and should've been locked away, forced to be locked into a hot car until she died or at a minimum, their other child should've been removed from their care.    I don't recall what the mother was charged with, but they were NOT charged with murder. 

Now we have two parents who were in a car with a child.  They didn't restrain the child.  He didn't even have a seatbelt on.   They sat him in the carseat without buckling him or the seat into the car.  He was ejected from the car and tossed across a busy highway during rush hour.  Only a miracle saved that child.

I'm interested......how does the public see this accident?  Using the logic from the summer case, the child should be removed from the parents care.  Thoughts??

A friend forwarded this recently.....I found the comparisons sobering.

The next time you hear a politician use the word 'billion' in a casual manner, think about
whether you want the 'politicians' spendingYOUR tax money.  A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one advertising agency did a good job of putting that figure into some perspective in one of its releases.

A. A billion seconds ago it was 1959.

B. A billion minutes ago Jesus was alive

C. A billion hours ago our ancestors were living in the Stone Age.

D. A billion days ago no-one walked on the earth on two feet.

E. A billion dollars ago was only 8 hours and 20 minutes, at the rate our government is spending it.

While this thought is still fresh in our brain, let's take a look at New Orleans It's amazing what you can learn with some simple division.

So, I'm asking Santa for two Gipsy King's CDs, the Daughtry (sp?) release, Lighthouse and the new Matchbox 20 CD.  Do people still get CD's or am I the only one?   I'd like that bowling game for the Wii, too.  I could get a little bowling action in while the kiddo's are at school.  Could be fun. 

Well....what's on your Christmas list?

Did anyone see the article published by a British scientist about his predictions regarding the emergence of a new human race??

He basically says that with all the nipping, tucking, shaving, cutting, cross-culteral mixing and reshaping that modern civilized nations are doing that we will eventually create a new human species.  These folks will be taller, a lovely soft mocha color, hairless (everywhere but on your head) have perfect noses, perky breats, evenly spaced eyes and teeth, whiter teeth, nicer skin, etc., etc.  And this species will basically break off from the other species and only procreate among themselves further 'beautifying' their own 'race.'

You can read the full story at www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,305505,00.html

I've always wondered what all this cosmetic surgery was leading to.  Especially when I see movie stars who all have the same nose, like the Jackson family (well, before Michael's fell off!). 

Anyone else see this coming??

So, I saw this bumper sticker the other day and it said:

"You can't be Catholic and be pro-choice."

I wanted to put a note on the window that said, "You can't be Catholic and use birth control, you can't be Catholic and have pre-marital sex, you can't be Catholic and be divorced, you can't be Catholic and approve stem-cell research, you can't be Catholic for a lot of reasons."  But, in fact, do most Catholics follow all these rules? And isn't it a tad hypocritcal to chastise people for one decision when you're not following all the others?

How many Catholics followed the "no sex before marriage" and "don't use protection" rule?  Of all of my Catholic friends, I only know of one.

I wanted to turn the heater on yesterday.  I'd been working all day and I was freezing.  When the kids got home from school they were whining about how cold they were.  So, I turned it on and it smelled funny.  I called hubby.  But, he said if it smelled funny I should turn it off and I'd just have to wait until he got home.  We were freezing. 

Well, I'm a mom.  I'm used to working under pressure with no resources.  So, first we played the "camping" game where we all got under the blankets and read.  But, that got boring.  So, I thought I'd try to light a fire in the fireplace.  Never done it myself.  It's a daddy job.

After an entire book of matches and three pieces of paper that I couldn't even manage to get on fire, I gave up.  My 5 year-old says, "Mom, don't you pay attention when we watch Survivorman?  He can build a fire outta nothing."  We also watch Man vs. Wild.  I guess I've learned nothing. 

Back to the drawing board!

I just started my Christmas shopping.  We only have like two more paychecks that aren't completely spoken for before Christmas, so I needed to start.

You know how sometimes you get something and you just KNOW that the person you got it for is simply going to flip over what you've gotten them?  Well, I got flipper presents for both of my boys and I'm feeling on top of the world.  They're going to be SO happy and Santa's going to be THE MAN this year!

Now I need a hubby suggestion.  What do men really want for Christmas?  Is there some Man Gift that is hot this year?  We've done the camping thing and the golfing thing, we've done the tool thing.  Is there some new electric gizmo that men are drooling over?  Does anyone know?  Has anyone else started shopping yet??  Anyone get anything yet that they're excited about? 

I know, I know, it's only Halloween.  But in payday terms, it's almost here!!

Hi, my name is 2boys4me and I'm a volunteeraholic.  I've been volunteering for 25 years.

I've gotta stop.  I'm now volunteering for 8 organizations at least once a month.

Honestly, I think it's my Christian upbringing.  There's all this guilt involved where if someone sends around a note that says, "We really need volunteers" I feel like they're talking to me.  It's ok if you have time and the energy to keep up with it.  However, now I'm completely overcommitted, overwhelmed and starting to flake out on all of my commitments cause I'm doing everything halfway.

How do I stop? 

You know those medical commercials on TV all the time?  At the end there's always some soothing-voiced announcer giving you all that BAD news:  using this medication may result in......

Ok, so I'm listening to one the other day and the soothing-voiced announcer says, "Call your doctor immediately if you find yourself walking, eating or driving while asleep using Lunesta!"

I've driven behind some people I thought were probably sleeping behind the wheel and I've walked behind people who I thought must've been asleep; now I guess I'm going to have to give them the benefit of the doubt before I start mumbling and grumbling to myself about  these slow pokes.  They're probably just on Lunesta!  Yikes!! 

My boys get invited to a lot of birthday parties. 

We get invited to a lot of weddings.  When I go to a wedding, I try to imagine what the bride and groom must've spent per person on the dinner, then I try to buy a gift for at least more than what I think they've spent to pay for us to have dinner.  In some cases, that gets to be a LOT of money.

Well, now that the boys are both in school, we've got a birthday party every weekend.  Some weekends two or more.  So now I find myself thinking that the parents spent XX on the activity (skating, bowling, Chuck E. Cheese, Build a Bear, etc), so I should spend at least XX on the present.

I know, I know, spoiled kids these days.  But, I'm in this predicament whether I want to be or not.

Am I over-analyzing this?  How much, on average, do you spend on a kids birthday present?  Not like a neice or a nephew or a 'best' friend, I'm just talking some random kid in school.  In some cases, one your kid doesn't even play with--but your kid got invited (and of course, they want to go). 

HELP?!  I'm going broke on all these presents!

So the other morning, I'm getting in the shower and there's a GIANT spider in there.

I get up really early so that I can get my shower out of the way and not disturb hubby in his morning routine.  (y'know, 20 minutes of reading the paper in his "office" then the 20 minute shower, then 20 minutes of dressing himself---while I wake up the kids, get them dressed, comb their hair, help them with toothbrushing, make three beds, make breakfast, unload the dishwasher, feed the hamster, pack backpacks, make and pack lunch, take out the trash, clean up toys in the front room, go over spelling words and answer emails---wouldn't want to disturb his routine.)

So, it's early.  Hubby normally sleeps for 30 more minutes.  I had a dilemma---do I wake him up to kill the bug, or do I skip the shower?  I am NOT a bug killer.  I do not DO bugs.  I am abnormally afraid of bugs.  All bugs.  I don't discriminate.  A bug with pretty wings may have a creamy name, but it's still a bug.

He was aggravated with me.  I wish I could say that I cared, but a bugs a bug and a man's gotta do what his squemish wife is dancing around begging him to do.  Am I right or am I right??

As I was still contemplating a Cadillac commercial starring Kate Walsch, another commercial came on for-----well, I don't even remember.

Kate Walsch zooming around in a Cadillac says something along the lines of "when you turn your car on, does it return the favor?" So, I'm thinking....hhmmmm.. that's kind of risque' for noon on a Tuesday.

Then next commercial break I hear a little boy say something about his "art show."  I think, "aahhhh, kids are so cute." so I start paying attention (just what the marketing exec wanted).  I stop what I'm doing and look at the TV.  The boy shows two pictures:  I call this one a "dog", I call this one a "house", I call this one "mom and dad wrestling"---the mom pulls the picture away and both the parents act embarrassed.  I have no clue what they were attempting to sell. 

I'm not a prude.  Not by a long shot.  But....sheez.....it's noon.  It's Tuesday.  Who's the target audience for these commercials?  Do I really have to put up with sexual innuendos during every break of House Hunters?  I'm watching HGTV for pete's sake, not the Playboy channel.

Is this too sexy for daytime TV???

I think hubby and I should get Tattoos for our 15 year anniversary.  I'd like to do some kind of chain with our kids names, our wedding date, etc in them.

He says when I'm 60, 70, 80 I'd be so embarrassed by a tattoo it's not worth the trouble.

Any thoughts on this??  Would my kids be embarrassed to dance with their old mom at their wedding if she has a tattoo??  Doesn't that make me kind of a rockin granny??

Any tattoo'd grandmas want to weigh in??