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Update from Uganda
I just received an email from Matt. I think it’s about a week old now – DOH.
Matt’s e-mail is an update from “my sister” Kathryn, who’s in Uganda right now. I believe she returns home tomorrow so please pray for safe travel.
Katya texted me about 1pm today which is about 9pm over there. She said today (now yesterday for her) she had her first contact with children. She said she is very tired and also she is very troubled with what she has seen. Quote: ” its
devastating the conditions over here…the people desperately need hope” “we worked kids today for the 1st time today, I dont have the words 2 tell whats going on here”
She spoke of a girl named Juliet, a 7 year old girl who is taking care of four siblings because the parents abandoned them. ” my heart so heavy and burdened with all i saw and heard today”
Please pray for her for God’s peace and rest, also to remember to remember God is still in control even with what we see and dont understand. She has such a heart for people of are hurting.
Just letting you know how things are going…..
Report critiques Congressional payments to family members
A new report out from CREW critiques payments and other perks given to Congressional family members through campaigns and/or PACS.
I caught the beginning of an interview on NPR this morning. I was listening via Sirius so I wasn’t familiar with the host or program but I think it may have been Talk of the Nation.
According to the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington the actions of Congress members were legal, but the watchdog group questions whether they should be.
“CREW has rarely been able to verify the qualifications of relatives on the campaign payroll, but the legitimacy of at least some payments — those made to children, for example — appears dubious,” the 149-page report says. “It is also legal for the close relatives of members to lobby, yet the unique access offered to these lobbyists creates a situation ripe for abuse.”
The group examined current members of Congress who are chairs or ranking members of House committees and subcommittees, and only looked at the 2002, 2004 and 2006 election cycles. Many of its findings have been previously disclosed in news media including The Plain Dealer.
44 Democrats and 53 Republicans were cited in the report.
The report names seven Texas congressmen, including our very own Rep. Joe Barton, R-Ennis/Arlington.
The report says the Barton campaign paid Barton’s wife $57,000 during the 2006 campaign and his son and daughter have received over $17,000 over the last few campaign cycles. The Barton Campaign also made a contribution to his mother. She only received $7,000 for the purchase of a car for the campaign.
Also cited from Texas are Henry Cuellar (D-TX), Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Ralph Hall (R-TX), Randy Neugebauer (R-TX), Silvestre Reyes (D-TX) and 2008 presidential candidate, Ron Paul, R-Lake Jackson/Galveston/Victoria.
During the 2006 campaign, the Ron Paul Campaign paid his daughter $36,000 in salary and Ron Paul’s PAC paid her $20,000 in salary. She’s listed as the treasurer of the PAC from 2002-2006.
During the 2004 campaign, the campaign paid Ron Paul’s daughter $53,000 in salary and the PAC paid her $3,000.
During the 2002 campaign, the campaign paid her $48,000 in salary.
The Ron Paul campaign has also paid the mother and father-in-law of another daughter, that same daughter and a grandson.
It may be legal, but I don’t like the looks of it. The lady being interviewed on NPR this morning said, “The real scandal in Washington isn’t all the things that are illegally going on, its the legal things that are going on.”
Read the full report
Read a summary
Download a quick overview chart
This Sunday
I’m filling in for Brian this Sunday at encounter. I’m really looking forward to it and hope I’ve done enough prep.
It should be interesting either way. Brian made an interesting observation Tuesday, he said, “You can get very nervous speaking for God but there’s also great encouragement in knowing your speaking for God.”
Unless something crazy happens this Sunday (like last week – arrrggghhh) we’ll have the message posted as a podcast by Sunday night or Monday.
So if you think about me between now and Sunday morning be sure and say a quick prayer for me/us. Thanks
My idea of a casket
Not to be morbid or anything but this would be my preference for a casket too – just a plain wooden box, built by prisoners for $200.
Create a silent ringer for your cell phone
Now this is an idea I can really put into use.
Lifehacker has suggested creating a silent ringer for non-priority phone calls on your cell phone.
From a Lifehacker reader:
My cell phone (like most) lets me select a custom ringtone for each contact in my phonebook, however there’s no option to set an individual entry to “not ring”. So I just created a 1 second long recording of “nothing” using my computer, transferred it to my phone, and I can now select it as a custom ringtone for numbers that, while I don’t want to block, I just don’t want to hear.
Why would you want to do this? Well I’m sure you have people in your cellphone book that you don’t need instant notification of their phone call and/or don’t want to be bothered by their phone call. I’m going to try and set it up for folks who aren’t in my phone book. I never answer those calls anyways – might as well not have to worry about hearing the ringer go off.