Category: take action

politics, social justice and ways you can make a difference in the world around you.

WDL endorses Ron Paul

The Waxahachie Daily Light endorse Ron Paul’s run for the White House Friday:

In the race for the Republican nomination for the president of the United States, the one candidate we feel offers America’s best hope for much needed change is Texas Congressman Ron Paul.

While candidates in both parties have seized upon the message of change, in reality, with the exception of one candidate, the change being promised is a shift from one special interest group to another.

Ron Paul is the only true candidate of change.

Largely ignored by the mainstream media, he has trailed the GOP frontrunners in the initial primaries. He has been labeled as a “radical” by the established political guard in Washington. They fear his message because they know, if Paul is elected, things will change in D.C.

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Huckabee signs immigration pledge

I’m disappointed in this…

Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee has become the first presidential candidate to sign the “No Amnesty” pledge from NumbersUSA, a self-proclaimed “immigration-reduction organization” and Americans for Better Immigration. The pledge calls for no “amnesty or any other special path to citizenship for the millions of the foreign nationals unlawfully present in the United States.”

Huckabee, who had been hammered by conservatives for his “liberal’ stands on immigration when he was in office, has taken more anti-immigration positions since the fall. He signed the pledge during a visit to the small Christian college of North Greenville University.


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If we offer “no amnesty or any other special path to citizenship for the millions of the foreign nationals unlawfully present in the United States” are we going to send each and every person who’s here “illegally” home or are we going to be willing to lock them all up and keep them in our prisons?

Is your candidate running?

Michael Bloomberg
Folks are talking more and more and more about NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg possibly running for president.
Everywhere he goes folks are asking and so far he’s still saying “No.”
But how can we know for sure? I mean really?

NPR’s Robert Smith devised a simple solution that should work for any and all possible presidential candidates. Now if only someone could get a similar card for vice-presidential candidates.

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Play candidates Bingo with your favorite (possible) candidate

pray for the least of these

tonight it’s frigid cold in Dallas. mid 30’s – 20’s I would estimate and maybe colder by early morning.
tonight Laurie and I played two rounds of miniature golf in our nice warm harm in suburbia.
tonight thousands sleep under overpasses and cardboard boxes less than 30 miles from us.
pray for them. pray that God warms their bodies and their hearts. and pray for us as a people when we drive by them and judge them with our thoughts and our stares.

Nerd olympics

A Minnesota tech company is hosting the F1 Overnight Web Site Challenge, where teams of geeks will create fully functional web sites for Minnesota nonprofits in only 24 hours.

One part nerd Olympics, one part community service project and one part race-against-the-clock — Sierra Bravo’s F1 Overnight Website Challenge will partner deserving Minnesota non-profits with teams of talented web developers for 24 hours of fun collaboration culminating in a fully operational website for each participating non-profit.

Love it! CMS suggests this could work for churches too. I agree. What non-profit website would you upgrade/change if you could?

Superconducting Maglev Train Models

IFW-Dresden Superconducting Maglev Train Models

IFW-Dresden Superconducting Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Train Models

This is way cool. Can you imagine DART trains riding through Dallas powered only by liquid nitrogen and floating above the track?