If I’m not mistaken today is the final day for contributions for voice activated laptops for our injured military people who cannot use a conventional laptop or PC. They need one that is voice activated so they can keep in touch with their friends and family.

Please go to the sidebar and click to make a donation to this more than worthy cause if you haven’t done so already.

Or go directly here to make your donation.

Please help these people have as normal a life as possible.

I just finished reading this op-ed written by Shmuley Boteach, in the Jerusalem Post.

It started me thinking of something I have thought of a lot in the recent past.

We have the Orthodox Jews, of which Mr. Boteach seems to be one, the radical Islamists and dedicated followers of other religions who believe so strongly their faith is right that they are willing, in some cases to die or to kill for their faith.

While I am willing to die for my faith I’m not willing to kill for it because I don’t believe that’s what God wants me to do.

But what if Christians, real born-again Christians, had the same desire to evangelize the world as those in other faiths?

I read somewhere Sunday that in Great Britain only 42% of the people pray. That’s a disgrace! And it shows why our world is in the shape it’s in.

You don’t have to sign up to be a missionary in a faraway land to proclaim the Gospel of Christ.

You can help your neighbor or a friend or an agency in need of food, clothing and other supplies to make a person or a family comfortable.

Someone can’t pay their electric bill and won’t have heat because of it? If you have the money pay it for them. If you don’t get a few of your Christian friends to chip in and pay the bill for them every month until the weather warms. You didn’t need that new car right now anyway.

How about the family that can’t afford groceries and I’m not just talking about Thanksgiving. Can you afford to pitch in and help them during their tough times?

Isn’t this the Christian thing to do? And at the same time you can tell them the Gospel and show them Jesus through you and your actions. Don’t do it for the praise you get on earth, but do it because it’s the right thing to do and God will take care of the praise part later on when you’ve forgotten all about it.

Listen to this song by Ray Boltz.

It’s all about love and the ripple effect.

Serving as a reminder that we are nearing the close of the Bush admiistration and heading quickly towards an election which may be one of the most important in many years is the closing of a chapter in the Blog World.

I would skip over at least once a day to see what the guys at Blogs For Bush were thinking on the events of the day.

I was delighted to see that the site itself will remain up so the archives may be accessed but even happier to see that Mark and Matt will continue their work at a new site, Blogs for Victory.

Should you have a free few minutes, you might want to wander over a take a look.

I’ve heard of good luck charms in many forms but never one such as this:

The family of man who held a fragment of a more than 1,000-year-old manuscript of the Hebrew Bible for six decades as a good luck charm will present it to a Jerusalem institute next week, officials said Thursday.

The parchment, about “the size of a credit card,” is believed to be part of the most authoritative manuscript of the Hebrew Bible, the Aleppo Codex, said Michael Glatzer, academic secretary of the Yad Ben Zvi institute. It contains verses from the Book of Exodus describing the plagues in Egypt, including the words of Moses to Pharaoh, “Let my people go, that they may serve me.”

Imagine this fragment of biblical history surviving all those years in the wallet of a man who believed in its powers. Truly, amazing.

Reading this story in which Hillary Clinton claims to have no knowledge of her campaign planting questions in her audiences reminds me of Sgt. Schultz in the old “Hogan’s Heroes” series.

When caught knowing something he wasn’t supposed to know his answer was always, “I know nuthink!”

Well, Hillary claims she knows nothink too in this mini-scandal.

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton responded to allegations Sunday that her presidential campaign had planted questions during public appearances.

At a media event in Waterloo, Iowa, Clinton responded to a reporter’s question about two separate incidents, one that occurred this week at a biodiesel plant in Newton, and the other in April on a farm outside Fort Madison, both in Iowa.

“Well it was news to me” Clinton said. “And neither I nor my campaign approve of that. And it will certainly not be tolerated.”

The reporter went on to ask if she knew of other incidents beyond those reported.

Clinton responded saying, “You know everything I know.”

I know for a fact I was born at night, but it wasn’t last night!

She knew what was going on and she approved it. Why can’t she just admit it and moveon.org?

Apparently she thinks the entire electorate is as gullible as she pretended to be when she accused us of fabricating the Lewinski story. You remember; she accused us of being the “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.”

Who knew Bill was a right-winger? And who believes Hillary’s unbelievable prevarications now?