Just a note from Management.

I’m going to be in Mexico City for two weeks on business, and I will have limited access to the web. I will, however, be on occasionally, and am going to visit a couple of conservative political bloggers while I’m there. You know; mixing business with business.

Anyway, please don’t take the lack of posting as a negative - I’m just temporarily “away from the computer” for a short time, returning on December 12th. Happy Thanksgiving to everyone, and I’ll see you when I get back!

Ms.U

20/20 had a special on tonight “Life After….” and one of the segments was “Life After Sin.” Stephen Baldwin and former stripper, Heather Veech, have both turned themselves around after living lives of “sin.” Heather is part of “JC’s Girls, Girls, Girls,” and goes to strip clubs to buy girls’ time - but not for dances; to share the love of God with them.

Stephen Baldwin is now facing Hollywood’s judgment because he’s no longer an elite partier. He has seen the side of life and has changed to be good Christian. Stephen has started a ministry called “Livin’ It,” and he’s lovin’ it.

This is a very good clip… I like stories like this.

On the Montel Show today, one of his heroes he honored was a little girl named Lizzie, who died at the age of 13 on May 12, 2006. She suffered her whole life with cystic fibrosis, juvenile arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis, yet her goals and dreams were to do something for the troops.

She started the organization “Troop Batteries,” after she’d talked to some troops about what they are not getting that they need. Her life-long goal was to send over a million batteries before it was all over, but she didn’t make it through to see it. Operation Gratitude gave them some assistance in mailing by placing a pack of batteries in each of their packages.

Only half a million batteries had been donated before she died, but her mother and grandmother have taken the torch and carried it onward.

I wasn’t going to include the final part of this clip because Montel brings in politics on the subject about the war, but Lizzie’s “Gram” said that Lizzie had been asked those questions by interviewers before, and she said Lizzie always said “don’t talk to me about my politics; talk to me about my project. It has nothing to do with my politics.

“It has to do with my supporting the men and women who are over there doing something for me. If they get four little batteries from me, how excited will they be!? And then I know that I will have done one tinly little thing for them.” What a courageous little girl…. This will truly bring a tear to your eye - if not make you bawl outright.

Can you imagine an 11-year-old little girl with cystic fibrosis saying she has to do something for our military men and women because they are putting their “lives on the line” for us? God has another precious angel in heaven helping him welcome the new soldiers home.

Watch Lizzie’s story here.

Please folks, if you can spare a pack (or 5) of batteries, please visit her site here and donate in her honor to the troops. Montel’s Show has several links to services and organizations that you can check out to help in thanking our troops. Again, I give thanks for people like Lizzie. Read some of the letters from the troops that have written Lizzie - read them aloud to Lizzie so she can hear them now.

Cross-posted over at Stop the ACLU.

Montel Williams spent his entire show today giving his thanks to the U.S. Military men and women who are serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and all around the world. Montel says he himself was in the military for 22 years, and today was a good day for Montel viewers.

Today we got to meet Capt. Scott Southworth, who was in charge of northeast Baghdad from the Wisconsin National Guard MP company, in one of the most notably dangerous areas. His 146-member unit, while there, received 23 Purple Hearts, as well as 21 Bronze Stars. He fondly remembers Thanksgiving 2004 as his best Thanksgiving ever. They invited their Iraqi Police Force fellow officers, their interpreters and families to Thanksgiving dinner. He couldn’t help but realize the symbolism and similarity in his unit being the foreigners there sharing a bounty of food with the Iraqis, much like the Pilgrims did at Plymouth Rock.

Scott went to Iraq to change hearts and minds, but had his heart changed instead by a young orphan boy named Ala’a. Ala’a has cerebral palsy, and he made a promise to him that he wasn’t sure he could keep; that he would come back to see Ala’a. He wasn’t sure he would make it out of Iraq alive, but sooner or later, this young boy named Ala’a had so stolen Scott’s heart, that he began “Operation Rescue Ala’a,” which was no small feat. Adoptions are not legal in Iraq, so he went through all the political channels he knew how until he could get it done.

Capt. Southworth left Iraq, ran for D.A. in his home county in Wisconsin and won, then went back to Iraq (along with help of then Homeland Secretary, Tom Ridge) using “Humanitarian Parole” to arrange the transport and permanent move of Ala’a to the United States.

Scott may have gone to Iraq a solider; but he returned home a father. God bless all of the soliders over there, and it’s too bad we don’t see more stories like this.

Watch the moving video here.

See others giving thanks - Euphoric Reality and Gribbit.

Recently Lawrence O’Donnell freaked out on Scarborough Country, calling everyone on the panel, including himself, too cowardly to serve in the military. Terry Moran, Joe and Michael Crowley are genuinely stunned by O’Donnell’s behavior.

Can you believe this? Aren’t we over this whole chickenhawk thing already? Puhleaze!

Well, I don’t know if this Imam, Omar Shahin, has been tortured before, but his recent ejection from a flight along with 5 other Imams said that that was the “worst thing that has ever happened” to him. Huh? Brit’s panel tonight included the always-brilliant Charles Krauthammer, and they were talking about what is and what isn’t racism when it comes to having the privilege of flying on airlines in the days since 9/11.

Oh, and if I had seen them acting the way they were acting (and yes, I do mean loud Muslim prayers and talk of Allah and other words), I’d have written this note, too!

I like what Brit said… if that would be the worst thing that had ever happened to him, he would have had a pretty good life.

Watch common sense discussed here.

From Stop the ACLU:

From a Liberty Counsel email to Jay:

From Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Jay, I just received wonderful news that Sen. Sam Brownback is urging his colleagues to allow a vote on the Public Expression of Religion Act (PERA)–a measure that sailed through the House 244-173.

Passage of PERA would eliminate the awarding of attorney’s fees to groups challenging the constitutionality of displays on public property. Groups like the ACLU have made millions of dollars using the threat of monetary awards to intimidate officials into removing Ten Commandment monuments, Nativity scenes, crosses, or the words “under God” from the Pledge of Allegiance.

++ Emergency Petition Presentation Announced!

Jay, Sen. Brownback and others believe there is still time to pass PERA before Congress adjourns. That is why I am announcing an emergency petition presentation to Sen. Brownback’s office during the first week of December!

I would like to present the Senator with a minimum of 150,000 petitions supporting PERA, but I need your help!

Over the next two weeks I am asking members of our Liberty Counsel team to do two very important things:

++ Action Item #1–Alert Your Friends

To reach our 150,000 goal, I am counting on your help in getting our message to your friends and family. Please forward this message to 25-30 friends urging them to be a part of this presentation by adding their name to our petition:

Click here to sign:

++Action Item #2–Contact your Senators

While Sen. Brownback is appealing to his colleagues to allow a vote on PERA, you can do the same thing by calling your Senators and urging them to support a vote on PERA.

To contact your Senators, call the Capitol Switchboard:
202-224-3121.

Jay, passage of PERA represents an important step in defeating the ACLU. That is why it is so important that you rally your friends to be part of our upcoming petition presentation, and call your Senators!

Thanks so much for standing with Liberty Counsel!

From Mat Staver
Founder and Chairman
Liberty Counsel

Jay sez: This bill is a very important and much needed peice of legislation. While it has an uphill battle to pass this Congress, if it is left to the upcoming Congress it is sure to die out. Take action now and contact your Senators to support PERA.

I say: Please contact your elected leaders… do what you have to to support this act.

Oh, man, I can’t believe how his family and other Hollyweirdos have tossed him under the bus. Stephen Baldwin is more interested in saving souls for Jesus Christ than he is for scoring points in Hollywood. I love this man, and I pray that his groups’ prayers can work on the rest of Hollywood.

Stephen, keep up the good work. I love you, brother.

Watch Stephen Baldwin, the born-again Christian, on Nightline here.