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I love these big bright blue eyes but who does she look like? Other than looking like a baby cricket, most of the other children say she just looks like a baby.

Spring is beautiful. In the rolling hills of Tennessee the weather is crisp and cool with more days of warmth that bring a much needed break from the cold bare winter. Here, the first signs of spring are the blooming of the brilliant yellow jonquils and forsythia bushes. Now, the wild crab apple trees, dogwoods, redbuds and fruit trees are in full blossom. The robins are plump. The bluebirds and cardinals are bright and brilliant. Numerous other birds flit about. Our peas and marigolds are sprouting. It is beautiful.

Amongst these beautiful things, we still have chicken pox and I am recovering from mastitis. Since I am prone to this while breastfeeding, I have learned how to treat it naturally and successfully with the use of herbs and vitamins—-so thankfully it isn’t that big of an ordeal.

Once I am completely recovered, I have a urge to spring clean. This site is by a momma of many children www.largefamilylogistics.net and here is her blog for some great spring cleaning tips….

For over a year now the citizens of tennessee have been trying to regain their freedom to buy and drink raw milk. HB1623 & SB1984 have been dragged around the TN state house since the middle of February back in 2005. But finally there is a chance that the Senate at least is going to take some action on it this coming week. Just yesterday SB1984 was “Placed on S. C,L&A Comm. cal. for 4/4/2006″. (that’s the Commerce, Labor and Agriculture committee)

This just happens to be the same day that the bill to stop the NAIS (HB3297/SB1984) will be reviewed in sub-commitees of both the house and the senate. This will make a grand day to visit the state capitol. If you were considering a home school field trip, or a relaxing day to met your representatives, might I recommend Tuesday April 4th 2006 at 9AM. See http://farmersandfreeholders.org for more info on the NAIS bill.

The text of the Raw Milk bill can be found here. Also for on-going information on the raw milk struggle in TN I would highly recommend http://www.tennesseansforrawmilk.com/. Shawn Dady his been hot on the trail of the raw milk bill in TN from the beginning and is a great source of information on the subject. She is also the local organizer of the Weston A. Price Foundation which is a well spring of information about the safety of raw milk. Their raw milk site is http://www.realmilk.com/.

The irony here with the over reaching arms of the state is that you can buy raw meat, raw eggs, and raw vegetables. You can even buy raw fish that has been shipped from out of state (or maybe out of country), but you can NOT buy raw milk. If you go to your next door neighbor and pay him a couple dollars for some milk from his cow, then you are a criminal in the state of Tennessee. What was common fare for our grand parents is illegal for us.

The sale of raw milk for human consumption is legal in 28 of the 50 states. If you would like to help regain a basic freedom in the state of TN, such as being able to feed your family the diet you choose rather than the state legislature, then please consider coming to the state capital next Tuesday.

Here is the info:

9am, April 4, in Room 29 of the Legislative Plaza

You can ask any of the security personnel and they will be able to direct you to the correct room.

I’m always suspicious when I see those who are normally in favor of killing unborn children suddenly positioning themselves to be pro-life. Roy has been a long time pro-abort who never met an abortion he didn’t like. In fact, far from being a moderate on abortion, he was one of only 9 senators to vote against SJR-127 a few weeks ago.

So when Roy creates a bill (SB2993) with abortion regulation as the subject one has to ask, what’s his motive? This bill seems like a great idea. It ostensibly provides a mechanism for prosecuting child rapist. Who is not against that? Surely everyone, in their right mind, would agree that pedophiles should be prosecuted and if guilty should receive the most severe punishment. But we already have laws for that. TN Code 39-13-506 and 39-13-522 deal directly with both statutory rape and child rape. So what is SB2993 all about.

SB2993 requires abortionist to collect DNA samples from the dead baby and send them to the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), where the TBI is to establish procedures for the amount of tissue to be collected, how it is to be preserved, and how to use it in court.

Here is the irony in legislation like this. While pro-aborts uniformly deny the humanity of the unborn child, it is laws like this that show their inconsistency. First the specimen being collected is human DNA. It is so human in fact that it can be used to match that child with the father. It’s not frog DNA, or some other animal species, it is human. What ever happened to it’s a blob of tissue?

Secondly, the absurdity of a law like this should be obvious. The mechanism for prosecution does not exist. In order for this law to have any enforcement mechanism at all, the suspect’s DNA would have to be on record somewhere, or the suspect would have to be forced to give a DNA sample. There are some serious constitutional issues there that should be tied up in court a long time.

So why the law? Is Roy suddenly trying to appear pro-life by taking up an issue that has been exposed by the pro-lifers? (BTW - see this incredible exposé here. Planned Parenthood has been protecting child predators for years) Roy has never pretended to have any pro-life leanings in the past and his district keeps re-electing him. That would make one think that he doesn’t need the pro-life play. So why the law?

In the final twist of irony, bills like this will be used by the liberal social engineers to force submission to DNA testing on grown adults. It’s a duplicitous liberal play. Pass laws that effect the unborn whom they deny are human, then make the claim later that these laws should apply to adult humans since we already have them for the unborn.

Talk about having your cake and eating it too. Don’t fall for Roy Herron’s Red Herring. We have laws on the books that make it a felony to rape a child. We have laws on the books that require abortion facilities to report activity where there may be child abuse taking place. We should enforce the laws we have. But Roy thinks it will be helpful to ask the people killing innocent children to report the ones who abuse them. What music are you dancing to Roy?

While this bill has passed the senate, the house version (HB3023) is still struggling along in the Constitutional Protections subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee. Something about constitutional issues - go figure. If you’d like to contact the members of that committee and let them know how you feel, you may do so here:

http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/house/Committees/hsubmemb.htm#cons

Further Reading:

• http://www.examiner.com/US-a56855~Tennessee_to_Require_DNA_From_Abortions.html
• http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BILL/HB3023.pdf
• http://www.legislature.state.tn.us/bills/currentga/BillCompanionInfo.aspx?billnumber=SB2993
• http://www.plannedparenthoodexposed.com/

HON. RON PAUL OF TEXAS
Before the U.S. House of Representatives 

February 15, 2006

The End of Dollar Hegemony A hundred years ago it was called “dollar diplomacy.”  After World War II, and especially after the fall of the Soviet Union in 1989, that policy evolved into “dollar hegemony.”  But after all these many years of great success, our dollar dominance is coming to an end.

It has been said, rightly, that he who holds the gold makes the rules.  In earlier times it was readily accepted that fair and honest trade required an exchange for something of real value.

First it was simply barter of goods.  Then it was discovered that gold held a universal attraction, and was a convenient substitute for more cumbersome barter transactions.  Not only did gold facilitate exchange of goods and services, it served as a store of value for those who wanted to save for a rainy day.

Though money developed naturally in the marketplace, as governments grew in power … Read More Here

According to the Iowa Extension Service, every teaspoon of breastmilk has 3,000,000 germ killing cells in it; so if a baby gets even one teaspoon a day, it is very valuable! (see articles below)

Mother’s milk is truly an incredible provision that God designed. I am amazed at its wonders–as they are too numerous to count. Breastmilk is the ultimate immunization as well as ultimate nutrition.

We have been dealing with the dreaded chicken pox around here for almost a week. It isn’t slowing down yet, but I have watched each of my children deal with this childhood sickness with much interest. My oldest is trying to take it like a man. My daughter was horrified when she found out that her spots were going to turn in to scabs. My son, who has a hard time sitting still and is always on the go…is finding no self control when it comes to scratching. My 3 year old doesn’t know what “stop scratching” means and freaks out when calamine lotion touches his skin. My 5 year old, who either had a very light case or has bug bites and hasn’t broken out with it yet, keeps saying that he wants more spots.  I found him in the bathroom with a q-tip and the pink calamine lotion putting dots on his belly.
Annabelle was one of the first ones to come down with it. With a couple of fussy days and a low grade fever, she was by far the easiest one to deal with. She nursed more often and for longer periods of time. My body evidently picked up on the clues that she wasn’t feeling well and in turn made a large supply of milk for her. I became more hungry and tired as well. In all of this, I marvel at the amazing design our Creator developed: the mother child nursing relationship is incredible.

Getting back to the ultimate immunization: it isn’t uncommon for a newborn to completely be protected against illnesses like the chicken pox. However, this was not the case with us. Even though she is only 9 weeks old, Annabelle did get the chicken pox. The amazing thing is that she developed a mild case with minimal spots. The majority of her spots were in her hair and neck, with several on her face, a couple on her midsection and a couple on her back. The more amazing thing is her spots healed up amazingly fast! Most of her spots are completely gone with no sign that they were ever there in the first place.

I know that the breastmilk acted like pure liquid healing for her and am thankful for this amazing natural medicine for our babies.

Interesting articles on the breastfeeding and immunity:

Immune Factors in Human Milk

How Breastmilk Protects Newborns

By the way, www.kellymom.com is a great resourse for breastfeeding info.

The government is not called
To be the savior of man
The Church with its ordinances
Aid this part of God’s plan

Civil justice eyes not the individual
But looks to the larger picture
A people in mass reap what is sown
An individual does not himself own

Man is tied to roots
To family, and a larger culture
Nothing happens that is not in cahoots
With our broader social structure

If a man steals and is not confronted
His deed is given standing
What was once a sin, uncontested
People now will be demanding

This is where the church and state
Each other’s hands they hold
Not with the same power
But to the same God their allegiance they owe

The state by the power of the sword
Judges and punishes those in Satan’s grip
To protect, not just the individual
But the culture at large, that is at risk

The church by the power of God’s word
Preaches to those who deserve the blame
She calls for repentance from the individual
She protects them from eternal flames

The family, God’s first line of defense
Teaches, trains, and demands obedience
First to mother and father, then to the family whole
Next to friends and neighbors relationships to train our soul

These three, Family, Church, and State
The governments God did create
Each with it’s own dominion and rule
Designed to bring correction to the fool.

– Paul TN

From: Baxter’s Practical Works, Vol. 1, A Christian Directory,
on Christian Economics, Chap. X., pp. 449-454 Directives VI-X

Direct. VI. In all your speeches of God and of Jesus Christ, and of the holy Scripture, or the life to come, or of any holy duty, speak always with gravity, seriousness, and reverence, as of the most great and dreadful and most Sacred things: for before children come to have any distinct understanding of particulars, it is a hopeful beginning to have their hearts possessed with a general reverence and high esteem of holy matters; for that will continually awe their consciences, and help their judgments, and settle them against prejudice and profane contempt, and be as a seed of holiness in them. For the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, Psal. 111:10; Prov. 9:10; 1:7. And the very manner of the parents’ speech and carriage, expressing great reverence to the things of God, hath a very great power to leave the like impression on a child: most children of godly parents that ever came to good, I am persuaded, can tell you this by experience, (if their parents did their duty in this point,) that the first good that ever they felt upon their hearts, was a reverence to holy things, which the speech and carriage of their parents taught them.Direct.