Angels

Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation?- Heb_1:14      
Every believer is surrounded by an innumerable amount of Angels. They minister to us. May each one of you come in contact with them, today or tomorrow or better yet when you need them in your life.
    In whatever capacity we need, we can feel them, whenever we need them. Sometimes I think they help us even when we don’t understand the need of them. They just appear and help us out of a bad situation and go their way.   

One day I was driving home, and we lived on a rather hilly highway.  There was a car stopped in the valley of the hill. I had two choices. I could crash the car, or I could try to pass at full blast which is what I chose.  I looked first at the people in my car. My Mother was one of then and my kids also. These precious ones God had put under my care. AND I HAD BLOWN IT. I WAS SPEEDING BECAUSE IT WAS RAINING, TRYING TO GET HOME  FAST.  Now understand I would never try to pass on this hill-hail-sleet-snow OR rain, cause it was a blind one, you could not see what was on the other side.    In the middle of my passing, trying to stop an obvious wreck, here came a car over the hill. I KNEW I HAD TO PICK UP SPEED SO, I picked up speed and barely missed that car. We would all have died hitting at that speed, I am certain of that. God did not want that happening, right then. I was sure shaking, when we got safe. Guess It was Adrenalin shock. But I really feel I heard A SWISHING AND A WINNOWING OF  ANGELS WINGS who were sent to us boldly, sent to us for sure, to protect us from dashing our family's foot against a stone. It was so close only an Angel or company thereof could have rescued us at the moment in time. NOW I SAY, NOT ALL WRECKS NEED AN ANGEL OR COMPANY OF ANGELS, BUT  IF YOU CONSIDER AN ANGEL AS SOMEONE WHO IS JOHNNY ON THE SPOT TO HELP YOU, THEN THAT QUALIFIES A WHOLE LOT OF  PEOPLE, POLICE, EMT'S, FIRST RESPONDERS. FIREMEN,WHO ARE TAKING ORDERS FROM GOD AND DON'T KNOW IT. AND IF YOU JUST CONSIDER ANGELS AS BEING UNAWARES THEN THEY CAN HELP YOU AND YOU DON'T KNOW IT IS HAPPENING....ANGELS ARE  SPIRIT BEINGS WITHOUT FORM, UNLESS THEY TAKE  FORM.
THEY DO NOT HAVE TO GET ANY GLORY. GOD GETS  IT ALL. HE IS THE ONE SENDS THEM.
SO THANK YOU LORD, FOR ALL THE ANGELS MINISTERING AROUND THE WORLD.I SAY ALL THAT TO SAY, IT DOES NOT MATTER IF WE DESERVE IT OR NOT, GOD  THINKS SO.

JUST CAUSE WE CAN'T SEE HORSES OF FIRE AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE, DOES NOT MEAN THEY DON'T EXIST, ELIJAH AND ELISHA CAN ATTEST TO THERE EXISTENCE. HE CALLED THEM THE HORSEMEN OF ISRAEL. Elijah  told Elisha, if he sees the Angels come and take him away, Elisha would receive a double portion of ELIJAH'S SPIRIT.  Elisha saw him leaving Israel and he got a double portion of Elijah's Spirit.  Because of that, I asked for a Triple dose, well I did not want to be greedy.

I don’t see a hill, that I am not reminded of the day the Angels visited us in an unseen manner. 

Be not forgetful to entertain Strangers, for thereby some have entertained Angels Unawares! Strangers is the KEY, Unawares means we will not always know it. Some will. The other KEY is Angels report Directly to God. Be careful how you entertain Strangers. This was when she first moved to Arizona and was quite depressed about it all. My friend says two Navajo Angels came to visit her and she let them eat soup in the kitchen as it was snowing and she gave Grandpa a coat cause he needed one. She said, she told them bye, it was still snowing and a few minutes later she went outside to watch them off. There was footsteps on the porch, to the yard , and all of a sudden, a few feet out in the yard, they stopped. It was Navajo Angels, a boy and his grandpa.

I think it is too wonderful to ENTERTAIN ANGELS, but I think you gotta need um for some specific need. Like if your lonely and they come to help you make it through the day. BY THE SAME TOKEN, NOT EVERYBODY WHO IS LONELY GETS A VISIT FROM AN ANGEL. I DO NOT KNOW WHY. We'll I take that back, I do  know why!!! God did not tell them to do it !!!!
If I ever did entertain an Angel, I did not know it.But I’d think you’d  know it
Abram knew it, Jacob knew it. Daniel knew it. Mary knew it , Paul knew it. 
Lots of people do not know it, they are dealing with the unawares, just like I was. 
But there is no doubt about their existence. Many people can attest to their touch of an Angels hand. They have no form but can take the form of a man, a woman, a child, an animal, an in-animate-Object. They can sing, etc. Just ask, you will get a convo started, and you just might find them a  touch different than regular people.

I wrote a Song about Angels, I have written over            200      And          Pappy              Liked this one best of all.   Pappy was my Father(RIP) The lst few verses go

'ANGELS'
I ain’t never seen me no little bitty Angel, I ain’t never seen me no Angel Band.
I ain’t never seen me no Great Big Angel, but I got an Angel that ‘s  Holding  my hand...
Angels are watching watching o’re m e , Angels are watching o’re my land
Angsels are watching watching o’re me , Angels are watching me sing to the Lamb
Angels can only sing the song of   I AM, I can only sing the Song of the Lamb
Angels can only sing the song of   I AM, I can only sing the Song of the Lamb
Angels can only sing the song of   I AM, I can only sing the Song the song  of the Lamb
That just about sums it up when it comes to Me......

TO CATCH YOU UP, Granny(RIP), HAD HER FAVORITE SONG IT WAS 'lOVE IS A SONG!' it also is one I wrote music for on the piano so I could play and she could sing.

Love is a song Oh hear it’s voice
As music plays Love’s not a choice
 It’s neither right Nor ever wrong
Love simply says You belong

It’s never rich Nor ever poor
Love simply knows There’s always more
It can’t be bought Nor ever paid
Love simply is Going God’s Way       

I sing a song I hear a voice
As music plays Love’s not a choice
It’s neither far Nor ever near
Love simply says Goodby to fear

It’s never win Nor ever lose
Love simply knows What just what to do
It can’t be lost Nor ever fade
Love simply is Going God’s Way

God sang a song His Son’s the Voice
It’s Jesus Christ  He is your Choice
As Angels play God’s Song today
Love simply is Going God’s Way
Love simply is Going God’s Way
Love simply is Jesus is The Way

My Brother Erick Goodman is a preacher and he brought  me a CD. Granny loved to cook for everyone. My favorite song on it is,

Come Home, Come Home it's Supper Time. I like the words that say, by granny, Come home, there is a banquet on God's Celestial Shores.I think she is saying, their is a right time to come home.
Trust God, he will lead you, THROUGH IT ALL, you must follow! Don't ever tell God  no! HE CAN SEE THE FUTURE! He may surprise you !

Love Nina
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The Sword of the Lord and of Gideon--Jdg 7:20

   Here is an example of God working with man to produce his eternal business. No where  in the Bible is it so evident that it takes both God and Man to deal with the business of the Kingdom.

    To feel, we can come in our name only, is presumptuous upon a God, that does require us to be humble in our approach to God, and humble toward a man, to whom we witness. Humility towards God, to even allow us to do his witnessing, of what He has done for us in our lives, and toward man, who is moved to tears, when he or she comes upon a truly humble person, who is willing to do as God bids. This is ascertained by the fact that God culled the men down to a mere 300 men who lapped, simply because he did not want Israel smarting off about it, being all their own effort that sustained them. God don't divide His Glory, His Honor or anything. He is Primo Uno. He sure don't divide his Honor with a wooden belly, cow, sand flea, etc. if you get my drift. They can't send 20,000 ministering Spirits to God's Chosen Ones. But He can, NOW THAT IS POWER!..........When we mention God’s Name, there is something Holy that is happening in the here and now. People stand up and take notice. Because HE IS DIFFERENT, HE'S BEEN HERE FROM THE BEGINNING, IS PRESENT, AND KNOWS THE FUTURE. HE DEFINITELY IS DIFFERENT. Wow, like maybe we should listen, when he or she talks. I BELIEVE IN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHESY. Even if it is just, "which fast food restaurant do you want to go to?"

    We should never attempt to take on witnessing without first being willing to shine our lights before mankind, SUCH AS, HOLD OUR TORCHES HIGH, BE SPIRIT LED. Only as we are good toward God and man, can those in the dark, have an example to follow for themselves. As Gideon told his people, take a pitcher, put a light into it, and when he calls, BY BLOWING THE TRUMPET, he and the other  men with him, then HIS  WORKING FORCES are to break the pitcher, and hollow, the Sword of the Lord and Gideon.  THEY WERE TO CARRY THEIR TORCHES IN THEIR LEFT HAND AND THEIR TRUMPET IN THEIR RIGHT. As you can see, in trying to give us an example to follow, he truly wanted us to shine like little stars. WE MUST GO IN LIGHT(TORCHES) WITH THE SPIRIT OF PROPHESY(THE TRUMPET)We must always be willing to show ourselves faithful to God by WALKING IN THE SPIRIT(WALKING IN THE LIGHT-we know where to go, and what to do)

    This is a way to bring light into darkness. We must be willing to go. Now if one cannot see that an area is truly dark to the light of the gospel, we won’t go. But that is not the case and never has been. There is no lighted believer that cannot see into the Spirit World. We all can start where we are. When we see a dark city as Gideon did, then we are admonished to bring light into it’s folds. We indeed have been given authority to baptize believers where ever we find them that want to be baptized. /you don’t need a degree from a seminary/we need to believe what God said, the Great Commission, “GO INTO ALL THE WORLD, BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, THE SON, AND THE HOLY SPIRIT, TEACHING THEM TO OBSERVE ALL THINGS, WHATSOEVER I HAVE COMMANDED YOU! AND LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN UNTIL THE END OF THE AGE”(And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age. - Matthew 28:20

    SONS', IT MEANS YOU! DAUGHTERS' IT MEANS YOU.  Don’t think that God is going to do it all by himself. Gideon teaches you this. Don’t think that you can do this all by yourself. Gideon teaches you this. Alls it takes is a willing heart. God will provide the humility. God will provide the food, clothes, houses, cars. He’ll even give you a strong mind with Godly Wisdom that no one can withstand.

    In fact, when you put God first, He has promised you houses here on earth. He says, when we give up our life for Him, He gives and gives and gives to us. But first the corn seed has got to fall into the ground, it is a soft landing people. He is the ground, you are the corn. So how do you think you could possibly fail. You can’t. He won’t let you. Fall into the Heavenly Father's hands, let him deal with the results. GET YOUR SWORD(WORD OF GOD) AND GO WITH GOD’S SWORD. BRING DIVISION, LET GOD DO THE MULTIPLYING. God didn’t come to bring Peace, but a Sword-Division. The word of God is powerful, a two-edged sword, capable of dividing asunder the spirit, the soul and the body. The soul consists of the Spirit and the Soul, the physical is the body. God came to save the Souls. It’s left up to him to translate the body  into Heaven. A Great Mystery that is. HEAVEN IS HIS BUSINESS NOT OURS.

    If you have the light, you’ll see the dark rather sharply. In fact, you'll be able to see through the dark as if it were light. There is a reason God says, we can look into the Spirit World, it is a gift from God. Yes, I've seen it. Maybe someday, He'll provide a use for that knowledge.You’ve got to begin with Souls in the dark, oh yes, you'll know they are in the dark. You’ve got to begin there. Talk it over with God, see what He has to say before you step out and fwd. Don't get ahead of Him. Make 100% sure you are witnessing to the right ones.
I REALLY SHOULD INTERJECT HERE, BEFORE  I  CLOSE. SOME PEOPLE LIKE THE DARK.    SIMPLY  SHAKE THEIR DUST OFF YOUR FEET. TURN UM OVER TO GOD, GET OUT OF HIS WAY. THE RESULTS OF WITNESSING, ARE NOT IN YOUR HANDS. GOD HAS BIGGER HANDS THAN YOU DO.  YOU'VE JUST BEEN ADMONISHED TO PRAISE HIM.

He don’t need anybody’s Money, he owns all the cattle on the hillsides. He needs plain and simple,

more souls to praise him.

If you got the light, SHARE IT...LET’S GIVE GOD WHAT GOD WANTS.

later nina

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Stretched Thin

       Every time there is a Natural Disaster, of some sort, it appears we are already stretched thin on resources, manpower and money. Lately we have had Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Fires, Flood's, Earthquakes, Power Outages, the sky is falling Chicken Little, kinda legacy NASA left us with, and last but not least, Terrorism. The three last ones not being  Natural Disasters, but man made ones. These we can and will deal with. But however the problem comes, it certainly requires, people thinking out of the box, to solve  it. Forget Fear,  that does not fit into any equation we own. Certainly FORGETTING FEAR, is a POSITIVE PROBLEM(IF YOU CAN CONSIDER THERE TO BE SUCH AN ANIMAL), the negatives have never even thought of! YES, FORGET FEAR! START THERE! CLIMB ONTO A POSITIVE MOUNTAIN, WHERE THE EAGLE TALKS, WOE WOE WOE, LET'S HOPE THE  LAST THREE ANGELS DON'T BLOW THEIR TRUMPET. Of, course we've read the back of book. We know they do.....What's this got to do with deficients?  Well when you take 1/3 away from things, Seas, Rivers, Moons, etc, I figure God understands deficiencies.

Don't have a lot to do with what I am talking about but for some reason it seemed to fit right in. Writers, tend to go back, now and forward. Yes, I like writers, especially John of Patmos. No, I'm not off base, I'm just not where I want to be, on base. What I have discovered, is, when I keep adding and adding stuff to the present Blog, it is time to get another Blog going. I think I am going back to DD Time.  Today's was a wackmaster.

Back to this Blog......

       It really taxes a Country that is already overburdened with all kinds of problems. None of them appear to have an answer, most of the answers are frivolous ones that are not really capable of being a long term answer to a short term problem.

    We have a Deficiency in our Budget, and it keeps on getting bigger and bigger. Like I said, everybody wants an immediate answer one that usually covers the real problem that got us there in the first place.

    My question is not ‘WHY SUCH A DEFICIENT?”  How dare we?

    My question is “WHY ISN’T IT A BIGGER DEFICIENT.” PTL

    THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE I WOULD START. The bigger Deficient is harder to solve but so what. We are in the problem solving business.  And it would really be a feather in our cap, if we gave everybody money who needed it, whether they deserved it or not, so they could continue to function as viable people in a viable government. OTHER WISE WE WILL MEET UP WITH THEM SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE.. WHY HESITATE....Why should some of our people have to hit the ‘street, no job, no house, no money,’ and then we help them. Why not help them where they are at.

    Now this will not make people happy, who were not happy anyway, but it will help the common man, for whom government is for, and whom we serve. Let’s serve them will the proper attitude.

    After all, people, who are flooding need help, right then.

    People who are in a fire need help, right then.

    People who are in a mudslide need help, right then.

People who are in a Tornado need help, right then.

    People who are in a Hurricane need help, right then.

    People who are in a Earthquake need help, right then 

People who are in a Power Outage need help, right then.

    Do you get the point here.

    People who have no job need help, right then, not 3 years later.

    People who have no money need help, right then, not 4 years later

    People who have atrocious health bills, need help, right then, not 5 years later.

    People who have lost everything, need help, right then, not a lecture 6 years later

    People who have lost their homes, need help, right then, not 7 years later, a new home.

    People need friends, right then, not 8 years later. 

    Treat people with respect that have a need, not when they are cleaned up.

    I just know, we have sure had our share of disasters, wouldn’t you agree? Now why, do you think this is so? Well, I am sure everybody has there very own reason, as to why it is happening. I certainly do!

    But you really do not care that I care. It is not appropriate for me to garner advise as to why your suffering in your very own way. Yes, I say suffering, cause most people to whom all of this has happened to, do not act happy about it all. So I will say they are suffering.

    So we do not need a government telling us too, ‘BATTEN DOWN THE HATCHES.’
PEOPLE, ALREADY HAVE DONE THIS.

WHAT THEY NEED IS A GOVERNMENT GIVING THEM, WITH A BIG GRIN, MONEY, JOBS, HOUSES, AND HEALTH CARE! THEY CAN USUALLY FIGURE OUT WHAT TO DO WITH IT.

    Now I am surely not going to be popular with the ‘Government.’

    For they do not like anybody that has an answer to their horrid problems of Deficient’s.

I just got this to say. If we’re down 4 Trillion, why not be down 12 Trillion.

You've heard the old adage, 'I clean up pretty good....'
I will reiterate, treat people with respect that have a need, not when they are cleaned up.


Give it to the people, give some to everybody, give some to the singles and families. I don't know a family with growing kids, that could not use some extra cash. I'm talking big time cash. I am a populist. They will really be happy for a change. They will spend and we won’t have a depression or recession or a down right slowing down period, and we sure won't have, a loss of a good attitude, from our Foreign Friends. They will be happy we are spending. We will generate jobs, and ideas will flow from happy people, how to get houses and health care, etc. I am not a socialist. I am of the Helper Party. Let's help our people....Government included.

Don’t penalize people because our leaders didn’t know how to govern.

We’re the people. We didn’t do it...........

nina later

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USDA

             Man, I am gonna start with a praise, I may not end that way, but at the very least I will get your attention. When I was growing up, those initials, were like, WOW, to me. If something was said, it was backed by the USDA very well, I was the first to get in line to get it. USDA meat. After all, I just wanted the best. I will Veer off and interject this personal note. Speaking of the best, the USDA has, it is my BFF here in MF, Peggy Lee Bender. She works in Animal Control, for USDA and is a Wildlife Specialist for the Navajo Nation. I just wanted her to know that I care about her personally, and that I do not have 'Knock Peggy Tendencies.' This article has nothing to do with her what so ever. I am a writer therefore I write. She is the hardest worker, and the most conscientious person that  I know. Very intelligent! She really should be full time. E'en though I would see her less.She does an excellent job at whatever she puts her hands to. And I love her very much! But I still advocate they need shook up a bit and put her on full time. But they did not ask me! That said, therefore, I move on toward this article!

    Now, I will retrogress back to Feb-August 4th, 2011. That is when it all was happening. What was happening you ask? Well, people getting sick on a product, and it is really easy to go for one or the other, e coli or, salmonella, the symptoms are basically the same. Cepting the e-coli goes for ground round and the salmonella heads toward the Poultry Bin. But they both do about the same damage, I might add, usually to your kidney’s, and then bingo, death. Only thing is Dr Blair, one of my Science Professors at Tulsa University told us, he had it once(Salmonella that is), and if you ever got it, ‘why you’d wish you were dead.” It was that bad. I didn’t need to get it, he made a believer out of me. But here the ole culprit was showing up in America, wrecking havoc all over the States.

    I just have one little, tiny, problem with the USDA now. Why did it take you from July 19th where you suspected, the Turkey coming from Cargill meat plant in Springdale, Ark., was making these people sick. YOU SAY, “ they were unable to issue a recall because they simply did not have enough information. AND YOU HAD TO DO A TRACEBACK.”

How sick do you gotta be, for someone to take notice. There is never any hard rock evidence, that is going to come knocking on your door and tell you “well, here we go again.  Food Poisoning did it, in the library with the hammer! You can’t seem to get a handle on this. You don’t seem to be going anywhere WITH THIS SALMONELLA and 3,000 people die a year and it HARDLY EVER VARIES. You should be having a better Success rate than to have a repetition of the same ole same ole, food poisoning, year after year. You better get you a new graph and figure out where you’ve gone wrong. Food Poisoning is Food Poisoning. Why wait till half of America goes ahead and buys the Turkey Burgers and consumes them, to tell them, why we suspected this two weeks ago, but we had to confirm and confirm and confirm with this paper and that paper and this paper. In the meantime, people are getting a hold of something that makes them feel like they want to be dead.

    Now I say all that, to say this. If you people in the USDA, who did this to the unsuspecting American people, were all locked into a room with a man or woman, that I JUST SUSPECTED, might be a murderer, I bet you’d want me to tell you what I suspect, wouldn’t you? Forget waiting on the Warden to send ME their papers to me to confirm, yup, HE REALLY DOES LIKE TO KILL PEOPLE. What if I waited, like you all did, and he really was a murderer and did you all in BECAUSE YOU WERE AVAILABLE, would you get the message then.

    Kids love Turkey Burgers, and they are ‘HEALTHY EATING,’ RIGHT?  Think how many kids ate them Turkey Burgers. I am thankful they have a bounce back attitude.
    You need to revamp your meetings to include some common sense, once in awhile. Now if what you were doing was changing the statistics on Food Poisoning, I’d say, Ok, I’m a DORK, and I owe you an apology. But you ain’t changing statistics according to Note # 1. I bet if my Sons(Of course, they are very helpful people!)got a hold of them Statistics they’d show you a chart that would boggle your minds. If your willing to listen that is. Well, you’ve definitely shown by this last action that you are in the ‘need help business.’

Take Note # 1: 

the federal health officials say they’ve made virtually no progress against it.
The CDC estimates that 50 million Americans each year get sick from food poisoning, including about 3,000 who die. Salmonella causes most of these cases, and federal health officials say they've made virtually no progress against it.

    No Results, wow, you’d be fired out in the real world.

    But I only have one last thing to say. YOUR INTO EVERYTHING, FOOD, DRUGS, ANIMALS, ETC. I hope your success ratio is better in these avenues. But I get this gut feeling they could probably use a little shaking up also. Air out the mattress, kinda thing!

 But................................
    You’re a failure as an institution.
    GET IT RIGHT!
    AND I DON’T WANTA HEAR NO WHIMPERING, EITHER.

    I will listen to those people after July 19, who got this cruddy stuff, for they have a right to bawl. It hurts like Hell, IF YOU HAD STOOD UP FOR THEM AND TOSSED THE PAPER WORK TO THE WIND, I AT LEAST WOULD HAVE RESPECTED YOU. IF YOU NEED MORE PEOPLE, THEN SQUEAL LIKE A PIG. I DON’T HEAR NO PIGS SQUEALING even when you were dealing with the children’s ‘tylenol  issue.’ No pigs squealing! All you said was, 'we was short of people.'

    But I can say, emphatically, Pepto Bismol helps. Gas is a killer! I am pretty sure, the kidney is telling the lung to tell the heart to tell the head, ah, ‘it only hurts for a little while,’ especially while everything is bloated. THE TRUTH IS THE HEADS THE HEALER.

    My personal opinion, nah, this ain’t it. This is it, “my personal opinion is” THE USDA IS BLOATED IN THE HEAD, and it needs SOME ONE TO TELL IT THE TRUTH. IT NEEDS TO HEAL ITSELF.

    Go tell the Turkey Processor(that you Suspicioned in the first place), that Nina says, “they ain’t getting off so easy either,” for surely they got a ‘funny feeling’ while this all was going around, when it first started. They should have stood up and been counted as a possible culprit. People got a long memory. Don’t ever be guilty of putting Money above Health, ever again. I realize you had to recall 36 million lbs worth of Turkey and that was shall we say a ‘BITE OUT OF ONES PROFIT. But health is health! And one can’t put a dollar value on that, can one?

    After all, I love Turkey! And sounds like from the amount of the recall, so does America. I’m just glad this didn’t happen around Thanksgiving. Can you imagine almost everybody in America getting sick.

Now you talk about a bitch. There ain’t nothing as bad as making America angry.
One angry bitch!

Nah, I don’t think it’s ever happened. We’re a classy nation, PTL

ps my hubby says, it ain’t possible. People at Thanksgiving eat “WHOLE TURKEYS NOT GROUND ONES.” I THINK HE MISSED THE POINT OF THIS RANT, DON’T YOU?
WHAT IS THE POINT OF THIS RANT?
 I’M OFF HIS CASE

Just a few notes I thought important:

Take Note # 2 :

All of the packages recalled include the code "Est. P-963," according to Cargill, though packages were labeled under many different brands. Many of the recalled meats are under the label Honeysuckle White. Other brands include Riverside Ground Turkey; Natural Lean Ground Turkey; Fit & Active Lean Ground Turkey; Spartan Ground Turkey and Shady Brook Farms Ground Turkey Burgers. The recall also includes ground turkey products packaged under the HEB; Safeway; Kroger; Randall's; Tom Thumb and Giant Eagle grocery store brands.
The recall also includes some ground turkey that isn't labeled at all and some that went to food service establishments, according to Cargill.

Take Note # 3 :

Dr. Chris Braden, director of the division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases at the CDC said out of the 78 people that have been sickened, 22 people, or 38 percent have been hospitalized, which are higher numbers than normal.

“We are working to explore why this may be,” Braden said. “We know the strain is resistant to several antibiotics, which may increase hospitalization and failure of treatment.”

Braden said the good news is that this strain, known as Salmonella Heidelberg, does respond to several other commonly used antibiotics such as Cipro and Bactrim.

Take Note # 4 :

Government officials say that even contaminated ground turkey is safe to eat if it is cooked to 165 degrees. But it's also important that raw meat be handled properly before it is cooked and people wash their hands with soap for at least 20 seconds before and after handling the meat. Turkey and other meats should also be properly refrigerated or frozen and leftovers heated.

The most common symptoms of salmonella are diarrhea, abdominal cramps and fever within eight to 72 hours of eating a contaminated product. It can be life-threatening to people with weakened immune systems.

"It is regrettable that people may have become ill from eating one of our ground turkey products," said Willardsen -- "and, for anyone who did, we are truly sorry." I believe him, don’t you?

Read more: the associated press contributed all the numbered quotes above. 1,2,3 & 4. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2011/08/03/usda-still-seeking-source-tainted-ground-turkey/#ixzz1UBGGnVsv 

love nina
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Everything Looks Big to the Aged!

    You know I been kinda following the Politics of Debt Ceiling. I can’t really tell you who is doing what, just that there is plenty of opposition happening and a deadline coming up. After August 2nd, perhaps no checks for the Social Security Recipients. Saw that while surfing. Two elder people trying to figure out what they are going to do. No they weren’t doing a jig!
   
    First, I need to point out something to someone somewhere. If you don’t understand POWER, JUST GO AHEAD AND MESS WITH SOCIAL SECURITY HERE IN THE USA.
    I FOR ONE KNOW THE POWER THAT THE ELDERLY HAVE WHEN IT COMES TO VOTE TIME. IN FACT THAT IS WHY THIS ISSUE LOOKS BIG. Loneliness and agedness are BIG ITEMS THE ELDERLY HAVE TO FACE.(how do I know this, because I am one of them-over 50 crowd) AND to take something away from them, is A BIG DEAL---BIG BROTHER STEALING FROM THE RETIREE’S--- THEREFORE THIS IS LOOMING LIKE THE GIANT DAVID KILLED WITH HIS 5 LITTLE STONES.

    Him being a lad no one expected him to kill the giant. Saul offered him armor he said no. he was going to fight the giant, with what he was most familiar with, stones. Plus HE KNEW HE WAS GONNA WIN, or he’d never dare do the feat. That kind of knowledge only comes from God!

    Now that is what I am going to do. My writing! Constitutes 5 little stones. I KNOW I AM GONNA WIN, or I’d never take on the Powerful who simply think they are powerful.

    I want you to understand POWER! This Country has them all over the place working and non working. Some are your neighbors. Some are your acquaintances. Some are your friends.

    THEY MAY BE LONELY AND THEY MAY BE AGED, BUT THEY GOT MOUTHS AND THEY WILL USE THEIR MOUTHS TO SEE TO IT THAT THE SACRED COW IS NOT TOUCHED.

    After all this is important to them. Financial security is one of the attributes of Social Security. That is why they need to keep the few benefits that they possess. Maybe they can’t do nothing about loneliness, and maybe they can’t do nothing about agedness, but they can use the POWER THEY POSSESS IN UNITY TO LET OTHERS HEAR FROM THEM.
   

    LONELY PEOPLE GOT POWER. Listen to what I just said.
    ELDERLY PEOPLE GOT POWER. Listen to what I just said.
    MOUTHY PEOPLE GOT POWER. Listen to what I just said.

    If I were you, I would be afraid to stand up like Goliath!

love nina

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Political! Veer to the Right!

    I know this is going to be a veering off to the right. Especially since I have been writing these Political Treatises that I can only hope someone, somewhere gets to read. And now I also want to include the USA, no, not to give us democratic processes, we already have that, but I like my Country and I don’t want it to feel left out!

    I realize that is quite egotistical since I am a nobody with an unrecognizable name in the Journalistic World. But I still have an opinion and that is worth a try at influencing an idea or two within the confines of your minds, so why not put my best finger forward and seize the golden ring.

    Now I realize, that some are going to put this Treatise in the category of Religion. But it is not a Religious Theory concocted by a Religious Flame Thrower. This is definitely Political. And it is meant to influence someone,  to stand up and be counted Politically, in arenas that remain largely untouched by most Politicians, the arena of Personal Piety, believing and living what is true. The Right being Truth that is! I realize most Politicians stay in the Middle or to the Left of, "living it like it is."  

    Since I am a Political Person on my left, I veer Right also towards the truth. This being one and the same, it appears to me. Since that is a truth, then no one anywhere dare approach me with the adage that God can not be spoken of in a Political viewpoint. I ain’t in the public eye, therefore I can and will speak of God whenever it behooves me to make a point in said following story.

    Now to tell the story. But first a little lesson in Civility. I have had a person(who was simply being obnoxious) tell me once that they did not have time to listen to ‘one of my stories.’ Well, I told it anyway. I am a fast talker. Besides, his opinion warranted my opinion. It happens that way sometimes when one meets someone in person! There are all types of factors involved here. Some people just don’t like what you look like(sad but true) or what you say(sad but true). But I just like people so I did not take offense at him...we just parted agreeably to disagree. After all I am a Civil Person!

    But I am here to say, this Treatise is not a meeting of minds. This is a Treatise of a Political Nature(veering either Right or Left due to the fact that( I AM EVEN WRITING IT)and if you don’t have time to listen, or if you don’t like a story with God as the main character, then by all means, STOP READING NOW! YOU’VE BEEN WARNED, BUT DON’T CRY, "I’VE STEPPED ON YOUR TOES." Cause their ain’t no Judge in the USA gonna believe you. I hope! I have the Law on my side. I hope!

    Now back to the Story! Yes, I get side tracked by Tangents. It’s my Nature. I’m a woman! We think differently than men do.

    Once upon a time, I was sitting at my favorite seat nigh the computer when I spotted the story of dangerous storms going to be breaking out around Dallas, That is a Red Flag to my Mind, after all, I have a kid near there! On my Computer while I was surfing, I continued to think about this turn of events and came to the conclusion that I should bother Ruben at work! After all this was of a life and death emergency! I commenced to pick up the phone and call Ruben. Now I will fill you in on a little background. My Baby Son Ruben and his Wife Michelle, live in Terrell. I truly love them to the nth degree, eternity and beyond. So I pick up the phone and get Ruben at Work. We chit chatted a bit like I had no ulterior motive, and I asked him if it would be Ok if I sent a ‘Blessing their Way.’ Beings, that he has had them all his life growing up, he has never refused me EVER, nor has any of my other kids or grand kids or friends.(but I usually Bless them when they are going away).....he tolerates a concerned ole woman, so he said, "SURE"!. SO I BLESS HIM!. Listen man, I've even Texted a Blessing, when I forgot to give it in person, it works just as well. But some things require a phone call, like talk to the person in person.

The following is the Blessing:
    May God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, bless you and protect you all(this is Southern talk and includes Michelle), this whole time through. In Jesus Name I pray! Amen.
    It don’t take long to dispense a simple Blessing and then I chit chatted awhile and said my goodbyes.
    But let me say, I am 1000 miles away from Dallas and the only thing I got left to do when I see Storms breaking out all over and that is PRAY. So pray I did. Now I felt better.
    That evening, they were both home from work,  I was watching TV the Weather Station to be exact, and they showed a storm system, heading toward Frisco and up(so I prayed for them)I know some folks up there that are family) and then WALLA, it showed the storm heading out toward Terrell, WHICH I DID NOT EXPECT IT TO DO, about 30 miles to the East. This I REALLY did not expect. I thought they'd just all dissipate. And the weather men put them all under Tornado Watches & Warnings Now there ain’t nothing worse than seeing one of them storms bearing down, on loved ones. They live in a home with no basement or storm cellar, and quite frankly, no place to run. I was panicked, ready for one of those anxiety pills the Dr Psychiatrist, gave me whenever I got to fly again, cause the pilot, a couple of months before in Dallas, had this weird laugh, when two planes were supposed to occupy the same space at takeoff. Don’t want that happening again, not if I’m in my right mind. GIVE ME A PILL! No, I haven’t taken it, I haven’t flown again, but I got um just in case I do.....and yes, I will take them! No, my husband was Ok, he was flying with me, NO BOTHER TO HIM. That’s weird! Normal people worry me sometimes! I told him that and he said, “after living with you Nina, nothing seems weird anymore to me.”(I told you, the Tangents come running while writing!)

    Well, back to Terrell and my kids.

    The storm is still bearing down on Terrell. And alls I can do is watch tv.

      BAM!, THEN I REMEMBERED! THE BLESSING!

     They would be ok. Now I knew it. So I watched the TV. And it showed Terrell under warning. And the storm kept bearing down on the kids. A very long time it seemed to take, but only the speed of a Tornado, is what it really was! But suddenly, the Tornado that was heading toward Terrell, hit in Kaufman instead. They said, it jumped over Terrell. The kids were safe and protected.

    I talked to Ruben later and he said, “well, if you were concerned why didn’t you call us while it was happening.”........and that was a decent question.....I wasn’t sure why I failed to do that. But he said it laughingly, knowing me all too well! Only thing is, if I had of, I am sure I woulda been slightly unnerved(OK I’ll tell the, TRUTH, A WHOLE LOT UN-NERVED. And could have upset them which is what I did not want to do! KEEP QUIET! LET IT HAPPEN, is my Philosophy! But I did have the presence of mind to tell him that I was concerned enough to call and Bless him BEFORE IT HAPPENED, that afternoon. “AND I BLESSED YOU EARLIER IN THE DAY, DON’T YOU REMEMBER!” He indeed remembered.

    Later, I told my husband, after I had given it some thought, what he said, “well, it’s kinda like the butterfly that flaps his wings in the forest, is there a repercussion somewhere else down the line? I THINK SO.”
    IF I HAD CALLED HIM, DURING THE TORNADO WARNING, I COULD HAVE SAID SOMETHING THAT MIGHT CONTRADICT THE BLESSING AND THAT I DID NOT WANT TO DO.....I WANTED TO REACT, ‘IN FAITH.’

    I simply wanted to LEAVE THE BLESSING UP TO GOD! WHAT BETTER HANDS WAS RUBEN AND MICHELLE IN, THEN IN GOD’S HANDS AND THAT IS THE SCOPE I WAS LOOKING THROUGH HERE IN MANY FARMS 1000 miles away. THE SCOPE OF FAITH!

    So I write this with the understanding that a Blessing is indeed important business! Even when it’s given casually. Even a blessing from a very ordinary person.
    And yes, our family is just ordinary! Political for sure! And so am I! But we have an EXTRAORDINARY GOD! One does not have to be perfect to get prayers answered for themselves or for non-perfect people. One has to be found praying! In the only name God recognizes! JESUS!

    Now, I know you are going to say, what about Kaufman? Well, that is in God’s Hands too. I didn’t have anything to do with where the Tornado hit that night, I did have something to do with it not hitting Terrell.
    So people: I BLESS ALL OF THE FOLLOWING, and LOVE TO THE NTH DEGREE,  ETERNITY AND BEYOND!

The following is the Blessing:
    May God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, bless you and protect you all, this whole time through. In Jesus Name I pray! Amen.

    Bless your kids(Rebecca & Russ & GrandKids Abby &, Izzy)(Robert & Jennifer)(Rathan & Barbara & Grandkids Audrey, Joshua, Jacob & Daniel)(Ruben & Michelle)!
    Bless others! Extended Families, Friends, Acquaintances, Enemies!
    Bless your Town(Many Farms, Lawrence, Tulsa, Sand Springs, Dallas, Frisco, Mead, Durant, Terrell, Georgetown, Cedar Park, Austin)
     Bless your State(Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas)
     Could even Bless the USA.

REMEMBER A BLESSING IS NOT A CURSE!
REMEMBER A BLESSING IS REALLY AN IMPORTANT PRAYER!
REMEMBER A BLESSING BRINGS MUCH HAPPINESS, WITH NO SADNESS.
REMEMBER A BLESSING IS NOT TO BE SOLD FOR A BOWL OF PORRIDGE!                              
Remember a Blessing never has to be explained just Remembered!
 
He redeemed us in order that the blessing given to Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus. - Galatians 3:14

     See I told you, when you influence that many people.  You veer to the Right and,
YOU DEFINITELY ARE POLITICAL.
Life goes on, here in the USA!

love nina

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President Bashar Assad’s Crackdown!

    Troops backed by tanks, snipers & knife-wielding security forces, portend a place in History in the middle east. This man is bound and determined to keep his post. He has gotten tougher as the 5 weeks of turmoil come to fruition in Syria. He want’s to keep what he’s got. The protestors, wish for him to end the uprising in a peaceable manner as they go to one after another funerals through their streets, of those that have been taken down. They felt like they had a glimmer of hope, but alas, now they face an ever tougher 'demander of quells' to the rebellion in their President.

    This is not good. NATO has spoken against such action also. I have noted our own Country has instigated Sanctions against Syria for their bloody quelling of men who are not allowed a different view of opinion. At the very least, we are doing something, at long last. I only hope it's enough to help turn the tide.

 Getting tougher does not seem to be the answer. That only makes the remaining ones fight harder to obtain what they want. And no matter what you do to quell them, they will come out of the woodwork!

    How can a man make himself into such a hideous creature that no one outside of his own Country thinks highly of him anymore. I am sure this type of Civil War, raging inside Syria is not good for Syria’s standing in the World Scene.  I wonder who is giving him advise? They are surely half-heartedly doing this, for if they truly believe what they are suggesting to him, what a pitiful bunch of people, he has surrounded himself with. They have to know they are making him into a monster, no one likes. I for one thought he was Ok when this all started, he seemed sensible from what I was reading, plus he had a beautiful wife, but now I do not. He has had 5 weeks to show his true colors and show them he has done it. As one witness says, ‘it’s war to annihilate pro-democracy movement.’
    Now really, how does Assad think most Countries would not be furious at him and his actions to put down a revolt, he does not agree with. How inhuman of him to activate this type of murderous belief. How can he justify such action and live with himself and sleep well at night.
These are his very own people and he seems to care naught for one of them, only for himself to maintain his present stature. Why couldn’t he have just incorporated these people into his present regime, with favorable laws that would benefit all and try to solve some of the problems that beset them all. He has taken a detestable situation and made it shameful.
    Assad appears to favor Iran which is not a good idea. For we know they are on the losing side against Israel. He certainly will not come out smelling like a Rose. It will be formidable task to find friends to back him and play along side his 'melee of disaster.' I guess he has not thought this out to it’s finished product. Nothing will be gained by this action of his. Nada! In fact, he will be unable to visit decent folk when he desires to venture out into the World. His family surely will not be welcomed either. Why would a man put his family into that kind of situation?
    I only hope he comes to his senses and decides that perhaps he is wrong. There is naught wrong with being ‘WRONG.’ There is everything wrong with perpetuating evil upon your very own people, and other innocent civilians and by standers.
    There is everything ‘RIGHT,’ with ‘repentance.’ Change your mind, turn around and go the other way. Why fight till the bitter end? You’ll just end up a ‘bitter old man.’ And even your family will not like the kind of man, you have become. I bet if you asked them, they would tell you the truth. Family has a way about telling the Truth that the ‘hired help’ will not do. They will just agree with you, because ‘you butter their bread.’ Family knows you. Family loves you. Family is the closest thing to God you will find. For God says, ‘he puts the Solitary in Families.’

 Listen to them and what they are saying and ‘you might hear God!’ He’ll tell you what to do.
 

Love Nina
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