Yard Sale today...

was successful....sort of. We made about $300 but still have lots of stuff left. Some will go to the consignment store and some will go to charity.

Hubby is off applying for a second job...not sure how I feel about that. We need the money, but we see him so little as it is...

Kyla and Emma will be leaving in just over a week to go stay with Mom and Dad for a few months. Things will be very different around here.

Hoping for a restful Sunday and a pleasant Labor Day.

OH NO!! THE MARK OF THE BEAST!!! RUN!!

Okay, maybe not. :P

So this little tidbit is going all over the internet.

Here is the actual text in the bill:

SEC. 2521. NATIONAL MEDICAL DEVICE REGISTRY.
12 (a) REGISTRY.—
13 (1) IN GENERAL.—Section 519 of the Federal
14 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (21 U.S.C. 360i) is
15 amended—
16 (A) by redesignating subsection (g) as sub-
17 section (h); and
18 (B) by inserting after subsection (f) the
19 following:
20 ‘‘National Medical Device Registry
21 ‘‘(g)(1) The Secretary shall establish a national med-
22 ical device registry (in this subsection referred to as the
23 ‘registry’) to facilitate analysis of postmarket safety and
24 outcomes data on each device that—
25 ‘‘(A) is or has been used in or on a patient; and‘‘(B) is—
2 ‘‘(i) a class III device; or
3 ‘‘(ii) a class II device that is implantable,
4 life-supporting, or life-sustaining.
5 ‘‘(2) In developing the registry, the Secretary shall,
6 in consultation with the Commissioner of Food and Drugs,
7 the Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
8 Services, the head of the Office of the National Coordi-
9 nator for Health Information Technology, and the Sec-
10 retary of Veterans Affairs, determine the best methods
11 for—
12 ‘‘(A) including in the registry, in a manner con-
13 sistent with subsection (f), appropriate information
14 to identify each device described in paragraph (1) by
15 type, model, and serial number or other unique iden-
16 tifier;
17 ‘‘(B) validating methods for analyzing patient
18 safety and outcomes data from multiple sources and
19 for linking such data with the information included
20 in the registry as described in subparagraph (A), in-
21 cluding, to the extent feasible, use of—
22 ‘‘(i) data provided to the Secretary under
23 other provisions of this chapter; and
24 ‘‘(ii) information from public and private
25 sources identified under paragraph (3);


As near as I can figure this is how the misunderstanding got started
"18 (B) by inserting after subsection" That little word "inserting" does not refer to inserting things into people but to inserting text in another part of the bill.

So relax, Obama isn't trying to give us all the mark of the beast quite yet. :D


ETA:
Okay, so I had someone bring to my attention what a Class II implantable device is funny that they were being talked about and tested way back in 2004 when our wonderful, godly president Bush was in office!

The ACLU is evil...or maybe not.

I know that the typical conservative opinion of the ACLU is that it is an evil organization that is always against Christianity. I went searching their site today and while I morally disagree with the positions that the ACLU defends, constitutionally I think that the ACLU is doing a good thing.

Take the most recent viral christian-right vitriol...FL residents take stand against ACLU

Christians are frantically trying to portray this as an attack on the First Amendment. But is it? The teachers were leading prayer, not students praying on their own. How would these Christians feel if the teachers were leading students in muslim prayer or buddhist prayer? I imagine the response would be very different.

Teachers are government employees, well at least public school teachers are, and should not be using that position to proselytize young people.

So now I have a long list of things I found on the ACLU's website. Cases that I believe Christians would approve of.
Virginia jail ends censorship of religious material

ACLU stands up for pregnant women's right to refuse medical care

ACLU calls for provision for freedom of speech and association protection

Kindergartener's right to freedom of religious expression

ACLU over unlawful searches and detentions by TSA

ACLU Challenges Defense Department Personnel Policy To Regard Lawful Protests As “Low-Level Terrorism”

ACLU Files Federal Lawsuit To Protect Religious Liberty Of New Jersey Prisoner

ACLU of Pennsylvania Defends Church Forced to Shut Down Its Ministry to Homeless

ACLU Urges Governor Crist to Uphold and Respect Religious Freedom for All Floridians

City of Portland Upholds Freedom of Religion

Judge Orders Children Returned To Their Families

ACLU Sues To Protect Marriages Threatened By Recent Court Decision

ACLU Says Religious Tests for Public Office Unconstitutional

ACLU Challenges Louisiana Law Funneling Taxpayer Funds to Favored Churches

Louisiana Court Affirms Christian Protester's Free Speech Rights

ACLU of New Jersey Applauds Ruling in Favor of Student's Right to Sing "Awesome God"


ACLU of Tennessee Fights for Religious Freedom in Wilson County Public School

City of Omaha and ACLU of Nebraska Announce Settlement in Lawsuit Over Muslim Woman Barred from Public Pool

ACLU of Nebraska Defends Church Facing Eviction by the City of Lincoln

Following Threat of ACLU of Virginia Lawsuit, Officials to Agree Not to Ban Baptisms in Public Parks

Continental Congress '09

Busy Life!

Once again I have been completely neglecting this blog!

Let's see....

Cora had her first meet (a 'mini' meet with just the girls from her team). She did well. Her first *real* meet is Sept 12. She has been working so hard and I am proud of her.

Kyla and Emma will be going home with Mom after Cora's meet. Mom is coming out for that. They are excited. They will be staying for a few months. I have to get together all the school work they will be doing while they are there.

The only thing left in our garden is the tomatoes, which are finally starting to produce! We have at least a dozen tomatoes growing right now. We have had a really cool spider living in them. We did have grasshoppers eating the tomato plants but the kids have been catching them to feed to the mantis they caught.

I have gotten through about half of the Dyslexia program with Kyla, Emma, and Ellis. Now if we can just keep Wesley and Gilbert and Sara from messing up the letters and numbers in clay I think we might get through it before Kyla and Emma leave!

Oh! We found a beautiful moth last night. I'll have to post a pic later.

We have had a trip to the canyon. And done lots of weed pulling. And made too many trips to the doc.

Sara sprained her ankle a couple weeks ago. She had climbed up on a stool and then fell off. She got a bump on her head and hurt her ankle. Then a few days ago I noticed a bruise on the bridge of her nose, which I have no idea how she got! Sara has had more injuries than any of my other kids! She already knows how to jump, kind of. She jumps up and falls on her butt. And she loves twirling. I will have to post the video I have of that. It seems each kid gets more daring than the last! I suppose they feel they have to keep up with the older ones.

Missing my dog Fuzzer. I've had people offer dogs or suggest going to the shelter, but I just don't want to get another dog... Emma has been having bad dreams since Fuzz died. She said she keeps dreaming that Wes or Sara wander out in the street and get run over...she was much more affected than I thought. She has always been cautious about what the younger kids do but now she is worse! She completely spazzes out if they are even out in the front yard! And she doesn't want me taking the little ones places by myself...afraid they will run off in the parking lot or something. Can't get her to understand that I have been a mom a long time and that I've had just little ones before. LOL

Hubby has been working a lot. Long hours and weekends.

Started school Monday...well actually Tuesday. Monday I had to take Cora to the ped for an eye infection so that kind of messed up the schedule. Don't know how much I'll get done today since Sara is being VERY fussy and was up most of the night. Not really awake but just very fidgety and it kept me up and I am very sleepy now.

I have taken over as the organizer for our local C4L meetup group! That is exciting!

Reading a good book, "Piety & Politics: The Right-Wing Assault on Religious Freedom" by Barry W. Lynn. I don't agree with him politically, but he makes some good arguments and I find myself agreeing with him more often than not. So far, I like Chapter 3 best but I am looking forward to Chapters 6 and 7.

I will save my political post for later. :D

Well...there is a busy day ahead and I need to get started. Have a blessed day all.