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On December 11, 2014, the House narrowly passed a 1.1 trillion dollar spending bill.  Thank you to our representatives and senators who wisely OPPOSED the bill.  The list of votes may be found here http://politics.nytimes.com/congress/votes/113/senate/2/354 .  The Senate passed the bill on December 13.  Merry Christmas America!  The betrayal to America’s posterity is beyond belief.  Wars in the Middle East continue to cost the taxpayers over 1 trillion dollars.  Pork spending continues on most things that don’t matter or help America’s welfare.

“For riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?” Prov. 27:24

This is a free site that kids may access at home to practice computer programming.  The designers have made it fun, educational, and interesting for learners.  Check it out on the link below.

http://code.org/learn

Both the Pilgrims and Puritans were English colonists, but they were different groups who came to America at different times.  They came under different circumstances, but both for religious freedom.  The Separatist/Pilgrim church began in a town called Scrooby in England.  This group began to meet “separately” from the established church of England under Queen Elizabeth’s reign.  They wanted a more biblical church.  When King James I began to rule, some of the Scrooby separatists were threatened with arrests.  The group decided to move to Leyden, Holland around 1608.  They worked hard in Leyden, but were always sort of outsiders to the culture.  After 12 years, the Pilgrims believed that going to America to settle was where God intended them to live.  A merchant in London named Thomas Weston contracted with them.  It was a contract that would bring much hardship to the early Plantation.  The Pilgrims purchased the Speedwell to take them across the Atlantic.  Only about 1/3 of the 600 separatists would go on the first voyage.  They left Holland on July 22, 1620 to join the Mayflower in Southampton, England.  On August 5, 1620 both ships left for the new world.  The Speedwell leaked so badly they turned back.  It was decided that all would go aboard the Mayflower.  One hundred two Pilgrims began a 7 week, storm filled trip that arrived off Cape Cod on November 9, 1620.  A compact was written that epitomized a government by the people was established on the Mayflower in submission to God and King James I.  They would encounter many trials like sickness, death, starvation, betrayal, theft, and cruelty in the first decade of their Plantation.  After that, they bought the Patent to their Plantation and prospered.  They had cows and corn in abundance and other marketable commodities like beaver and otter skins for trade.  In 1628, the Puritans settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.  Unlike the “Separatists”,  the Puritans chose to remain in the Church of England and “purify” her from within.  This worked fine until Archbishop Laud pretty much put an end their efforts.  They decided it was time to leave their friends in England for the new world too.  Their colony was failing like the colony in Virginia.  They contacted the Pilgrims in Plymouth for help.  The Governor outlined their biblical form of government.  The Puritans formed a similar government and began to succeed.  Boston, Salem, and Harvard College were established by the Puritans.

If you have problems with modern day wheat, please read the article below.  We have continued cooking with Italian pasta and couldn’t figure out why we didn’t get sick.  This article gives an excellent explanation.  Read it to the end; it is well worth your time.  We plan on looking for some delicious organic sour dough bread.

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/maybe-you-arent-actually-gluten-intolerant-maybe-youre-just-poison-intolerant-11152014

“Where did the American public school educational system come from?”, asked a credentialed teacher.  Another credentialed teacher responded, “Prussia”.  “Where is Prussia?”  “It is modern day Germany.”  The reason the teacher asked was because of her frustration with her first grade classroom.  The Puritans started an educational system for the first 200 years of this country.  The learning was mainly the function of the family, church, and having the children educated in mixed groups.  Along came Horace Mann, “the Father of the American public school”.  Mann started the nonsectarian “common school”.  He visited Prussia to observe their compulsory school system.  The Prussian model used indoctrination to bring about social obedience to its citizens.  The curriculum would focus on the “State”.  The Prussian model requires mandatory education for all with unnatural single grade levels, a national curriculum, and trained teachers.  That model followed him back to America.  Mann believed that the public school would be the “great equalizer” and reduce crime.  Although Mann believed that students were to be taught morals from the Bible, he would exchange the formerly taught biblical focus of the curriculum for a European humanistic philosophy.  Did it work?  One hundred fifty years later, has crime been reduced in society?  Fifty years ago, the major problems in classrooms were gum chewing and too much talking.  We all know the problems today are much more severe. While working in the public school, the phrase, “separation of church and state” would come up every year.  My educated co-workers did not understand what this statement meant in reference to the United States Constitution.  The First Amendment of the Constitution states, “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…”.  The Founders were descendants of England.  In the past, the State determined the national church.  This was written in the Constitution to protect religious freedom from the federal government determining what church to join.  “Separation of church and state” is not a part of the Constitution.  The First Amendment is not a separation of God and the State as many believe.  It was not written to protect the State from the church.  Biblically, the State and the church work together.  Recently, in the news, a group of public school students who attend Pine Creek High School in Colorado Springs were told they could not meet on campus to pray, talk about church, and bring their Bibles.  Their liberty is being trampled by an unconstitutional phrase that does not exist.  Horace Mann brought secular humanism to the schools, but all “true” knowledge originates with God.  Even in the public school you can’t get away from truth.  Science is studying creation, Math is an ordered and patterned number system designed by God, History is “His story”, and all language was authored by Him.  States have their agendas for their people, but God has His agenda that overrules all.  The public schools are full of secular humanistic ideas.  They destroy young children’s inquisitive and creative minds-especially boys.

On March 16, 1620 a native who spoke English approached the Pilgrims.  He was a man who enjoyed to travel and lived where the English ships had come to fish, learning English.  His name was Samoset.  Samoset returned to Massasoit’s camp with news that there was a group of English families suffering from starvation.  Six months earlier, Massasoit had taken in a despairing Squanto, who had discovered that his entire Patuxet tribe was wiped out by pestilence.  Massasoit and friends, Samoset, and Squanto went to meet the Pilgrims.  Gifts were exchanged, drums and trumpet sounded, the Governor kissed the Chief’s hand, and a peace treaty was written.  The chief would return to his home some 40 miles away.  Squanto would live with the Pilgrims and interpret for them after this meeting.  He showed the Pilgrims how to plant corn using Indian farming, fertilizing the corn with fish.  Squanto taught them where and how to fish, how to hunt deer, plant pumpkins with the corn, tap trees for maple syrup, hunt beavers, use herbs, and acquainted them with unknown places that would become profitable.  Earlier in Squanto’s life he had been kidnapped by Captain Hunt who tried to sell him as a slave in Spain.  He ended up in England with a merchant in London.  He later worked in Newfoundland and other places nearby, refining his English.  In future years, Squanto would “play games” with the Indians.  He put fear in the hearts of the Indians by telling them he had the power to stir up the plague and make war.  He would enrich himself by getting gifts from them.  Massasoit was enraged by Squanto’s trickery and demanded that the Governor hand him over for Indian justice.  Because a shallop had just arrived and business was busy for the Pilgrims, the Governor neglected to hand Squanto over.  They were thankful that Massasoit did nothing.  In 1622, while on a trip on Cape Cod to help the Pilgrims, Squanto fell ill with Indian fever.  Bleeding much from his nose, which the Indians believed was a sign of death, Squanto asked the Governor to pray with him that, “he might go to the Englishmen’s God in heaven”.  He died within a couple of days, willing all of his belongings to his English friends.  The Indians admired the Governor and his friends.  They would work peacefully together for decades.

Sources from Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647

The multiplication fact 9 has some patterns that can be used to help master the memorization of its multiples.

*Using a 100 chart shade in all the multiples of 9.  What patterns do you see?

Notice that the sum of the digits of the multiples will equal 9.

9 x 1=9                0 + 9=9

9 x 2=18              1 + 8=9

9 x 3=27              2 + 7=9

9 x 4=36             3 + 6=9

9 x 5=45             4 + 5=9

9 x 6=54             5 + 4=9

9 x 7=63             6 + 3=9

9 x 8=72             7 + 2=9

9 x 9=81             8 + 1=9

9 x 10=90          9 + 0=9

Also notice that the first digit in the product is one less than the factor 9 is being multiplied with.  For example, 9 x 5 will have a product that begins with 4, 9 x 6 will have a product that begins with a 5.  Since you know this pattern and the sum of the digits in the products through 10 equal 9, you can memorize your 9 facts.  The only Math book that I have seen this taught is Saxon Math.

Another method that may be used to remember the nine multiplication facts is to use your fingers.  Turn your palms so they are facing you.  Your thumbs should be facing out.  For 9 x 1, pull your left thumb in to your palm.  Look to the to the left of your thumb, there is no finger.  Look to the right and there are nine fingers-9 x 1=9.  Put your index finger down on your palm.  The thumb is on the left which represents a 1.  There are 8 fingers to the right of your index finger-9 x 2=18.  Put your middle finger down on your palm.  There are 2 fingers to the left and 7 fingers to the right-9 x 3=27.  You can use this helping tool through the multiple of 10.

Conflict of interest occurs when a public official, who has a vital duty to protect the public, misuses their power for their own gain.  There are numerous public employees who have worked for or represented Monsanto and are now public servants in the United States government.  This is a conflict of interest.  Soy and corn products, which are in most processed foods and animal feeds, are full of Bt insecticide due to genetic engineering.  The Environmental Protection Agency has recently raised the amount of glyphosate that is allowable in food.  The amount permitted in soy has doubled from 20 parts per million to 40 parts per million.  According to Dr. Mercola, other foods are now permitted to have even higher levels of glyphosate contamination-as much as 15 to 25 times earlier levels.  There are about 1 billion pounds of insecticide used in America every year.  This is staggering!  Why is this happening?  When you look at the chart below, you will see the conflict of interest among many public employees.  This is amazing considering the fact that for even some minor transactions in life, people are asked a series of questions to see if there is a conflict of interest that might disqualify them from receiving a product or doing a service.  No wonder our foods are full of insecticides and our environment contaminated by poisonous chemicals.

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