What do you have to take into 2011?

I love my girls more than my life. I love them more than anything and sometimes they make me mad but the time I spend angry at them is miserable. My mom is angry with me. Partly because my opinions rub her the wrong way. I rub her the wrong way period. She baits me and I find myself going too far, saying wrong things. Things that hurt her like she hurts me. I don't really like my family much. There's always drama. Things that need not be said and we eat. We are mean fat people. I hate that and I hate being there. I expressed my hurt at some things that my mother said to me on Christmas over the phone on Christmas day. I thought the right thing to do would be to patch it up today, before the new year. It wasn't good and it makes me unhappy and frustrated. Nothing was made better. I shouldn't have called. My family will feel my unhappiness. I worry that she will die when we are fighting. I don't want that at all.

I don't ever want to be that way to my kids. My mom and I talked about my sister and her daughter. Her daughter is gay. My sister is determined to break it up. She has been for years and now that her daughter is over 18 and living away from home my sister has lost control over her. My niece is unhappy with the division but my sister is unreasonable over the whole thing. I don't see how she can't see that so long as she fights it, she loses precious time with her daughter. Even the time they spend isn't real because my sister is in some form of odd denial. It's been mentioned that I wouldn't be so sure of myself if it was my daughters. No, I wouldn't. It's not what I would have chosen but both daughters are past the age that all of this began for my sister and they are happy and well adjusted. I see them mess up and know it's the only way to learn. I see no reason to rebel against me or lie because I'm openly loving and they know what I hope for but they also know I am accepting and will love them anyway. Nothing's more annoying than someone who thinks they could have done a better job but at this time, I'm at home with my family. My husband and my daughters who love me very much and I love them. I'm not alone. My sister is.

I know this is harsh but my mom who was my best friend has become a bit bitter and hurtful. I miss her. I'll miss her when she's gone. The rest of them? My half siblings? I won't miss them. Not at all.

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Messiah 2010

The biggest chorus and biggest audience we've had. It was wonderful as always.

HUGE thanks to the amazing Xun Sun and Adrienne Tawa. Also the Orchestra of Southern Utah.

Christian? Do we teach respect and responsibility for our's and our children's actions?

Living in Utah is like no other experience on the planet. Most of the people I know who are LDS have been raised in the faith and in the state. This means that there is a rich inheritance of beliefs and opinions. That's not a bad thing, unless they aren't true. I think we're a bit more insulated than members in other states and countries. Here are some examples of what I see around me:

Homophobia. It's not your place to judge someone based on sexual preference. And how do YOU know that sexual transgressions rate higher on the degree of wickedness of sins than judging does?

And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. John 12:47

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged; and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. 3 Nephi 14:2

Bullying: It's also not your place to punish what you perceive to be a sin.

Remember the worth of souls is great in the sight of God. D&C. 18:10

So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. John 8:6

Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me. Matthew 25:40

Respect for President Obama:

And ye will not have a mind to injure one another, but to live peaceably, and to render to every man according to that which is his due. Mosiah 4:13

We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.” A of F 1:12.

D&C 138: 5–8,

All men should uphold their governments and owe respect and deference to the law;

Glenn Beck and Cleon Skousen are NOT prophets:

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you. 2 Peter 2:1

And that the Constitution is NOT scripture:
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Dick Cheney finally gets his???

IF and that is a HUUUUUGE Cheney seriously goes down for this, it will be one of the single most satisfying events of the past 10 years. Satisfying in the "Al Capone tax evasion" sense but I'll take it.

Nigeria: Dick Cheney To Be Charged Over Alleged Bribery Case


Nigerian authorities will charge former Vice President Dick Cheney over a bribery scandal that is alleged to involve Halliburton, BusinessWeek reports. An arrest warrant "will be issued and transmitted through Interpol," said Godwin Obla, the prosecuting counsel at the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission in Nigeria.

The charges center on an alleged $180 million bribery payment used to secure a $6 billion liquefied natural gas contract. Prosecutors are also looking into international companies Saipem and Technip. Cheney was the CEO of Halliburton from 1995 to 2000, before becoming George W. Bush's running mate. "As the CEO of Halliburton, he has the responsibility for acts that occurred during that period," Obla told the AFP.

Nigeria arrested 12 employees of Halliburton earlier in the week, reports Reuters. The firm's offices in Nigeria were raided by anti-corruption police, although the company said that the detentions "had no legal basis and that its employees had since been freed."

Nigeria's Guardian newspaper reported that charges against Cheney were confirmed by the government and included "criminal conspiracy."