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Free Healthcare - not from Obama, but from Walgreens!  Walgreens must have taken a page out of the Wal-mart manual - what a brilliant marketing maneuver!  Walgreens Take Care Recovery Plan

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Drinking Piping Hot Tea May Cause Esophageal Cancer:  People who drink their tea very hot have a higher risk of developing esophageal cancer, a study suggests.  The British Medical Journal (who knows more about Tea than the British?) report said drinking black tea at temperatures of more than 70C significantly increased the risk.  The drink is traditionally drunk black and very sweet in the middle east, but the western tradition of adding milk cools it enough to remove the risk.  Add Milk or drink Iced Tea!  Steaming Hot Tea Cancer Risk - Video Link

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Google has a new service:  April 1, 2009 Google's New Approach to Email - The easiest email could possibly be.  As more and more everyday communication takes place over email, lots of people have complained about how hard it is to read and respond to every message. This is because they actually read and respond to all their messages.  Notice the date.

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Beautiful photos and quotes of the day - Sign up for these beautiful and free image and spiritual quotations of the day emails from Truthbook.com.  I use several of the photos for my desktop background - I just switch them everytime another beautiful photo or image arrives in my email.  

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You Can Stop Smoking by Jacquelyn Rogers -No fooling! 13 years ago today, April 1, 2009, I quit smoking using this practical smoking cessation book! I've been smoke-free ever since! If you smoke or know anyone who smokes, and can also read :), please tell them about this book!

Faith-Based Partnerships in the Obama Administration

The LA Times writes in a 2/9/09 editorial titled:  The new faith-based initiative  

Quote:      The president directs what will now be called the White House Office of Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships "to ensure that services paid for with federal government funds are provided in a manner consistent with fundamental constitutional commitments guaranteeing the equal protection of the laws and the free exercise of religion and prohibiting laws respecting an establishment of religion."   

"But government underwriting of such activities violates the 1st Amendment's prohibition of an "establishment" of religion."   

"Obama's initiative establishes an advisory council, which will refer legal questions about "programs and practices" to the attorney general."

Daily News Rush response:  No it does not - because it does not discriminate on which religion or religions can take advantage of the faith based initiative.  If the government is establishing religion -then they would have to choose just one.

If you're a faith based program, one would presume that you can be trusted to have a little faith.  If the government refuses to help people of faith, then it is discriminating against religious people.

Remember, the constitution says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof".  By refusing to help people of faith, it is creating a law against the free exercise of one's religion. 

If monies do go to secular groups and/or atheists, but not to religious people, then it is truly discriminatory.

That said, Obama's faith-based clarifications might keep the ACLU and other lawyers very busy; which either fulfills an under-the-table campaign promise, or signifies real change - change that protects people of faith!  Imagine that!