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| Ok, everyone, I have a new blog! Hopefully I will update it more often than I did my other one...
Here it is
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| Well everyone, I am back.. It seems that when I went to confirm my birthdate, I unintentionally changed it to display 1998 (not 88) 
That had the effect of shutting down my site as I was not older than 13 years old 
So, for right now, it is back up, unfortunately, it also caused me to loose all my subscriptions and all of you who subscribed to me will have to re-subscribe, so please do that.
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| Should Hillary Clinton Wear Skirts?
First, I want you to imagine what would happen if the pastor of the evangelical church down the street simply recommended that the women of his congregation combat the androgynous spirit of the age by making efforts to dress in a distinctively feminine manner. Now ponder the warfare, spiritual name-calling, and websites which would launch if he merely suggested that one possible means for achieving this goal would be to have the husbands and fathers encourage their ladies, perhaps on just a few occasions, to wear skirts and dresses.
Next, I want you to read this Reuters press statement in which world-famous fashion designer Versace offers counsel to presidential candidiate Hillary Clinton on why she needs to be more feminine and wear skirts that “reach the knee” and avoid “emulat[ing] masculinity....” Reuters reports:
U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton should tap into her feminine side and wear dresses and skirts instead of trousers, fashion designer Donatella Versace was quoted as saying on Thursday.
“I can understand (trousers) are comfortable but she’s a woman and she is allowed to show that,” Versace told Germany’s weekly newspaper Die Zeit in an interview.
“She should treat femininity as an opportunity and not try to emulate masculinity in politics,” Versace said.
Vision Forum Blog
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| Well, where do I start.
First off, there is a program called the Michael Hoefflin Foundation in our valley. It was started when Michael Hoefflin died of cancer and it’s purpose if to give the families and victims of cancer in the Santa Clarity Valley a source of support, information and activities.
Because of my interest in Aviation, they have been trying to get me an opportunity to take a flight in a small plane. We have been trying to plan it for a number of weeks now, but because of scheduling conflicts and weather conditions it was not working out, The person that we were working with then called to tell us that she was switching pilots to someone who hopefully was going to be less busy. Shortly afterward, we scheduled a flight for this Saturday, Feb 3’rd in a Cessna 182. We were told however that plans might change and we might have to postpone the flight because Darren, the pilot was on-call as he was a captain on a private jet. Then, on Friday, we got a call telling us that the Cessna wasn’t going to work out for Saturday because he had to fly the jet, but if we were interested, I could fly with him on the first leg, and I could bring my two brothers.
The situation was this: The plane is a Challenger 620, seating 13 people in luxury (if it were in airline configuration, it would seat many more) plus a crew of 3 (two pilots and flight attendant). The plane is privately owned but when not flying for the owner, it is also chartered. It is based out of Chino airport so we had to fly to Burbank to pick up the passengers. The pilot lives in Castaic so he said that he could come by and pick us up.
This morning we were picked up at ~6:20Am and drove out to Chino Airport where the ground crew already had the plane fueled up and ready to go. We went over the plane and he showed us the systems and walked us through just about every step of the pre-flight both external visual inspection and the much more complicated systems check inside.
The Challenger requires both a pilot and a copilot to fly. The other pilot showed up, and the flight attendant was his wife. After the systems check, we headed off toward the runway. After we had clearance we took off and headed out to Burbank. We landed, and moments later my family showed up. Total flight time was about 13 minutes in the air and a maximum altitude of somewhere around 8,000 feet. To drive that it would of been at least an hr, and much more if there was any traffic which there is most of the time.
After we landed, my family got a tour of the plane then we talked to the captain for awhile and then headed off toward our Grandparents house for our Grandma’s birthday. It was a really neat experience, the amount of info that the pilot provided and the experience is going to be a big help to assist me in determining what road the Lord would have me take. It never ceases to amaze me, how the Lord works in mysterious ways to work his perfect will and continues to give me experiences that I never thought that I would ever be able to have. FYI, that plane costs $5,000/hr to charter and a minimum of 3-hr flight..
I’d like to give thanks to Darren Paul, the Pilot in command who enabled this entire experience to happen and to the Michael Hoefflin Foundation for bringing the opportunity to our attention, and to the Lord for the marvelous kindness that he shows to me day by day.
Praise his name!
Blessings on you all!
Nathan
P.S. Yes, I am posting on xanga, because it seems that everyone has an xanga account and only a few of you have a account for my blog and I figured that this would be easier to comment on.... For now
I put up a photo-gallery Here with the rest of the pictures (register and sign in to comment and see more pictures [click the little "@" at the top}).
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| Well I'm back from ALERT Unit 36 Basic Training. The Lord has been good to me, he has used Basic in my life to teach me a lot of very valuable lessons.
Thanks everyone for your prayers, they are what got me through and kept me going.
Back to normal life now, God is good!
Blessings,
Nathan
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