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Whirled Views 2 (not 12).13
Good morning!
Today’s quote is from an author: “Christian faith is a grand cathedral, with divinely pictured windows. Standing without, you see no glory nor can imagine any. But standing within, every ray of light reveals a harmony of unspeakable splendors.”
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Good Morning! Had a HUGE busy day yesterday. So, I read yesterday’s Whirled Views over coffee.
Mom of Four,
That is beautiful news. Congratulations on baby #5. May you have an enjoyable pregnancy and healthy delivery.
MakeitMan,
Thanks for the video game.
I couldn’t figure out how to click on to the game from that page…
What do I click on that page to bedin play?
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Today’s quote paints an excellent word picture.
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I have read the quotation. I don’t really remember who it is, but I’ll guess G. K. Chesterton.
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Everybody, I think several of us were irritated by Arcadia’s hit-and-run approach yesterday. If he pops in today just to “drop bombs” and run away, let’s ignore him. There’s no point in engaging someone acting trollish.
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I’m going to throw a dart and hazard a guess:
CS Lewis?
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LV:
If you won’t put me on the “Meet the Regulars” list, then at least create an “Irregulars” list and put me there!
Man it’s hard to break into a clique!
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Kyle A. #4. She always does that. She never answers the hard questions or responses when someone takes her apart. She is not interested in a two way conversation.
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Thanks, everyone, for your warm congrats yesterday on baby news!! It’s always nice to be around folks who think of baby number five as exciting as baby number one! I sure do…
My “pumpkins” (I like that term, NJLawyer) are 9, 6, 5, and 3 (and one with the Lord that we lost when I was almost five months along). They don’t know the news yet, we are waiting a little bit. But I know our one daughter will be very excited. When she plays with her baby dolls, she always asks me, “When will we get a real baby from Jesus?” So I’m looking forward to telling her that the time has come!!
I’m not sure about due date yet (I don’t have insurance now so I haven’t seen my doctor yet), but I’m pretty early on. And, my situation with my husband has greatly improved. I think he was under an enormous amount of pressure and stress, and that made him fall into the “kick the dog” syndrome…We have had several good talks and prayers together. We’re both excited!!
MMacMurray–how is your little one today? That is a scary thing to have a child in the hospital.
Blessings on this dreary day!!
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MMacMurray: I went back to yesterday’s thread to read about your 5 year old. I’ve said a little prayer. I hope you’ll be able to get to the hospital. I read you’re getting 10 inches of snow up there today. Hope all is well.
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Once again I am popping in with a prayer request. My friend Steve (you remember him and his wife from my birthday) fell through his ceiling this past Sunday afternoon. He slipped and straddled a 2×8 beam. He had emergency surgery Sunday to insert a catheter. This morning he is having a second surgery to insert another and try to repair the urethra. The doctor is not optimistic about this one and is already talking about sending him to a specialist in 6 to 8 weeks. Who knew something like that could be so serious? Please pray for both of them. Thanks
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What’s wrong with MacMurray little one? I’ve been a little out of it lately. It turns out I did have a mild case of the flu and my husband came off the road with a not so mild case
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The quote sounds vaguely similar to something B.B. Warfield once wrote about the inspiration of Scripture.
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You have them, Kim.
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Congratulations Momoffour/five. Whatever happened to Pentamom?
MMacMurray: I had appendicitus when I was six. It took the doctors a while to diagnose it and they ruptured. I expect technology is better now. Check it out. I prayed for your son and hope he gets better soon.
I see in today’s paper that Ken Lewis, CEO of Bank of America is calling for a “cap and trade” systen for greenhouse gasses. (CO2)
What they would be doing here is creating a disasterous situation worse than making energy from food (i.e. corn).
What happens is that congress would pass a law to ration energy use. There would be an artificial commodity created by putting a cap on emissions. If a company didn’t use all it’s allotment, it could sell it (Carbon Credits anyone?) to someone else. Congress (or some agency set up for the purpose) would determine how much CO2 could be emitted and make an allotment by some scheme (See where we’re headed here?) to power plants, factories, and eventually, even people. If someone has more credits than he needs, he can sell his credits.
We have now created a commidity. No gold/silver, no oil, no iron, corn, wheat, hogs, no nothing but a commodity congress has created. Worse than paper money. If you think the tech bubble was bad, if you think the mortgage loans to people with bad credit was bad; wait till you see the energy credit bubble.
Ken Lewis and his crowd are not stupid. They know what will happen. They also know BAC and others who get in early can make a lot of money. So did the chiefs of Enron and Global Crossing.
THIS IS BAD STUFF!
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Chas:
When Al Gore and associates began the big push to try to convince people that man-made global warning was real, my first thought was “follow the money.” First came buying carbon credits from Al Gore and associates, and now you have shown us another big dollar sign. How do we stop it?
Sometimes I wish we had a mechanism to dissolve congress and make them all ineligible to run for re-election.
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The grass is white here today–some kind of fungus? It’s cold too. Weird.
Then I hear from a Chicago co-worker that they’re having the coldest, snowiest winter in many a year (which I’d sort of guessed from other people’s e-mails). Seriously, we have our first snow of the year in Nashville and they’ve been buried repeatedly–I am thanking God He brought me here!
I always knew that if I stayed in Chicago too long, we’d have a winter I couldn’t survive. We had one winter I feared would be “it”–our earliest snow was October 7, and then we had one or two snowfalls in November (I usually didn’t see snow till December), and then the snowiest December on record (I think it was). And then, just like that, winter was about done. We had virtually no more once the year turned, and I thanked God heartily.
So I thank God again that I’m in Nashville and not Chicago this year. As one who grew up in Phoenix, and hates cold, the mix of snow and cold together was something I simply couldn’t tolerate. I hibernated all winter long as much as I could–but I had to go to work and occasionally had to buy groceries–and sometimes I simply wept or curled up in a ball, and wondered if I literally would die or go insane if we ever had one of those really memorable snowy winters. It really was beyond my tolerance level when it got bad. And I urgently wanted to get out before we had one of those winters they talk about 20 years later.
So now I can look at my little snowfall–I can still see the grass–with great thanksgiving.
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It took the doctors a while to diagnose it and they ruptured. I expect technology is better now.
Indeed, it is. You hardly ever see a ruptured doctor anymore!
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Chas,
Cap and trade has long been known and shown by economists to be one of the least government intrusive, most market oriented mechanisms for controlling pollution. As you appearantly know, in it’s most straightforward form, permits to issue some pollutant are issued up to a set amount, and can be allocated based on a number of schemes: proportionally to current discharges, in an initial auction as is done with the radio and telecom spectrum (I favor this because it lets the buyers set the price an provides revenue), and so on.
Once they have the permits, companies can buy and sell them in a free market, on whatever sort of secondary market emerges. As with everything else they buy, it then becomes an economic, business decision, trading off income and profit, versus acquiring the inputs (in this case, the right to pollute) needed to create that income. The very definition of free-market capitalism.
So, by what better scheme would you propose reducing the amount of a pollutant in general, and greenhouse gas discharges in particular?
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It’s snowing a little here in Birmingham. I really need milk, but I’m afraid I’ll be trampled it I try to go get some.
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#18 CHRISTIANLEFTIST
My first thought was “none!” My second thought was to change all the plumbing so that instead of venting home sewer systems directly into the atmosphere the sewer gases could be collected and used as fuel for electrical generation. How’s that for wild solutions?
A real solution: replace all oil, coal and natural gas electricity generating with nukes. We are going to have to do this anyway or go dark.
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Metanoia! I thought I already added you to Meet the Regulars! Maybe I forgot to hit save and it didn’t take. Please send your bio again to worldblog@gmail.com
Sorry!
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Fox is reporting “The nation’s first baby boomer received her first Social Security retirement benefit Tuesday, marking another milestone for the post-World War II generation.”
She was born just after midnight January 1, 1946.
More from the article: “Over the next two decades, nearly 80 million baby boomers — about 10,000 per day — will become eligible for Social Security.
“If no changes are made, the Social Security trust fund is projected to deplete its reserves in 2041 and will begin paying out more in benefits that it collects in payroll taxes in 2017.”
Our politicians ignore this at our peril.
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Update, I went by the hospital and talked to Steve’s wife. The surgery was not successful. In 6 to 8 weeks he will have another try by a specialist in Jackson.
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Thanks, everyone, for your prayers for my son. He’s feeling better today but has to stay in the hospital until they run further tests tomorrow morning. The abdominal pain doesn’t seem to be as bad, and he’s been getting IV fluids to take care of the dehydration. Appendicitis, a GI bug, and gallstones have been ruled out, but that’s about all we know at this point.
My husband has been able to stay with him almost the entire time. If the weather improves – it’s currently raining on top of the 6 inches of snow that fell this morning – I may take the two younger boys in for a visit. But right now the roads are a mess.
kBells, had to laugh at your #19. People mob the stores for milk and bread here in Maine, too, when a storm is in the forecast!
Kim, praying for your friend.
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Um, excuse me, dear Benevolent Dictator. I know how hard it is to be told by a commoner of a mistake, but I think you put the wrong date today. I know time flies when we get older, but can it really be December already (or did you repost the WV from two months ago)?
Ah, Cheryl, my fellow former desert rat (born and raised in Tucson). I am getting tired of the cold as well. We have been below 20 degrees since Saturday night. I am looking forward to the freezing mark being passed again sometime later today. Of course, my lovely bride and I are leaving tomorrow afternoon for a Bible camp meeting in Louisiana. It promises to be in the 60s there this weekend. Ah, warmth and sunshine! If we can get through the predicted winter storm for Southern Missouri tomorrow, we will be fine. Coming back Sunday evening, however, may prove hazardous! It is a good thing I have Monday off, I may need the extra travel day.
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EYG,
You must first have Adobe Shockwave installed on your computer. If you don’t then the website will probably prompt you to install it.
Once you see the Raven w/ Shovel as your cursor, left click/hold down/drag (the old click and drag routine) the roadkill into the trash can- without turning the raven into roadkill. And leave the Lawyers in the road!
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Momoffour+1 – Very glad to hear things are better with your hubby.
Kim – Prayed for your friend.
Mmacmurray – Prayed for your son.
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Hey, MakeItMan, stop misleading people!
Section 372.03 from a Proposed Change of Texas State Law:
The willful killing of attorneys with a motor vehicle is prohibited, unless such vehicle is an ambulance being driven in reverse. If an attorney is accidentally struck by a motor vehicle, the dead attorney should be removed to the side of the road and the vehicle should proceed to the nearest car wash.
(This comes from a joke my judge brought back from Texas in 1990.)
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NJLawyer,
I was wondering if/when you’d show up to defend yourself! (I like the joke.)
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Good catch Peter L. (#25) I didn’t notice that.
Stubob’s baby boomer post at # 22 reminded me of this:
It was fun being a baby boomer… until now. Some of the artists of the 60’s are revising their hits with new lyrics to accomodate aging baby boomers. They include:
Herman’s Hermits— Mrs. Brown, You’ve Got a Lovely Walker.
Ringo Starr— I Get By With a Little Help From Depends.
The Bee Gees— How Can You Mend a Broken Hip.
Bobby Darin— Splish, Splash, I Was Havin’ a Flash.
Roberta Flack— The First Time Ever I Forgot Your Face.
Johnny Nash— I Can’t See Clearly Now.
Paul Simon— Fifty Ways to Lose Your Liver
The Commodores— Once, Twice, Three Times to the Bathroom.
Marvin Gaye— Heard It Through the Grape Nuts.
Procol Harem— A Whiter Shade of Hair.
Leo Sayer— You Make Me Feel Like Napping.
The Temptations— Papa’s Got a Kidney Stone.
Abba— Denture Queen.
Tony Orlando— Knock 3 Times On The Ceiling If You Hear Me Fall.
Helen Reddy— I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore.
Leslie Gore— It’s My Procedure, and I’ll Cry If I Want To.
Willie Nelson— On the Commode Again
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By the way, the quote for today is beautiful!
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CherylD, here’s some more:
372.08 If an attorney gains elective office, it is not necessary to have a license to hunt, trap or possess same.
And since it’s Wednesday:
372.06 It is unlawful to hunt attorneys within one hundred yards of BMW, Porsche or Mercedes dealerships, except on Wednesday afternoons.
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The older I get, VS, the truer that list becomes.
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VS,
Stop it, yer killin’ me!
NJLawyer,
Thanks for the laughs…
Welp. I can’t help it that the maker of the game thought so highly of Lawyers!
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I have to agree with Kyle A. The drive by shooting style of a couple of our blogging friends leaves much to be desired. There are one or two that I do my best not to respond to, because it’s obvious their motivation is disruption only. I’m all for bringing up relevant points, but when the points are always backed up by some bizarre fringe element event, it’s obvious what they are trying to do.
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On a different note, our Dairy Queen does a 2-for-1 special on Blizzards when it snows! Yummy–chocolate extreme is my current flavor.
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Um, excuse me, dear Benevolent Dictator. I know how hard it is to be told by a commoner of a mistake, but I think you put the wrong date today.
I can’t believe no one mentioned before you did. Holy cow! I’ll change it.
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I just look for the words “Whirled Views”. I wouldn’t notice if it were dated for 1968 or 2012.
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#22 StuBob,
Our politicians ignore this at our peril.
No, they ignore it at their peril – they know this but they don’t care. I believe they all plan to retire en mass when we finally catch up them and hold them accountable for their crimes.
But of course, they don’t have SS retirement like us stupid folks because they knew it was a Ponzi Scheme doomed to failure. So they created their own private one all for themselves. You know, the private kind they deemed wasn’t at all suited for us stupid fools.
They also don’t have the Ponzi scheme Medicare to worry about in their old age either. They have their own private retirement healthcare that they said wasn’t right for us peons.
They shouldn’t be voted out of office. That is no where good enough for these thieves. They should do their retirement in a federal prison in Alaska instead. No, even that is too good. They should sent to Mars since we are obviously on Venus.
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To the attention of Mickey McLean:
(Continued from yesterday’s “Happy Birthday, Abe”)
Mickey McLean (16): Just so you know that our software doesn’t discriminate, it flagged one of my comments this morning!
We’ll try to do a better job monitoring the spam folder to make sure comments that shouldn’t be in there are published, which also will help the filter “learn.”
Frank: I understand. My point has never been that I think I’m being discriminated against. Some posts fly … some disappear.
But, a “spam folder” does amount to a de facto moderation of comments … but only those comments which get snagged by the spam filter. And while I can’t be certain of this, I am pretty sure that the majority of my posts that have disappeared in the spam folder (or wherever) have never been eventually reviewed then published.
But again, back to one of my main points: All WMB users are registered. Doesn’t that greatly reduce the need for an impersonal/imperfect “spam filter”?
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MakeItMan: lawyers wrote the mock statute. Nothing like eating your own.
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Lynn #36: I can’t believe no one mentioned before you did. Holy cow! I’ll change it.
I teach. I have a bad habit of catching other people’s errors, but miss my own frequently. (I am glad there is spell check!)
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