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Whirled Views 5.30

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Written by Kristin Chapman

May 30, 7:00 AM

TGIF!

Today’s quote is from a civil rights activist: “If we do not learn to live together as friends, we will die apart as fools.”

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BY mommy 05.30.08 AT 7:56 AM

I was just catching up on the later posts on yesterday’s WV thread and saw Kim’s message and some replies. I, too, am 100% sympathetic (I’m in the process of loosing my own mother). However, some comments about Holy Communion alarmed me. Are you all forgetting the meaning and purpose of the Lord’s Supper and the Biblical warning to those who eat and drink unworthily?
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BY adios 05.30.08 AT 8:15 AM

MLK, Jr.
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BY Sawgunner 05.30.08 AT 8:53 AM

How is it that the media is annointing Scotty McClellan as an “insider” when he lacked any clearance to attend the classified pre-war deliberations??
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BY Joel Mark 05.30.08 AT 9:00 AM

“Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.” ~ On James Earl Fraser’s ‘Guardianship’ (sculpture, 1933-1935) at the National Archives building in Washington DC. The quote above is inscribed on the base. This maxim has also been attributed to Thomas Jefferson, but I have not documented when or where he said this.
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BY NJLawyer 05.30.08 AT 9:01 AM

Thank you, Sawgunner! This man was not an advisor.
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BY Kim 05.30.08 AT 9:14 AM

Mommy, you missed that my dad has been baptised he just doesn’t remember when and where because they moved around quite a bit. He has no documentaion. The Pastor offered to baptize him but, my dad was raised with a strong belief in ONE baptism and won’t do it again. Sort of an impasse…
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BY Kristin Chapman 05.30.08 AT 9:18 AM

Adios: Enjoy your virtual coffee of the day!
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BY NJLawyer 05.30.08 AT 9:19 AM

I’m assuming Kim will come here today to let us know what’s what. My heart goes out to Kim, KarenO and now Mommy. I’ve been where you are with different medical problems, but being Daddy’s little girl still fits. I confess after my mother’s death, I had that “I’m an orphan” now moment. Say what you want to say to your parents. I took that opportunity with my dad, and I’m glad I did.

Mommy, if Kim’s dad asks for communion, doesn’t that mean he understands what it means and takes it worthily? I didn’t think anyone was suggesting that he take it just to cover the bases, so to speak.
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BY NJLawyer 05.30.08 AT 9:43 AM

I had not seen Kim’s post when I posted. She made me smile. They can be stubborn, can’t they?
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BY adios 05.30.08 AT 9:52 AM

Thanks Kristin,

I can really use it today!
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BY mommy 05.30.08 AT 10:30 AM

Kim (and NJL) I did see that. Perhaps I mis-interrupted your comment “the only church he has attended in the last 10 years” to mean that he didn’t attend very often. I would assume that if he attended regularly (and had been baptized) he would be a member and, thus, eligible for communion. My apologies if I assumed too much.

You aren’t saying that a Lutheran (LCMS, I assume) Pastor insisted on a second baptism? That would be quite hard to believe.
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BY mumsee 05.30.08 AT 10:46 AM

So glad to see those children are being returned to their moms but considerable damage has been done, I am sure. As if they did not despise the government enough…
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BY Kim 05.30.08 AT 11:50 AM

As there is no record of a baptism the Pastor offered to baptize my father. He is coming to see him today. The church I grew up in was Independent Methodist and my father chose during that time not to receive communion. I became Episcopal as a teenager. Communion was never that important to my father until he began attending the Lutheran Church with my stepmother. He has been a full participant in the church except for Communion.

Update: I went to the hospital earlier today. My aunt came up and is with him now. He is being taken for a CT scan. If they can get him strong enough for surgery they will be inserting a feeding tube. His doctor is now pushing things a bit more. Last night when I went back there was a cardiologist in talking to him because his heart rate had dropped some in the ER yesterday. They want to make sure there are no issues there before they start cancer treatment. I feel good about the care he is receiving now. This morning I told him I wanted to hear what the doctors had to say so I could call and report in to the boss (my stepmother). He got a little testy and told me I was going to offend her saying stuff like that. She called about that time so I told her what I said and laughed. She was afraid that she had offended me yesterday. Daddy said my stepbrother has really been riding her about not being too pushy and taking over and letting me have some say, so I guess we are all tap dancing around each other. My stepmother is a retired nurse, so of course she understands and knows more than I do. I did tell her yesterday that I needed her to stop being a nurse and respecting my father’s right to privacy and start being my mother and telling me what I needed to know. She agreed and I think that will be OK as well.
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BY Travis Birkenstock 05.30.08 AT 12:26 PM

‘Star Trek’ theme composer dies

(AP) Alexander “Sandy” Courage, an Emmy-winning and Academy Award-nominated arranger, orchestrator and composer who created the otherworldly theme for the classic “Star Trek” TV show, has died. He was 88.

Over a decades-long career, Courage collaborated on dozens of movies and orchestrated some of the greatest musicals of the 1950s and 1960s, including “My Fair Lady,” “Hello, Dolly!” “Seven Brides for Seven Brothers,” “Gigi,” “Porgy and Bess” and “Fiddler on the Roof.”

But his most famous work is undoubtedly the “Star Trek” theme, which he composed, arranged and conducted in a week in 1965.

“I have to confess to the world that I am not a science fiction fan,” Courage said in an interview for the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation’s Archive of American Television in 2000. “Never have been. I think it’s just marvelous malarkey. … So you write some, you hope, marvelous malarkey music that goes with it.”

Courage said the tune, with its ringing fanfare, eerie soprano part and swooping orchestration, was inspired by an arrangement of the song “Beyond the Blue Horizon” he heard as a youngster.

“Little did I know when I wrote that first A-flat for the flute that it was going to go down in history, somehow,” Courage said. “It’s a very strange feeling.”

Courage said he also mouthed the “whooshing” sound heard as the starship Enterprise zooms through the opening credits of the TV show.

“Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry later wrote lyrics to the tune, which were never sung on the show but entitled him to half the royalties, Courage said.

Among the many other projects Courage worked on was the 1987 TV special “Julie Andrews: The Sound of Christmas,” for which he won an Emmy for musical direction.

He and Lionel Newman shared Academy Award nominations for their adapted scores for 1964’s “The Pleasure Seekers” and 1967’s “Doctor Dolittle.”

A friend and colleague of movie composers John Williams and Jerry Goldsmith, he also provided the orchestration for such movies as “The Poseidon Adventure,” “Jurassic Park,” “Basic Instinct” and “The Mummy” and supplied arrangements for the Boston Pops while Williams was conductor in the 1980s and early 1990s.

For “Star Trek” he composed music for only a few episodes, in addition to the theme and the music for the pilot. But that theme was reprised in the TV sequel “Star Trek: The Next Generation” and in the “Star Trek” movies.

Beginning in the 1960s he composed music for TV shows, including “The Waltons,” “Lost in Space” and “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea,” although the only themes he created were for “Star Trek” and “Judd For the Defense.
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BY NJLawyer 05.30.08 AT 12:56 PM

Travis, thanks for the post. There goes another part of my “childhood.”

Kim, as long as your dad is “testy” or “feisty” — that’s a good thing! And the nutrition will help.
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BY kimberly 05.30.08 AT 1:29 PM

Remember the kid with Aspergers that got voted out of class? Well, they just decided that doesn’t count as emotional abuse so the teacher will be charged with nothing.

She wanted the kid to know how his actions affected the rest of the classroom.

I don’t think she understands his syndrome at all.
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BY Sawgunner 05.30.08 AT 1:34 PM

A moment of blog silence as we mourn the death of Harvey Corman. Harvey was one of the Carol Burnet show’s “regulars” and I would argue the program owed much of its success to Harvey, Tim and Vicky.
He was 81 years old!
And it did seem as though he had experience or training well beyond tv comedian.
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BY Sawgunner 05.30.08 AT 1:39 PM

Oops… make that Harvey Herscel Korman, not Corman!
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BY Victoria 05.30.08 AT 1:42 PM

Mommy – 11

You mention – “he would be a member and, thus, eligible for communion.” – My church nor any I have attended except a few Orthodox, would deny anyone taking communion just because they weren’t a member. If we are Believers, Born Again, we are part of the Church at large, and should be able to take communion in any church.
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BY GodLumps 05.30.08 AT 3:21 PM

NJL and Sawgunner-

McClellan not an insider? That’s laughable. It was McClellan’s profession to collect and disseminate information about what was happening inside the Administration.

The wheat will be separated from the chaff when he testifies under oath before the House Judiciary Committee. Way too many other people have come out with similar assertions for there not to be some truth in what he’s saying. And he will be motivated to tell the truth under oath, unlike Scooter, because he has already burned any hope of being pardoned if he commits perjury. Should be a good show and just in time for McW’s run.
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BY Cameron 05.30.08 AT 5:18 PM

Victoria,
Several Protestant denominations close their communion in various ways. You and I can say it should be open to all believers, but they’ve made their choices.
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BY NJLawyer 05.30.08 AT 5:32 PM

I’m sorry, but press secretaries are not advisors, nor are they decisionmakers. They are not policymakers.
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BY Victoria 05.30.08 AT 5:47 PM

Cameron,

Churches can do whatever they like, however I would never intentionally attend a church which deprived a Born Again Believer of the LORD’S Supper, its plain wrong.

23 For I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread:

24 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

25 After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me.

26 For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord’s death till he come.

27 Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

28 But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

29 For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord’s body.

30 For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

31 For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

32 But when we are judged, we are chastened of the Lord, that we should not be condemned with the world.

33 Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

34 And if any man hunger, let him eat at home; that ye come not together unto condemnation. And the rest will I set in order when I come.
1 Corinthians 11

It is up to us as Believers to look within our hearts for the sins which need to ask forgiveness, to examine ourselves. This should be made clear before The LORD’S Supper is ever served, so that everyone understands the seriousness of the wine and bread, what it means, and what it means if we DON’T examine ourselves. Our Salvation is not up to others, nor are our private sins, they are open to GOD, and we should remember that always, and ask forgiveness and turn from sin.
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BY Cameron 05.30.08 AT 11:16 PM

Victoria,
If you read closely, I said I disagreed with the practice. You’re sort of preaching to the choir here.
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BY GodLumps 05.30.08 AT 11:42 PM

“I’m sorry, but press secretaries are not advisors, nor are they decisionmakers. They are not policymakers.”

I don’t recall anyone saying they are? Where did you get that idea?
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BY Victoria 05.31.08 AT 12:10 AM

Cameron,

I wanted to make the point so I used Scripture, it wasn’t a matter of “read closely” – Everyone who reads this blog is not the “choir” as we all know –
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BY GodLumps 05.31.08 AT 3:15 AM

Vic is iN a GOoD mood this morNing. Go with iT, Cameron.
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BY NJLawyer 05.31.08 AT 10:01 AM

Godlumps, you keep saying that McClellan was in “insider.” He was not inside the discussions. He was handed the results and told what to say. He was never a decisionmaker.
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BY GodLumps 05.31.08 AT 3:06 PM

NJL- I consider him an insider because he was an insider. He worked very closely with the president and members of the administration for many years. True, he was not an adviser or decision maker. That doesn’t make him a less credible witness to these crimes.
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