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Good morning, Kbells. I know you are correct, since I googled it after I incorrectly guessed Will Rogers. I have no mind for trivia for the most part. Some might say I have no mind or I don’t mind, I guess. Anyway, hope you have a good day.
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Labor Day………didn’t they approve the holiday to honor pregnant women?
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I had plans today to take my son to a park south of here, but my husband called and asked if they had closed the South bound lanes on the freeway yet. I could get there but might not be able to get back. Besides, I was wondering if my church will be taking in evacuees again and if there was anything I could do to help.
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A while back, I talked about a person I called “they”. The person gently lamented that I was nice in email but played “rough” on WOW at times. I explained that I regard WOW as a blogger bar where “Hell’s Angels” hang out and brawl.
Although the term “race to the bottom” is not original with me, I may be the first person to use it to describe on line patterns of communication. Person A criticizes Person B. Person B responds that Person A is “worser.” In doing so, Person B becomes “worster” and so on they compete.
I decided to propose that once a month WOW hold a “race to the top” competition, adding it to the “regular” topics such as Meditations, Rants and Raves, Something Light, and so on. I would like to see the first “Race to the Top” take place on September 1, and then on the first of the month from then on. I request Lynn to make it a topic, but that’s up to her. If she doesn’t, I will try to get it going on Whirled Views.
I propose the following “rools.”
a) There is no “prize.” Goodness should be its own reward, or at least left up to God to reward.
b) Open to anyone regardless of religious belief (or lack thereof) or political leaning.
c) By the same token, there is no judging.
d) I suggest each person participating prefix their comment: “RTT.”
e) One RTT comment per person per month.
f) Except for these “meta rules” to get the “contest” going, there are no rules about what kind of post actually qualifies. It’s up to each participant to evaluate for themselves if their comment is appropriate. I would suggest that if you see a comment you don’t like, you don’t respond to it, but that is up to you.
g) It’s not exactly a “pool,” but I will predict that the first month’s contest will produce 5 entries.
h) May the best person “win,” or at least become a better person.
i) The non-existent prize will be named the “Varying Mileage” Award. The trophy the winner gets will be like an invisible “Oscar.” Or “Oscarina” as the case may be. It’s very light, and won’t break your mantel.
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Will you be giving a race to the top a shot yourself, Random?
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Yes, NJLawyer. Here it comes.
RTT. To start the contest off, I will make an RTT post. It won’t be very good. I am sure just about anyone here can do better. I challenge you to do so, and applaud you if you outrace me to the top.
Both my wife and I come from rather broken families. We were babies when we married at 18 (she) and 21 (me). If it had been up to us, we would not have had children, and we used birth control when we first had sexual relations (a week or two before our marriage) and on our honeymoon in Carmel by the Sea, California. Nevertheless, we conceived a child who turned 42 in August. Around Thanksgiving, my wife and I will celebrate our 43rd wedding anniversary.
When my wife found she was pregnant, she considered abortion, but decided not to abort the child. Neither my wife nor I like children very much, but presented with a child, we decided we had a serious obligation and tried to fulfill it as best we could. About the only idea I had was that I would not be like my parents, people I regarded as a couple who should not have married each other and should not have had five children together (starting with me). Gradually, as a parent, I developed what I called “mad scientist parenting,” cobbling together an incoherent mixture of behaviorist psychologist B. F. Skinner, (reward a child more than punish it); Israeli psychiatrist Haim Ginott (be polite and respectful to your child while maintaining discipline); and Gestalt psychotherapist Fritz Perls (accept and integrate contradictory aspects on one’s own personality).
My daughter turned out to be a very good child, well-behaved in public and well-performing in school. I credit this less to my mad scientist parenting than to our child probably having an IQ twice that of her parents and realizing, If I want to survive to the age of 18 with two parents who don’t like children very much, I better be very good and very smart.
When our daughter was a senior in college and studying overseas in her last semester of her American college undergraduate career, she informed us that she was “engaged.” We were astonished. It is not like our daughter to spring surprises on us and she hadn’t been “going with” anyone. We were even more surprised when she told us that she was engaged to her college roommate (female).
Despite their engagement, and despite their matching rings, my daughter and her “out of law” partner have never sought to “marry.” This year they celebrated 15 years as a couple. It took my wife and I a week to get used to the idea of their relationship. Now, despite their “out of law” relationship, we regard them as one of the most “married” couples we know, though like all couples, they have their spats.
Because of a childhood life-threatening illness, my daughter physically can’t have children. Her partner became pregnant by artificial insemination, not with sperm from a sperm bank, but from a homosexual man they had gone to school with. He signed away his parental rights, but remains involved in his daughter’s life as something like an uncle. He has a regular partner. Thus our granddaughter has “two mommies” and “two daddies.” I don’t recommend it as a general model for the American nuclear family, but I am comfortable with my “barely extended family,” as I call it in my blog “Vanity Press.”
The first pregnancy miscarried. The second child lasted four months and then died in the womb. After much medication and nine months of bed rest, “Mommy” bore Random Granddaughter as a healthy child. (My daughter is called, “Mama.”) They don’t particularly like to be called “lesbians,” though it’s no big deal to them or to us one way or the other.
Last week my wife and I “day-sit” Random Granddaughter for a week. She is very cute, very tall for age, and has taken a few soccer lessons. She is also a very opinionated , strong-willed, and is not only cuter than your grandchild, can probably beat him or her up.
We will be very thankful this year as we celebrate Thanksgiving. It is very strange to Christians that atheists can feel thankful. Without a God, who do we feel thankful to? With that paradox, I end my first Race to the Top contest entry. I invite you to beat me. Before RG beats up your grandchild.
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Random, when you say things like this, I have to wonder how people like you think: “It is very strange to Christians that atheists can feel thankful.”
Why would we think that is strange? I am thankful to other people every day. I’m thankful to my good friends a few miles away who put a great BBQ together yesterday and gave me a delicious meal and great company. I had a great time with them and the others they invited. Now, is that on the same level as being thankful to God? Probably not, but it’s a start.
RG won’t be beating up my grandchild inasmuch as I have no children to give me a grandchild. Had I had a child, however, the child would have been a blessing, not a duty. How sad that despite the many joys your daughter obviously brought to you that you didn’t come to appreciate the gift you were given. Even more sad is that she realized it. Your missive explains a great many things.
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Random, how is promoting child fights a RTT?
BTW I doubt she could beat up my son. I saw him take out a 6 1/2 year old this summer. It was just a shoving match in the pool, but the 6 year old backed off when my son’s shove put him underwater. I wanted to interfere but Daddy would not permit it. The only problem would be, he is not allowed to hit girls.
I’m betting he’s cuter, too.
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MY GREATGRANDS ARE CUTER THAN YOUR GRANDKIDS!
How’s that for a race to the bottom?
Re: RN’s comments on raising kids. My grandson-in-law is a baseball player. Pitcher, he went to college on a scholarship. He’s already teaching Caden to play ball. I just hope the child gets his athletic ability from his dad. No one on the other side of the family has the coordination or “eye” for athletics.
His dad would be very disappointed. He already sees him playing for the Atlanta Braves.
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Well, I don’t know about CUTE or BEATING PEOPLE UP, but I bet my oldest son (who is now no longer in the nest) can beat ANYBODY’S kids or grandkids at doing weird twisty bizarre things with his toes.
His toes are abnormally long and prehensile, which I think he must get from my wife’s side of the family, since my feet are so dainty and aristocratically shaped.
Well I think my feet are dainty and aristocratically shaped, if I could ever actually get my BOOTS off.
I probably could, if I used a come-along, chains, and a block and tackle, but it would not be worth it, probably; my wife would probably start pestering me to wash my feet and all kinds of feminine nonsense like that.
Anyway, my oldest son can beat anybody at doing wierd bizaare twisty things with his feet. So there.
Does this count as a RTT? If there is a cash award, I actually care.
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Speaking of childhood talents, my son has recently developed a new super power; “The Atomic Whine”. It is so powerful that it can make adults in a five radius come running to try and appease him so he will stop.
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KBells, your son is fortunate. An “Atomic Whine” would have gotten me a strap on the butt. But my dad (and I) was of the old school.
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Cheryl D. Did you show Mumsee how to get on? We haven’t heard from her lately. Mommy either.
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It is not the volume of the whine, that would get him a swat or two, but the tone that makes “the Atomic Whine” so powerful. He can technically not saying anything wrong, but the pitch is just off enough to make you want to give him the keys to the car to shut him up. I’ve had perfect strangers walk up and offer him money. Now that I think about it, if I could learn to control it, it could be quite profitable.
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Chas, I didn’t show Mumsee, but she thanked me for posting her note and said something about the instructions, so she saw at least some of them for herself. If she still has six kids, she may be too busy to hang out with us!
Happy Labor Day, and happy September! My church would usually have a picnic at a park today, but instead we had a speccial day at church yesterday. One of our members adopted a little boy internationally a year ago, and yesterday he and some other children were baptized–it was a beautifully noisy service. Afterward we had a picnic on the grounds…only someone apparently had the good sense to realize a noon picnic without a canopy on a 90-plus day might be better moved inside, so we had an indoor picnic.
We had barbecue and all the fixings, I took homemade cookies and a box of Ding Dongs, someone else took four boxes of ice cream and several boxes of cones, and we had pumpkin pie and all sorts of nice things. The only thing bad was that all the sodas were generics, and the root beer I took was barely tolerable. In other words, even though we were baptizing babies (only two of the five children were being baptized on their own profession rather than covenantal baptism), we outdid the Baptists in eating.
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Good morning all. This morning around 4 or 5 I got some really heavy rain. The wind is still blowing and it is overcast and damp. Rain is still coming. I haven’t lost power yet.
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Just a comment on Race to the top. Seems like awarding RTT trophies throughout the month as you see suitable entries for RTT might be better. After all, most of our RTB (race to the bottom)entries come in response to things that our fellow bloggers have posted, so shouldn’t RTT awards really be awarded for positive responses even in the midst of heated debate. Just a suggestion, Random. It’s your game and you can play it any way you want to.
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Kim, Drudge says it a Cat 2 now. You should be OK.
If I can rant here, we’re getting just enough rain to be nasty. The grass is too wet to cut, but it’s dry under the trees. Not much help. We could use anothier drinching.
Cheryl, I thought you were Baptist. In the spirit of RN’s rece to the bottom, I doubt that anyone could outdo Baptist in eating.
Tell Mumsee to say Hi occasionally. We worry. (As in, “Whatever happened to Evelyn Glover (EYG).”)
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Chas,
I have some pretty cute grandkids. At this moment I am at the home of three of them–and it doesn’t get better than this! Grand kids are just plain cute–no matter who’s they are. I am sure great grand kids are even cuter! Maybe someday we will have some of those too.
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AJISUUN, we make up our rules as we go along. Like when we were kids.
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I saw something early this morning that was just too beautiful to not share. Use your imagination–(you’d probably had to have been there to really “see” it). Near the end of my run, running alongside one of the farms around here, in the distance was the most beautiful sunrise–all colors of coral, orange, yellow. Right in front of it the rolling hills of this farm (can’t remember the name of it now), with a pond at the bottom of the hill covered in fog, and patches of corn. Just next to the road (and me) an old worn down fence, with 3 cows and 4 older calves right behind it, looking at me quizically. I really couldn’t help it–I had to Moo at them!! This Is My Father’s World indeed!
Blessings! (Hope this wasn’t too insignificant to share!)
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No, it was a great story, and I envy you, Momoffour.
But I have to know — did they moo back?
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Nope, they sure didn’t. But I have a similar funny story. On our honeymoon, we were driving by a field with a flock of sheep. I stuck my head out and bleated as best I could. I was quite surprised when the whole flock turned and started running alongside the car (on the other side of the fence) for quite a ways.
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RTT: Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things. Philippians 4:8
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Random – I think Ajusun’s suggestion of RTTworthy entries should be rewarded as you see them throughout the month. It may be a motivator for us all to “blog nicer.” Kind of like earning a surprise gold star in class. Just a thought.
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To start another argument, I went to my first professional soccer game on Saturday night and was struck by what a nicer sport it is that football for the following reasons:
*The fleet men seemed to float over the grass as they sped from one end of the field to another.
*Which made me reflect on how much healthier this sport is for the players than football (we have a friend who is constantly worried about putting enough food in her 18 year-old player so he can hit 280 pounds!)
* They dressed simply in shorts, shirts and shoes
* The game was over in 90 minutes, plus the six extra minutes for “down time,” so we knew when it would start and approximately how long it would take.
*Only one yellow card–that was the only foul.
*We didn’t need an announcer explaining the game to us (though I’ll never figure out offsides, even after watching this sport for 20 years).
It was, however, just as expensive–$40 a ticket, though we got them for half price since our nephew is the backup goal keeper for the KC team. Parking $10. They let me smuggle in my bottle of water, but after that you had to pay to eat or drink anything.
I don’t know how families afford to attend professional sporting events.
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I might be stealing her surprise here, but I think “How fitting would it be if what Justus331 said about Labor Day is correct.”
As for “her,” I’m speaking of my mom, theselittleones, who just gave birth to a baby boy about an hour or two ago. And so the “Labor Day” thing might be too much.
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Congratulations to your family, Rio.
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Congratulations Rio. Am I correct in understanding that “theselittleones” is your Mom and you have a little brother to babysit?
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Michelle- I know what you mean about prices at sporting events.
As for the offsides rule in soccer (or football as the rest of the world calls it), I believe it has to do with where the receiving player of a pass is. If he is beyond all the defenders (except the goalie) then he is offsides. In other words, a player cannot pass the ball to his teammate if there is not a defender closer to the goal than the receiver.
BTW- Are you in the Midwest, or was Kansas City playing near your home?
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Feeling a litte beat up. I think I need another sunrise. Is it 4:00AM tomorrow yet???
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Michelle — soccer is as the Europeans say the beautiful game especially if the game has few fouls and settles into rhythm where possession becomes the key.
A player is offside if advances past the defense or the ball (whichever is further). However, offside is not called if the offending player does not become part of the play until after the play (ball and defense) passes him. In that case he rejoins the play. Soccer doesn’t have stop time so they frequently ignore fouls, hand balls, offsides if no advantage is gained by the foul or the offending team does not have possession.
On a personal note; nothing is worse than watching your slim 10 year old girl play goal the against post puberty 12 year old girls twice her size. The coach was short of players and asked her to play midfield but when the usual goalie didn’t show up he was left with my daughter. She usually plays goal in the 10 and under league.
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Congratulations, RIO. Tell mom and little brother (the rest of the family, too) congratulations.
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Momoffour: From the other thread. Just because we don’t agree doesn’t mean we don’t love you.
I hope that makes sense.
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Oh, just in case anyone really thinks I’m off my rocker or on another planet (with regards to #32), I know the sun doesn’t rise that early. That’s when I *start* running. Usually the end of my run comes sometime around sunrise.
Okay, it’s goodbye for real now. Gotta get working on chicken pot pie!
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Thank you Chas, I know…I was always the girl in high school and college who was afraid to voice another opinion or raise my hand. It takes a lot of guts for me to voice something different. But its been weighing heavily on my mind, so I did.
And hey–I might be little, but I can bench press more than my weight–so if anyone *really* wants to duke it out, meet me tomorrow morning at the beginning of my run…8*)
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Random: I am glad you have come to enjoy and appreciate both your daughter and grandaughter. Could it be that God put them into your life as a gift? Perhaps you should thank Him should He exist? Also, I am curious as to why your daughter and her partner do not like to be called lesbians and what their preference it. Feel free to not answer for them. I actually know you feel free anyway.
Drill: LOL, last time one of my grandson’s was here, I actually took a couple of pictures of him very carefully holding his toast with peanut butter and jelly with his toes. He was so serious about this adventure. His mom took it in stride although he was told to behave. He was young enough to get away with it. And cute enough. Actually, his mom said that was his dad’s side coming through. It probably is. His dad is hilarious in an absolutely good way. I am jealous I cannot lift my leg up that way at the table anymore.
Momoffour: We are often surrounded by cows. We seldom can walk by them without either mooing them or talking to them in plain English. They always just look at us like we are from a different planet.
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Random – I think Ajusun’s suggestion of RTTworthy entries should be rewarded as you see them throughout the month. It may be a motivator for us all to “blog nicer.” Kind of like earning a surprise gold star in class. Just a thought.
I am thinking. Something doesn’t click, but I am not sure what. How can an atheist tell Christians what are race to the top posts?
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Soccer is, as Homer said on an episode of “The Simpson’s”, boring!
I got a better story on soccer: A few summers ago while we were at a baseball game some of us were commenting on the news story about a soccer player who keeled over and died right in the middle of the game. No one seemed to know why he died. I said “I know – he died of boredom!”. Everyone cracked up at that.
Now, I know Presbyterians seem to have a “thing” for soccer. But nothing is better than good old American football! Tonight, 8 p.m. ET, on ESPN: Tennessee vs UCLA. Go Vols!
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Random: I am glad you have come to enjoy and appreciate both your daughter and grandaughter. Could it be that God put them into your life as a gift? Perhaps you should thank Him should He exist? Also, I am curious as to why your daughter and her partner do not like to be called lesbians and what their preference it.
I think they are two women who fell in love. There are all sorts of labels for such things: “queers,” “homosexuals,” “lesbians,” “gay,” etc.
I am not sure the labels tell us much.
What is “right” and what is “wrong” are difficult questions. I am not bothered by my daughter’s family. Victoria would be much bothered if one of her children were in a relationship with a person of the same sex. (She has said so on more than one occasion.)
I was a high school teacher. One year we (alternative school) had a “nest” of half a dozen kids who struck me as sociopaths. Mindi was the dumbest and laziest of the nest of vipers. A couple of years after she graduated she spotted me at a bus stop and gave me a ride in her hot “tricked up” pickup. She had turned from a pudgy not very attractive girl to a “hot” babe. She told me she was married.
Couple of years later her name was in the headlines. She had got her boyfriend to kill her husband. She’s doing a life sentence for murder.
I don’t know how her parents (whom I didn’t personally know) dealt with Mindi and her crime. Do they visit her in prison? Do they say, “We support you?”
My daughter, although she has a temper (as does everyone in my family) has not as far as I know come close to murdering anyone. I would have trouble supporting her if she did.
Mileage varies.
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Finally:
Anlir and I agree on something.
GO VOLS!
Until 1 December, that is.
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I goofed Saturday. At our Lions breakfast last Saturday, I was kabitzing some Clemson people. I said, “Good luck to the Tigers, but they’re playing in the big league tonight”. I didn’t realize how that might come out.
The Tigers aren’t as bad as they looked. I’m not a Clemson fan, but until they play the Gamecocks, I hate to see my friends disappointed.
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Speaking of Clemson; ROLL TIDE!!!! I don’t get to say that often now days.
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Random – “I am thinking. Something doesn’t click, but I am not sure what. How can an atheist tell Christians what are race to the top posts?”
It serves as a good reminder to the Christians on this blog that people are listening to what we say. It may help us to remember that we are to be living epistles.
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Speaking of the football game, with three UCLA grads in the house today–Go Bruins!
I live in Northern CA, Peter. KC was playing the San Jose Earthquakes–and when their fans all stamp on the bleachers at the same time, it felt like an earthquake!
Thanks for the attempts to help me understand offsides, guys . . .
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As part of the John McCain Action Team, it wouldn’t be a day if I didn’t inform everyone that John McCain is a former POW!
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Apologies-
I forgot to refer to you as, my friends.
We don’t get points toward the bus ride if we don’t invoke POW and use the “my friends” tag line.
That is all. And thank you, my friends.
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Michelle- At least it was not a real earthquake.
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I just noticed: I didn’t have to log on this time, even though I am on IE7 instead of Firefox. Perhpas the new change is for the better! (Now, let’s see if this will post without having to log in.)
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Hurricane is past and all is good. Good night. Start new job tomorrow.
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Well, mom gets to take care of the new arrival while I have the two-year-old to attend to sometimes. He has yet to learn that he can’t treat the baby like one of our kittens (i.e. picking them up by whatever part of their body is closest and being none too gentle).
On another note: It’s nice to see that HRW likes soccer.
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Excellent news Kim! Sleep well.
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My friends, ABC NEWS is reporting this on Sarah Palin:
September 01, 2008 6:52 PM
The campaign of Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., likes to herald the independence of its new running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
Officials of the Alaskan Independence Party say that Palin was once so independent, she was once a member of their party, which, since the 1970s, has been pushing for a legal vote for Alaskans to decide whether or not residents of the 49th state can secede from the United States.
And while McCain’s motto — as seen in a new TV ad — is “Country First,” the AIP’s motto is the exact opposite — “Alaska First — Alaska Always.”
Lynette Clark, the chairman of the AIP, tells ABC News that Palin and her husband Todd were members in 1994, even attending the 1994 statewide convention in Wasilla. Clark was AIP secretary at the time.
“My own separate opinion as an individual is that we should be an independent nation,” Clark says. Others in the AIP “believe that being a commonwealth would be a good avenue to follow.” Some advocate statehood — but a fuller statehood than exists now.
She doesn’t know what Palin’s position was.
“It never came up in conversation,” Clark recalls. “But when she joined the party, our platform was right under her nose.”
Clark says that Palin left the party and became a Republican in 1996, when she first ran for mayor of Wasilla.
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Wow. I left for a long while because I didn’t see my old pals for such a long time. A bunch of new people were interacting and I couldn’t get into any conversations.
Have missed you all.
Glad Lynn is back from her bout with mono.
How are you feeling, now?
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PS.
What a coincidence!
Chas asked above me above.
Thanks for noticing…
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Chas, I grew up Baptist and nearly all of my family (all of them, actually, I think) still are, but I’m now Presbyterian (PCA).
Rio (and theselittle ones), a hearty congratulations!
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Do any of you all have a Facebook page?
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My friends, the Sarah Palin vetting continues to get better:
By Matthew Mosk
ST. PAUL — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin began building clout in her state’s political circles in part by serving as a director of an independent political group organized by the now embattled Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens.
Palin’s name is listed on 2003 incorporation papers of the “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” a 527 group that could raise unlimited funds from corporate donors. The group was designed to serve as a political boot camp for Republican women in the state. She served as one of three directors until June 2005, when her name was replaced on state filings.
Palin’s relationship with Alaska’s senior senator may be one of the more complicated aspects of her new position as Sen. John McCain’s running mate; Stevens was indicted in July 2008 on seven counts of corruption.
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Vetting? Yah, sure, says the Anchorage Daily News!
Senior McCain adviser Doug Holtz-Eakin called the Palin pregnancy a family matter best “left to them.”
He declined to say whether he knew about it in advance. “It doesn’t matter when I became aware,” he said at a lunch with reporters.
But he also said, “The governor was completely vetted.”
The Daily News had asked Palin’s governor’s-office press secretary, Bill McAllister, on Saturday if Bristol was pregnant.
“I don’t know. I have no evidence that Bristol’s pregnant,” he said at the time.
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Hi Cheryl.
I see you’re online, too.
I tried to check in with everyone, but no one (but you, maybe?)
is home.
Please tell everyone I miss them, and I miss down time.
I’m way busy in an intensive quest to become an artist. (It’s like an apprenticeship). And, it’s nerve-wracking at times.
Hope you get this hello, and hope all is well with you and your new room mate.
Love and Misses,
Evelyn
PS. Especially love to Chas, who was actually asking about me, I see. That touches my heart.
Thank you.
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EYG: God’s blessings on you on your new endeavor. We do miss you and your sensible posts.
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#45 Klasko
It serves as a good reminder to the Christians on this blog that people are listening to what we say. It may help us to remember that we are to be living epistles.
Part of the problem is that people are not much inclined to be good. Everybody complains about the sex and violence and trash on television. Every year there is more sex and violence and trash on television because that is what people watch.
It’s not the only reason I read and participate at wmb, but part of the attraction is watching Christians be bad. If most people here participated in a race to the top, I would probably get bored and drift away. Not much danger of that.
The two greatest poems on Heaven and Hell come from Dante and Milton. Both poems are remembered mostly for their entertaining portraits of Satan and Hell. If there really were a Heaven and a Hell, the people in Heaven would soon be clamoring to be sent to the other place because they would be so bored.
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Thank you, KI.
Lovely to hear from you. I miss you all, too.
I’m aiming for a little more balance in life, so perhaps I’ll check in a little more. It’s not good to be overly focused on anything.
I guess I’m a little sensitive but, I kind of gave up when no one I ‘knew’ was blogging, and I was on outsider to every conversation.
I felt invisible.
That’s when I knew it was time to diversify a little.
Thank you for your comment.
Please send my love tomorrow, if I don’t get a chance.
Tuesday is my busiest day: 12 consecutive hours at the studio!
(God, help! amen.)
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EYG, Chas and someone else asked about you a couple weeks ago too, and I explained what you’d told me about not knowing anybody anymore.
I don’t have a Facebook page, but am on “Linked In” and “ShoutLife,” and have a website or two or three.
It’s going fairly well with the housemate–I rarely see her, as she usually gets home between 10:30 and 3:00, and I’m trying to get to bed about midnight. School starts for her tomorrow, though (she’s a teacher, and they hired her late), and so she probably will have a more normal, adult schedule.
That’s a lot of time at the studio! I’m trying to get back into some artistic endeavors too. I want to learn to draw people, and to make things from Sculpey clay, and to make cards. Some of these dreams are to be able to do homemade gifts, particularly for my young nieces.
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Good to “see” you, EYG. I’ve missed your posts and am glad to see you online again. How are your sister and her daughters doing?
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Hi EYG, if you catch this.
A little more to Klasko.
For the sake of simplicity, I will define “good” on this website as those people who avoid insulting, denigrating, and maligning others and avoid excessive negativity. (I am not putting myself among the “good,” though I’m probably not one of the worst.) It’s perfectly easy to do all these bad things without violating TOS, as I’ve pointed out a few times.
There are quite a few good people here, by my standards. I would put you in that category, and admire your skidding to a stop and turning yourself around when you started to get negative. Pauline, Cameron, Karen O are a few who come to mind. There are plenty of othes. EYG, for example. Chas among the guys, though there are not so many. (As women frequently note, guys are dogs, or pigs, or whatever animal you feel like ranking on.)
I have little doubt that there are multitudes of excellent Christians, evangelicals and others. The (real) people I call the “Friendly Neighbors” in my blog. Despite the many good Christians here (including the few I named off the top of my head), I suspect that most don’t spend their time hanging out on line posting messages. They are going to work, going to church, being loving spouses, being loving parents, doing good deeds and so on.
The real questiona that I suspect most are not willing to examine is: does WorldMagBlog do more harm than good? Does it serve any useful purpose?
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Yes, that’s right, my mom goes by the name of “theselittleones” on here.
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I am taking figure drawing. That’s right: naked people.
It’s very clinical. It’s amazing how awkward it wasn’t. I wish you could come to our art studio. But, I do know that there is a fantastic one in the Nashville area (near Franklin).
One of the Christ Community Church pastor’s wives has become quite an accomplished painter over there. She seems to love it like I usually do.
My professor has been a stress grenade lately. I just don’t ‘do’ stress’.
Imagine how lovely it was to check in and see all the familiar names again. Comforting, too.
Two dear women who became easy friends have left Florida. It is a very big loss for me, and I’m grieving. And, my teacher is truly stressing me out with his fears. It’s been a while since I have felt peaceful. I hate stressful environments.
I have a sedative I could take, but for me that is a last resort. They help with one area and are very unhelpful in another.
I have prayed, and need my body to calm down already.
You are very dear Cheryl.
I wish I wa sup in Nashville. It’s so very hot here and we need to downsize. The house is too big.
Thank you for your response. I bookmarked the page to see if I can’t start checking in and posting again. I don’t have the time I used to, but this is a very dear little community.
Love,
Evelyn
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Hello. MMacmurray, Random.
I smiled when I saw your names.
Random.
I don’t like to be mean or negative. There’s way too much of that in this world. It can feel so cold and harsh. I don’t want to add to that, so I try to be careful about what goes in, and what comes out.
As my favorite Winnie the Pooh character would say…
“Thanks for noticing”.
Do you all remember when Lynn used a quote with the word Balaclava in it. We all thought of Baklava.
Well. I had some Baklava Saturday. It made me remember that and get a little homesick for WMB.
But, you are rightf. There are times when I spent too much time on line. The blog and the comuter had a strong magnetic pull.
But, back then, my lap top was in the kitchen, so I could work and blog. I may try to check in during painting breaks.
God bless.
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Oops. many little grammatical gaffs. Maybe it’s the paint thinner…
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gaffes! Ugh!
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EYG,
TJ and I are both on Facebook.
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EYG,
Just looked for you on FB, but there were a few choices, so I wasn’t sure.
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MMacmurray,
Thank you for asking about my sister and her two girls.
We still can’t believe it happened.
I only get sadder that the girls are going to grow up without a Daddy.
My sister is doing supernaturally well.
She cries, she grieves. She curls up in a ball and it doesn’t go away.
But, she gets up and moves forward for those little girls.
Thank you for asking.
They need all the love and prayers and support they can get.
This experience has given me a different outlook on dying and going to Heaven. I am more assured that we don’t so much die, as pass on to the next thing.
I so long for Paradise, where there is only love and joy and peace and goodness and kindness and faithfulness and self control.
How glorious that must be.
I know this sounds disconnected, but I am so grateful for the positive imprint my sister’s late husband left on us all— especially our children.
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EYG, I am glad to see you too. I go in spurts where I leave for a while too b/c I don’t seem to get in any conversations, or not much of what I have to say seems to matter! Plus, real life is just too busy…
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Welcome back EYG. Even if you’re busy, check in occasionally tosay Hi. So we won’t worry.
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EYG,
Welcome back. I have experienced the same thing where I felt like I wasn’t in the conversations so I lurked for a while. There are only so many nasty conversations about politics that I can take. This WV is one of the better ones in a while where we have been able to chat about little stuff without it turning into a free for all about something. Oh, by the way, I am on Facebook too. Check The Gambia network- Cameron found me, but she said it wasn’t easy.
Random- What does not being a Christian have to do with being able to make a judgment about whether someone is responding in a kind and positive way or a nasty, negative way. I don’t think that has anything to do with whether someone is a Christian or not. We see here that both Christian and non-Christians are capable of responding in both positive and negative ways. We all make that determination every day as we decide whether to read certain discussions or not.
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