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Whirled Views 02.25-26
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Ok. I see you’re all neglecting your duty to get this thread on the move. So I’ll step in and be first. It’s a heavy responsibility, but somebody’s got to do it. :–)
I voted in early primary election yesterday.
Go Ron Paul!
[hehehe, that'll teach you all to sleep in on a sunny Saturday.]
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Ain’t nothing going on. It’s been over an hour and I’m still first.
Roll out everybody!
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OK, So Debby did it.
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Good Morning everyone. I am headed to the beach this morning to work. Hopefully I can convince the man I have worked with for almost two years to actually make an offer on a condo today.
Remember that banks are EVIL. An incompetent loan processor has once again screwed up a closing I am supposed to have Monday. She got it in her head that they closing was supposed to be Wednesday and now she wants to see my clients 2011 tax returns. How man of you have yours done?
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it 6:51 AM in Colorado hello everone
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Debra, good for you!
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Quote for the day:
My soul has had enough chicken soup.
I want chocolate!
Cherie Rayburn
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Good morning.
WHY, HOW can she ask for that if the filing date isn’t April 15,17th this year? Makes no sense. Aaaaaaahhhhh!
On a more positive note, I received an email from my agency, which is technically my employer, congratulating me on my promotion and please let me have your username and password so they can change my online timesheet. Can’t wait until Monday to find out what happened to me! If anything. So, I guess this would be a rave, if it’s true.
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And a thank you for the prayers — assuming it’s true. I just think that’s an odd way to tell people things…..
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7.
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NJL, I wouldn’t respond to an e-mail until I was absolutely certain it was legit. I’m always getting e-mails phishing for some sort of information.
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That’s what I thought, Chas. The signature block looked normal and looked likes others I received in the past, but so much can be easily done on a computer these days, and I didn’t recognize the name. I’m calling on Monday on the phone.
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Now just imagine for a minute after reading this, what would happen if these were a Christian judge and perp instead of a muslim judge and perp. The outrage from the left would be earshattering.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/291921/sharia-court-pennsylvania-transcript-andrew-c-mccarthy
“I have made a transcript of the Pennsylvania case in which state judge Mark Martin, a Muslim convert and U.S. Army reservist who served in Iraq, relied on a sharia law defense (as well as some evidentiary contortions) to dismiss an open-and-shut harassment case against a Muslim man who assaulted an atheist activist at a Halloween parade. (See my earlier post.)
The victim, Ernest Perce, wore a “Zombie Mohammed” costume and pretended to walk among the dead (in the company of an associate who was the “Zombie Pope” — and who, you’ll be shocked to learn, was not assaulted). The assailant, Talag Elbayomy, a Muslim immigrant, physically attacked Perce, attempted to pull his sign off, and, according to police, admitted what he had done right after the incident. The defense argued that Elbayomy believed it was a crime to insult the prophet Mohammed (it is, under sharia law), and that because he was in the company of his children, he had to act to end this provocation and set an example about defending Islam.
As you will see, Judge Martin did not lecture the defendant about free speech or how disputes are resolved in a civilized country. He instead dressed the victim down for failing to appreciate how sensitive Muslims — including the judge himself — are about Islam. The audio of Judge Martin’s remarks can be heard on YouTube (The audio, beginning at around the 2-minute mark on the YouTube clip, lasts about 7 minutes. Martin has reportedly threatened to hold Perce in contempt for recording and publishing the judge’s statements, which were made in open court. Perce says he had permission to make a recording as long as it was only audio, not video.) Here is the transcript:”
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Is Whitney asking what’s going on because of recent, err, discussions? Or is it just a friendly inquiry into our lives? I agree with Donna and lay the recent tension at the feet of politics. I don’t know how you all can stand it. Our campaigns last a couple of months and by the end of them everyone is a ball of nerves, but two years, and every two years! No wonder you are on edge – I’m even starting to feel uptight.
As for what’s going on in my life, not much. Today is Saturday, so I’ll probably help with housework, and continue to do my correspondace courses. I just started another yesterday. If I can’t work, I can at least study.
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*correspondence – not catching my mistakes the way I used to, hope it’s not my eyes.
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I’m about to bake a 23rd anniversary cake for my son & DIL. It’s an easy rum cake from a recipe on the back of the artificial rum flavoring box.
And I’ll have the tv on an awards program for 2012 visual effects in film and television commercials among other stuff.
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After shredding me in James, our Bible study is now moving over to Jude. Tell me what you make of verses 5-8:
5 But I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.
6 And the angels who did not keep their proper domain, but left their own abode, He has reserved in everlasting chains under darkness for the judgment of the great day;
7 as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these dreamers defile the flesh, reject authority, and speak evil of dignitaries.”
It appears to me that even though people in the Old Testament were “saved,” they lost their place with God when they returned to their former lives or rejected God’s authority in their lives, later.
(I tell my ladies you cannot lose your salvation, but you can deliberately throw it away).
Would you say that’s a fair reading of the text?
And if so, what do you make of verse 8? Who are the dreamers? What does it mean to reject authority–only God’s or those in authority over you? And should any of us be speaking evil of dignitaries?
And who are dignitaries?
I’m off to work the lesson!
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Phos,
You need to start drinking only bottled water. Apparently the stuff from the tap up there is making people crazy. And, well, downright stupid.
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2012/02/20120224-095016.html
“Police arrested a Kitchener, Ont., father outside his daughter’s school because the four-year-old drew a picture of him holding a gun.
Jessie Sansone told the Record newspaper that he was in shock when he was arrested Wednesday and taken to a police station for questioning over the drawing. He was also strip-searched.
“This is completely insane. My daughter drew a gun on a piece of paper at school,” he said.
Officials told the newspaper the move was necessary to ensure there were no guns accessible by children in the family’s home. They also said comments by Sansone’s daughter, Neaveh, that the man holding the gun in the picture was her dad and “he uses it to shoot bad guys and monsters,” was concerning.”
Don’t drink whatever it was these people had.
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AJ @13- What can we expect when the Constitution is now just a piece of parchment in a museum? Unfortunately we are going to see more and more of this kind of perversion of justice. But, if I were in an area with a Muslim population, I don’t think I would wear a Mohamed costume in a public parade.
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As for the QoD: Just getting ready to go visit family (children and grandchildren) and friends in our old hometown.
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The Real @18 – Well apparently crazy isn’t limited to one country, or have you forgotten the lunch incident down your way
The police were obligated to investigate, because it was an allegation of child abuse. The teacher should have had wit enough to realize that it was probably a computer game the child was talking of, and the father shouldn’t have been playing such a game in front of his young daughter.
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http://news.yahoo.com/navy-seeking-more-minority-seals-141500687.html
I don’t know about you guys, but if my life depended on it, I wouldn’t want it to depend on the guy who got the job through affirmative action. I would want the one who was the best no matter skin color.
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Michelle @17 – I don’t think it is talking of losing salvation there, but about what Christ said in Matthew 7:15-23, “By their fruits ye shall know them.” In other words, these people outwardly claim salvation, but their life completely contradicts their words. That they aren’t really saved is confirmed by Jude 4 “For there are certain men crept in unawares, who were before of old ordained to this condemnation, ungodly men,…”
II Peter 2 is a very good cross reference for Jude. My pastor taught on Jude once, and he said that ‘dignities’ (vs.8) were both earthly and heavenly powers. Verse 9 & 10 expand on the idea. The whole description sounds a lot like those televangalists who claim to cast out devils and hear God speaking, yet their lives are completely ungodly – like the reports about TBN that someone posted yesterday.
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Since Emily works weekends, I will be babysitting my adorable-cute grandson later today, & after church on Sunday.
Speaking of the adorable-cutie pie, who turns 16-months old today, he has been surprising us with things he knows.
Emily was looking for her brush, saying, “Where did my hairbrush go?” Forrest went running into the kitchen, found the hairbrush on the counter, & took it to her.
Today, Emily & Chrissy are both doing some cooking. Forrest ran off with a spatula & tossed it over the gate into my room. Later, when Emily wondered aloud where the spatula was, Forrest ran over to the gate, reached through to pick it up, & took it to her.
How many 16-month olds know what a spatula, of all things, is? I told the girls that I no longer assume he doesn’t know what I’m talking about.
Besides being super-cute & super-smart, Forrest is also super-sweet. (I sound like a teenage girl with all these “supers”, don’t I?)
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Karen, you sound like a grandmother to me.
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21. So why arrest the guy . Why not just a polite inquiry. ” Excuse me Mr. So -&-so. This picture concerns me a little. Can you shed some light on this.” I was talking to another mother yesterday about how paranoid parents are starting to feel. A child hurts himself and it actually crosses your mind. “Do I take him to the hospital now and risk getting accused of abuse or wait and see if he’s alright and risk getting accused of neglect.
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kbells @26: I don’t know – Why was I put in a locked room and repeatedly accused of lying when I went to visit Mumsee? Our security forces seem to lack common sense when it comes to dealing with human nature. I suspect it is because the minute regulations that are trying to prevent injustice, are really making it harder for them to know how to deal with people.
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Hey! That was before she got here, don’t get the wrong idea there.
Dads have been defeating bad guys and monsters with guns and swords and spears since the banishment.
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Phos – Did you cry? I certainly would have!
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Mumsee –
I really wasn’t trying to accuse you of false imprisonment – just worded my phrase awkwardly.
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Mumsee, one of my husband’s favorite stories of when his girls were little: one night one of them awoke with a nightmare. He remembered that his mom had told him that it never helped to comfort him when he had a nightmare, and he knew it hadn’t helped this daughter in the past, so he mentally decided what he’d do instead.
He strode into the bedroom and said, “OK, monsters, you’ve had your fun, and you scared her. Now get out, and don’t come back,” and he made a sweeping motion toward the door. It worked.
Mumsee, I did wonder momentarily about Phos’s first paragraph–wow, what a way to treat houseguests who come to help!
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Hubby still needs prayer, he has tough decisions. They really want him in Scotland (it is nice to be wanted) and it would be a neat experience for the family, but it puts a very large burden on his wife’s shoulders as all of the homeschooling and discipline and chauffering and directing would fall upon her. Will she hold out? Is this God’s direction? Will the family hold together under the stress? Will the two new boys fit in and help to make it work or will they need too much at this stage? It is working where we are, but what an opportunity. If God wants us there, He will be with us and give the needed whatever. Decisions, decisions…
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I mean, of course, “first sentence.”
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Phos @30- Even around here the best worded phrase can be turned inside out by some of us witty people, if you know what I mean.
And Kim @22- I haven’t read your article, but I wonder if seals worry about racial differences. I mean, they all eat fish and swim in the same water, don’t they? And do “seals of color” have a diffenreent barking dialect than “white” seals?
Oh, the article is talking about special forces, not sea mammals.
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So, Phos, what did they think you were lying about? I can’t imagine you looking that suspicious!
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Karen – I was in shock, because I was exhausted – then I was angry, because they were really unpleasant to me – then I just prayed. They had given a Catch-22, either you admit you’re lying about just visiting friends, or we’ll ban you from the States for life.
So I prayed, that even though there was no prospect they were going to let me go across the border that night, that they would let me go anyway, and God answered that prayer. I had missed my flight as a result of the delay, but the clerk just booked me for the next one (which is why I ended up in JFK). Two miracles in one early morning – I could have danced down the terminal in my exhilaration.
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30. Yeah, you had us all wondering if you had tried to steal a goat or something.
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Aji suun – They thought I was going to work and take jobs away from Americans.
I forgot to mention, that I had no flight insurance, so that is why the rebooking was amazing.
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#13 — Real.
That judge should be off the bench. It’s obvious he doesn’t know how to apply the law — American law, that is.
I would sue this muslim in civil court for assault. But I would also file a complaint with the state Supreme Court.
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My gut instinct, Mumsee, is to say GO!
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Our Ethiopian wants to be a SEAL. We will do more swimming the rivers. That should help.
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NJL, that would seem a no brainer. We both like Scotland, it is the only country we can think of where we would agree to even attempt this. But, in reality, we have eleven children with “”issues” and you never know when those “issues” might pop up. They are great children and are doing really well, do we really want to rock their boat? Many time zones away so there is jet lag. Culture shock will kick in at six weeks and again at six months. Several struggle with depression already. Several thrive on very solid consistency. Ten year old can rarely do schoolwork on Monday after the one day off of Sunday. She takes a day to recover. How long will it take her with a trip like that? She is one of many with that challenge. Several of them need very individualized school work. Am I up to that challenge? Will we find any willing helpers over there? Our general leaning is, yes, step out in faith and let God provide all of our needs as He has already done. But He has already provided us with a tremendous situation right here. Is it possible He wants us to set it aside and begin anew?
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Well, I have pretty much talked myself into it, now to convince hubbykins I can do it.
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Ah, Mumsee, I both sympathize with the challenge and want you to go. We have been praying for you and will continue to. If this is the Lord’s will, then He will make a way for it all to work. And as you know, I might have an easier time getting into Scotland…
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I am planning on that….
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Cowboy owner Jerry Jones has proven he can take something that was highly respected and turn it into a complete joke. So why isn’t he running for President?
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Ricky doesn’t think we have enough jokes?
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Yes, Mumsee, it is! The Lord will provide. You and Idahomike are the consistency, and there will be people like Phos there, I have no doubt, if not Phos herself.
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Mumsee, I’ll be praying that God would give you all very clear guidance. If the plan is His, then all the other worries are minor.
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Mumsee@28 I don’t know, how much time did she spend with Methusala and Mary?
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Mumsee, how long would the “stay” in Scotland be? This is somewhat long-term? Or?
I can see all the issues you have to wrestle with, not knowing the effects on so many lives. I pray it can work out for you all to go, but God will provide the direction, slowly and in baby steps only, no doubt.
NJL congratulations we hope! That’s great news.
Debra (#1)
Yep, that’ll teach us alright! 
What’s going on? (Other than now I’ll be singing a Marvin Gay sound in my head all day.)
Not much. I return to work on Monday after a rather lackluster stay-cation week. I had dinner out with a friend last night, she’s put in a low-ball bid on a bank-owned house but is facing challenges with the bank now (she has stellar credit, but apparently a tiny credit card charge slipped through the cracks unpaid a while back and it’s made her very high credit score plummet!).
I’ve been going through a study on Isaiah on my own this week.
Well, it’s off to the grocery store sometime today to get the ingredients for the homeless mission casserole our church is collecting tomorrow morning.
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Come to think of it, she was out there quite a bit.
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I’ve always wanted to go to Scotland. ….
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Donna, you had a week off and did not come here to help out? What is up with that? The stay in Scotland should be about one and a half to two years, depending on when we go. It is the Commonwealth Games of 2014.
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I’m indignant about Kim’s aspersions – Meth and MaryJane weren’t even born when I was there. Paula and Ruth(?) were still great with child. And I did not spend a great deal of time outside and I wouldn’t stay long around the goat pen, not with the stench of Lazarus
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Well, you did go out for a couple of “walks”.
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And from what Zaccheus, the wee little ram, indicated….
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyY-6oh0Ow8
This is the song I thought of yesterday when Mumsee posted the goats names…
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Mumsee, have you been talking to the animals again? No wonder you named those baby goats after, well…
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Obadiah? You got a problem with Obadiah?
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Kim…..
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Kim!
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Notice how some weird things come to Kim’s mind?
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Well, Chas, you know where she is from….
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Ye-ha, Kim.
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Oh come on! You know it was funny.
I know all sorts of obscure things….
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Kim, I’d forgotten all about it but actually remembered the song from way back when. It got some radio air time back in the day.
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64. Hey!
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oops
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#21
Phos, I think being arrested and strip-searched over a DRAWING is far worse than being charged $1.20 or so for a poor lunch.
Seriously, the man’s rights were beyond violated.
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Hubbykins and the children are hoping to have the opportunity today to speak with the Governor and a Legislator about the border incident. Phos may never again be allowed in….
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Kim,
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PET POST!!!!!!
Who’s a good kitty!
http://hotair.com/archives/2012/02/25/awww-newly-adopted-cat-saves-owners-life/
“Time for your weekend break from politics. Most of us are, by now, familiar with the idea of “seizure dogs” and “therapy dogs” who assist owners with special medical needs. But a seizure cat? Keep this in mind if you’re ever considering rescuing a feline from the local shelter. From Wisconsin.
Amy Jung and her son, Ethan Jung, originally went to the Door County Humane Society on Feb. 8 to play with the cats, not to bring one home. Then Jung, 36, saw Pudding lying on a counter. She made a quick decision to adopt Pudding and his pal Wimsy.
At around 9:30 p.m., she went to bed and about 1½ hours later, the prodigious kitty came to her rescue.
Jung, who was diagnosed with diabetes at the age of 4, started to have a seizure. According to Jung, Pudding planted his weight on her chest and, when he could not wake her, began swatting her face and biting her nose.
“Anything he could to pull me out of it (the seizure),” she said.
Unfortunately, just waking up wasn’t enough. The woman couldn’t make it out of bed or awaken her son Ethan to help her by yelling. So the cat rushed into Ethan’s room, jumped on his head and woke him up. They called for medical help and the woman was saved. (One sad note for Ethan… the cat weighs 22 pounds, which would probably wake up anyone.)”
Fat cats rule!
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The “Border Incident.”
I like that it has a real name and everything.
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With the things going on in Mexico and south and Egypt and Syria, etc, it seems like a small thing, but it isn’t.
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I know, Mumsee. It definitely deserves looking into.
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What was the border incident? Did Phos try to take a goat out of the country?
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Worse than that, KBells, she tried to volunteer to help a family of eleven. She volunteered to teach them some music, some French, some sewing, and read to some little folk. It was awful! But they caught her.
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AJ, I freely admit to TRYING to smoke it once. I even will admit to TRYING to INHALE. It did absolutely NOTHING for me. That was on a Saturday night and on Monday morning the bank called and said they had decided to give me the job; I just needed to come in and take the drug test. And some people don’t think God has a sense of humor!
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OK, people, it’s time for a serious post or two. Enough levity..
I mean it!
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Kim, you’ve told that story before, but you’ve never told the end of the story. Did you take the drug test, and did you pass?
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I feel safer knowing our Northern Border is so locked down, I can tell you that.
I’m sure it’s that tight on the Southern Border as well. 
Just
I mean really, what else can you say. You’re husband should talk to whoever will listen. Sadly, I think Phos probably fits the new Homeland Security, TSA, INS, Obama Admin profile as possibly one a those right-wing, Tea Party, Jesus freak, potential imaginary terrorists that they are sure are out there. Meanwhile, the people they should be profiling are writing FBI, HS, TSA, INS, and Obama Admin guidelines. They are avoiding the only ones who have committed these acts for PC sake, and are instead getting those who fit the new PC profile. I’m sorry that Phos got such a rude reception from these idiots. As an American, it’s embarrassing. I hope she comes again, but who knows, she may already be on the watch list or no-fly list. If that’s the case, just fly into Mexico like Hamas has done, and walk over. We’ll pick you up in Arizona.
Again, just
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I passed the drug test. Apparently I wasn’t good at inhaling. I took the job and sold “non-traditional bank products” I was even licensed and on my way to a series 6 and a financial planning certification.
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Hey WORLD!
You smell that? It’s a story. Just sayin’. The only way people know about this nonsense is if someone tells the story. Just sayin’. I mean come on, we got it all here, christian missionaries impeded by govt, stupid govt rules, persecuting the rightous who are about doing God’s business, international intrigue, and kids. C’mon, seems like it’s right up WORLD’s alley.
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Well I hope you never run for office Kim, because Homeland Security already has a screen shot of your confession. If they could tie you in with Mumsee, and Phos, thru a website, like say WORLD, all 3 of you might be looking at conspiracy charges as well.
It’s a regular crime ring around here. Sheesh.
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Cell division. Oxygenation. Photosynthesis. Evaporation. Gravitational attraction. Nuclear fusion in the core of the Sun. Phone rings. A hyena laughs. A limb of a fir tree deep in a forest in Canada, overloaded with heavy snow, breaks. Pioneer 10 beeps, weakly. The brakes on a car somewhere in West Virgina fail. A Red Giant star in the core of the Milky Way Galaxy begins to contract, fatally. A young man with a paintbrush in Germany pauses, and suddenly frowns. A sperm whale at 1000 fathoms sees the eerie pale luminescence of a giant squid just ahead and to the left. The captain of an alien spaceship orbiting the fourth planet in the Canopus system stumbles as he enters the bridge. A rusting, corroded bulkhead on the Titanic, E Deck, collapses. A helium atom hurtling through intergalactic space near the edge of the universe, emits a low-energy electron. Two men walking fast, suddenly turn into the darkened doorway of a shuttered shop on a narrow twisting street in Istanbul. A lone buzzard, high above a brown expanse of grass and trees, suddenly banks into a freshening westerly wind. In an aquarium in a small flat in London, a tiny tropical fish suddenly feels disoriented. A frightened villager in India sees a dark shadow moving toward him, fast, low in the reeds. A small meteor streaks and burns unseen through the yellow poisonous mists of Venus.
Yep. All kinds of stuff are going on, when you think about it.
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The Real @86: Well, I had to explain how I knew Mumsee…
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What would happen to the animals if you went to Scotland, Mumsee? Do they go, too?
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Well, Drill, I believe that all those things probably happened today, except one.
Good writing by the way – Why has World not employed you yet?
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Not only that, but we keep complaining about foreigners coming across our southern border to work for low wages doing thengs Americans won’t do. Now we have foreigners coming across our northern borders doing, for free, things Americans won’t do.
It’s getting worse.
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Like I said, you shouda told them you were going to Myrtle Beach.
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Mumsee, This is for you. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDee-mHMdwY&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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You know, even though I am now apparently flagged, and need to have a job or something before I attempt to enter the US again, looking back on it all, I kind of feel sorry for those border guards – trained to have such suspicious minds, incapable of seeing how someone could do something for purely altruistic motives – what must life look like for them. I wonder if the police have the same problems, always second guessing their neighbours and their family members – not the way I would want to live my life.
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My dad was just about ready to come home, but now they’re keeping him because of a bad wound that has developed an infection.
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Sorry to hear that QDC. It must be pretty bad if they kept him in the hospital, here anyway, they treat even the worst wounds at home.
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All right already, Ricky, I do want to go. It is beautiful (I have been there for a vacation, a quick train ride around for about a week) and the people are beautiful though I don’t recall them all standing around singing so nicely.
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QDC, thanks for the reminder to pray for him.
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#17 Michelle
Every week when I prepare for my Adult Sunday School Lesson, i go to Bible Gateway.com.
http://www.biblegateway.com
I go to the book and chapter and read it in several versions. I use New American Standard, English Standard Version, NIV 1984 first then sometimes go to the JB Phillips New Testament. I like reading the different versions and then go to the cross references.
After a while, reading the different versions I start to see the different ways of translating; the different ways of interpreting what is in the Bible. I also often see the common ways of understanding that lead to true and correct interpretation.
I see that you used the New King James version. All my choices use the word “saved” or a form of saved, except the NIV 1984, that use the wording “the Lord delivered his people out of Egypt instead. When the word “saved” is used,
The Lord or Jesus is the choice. Hmmm! Very interesting!
God “delivered” his people, Jesus “saved” them. I am Baptist; Once saved Always saved! I see no problem.
“(I tell my ladies you cannot lose your salvation, but you can deliberately throw it away).” Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”
I am not able to force God out, who is?
“The Dreamers” in verse 8 seem to me to be the “certain men”…”ungodly men” of verse 4. The next verses are examples of “ungodly men” and fallen angels the all the Jews would have known about.
I like to read the different versions. I like to remember the rules of English about subject/ verb usage and agreement. I like to pay attention to who the later nouns, and pronouns are referring back to. Don’t read the passage one verse at a time. Read it in paragraph form.
Michelle, if you would like, you have my email address.
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Bob Buckles (& Michelle) – I often read different versions, too. I especially like the Amplified Version for giving a fuller meaning.
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A little more bragging on my genius grandson…He also seems to know the difference between “this” & “that”, & pronounces the “th” sound correctly.
Of course, it would be nice if he turns out to be “super-smart”, but even more important is to raise him to be kind. My prayer for him is that God would give him “…a heart that beats for You, Lord, that longs to follow You every day of his life.” And that God would give him a discerning & wise spirit.
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I agree with Phos about the passage. You have to read all the story of Korah and Balaam to get the jist of it, too. We are not saved to indulge in sin, which these men thought was what it was all about and were teaching others that also. Not everyone who claims to be saved is saved. I do not believe the passage is saying you will lose your salvation, but God does see and He does judge.
I think the whole thing about the gun was totally wrong. Is is illegal for this man to HAVE a gun? I don’t see anything suggesting child abuse whatsoever. This child could have been discribing a policeman or a soldier. They may have to shoot at the bad guys. This whole concept of never letting children pretend cops and robbers etc. is sad, IMO.
We just bought a used car. Glad to have the job done, since it is one neither my husband or I enjoy. We did buy from a nephew who works at a local dealership. He has been selling a lot these days.
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[NOTE: This is going to come flying into this thread from out of the blue today, but just wanted to make a note that since Lent starts Monday, I'll be off World Mag Blog through Pascha. I'm not giving it up for Lent, per se, just wanting to pray more while I fast more during this season, and need to make time for that. Good strength to you all this Lenten season, and as you prepare for Pascha. Oh, Orthodox Easter is different than western Easter this year, so my return would be after April 15.
There's a prayer we pray in the Eastern church, a couple times a day, from the beginning of Lent to Pascha. I hope you will enjoy it's beauty, and appreciate its contrition. May the Lord have mercy on us all.
O Lord and Master of my life,Take from me the spirit of sloth, despair, lust of power and idle talk. But give rather the spirit of chastity, meekness of mind, patience and love to Thy servant. Yea O Lord and King, grant me to see my own transgressions and not to judge my brother, for blessed art thou unto ages of ages. Amen.
Prayer of St. Ephraim
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CHERYL @81 “I mean it!”
“Anybody want a peanut?”
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NW JULIANA @104 – I hope your telling the truth, and not that you’re going to spend all those days doing your taxes.
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I wrote an offer on a condo today!!!! Whoop! Whoop! If it goes through my trip to DC in May will be a little more fun.
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ps. I’ve enjoyed it when you’ve told us about the Eastern Church. Thanks!
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See you in April then, NWJuliana! Happy Resurrection Day!
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QDC, sorry to hear about your Dad. Prayers on the way.
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NW Julianna, I also enjoy hearing of your Eastern Orthodox tradition. I live in an area with a large Greek Orthodox Community, so I somewhat understand although not all the way. I have enjoyed the times I have been included in their celebrations.
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QDC, my prayers for your dad, too. Mine is not doing so well these days either. It is hard to see for me, as I am sure it is for you. I pray that infection will clear up quickly and he is home soon.
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Enjoy your fathers while you have them. I would give anything to have mine back…
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114. Me too.
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114…me too Kim…me too
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QDC – trusting God and praying for your dad, his drs. & all the family members. Amen.
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Me too.
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Michelle,
Your grandson sounds adorable. Quite normal for his age if I dare say so, but adorable.
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Me too. Both parents.
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Michelle @17 – Jude wanted to write about salvation, but was led by the Holy Spirit to write about apostasy.
Jude begins the letter in verses 1 and 2 with assurance to true believers. Genuine believers are beloved, sanctified, preserved in Jesus Christ, called, and experience mercy, peace and love.
Apostates, false believers, are described in verse 4. They are ungodly, coarse and lewd, they deny the Lord God and the Lord Jesus.
Jude uses 7 examples of apostates.
1. Israel refusing to enter the promised land, then dying in the 40 years wilderness wanderings.
2. Angels who rebelled against God, and are reserved for judgment.
3. Sodom and Gomorrah judged for sensual sin.
4. The apostates of his day whom he describes as dreamers (possibly following their own dreams rather than following God), immoral, reject authority, and speak evil of those in authority.
5. Cain – refused to bring a blood sacrifice
6. Balaam – his love for money motivated him to help Israel’s enemies.
7. Korah – contradicted God’s authority, and stood against Moses and Aaron.
I’m know there is much more to this than I know, but it appears to be a lesson that has a good opportunity to encourage true believers, and warn those who are just playing at Christianity.
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Leo, as for my taxes — nope, I finished those Jan. 22 or so!
Kim, does the church near you have a big Greek festival? We went to one in Seattle a couple years ago and it was lovely. Our church is not of the Greek background, but Antiochian, so we’d have to do some kind of Middle Eastern or Arab. festival (we have an Arab gal in our parish, and I bet she’d love it). Maybe some day — we’re a small mission parish right now.
A good Lord’s Day to you all.
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Dropping in to say hello.
News from Georgia: http://www.wnd.com/2012/02/superior-court-asked-to-boot-obama-from-ballot/
Just wondering what the resident lawyer thinks about this?
Super Tuesday is just around the bend. I hope this trivial matter can all be straightened out by then since it was neglected in the previous election. Seems like I slightly recall someone was trying to make it an issue for McCain back then. I suppose it is only fair that donkeys and elephants be treated the same.
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Look, I’d like to see the issue ruled on, and the law should be followed, but you can’t unring a bell. There’s something in my memory that says this issue went up to the Supreme Court from another state.
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The judge in the Zombie Muhammad case has spoken. He is a Lutheran. He serves as a reservist in the military (he’s been to either Iraq and/or Afghanistan. (This news is over at the Volokh.) I agree with the thread poster there that he had no business dressing down the victim. I still think his language was vulgar, and I still think when people come to our country, it is OUR culture that should prevail. We tolerate stupid, offensive speech — that’s what the First Amendment is about — and this muslim who came here should have been told too bad, so sad.
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In other words, he should have been told to adapt to OUR culture. We don’t cotton to what he did.
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Happy Sunday, everyone!
If you think of it, pray for the elections in Senegal today. There is a lot of unrest due to the incumbent (who is either 86 or 90+ depending on who you ask!) running for a 3rd 7-year term. I expect there will be problems no matter what happens. The next few days could be interesting. The border of Senegal is about 5 miles north of me (and as the crow flies about 40 miles south of me–look at a map and you’ll understand)
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Maybe it’s only a 5-year term. They might have changed that at the same time as they amended the Constitution to only allow a president to have 2 terms. The current president says that his first term doesn’t count since he was elected before they changed the rules.
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Every Fall we have Greek Fest. It lasts three days over a weekend. Even we non-Greeks attend. I used to be good friends with Constantino–He is BG’s Uncle Tino. We used to work together and work-out together. He also used to rat me out to George when I was pregnant and tell him everything I had lifted at work. I had to stop working out because I pulled a hamstring muscle and he and George started working out together. During Lent he was only eating bread and drinking water. I made him go eat pizza with me. He scraped off all the cheese, pepperoni, and sauce and just ate the crust. I ate everything he didn’t. I think BG was about a year old before I ate pizza again. We were always included in Greek Easter. His mother also sent me ONE piece of baklava a week while I was pregnant.
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She didn’t want me to get too fat. Over the years we drifted apart. I used to tell him that the women he wanted only existed in magazines and they airbrushed them. He would laugh and tell me what a catch he was. I would reply that he was 35, bald, and lived with his parents. He finally married at 40 and has a wonderful wife and son.
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Thanks to all the comments on Jude. I worked on it awhile yesterday after I posted and will finish up today.
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Amen to (most of) this (”Afghanistan: Let’s Get Out”):
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/02/afghanistan-lets-get-out.php
From the post:
“The country, if it can properly be called such, is hundreds of years behind modern civilization. I don’t think nation-building is always a bad idea, but a certain amount and quality of raw material is required. In Afghanistan, the prerequisites for successful nation-building are absent. …
“Currently, as we noted last month, President Obama seems to be setting up a negotiated ‘peace’ agreement of some sort with a Taliban front group. That, too, is a terrible idea. Let’s not negotiate anything or engage in any pretense; let’s just get out, while killing a few more terrorists on the way to the door.”
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Excuse me for going to a totally frivolous topic as I click in on some coverage of the red carpet to the Oscars. I do not follow current movies except for the unavoidable publicity about the best or worst of the lot. But I do get a kick out of some of the interviews, popular fashions and makeup. And I do look for my old favorites in the audience, too. It’s a very different world that I’m so glad to be on the outside looking in, although I am pulling for The Help and The Artist.
I’m glad Billy Crystal is back, but I won’t set my hopes too high and will wait for the highlights tomorrow.
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Louise: Not to worry about frivolity. Toobizzy and NJL beat you to it.
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Thanks, Malarcadia, your relevance astounds me, too!
I look forward to once again having time to read all of the posts on here. I have prayed for all on WMB although I have not been able to keep up with the specifics. I hope everyone is well.
Thanks for your perspective, NJL. I must have missed the story when it was previously addressed.
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It is an open thread, so the complaint is not warranted.
Good morning anyway. Have a great day. Enjoy your day, too! Do something fun.
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