Return of the Steamboat Springs "noon whistle." Heard the original many times as a kid. http://is.gd/ieZLd # OOooh! @glennbeck thinks progressives are scaaaaary! So does Coulter. Teddy Roosevelt was spooky, too. http://j.mp/fZTrms #ehrenreich # Banned book week from 29SEP10: "Nickel and Dimed" restricted in Kansas until smart people intervened http://j.mp/hENM2s #Ehrenreich # Ibid., NC lawmakers criticised UNC Chapel Hill as "anti-Christian" for picking #NickelandDimed for summer reading. #Ehrenreich # And another ban request denied in PA last February @glennbeck late to the pile-on party? http://j.mp/hhmZrS #NickelandDimed # LOL literally laughing out loud at the #Eureka holiday special. Santa Bogey! Even…
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Something else I believe as a liberal Episcopalian, put a little more aggressively: My God is the God of the poor. You can be for the poor or you can go to hell. pastordan is awesome, and I grew up in a Protestant mainline church distantly related to the UCC so I know where he’s coming from. H/T to ***Dave FTW. via Note to Religious Liberals: God Does Take Sides | Religion Dispatches.
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One reason I don’t believe in “the Rapture” or “the Apocalypse” is the people who DO believe appear to me to be completely crazy and irrational… and their websites induce seizures. Funny how the dates they keep calculating (using special software, even) keep slipping too, kind of like the metaphysical side of scope creep. 25NOV10? No. 21DEC10? Maybe. 01FEB11? Rosh Hashanah, 2015? More time to convert unbelievers! I noted for David’s benefit the new Jewish holiday of “Yom Kipper,” The Feast of Smoked Fish. This must be why mom-in-law Leah has lox and bagels for family brunch? I’ve been reading…
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: Holiday Party: Hinman Vineyards, Eugene OR (Go DUCKS) By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 10 Dec ’10, 9.33pm CST PST
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Ginny I can has iPhone? Via: Flickr Title: The Vault Is Open: The Bank restaurant, Wheaton IL By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 10 Dec ’10, 9.31pm CST PST
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So this is why the Jesus Christianists hate Barbara Ehrenreich’s book “Nickel and Dimed” so much. Hat tip to @stopbeck for mentioning the effort to ban it, which goes back years but has a consistent Christian-Right taint. “It would be nice if someone would read this sad-eyed crowd the Sermon on the Mount, accompanied by a rousing commentary on income inequality and the need for a hike in the minimum wage. But Jesus makes his appearance here only as a corpse; the living man, the wine-guzzling vagrant and precocious socialist, is never once mentioned, nor anything he ever had to…
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Feast of St. Nicholas: With voices loud and joyous | Seven whole days Speaking to the Soul Quidditch coming to Elmhurst College – Chicago Tribune Padre Mickey’s Dance Party: Feast of St. Nicholas of Myra BBC News – Spain prime minister ‘stopped’ Rolls-Royce contract Gizmodo, the Gadget Guide Editorial | Creationist tourism | courier-journal.com | The Courier-Journal Are Mennonites Taking Over the World? – Sheldon C. Good – God’s Politics Blog
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The Very Revd Colin Slee, Dean of Southwark Cathedral in London, died last week and his funeral service was today in the cathedral. The sermon was given by Dr Jeffrey John, Dean of St Albans, who was formerly the Theologian at Southwark, was nominated as Bishop, and in a scandalous turn, the nomination was rescinded because conservatives objected to John’s homosexuality. He noted that Slee said to him in the weeks before his death how “surprisingly un-scared” he was. I wish I’d known him; on my recent visit to London with David we actually walked past his house, where I…
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UPDATE: Hey, there was CANDY in my shoes after church (thoughtfully packed in an odor-proof Ziplock ™ bag. Thank you, St Nicholas! Via: Flickr Title: Shoes Off For St Nicholas By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 5 Dec ’10, 10.56am CST PST
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Something from the collect for St Nicholas, particularly apt at this time of year.