Why, yes, this is a Verizon Wireless cameraphone, why do you ask? Actually, I was just trying to capture the image of the fast-moving SECOND evil black stormcloud of the day, which looked like it might be about to drop a tail over the Northwest suburbs. Via: Flickr Title: 08-23-07_1711.jpg By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 23 Aug ’07, 5.13pm CDT PST
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Saturated soils, bank-full rivers render predicted thunderstorms ominous — chicagotribune.com The metro area is waterlogged and only a downpour away from far more serious flooding than anything which has occurred to date. That’s why forecasters are concerned about the introduction of thunderstorm-aggravating heat Wednesday and Thursday. Even Friday is to remain warm enough to foster t-storm development. The atmosphere is about as muggy as it gets here, brimming with 2″ of evaporated water, as evidenced by the humid tropical rain forest-level mid to upper 70(degrees) dew points, which threaten to erupt explosively in several waves of active thunderstorms in coming…
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OpinionJournal – Wonder Land Here, too, Robert Putnam has a possible assimilation model. Hold onto your hat. It’s Christian evangelical megachurches. “In many large evangelical congregations,” he writes, “the participants constituted the largest thoroughly integrated gatherings w (tags: BigBrother Politics Assimilation Diversity)
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I heard this on my way to church, and it really… resonated much like the “sounding brass” (bronze vessels that amplified actors’ voices in the ancient theater of Corinth) mentioned in the reference link near the bottom. NPR : The Holy Life of the Intellect I believe that the human intellect is the closest thing we have to the divine. It is the way we can join one another in spirit. … If we can experience another’s mind in our own, we know that love is possible. We understand why the great poet Shelley wrote a poem to what he…
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On my way back home from Holy Moly today, I had my camera with me and stopped to take pictures of the nearby park, which was reclaimed from a wetland area when the subdivision was built 20 years or so ago. Whenever we get a lot of rain, it clearly shows “once a wetland, always a wetland,” because a pond or small lake will appear overnight in the area, and take weeks to drain. The nickname for our area, according to David, was “Hoffman’s Mistake” when he was in high school, and so I dub the body of water in…
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Old rule still holds magic for stranded air travelers — chicagotribune.com It served as a secret handshake, of sorts, between airlines and passengers for decades.Travelers whose flights were delayed, or who simply were running late, would sidle up to ticket counters and whisper, “Rule 240 me.” And the airline workers usually would oblige, putting them on the next flight to their destination, even if it were on a rival carrier. The days of Rule 240 as an official component of the era of regulated air travel are long gone. But in this summer of endless delays, steamed passengers and overcrowded…
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Bloomberg.com: News (tags: Corruption)
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Padre Mickey’s Dance Party: Padre Mickey invites you to Join Us! JOIN US!!!! Dear Bishop or Rector, Are you a Bishop up for presentment by TEC? Are you a Rector accused of some sort of monkey-business with parish funding? Are you a member of a major dissenting organization? Are they oppressing you because of your adherence to the teachings of the orthodox so-called? Are you ready to practice the new Anglican tradition of jumping ship just before charges are presented? Why go to the Southern Cone or Nigeria or even Rwanda, when you and your congregation can join the Real…
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The collapse of Karl Rove | Salon News In Pennsylvania, Judge Jones’ angry repudiation of the Christian majority on the school board was both a portent and part of the dissolution of the union over which Rove presided in 1994 in Fort Worth. Jones, a Tom Ridge protégé, was unequivocal in asserting the primacy of the Separation Clause over the religious interests of local governing bodies. Like this moderate judge, the larger public — and even the Republican Party, if the candidacy of Rudy Giuliani means anything — has grown weary of the Christian right. It was a marriage as…
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Padre Mickey’s Dance Party: Padre Mickey invites you to Join Us! JOIN US!!!! Whoa!! This is the funniest Episcopal priest blog I’ve run across in a long, long time. The photos R awsum WINx6!