Josh at The Daily Office has an open letter to Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh:Â Please make sure that you pray to God one last time about your interpretation of Scripture concerning homosexual behavior.
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“Sen. Stevens Told to Keep Records for Graft Probe” By Paul Kane Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the Senate, disclosed in an interview that the FBI asked him to preserve records as part of a widening investigation into Alaskan political corruption that has touched his son and ensnared one of his clo (tags: CorruptRepublicans)
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JeffBridges.com – End Hunger We have a food pantry at church, of course, but the End Hunger Project aims higher: convince our government that hungry people in a country with a supposedly “strong” economy shouldn’t have to rely on private charity to get enough to eat.
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Top 5 tricks for taking professional looking photos with your digital camera | SamirBharadwaj.com (tags: Photography Art StumbleUpon) Acrobots (tags: StumbleUpon Space funny blog Game) The Portrait of a Healer Idealist Whoa. (tags: INFP) whocalled.us These guys call a cow-orker all the time. I’ve told him to tell them to stop calling at work, but they ignore it. (tags: dirtbags)
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Message to Episcopalians | Chicago Tribune (tags: Episcopalian Anglican MacIyalla) GAZPACHO RECIPE, SPANISH COLD TOMATO SOUP (tags: Recipes) Spanish Food – How To Make Spicy Gazpacho Soup. (tags: Recipes)
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Religious Intelligence – News – New book by Anglican scholar claims Jesus ‘had no family values’ Jesus had no family values – the word is never mentioned in the New Testament (tags: Anglican) Off the Kuff: Fighting back against Fred (tags: FredPhelps Hypocrite)
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Federal Quarantine for TB Traveler | Chicago Tribune There’s something about this person’s story that doesn’t smell right. Maybe it was ignoring doctor’s orders not to travel, and then “sneaking” back into the US via Canada because the CDC got involved. (tags: news TB quarantine)
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roll for initiative » I heart the Neti Pot has a highly graphic discussion of what happens when you use a nasal lavage to clear the goonge out of your sinuses. Disgusting as it sounds, I might actually try this. Via Joi, who’s been doing a little Neti Pot recently too.
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Artists: Bill DouglasNew Age Music I ran across this composer on a Hearts of Space compilation – his setting of Shelley’s “The Cloud” is amazing. He’s based in Boulder. The rest of the CD, Universe 5, is good too.
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Filler in animal feed is open secret in China – International Herald Tribune (tags: melamine smokinggun health Food pets) Spiked wheat. (Schuler Grain Co. uses additive to artificially boost the protein content of its wheat) – Encyclopedia.com WE were doing it before the Chinese – spiking wheat with additives to make the protein percentage appear higher. (tags: adulterated wheat urea melamine) Itchmo – Melamine Recall Foods List and Information (tags: Cats petfood recalls melamine) “Dr” Laura’s “Family” Values Her own “family unit” has been dysfunctional at best. She describes her childhood as “difficult,” due to the rocky, “unloving” marriage between…