Via: Flickr Title: Dsl reports picnic By: GinnyRED57 Originally uploaded: 15 Jul ’06, 4.39pm CDT PST
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And the sooner they all get taken up and crash into each other mid-air, the better: For the first time in my Christian walk, I have no doubts that the day of the Lords appearing is upon us. I have never felt this way before, I have a joy that bubbles up every-time I think of him, for I know this is truly the time I have waited for so long. Am I alone in feeling guilty about the human suffering like my joy at his appearing some how fuels the evil I see everywhere. If it were not for…
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BBC NEWS | Africa | ‘Moonie’ archbishop rocks Vatican An African archbishop who scandalised the Catholic Church with a ‘Moonie’ marriage before returning to the fold looks set to shock the Vatican again. Emmanuel Milingo has held a surprise news conference calling on the Catholic Church to allow priests to marry. Oh, yeah. That guy. Pretty wacky, eh?
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Ball Park Franks. Be Big. Be Meaty. Be Frank. Oh, yes. We had some sort of “agent appreciation” event here at the office, involving the wearing of Cubs shirts and the eating of hot dogs. The team leaders sent of their number – who happened to be male – to Costco to get the supplies. No one thought to question the cost until at the end of the day, the number of unopened packages was totalled up. The men were told to purchase about 200 dogs, total. At Costco, they bought 5 cases. On the front of each case, it…
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U.S. Will Give Detainees Geneva Rights | Chicago Tribune The policy, described in a memo by Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England, appears to reverse the administration’s earlier insistence that the detainees are not prisoners of war and thus not subject to the Geneva protections. Later on, glam White House Spokesman Tony Snow says ‘ “It’s not really a reversal of policy.” Another spokesman says “The memo that went out, it doesn’t indicate a shift in policy,” he said. “It just announces the decision of the court.” ‘ Uh huh. Sure. I remember in the early days of AAR when Janeane…
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I’m no sports fan, so admittedly I’m no expert on this, but I really have to question a person’s motivation to dress up in some outllandish way in order to show their support for a team. What, really, is the point? Will your team win if you and your friends paint the letters of the team names on your pale, hairless chests and stand throughout the game? Will they lose if you fail to shave your chest hair first (in the case of male fans) and then stand in the wrong order, spelling out “GO SCUB?” It won’t make a…
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I saw a stunning-looking convertible roadster just now on my way back from the mall. At first, I thought it was a heavily modded Corvette, because it had “head bumps” on the rear body, just behind the head rests. Then, I thought it was some European snazzy goodness, similar to the precisely engineered car my niece Holly drives. Then I glanced at the logoplate above the rear bumper. It was… a… SATURN? Detroit Auto Show: Saturn Sky – Autoblog Why, yes, apparently it was. Good looking car, from any angle. Not bad for a chick-magnet machine; this one was being…
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As you might have guessed, I’ve been following developments, both grievous and joyous, in the Episcopal Church in the weeks following General Convention 2006. News today: the Mother Church’s “General Synod approved the concept of women bishops as ‘theologically justified’ by 288 votes to 119.” BBC NEWS | UK | Church backs female bishops move Of course, the traditional wing has very strong objections, citing the concept as unBiblical. This wing has close ties to the conservative “Global South,” the area mostly under the influence or control of Nigeria’s Bishop Akinola. Actually, the American traditionalists are believed to be sending…
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This is one of those portmanteau posts – you know, a fabulous and not-entirely-practical construct used to illustrate a point in a story (often a shaggy dog one). First off, I've been using ecto for a while, off and on, and while I found it most useful when I had a lot of images to pull into my big Maui post, I haven't been using it much since it upgraded to version 2.0. Mostly because I was struggling with the difference between "Rich Text" and "HTML" mode. It has some handy formatting buttons that only work in Rich Text mode,…
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I was doing my travel agent-y thing the other morning and had occasion to call a Hilton hotel to try to change an existing reservation. Apparently, they had only trainees available who didn’t know how to make the modification I needed – so I was put on hold while they figured out what to tell me (short answer: book additional nights myself in my system). While on hold, I heard a few notes of the “music” they use for such things, and to my surprise it was not only a tune I recognized, but one I have on iTunes and also one…