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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • US Presidential Election 2008 • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
"The superiority of pagan over Christian truth was believed by Catholic Christianity's critics to subsist precisely in the fact that 'these things never happened, but always are.'"
--Markus Bockmuehl, quoting Sallustius (4th cent.), De dis et mundo 4 (tauta de egeneto oudepote, esti de aei), against Hauerwas' Matthew; Pro ecclesia 17:1 (Winter 2008): p. 27
--Markus Bockmuehl, quoting Sallustius (4th cent.), De dis et mundo 4 (tauta de egeneto oudepote, esti de aei), against Hauerwas' Matthew; Pro ecclesia 17:1 (Winter 2008): p. 27
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
Don Mathis was in for some good news — sort of. He wouldn't have to pay another water bill for 600 years. But the circumstances of such good fortune left the Houston man sourly dismayed.
Mathis thought his check for $99,000 was safely en route to a Dallas securities firm where it would be used to purchase a certificate of deposit. Instead, it arrived at Houston's Department of Public Works and Engineering office, where it was automatically processed, endorsed and deposited.
"It's a comedy of errors," Mathis said, noting that he never suspected anything was amiss until he received a nervous phone call from Dallas. "I have no idea what went wrong. I've done this a jillion times."
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Mathis thought his check for $99,000 was safely en route to a Dallas securities firm where it would be used to purchase a certificate of deposit. Instead, it arrived at Houston's Department of Public Works and Engineering office, where it was automatically processed, endorsed and deposited.
"It's a comedy of errors," Mathis said, noting that he never suspected anything was amiss until he received a nervous phone call from Dallas. "I have no idea what went wrong. I've done this a jillion times."
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Filed under: * Economics, Politics • Economy • Politics in General • * General Interest
For two weeks starting Monday, Hyatt's new Andaz Liverpool Street in London will host the hotel world's first "Reader in Residence."
Writer Damian Barr, 31, will read to guests or talk literature with them. "Most people haven't been read to since they were children, and they don't bring a lot of books to hotels," he says. "I always pack a selection, because you get tired of being in the CNN world."
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Writer Damian Barr, 31, will read to guests or talk literature with them. "Most people haven't been read to since they were children, and they don't bring a lot of books to hotels," he says. "I always pack a selection, because you get tired of being in the CNN world."
Read it all.
Filed under: * General Interest
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- What's black and white and warm all over? A penguin in a wetsuit, naturally. Sounds like a joke, but it's quite serious for biologists at the California Academy of Sciences, who had a wetsuit created for an African penguin to help him get back in the swim of things.
Filed under: * General Interest
Interviewing a college applicant, the dean of admissions asks, “If you could have a conversation with someone, living or dead, who would it be?
The student thinks it over, then answers, “The living one.”
--Reader's Digest, May 2008, p. 187
The student thinks it over, then answers, “The living one.”
--Reader's Digest, May 2008, p. 187
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
From here:
[This past Wednesday] We heard a feature about noisy restaurants. Food critic Tom Sietsema of The Washington Post surveyed a number of hotspots in the Washington area. He told me some of them topped 90 decibels, that's like standing next to a lawnmower.
[ROBERT] SIEGEL: Thank you for doing this story, writes Ann Rabelfetcher(ph) of Atlanta. I wish you all restaurant reviewers would include noise levels in their coverage. The woman who said she liked noisy restaurants embodied the reason we detest them, quote, "I can bring my kid into there, he might be screaming and banging on the glasses or whatever, and no one notices." Oh good, I'm so happy for pay for that ambiance.
[MICHELE] NORRIS: Jennifer Woods(ph) of Frankfort, Illinois, adds this: Your guest failed to mention what I think is another major reason for noisy restaurants. Most of them play music or television too loudly, so even if there are only a few diners, right away the conversation level has to overcome the entertainment. I once asked for the music to be turned off. The response from the waiter: Oh, we couldn't do that; silence is oppressive.
Love that last line--the emphasis is mine--KSH..
[This past Wednesday] We heard a feature about noisy restaurants. Food critic Tom Sietsema of The Washington Post surveyed a number of hotspots in the Washington area. He told me some of them topped 90 decibels, that's like standing next to a lawnmower.
[ROBERT] SIEGEL: Thank you for doing this story, writes Ann Rabelfetcher(ph) of Atlanta. I wish you all restaurant reviewers would include noise levels in their coverage. The woman who said she liked noisy restaurants embodied the reason we detest them, quote, "I can bring my kid into there, he might be screaming and banging on the glasses or whatever, and no one notices." Oh good, I'm so happy for pay for that ambiance.
[MICHELE] NORRIS: Jennifer Woods(ph) of Frankfort, Illinois, adds this: Your guest failed to mention what I think is another major reason for noisy restaurants. Most of them play music or television too loudly, so even if there are only a few diners, right away the conversation level has to overcome the entertainment. I once asked for the music to be turned off. The response from the waiter: Oh, we couldn't do that; silence is oppressive.
Love that last line--the emphasis is mine--KSH..
Filed under: * General Interest
Complaints have been on the rise in recent years about the volume level in restaurants. Washington Post food critic Tom Sietsema took a noise monitor to some of the hottest eateries in the nation's capital.
Listen to it all from NPR.
Listen to it all from NPR.
Filed under: * General Interest
Free tickets to see the Dalai Lama selling on ebay and craiglist for $100 +
Filed under: * General Interest
The sure mark of an unliterary man is that he considers ‘I’ve read it already’ to be a conclusive argument against reading a work. We have all known women who remembered a novel so dimly that they had to stand for half an hour in the library skimming through it before they were certain they had once read it. But the moment they became certain, they rejected it immediately. It was for them dead, like a burnt-out match, an old railway ticket, or yesterday’s newspaper; they had already used it. Those who read great
works, on the other hand, will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of their life."
--C.S.Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
works, on the other hand, will read the same work ten, twenty or thirty times during the course of their life."
--C.S.Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Church History • * Culture-Watch • Books • * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
One of the all-time greats in baseball was Babe Ruth. His bat had the power of a cannon, and his record of 714 home runs remained unbroken until Hank Aaron came along. The Babe was the idol of sports fans, but in time age took its toll, and his popularity began to wane. Finally the Yankees traded him to the Braves. In one of his last games in Cincinnati, Babe Ruth began to falter. He struck out and made several misplays that allowed the Reds to score five runs in one inning. As the Babe walked toward the dugout, chin down and dejected, there rose from the stands an enormous storm of boos and catcalls. Some fans actually shook their fists. Then a wonderful thing happened. A little boy jumped over the railing, and with tears streaming down his cheeks he ran out to the great athlete. Unashamedly, he flung his arms around the Babe's legs and held on tightly. Babe Ruth scooped him up, hugged him, and set him down again. Patting him gently on the head, he took his hand and the two of them walked off the field together.
--Source Unknown
--Source Unknown
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Sports • * General Interest
This was really very entertaining from NPR--listen to it all.
Filed under: * Culture-Watch • Marriage & Family • * General Interest
My wife caught this on Wednesday night and showed it to me--hilarious.
Filed under: * General Interest
The dogs next door get a little noisy, so one day somebody called animal control to complain. When the officers arrived, I heard my neighbors tell them, "Hey, dogs bark. It's human nature."
--Kent Kollmer in the December 2007 Reader's Digest, page 190
--Kent Kollmer in the December 2007 Reader's Digest, page 190
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Corrie ten Boom told of not being able to forget a wrong that had been done to her. She had forgiven the person, but she kept rehashing the incident and so couldn't sleep. Finally Corrie cried out to God for help in putting the problem to rest. "His help came in the form of a kindly Lutheran pastor," Corrie wrote, "to whom I confessed my failure after two sleepless weeks." "Up in the church tower," he said, nodding out the window, "is a bell which is rung by pulling on a rope. But you know what? After the sexton lets go of the rope, the bell keeps on swinging. First ding, then dong. Slower and slower until there's a final dong and it stops. I believe the same thing is true of forgiveness. When we forgive, we take our hand off the rope. But if we've been tugging at our grievances for a long time, we mustn't be surprised if the old angry thoughts keep coming for a while. They're just the ding-dongs of the old bell slowing down." "And so it proved to be. There were a few more midnight reverberations, a couple of dings when the subject came up in my conversations, but the force -- which was my willingness in the matter -- had gone out of them. They came less and less often and at the last stopped altogether: we can trust God not only above our emotions, but also above our thoughts."
--Quoted in this morning's sermon by yours truly on forgiveness
--Quoted in this morning's sermon by yours truly on forgiveness
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
The temptation to form premature theories upon insufficient data is the bane of our profession. --Sherlock Holmes
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
--I have tried to keep things in my hands and lost them all, but what I have given into God's hands I still possess.
--Martin Luther; quoted in this morning's sermon by yours truly
--Martin Luther; quoted in this morning's sermon by yours truly
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
I always feel like ...[we are] on the front lines, and we're in combat, and we're receiving fire and returning fire. And we're running out of bullets, and we're running out of guns, and we're running out of food, and we're running out of water. And supply lines had better advance.
You need to guess the context and identity of the speaker before you look.
You need to guess the context and identity of the speaker before you look.
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
When we “use” God, the church, and ministry to appease religious curiosity and demand, determine winners and losers, gain an upper hand or prove we are better than our competitors, we become participants in death: life without God
--Michael Pasquarello
--Michael Pasquarello
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
When I pay 100% of the airfare, 100% of the plane is a minimum requirement.
--ET, commenting on the bizarre story of a SriLankan Airlines Airplane which announced it was taking off with a small section of its wingtip missing
--ET, commenting on the bizarre story of a SriLankan Airlines Airplane which announced it was taking off with a small section of its wingtip missing
Filed under: * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
MOSCOW (AP) -- A small Russian city just got a really big addition: a 17-pound, 1 ounce baby whose mother had already delivered 11 other children Nurse Svetlana Gildeyeva also said the Sept. 17 birth went smoothly, and mother and the child were fine. The Guinness Book of World Records says the heaviest baby ever was born in the United States in 1879. It weighed 23 pounds, 12 ounces.
Filed under: * General Interest
21. However, secondly, we believe that there remains a lack of clarity about the stance of The Episcopal Church, especially its position on the authorisation of Rites of Blessing for persons living in same-sex unions. There appears to us to be an inconsistency between the position of General Convention and local pastoral provision. We recognise that the General Convention made no explicit resolution about such Rites and in fact declined to pursue resolutions which, if passed, could have led to the development and authorisation of them. However, we understand that local pastoral provision is made in some places for such blessings. It is the ambiguous stance of The Episcopal Church which causes concern among us.
22. The standard of teaching stated in Resolution 1.10 of the Lambeth Conference 1998 asserted that the Conference “cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same sex unions”.
--The Anglican Primates Tanzania Communique
22. The standard of teaching stated in Resolution 1.10 of the Lambeth Conference 1998 asserted that the Conference “cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same sex unions”.
--The Anglican Primates Tanzania Communique
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Anglican Primates • Primates Mtg Dar es Salaam, Feb 2007 • * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
Catching up on some recent blog entries at the Covenant blog, I appreciated Craig Uffman's post wondering if Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams was thinking about the Anglican Communion when he drew this Dilbert cartoon.
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • Episcopal Church (TEC) • TEC Conflicts • * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
The rush and pressure of modern life are a form, perhaps the most common form, of its innate violence. To allow oneself to be carried away by a multitude of conflicting concerns, to surrender to too many demands, to commit oneself to too many projects, to want to help everyone in everything, is to succumb to violence. More than that, it is cooperation in violence.
--Thomas Merton
--Thomas Merton
Filed under: * Christian Life / Church Life • Spirituality/Prayer • * Culture-Watch • Violence • * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
Two men were talking together. The first challenged the other, "If you are so religious, let's hear you quote the Lord's Prayer. I bet you $10.00 you can't." The second responded, "Now I lay my down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. And If I die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." The first pulled out his wallet and fished out a ten dollar bill, muttering, "I didn't think you could do it!"
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
Stuart Smalley (Voiceover): I deserve good things. I am entitled to my share of happiness. I refuse to beat myself up. I am attractive person. I am fun to be with.
Announcer: "Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley". Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several 12-step programs, but not a licensed therapist.
[ open on Stuart giving himself a pep talk in his full-length mirror ]
Stuart Smalley: I'm going to do a terrific show today! And I'm gonna help people! Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me!
--Comedian Al Franken
Announcer: "Daily Affirmation with Stuart Smalley". Stuart Smalley is a caring nurturer, a member of several 12-step programs, but not a licensed therapist.
[ open on Stuart giving himself a pep talk in his full-length mirror ]
Stuart Smalley: I'm going to do a terrific show today! And I'm gonna help people! Because I'm good enough, I'm smart enough, and, doggonit, people like me!
--Comedian Al Franken
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia • Notable & Quotable
"Thank God there are those in the contemporary church who are determined at all costs to defend and uphold God’s revealed truth. But sometimes they are conspicuously lacking in love. When they think they smell heresy, their nose begins to twitch, their muscles ripple, and the light of battle enters their eye. They seem to enjoy nothing more than a fight. Others make the opposite mistake. They are determined at all costs to maintain and exhibit brotherly love, but in order to do so are prepared even to sacrifice the central truths of revelation. Both these tendencies are unbalanced and unbiblical. Truth becomes hard if it is not softened by love; love becomes soft if it is not strengthened by truth. The apostle [Paul] calls us to hold the two together, which should not be difficult for Spirit-filled believers, since the Holy Spirit is himself ‘the Spirit of truth,’ and his firstfruit is ‘love.’ There is no other route than this to a fully mature Christian unity."
--John Stott, The Message of Ephesians (Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsityPress, 1979), p. 172
--John Stott, The Message of Ephesians (Downer's Grove, Illinois: InterVarsityPress, 1979), p. 172
Filed under: * Anglican - Episcopal • * Christian Life / Church Life • * General Interest • Notable & Quotable
Former rock and roll bouncer and current host of Animal Planet's, Emergency Vets: Interns, Kevin Fitzgerald tells a story here which is side splittingly funny. Listen to it all from Wait Wait Don't Tell Me (go down to the "Not my Job" segment and begin just past 3 minutes in).
Filed under: * General Interest • Humor / Trivia
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