Archive for January, 2008
Monday, January 28th, 2008
Or at least that is where this starts. I should never watch one of those shows. I bet I went through a half box of Kleenex last night watching "The Russell Girl". Even the flipping commercials made me cry.
I think last night's movie was too close too ...
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Friday, January 25th, 2008
I simply cannot believe anyone is taking this seriously. Not the economic situation, the solution. Does no one see through this? I understand the Senate has an issue with not including extended unemployment benefits - this is not a new problem, it has come up in "negotiations" ...
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Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008
A double dose of Steve Goodier today - two marvelous stories, both containing truths that would do us all well to remember. I've talked a bit, and will much more often during this coming campaign season of the pitfalls of giving tax cuts to the wealthy on the assumption ...
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Monday, January 21st, 2008
This comes from a discussion I had with someone who reprinted a scurrilous article accusing Hillary Clinton of being a lesbian in hopes of derailing her presidential campaign, the other side of the discussion. I thought it particularly appropriate for Martin Luther King day. There were a couple ...
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
I know. This is not a good time of year for me. Thankfully it is getting better. It used to start before Thanksgiving, this dark night of the soul, but now has receded somewhat and begins really, well, okay it IS still there from Thanksgiving, but thankfully ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
I read an article in the Minneapolis paper last night that was just about the wisest thing I have ever read from a person of "faith", let alone who calls himself "evangelical". Because, to me, evangelical means proselytize. Which, to some, includes at the point of a gun ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
I was under the impression that given the war in Iraq, Afghanistan and the situation in Pakistan, and, then too, the nasty video tape Osama gave the world as his Christmas gift last week, that it was still him our illustrious president was trying to find. But I saw ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
I had all sorts of ideas for today. But as the day wore on, this song was all I've been hearing. Today would have been my youngest son's, Brandon, 32nd birthday. This is the only song I asked be played at his memorial, so all I'm going ...
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Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008
This is from Steve Goodier's, Life Support Newsletter:
The man looked a little worried when the doctor came in to administer his annual physical, so the first thing the doctor did
was to ask whether anything was troubling him.
"Well, to tell the truth, Doc, yes," answered the patient. "You see, I seem ...
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