They ran out of funds for planks before they ran out of bridge.
Good dog!!I didn't realize when I wrote my post last night that March 9, 2009 is not only Steve's 34th birthday but Barbie's 50th. She has held up better and she's managed to defy gravity for over half a century.
Share your secret, dear!
I'm not sure I get the point of this video clip but I like the visuals.
German Airport
Some days I look forward to my exercise and leave on my run or ride eagerly. Other days I go only because I know it's the right thing to do, but after I'm out on the road for awhile I enjoy myself. Then there are days like today when I go because I should and don't enjoy a bit of it. When I get back I tell myself it was a good thing I just did. So far I'm not buying it.
Richard Gere gently criticized Hillary Clinton for placing the global economic recovery above human rights issues when she was in China a few weeks ago. He had read my blog and called me to talk through the issues. Then he comes out with this statement.
Poseur.
My email seems to be back up and working. Unfortunately, Pam's isn't. I called tech services at Yahoo and once I got past the lady in India a guy here explained that Yahoo is having trouble with some small business accounts. That's what I have - a domain name I pay $12 a year to maintain which gives me up to six separate email addresses, all with the @macdonld.com extension. All incoming messages are supposed to come into the administrator's account and be forwarded from there to the individual email address they're addressed to. It's that latter step that's goofed up at their end. He apparently got mine fixed but not hers. We'll have another phone conversation tomorrow.
What do you call it when an Italian only has one arm?
A speech impediment.
Tomorrow evening I'm going to the meeting of The Wolfsburg Registry, the Phoenix area VW club. They meet at a restaurant about 20 miles from our house. The meeting doesn't start until 7:00 but the president, whom I met at the VW show a few weeks ago, said the real action happens before and after the meeting when VW owners stand around their cars and talk all things Dub related.
And he's going to bring me a bias ply tire I'll use for a spare. It will fit in the well better than the radial I have and look good at the same time. Free!
So a late post tomorrow night, but maybe some interesting stuff to report.
According to a study released today Americans are less religious than they used to be. In 1990 a whoopin' 86% of Americans described themselves as religious, but now that figure is down to 75%. (Even that lower number is higher than I would have expected.) The drop is due to people dropping out of religion altogether, no switching to a different religious group.
Mainline denominations continue to lose members (no surprise) but the number of people who identify themselves as evangelicals is rising, to one in three Americans. And the number of people who attend a mega-church has risen from 200,000 in 1990 to over 8 million currently.
The report's authors contend it's this rise in evangelicals that accounts for the drop in those who used to describe themselves as religious. When evangelicals started flexing their political muscles it turned off non-evangelical religious people who bailed on religion completely. They don't like to be told what's right and what's wrong, and they resent the political influence of groups like The Moral Majority and Focus on the Family.
One of the reasons this caught my eye today is that it connects with the section of 1 Corinthians we'll be in this Sunday. Should Christians be involved in political issues? Individually and/or as groups with a common political agenda? Interesting stuff.
We're on the cusp of some pretty cool stuff at Pathway. Maybe we'll have it ready for a post later this week. Stay tuned!
Share your secret, dear!
I'm not sure I get the point of this video clip but I like the visuals.
German Airport
Some days I look forward to my exercise and leave on my run or ride eagerly. Other days I go only because I know it's the right thing to do, but after I'm out on the road for awhile I enjoy myself. Then there are days like today when I go because I should and don't enjoy a bit of it. When I get back I tell myself it was a good thing I just did. So far I'm not buying it.
Richard Gere gently criticized Hillary Clinton for placing the global economic recovery above human rights issues when she was in China a few weeks ago. He had read my blog and called me to talk through the issues. Then he comes out with this statement.
Poseur.
My email seems to be back up and working. Unfortunately, Pam's isn't. I called tech services at Yahoo and once I got past the lady in India a guy here explained that Yahoo is having trouble with some small business accounts. That's what I have - a domain name I pay $12 a year to maintain which gives me up to six separate email addresses, all with the @macdonld.com extension. All incoming messages are supposed to come into the administrator's account and be forwarded from there to the individual email address they're addressed to. It's that latter step that's goofed up at their end. He apparently got mine fixed but not hers. We'll have another phone conversation tomorrow.
What do you call it when an Italian only has one arm?
A speech impediment.
Tomorrow evening I'm going to the meeting of The Wolfsburg Registry, the Phoenix area VW club. They meet at a restaurant about 20 miles from our house. The meeting doesn't start until 7:00 but the president, whom I met at the VW show a few weeks ago, said the real action happens before and after the meeting when VW owners stand around their cars and talk all things Dub related.
And he's going to bring me a bias ply tire I'll use for a spare. It will fit in the well better than the radial I have and look good at the same time. Free!
So a late post tomorrow night, but maybe some interesting stuff to report.
According to a study released today Americans are less religious than they used to be. In 1990 a whoopin' 86% of Americans described themselves as religious, but now that figure is down to 75%. (Even that lower number is higher than I would have expected.) The drop is due to people dropping out of religion altogether, no switching to a different religious group.
Mainline denominations continue to lose members (no surprise) but the number of people who identify themselves as evangelicals is rising, to one in three Americans. And the number of people who attend a mega-church has risen from 200,000 in 1990 to over 8 million currently.
The report's authors contend it's this rise in evangelicals that accounts for the drop in those who used to describe themselves as religious. When evangelicals started flexing their political muscles it turned off non-evangelical religious people who bailed on religion completely. They don't like to be told what's right and what's wrong, and they resent the political influence of groups like The Moral Majority and Focus on the Family.
One of the reasons this caught my eye today is that it connects with the section of 1 Corinthians we'll be in this Sunday. Should Christians be involved in political issues? Individually and/or as groups with a common political agenda? Interesting stuff.
We're on the cusp of some pretty cool stuff at Pathway. Maybe we'll have it ready for a post later this week. Stay tuned!
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video clip from IFAW promotes leaving animals (& their parts) in their native location. They focus on whales, elephants, rhinos, seals, etc. Many people find some animals whose preservation they can get behind and other animals they'd prefer to see be reduced in numbers, like salmon-eating seals in the NW.
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