
Have you seen the new Aflac commercial, the one set in a barnyard? It was written by a group of city boys with degrees from a business college in New York who have never been near Nebraska, never mind on a real farm.
It shows a cow being milked by an automatic milker. Never mind that the cow is standing outside the barn (allowable in a TV commercial, I suppose), it's a Hereford, a breed raised for meat, not milk.
This commercial is not going to sell a lot of insurance in the midwest.
I'm not saying there isn't a logic to it, but I don't understand the logic of our govt. pouring billions of dollars into Chrysler and then pushing them to sell the majority of their assets to an Italian firm. Didn't we just subsidize a purchase by a foreign company?
Rule #2: Sins of commission are better than sins of omission.
This rule may be unique to the ministry, don't know.
If a situation comes up and I wonder if I should say something, make a call, schedule a visit, or if I should let it go, I'll always make the contact. It's possible that the individual or family will take offense at the contact. But my experience has been that it's much more likely people will be offended if they don't hear from me.
I suppose "errors" would be a better word than sins in this context.
Time for another cool link.
There are points on a map where longitude and latitude lines intersect. This site:
The Degree Confluence Project
lists the location of each of those points and posts pictures of each as they are submitted by people who have visited them.
You are never more than 49 miles from one of those points, so this may be your opportunity to participate. But since most of the easily accessible sites have already been photographed (all 28 in Arizona have been) you may have to travel to Afghanistan or Chile to get your photo posted.
Big day tomorrow. We have a church pool party, I should do 30+ miles on the bike, I'll set up for church on Sunday and then the requisite nap.
See you tomorrow night.
1 comment:
Hmm. I don't know about that rule. I get the theory behind it, but sometimes it really seems like "least said, soonest mended." I guess I'm very Dutch at heart.
Sue
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