Bird DogPlayed my normal Friday round of golf this morning. MUCH better than last week, though there's still lots of room for improvement. I did better at hitting fairways but poorer inside of about 40 yards. Gotta work on that.
I one-putt eight greens today, my best putting ever. I borrowed a really funky putter from Todd three weeks ago after reading about it in "Golf's Sacred Journey." It looks absolutely bizarre, but makes total sense when you read the logic behind the design. I'm still getting the hang of it but if I had doubts, today's round cleared them up.
Face-On Putting
I finished the sermon when I got home, printed the bulletin and got a couple of other church related tasks done. I have 52 miles of riding tomorrow morning to work through the sermon, so if it falls flat I've got no one to blame but myself.
I don't know exactly what route I'll use. I prefer roads with wider shoulders or bike lanes and little traffic, but I don't think I can have that for the latter part of these longer distances. So the plan is to just head west for 26 miles and then turn around. That also forces me to do the full distance. No shortcuts in an out-and-back.
President Obama held a press conference this morning. I didn't see it but read excerpts while I ate lunch. I was struck by this line:
"We are one nation under God. We may call that God different names, but we remain one nation."
Contrary to the implications of his statement, it isn't about one God going by different names. It's about God and gods with different names. I realize that's not politically correct, but it is biblically correct. And Scripture will always trump politicians.
We're starting to get a complex. This morning's news included another suit filed by the U.S. Dept. of Justice against the State of Arizona. This time the Federal Govt. is accusing AZ of failing to provide equal education for public school students who don't speak English as their first language. (Note: this isn't about people whose mother tongue is Swedish.) They say the questionnaire given to students isn't adequate and leads to excluding from special services thousands of kids who should be receiving them. If the problems aren't corrected according to the Fed's plan Arizona stands to lose Federal funding for state education.
I don't think they like us in Washington D.C. They keep suing us.
In related news, all nine former heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying that if the Feds sued Arizona because our immigration law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, then the Feds should take the same position against a law on the ballot in California that legalizes marijuana possession in amounts up to one ounce. Before SB 1070 was passed by AZ voters the President called it misguided and the Justice Dept. threatened the suit which they later filed. The former DEA administrators wanted to know why the Administration hasn't made similar statements about Prop 19, which will be on the CA ballot Nov. 19th. (Note: these former DEA heads are both Democrats and Republicans.)
I have no idea what's going on here, but it's cool:
Hard Disk LED Clock
We have some very remarkable people at Pathway. I enjoy them and being their pastor.
The people are the best part.
I one-putt eight greens today, my best putting ever. I borrowed a really funky putter from Todd three weeks ago after reading about it in "Golf's Sacred Journey." It looks absolutely bizarre, but makes total sense when you read the logic behind the design. I'm still getting the hang of it but if I had doubts, today's round cleared them up.
Face-On Putting
I finished the sermon when I got home, printed the bulletin and got a couple of other church related tasks done. I have 52 miles of riding tomorrow morning to work through the sermon, so if it falls flat I've got no one to blame but myself.
I don't know exactly what route I'll use. I prefer roads with wider shoulders or bike lanes and little traffic, but I don't think I can have that for the latter part of these longer distances. So the plan is to just head west for 26 miles and then turn around. That also forces me to do the full distance. No shortcuts in an out-and-back.
President Obama held a press conference this morning. I didn't see it but read excerpts while I ate lunch. I was struck by this line:
"We are one nation under God. We may call that God different names, but we remain one nation."
Contrary to the implications of his statement, it isn't about one God going by different names. It's about God and gods with different names. I realize that's not politically correct, but it is biblically correct. And Scripture will always trump politicians.
We're starting to get a complex. This morning's news included another suit filed by the U.S. Dept. of Justice against the State of Arizona. This time the Federal Govt. is accusing AZ of failing to provide equal education for public school students who don't speak English as their first language. (Note: this isn't about people whose mother tongue is Swedish.) They say the questionnaire given to students isn't adequate and leads to excluding from special services thousands of kids who should be receiving them. If the problems aren't corrected according to the Fed's plan Arizona stands to lose Federal funding for state education.
I don't think they like us in Washington D.C. They keep suing us.
In related news, all nine former heads of the Drug Enforcement Administration signed a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder saying that if the Feds sued Arizona because our immigration law violates the supremacy clause of the Constitution, then the Feds should take the same position against a law on the ballot in California that legalizes marijuana possession in amounts up to one ounce. Before SB 1070 was passed by AZ voters the President called it misguided and the Justice Dept. threatened the suit which they later filed. The former DEA administrators wanted to know why the Administration hasn't made similar statements about Prop 19, which will be on the CA ballot Nov. 19th. (Note: these former DEA heads are both Democrats and Republicans.)
I have no idea what's going on here, but it's cool:
Hard Disk LED Clock
We have some very remarkable people at Pathway. I enjoy them and being their pastor.
The people are the best part.
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