Either this is Photoshopped or he's braver than I!
As nice as it is to never think about shoveling snow I admit to being ready for cooler weather. Triple digits all week and high humidity by AZ standards because of monsoon systems. October, wherefore art thou?
I've had a Yahoo email address for a decade, maybe longer. Five or six years ago I got a commercial account which, for the price of $20 a year, gave me my own domain name and up to six email boxes within that domain. We only used two of those addresses, one for Pam and one for me, but it was convenient for several purposes. Until about two weeks ago on the very day that Yahoo did the final roll-out of their new mail system. Even after an expensive and hassle-filled upgrade from XP to Widows 7 Pam's netbook won't allow her into her mailbox. She can get into it from the computer at work and from my Mac so we assumed it was a virus of some sort. Nope. Scans revealed no problems and the iPad we got for the church won't allow me into my account - either the base or our special domain name account.
I sent an email to Yahoo and didn't hear back. That was before the Windows 7 upgrade. I sent a second email afterward that included the fact the iPad can't get any access to our Yahoo mail accounts and got a response two days later ... that apologized for taking so long to respond. No solutions, just an apology that included a statement about how deluged they are with help requests (not a good sign). "If you're still having problems send a reply to this message." That was two days ago.
We're done. We are officially making the switch to Gmail. The personalized domain name isn't worth the hassle. It's proving to be a little tricky getting messages and contact lists switched over when access is so limited but we'll git 'er done eventually. Thank goodness for POP Forwarding!
The rear wheels are DONE! At least until I find out one of the seals leaks or.... It's too hot to work in the garage after noon so the plan is to finish the right front tomorrow morning and have the chassis portion of the project finished! Then on to the engine.
Politics and religion are different in several ways. I should not compromise on biblical truth because any deviation from truth means error. I'm not certain about some details of theology and biblical interpretation and so don't take a firm position on those items, but on matters where I have a relative degree of certainty on the Bible's teaching I will not compromise.
Politics rises to that level very rarely and even when it does we're reminded we're strangers in this land. It's naive to expect those who reject the gospel to accept its moral boundaries. But the vast majority of issues within the political realm are matters of practicality not righteousness. Is it the wiser course to spend $x here or there? Or should it be 50% of $x distributed evenly between the two? Or defund both?!
One approach is to settle on a personal opinion, define that perspective as moral truth on a par with Scriptural mandates and then refuse to compromise because to do so would violate principles. And one should never compromise their principles. This approach is most effective when accompanied by a tone of moral indignation.
I'm not really looking forward to the budding political season. Too little politics, too much "religion."
1 comment:
Probably both
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