Just finished watching a piece on ABC’s NightLine about lobbyists Jack Abramoff and Michael Scanlone. Abramoff was paid millions of dollars by one native american tribe to protect its interests in DC. He used some of that money to hire Ralph Reed to stop a native american casino in Texas. Then when the casino was shut down, he moves in at the last minute to offer his ’services’ to them.Am I the only one who thinks this a classic technique of organized crime? This is despicable.Follow the story at Indianz.com
I’v seen a few posts, including this one, regarding the results of Terri Schiavo’s autopsy and the appropriateness of an apology to her husband.This was a sensitive issue and I don’t pretend to know what the right things to do and say are, BUT I think many people owe this man an apology regardless of what the autopsy ‘proves.’Am I the only one to think this way?
In 1999, I was all excited about using online tools to read and study the Scriptures. It was part of my daily routine. I quickly gave up on this for the convenience of using ‘a real Bible.’ In the last couple years I have shown my students where these tools are and how to find them, but I don’t really use them myself. Another teacher (who is not a hacker by any means) shared during devotions one day about how she uses her WebTV to hear the scriptures read to her, but it didn’t really push me to get back into it.My father-in-law was here about ten days ago and he asked me what I knew about online Bibles and bible study. I told him what little I knew, but had to admit that I know very little.His question nudged me to look into this again for a couple of reasons.
Anyway, I found these to start with.
I found this belief quiz very interesting. Twenty multiple choice question you can answer and rank importance for.The first time I took the quiz, I scored a follows:
This seemed about right, although I consider myself leaning toward the liberal more than conservative.Then I had an idea. Answer the questions the same but click High for importance on all issues. I had a suspicion this would raise my score as a conservative, and I was correct.Then another idea. Answer the questions about creation/evolution in a more liberal fashion. Sure enough, that raised my liberal score, dropped my conservative score and my quaker score dove.One more thing. Change my answers on questions 13 - 16. These are the questions about abortion, gay rights, gender roles, and divorce. I found it very interesting that this had a large impact on my scores. (It brought my conservative score to 100%.) I’m not sure that should be.
When Doug Brien missed two field goals to blow our game against the Steelers this year I was quick to defend him. After all, you can’t blame a whole game on the kicker. Can you? It is his job to kick that ball between the posts, right?Anyway, my daughter got me this great Jets desk calendar for Christmas. It’s the kind with a little rip-off page for each day. I love it, but…I am officially sick of Doug Brien.
Yesterday was dad’s birthday.Mom decided the kids should do something special in memory of him. We all got some flower seeds to sprinkle in the yard or garden. We also got some helium balloons to ‘release.’ It was very nice. We all arranged to do it at about the same time since we could not all be together. Becky drew a smiley face and wrote “Happy Birthday PopPop” on one of her balloons (and one of Billy’s). She said that would let PopPop know that we were saying “Happy Birthday.”I miss you very much, Dad.We all do!
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