Am I the only one?

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

June 22, 2005 | Filed Under Faith, Freedom | Comments 

The Only Winning Move is Not to Play

While doing laundry, I noticed that my shorts and tees are wearing out badly. Later, while reading some of my favorite feeds, I found this. Thanks for the tips. I will absolutely pick up the SQL shirt and M.A.D. I’m going to shop for more too. Keep an eye out for my wishlist in the sidebar. :)

June 19, 2005 | Filed Under Fun | Comments 

Aplogies for Michael Schiavo

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?

June 19, 2005 | Filed Under Faith, Freedom | Comments 

The Bible Online

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.

  1. I want to give him a report of some things I find
  2. I have been thinking about introducing him to RSS for some time now, and even mentioned to him the possiblility of podcasting his sermons
  3. I have been planning on researching these and other Christian resources for another project I thought of when my Dad passed away.

Anyway, I found these to start with.

June 18, 2005 | Filed Under Faith | Comments 

Belief Quiz

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:

  1. Orthodox Quaker (100%)
  2. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (92%)
  3. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (88%)

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.

June 18, 2005 | Filed Under Faith | Comments 

If I read his name one more time…

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.

February 11
Doug Brien was named the AFC’s special-teams player of the week after kicking 2 field goals, including the game winner in overtime, in the Jets’ 27 – 24 victory over Oakland in week 10 of 2003.
May 2
While with San Fransisco in 1994, kicker Doug Brien recovered a fumbled kickoff that helped the 49ers forge a big first-quarter lead over Dallas in the NFC title game. San Fransisco went on to win that game, then the Super Bowl.
May 14/15
Kicker Doug Brien’s 105 points in 2003 fell just 1 short of his career best. For what team did he score 106 points in 2000? Ans: – New Orleans
June 2
In what two games did Doug Brien kick 3 field goals in 2003?
I could not care less!!!
June 18, 2005 | Filed Under Family, Fun | Comments 

Happy Birthday Dad

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!

June 3, 2005 | Filed Under Family | Comments