Obama Urges Spending Curbs for Somebody, But Not Him

Posted on February 23, 2009. Filed under: Politics | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Associated Press headline, “Obama urges spending curbs, hands out $15 billion.” After not quite a month in office, I’ve begun to change my opinion on the President. I thought at first he was a useful idiot, a tool of the powerful Democrat Spending Machine. I no longer think he’s useful, and “idiot” may be too [...]

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Mortgage Meltdown

Posted on September 20, 2008. Filed under: Finances, News | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , |

Image via Wikipedia I had been thinking this, but hadn’t seen anybody writing about it. Sub-prime mortgages have led to a financial crisis. The blame for sub-prime mortgages generally get laid on the greed of the mortgage bankers, but is that all there is to it? Twenty years ago I remember the push to get [...]

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Prayer for Patience

Posted on March 27, 2007. Filed under: Faith | Tags: , , , , , , , |

I received this via email, original author unknown, but it’s a powerful prayer: Heavenly Father, Help us remember that the jerk who cut us off in traffic last night is a single mother who worked nine hours that day and is rushing home to cook dinner, help with homework, do the laundry and spend a [...]

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Rededicating Lives

Posted on January 22, 2007. Filed under: Bible Study | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , |

Read. Study. Mourn. Celebrate. Repent. Promise. The bible is full of interesting, life-changing information. For instance, we know that Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. Adam gave Eve a rib; Eve gave Adam an apple, then made a wonderful marinated BBQ ribs out of apple sauce. This is found in the book [...]

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Where Oh Where Has My Firefly Gone?

Posted on February 8, 2005. Filed under: Family, Friends, Stories | Tags: , , , , , , |

I am not a brownshirt, although it’s certainly starting to look like it. After buying the Firefly DVD series last August, I watched an episode with Sean. Well… ok, more than one. After the first episode, he said he could stay for another. And then another. I think we watched 5 in a row before [...]

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Aeros Hockey

Posted on January 14, 2005. Filed under: Family, Friends, Fun Stuff | Tags: |

Tonight I’ll be seeing the Houston Aeros at the Toyota Center, even if I do drive a Nissan. I haven’t seen them (the Aeros) on the ice in years. Diane is bringing Maritza and the kids, I’m sure we’ll have a grand time. Here are the rules for hockey as I understand them: There is [...]

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