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Thursday, March 24, 2005
News Round Up
I'm in the mood for a rant, but... there is no more to be said about this subject. It's up to God now. If He wants to perform a miracle, He will. If He wants to bring her home, that is His call as well. All any of us can do now is pray for her, her family, and everyone involved.
That being said, let's see what else is going on around the world.
That being said, let's see what else is going on around the world.
- Howard Dean thinks the Democratic Party should speak to their hearts.
"We have to speak to our hearts and convictions," Dean told a crowd at a waterfront restaurant Wednesday night. "We are never going to win by being a pale copy of the Republican Party."
The problem is that liberals make decisions from the heart, not from logic and reasoning. But, you just keep preaching on, Howie. We're behind you 100%.
Dean praised President Bush's political skills for telling voters in the nation's heartland that "people in the Northeast and California don't respect you, but I'm one of you."
"We need to respect people who believe differently than we do, and we need to honor their concerns about America," Dean said during his first Washington fund raiser. - 5 people in St. Clair County, IL (my home county) were charged in a vote-buying scheme.
An undetermined number of voters were paid $5 or $10 to cast a Democratic ballot in the Nov. 2 election, court records said.
$10? Dang. Obviously Democratic ballots aren't worth much. This has been going on for years. Everyone knew it. I'm glad someone finally had the guts to investigate it officially. - Evidently, whoever wrote Ohio's gay marriage ban didn't take some of its ramifications into consideration, and the results are tragic, to say the least.
Domestic violence charges cannot be filed against unmarried people because of Ohio's new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a judge ruled Wednesday.
Way to go, Einstein. Let's work on some new law now. One that keeps violent offenders behind bars, no matter their marital status.
- Drug testing of athletes has become big news lately. And, you know, I think that sports should be played free of drugs (and I'm sorry, people with asthma need their inhalers... get with the program! Think, People!) So... drug testing needs to occur... but on cows?
Cows that lock horns in an annual test of strength in the Swiss Alps must face renewed doping tests, authorities have decided. "There are controls for racehorses and dogs, and there's no reason to do it differently for cows," Joseph Jaeger, chief veterinarian in the Valais state, said Thursday.
Uh... um... I'm almost speachless. I just have this weird vision of cows shooting up in back alleys and pumping haybales to get hindquarters of steel. - Scientific law shows once again to be not as concrete as we'd like to think.
In the Purdue experiment, researchers found that a plant belonging to the mustard and watercress family sometimes corrects the genetic code it inherited from its flawed parents and grows normally like its unflawed grandparents and other ancestors.
Didn't we know that? I mean, even in humans, some traits skip a generation. Maybe things are different in plants. Or maybe I slept through too many biology classes in high school. - Jenna and Barbara are the subject of an April Fool's Day "prank" by Maxim magazine.
In its April edition, which debuted Tuesday, Jenna and Barbara Bush are shown depicted in lingerie, as if they had just had a massive pillow fight, with feathers streaming down around them.
Yeah, it's a Photoshop. Yeah, they're public figures. Yeah, I think it's tacky. - A Michigan pastor is using body art to preach the Gospel.
"Every day people ask me about or comment on my tattoos in admiration or wonder," he said. "That gives me the opportunity to talk about my tattoos, which are all biblical and talk about Jesus, His love, grace and power.
No, I don't have any tats. No, I don't want any tats (I have this thing about pain- I have enough to deal with without having someone sticking needles into me for fun.) But... I have long since stopped trying to put God in a box. This man is getting people's attention. God can, will and does use that. (And, FYI... the whole "The Bible says not to get tattoos" [Lev. 19:28] argument has to do with witchcraft and idol worship. This goes toward motive. In the same vein, I shouldn't have pierced ears.) Some people like getting tats... if this minister has prayed about it, and if God has given him a sense of peace about this, then I say, "more power to him."
"Most people have an entirely wrong concept of who God is," he added. "They look at Him as a big ogre, waiting to judge them and send them to hell. We are trying to go around and show a positive image of Jesus, His love, grace and transforming power." - This is just wrong.
Two men have spent six months eating 350 Easter eggs. Jeff Pyne and Rahul Patel are professional Easter egg tasters for Tesco.
Men? They hired men to eat chocolate. That makes no sense to me. - One more Easter Egg story.
A Belgian city has entered the Guinness book of records with the biggest Easter egg ever.The Belgian chocolate producer Guylian made the chocolate egg with at least 50.000 bars on behalf of the city of St. Niklaas.
Unfortunately, after a week out of doors, it's not going to be very yummy. Drat. Just... drat.
The egg measured 8.32 metres high and beats the record of Kwazulu-Natal in South-Africa in 1996. That egg was 7.65 metres high.
Twenty-six craftsman worked altogether 525 hours to build the egg. They needed 1950 kg of chocolates.
