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Status: Married
Age: 51
Sign: Sagittarius

City: LEXINGTON
State: KENTUCKY
Country: US
Signup Date: 1/23/2006

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Thursday, December 31, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Icqrx0OimSs

This is a great description of the financial problem and of the solution we all need to do to make a difference. Happy New Year, America!

Thursday, December 31, 2009 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5MkpzMAOZM

This is on my "must read" list for 2010.

Wednesday, December 30, 2009 


http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/chen...

The Obama White House says the Bush administration is to blame for shifting attention from Al Qaeda to Iraq.

Mr Cheney needs to find something else to do besides criticize the President. I am proud of the President's team for fighting back.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009 


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/us/29bombshell.h...

With Operation Bombshell, Army wives learn basics of burlesque to welcome their husbands returning from war.

whatever it takes to keep marriages together...

Sunday, December 27, 2009 


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/opinion/26sat4.h...

The 3-D cinematography is integral to the plot of the movie “Avatar,” and suggests that technology can make entertainment more humane.

with the latest blockbuster, the medium is the message. and it appears that the message is one the earth needs to hear (or see.)

Sunday, December 27, 2009 


http://us.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/12/26/hollywood.cou...

We usually hear about those in Hollywood who have total lack of discipline and whose lives are a total mess. Among this list you can find those who have found a way to keep it together.

Sunday, December 27, 2009 


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/opinion/27lafoll...

Taking advantage of ocean habitats needs to be part of the agenda to curb climate change.

It's not an either-or (save the rain forests? clean up our water?) it's both!

Sunday, December 27, 2009 

Category: Religion and Philosophy
Sunday, 12/27/2009
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," ELW 282

This wonder-filled carol, composed by Unitarian minister Edmund Hamilton Sears, exudes "social conscience" more so than most Christmas carols.

As a pastor in the early 19th century, Sears wrestled with issues of human greed propagated by the Gold Rush, emerging conflicts between the northern and southern states and growing sociological challenges, all due to the exploding Industrial Revolution.

This social milieu informed the prophetic words of this great carol.  In the midst of sin, injustice and suffering, we are invited to pause and listen to the songs of the angels.  Just as these heavenly voices have brought peace to searching souls of yesteryear, they also touch our souls as we quiet our busy lives and really listen.  And, as we listen, we just may be invited to recalibrate our priorities and our life's direction. 

Gracious Lord, grant us the supreme grace this day to trust, surrender and relinquish all, so that we might receive what you have in store for us and respond with gratitude.  Amen.
Blair K. Anderson
Pastor Emeritus, Lord of Life Lutheran Church, Ramsey, Minn.
Master of Divinity, 1974

"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear," ELW 282 

1 It came upon the midnight clear,
That glorious song of old,
From angels bending near the earth
To touch their harps of gold:
"Peace on the earth, good will to all,
From heav'n's all gracious king."
The world in solemn stillness lay
To hear the angels sing.

2 Still through the cloven skies they come
With peaceful wings unfurled,
And still their heav'nly music floats
O'er all the weary world.
Above its sad and lowly plains
They bend on hov'ring wing,
And ever o'er its babel sounds 
The blessed angels sing.

3 And you, beneath life's crushing load, 
Whose forms are bending low,
Who toil along the climbing way
With painful steps and slow:
Look now, for glad and golden hours
Come swiftly on the wing;
Oh, rest beside the weary road
And hear the angels sing!

4 For lo! The days are hast'ning on,
By prophets seen of old,
When with the ever-circling years
Shall come the time foretold,
When peace shall over all the earth
Its ancient splendors fling,
And all the world give back the song
Which now the angels sing. 
God Pause Daily Devotions
Saturday, December 26, 2009 


http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/09/07/0909...

Cameron Todd Willingham, Texas, and the death penalty: newyorker.com
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We really need to put the brakes on the fast-track death penalty in places like Texas. It's not a football game or a basketball game. We're talking about the very real possibility of taking innocent life.

Saturday, December 26, 2009 


http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/26/business/global/...

Some renewable energy technologies rely on a group of elements that mainly come from harmful Chinese mines.

Another problem to be aware of . . . the technologies that save the planet are taken in ways that destroy the planet; 2010's "blood diamonds," you might say. Somebody out there needs to figure this stuff out and do it right.