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Late to the party
Because I slept late.
Now to catch up on the news.

Lately I'm hearty
and so I feel great.
Probably isn't the booze!

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Okay, that was terrible. The coffee's still brewing. That's my excuse.

Morning, Glories.

Sitting here thinking, morning's gonna happen real soon, why am I reading this inane chatter among strangers?

Best quality inane chatter among strangers on the web, of course.

Gooooood night, Gracies.

It's do-it-yourself dump day then?

Syracuse: Muslim Airport Worker Threatens To 'Get My Gun And Kill Everybody'
BlazingCatFur
http://bit.ly/1zOo5is

SEAL who shot Bin Laden reacts to report ISIS operates in 15 states: 'They're telling the truth'
Wash Exam. (h/t WZ)
http://washex.am/1AHEmAL

MSM: CBS reporter provoked gang rape in Cairo
Konservative_Punk, Peoples Cube
http://bit.ly/1dPLm9K

FenelonSpoke: "...giving everything to God vs passively waiting for him to act and doing nothing vs, standing up for religious beliefs..."

I'm confused. Is this a three-way match?

The act is ours; the consequences God's, as the old saying goes.

Life Explained in 27 Seconds
https://youtu.be/L9VBpbnXhWk

Y'know what? We never set the clocks forward this Spring.

In years past, I've done this on my truck. This year we went all-in. We keep saying, this is silly, we should adjust the clocks. But we haven't.

Oh, sure, the computers and cells all advanced themselves automatically. But the mantle clock, the microwave, the coffee maker, the clocks in the cars, all the ones that would have to be hand-re-set? They're still on Central Standard Time.

For me, while DST is in effect, the morning thread goes up (sometimes) around 4am.

Some observations from this experiment:

Milady and I have to go through mental and verbal gyrations every time one even asks the other, what time is it: "It's Noon, sun time."

To go from home to town is to drive into another time zone.

Have to remind visitors who need to leave by a certain time that our clocks are "wrong."

We have to remember that even though our clock says it's almost 8pm, liquor stores in Oklahoma are about to close because they think it's 9.

Mind games lonely old 'retired' pharts can play? Yeah. But, if one household does it, we're kooks. If two households do it, we're a club. But if three! if three households quit changing over to DST, it's a Movement.

The Daylight Saving Time Resistance Movement wants homes and businesses to join us in defeating this diabolical violation of true timekeeping, by simply adhering to God's Time (as adjusted locally for time zone continuity). "This Business Keeps Standard Time" window posters available from the DSTRM CafePress shop.

By next year, this could be viral!

Or maybe Milady and I will just reset our clocks.

real ch3: "I thought this never happened to white kids."

This is really horrible. Never, never, ever, call the cops to "teach your kid a lesson."

Have to note, though, that the father actually said his son was "turning his life around." Hoo-boy!

Long ago, I was arguing with my son outside our business, and cops got called. Son got charged with domestic violence for beating me up, despite me standing there telling the officer we were just loud, not physical. (I may have semi-playfully kicked son in the butt at one point, as we argued, but son took karate; could've kicked me in half if he'd been of a mind to.)

As a bonus, I got to see how the cops lie - initial report I saw in court said something about me lifting my pants leg to show where son'd kicked me - and even altered arrest reports - that part disappeared from the report later. All SOP, apparently, in Law Law Land.

But at least my son lived.

Not down on cops, generally. System sucks, on the whole, and I sympathize that domestic violence calls must be a prime driver of booze sales at cop bars. But some cops could do better.

"Islamic Imam Anjem Choudary told Pamela Geller tonight that she should be slaughtered for her Texas cartoon contest," writes Jim Hoft, Gateway Pundit

On Hannity, on Fox
c/o Hoft Gateway Pundit
http://bit.ly/1IjcFWS

♫ "...there's battle lines bein' drawwwn..."

Looking at that pic MP4 posted of Cooper and Powell... Note that wide running board on the car. You could drive along with a small army standing on there!

7th Grade science class, the entire class holding hands in a great circle, tied to a generator. Memorable!

For Christmas, my son got me one of those flashlights that has multiple LED bulbs. Since I get up in the dark and fumble through my dresser with Milady still asleep, I pull my clothes out by flashlight. That's when I first noticed that the colors under LED are incredibly vibrant, almost florescent, compared to old yellowed Edison incandescents. It almost seems like being given new sight.

So, I've been thinking about those LED bulbs. Maybe someday when the closet full of hoarded incandescents gets low...

It's just like someone in the news said the other day, it's a good thing we had the incandescents banned because it encouraged all this variety of other choices.

/sarc off

...The 3-year-old was attempting to board an uptown train at the Bowling Green station at around 6 p.m. Tuesday when she slipped between the platform and the subway car.

Officer Michael Konatsotis, 46, heard the horrified mom's screams, ran over, stuck his arm into the gap and pulled the child to safety.

NY Post c/o WZ
http://bit.ly/1cq1635

No dogs were shot in the rescue. Seriously, here's to those who rush to the rescue.

Vic: "Hope all the Morons made it through the tornados in OK yesterday."

Up here in the NE corner of the state, we only saw a little wind & much-needed rain.

I read on the ONT about animals getting loose from a zoo down in Perry. There's a little exotic animal park not far north of us in Kansas. I've thought about their big cats getting loose, but never though about a twister setting a bunch free at once.

We work so hard to rid out lands of predators, then import them. What th?

Morning, Glories!

So, somebody I never heard of, from a network I never watch and a medium I don't see except in brief webclips, using a social medium I don't use, said something ignorant.

Huh.

In real news, Oklahoma soldier returns from the dead:

"They shocked me," Lopez said. "About seven shocks later, I finally came to." ... Though he has a humble and astounding sense of humor about his near-death experience, he considers it a miracle he didn't have to leave his wife and 11-month-old son behind for good. His mother, Penny, said it is all thanks to faith, the Oklahoma standard and the U.S. Army....

Ariana Garza, KOCO
http://bit.ly/half-hour-dead

GoFundMe account for Clint Lopez
http://www.gofundme.com/rr99wc

Nice view, but cell reception is terrible, and there's no pizza delivery.

Hi, MWW

Thanks, as always for your thoughts. I was trying to link to the actual section of the whole book which is the sixteenth lesson-"The power of persevering prayer." I'm not really a Cavinistic. I weren't to a Calvinistic seminary but they didn't confer me t I go along with John Wesley who said something like, "Predestination is a pernicious doctrine." (No offense to the Calvinists here. It's just something we can disagree on). Our focus- whatever our particular slant of Christianity should be "Looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith." I think God being omniscient is not the same as determining beforehand who is going to be saved and who is not. The purpose of prayer, IMO is to so that God's will can become our will as far as possible in this life, so that we might become more like Christ, that God be glorified and that his Son be magnified and yes, like growth in anything it takes persistence. There's a whole lot of depth to the Lord's prayer that we don't get when we just say it by rote at church. Murray's book covers that too.

I like your thoughts particularly your last paragraph and thanks for the video.

Please pray for me. I want to glorify God in the place he has called me to, and my life is changing soon.

Grace and peace be with you.

Fenelon Spoke: "The power of persevering prayer"

Thanks for following up from last thread. Opening that link in bg tab to read. Read read read. The thread's over 100 (as I start this) and I'm up to #7. I remember now how hard it is to type and read at the same time on a busy thread.

♥

Fen, re persistence: I often think of that father with his epileptic and demon-infested son (I think the kid had both) who came to Jesus begging for healing. The father, who had watched his son suffer for so long, must have followed Jesus and the gang around until he tracked them down. He was then teased by the apostles' failure to help the boy. Even after Jesus arrives, the father has to wait while Jesus goes through his chiding the apostles. Even then, at the very gates of healing, the Dad is admonished by Jesus to have more faith, until he's in tears. (That magnificent line about "I do believe! Help my unbelief!" Mk 9)

If everything was set down from the Beginning, immutably, what is free will? why pray? Even whether one believes or not, it's all set and settled, some are chosen and some are not... that's the Calvinistic stuff, isn't it? as well as the hopeless determinism of materialism. Why would we ever bother sneaking up to touch the hem of the Lord's robe, or get our friends to lower us down through the roof? Otherwise, we are not just creations, but really are given the chance to be co-creators. Like all things in time and space, we have to work on it, though.

It doesn't really matter externally, I hope, because Jesus isn't physically around to go visit lately. Rather, as Jesus advised the woman who touched his robe, it's internal. Outward motion can inSpire us, but persistence, within, completes the journey. (Reminds me of the army training video I posted this morning. The powers that be are rooting for you when you fall, cheering you on, but you have to get up and cross that finish line on your own.)
https://youtu.be/g6x2guhVu_w

/random religious musing

Ah, now I've missed even more comments. May have to return to lurk mode. Or learn to be concise & pithy. (Never been accused of that.)

Geller, not Gellar, right? Or is this some AoSHQ stylebook thing? I read someone saying one is Geller one is Gellar, but I have no idea what that boob was talking about.

Jammie's quote from NY Daily News was sickening. But, to paraphrase a different headline, another enemy self-identifies. Who's keeping the list for the burning times?

The ones I can't quite figure are the Hebdo survivors who are hating on Geller. Non-survivors unavailable for comment.

If piss christ had inspired equivalent response from some Christian Militia cult, no one would be blaming Mapplethorpe.

The religions of "kill the infidel" and "love your enemy"* inherently cannot co-exist.

*(Love one's enemy, I say, even if you have to gun them down before they can attack a crowd. "Bless you, son. BANG BANG")

MSNBC Gonna MSNBC

So, somebody I never heard of, on a network I never watch, in a medium I see only via webclips, opined that the success of phenomenal, highly-acclaimed, self-achieved neurosurgeon Ben Carson is merely attributable to affirmative action.

Equally fascinating, someone, somewhere, thinks her gender is "sofa."*

I sort-of regret that I bothered a single brain cell with such trivia.

*(Couch-kcufer is triggered by this)

Just thinking: the Affirmative Action President, allegedly such a great orator, could not on his best day deliver a speech - on any subject - as well as can Dr Carson.

Both momjeans O and pantsuit H have actually been charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government!

Of Egypt.

Conspiring with the Muslim Brotherhood.

How soon can we extradite them?

Leslie Ann Brown, The Black Sphere
http://bit.ly/egypt-charges

Mindful Webworker-(If you're still around and haven't gone off the feed the animals):

"The power of persevering prayer" which is a section of a book I just read called "With Christ In The School of Prayer" by Andrew Murray

http://tinyurl.com/m9wv9lz

mindful webworker @ 78
Army strong indeed. That's anything strong.