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Entries from October 31st, 2008

Creative Thinking

October 31st, 2008 · No Comments · Miniblog

Rodney has a creative idea for making the switch to Kindle
from hard copy books. Makes moving easier -in theory, anyway

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This is me talking

October 29th, 2008 · No Comments · Featured Articles, Finding Myself

I know we are just days away from the deciding of things of great import for our country. I know there are all sorts of important things to comment upon and talk about… but I am taking a “me moment” here. Just to get out from under that pressure. I started a post on “Election [...]

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I laughed, but felt like I shouldn’t have

October 25th, 2008 · No Comments · Featured Articles

Brandt puts up things that just verge on black humor, which is just the thing that I really find funny. Like uncomfortable, horror-stricken funny. Here’s a video … and I liked the monkey waiter, too, but you have to go to his blog to see that one.

Brandt had a post on leadership that had some [...]

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Media Runs The Show

October 23rd, 2008 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

“Again the media showed their incredible bias by giving scattered coverage of Biden’s statements. ” … and so it goes, just like the rest of this campaign year.
BIDEN’S BUNGLES: A BLATANT BIAS – New York Post
warning the crowd that there would be some sort of international incident – Biden could think of four or five [...]

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OK, I thought this was funny

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

Eleven people were hanging on a rope under a helicopter, ten men and one woman.
The rope was not strong enough to carry them all, so they decided that one had to leave, because otherwise they were all going to fall.
They weren’t able to [...]

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Wind Power: surprise, surprise

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Commentary-green, Confession

…as Gomer Pyle would’ve said.
A Texas Surprise | www.markdroberts.com
I discovered, even more to my surprise, that Texas gets more electricity from wind than any other state, almost doubling the amount of wind-power generated in California. Moreover, Texas has the largest windfarm in the world.

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New Reading for New Media

October 20th, 2008 · No Comments · Featured Articles, blogdom

I received the book that was generously given away by the Evangelical Outpost for their Wheatstone Academy symposium. Matthew Anderson of MereOrthodoxy.com, also most generously, wrote a note to tell me thanks for “being a reasonable and thoughtful voice in what is often a cantankerous arena”. I hope that is what I am… I don’t [...]

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Make Yourself Some Butter

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Featured Articles, Who Knows

Boy, that looks easy, doesn’t it? The one thing I wish had been done differently is to use a square of cheesecloth to drain off that buttermilk.
I remember reading reminisces of Grandma Moses who had some Yankee pride in how she made her butter. During her time of living in the South, she had [...]

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Grandma Moses Painting

October 17th, 2008 · No Comments · Cat-in-a-bag

-just for fun take a look at one of her paintings.

clipped from house-dust.blogspot.com

 

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Maybe It Is Time

October 15th, 2008 · No Comments · Featured Articles, things that make me sigh

…to break out the old Larry Burkett books on the economy and finances…

Can’t hurt, and if we follow the advice it might even help.

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