Who will watch the watchman?

More hot air and carbon.

My Christmas present to the self proclaimed Reformed Movie Critic

food for thought

In modern society we've been accustomed to all manner of insurance. Dental, medical, life, auto, homeowners, boat, ATV, snowmobile, and probably some other silly insurance that I don't know about. You can't buy a big ticket item without an attempt to be sold some sort of 'factory extended' insurance. That leads me to question the quality of the item purchased at best and just a plain ole fashioned scam at worst.
I'm generally pretty skeptical of insurance. Not that it's intrinsically bad, but I just get the feeling that when push comes to shove, the policy holder will lose. Let's be real, insurance isn't a non-profit industry.
Lately, however I've been a big advocate of insurance, i.e. food insurance. I've been telling some people that it would be a good idea to store up, say, 6 months worth of food. "What for? What's going to happen?" is the typical response. My response is "I don't know, I just think it's a good idea. If you don't need it, you can always eat it."
This is the ultimate insurance. It's really a win-win situation.

advertising...the consumer pays

"Obama is Coca-Cola and McCain is Pepsi - at the end of the day you’re still drinking the same beverage."

The "new direction" our country will be heading into is certainly not, and to quote Obama, 'what out founding fathers' have intended.
I was going to list all the unconstitutional actions our government is involved in, but it was making me sick when I started write them down.

Guess that President

"We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled governments in the civilized world-no longer a government by …a vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."

Clothes

This past weekend we visited some of our friends in State College.  While there, we worshipped at our old church.  Bear in mind there are some striking differences from this church in PA to our new church in NY.   One of them being that the elders wear vestments.

Not missing a beat, Andrew asked me as soon as the pastor walked up front, "Why [does he have his] clothes off?"

Progress

Back in May...




And now!

Different angularity

Carbon hoofprint... never heard of that one.

Ahh, that's it!

That's the reason why I don't drink canned beer. Canned beer is factory beer; jostled around by machines at the rate of 700 cans/minute. That's not really the kind of statistic I look for in a good IPA.

Like water flowing down an inclined thingy

Wondered when this would come about.

Country Livin'

I had stayed longer at a friend's house than I planned and I was anxious to get home. It was late at night, and next to nobody was on the road. I needed to get gas and I also needed to go no. 1 like real bad.
I stopped at the first gas station I came to. By that time, I couldn't get gas into the tank fast enough. As I was filling up the truck I was scoping out the store.

Don't see an outside entrance bathroom.

Don't see an inside one either. Won't hurt to ask.

So I looked around again as I walked in. I paid.

Then I asked, "Do you have a public bathroom?"
Then she said in a rehearsed manner, "No, but you can go around back by the dumpster. There's no security cameras there."

uncommunion

"The irony of Protestant history is that although the sixteenth-century Reformers fought like tigers to restore the wine to the people, their descendants have now deprived the people of both bread and wine. the Protestant celebration, when it is on rare occasions held has been spiritualized to the extent that it could scarcely be recognized as a meal at all. The purely symbolic wafer of the Roman celebration, which John Knox thundered against as a distortion of Christ's "common bread," has, in most Protestant churches, been replaced by minute, carefully diced pieces of bread unlike any other bread ever eaten by any culture. The common cup which the medieval Church withheld from the faithful is, except among Anglicans, still the sole possession of the clergy. the unordained are now given thimble-like glasses filled with Welch's grape juice. the symbolism is quite clear. We all come before God individually; with our individual bits of bread and our individual cups of juice, we are not of one loaf and one chalice. Our relationship to Christ is private and personal. What may be even more significant is that by partaking of this unearthly meal with our unbreadly bread and our unwinely wine, we are making a clear statement that the bread and wine of spiritual communion has no connection with earthly communion."

Against the Protestant Gnostics, Philip J. Lee