Little shell
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Wednesday, March 03, 2010
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
I'm in a Bible study with mostly fundamentalist conservatives. It's supposed to be non denominational, but they still tend to go off track at times. (I won't really go into the specifics right now, suffice it to say that it's very frustrating for me most of the time!)
Anyway, one of the things they tend to rant about is reading horoscopes. Yes, it clearly states in the Bible that you're not supposed to practice witchcraft, sorcery, divination, occult, etc. But who among us has not read a horoscope as a joke? It very clearly states in the paper that it is for entertainment purposes only. However, there are several people I've come across over the years that caution against even reading them as a joke as it's the "first step on the road to devil worship." Granted, I can see the point if someone reads them, believes them, lives his/her life by them, because they obviously have nothing else to "guide" them. But I always chuckle when I hear of someone who takes this all seriously.
Feng Shui was also mentioned as something that real Christians should avoid-actually anything Eastern or Mystical-because it's not the true way to salvation. (I'm not sure how they justify certain religions that believe in the "mystical," but that's not the point.)
There are Christians who believe that Yoga is evil because it isn't just exercise, but it's "brainwashing." There is actually a yoga like program that uses the same moves as Yoga but you say Scripture and prayers while you're doing the exercises.
Thanks to Terro for these links. I'd like to know if Jesus uses a PC or a Mac. :P
http://www.fengshuiconsultingsite.com/ChristiansandFengShui.html
http://www.servantsdiary.com/2009/10/feng-shui-apple-computers-and-jesus.html
Anyway, one of the things they tend to rant about is reading horoscopes. Yes, it clearly states in the Bible that you're not supposed to practice witchcraft, sorcery, divination, occult, etc. But who among us has not read a horoscope as a joke? It very clearly states in the paper that it is for entertainment purposes only. However, there are several people I've come across over the years that caution against even reading them as a joke as it's the "first step on the road to devil worship." Granted, I can see the point if someone reads them, believes them, lives his/her life by them, because they obviously have nothing else to "guide" them. But I always chuckle when I hear of someone who takes this all seriously.
Feng Shui was also mentioned as something that real Christians should avoid-actually anything Eastern or Mystical-because it's not the true way to salvation. (I'm not sure how they justify certain religions that believe in the "mystical," but that's not the point.)
There are Christians who believe that Yoga is evil because it isn't just exercise, but it's "brainwashing." There is actually a yoga like program that uses the same moves as Yoga but you say Scripture and prayers while you're doing the exercises.
Thanks to Terro for these links. I'd like to know if Jesus uses a PC or a Mac. :P
http://www.fengshuiconsultingsite.com/ChristiansandFengShui.html
http://www.servantsdiary.com/2009/10/feng-shui-apple-computers-and-jesus.html
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
From 2009
Greetings! And welcome to the end of the decade.....or is next year the end?
Whatever, I'm posting from the MyTouch as a test, and to wish you all a Happy New Year!
Friday, September 25, 2009
Back from vacation...
Well we had a wonderful time on our trip. We put about 4500 miles on the car in about 11 days. Sheesh..... The oil change light was screaming when we got home. LOL
We had gone on the Lincoln Highway from Mt. Vernon, IA, to Times Square, NY, this spring, so thought we'd go west this time. We didn't do the whole thing, because it goes to San Francisco, but we did quite a bit of it. We started in Iowa City, after seeing Nathan and Alex and taking them to dinner.
We drove through a lot of the US before heading north to Banff, Alberta, Canada. We actually went into Canada in BC. The Rockies are really beautiful, but the Canadian Rockies are superb! Honestly, everything else pales in comparison. My pictures don't do it justice. We saw quite a bit of Banff and Jasper National Parks, and then came home through Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Regina. We stopped at the huge West Edmonton Mall (billed as the world's largest, but I'll bet Dubai has something bigger. :P), but didn't buy anything except lunch. Yeah, the place is huge, but when you aren't normally a shopper, it was sort of ho-hum. I was surprised to see all of the oil in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but probably because I think of those two provinces as Beef country and Canola country, respectively.
I've posted a few shots here, but the rest are here, password is longaberger:
http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a165/theshepards/canada0909/
Last, but certainly not least.....the World's Largest Ukrainian Easter Egg, in Vegreville, Alta. It was computer designed and built for the Queen and Prince Philip's visit in 1974. You can read more about it here: http://www.tabloidcolumn.com/easter-egg.html
Well we had a wonderful time on our trip. We put about 4500 miles on the car in about 11 days. Sheesh..... The oil change light was screaming when we got home. LOL
We had gone on the Lincoln Highway from Mt. Vernon, IA, to Times Square, NY, this spring, so thought we'd go west this time. We didn't do the whole thing, because it goes to San Francisco, but we did quite a bit of it. We started in Iowa City, after seeing Nathan and Alex and taking them to dinner.
We drove through a lot of the US before heading north to Banff, Alberta, Canada. We actually went into Canada in BC. The Rockies are really beautiful, but the Canadian Rockies are superb! Honestly, everything else pales in comparison. My pictures don't do it justice. We saw quite a bit of Banff and Jasper National Parks, and then came home through Edmonton, Saskatoon, and Regina. We stopped at the huge West Edmonton Mall (billed as the world's largest, but I'll bet Dubai has something bigger. :P), but didn't buy anything except lunch. Yeah, the place is huge, but when you aren't normally a shopper, it was sort of ho-hum. I was surprised to see all of the oil in Alberta and Saskatchewan, but probably because I think of those two provinces as Beef country and Canola country, respectively.
I've posted a few shots here, but the rest are here, password is longaberger:
http://s11.photobucket.com/albums/a165/theshepards/canada0909/
Columbia Ice Fields-the glacier has been retreating, as most of them have.
Lake Louise-the color of the water is caused by the ice scouring minerals as it comes through the mountains and causing the blue color. Some of the streams were nearly milky white because of the minerals in the water.
Banff Springs Hotel in Banff National Park, Alberta. The hotel is one of those really neat Railway Hotels and was really expensive, of course. So we just enjoyed the lobby. :)
One of the most famous mountains in the area as seen from the village of Banff.
Last, but certainly not least.....the World's Largest Ukrainian Easter Egg, in Vegreville, Alta. It was computer designed and built for the Queen and Prince Philip's visit in 1974. You can read more about it here: http://www.tabloidcolumn.com/easter-egg.html
Saturday, September 19, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
Thursday, September 10, 2009
Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Update!
Hmm, guess I haven't been here in quite some time, but I've updated *other* blogs. Not that I don't love all y'all over here, but just haven't done anything exciting to talk about.
Well, that isn't true.....I went to the Longaberger Basket Bee with Monica-had a great time! Nathan moved up to his apt. at University of Iowa and has started classes and his teaching assistant gig. Go Hawkeyes! (I'm glad I don't live in Illinois anymore, because they are both Big Ten schools....like I know what I'm talking about. IA doesn't play Mizzou, so I don't have to worry about my car with IA stickers being trashed here in MO.)
But hey, I'm jazzed about this-so much so I'm blogging about it! (sad life....)
We've been invited to an "Ethnic Food Favorite" party/BBQ on Saturday, and I've decided I'm bringing this:
http://recipes.recipeland.com/recipes/recipe/print_full/Biff_a_la_Lindstrom_Hamburgers_a_la_Lindstrom_3590
Nope, never made it before, so I'll do a practice run on Friday to see if they taste okay. But what's so cool about this is the recipe has MY NAME in the title! So it has to be great, right? :P I can always fall back on Swedish Meatballs.
Fingers crossed....
Hmm, guess I haven't been here in quite some time, but I've updated *other* blogs. Not that I don't love all y'all over here, but just haven't done anything exciting to talk about.
Well, that isn't true.....I went to the Longaberger Basket Bee with Monica-had a great time! Nathan moved up to his apt. at University of Iowa and has started classes and his teaching assistant gig. Go Hawkeyes! (I'm glad I don't live in Illinois anymore, because they are both Big Ten schools....like I know what I'm talking about. IA doesn't play Mizzou, so I don't have to worry about my car with IA stickers being trashed here in MO.)
But hey, I'm jazzed about this-so much so I'm blogging about it! (sad life....)
We've been invited to an "Ethnic Food Favorite" party/BBQ on Saturday, and I've decided I'm bringing this:
http://recipes.recipeland.com/recipes/recipe/print_full/Biff_a_la_Lindstrom_Hamburgers_a_la_Lindstrom_3590
Nope, never made it before, so I'll do a practice run on Friday to see if they taste okay. But what's so cool about this is the recipe has MY NAME in the title! So it has to be great, right? :P I can always fall back on Swedish Meatballs.
Fingers crossed....
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Obama's birthplace
Since it's the anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment, I thought this article was timely. Perhaps this will be the end of the "Obama wasn't born here" hooplah. However, I must remind myself that there are probably party members that don't realize that Hawaii (and Alaska, home of whatshername....that Tina Fey impersonator....) are actually part of the US now. Yep, as of 1959, they were both admitted to the United States as STATES! Heck, I knew that, and that was courtesy of a public school education. Hawaii had been a State for 2 years before Obama was born.
I guess this will dissuade any of them getting ideas of putting "Ahnold" forth as a possible presidential candidate. :P
Note to the GOP: "spend your time doing something constructive."
Can we move on now?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate
By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer Jaymes Song, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jul 28, 1:54 am ET
HONOLULU – State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace.
"I ... have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen," Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. "I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago."
So-called "birthers" — who claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States — have grown more vocal recently on blogs and television news shows.
Fukino issued a similar press release Oct. 31, but was prompted to speak out again because of the renewed attention on Obama's beginnings. Hawaii's Health Department has been flooded in recent weeks with questions from individuals and several national TV news networks asking for proof that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
"They just keep asking over and over and over again," Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.
The Constitution states that a person must be a "natural-born citizen" to be eligible for the presidency. Birthers contend that Obama's birth certificate is a fake, and many say he was actually born in Kenya, his father's homeland. They've challenged his citizenship in court.
One widely circulated YouTube clip of a town hall meeting showed a Republican congressman getting booed for saying Obama is a citizen. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Lou Dobbs have also raised the issue, and 10 Republican members of Congress co-sponsored a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their original birth certificate.
However, it appears Congress has moved on and has accepted Obama's island birthplace. The U.S. House on Monday unanimously approved a resolution recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii becoming the 50th state. A clause was included that reads: "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."
State law bars the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
However, Obama's birth certificate along with birth notices from the two Honolulu newspapers were brought forward even before he took office. But that's done nothing to shake the belief by many Obama critics that the president was born abroad.
Since it's the anniversary of the adoption of the 14th Amendment, I thought this article was timely. Perhaps this will be the end of the "Obama wasn't born here" hooplah. However, I must remind myself that there are probably party members that don't realize that Hawaii (and Alaska, home of whatshername....that Tina Fey impersonator....) are actually part of the US now. Yep, as of 1959, they were both admitted to the United States as STATES! Heck, I knew that, and that was courtesy of a public school education. Hawaii had been a State for 2 years before Obama was born.
I guess this will dissuade any of them getting ideas of putting "Ahnold" forth as a possible presidential candidate. :P
Note to the GOP: "spend your time doing something constructive."
Can we move on now?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090728/ap_on_re_us/us_obama_birth_certificate
By JAYMES SONG, Associated Press Writer Jaymes Song, Associated Press Writer – Tue Jul 28, 1:54 am ET
HONOLULU – State officials in Hawaii on Monday said they have once again checked and confirmed that President Barack Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen, and therefore meets a key constitutional requirement for being president.
They hoped to stem a recent surge in the number of inquiries about Obama's birthplace.
"I ... have seen the original vital records maintained on file by the Hawaii State Department of Health verifying Barack Hussein Obama was born in Hawaii and is a natural-born American citizen," Health Director Dr. Chiyome Fukino said in a brief statement. "I have nothing further to add to this statement or my original statement issued in October 2008 over eight months ago."
So-called "birthers" — who claim Obama is ineligible to be president because, they argue, he was actually born outside the United States — have grown more vocal recently on blogs and television news shows.
Fukino issued a similar press release Oct. 31, but was prompted to speak out again because of the renewed attention on Obama's beginnings. Hawaii's Health Department has been flooded in recent weeks with questions from individuals and several national TV news networks asking for proof that Obama was indeed born in Hawaii.
"They just keep asking over and over and over again," Health Department spokeswoman Janice Okubo said.
The Constitution states that a person must be a "natural-born citizen" to be eligible for the presidency. Birthers contend that Obama's birth certificate is a fake, and many say he was actually born in Kenya, his father's homeland. They've challenged his citizenship in court.
One widely circulated YouTube clip of a town hall meeting showed a Republican congressman getting booed for saying Obama is a citizen. Talk show host Rush Limbaugh and CNN's Lou Dobbs have also raised the issue, and 10 Republican members of Congress co-sponsored a bill that would require future presidential candidates to provide a copy of their original birth certificate.
However, it appears Congress has moved on and has accepted Obama's island birthplace. The U.S. House on Monday unanimously approved a resolution recognizing and celebrating the 50th anniversary of Hawaii becoming the 50th state. A clause was included that reads: "Whereas the 44th President of the United States, Barack Obama, was born in Hawaii on August 4, 1961."
State law bars the release of a certified birth certificate to anyone who does not have a tangible interest.
However, Obama's birth certificate along with birth notices from the two Honolulu newspapers were brought forward even before he took office. But that's done nothing to shake the belief by many Obama critics that the president was born abroad.
Monday, July 27, 2009
Fw: ELEANOR'S ETIQUETTE:
Sometimes, these are just too good not to share. :P
ELEANOR'S ETIQUETTE: Instead of participating in gossip, it's best to change the subject & discourage a chatty-cathy. You never know if she may turn the gossip to you.
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
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