Month: February 2008

February 29

Many years ago today, our landlord’s daughter L was born.

And today — on this very day in 2008 — a friend of ours from AZ weds our daughter-in-law’s grandmother from MO. They’re both well past seventy.

1468 — Born: Pope Paul III, the pope who initiated the Counter Reformation.

1692 — The Salem witch trials begin when Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are accused of using witchcraft.

1952 — The first “Walk/Don’t Walk” signs are installed in New York City.

1960 — Family Circus makes its debut.

The year 2008 has 366 days and started on a Tuesday. The last time that happened was 1980. The next time a year’s calendar matches this year’s will be 2036. I doubt I’ll still be in this present life by then.

Sister-Wives

Here’s a good story for those who shun their denominational names in favor of “only” Christian. 😉

Polygamists hit the Web in search of ‘sister-wives’

Albert Morrison is a religious man. He prays, he reads the Bible and says he has a deep connection with Jesus. It is this devotion that helps explain why Albert and his wife, Sarah, are searching for a second wife.

“David, Abraham, Jacob, Solomon — they all had multiple wives,” he said, referring to the four of the Bible’s most revered prophets. “The Bible never banned polygamy, it glorified it.”

The Morrisons are part of a group of Evangelical Christian polygamists who believe that polygamy, the practice of taking more than one wife, is spiritually and even economically more favorable than monogamy.

I included the Christianity 101 category for this post because I wonder if any readers have any Bible passages that refute the above abomination.

(And what passage does that guy use to show the Bible “glorifying” polygamy?!)

Unread News Stories

Snow cover over North America greatest since 1966

Materialistic society is ‘damaging’ children

Noah’s ark for crop seeds opens in Arctic Norway

Depression drugs ‘little better than placebos’

Obama raised funds for Islamic causes

US religious landscape survey

Well, I read the third one.

But that’s all, even though they all look like something I could blog about here.

However, I have something else I need to write about: The Husbands I Want for My Daughters — no, I don’t mean a blog post.

Shouldn’t every dad have a checklist like that?

And maybe even every daughter?

Test Your Movies

The Motion Picture Production Code

A Code to Govern the Making of Talking, Synchronized and Silent Motion Pictures. Formulated and formally adopted by The Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc. and The Motion Picture Producers and Distributors of America, Inc.

There’s some amazing stuff there.

Those of you that watch “family friendly” or Christian movies, would you have them to watch if the above code were still in force?

(No, it isn’t in force — it’s from 1930.)

Though I don’t watch movies, I’m guessing that even many Christian movies of today would fail the Code test.

So tell me — what has happened to Christianity?

As in the days of Noah, things will get worse — much worse.

Obama Exposed to Death?

I saw the headlines at The Drudge Report and immediately thought of Dallas on November 22, 1963.

Report: Security relaxed at Obama speech

The Secret Service told Dallas police to stop screening for weapons while people were still arriving at a campaign rally for Barack Obama, a report said.

Police stopped checking people for weapons at the front gates of Reunion Arena more than an hour before the Democratic presidential hopeful appeared on stage Wednesday, the Fort Worth (Texas) Star-Telegram reported.

Police said the order to stop using metal detectors and checking purses and laptop bags constituted a security lapse, the newspaper reported.

Dallas Deputy Police Chief T.W. Lawrence — who heads the department’s homeland security and special operations divisions — told the Star-Telegram the order had been intended to speed up seating of the more than 17,000 people who came to hear the candidate speak.

Lawrence said he was concerned about the large number of people being let in without being screened, but that the crowd seemed “friendly,” the newspaper said.

Friendly? Seemed friendly?! Didn’t President Kennedy hear a “Dallas loves you, Mr. President” comment shortly before his assassination?

In Dallas!

Something seems fishy here.

Maybe the fish is in the reporting.

Or maybe there’s something more sinister afoot? 😯

  • The proverbial “powers that be” want Hillary Clinton to get the Democrat nomination?
  • Those same alleged PTBs want a sympathy vote for Mr. Obama?
  • Somebody wants the memories of Vince Foster and Ron Brown resurrected?
  • The aforementioned PTBs want to stir a pro-Democrat sympathy vote in the general election?
  • An assassination now would really destabilize the United States?

Who knows.

But I find the whole affair — should it turn out true — to be incredibly unbelievable.

Disclaimer: I have read only the Drudge headlines and the story linked to above.

Jordan Arrests Eight Evangelists

Eight people have been arrested in Jordan for propagating the Christian faith:

Jordanian security forces arrested eight people, mostly foreigners, after they were caught distributing missionary material to Bedouin families north and east of the Jordanian capital, Amman, the Saudi daily Al-Watan reported.

The authorities received information about the missionaries from local residents who said these foreigners were offering humanitarian assistance to poor Muslim families and distributing fliers promoting Christianity.

Sources said they were “enticing” impoverished youngsters by paying them money and calling on them to marry foreign girls.

I have curious questions about this:

  • What was the content of the flyers?
  • From what countries are they?
  • Why would they be doing such activity in a Muslim country?
  • What is their denominational affiliation?
  • Should handing out tracts be kept to relatively safe and friendly locales?
  • Will a letter-writing campaign be launched in their behalf?
  • Will the Jordanian government apologize for religious insensitivity?
  • Are lots of people praying for these evangelizers already?

I know, too many of those are unimportant questions but maybe they’ll make good Google bait.

And a concern (of sorts, anyway): What will become of those eight people?

May the Lord show His grace and strength and glory and love and wisdom through them. May they be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And may God not be ashamed to be called their God.

Remember That Bookmark!

I’ve stuck stuff in books before and eventually forgot.

But this?

Boxcutter in book

Amazing!

Throw the book at him

A 21-year-old Clearwater man was arrested at Tampa International Airport this weekend after security personnel found a box cutter in a hollowed-out book, authorities said.

About 7:30 a.m. Sunday, airport security ran Benjamin Baines Jr.’s backpack through an X-ray machine and saw the image of a box cutter, according to a report from the Transportation Security Administration.

When searching the backpack, a security officer found a book titled “Fear Itself.” The book was hollowed out, and the box cutter was inside.

After Baines was read his rights, he said his cousin had cut away the pages to make the hollow section in the book. Later, reports state, he said he had hollowed it out himself to hide money and marijuana from his roommates.

Baines told officers he was moving to Las Vegas and forgot the cutter was in the book.

Would his Constitutional right to trial by a jury of his peers mean those on the plane he was to board will constitute the jury pool?

Meanwhile, how long till the copycats crank up?

Above all, love God!