Here are some unimportant things I am thankful for: 1. I am thankful for presidential trivia: Calvin Coolidge was the only Prez to be born on July 4. Three Presidents came out of Tennessee to win the presidency, but they were all originally from North Carolina. Three Presidents have nicknames that contain the word “Hickory.” I […]
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1. Do you, dear reader, remember a few weeks ago when I complained that there was a time and temperature sign near where I work that fell back early–a few days before Daylights Savings Time–and it is also always a few minutes off? Their clock was something like an hour and 2 minutes slow. Well,
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What should President Obama do with Syria? Well, there’s a conundrum. When George W. Bush ordered the Iraq invasion in 2003, he rationalized it several different ways. Saddam Hussein was hiding Weapons of Mass Destruction; he had defied numerous United Nations resolutions regarding these WMDs; he was an evil dictator who had poison gassed his
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Okay time for 3 totally unrelated things. One: A children’s sermon gone slightly awry. I was the guest speaker in a church recently, and I was asked to do the children’s message. I wanted to talk about Saul’s conversion in Acts chapter 9. To illustrate my point (and keep the kids’ attention) I brought in
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President Obama was asked recently if he was going to be able to get anything of substance done over the remainder of his time in office (the phrase was something like “Do you have any juice left?”). The President replied that he couldn’t force Republicans to “behave.” And Democrats said, “You tell ’em, Mr. President!
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