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winsomebulldog

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  1. I started using my iPad as my primary Bible not long after my husband got it for me. It just offers me so much more flexibility than my physical Bible, not to mention it weighs less. I use Olive Tree primarily, but have other apps as well. I love that I can keep notes directly on particular verses, call up parallel versions or commentaries on verses. or even just make a note to look deeper into something later so that I don't get sidetracked during the sermon. I also don't have the option of connecting to the web with my 1st gen wireless only iPad as our church is very small and we don't even have a full-time phone line, much less wireless web access. LOL Just as an aside, even if I was tempeted to "play" instead of focusing on the service, my husband would never let me get away with it. I'm not trying to say he's some kind of domineering misogynist, but he loves me enough to not let me get away with that kind of nonsense. Just like I wouldn't let him get away with it if he tried to pull out his phone and play with it. Makes me wonder where the sense of accountability is with others who do play while in church. Don't they have parents or spouses or even friends who love them enough to call them out when they do something like text, check Facebook, or play games while in church?
  2. This is the problem with social media; it's far too easy to "run off at the mouth" without taking the time to consider one's words. I have been guilty of this myself on a few occasions. I know she's a comedian and constantly seeking to be snarky and/or her version of funny, but the fact remains that trying to turn a natural disaster into a joke. Even if no one had died, it would not have been a funny joke. Lives are invariably changed and impacted during any tornado. Perhaps she did not know the extent of the devastation at the time of her initial tweet, but the fact remains that 2 lives were lost and untold numbers of others impacted by other tornadoes just one day earlier in the same area of the state. The point being, she exercised truly poor judgment in thinking that the subject was one to be made light of. I'd say she's never been near to one of these things if she can be so flippant about them. I've come too close for comfort to more than one of these things in my life and seen the terrible destruction left behind. Even when everyone survives, their lives are forever changed.
  3. I don't completely disagree with you, but I also think that there's a serious issue in this country with a lack of common decency and respect for others. Were I a business owner who found out one of my employees had treated a customer this poorly, that employee would find themselves out of a job immediately. Speaking as someone who's held more than one job where I dealt heavily with the public on a daily basis, I know that the days of companies putting customers first are rapidly vanishing. Companies make no effort to train their employees, and apparently, parents aren't teaching their children common courtesy either. It all adds up to workers who treat customers with contempt and disrespect.
  4. England and Germany for me. France and Germany with a touch of Native American tossed in for my hubby.
  5. I always respected Perot. It's been long enough ago that I don't really remember everything he had to say, but the impression I always got was that he made a lot of sense. Still does, it seems. Most of all, I respected that unlike so many other politicians, he was straight up willing to put his money where his mouth was instead of going into a campaign as if it were simply a new opportunity to make himself even richer. The "politics as business" state of our government, right down to the local level in many places, makes me sick to my stomach.
  6. The amount of money both sides and their cronies are spending on ads is the epitome of vulgar. As my husband said the other day, "Imagine how many people could be helped with those millions." Makes him sound a bit like a liberal, but he isn't. We both just find the irony a bit hard to swallow since both sides love to discuss how much they care about the poor and needy while spending obscene amounts of money to throw mud at each other.
  7. Yeah, change.org leans way left, which is why it pays to make sure you set your notification options to let them know that you don't want to get pounded by endless invitations to "sign" countless other petitions, most of which are going to be blatantly liberal. There are some less liberal petitions on there, but you have to be very careful. I've signed a few petitions on there, but I make sure to read all the fine print, since the site always tries to automatically sign you up to get emails about more petitions.
  8. Amazing! I'll never forget the first time I saw the moon through a backyard telescope. My parents bought me an inexpensive one when I was a kid and it was the most amazing thing I'd ever seen. Seeing images on television or in books or magazines (didn't have the web back then, LOL) is just not the same as seeing it live like that. I remember it gave me chills. Made me even more of a stargazer than I already was.
  9. Snarky Netanyahu made me laugh. But I'm also more than a little annoyed that Liberals have managed to take a global threat and Israel's possible response to it, and turn it all into just one more conspiracy against Obama. W O W.
  10. I don't understand how freedom of religion is supposed to equal respect for the practicing of counterfeit religions that are built upon outright lies and idolatry. Having the right to do something does not make it a respectful act. In modern politically correct terms the simple practicing of any religion except Christianity (of course) seems to make you brave and socially redeemed. Agreed. It seems we're now living in a country where our government and the majority of citizens, rejects and condemns any insult aimed at any religion OTHER THAN Christianity. The global Muslim community can resort to violence and get sympathy because their feelings were hurt, but we Christians are just supposed to have thicker skin and stop trying to "force" our beliefs on the rest of the world. I'm never going to get over the incongruity of that mentality.
  11. I get the definite sense that the guy is anything but trustworthy. I haven't seen the film and don't intend to. It may very well be blatantly offensive, even to someone who sees Islam as a real threat to the entire world. But none of that makes blaming him for what's happening valid. He's a big-mouth bigot like countless others, and he's entitled to his opinion and has the right to voice it, even if it's offensive. The violence is not his fault, he's just the convenient scapegoat.
  12. Regardless of whether you think it's absurd how people are acting, the reality is Romney just handed the election to Obama by politicizing a tragedy on such short notice by engaging in the reaction game, instead of acting with seriousness and sobriety. Yeah, I don't think so. It was a gaff on Romney's part, I agree. He'd have been wiser to get all the facts completely straight before speaking, but it's hardly anything I'd consider a death blow. But even now, after most of the facts have come out, I am far less offended by Romney's outrage than I am by the way the situation has been handled by Washington. We rushed Marines to the Middle East to protect our people and embassies. My question is, why did we have to rush anyone there? Why are we relying on nations that we all know hate us, to provide security for our embassies? Why were our Marines issues non-lethal bullets to deal with what amounts to the invasion of soverign American soil? And why is it that amid all this violence, Obama still hasn't come out with much more than, "I condemn in the strongest terms possible the attacks on American embassies?" How about, "Fair warning. You've got XX (two, ten, whatever) hours to get your people under control. After that, anyone coming over the wall at any American embassy will be shot." Not to mention the fact that the administration is so busy condemning this film and swearing its disgust of all belittling or insulting of anyone's faith, yet doesn't seem to apply that to Christians or Jews. Where's the outrage over the offensive things Muslims say about Jews and Christians? Where's the outrage and condemnation of the countless instances of offensive words directed at Jesus? Sorry, but Romney's gaff doesn't even come close to bothering me as much as the rest of it. And that's not even considering that most of the nation is more concerned about unemployment and the economy, anyway.
  13. I've got to say that I think calls to somehow punish or blame this man for the violence are absurd. It brings this to mind: President Obama, Stop Blaming the Victim for Mideast Violence My question then becomes, if Christians suddenly rose up and began attacking everyone who ever said anything bad or offensive about Jesus, would everyone still be calling for those who offended us to be punished? I think not. I understand that there are laws about inducing panic and the consequences from that. But I don't see how this could be applied in this case. The man didn't openly call for violence. He did not make this movie, then devote his time and energy to getting it shown in Muslim nations with the express intent of hoping it would cause violent mobs to attack American, and other, embassies. In fact, the so-called movie was actually released, if you can call it that, back during July. Knowing that, does anyone truly believe that the movie being brought to the attention of the Muslim world within days of the 9/11 anniversary is nothing more than coincidence? It was actually a hardline Egyptian who played clips of it on Egyptian television and called for the film's makers to be executed. Oh, but he says the violence isn't his fault, because he didn't make the film, he just brought it to the attention of the radical Islamists that follow his show. How was he supposed to know they'd go and attack embassies across the Middle East? reference The point is, the ultimate responsibility for the violence rests solely on the shoulders of those who chose to be violent. The "gun in a theater" analogy is flawed because it isn't the fault of the gun carrier that someone panicked and caused a stampeed. Not unless he was in some way behaving in an unlawful or reckless manner that would have caused a reasonable person to be frightened. Just wearing a gun in a situation where he was doing so in accordance with the law would not be a crime. In this scenario, I'd say that no one was likely to be charged with any crime, unless the person who initially screamed "gun!" and started the whole chain reaction did so knowing that there was no real threat. Then that person becomes responsible. I get the point behind the analogy. In America, the first amendment does not cover any and all situations. Yelling "fire!" in a crowded building or room comes to mind. But that isn't what happened here.
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