Recalculating….

This was sent to me today in an email:
“Forget about cellphones causing car accidents. In the UK, a ridiculous 300,000 car crashes have been caused by GPS. And, according to a survey commissioned by Brit tabloid rag The Mirror, 1.5 million drivers have swerved through traffic when following their sat-nav’s instructions a little too closely.
The [...]

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Covered Bridges and Lighthouses: A Fascinating Part of Oregon’s History

In 2004, we travelled with our 5th wheel to Washington and Oregon, going as far south as the Dunes area near Florence, Oregon.
Part of our trip included a visit to some of Oregon’s covered bridges and lighthouses.  There are 50 covered bridges in Oregon and 12 lighthouses.  Near Cottage Grove, we saw the Mosby Creek [...]

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Advertising-driven content?

Does advertising drive content in magazines?  About a year ago I perused a local health-related magazine (local as in Canadian) and I wonder.   I had started to enjoy the magazine again because it seemed to be focusing more on the right whole foods to eat for good health. Until I got to the issue in [...]

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Cherry-licious

I love this time of year.  And I love Farmer’s Markets.  I love going and seeing all of the delicious-looking, mostly local, produce lined up in the bins.  I love BC fruit, which is in abundance at our local Farmer’s Market every summer.  I am a berry-aholic.  Strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, raspberries – oh my!
Here’s a [...]

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Fascist Fashion, legalism and the church

This was in the letters to the editor section of a religious organization’s magazine that is sent out to all churches and church members within their “conference”:
“Not what we wear?
If a person were invited to Buckingham Palace to see the queen, would they wear blue jeans? I wonder if they’d even let them in. Even [...]

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Heath Ledger RIP

This makes me sick and sad to be a Christian. No wonder I want to hide my light under a bushel, most days. Some fundamentalist from Westboro Baptist church is going to picket Heath Ledger’s funeral because he played a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain. They (Westboro Church) issued the following “news release”.
http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/westboro%20release.pdf
Funny I don’t [...]

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Talk about controlling.

Pensacola Christian Colleges “rules” for its’ students.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pensacola_Christian_College
http://www.pensacolachristiancollege.com/rules.htm
Not mentioned in the above cites, but another article I read said another one of its’ rules was that you could not attend an off-campus church, only attend “their” church services at their college (mandatory 3 x a week).
Women and men are to go to separate public beaches. Women [...]

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Merry Christmas?????

I received this “poem” in an email the other day.
“A message with lots of truth
A month before Christmas
When all through our land,
Not a Christian was praying
Nor taking a stand.
Why the PC Police
had taken away,
The reason for Christmas -
no one could say.
The children were told
by their schools not to sing,
About Shepherds and Wise Men
and Angels and [...]

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Sicko – movie review

Dh and I watched this movie a while back. While an interesting portrayal of “what’s wrong with American health care”, the movie purports to draw a link between countries that have socialised medicine (U.K., France, Canada) and the longevity of the citizens of those countries compared to the US. There may be some truth to [...]

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It Is Finished – PTL!

I don’t know if anyone reads any of the notes I publish. I guess I hope you do. I read this over at www.theshovel.net (with acknowledgments to the author and creator of this website and this piece). It brought tears to my eyes and I hope it can be an encouragement to some of you [...]

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