So “McCain chooses Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin for V.P. ” I love everything about this pick. Palin has bona fide conservative credentials. She’s smart, pretty (something McCain is sorely lacking), and threatens to take some dissatisfied Hillary supporter votes away from the Democrats. On top of it all, McCain stole Obama’s thunder after last night’s [...]
And neither does some news writers. A 16-year-old girl was driving and lost control of her vehicle. Her injuries were fatal. Yesterday’s headline: Girl in Fatal Wreck Sent Text Message Moments Before Crash At first glance, it seems this is sad case of not watching the road. The girls mother even says she hopes the [...]
My uncle, Pat Ambrose, died today. My grandmother has lost two of hers sons to brain tumors in a little over a year. May God bless Pat.
Last week I posted about the annoying comparison of a football contract to a marriage. The AP continued that yesterday: Favre retired in March, but then decided he still wanted to play. After a messy divorce with Green Bay, the Packers traded him to New York, where he’s going through his 18th training camp. Our [...]
Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards admitted to having an extramarital affair after months of denials. In admitting to the affair, Edwards told ABC news that he did not love the woman. I’m sure that makes his wife feel much better. OK, things that don’t make you sympathetic: trying to excuse your adultery by claiming [...]
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This summer’s sports soap opera has finally ended with the Green Bay Packers trading their un-retiring and future hall of fame quarterback Brett Favre to the New York Jets. Packers president Mark Murphy said, “It’s like a marriage that ends. It happens. Neither party is at fault.” Now I’m a guy who views Superbowl Sunday [...]
Someday I’ll be able to tell my grandchildren that I remember where I was when I learned that Brett Favre got traded to the New York Jets…
I recently came across a discussion of this passage in gospel of Luke: Luke 18: 10. “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. 11. “The Pharisee stood and was praying this to himself: `God, I thank You that I am not like other people: [...]
