University chaplain squeezes Christmas sermon into text message

University chaplain squeezes Christmas sermon into text message

And an interesting message it is, take a look.

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The 5 Rules of Black Friday

The 5 Rules of Black Friday

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From the article:

Black Friday can be scary. Children and small men often get trampled by large women rushing to score special deals. Parking lots are filled with NASCAR drivers and everyone is hopped up on coffee and Red Bull. The best thing to do is sleep right through it, but if you must shop, please be nice.

Smile at the cashier. He doesn’t want to be there and hates you for perpetuating the tradition. Smile at other shoppers too because you are all in this together. If you must shove someone out of the way to grab the last $79 GPS at Radio shack, do it gently.

Please pay attention folks, the sanity you save may be my own. 

Psalm 109:8 bumper stickers -- a wrong-hearted prayer for President Obama? - Faith & Reason

"Pray for Obama."

A kind and generous statement.

Or is it?

A crop of bumper stickers and T-shirts emblazoned with that call to prayer for the president have appeared for sale recently online through make-it-yourself outlets such as Zazzle.com and CafePress.com. And most of the "Pray for Obama" slogans are accompanied by a scripture reference: "Psalm 109:8.

"In the New International Version translations, that verse reads;

May his days be few; may another take his place of leadership.

Aha! So, they're praying for Obama's tenure to be a short one. Fair enough. But what does that really mean?

Psalm 109:8 bumper stickers -- a wrong-hearted prayer for President Obama? - Faith & Reason

Take time and read the rest of the verses in context. It is an eye opener what these people are asking for. While I do not care for the politics of Mr. Obama, I would never wish this stuff on him.

reBlog from converstations.com: ConverStations

I found this fascinating quote today:

Let's not get caught up on 21st Century Skills being [about] using a computer, social network, or mobile device. Two decades ago, Twitter wasn't a twinkle in our eye -- now it's everywhere.  At the end of this century, Twitter may not be a 21st Century Tool, let alone a 21st Century Skill.converstations.com, ConverStations, Sep 2009

You should read the whole article.  As a computer educator and geek it is a very interesting read.  We do not need to teach Word for example but teach how to do Word Processing.  We do not need to teach Twitter but how to communicate. 

The safe browsers are safe no more…

From ZDNet

 

Security researchers have intercepted a fake Flash Player update creating a Firefox add-on that spies on a target user’s Google search results.

The malicious Firefox extension, called “Adobe Flash Player 0.2,” injects ads into the user’s Google search results pages and even has the capability to monitor the user’s browsing activities, particularly Google search queries using the Firefox browser.

It then sends the information it gathers to a hacker-controlled server.

 

Do not get Flash from any place but the Adobe site. What used to be safe, the alternative browsers, like Firefox, are now becoming methods of attack.  Be aware…..

 

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O.C. residents sue Facebook | facebook, information, beck, county, orange - News - OCRegister.com

The other two plaintiffs are Orange County children – Xavier O., 11, and Chris C., 12 – who reportedly opened accounts without their parents' permission. Since Xavier posted information about having swine flu, "his parents have been unable to learn where the minor's medical information may have been stored, disseminated or sold by Facebook," the complaint states.

O.C. residents sue Facebook | facebook, information, beck, county, orange - News - OCRegister.com

If this had been my kids, I would not be suing Facebook, I would be spanking their buts. Responsibility, teach it to your kids please...

Why I would like to learn to fly someday

A picture by NASCAR driver Kyle Petty as he was flying to one of his stops...

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Help I am traped in a Rubik's Cube and get not get out
Create your own Rubik's Cube

Pew Research Center Poll: 64 Percent Think There's Too Much Coverage Of Michael Jackson's Death - wbztv.com

LOS ANGELES (AP) ―Nearly two in three Americans say news organizations have given too much coverage to the death of Michael Jackson, but half say the media have struck the right balance between covering the pop star's personal life and musical career.

In a Pew Research Center poll published Wednesday, 64 percent of those surveyed said Jackson's death last week in Los Angeles has received too much coverage, 29 percent said the story received the right amount and 3 percent said the story got too little attention

Pew Research Center Poll: 64 Percent Think There's Too Much Coverage Of Michael Jackson's Death - wbztv.com
Put with the 2/3 group.  A week later and they seem to make up stories about things.  Please can we let the story go.  A lot of people have died this week.  Some are true heroes.

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A marked man...

Mayfield said outside court Wednesday he would travel to Daytona, but wasn’t sure in what capacity. His suspension covered both his roles as driver and owner of his car, and he wasn’t sure he could put something together in time.

Larry Gunselman and Tommy Baldwin, two owners who potentially could have given Mayfield a ride, said they weren’t considering him for Saturday night’s race.

“Whether he’s right, wrong or different right now, he’s marked,” said Baldwin, “and that’s going to hurt him probably for the rest of his career.”

Mayfield not at Daytona when garage opens - NASCAR - Yahoo! Sports

It is a shame that it has to be this way. I am not a Mayfield fan, I think in someways he is a jerk, but I think NASCAR was wrong and have defended him. The 3 ring circus that NASCAR set up for drug testing was an exercise in stupidity. That being said I must agree with Baldwin here. He is going to have a hard time getting any car he drives/owns through inspection much less being noted for infractions on the course. NASCAR has effectivly killed him.

Mayfield Wins against NASCAR ... or does he?

The Brighter Light

Notes from my pastor's (Pastor Bob Yandian) sermon called the Brighter Light are available on my Sermon Notes Page.

What and Idiot

Why I can never be a Kyle Bush fan. No respect for what he won or what went into the making of it.

NASCAR – The Big Bully?

From Nascar.com

 

LONG POND, Pa. -- NASCAR has filed a countersuit in federal court against driver Jeremy Mayfield and denied each of the suspended driver's arguments why his failed drug test should be overturned.

NASCAR spokesman Ramsey Poston, speaking Friday from Pocono Raceway, says the countersuit was filed against Mayfield for willfully violating NASCAR's substance abuse policy, breach of contract, and defrauding NASCAR and its competitors of earnings.

Among the claims of the lawsuit are that Mayfield knowingly participated in NASCAR competition using a combination of drugs in violation of the substance abuse policy and violated his contracts with NASCAR and the standards of care he owed fellow drivers and spectators.

Mayfield was suspended May 9 for failing a random drug test conducted eight days earlier at Richmond International Raceway.

The bolder text is what I want to emphasize here. I love NASCAR. Some may think it is as boring as watching paint dry but if you watch it you see the high speed chess match that it is. Should a driver take 2 or 4 tires, do we have enough Gas to go the distance, and any of a lot of other questions.

And yes, they should have a substance abuse policy.  By all means.  When you are going near 200 MPH you need to know that the guy next to you is not on some trip.

But how could Mayfield what drugs are on the substance abuse policy?  No driver has been told that.  NASCAR, IMHO is acting like the big bully here.  Mayfield started this team with barely any money and he just wants to race. He has not been a ‘start and park’ car, he is actually trying and was having a bit of success.

NASCAR, tell us all, or at least the drivers, what they need to watch out for.  Revise it as necessary. But do not tell the drivers not to take any drugs at all.  He says he took Claritin and a prescription. Tell us what he took or let him race.  This has gone on long enough.

I guess some people have not enough to complain about!

From FOXNEWS.COM:

 

A social services accounting clerk wants compensation for missing his lunch break on April 3 during a horrific upstate New York immigration center massacre that left 13 dead plus the gunman.

James Kauchis, a government employee of the Broome County Department of Social Services, confirmed that he filed a formal complaint last week seeking the pay, according to the Binghamton Press & Sun-Bulletin.

But he wouldn't discuss it with the newspaper.

"That's a matter between me, the administration and the union," Kauchis said.

How can this guy complain when so many lost their life that day.  What a shame.

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April Fools

Today was an interesting day. I did my usual teaching and went to work. I was aware of it being April 1, April Fools day, but no one had tried to pull an obvious joke on me so I was not thinking about it.

Driving to my real job I was listening to a talk show on local station KRMG, the Neal Boortz show. I usually listen to him as I do not agree with everything he says but it is interesting. He started to describe during his Government outrage segment how Obama had told GM and Chrysler that if they wanted any more money they would have to withdraw their participation in NASCAR. Boortz was upset! He cannot tell them how to advertise.

Needless to say I got to work and started to tell a co-worker about it. We both agreed it was the wrong thing to do. I figured I would blog about it so I started to search about it. Seems that the Internet was abuzz about it. One article said Obama and NASCAR was the biggest Google News search for the day, and it all started with an article at the Car and Driver magazine web site. Well Car and Driver meant it as an April Fools joke but it seems that it took on a mind of its own. Some places have not retracted the statements yet either.

So while I did not get hit directly, I guess I got it indirectly.

Of course my stepdaughter got it. She got a Facebook message that said Obama and her were second cousins and clicked the link.

Obama was the subject of a lot of the jokes today. Hope he does not mind.

One of the reasons that I do not like unions...

From Fox News

 

A bill working its way through Congress that changes how employees can create and join unions is facing tough criticism from workers who say it gives unions the green light to use aggressive tactics to get them to sign up.

The Employee Free Choice Act -- known in Congress as the "card check" bill -- calls for an easier system to allow employees to form, join, or assist labor organizations. Under the bill, employees can request blank cards from existing unions that employees can sign to express interest in joining the union. If 30 percent of employees sign the cards, companies can hold secret-ballot elections to decide on unionization.

But workers at the Dana Corporation Auto Parts plant in Albion, Ind., say the card check process has nearly torn the 50-person plant apart after harassment and intimidation from the United Auto Workers union forced them to a secret-ballot vote.

A union organizer came to the plant two years ago to ask employees to join the UAW because the company had signed a neutrality agreement with the union.

The meeting, however, did not go well, according to plant employee Larry Guest.

"He was using real rough language -- cursing. It didn't go over well with the women at all. There were a couple that just got up and left," Guest told FOX News.

Employees said union representatives approached them in the break room, at the plant doors and even followed them to their cars.

"He was just like an itch that you couldn't scratch. He just wouldn't go away," said employee Rita Murphy.

"After a while we realized he was going to be here morning, noon and night until he got his numbers that he needed," said Betty Pop.

We will miss you....

From Fox news (and I am sure many other places)

 

Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, FOX News has confirmed. He was 90.

Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.

Paul, I knew when Angel died you would not last much longer as you were so in love with her.  I will miss your voice and you doing the news. 

 

No one, and I mean no one, can replace you in the industry.  We will miss you.

 

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Boy am I in trouble......

I'm an embarrassment to Barack!


I only scored 18 on the Obama Test

From the no good deed goes unpunished department

WBZ TV Watercooler web page reports:

 

DENVER (AP) ―  A good Samaritan who helped push three people out of the path of a pickup truck before being struck and injured has gotten a strange reward for his good deed: A jaywalking ticket.
Family members said 58-year-old bus driver Jim Moffett and another man were helping two elderly women cross a busy Denver street in a snowstorm when he was hit Friday night.
Moffett suffered bleeding in the brain, broken bones, a dislocated shoulder and a possible ruptured spleen. He was in serious but stable condition Wednesday.

Kind of reminds me of a few years ago, a good Samaritan was helping people here in Tulsa that got stuck in the snow by towing them out of the drifts and got a ticket