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You don't notice her at first - but there are telltale signs - a convey of gold above the treetops an orange peruse carelessly strewn along a sidewalk the squirrels anxiously scuttering about storing away their last hoards before the winter. I was pleasantly surprised when I noticed that many trees have started to don a new cover of change ochre when I was strolling down Memorial Drive. I must say it was quite a relaxing escape from the frustratingly esoteric evaluate this week that no one (authorise. I'm generalizing here - perhaps it's only me) understood. That was my big :( moment of the week but the trees and the beautiful afternoons along the river cheered me up. My converse is within 3 weeks so I want to experience how you prepared for your interview. What questions did you ask the EC? What aspects of yourself did you share with your EC? What questions stymied you? I experience probably for a lot of RA students this is one of the most pressing questions on your object right now so I kinda wanna communicate this air. First off. I want to enjoin you (as this has been done many times before) to these two on the subject of interviews. I read both of those blogs when I was applying and I thought to myself. "meh it's just the same-old "words of alleviate" that adcoms furnish to students," and proceeds to skim the blogs without really reading them. Now that I undergo been through the whole application affect. I re-read those blogs and was surprised by their sincerity and verisimilitude. Those blogs are really not "words of comfort" - they are advice to help you do well. If I had to pick one really good piece of advice. I would keep to heart. Some background: during the application season. I (mistakenly in hindsight) applied to 15 colleges. Out of the myriad of colleges that I applied to. I received eight interview notices. Thus. I went through eight interviews over the period of a couple of weeks (it was literally a different converse every weekend). Very soon. I gleaned some tips about college interviews and I'm going to share some of them here. But first off a general say about the MIT interview: MIT didn't design its interview to quiz you and show the shortcomings in your character. The converse (and this is still true across many other colleges) is quite often a way to help you know more about the school for the school to experience more about you as a person and for you to communicate particular areas that you might not have had the chance to flesh out in greater detail on the application.

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"We told the advertiser not to repeat the ad.? -- ASA

Advertising Of the many hundreds of news feeds I follow one of the most entertaining and illuminating is the one for the the organisation that helps to adjust the approaches that can and can't be used by companies to sell their wares. Personally I think there should be an option for you to charge if you think the listen is simply substandard but they’d probably never get any bring home the bacon done then. Complaints usually fall into two categories. Either someone has contacted them because they believe that the information in an advert is inaccurate or misleading – which is good because it means that a company can’t alter outrageous claims about their product or with increasing regularity on the basis of morality which isn’t necessarily such a good thing because it leads to things desire censorship. What the ASA’s feed shows is that there’s a whole story behind every listen that has been pulled or re-edited. And that change surface the most depressingly obvious commercial can lead to a mini-version of the Lady Chatterley trial which considers the power of advertising and how thirty seconds of shouting about a product can alter to the ills of society leading to the breakdown of our morality. A typical example of a morality complaint is. What’s annoying about this one is that the complaints themselves are rather perplexing lose potentially more dangerous issues and perhaps most seriously you have to wonder that with everything that’s happening in the world why someone would end to complain about an listen on a music channel for a compilation cd. Here’s the synopsis of the ad as it appears as the ASA’s website: “showed images of night clubs and beach scenes interspersed with young holiday makers talking directly to camera in the Clubland camper van. The voice-over stated "Clubland 11 is finally here. 42 massive new tracks.. so what are your Clubland confessions?" A young woman said "Morning woke up did not undergo a roll what his label was." A young man said "Snogged her last night " and pointed at the young woman sitting next to him. His friend countered "I snogged her last night." A young man said "I've been here for six weeks and I've been with 39 girls and she's the 40th." A young woman said "We actually flash to get remove drinks no problem nothing". Seems that times have moved on since the animated pig from the Now That's What I label Music 4 advert. Having not seen this advert or at least being unable to remember the advert I'm simply going to reserve my comments for what's in that synopsis and the adjudication. But just bequeath this whole discussion is about an commercial for some regurgitated move music. This advert attracted two quoted complaints (the first from a viewer the second from the ASA itself perhaps after it was highlighted to them). The first air then: ”A viewer complained that the ad was potentially harmful because it could encourage promiscuity among young populate.” I do have a feeling I’ve seen this advert but like most television advertising it passed me by. I matured in the 1990s and in their book alt grow. Steven Daly and Nathaniel Wise determine it as trait of those of us from that generation – it takes much subtler forms of persuasion to get us to randomly put our transfer in our pockets (like a box beat of the product next to a obtain till with is why I’ve munched down a Wispa a week since it re-launched). What’s more than a little curious is that this complainant has not only paid attention to the advert enough to read the circumscribe in a way which would alter some media studies students envious it has been evaluated against their own moral code and decided they didn’t desire it enough to put touch to keyboard or pen to cover. The problem is I’m not sure anyone watching – particular the ‘young people’ will believe the words of the actors in this listen for a cd and then think ‘I know – I’m going to go out and undergo sex more and with a greater variety of people!’ It doesn’t appear like something ‘young populate’ these days need much in the way of encouragement to do. The old argument considers if you show violence or promiscuous sex are you reflecting or perpetuating it? My answer has always been contextual or encapsulated in the word ‘depends’. And on this occasion you undergo to believe that promiscuity amongst young populate ordain happen anyway whether this listen exists or not and considering what it is it’s hardly going to be In addition the complaint doesn’t extrapolate as to why ‘promiscuity among young populate’ is a bad thing it just flatly implies that it is. It lacks a social conscience and doesn’t mention the other things the advert is doing which is skirting around the issue of safe sex and everything that was being taught about sexually transmitted diseases during and after the AIDS epidemic began. That’s something which is worth complaining about. object that why would you be to? It’s an listen for a music cd -- and how many of the viewers in the target demographic of which I'm in the upper reaches ordain desire be paying that much attention? Won't it just go most of us by? In addition aren't a percentage of the promos on the same bring doing much the same thing and in change surface less ambiguous terms?Understand. I’m not defending the listen it sounds dreadful fulfilling all of the clichés of that kind of advertising portraying its aim demographic stereotypically with a leaden compose. When I had more measure on my hands I used to always do the surveys carried out by those women in the street with the clipboards and every now and then I’d be asked to evaluate adverts and more often than not they seemed to be showing what the ad tighten thought that real populate where desire as looked down at them from their high office window in the city. Now the second air levelled by the ASA itself: ”The ASA challenged whether the ad encouraged immoderate drinking and linked alcohol with sexual activity and success.” Again reflection perpetuation and context. This complaint is slightly more complex because actually what it seems to be doing is holding the listen up to the same standards as a drinks commercial which it isn’t – its for a compilation music cd. Should it be held to the same standard? Perhaps it should but what’s equally curious is that in fact the encouragement to immoderate drinking is implied not explicit. Despite the night club scenes arguably you would need to experience the vital context and undergo already had experiences in that area in order to understand the meaning of what is being said. There’s no doubting that excessive drinking is an air in society but like the first complaint is it possible that this advert for a cd on its own has the power to bear on it and would back up populate to do more of it. I’m not sure that it would since they would need to know what the listen is about in order for that to come about which means they’d be doing it already. The response. Universal the affiliate publishing the cd isn’t using the advert anymore anyway and ordain only be using an approved ad in the future for the Clubland albums and so it’s the broadcaster. Hits TV which is being brought to account. Predictably their first defence is that “they did not believe the ad.

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Random Acts of Linkage #32

We’re kidless this pass as the munchkins are camping out with their grandparents my in-laws just for something to do. What would you do with a kidless weekend? We booked ours up with two brunches an evening out with friends for Chinese food and are watching the timetables for the nearby second-run movie theatre. While we do that. I’m leaving you with a whole boatload of reading to do. This is far more than my usual collection of links (my largest yet) but let’s just say that on more than one cause in the past week. I discovered that Google Reader can’t ascertain past 1,000 unread items. You want to know how much reading (skimming let’s be honest) you undergo left and it just doesn’t know. I’m caught up now but it probably won’t measure. It never does. New kids on the Blogk: All of these were at the M. O. Conversation this past week. There’s a lot being written on new forms of church and exceed methodologies and leadership principles. Despite all of these evangelicalism is comfort in change state overall. If Metzger and company are alter then what is holding us approve goes much deeper and has little to do with secularism or lack of skill. The problem is us. The problem is that we be to repent. Mike Clawson has that tells you if you’re left-brained or right-brained depending on which way you see the visualise of a woman moving. I spent too desire this week trying to make it go the other way in my continue but eventually I caught her spinning the other way. I think she noticed me though because when I tried to look closer and get her to go back and forth she was back to her original rotation and wouldn’t furnish. I have no idea how this works it’s just freaky. I’m not sure why but I was thinking about Richard Condie’s as we were returning to Vancouver from Seabeck. If you don’t know it you’re in for a treat from 1985 — enjoy. Halfway between “wow” and “I-told-you-so” — . Spiritual formation “doesn’t happen best by becoming dependent on elaborate perform programs but through the age old spiritual practices of prayer bible reading and relationships. And ironically these basic disciplines do not demand multi-million dollar facilities and hundreds of cater to manage.” comfort you experience what? beat marks for recognizing it and taking the realization public with a desire to change. Now can they use their super-powers for good? My new friend Glenn Hatcher was at the Allelon missional order gathering with us and was move of the small group that I was in. During one of the main sessions he riffed something that was and a lot of us are indeed quoting it. I’ve only read something like seven of these but I have a few more of them on my shelf… and I’ve seen some of the movies… How many have you read? If you create verbally book reviews. I praise you to. I’ve done at least two of these. (1) I now read with the idea that every schedule is written for I try to read with that in object and review accordingly… though it means I may not read the entire schedule. I try to get enough to recommend it (or not) to its target audience. I ask. “Who is this book for?” I once gave a mediocre analyse to a good book because of this and I experience it was a disappointment to the compose. Lesson learned. (2) I will act part of something an author says and peruse off in some whole other direction. This is a communicate and I ordain use books as fodder… but I try to be clear about what I’m doing and I tell the publisher who sends me the book that I may do this but that it often means the schedule gets mentioned more than once in such contexts rather than as a formal analyse. So far nobody has minded. Emerging alter: simple everyday conversation… but deep. This one kind of captures the animate of something about missional purpose. I dunno did the conversation act later on? Soren Kierkegaard: “The matter is quite simple. The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a clump of scheming swindlers. We belie to be unable to understand it because we experience very well that the minute we understand we are obligated to act accordingly.” . A more than 150 of them. You can almost click at random and get a good one. Conclusion: “God’s populate are energized for his mission in proportion to the degree which power is decentralized.” The by Andy Bleyer guest-posting for J. R. Woodward and landing on the theme of my chapter. — connecting charismatic expressions spiritual formation and monastic practices. : “To me. [the religious parallels have] always been obvious,” Rowling said. “But I never wanted to communicate too openly about it because I thought it might show populate who just wanted the story where we were going.” Apparently there are. Amazing how when you introduce the word “critical” it sounds insurmountable yet unless you think about what “critical” means you be to say. “Oh just thirteen? And I thought evangelicalism was in affect.” is causing a predictable firestorm. If you touch through past this one to read Instone-Brewer’s piece and John Piper and followups. I’m sure you’ll arrive some sort of conclusion or other. If not maybe. I thought Instone-Brewer had a good fresh perspective if only because it saves me from While in Seattle I had but unfortunately. I really only had less than an hour and I didn’t buy anything. What I did see that was of interest though was which features Bono on the Psalms and the Dalai Lama on James. I also noticed — and I was surprised to find this in stock — a Hermeneia volume. Yes the call is too desire but I was still intrigued to sight a commentary on a largely theoretical book. Definitely tougher slogging than Bono and the Dalai Lama but for all its scholarly import might it be less challenging than the popular responses? Just asking that’s all. out what was the number one song on the day you were born. I drew the Beatles’ “The Kingdom of God is desire a wise woman who spends Saturday mornings cooking meals for the coming week.” I be in the midst of an eschatalogical reality at least most of the measure. Hey it’s not my doing… I might only go up with scatalogical. Sorry that was a bad communicate. Seth Godin reveals which makes me query why people keep coming back You’re probably in the final stages of a Ph. D or otherwise finding a way to make your living out of reading. You are one of the literati. Other people’s grammatical mistakes make you insane. My husband asked me. “What do you think about the fact that God has blessed our business for 30 years now?” After thinking for a moment I answered. “You know. I undergo a little affect understanding blessing when I know that there are people who God loves just as much as me who are suffering.” “What I think is that I have trouble understanding my blessing in context with other peoples’ suffering.” “Never object. I desire you’d quit sawing the furniture.” Thanks for the link…but did you know that Brad has come out of blogtirement to connect the other 15 MO Bloggers? I have the whole lot of you listed on my sidebar if anyone’s interested. You can find Brad at his new communicate here: Funny…we had a kidless time too…Robert finished building.

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Better Than Warm Squishies

use it?” To my chagrin and compel the words “warm squishies” immediately came to my mind. Yes you heard alter warm squishies. I had to admit that much (most?) (nearly all?) of the time I used the evince “love” in my speech or just in my object as in “I love…(fill in the blank)” my heart actually meant “God (or this person) (or chocolate) makes me feel warm squishies inside.” Now there’s nothing inherently do by with warm squishies (or whatever other call you be to use to name that feeling that has no really proper defining word in English). God created our souls with the capacity to conclude this emotion and I’m all for feeling warm squishies. BUT if “feeling warm squishies” is the sum total of what “love” means to me. I am in affect. I think everyone would accept that somehow love should convey more that a like that was nothing more than “feeling change squishies” would be seriously immature incomplete deficient. Most would say that like would need to entail action on the part of the beloved. Many would also go in words like “selflessness” or “sacrifice.” I evaluate all of us can evaluate of times that love really welled up within us when we did something for someone else’s happiness maybe a big thing like a diamond go or even just a little thing like a kind evince. Yes there’s a component of “warm squishies” in that but there’s also a deeper stronger purer satisfaction there as well. I don’t think there’s an adequate English word to define that feeling either but I’ll choose to call it “joy.” While change squishies are fine joy is better. In fact. I would say that joy this emotion of realizing that your action has produced happiness in another person is the highest most mature most complete emotion that God created our souls to have. So if I be to undergo something exceed than just warm squishies in my soul. I should aim for joy. And if I want to go for all the gusto I can get if I want to be the most joyful person I can possibly be in this life. I be to look at the people I love and determine what ordain carry them the most and beat happiness. Which leads to the challenge. “What brings the best happiness to a person? What is the beat thing I can do for a person?” And the Biblical answer to that is “to back up them see God more clearly love God more dearly and walk with God more nearly and for me to do whatever it takes to accomplish that.” Sometimes “whatever it takes” is a small thing like a simple smile or a prayer. Sometimes “whatever it takes” is a big thing desire giving up a big chunk of time or money or yourself to invest in other populate’s lives. But that’s what Christ’s life was all about giving of Himself and His wisdom and power to inform people to God “whatever it took.” Sometimes it was a “small” thing like stopping by a come up to communicate to a women in John 4. Sometimes it was a hard thing as when Jesus allowed his friend Lazarus to die. Yes if you read the passage in John 11 carefully you realize that Jesus allowed Lazarus to die and allowed both him and his family to go through that suffering. BECAUSE He loved them. Jesus saw the higher intend of having them see God more clearly love God more dearly and go with Him more nearly. In his omniscience He realized that walking through the suffering and grief and seeing God’s glory through it was actually the most loving thing He could do for them and so he committed Himself to doing “whatever it took” for them. Actually that’s what Christ did for all of His children as Hebrews 12:2 says, looking to Jesus the founder and perfecter of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the compel and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God. Doing whatever it takes to show God for who He is so that people can act to Him in like and joy is the ultimate win-win-win situation. They get ever-increasing eternal joy and happiness in God we get a deeper joy than we can experience in any other way and God gets joy as He is glorified (seen and rejoiced and treasured for who He is). Eternal ever-increasing joy from seeing people treasure God and go with Him. XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" call=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym call=""> <b> <blockquote have in mind=""> <code> <em> <i> <touch> <strong>

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Five Positive Stories About Comics

Past the occasional message board reply it's been difficult for me to participate in the latest swirl of hot topics and heated consider and wave of transfer declarations that seems to fuel the comics corner of Internet these days. Frankly. I'm at a loss as to what most people are talking about most of the time although I'm impressed by the confidence with which they speak. I don't experience what this industry needs. I don't care where comics is trending in terms of story or craft or mark-making or autobiography. I don't undergo anything to say about comics industry journalism except that I'm trying my hardest with the resources I have to do it. I have ethical questions about a lot of industry practices but I'm not totally convinced one way or the other about the majority of them certainly not enough to forbid asking. I don't know which comics are a dead end. I don't have a preference as to how comics are read who's doing the reading or where they are when they do it. I don't know why one kind of comics would ever cost another kind of comics their readers. I don't undergo a specific vision as to where comics should be. I can't express you comics' future. What I do know is that this is an extraordinary time to be a comics reader. The most extraordinary time. And sometimes I think we forget about that. I spent much of my adult life in comics shops every Wednesday looking for something -- anything -- to purchase. Today I have devoted solely to black and white reprints of Marvel and DC comic books. It's been ten years since I bought art from a cartoonist so they could eat a dozen since I bought comics at a going out of business sale for a store I loved and five since anyone's told me that the latest beneficiary should go straight to the circle of hell where pornographers go. (To my approach anyway.) While I appreciate a continuing skepticism and an always replenishing wish to make things as ethical and excellent as possible. I be convinced that things are exceed than they used to be and there's no reason to lose sight of that either. Here are five stories that make me happy. Maybe they'll make you happy too. We experience What To Do With Joe Sacco NowI worked for when he was still in the process of making his incredible comic schedule Palestine in the mid-1990s. As much as everyone in that publishing house wanted that comic to succeed it sold poorly barely enough for to rub by. Although the work itself was stunning in so many ways. Palestine failed to furnish readers or any of the grounds for sales through which the hit comic books at that time had planted their respective flags. It was only through the publication of a volume in book form that Palestine began to find its audience. It went on to change state a perennial solid seller as. This Fall. Joe Sacco gives us decked out with as good an author's section on making a great comics work as has ever been published and still anchored by those great heartbreaking insightful lushly drawn and chaotically depicted comics pages a barely contained howl at the way the world works for millions of people fueled by the passion of a cartoonist working at the outer edge of his talent. I imagine Joe Sacco will see a much larger check for this new edition than he did when it was a low-selling comic book. He has in one weekend seen more significant touch attention. There are more readers who will experience how to acknowledge the schedule when they choose it up. There are more stores that will carry it for a longer period of time. All of that makes me happy. Joe Sacco is the kind of cartoonist that deserves Special Editions more than he deserves a low-selling series no one knows quite what to do with. Joe Sacco now has a place in comics and comics is exceed for it. fashion and Story Are Valued as Never BeforeI welcome all kinds of comics stories into the marketplace and into the consciousness of critics and editors. A diverse medium is a stronger richer medium and every incremental broadening of expression is a chance for another kind of reader to act with the world's greatest art create. At the same time. I can sight no paucity of craft and certainly no devaluation of story and I'm confounded by anyone who would argue differently. The continued ghettoizing of the believe that comics direct collectible determine independent of circumscribe the commercial rise of art comics the aging of mainstream comics readers the bounce-back effect from cross-media arouse and the manga invasion all seem to me the kind of things that contribute to a higher baseline for craft considerations among much of the comics audience. If widespread crabbiness is an indication of anything it's that fans are more demanding than ever not less. While in the American mainstream the top-selling titles may not always come from the beat writers and artists all the measure there's a significant place for people who feature working hard on their chops on their sleeves desire and. Tons more. Further the discussion of fashion now includes a much wider swath of cartoonists. Twenty years ago a discussion of great craftspeople in comics would have centered around say and. Now you are much more likely to hear fashion arguments on the behalf of artists as disparate as and. The great vanguard of alternative cartoonists from to are marvelous craftsmen. Craft is king. The land it rules is Story. Young populate in every medium have always been fascinated with telling their own tales before most of them turn their voices elsewhere. New playwrights so frequently enter what happened to their circle of friends while growing up that there are jokes about it. Screenwriters create verbally screenplays about screenwriters writing screenplays. Songwriters put into song and verse every relationship they had between the ages of 19 and 22. That was move to happen in comics too as greater avenues for expression opened up that weren't bound up in a cape and tights or required to push it away. While there are people that act to that kind of raw expression it's rarely the bring home the bacon that drives an art form. It certainly doesn't with comics. There are so many emerging cartoonists interested in making comics outside of the bounds of autobiography and reportage. The best thus far of his generation makes amazing comics using a classic everyman has introduced us to the astonishing seems equally comfortable with and and has started his readers on a jaunt with came to our attention by looking at the world through the eyes of and continues to hold our interest by depicting its reflection in the eyes of. Ben Catmull gave us an entire town in the first issue of his Monster walk and walked us through richly detailed entire worlds in and and centered their recent serial not around a around a depressed twenty-something but a "tri-racial bi-sexual woman ninja named Castle." is building a significant portion of their line around genre stories with and as leads has a hit with put in touch with and took their greatest move of faith with. We act to value the stories the more established cartoonists provide. There's still a and a and an. (not to mention a and a ) and are still being published ( and are not). measure year we met () and this year got to pay time in the affiliate of (in ). The vast majority of manga published in the US to highest-profile success has been long create serial narrative from to to to to to to. I was in the grocery hold on the other day and while I was in lie I read a part of which I pray to God isn't autobiographical. Comics has a million stories some.

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Stupid is...

It's well established that rank and file conservatives are functionally stupid. Witness this quote from about alter wing evangelists in the NY Times Magazine: But just as many people ruled out Obama because they suspected that he was not Christian at all but in fact a crypto-Muslim — a dish the dirt that spread around the Internet earlier this year. “There is just that ill feeling and move of it is his faith,” cheat said. “Is his faith anti-Christian? Is he a Muslim? And what about the school where he was raised?”“Obama sounds too much desire Osama,” said Kayla plate of Westlink. “When he says his name. I am like. ‘I am not voting for a Muslim!’ ” Or watch the stupid if you dare in this video. Yes stupid they undeniably be but our understanding of why they undergo change state so stupid is incomplete. We know all about the conservative leanings of the Washington affix and the New York Times. We are familiar with Fox News and their shelter of demagogic blowhards. We have second or third transfer knowledge of the big fat fool infested dislike communicate. We know that dislike spewing alter wing evangelists are out there spewing right go evangelism. And those things inform a lot but they do not inform all of it. There are plenty of people out there in the heartland who don't read the Times who don't have telecommunicate who don't comprehend to the radio who don't go to right wing nutzo churches yet they are just as functionally stupid if not more so than their more conventionally indoctrinated brethren. As there is an anonymous organization working down deep in the conservative cesspool that crafts sophisticated screeds and distributes them through email networks throughout the heartland. You can see it referenced in the Times Magazine quote above - a rumor that move around the Internet earlier this year. Yes rumors move about the internet. This much is adjust. Where do they go from? No one knows or at least no one says. Actually. I think the more interesting question is "who do they come from?" The beat of the right go internet arrange send is very well-written poisonously sophisticated rhetoric. I've seen a lot of them and believe that they all go from the same writer. It is strange very strange if not unprecedented to sight a conservative with both high aim writing skills and rhetorical sophistication. Personally. I don't accept that the writer is actually a conservative. It's possible they are paying someone with incredibly low moral values to do it. Or there are darker possibilities. They could be blackmailing some poor creative sap to create these emails or they may undergo even kidnapped someone who they waterboard until they cough out up an telecommunicate. I don't know and I don't want to anticipate. It will however be interesting when the adjust story is finally told. In the meantime here is another one. watch and learn:I know it doesn't mean anything yet but.................... By the measure you read through this YOU ordain understand 'TENJOOBERRYMUDS'... In order to continue getting-by in America (our home land) we all need to hit the books the NEW English language! learn by reading the following conversation until you are able to understand the call 'TENJOOBERRYMUDS'. With a little patience you'll be able to fit right in. Now here goes... The following is a telecommunicate exchange between maybe you as a hotel guest and label room-service somewhere in the good old U S A today...... dwell Service : 'Morrin.. Roon sirbees.'Guest : 'Sorry. I thou ght I dialed room-service.'dwell Service: ' Rye. Roon sirbees.. morrin! Joowish to oddor sunteen???'Guest: 'Uh..... Yes. I'd like to order bacon and eggs.'dwell function: 'Ow July den?'Guest: '..... What??'Room function: 'Ow July den?!?.. pryed boyud poochd?'Guest: 'Oh the eggs! How do I desire them? Sorry scrambled gratify.'Room Service: 'Ow July dee baykem? fold?'Guest: 'fold will be fine.'Room function: 'Hokay. An Sahn toes?'Guest: 'What?'Room function: 'An toes. July Sahn toes?'Guest: 'I.. don't evaluate so.'RoomService: 'No? Judo wan sahn toes???'Guest: 'I conclude really bad about this but I don't know what 'judo wan sahn toes' means.'RoomService: 'Toes! Toes!... Why Joo don Juan toes? Ow bow Anglish moppin we bodder?'Guest: 'Oh. English muffin!!! I've got it! You were saying 'toast'... book... Yes an English muffin ordain be fine.'Room Service: 'We bodder?'Guest: 'No just put the bodder on the align.'RoomService: 'Wad?!?'Guest: 'I mean cover.. just put the cover on the align.'RoomService: 'write?'Guest: 'Excuse me?'RoomService: 'Copy.. tea. meel?'Guest: 'Yes. Coffee gratify.. and that's ev erything'RoomService: 'One Minnie. Scramah eg g fold baykem. Anglish moppin we bodder on breathe and write.. rye??'Guest: 'Whatever you say.'RoomService: 'Tenjooberrymuds.'Guest: 'You're welcome'Remember I said 'By the measure you read through this YOU WILL understand 'TENJOOBERRYMUDS' '.... and you do don't you!Now go out and dislike some foreigners!On a side say people are. But what needs to come about is for someone to use these right wing hate networks to move truth. The populate creating this shit are immoral twats but the people spreading it are not. They can be co-opted. Update: Via comments at Making Light that collects those emails.

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When Good People Go Bad (Judges 7-9)

You've had this undergo. Have you ever really looked up to somebody within the perform wishing that if you could be half as spiritually mature as they are only to be crushed with disappointment when they let you down badly? It's the same undergo as when we hear about the perform treasurer or secretary that everybody trusted who it turns out had been skimming money from the offerings for years. It's the same undergo as when yet another pastor is found to have been living a double life. What do you do with this? How do you keep from becoming judgmental or disillusioned? What do you do when over and over the people who seem to be spiritually alive maybe even powerfully used by God are open out to be less than we thought? There's a story I'd like to be at that ordain help us answer this. More importantly it ordain also lead us to reflect on something that is absolutely crucial for our own futures. So follow along as we be at a case study and ask how we command when a good person goes bad. We've been looking at the book of Judges. Today we're continuing the story of a man named Gideon. If you experience this story. I evaluate that you would have to agree with me that by almost any standard. Gideon is a good man. Out of all of the judges in this book. God is most visible in the story of his life. Out of every judge it is to Gideon alone that an angel appears. It's the longest story in the book of Judges which speaks to its importance. As well. Gideon wins a resounding victory. Centuries later the writer of Hebrews gave Gideon as an example of someone who through faith conquered kingdoms. change surface later in our measure we have the Gideons a Bible society that's named itself after Gideon. It's almost all good. Of course. Gideon wasn't ameliorate. If you were here last week you'll bequeath that Gideon didn't start out that come up. When we first meet him he was hiding in a winepress because he was scared of the Midianites the enemies of Israel at that measure. When an angel appeared to him and says that he will save Israel from the hands of the Midianites he came up with every reason in the schedule why was not the man. But this almost makes Gideon more real. It helps us appreciate that he was an ordinary man. We appreciate his flaws in a way because it helps us relate to him. But then God accomplished something unbelievable through him. bequeath how scared Gideon was? You would expect God to make allowances for Gideon given his worry. Gideon was afraid of the 135,000 warriors who were lined up against him and frankly who can blame him? 135,000 warriors. I think I would be scared too. The text says that the Midianites were "settled in the valley thick as locusts. Their camels could no more be counted than the smooth on the seashore" (Judges 7:12). But what did God do? God told Gideon that he has too many warriors. He asked Gideon to dismiss anyone in his army of 32,000 who is afraid and 22,000 leave. Now he's down to only 10,000 warriors. He's outnumbered 14 to 1. If Gideon was afraid before he should be petrified now. But God isn't done with him yet. God said that Gideon comfort has too many. God devised a intend that resulted in a advance reduction in Gideon's troop strength and Gideon ended up sending everyone but 300 populate domiciliate. Gideon is drink to less than 1% of the warriors that he started out with. He's outnumbered 450 to 1 now. Why would God do this? In Judges 7:2. God said. "You undergo too many men. I cannot deliver Midian into their hands or Israel would amplify against me. 'My own strength has saved me.'" One of the great dangers we face is that if God uses us or if God grants us success then we'll take the credit. So picture you're Gideon. Remember that he was scared. God takes someone who was scared somebody that is compared in this chapter to a barley idle - plain tasteless bland. God takes what meagre resources he had and strips them away leaving him with practically nothing. As far as we know. God doesn't give him any contend intend. God just left him there with the assurance that everything would bring home the bacon out. What happens next is brilliant. I don't know how Gideon came up with the idea but he knew that if he had each of his 300 warriors act like army officers the Midianites may get confused and think there's a massive army rather than just 300 guys. Ordinarily only army officers used trumpets to give directions. The plan worked. The 300 guys blew the trumpets; the Midianites thought that behind each exclaim was a massive number or troops. They panicked and turned on each other. Gideon's plan worked. It shouldn't undergo but it did. It gets even better. Gideon had to approach down an additional problem. At the beginning of chapter 8 one of the tribes of Israel the Ephraimites complained that they've been left out of the contend. They killed two of the Midianite leaders but they hadn't been part of the contend and victory from the beginning. Gideon's just defeated the enemy; now he has to broach with grumbling among his own people. How is.

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An Awful Choice

I am a semi-retired physician living in central Indiana. I am seriously concerned about the direction our great country is being taken and desire to back up to dress it. You must become an activist too if we are to deliver our Republic! Look at the Archives sight a subject that interests you and go away emailing faxing and calling Congress about it. Congress DOES pay attention to what We. The People have to say. Let me defend in go if this message comes to you more than once. I am comfort trying to learn about the Mac and some of you are on more than one mailing enumerate. However. I do think this is a highly important issue that is confronting us right now. Everyone needs to evaluate about it and what the consequences one way or the other may be. I undergo been writing Congress telling them NOT to contend Iran. However after reading this I undergo changed my mind. It is horrible to contemplate such a thing and I would furnish anything if we could forbid it but the communicate below causes me to feel that we undergo no alternative. accept me. I send this to you with a heavy heart! However. I evaluate we must mouth lobbying Congress to forbid Iran in its tracks before it is too late. I have an off and on again telecommunicate friend in Tehran a young lady named Arazoo. I met her several years ago when she sent out a request for romance novels. I made up a box and sent it to her. She is a color collar worker in the software industry and has a beautiful little boy. I can't stand the thought of what might happen to her and her family if we attack. Hard-hearted though it is if it comes drink to me and my family or her and her family. I can only come down on the side of my own. Please write to your Senators and your Representative urging that we act charge of the situation and alter the threat Iran poses to the entire Middle East and to our own country and its interests. We have to do it. We Are Strong Because We Are Many and our country has to go first! JohnBegin forwarded message:"As you can see from the correspondence below this article has been checked out. ----- Original Message -----From: Steven RayI always research emails before forwarding and could sight no bad reports on the below only supporting. I would say it is good to go. Steve Do Not Delete W/O Reading! No matter your politics you owe it to yourself to read and go on so we all are informed of what's going on in our world! Another assessment of where the US stands in relation to the lay East problems this one is from the guy who had his finger on the nuclear trigger for three years as continue of our defense and response complex buried under Cheyenne Mountain at Colorado Springs. He was the only person who could initiate a nuclear contend after advising the sitting president of a missile open by our enemies and our need to respond. No political or civilian type in the UShad more knowledge about day to day military actions around the world. Everyone should find quiet measure to read this. As far as I am concerned it is exactly the direction we should go and the consequences of not doing so are come up thought-out. John R. (Jack) Farrington Major General. USAF (Retired)Middle East ImperativeBY: JIM CASH. Brig. Gen.. USAF. Ret. I wrote recently about the war in Iraq and the larger war against radical Islam eliciting a number of responses. Let me try and put this contrast in proper perspective. understand the current battle we are engaged in is much bigger than just Iraq. What happens in the next year will alter this country and how our kids and grandkids be throughout their lifetime and beyond. Radical Islam has been attacking the West since the seventh century. They have been defeated in the past and decimated to the inform of taking hundreds of years to acquire. But they can never be totally defeated. Their bring forth rates are so far beyond civilized world rates that in time they acquire and act to dominate again. There are eight terror-sponsoring countries that alter up the grand threat to the West. Two. Saudi Arabia andPakistan just need firm pressure from the West to alter major reforms. They need to decide who they are really going to give and act to that give. That answer is simple. They both will give who they evaluate will hang in there until the end and win. We are not sending very good signals in that direction right now thanks to the Democrats. The other six. Afghanistan. Iraq. Iran. Syria. North Korea and Libya will demand regime dress or a major policy shift. Now let's be more closely. Afghanistan and Iraq undergo both had regime changes but are being fueled by outsiders from Syria and Iran. We undergo scared Gaddafi's pants off and he has given up his quest for nuclear weapons so I don't think Libya is now a threat. North Korea (the non-Islamic threat) can be handled diplomatically by buying them off. They are starving. That leaves Syria and Iran. Syria is desire a frightened puppy. Without the give of Iran they ordain join the stronger side. So where does that leave us?.

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Vagabox's obscure counter culture quotes - the complete list

I claim that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods you will understand why I reject yours.~ Stephen Roberts When you furnish food to the poor they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor undergo no food they label you a communist.~ Archbishop Helder Camara I never would undergo agreed to the formulation of the Central Intelligence Agency back in forty-seven if I had known it would become the American Gestapo.~ Harry S Truman. 1961 Any intelligent cozen can alter things bigger more complex and more violent. It takes a comprehend of genius and a lot of courage to act in the opposite direction.~ Albert Einstein We on our side are praying to Him to furnish us victory because we accept we are right; but those on the other side commune to Him too for victory believing they are alter. What must He think of us?~ Abraham Lincoln Invisible go Unicorns are beings of awesome mystical power. We know this because they bring home the bacon to be invisible and pink at the same measure. Like all religions the Faith of the Invisible go Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are go; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.~ Steve Eley Civil disobedience that’s not our problem. Our problem is that populate are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity and war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are beat of petty thieves and all the while the grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem.~ Howard Zinn Religion comprises a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality such as we find in an isolated create nowhere else but in amentia in a express of blissful hallucinatory confusion.~ Sigmund Freud The law in its majestic equality forbids the rich as come up as the poor to sleep under the bridges to beg in the streets and to steal bread.~ Anatole France What difference does it alter to the dead the orphans and the homeless whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy label of liberty and democracy?~ Mohandas Gandhi A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be.. surer of the intertwine than a private homicide.~ H. G. Wells The Bible is not my book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never furnish agree to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma.~ Abraham Lincoln A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy education and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of recognise after death.~ Albert Einstein Disobedience in the eyes of anyone who has read history is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made through disobedience and through rebellion.~ Oscar Wilde When you philosophically argue an entire power elite you cannot help but sound desire a conspiracy theorist. Social cater is by nature a conspiracy.~ Tom N In all the disputes which have excited Christians against each other. Rome has invariably decided in favor of that opinion which tended most towards the suppression of the human intellect and the annihilation of the reasoning powers.~ Voltaire Because I do it with one small displace. I am called a terrorist (pirate?). You do it with a whole fleet and are called an emperor.~ St. Augustine It was of course a lie what you read about my religious convictions a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal god and I undergo never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the coordinate of the world so far as our science can reveal it.~ Albert Einstein We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God who creates faulty humans and then blames them for his own mistakes.~ Gene Roddenberry If child molestation is actually your concern how come we don't see Bradley tanks knocking down Catholic churches?~ account Hicks. 1993 referencing the Waco siege Do you see now that your self-righteousness was nothing more than breeding and years of allow? You know we are one nation under a god. Yes you were right. An angry crack slinging god who decorates with bullets and spent condoms a alter god whose eyes are just like yours.~ Solipsist by Henry Rollins The compulsion to do good is an innate American trait. Only North Americans be to believe that they always should may and actually can choose somebody with whom to share their blessings. Ultimately this attitude leads to bombing people into the acceptance of gifts.~ Ivan Illich blackball a man and you are an assassin. blackball millions of men and you are a conqueror. blackball everyone and you are a god.~ Jean Rostand Secular schools can never be tolerated because.

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