Should we all switch to Fluorescent bulbs?

The environmentalist are clamoring for everyone to change to fluorescent bulbs. But apparently the cleanup of a broken compact fluorescent bulb appears to be a small natural disaster. Don't clean it up with a dustbuster. This does not appear to be the clean alternative that is being pushed by the environmentalists.

Then there the consideration that these things needs to be recycled. Have any of you EVER recycled a fluorescent bulb? who knew? Where would you? Is it a secret government building? Apparently because I have never seen anyone advertise it.

I think I am going to get in trouble with this book

Instapundit has been talking about it a lot lately and I figured what better way to get in trouble than to go buy The Dangerous Book for Boys. The Amazon page has a little video on it.

You should read the interview with the author.

What you believe

If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe but yourself.

St. Augustine

h/t happy catholic

And this one made me laugh...

Miss O'Neill was dumpy, moonfaced, sallow, colorless, and we hated her. We hated her as only a pack of West Side barbarians could hate a teacher of arithmetic. She did not teach arithmetic — but that is how much we hated her.

by Leo Rosten

a few thoughts

1) Where can I get this job to test the minikeg. h/t instapundit

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2 ) This is laughable. I went to this site to see if it would give negative numbers and it said my blog was worth...
Your site is valued at: $34,884,606

I double checked and there is no minus sign in the front. I'll now start the bidding at a measly 3 million. It must be based on Russian Rubles circa 1990. I know it is only keying on the blogspot portion of my address, but if your value generator is that screwed up, who would every trust you. I tried replacing blogspot with google and got 174 million, pepsi knocked me down to 14 K.

This site has bugs

Do you have a bug that you want to know what it is? whatsthatbug.com is a good starter point.

Check out this photo. Make sure you view it full size. (if bugs freak you out, maybe you shouldn't.....yeah you should)

Dad protects daughter?

Catholic Dads posts a news article about a dad that tackles a guy taking pictures of his daughter at a festival. The picture taker was an off duty police officer and the dad was able to get the gun away from him.

The dad just happens to be the son of former congressman Bob Dornan. No surprise, I could easily see Bob doing the same thing.

Do you need Help with Soccer

This is a great commercial. 50 seconds.
This is definitely a combination of Cole and Noah.




Dan C. This one is all YOU!

Amy Welborn was talking to her son on his way to work at VA Tech.

....He spoke of one of his co-worker's relations, a police officer early on the scene, who was still not sleeping because of what he saw. And he told me this:

As the securing and examination of the crime scenes began in the afternoon and went on late into the night, one sound resounded through the heavy sad silence of the classrooms.

Cell phones.

Cell phones ringing, sounding, echoing against the walls. But cell phones that could not be answered because it was still a crime scene and nothing could be moved quite yet, nothing could be touched. And on the other end of those rings, parents and friends, dialing again and again, fearful, hearts slowly breaking, dialing one more time. Into silence.
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You know, when I was younger - actually not much younger - the life of a contemplative was unimaginable to me. How, I wondered, could anyone pray all day? What could keep you down on your knees so much? How could you think of enough to pray for?

Slowly, I'm beginning to figure it out. And now I think there are not enough hours in the day or night. Not nearly enough. Trusting that the prayers rise out of the grief, making their way, not into the air where they cannot be answered, but into the waiting embrace of Life and Love Eternal.

Undercover at Murder Inc, and baby names

Michelle has an article about Lila Rose going undercover at a planned parenthood center.
I can believe that this is getting no MSM coverage.

Rose is an 18-year-old student journalist at UCLA. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she surreptitiously infiltrated a massive organization that enlists young people. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, Rose exposed deceptive practices. Rose posed as a 15-year-old seeking the services and advice of her target. Like McSwane and his breed of undercover reporters, she caught her targets urging her to lie and evade the law in order to sign her up.

But Rose’s target was the Left’s beloved Planned Parenthood, not the military. And that has made all the difference in the nonexistent national coverage of her undercover journalism.

We should all pray for her.
Our Father..... Amen.


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In a more positive baby story, check out the popularity of you name starting with 1880 onward. And your kids names as well. Just type in the name and it will show you the rank and how many babies per million had that name. Drag over the chart to have it automatically update you.

Life just ain’t fair

Lesson reinforced at Shape of Days.

I guess it was "the Road" less traveled.

You've heard of carbon Credits. How aboute Debits?

Are you concerned about AlGore and all his Carbon Credits?
NO fear, you can offset him with your own Carbon Debits! :-)

Don't forget the T-shirt.

it's sexy to save the world

Passion is not good science. Environmentalist apparently know their stuff when it comes to knowing what is and is not good for you.




After viewing the video, you may want to go here to get all the info.

Ten Deadly Trappings

The Evangelical Outpost writes an interesting post called,
Fads and Fixtures: Ten Deadly Trappings of Evangelism

Some will get nit picked, # 2, 3, 6
Some you may consider interesting #8
Some you may agree completely #10, 4

Number #8 is interesting to me.

#8 Protestant Prayers -- Last week one of my fellow coworkers, a young Catholic man, was asked to open our meeting with a prayer. Without hesitation he began reciting the "Lord's prayer." Afterward I joked that, having come up with such a fine prayer, he might want to write it down for future use. What I didn't say what how his recitation of the prayer made me uncomfortable.

First, I'm not used to hearing prayers that don't contain the word "just" (as in "We just want to thank you Lord…") so it had an odd ring to it. Second, it seemed to violate the accepted standards for public prayer. I had always assumed that praying in public required being able to interlace some just-want-to's in with some Lord-thank-you-for's and be- with-us-as-we's in a coherent fashion before toppping it all with an Amen. Third, I thought that prayers are supposed to be spontaneous--from the heart, off the top of the head--emanations, rather than prepackaged recitations. If it ain't original, it ain't prayer, right? Can I get an amen?

But where did this idea come from? We have entire books to teach us how to pray yet Jesus managed to wrap up the lesson in less than forty words. Why isn't that prayer good enough for evangelicals to use? Why do our prayers sound nothing like His example? (And if you are wondering what prayer is doing on a list of evangelistic fixtures then we are really in trouble.)

Don't get me wrong, prayer is wonderful and if you doing it, please add a few for me :-).

Catholics get a bad rap on repeating prayers. If something is theologically sound and it helps you to focus on God (Father, Son, Holy Spirit), why is that a bad thing?

Are hymns prayers? Yes they are. So why do many congregations sing the same songs over and over, but you never hear them say the Lord's Prayer (Our Father if you're Catholic). Jesus taught it to us, why not say it while you are trying to live it? How many times do people listen to their favorite "praise and worship" song over and over, but say we should not be repetitious in our prayers?

I know many people that prefer the "free form" style of prayer exclusively. But they repeat the same thing over and over. One day they say a prayer and two days later they say almost the same thing. In many of these settings, "Jesus" or "Lord" temporarily replaces "ahs" and "umms" in their speech. Is it more reverent to use Jesus as a filler, or repeat something solid that you can meditate on?

Let me know what you think.

The First Book

You will not have to scroll down for this one.

The First Book

I think it will be funny to anyone, but if you are a techie you will understand on another level.
Let's just say it involves a USER.

h/t Pontifications

The Gift of Life

Hat tip to The Dawn Patrol

This is just so beautiful. 6 Minutes long and worth every second.

I am so blessed so much and I still complain.

Accidental Watch

This is an interesting cartoon

You should "watch" it if you have some "time". You may find it "handy" to show to someone else.

You may even watch it a second time

(sheesh enough already...ed)

Listen....err...ignore the beauty incognito.

Wow, you have to check out this link from the Washington post! The premise is that they had one of the best violinist in the world play one of the greatest violins ever made........
...in the metro during the morning commute for 45 minutes, incognito.

There is plenty of video and a great story line. A few of the video's show what happened in the previous text.

I would have to admit (shamefully) that I would have enjoyed hearing it, but would have moved on rather quickly if I was on a morning commute…..then kicking myself after reading about it in the paper :-).

If you want to listen to the complete audio, you can check it out here.

HT Bill Cork

Via Dolorosa

A Presbyterian Minister discovers.......

... In 2003, millions of people became familiar with the traditional Stations of the Cross without even knowing it.

He explains it a little bit more, then goes on to show the Traditional 14 stations juxtaposed with 14 stations with Scriptural references instituted by Pope John Paul II.
Now stop protesting and use the 100% Scripture based version if you feel uncomfortable with the Scripture and Tradition version :-)
Mark states:

Last year some folks at my church decided to offer The Stations of the Cross as a devotional experience for Holy Week. For obvious reasons, we opted for the Pope's biblically-based version. My wife Linda offered to paint fourteen watercolor pictures that illustrated the passages upon which the revised stations are based....We're going to do the same thing this year....So, for those who can't come to our church, I'm going to do an online Stations of the Cross. Beginning tomorrow, I'll "walk" through the stations with you, one station per day (not including the weekends, usually). At this pace we'll complete the fourteen stations on Holy Saturday (which will feature the last of the stations). I'll include the Scripture passages for each station, some personal reflections and prayers, and my wife's paintings. My hope is that this online version of The Way of the Cross will enable you to enter into a deeper understanding and experience of the passion of Jesus, so that you might be ready to celebrate Easter with new joy and freedom.

It will help your spiritual focus this Easter...and the rest of the year.

Who has your vote?

La Shawn posted a question about who has your vote.

For me McCain = DOA. Giuliani is really the best Democrat. Romney needs to provide some clearer direction on some of his recent political changes.

I did visit Duncan Hunter's site and you can download his position paper to see what he has to say on key topics. He is solid in the Pro-life arena. He starts off with this:

I would amend the U.S. Constitution and provide blanket protection to all unborn children from the moment of conception by prohibiting any state or federal law that denies the personhood of the unborn.

That is a good start for me. I was going to quote a lot more, but I think you should spend the two seconds to download it and the couple of minutes that it takes to read it. You may not agree with it, but how many candidates come out this clear in their stances.


......AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERNT.
I will survive like you have never seen it before.
And, Rachmaninov had big Hands

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The Church has been Pro-life for a while now

I have always found the "baby turnstiles" interesting and wonderful.

Check it out over at the Holy Whapping.

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