Just looking outside and you can tell Old Man Winter paid us a visit, but in Lake Stevens, it looks like he put in a personal appearance! This icicle was found hanging from Jeremy Olden’s home.
While watching football Sunday afternoon WifeGeeding offered me a freshly baked chocolate chip cookie. The cookie was warm, but I didn’t realize that they were right out of the oven, which resulted in me burning the roof of my mouth. Click on the picture below for a high-res picture of the sore and some yellowish teeth.
This poor kitten was brutally injured then had his hind legs and tail surgically removed. It’s unknown how he got injured. He was nursed back to health by the employees of this book store in Akita, Japan and is now living at an adopted home. It’s inspiring to see him walk around with ease but also really heartbreaking.
For the Southern Baptist Convention, 2008 was filled with bad news.
Baptisms reached a 20-year low. Church membership dropped, prompting fears the Nashville-based Baptist body was on a downward slide. And its outgoing president warned that within 20 years, more than half of Southern Baptist churches could die off.
In response, the Baptists announced a new national evangelism strategy called “God’s Plan for Sharing.” Nicknamed “GPS,” the new strategy would spread the Gospel throughout the U.S. and Canada by 2020, said Geoff Hammond, president of the North American Mission Board.
“Just imagine if every believer in North America started sharing the Gospel and every person heard that Gospel by the year 2020,” Hammond said at the convention’s annual meeting.
But critics within the denomination say the new initiative is in danger of failing. Some blame a lack of funding. Others wonder if the mission board leadership is up to the task.
Members of Congress are often accused of being out of touch with average citizens, but an examination of the religious affiliations of U.S. senators and representatives shows that, on one very basic level, Congress looks much like the rest of the country. Although a majority of the members of the new, 111th Congress, which will be sworn in on Jan. 6, are Protestants, Congress – like the nation as a whole – is much more religiously diverse than it was 50 years ago. Indeed, a comparison of the religious affiliations of the new Congress with religious demographic information from the Pew Forum’s recent U.S. Religious Landscape Survey of over 35,000 American adults finds that some smaller religious groups, notably Catholics, Jews and Mormons, are better represented in Congress than they are in the population as a whole. However, certain other smaller religious groups, including Buddhists, Muslims and Hindus, still are somewhat underrepresented in Congress relative to their share of the U.S. population.
I think this will be my last full day of posts until next year. I have time scheduled off from work for the next two weeks and would like to have some R&R and spend it with family. There may be an occasional post here and there, buy for the most part don’t expect anything.
Wow, what a stinker to close out Texas Stadium. Geeeeeeze.
I’ll come out and say it even as a Cowboys fan . . . there’s no football team that has fans that live in the past more than the Dallas Cowboys.
With that said, closing Texas Stadium will be good since there’s nothing concrete to hold on to. They can continue to stink and disappoint on their own.
It was nice to hear Roger comment about the fans that stayed for the post game ceremony. He acknowledge how dedicated they must be to stay after a loss, and he thought they should gather up their addresses to send them a thank you card for being so loyal.
And another Roger thought . . . it was nice of him to make sure that Brad Schram made mention of Coach Landry.
For a moment I thought there was going to be some type of memorable comeback, something like this one.
It was also nice to see the wives of players who are deceased or who couldn’t make it represent their husbands.
And what what up with Irvin and Emmitt not wearing a jersey like all the others? If Roger can wear a jersey, they certainly could have. I did hear that the Playmaker had a lot of choice words regarding the game.
Randy White is always introduced as Super Bowl MVP. He should be introduced as co-Super Bowl MVP, not doing so dishonors the memory of Harvey Martin.
The audio quality was terrible for the post game ceremony. What a disappointment.
But not as much as a disappointment as the play on the field.
I couldn’t believe my ears when Jerry Jones was introduced and a small snippit of the Country Crows “Mr Jones” was play as if this was a Ticket bit.
It was nice to see that Crazy Ray was remembered.
I’m usually pretty selective who I watch football with, because it’s such a whip to hear ignorant people comment during the game. For instance, I had to listen to someone continue to tell me that the reason there’s a hole in the roof of Texas Stadium was because they ran out of money. He genuinely believed that.
Dallas sports sure has been disappointing for the last decade. Even if our team does well in the regular season, they just stink it up in the playoff, which makes the following years tough to watch because you know when it comes to wins that really matter, they just come up short.
The Cowboys don’t deserve to make the playoff.
Jason Garrett is not the offensive genius we thought he was.
If Wade is fired, I think Jerry should do his best to bring in Holgren. If our quarterback is Farve-like (he’s no Farve, just Farve-like) then Holgren would be a great mentor to him. Not to mention, he’s both a players’ coach and one that can get in their face.
If Wade isn’t fired, then our defensive coach and special teams coach need to be cut loose. I’m not sure how I feel about our offenive coordinator, but he needs to go back to the drawing board.
I bet Jerry is now a little worried about season ticket sales at the new stadium.
Romo has peaked, this is most likely the best he will ever get.
It’s fun watching games played in the snow. But it’s better when the game is played in the snow on a natural grass field.
I enjoyed reading this blog post about Rick Warren and Obama.
For the first time I saw the greatness of a movie on a Blue-Ray DVD. I just couldn’t believe the detail and the 3D effect. It was just amazing.
I’ve always wanted to visit the Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas and slide down one of their slides, but now I learned that a shark actually jumped onto one of those slides from his tank. Link with pics.
Here’s the Christmas letter we sent out in case you are interested. It’s in a Power Point presentation.
