- Not only did we get a new air conditioner yesterday, but we also got a new hot water heater.
- Shouldn’t it be called a cold water heater?
- Or just water heater?
- We also had a Grundfos hot water recirculating system put on the water heater.
- It was like Extreme Makeover Home Edition at GeedingManor yesterday with four AC guys and two plumbers.
- Oh, and my router went out so I had to get a new one.
- When it rains, it pours.
- The two plumbers were brother-in-laws, and so were two of the four AC men.
- When people come to work on the house, the first thing I do is fill up a big cup of ice cold water and give it to the workers. I learned that from my mom.
- When I woke up yesterday morning, I decided to get a breakfast burrito at our local Market Street, where I saw a soccer mom park her Suburban diagonally across two handicap spaces just to walk in and get a breakfast burrito like myself. I walked around her vehicle just to make sure there wasn’t a handicap or disabled sticker – I couldn’t find one. I was ticked, and wanted to say something, but I just walked away shaking my head.
- Later that evening as I drove by that same place, I saw a pushing his Suburban. WifeGeeding forced me out to help him push, although I would have done it on my own. Turns out the guy simply ran out of gas.
- Funny thing, I store my farts in the same type of container.
- Evidently our church hosted a church from Wasilla, Alaska as I saw this message in one of the rooms in church.
- But good for Sarah Palin for asking restraint be shown at all the town hall meetings.
- Everything you wanted to know about mom jeans.
- Paul Krugman of the NY Times and a Nobel Prize winner in Economics had an interesting commentary on the town hall mobs that I pretty much agree with.
- It’s fun follow The Edge from U2 on Twitter. Recently he posted a picture of a gold Ferrari.
- Combining old music with new music
- I’ve been thinking a lot regarding my air conditioner situation. The last two nights I had to sleep without air conditioning, and then I started to think about my family in Vietnam who sleep every night without air conditioning.
- Grace
Religious Progressives Flex New Muscle in Pushing Healthcare
With a new television ad out today and a national conference call featuring President Obama scheduled for next week, religious progressives advocating universal healthcare coverage are flexing their organizing muscle in a way not seen since the movement was jolted into action by the 2004 election.
“This is the most organized we’ve been around a legislative goal,” says Katie Paris, program and communications director for Faith in Public Life, a progressive beltway group that got off the ground after the ’04 election and is coordinating faith-based efforts to push Democratic plans for healthcare reform.
This morning, a coalition of progressive faith groups that includes Faith in Public Life, Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good, and Faithful America—none of which existed before the 2004 election—unveiled a pro-healthcare reform ad that will air nationally on cable television and announced the president’s participation in the conference call, scheduled for next Wednesday.
“I can’t remember any president doing anything like this,” says John Green, an expert in religion and politics at the University of Akron. “Presidents have tried to reach out to religious groups, but typically it’s done beneath the radar.”
Organizers hope the call will attract tens of thousands of religious Americans who favor Obama’s backing of a government-controlled healthcare plan. One of the groups involved said that it alone is aiming to sign up 15,000 participants for the call.
“This is a fundamental moral issue,” says Jim Wallis, an evangelical activist who leads a group called Sojourners, which helped sponsor the ad and organize the call. “The healthcare system is broken. It’s leaving too many sick people by the side of the road, and too many Samaritans are taking care of them.”
Taylor Swift Pranks Keith Urban
The prank starts around the 1:00 mark . . .
I think this is the first time I ever heard Keith Urban sing.
And like I said before, it’s hard not to like Taylor Swift.
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Bono’s Subliminal Eccelsiology
There’s a new youth ministry blog that is run by the transitpastor. I know nothing about him. He recently made a post about the new U2 album, so I thought I would of course share since I’m a fellow U2 fan and I know some of you only follow this blog because I post things about my favorite band.
We all know Bono from the megaband U2, my favorite band btw, has always walked on the fringe of Christianity. I love him because he can’t be pigeonholed into any particular denominational or theological bent, and he always seems to piss mainstream conservative Christians off. I know I shouldn’t like that, but I do find it amusing.
Anyways, if you have not listened closely to the words on their latest album, No Line on the Horizon, you’re really missing out on some incredible lyrics. This album is so overtly “Christian” that I don’t know how U2 gets away with it. If you doubt me, then I’ll just throw out a little portion of the song Magnificent:
Justified till we die
You and I will magnify
Oh, the magnificent
Magnificent
Magnificent
I hate when I ramble so I need to get to the point.
Read the full post here: transitpastor.wordpress.com