Bag of Randomness
- Seriously, this whole Oprah KFC coupon thing and this story reminded me of The Family Guy episode where Peter fights the chicken over a bad coupon.
- I’m not a fan of putting together a puzzle.
- Rep Jim Moran wants to ban ED commercial. I say let’s take it one step further and lets bad all prescription medication commercials. My doctor should know what’s best to prescribe for me, not me asking him for a prescription because of a commercial I saw on TV.
- I saw a 60 Minutes segment on prescription drug commercials a while back. It turns out a lot of terminology we use today such as ED, IBS, RLS were created by marketing firms, not the medical community.
- I wish I had a better understanding of fair use and how it applies to the Internet, especially pictures.
- Our new pastor is having us over for dinner, the cool thing is he’s actually a gourmet chef.
- So there was a radiation leaking hydrogen bomb underneath the Dharma camp . . . could this be why Ben got his tooomah?
- Oooops, that last bullet point was suppose to go under my Random Lost Thoughts that I posted yesterday. That’s what I get for blogging with two browser windows opened.
- Burrito Cake
- A woman is selling everything she owns.
- Bass Masters (fishermen) Chaplin
- OMG – Bigfoot Caught on Tape!
- Grace
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A Collection of National Day of Pray Stuff That Caught My Eye
From Gary Stern of LoHud.com’s Bloggin Religiously section:
A Nation of Prayer (and politics)
Today is the 58th annual National Day of Prayer, which, like so many things, has become quite politicized in recent years.
The National Day of Prayer became federal law in 1952, after heavy lobbying by Billy Graham and others. President Truman signed the bill.
The idea, at first, was pretty general: to inspire Americans to spend one day—the same day—in prayer and reflection, whether at church or at home.
In recent years, the day has become closely associated with the National Day of Prayer Task Force, a conservative evangelical group run by Shirley Dobson, the wife of Focus on the Family founder Jim Dobson. Many liberal and moderate Christians, among others, have complained that the day was hijacked by those with a very specific point of view.
President Bush invited religious leaders to the White House every year for a special prayer service.
President Obama chose not to, a move that is seen by some as anti-Day of Prayer. Obama did sign a proclamation this morning declaring a National Day of Prayer, but did not make a big deal of it.
Shortly after noon today, many Americans will gather in small groups outside their city and town halls to pray together.
So there you go.
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From Wayne Slater of the Dallas Morning News Religion Blog:
Obama: Not praying like the Pharisees
Fox & Friends is on fire this morning stoking the controversy over President Obama not publicly observing the National Day of Prayer as predecessor George W. Bush did. Lots of graphics about how many churches are near the White House. Much gnashing of teeth over the president slighting godly expression. No mention of Matthew 6:5-6:
“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret.”
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And from the Interfaith Alliance:
Interfaith Alliance Praises President’s National Day of Prayer Proclamation
Washington, DC – Interfaith Alliance President Rev. Dr. C. Welton Gaddy issued the following statement in response to the proclamation issued this afternoon by President Obama for the National Day of Prayer:
President Obama did the right thing today by issuing a proclamation for the National Day of Prayer that is inclusive of all Americans. We must cherish the freedom in this country to pray or not to pray.
The reality is that we don’t need our elected leaders to instruct us in the ways of religion just as we don’t need our religious leaders to tell us for whom to vote. However, if we are going to have such a day, I am glad to see that this president understands that it should be inclusive.
Random Lost Thoughts
- Miles will eventually talk to DeadDaniel.
- It’s taken me about four years, but I think I just got the significance of Jack’s last name, Shepherd. I’m still trying to figure out significance of Geeding.
- I loved that scene of Dr Chang quizzing Hurley. But here was my favorite exchange of the episode:
BEN: ”What’s wrong, John? Afraid I’ll stage a coup?”
JOHN: ”I’m not afraid of anything you can do anymore, Ben.”
BEN, dripping sarcasm: ”Well, in that case, I’d love to come.” - It seemed weird that Richard was working on a ship in a bottle on the beach. Of course we know it’s related to the Black Rock, but as nomadic as these people are, it doesn’t make sense for him to keep something so fragile . . . unless he’s going to give it to someone. We’ll see that ship in a bottle wash up in a future episode. I’m also betting that Richard was part of the crew of that ship.
- I’m still trying to figure out what Richard meant by when he said he saw the Losties die back in 1977. I’m guessing lie or half-truth.
- Does this picture mean that Ellie was pregnant in this episode?
- That guy that Locke tied up, Phil, reminds me of that Squeak from the movie BASEketball. Great comedy btw. I bet will be getting some Sawyer vengeance after beating his girl.
- The submarine special effects were weaaaaaaaaaaaak.
- There’s no reason why Kate would want to change things were Oceanic 815 landed in LA – she would be in jail.
- The bomb must have gotten their via the “shadow of the statue.”
- So much for my “the bomb is in the statue” theory.
- It was nice that Miles got to see the goodness of his daddy.
- It was a bid weird as Sawyer and Juliet made their way to the sub, I kept expecting something to happen – an ambush or explosion or something. But I did like Sawyer’s goodbye to the Island.
- I bet Kate will open her mouth to Sawyer and tell him about the whole “Jack wants to blow up the island with a hydrogen bomb” rant which will cause Sawyer to take a Dharma dude hostage and have the sub turn around.
- It sure was nice of Locke to show up to camp with dinner.
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