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• I know some of you are looking at the above image and thinking you may be on Barry’s blog, but trust me, you’re on BoN.  This dancer for the NBA’s New Jersey Nets says she’s a direct descendent of Abraham Lincoln, and that piece of wood she is holding is from Lincoln’s log cabin.  Article
• Reader David was nice enough to send pictures of the plane that landed in the Hudson being transported by truck through a downtown area.
• Recently we heard two satellites in orbit recently crashed into one another.  More recently we saw falling debris over the north Texas sky.  It was first assumed that the debris was satellite parts, but now the story is that it was a meteorite the size of a truck.  Tie all that together with the UFO sighting in Stephenville, TX and the inner Mulder in me wants to believe.
• Turn your VCR into a toaster.  Link
• Beginning around 1900, senators began inscribing their names in the drawers of their desks.  See Obama’s signature here on the same desk with Robert Kennedy’s and others.
• I’m really enjoying, and feel really challenged by the When Christians Get It Wrong sermons I’ve been listening to.  I recently listened to the In Dealing With Homosexuals sermon that was extremely touching, and it ended with Micah 6:8.  During the sermon he even made a brief comparison to evangelical and mainline interpretations which I found interesting.  I never thought I would be one of those that would fall in love with a church via the web, but who knew?
• Baby floor sweeper.  Link
• Obama’s Elf.  YouTube
• Star Wars force trainer.  Link
• My wife and I were brought together because of a extra ticket to a Mavericks game.  I recently discovered this was the same for one of my readers as well.  Thanks for buying that team, Mark Cuban.  If that team would have continued to suck, both Andy and I probably would still be single.
• It’s official, the first event in the new Cowboys stadium is going to be a bunch of country music artists.  Vomit.  Blerg.  Grrr.  Urghhh.  S.  Jerry would have done better if he reunited Wham! and Captain and Tennille, or scheduled Stars on Ice or the Ice Capades.  Or how about a Bill Gaither concert?  Heck, I’m even up for rolling Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin’s carcass out there.  I’m about this far from defecting to another franchise.  Saints/Bengals/Cards/Chargers/Titans here I come.
• If he really wanted to appeal to the regional masses, how about a tejano concert?
• And if I correctly recall, the first football game will be between OU and BYU?  Sheeesh.  He could have at least sheduled two Texas teams.  Who wouldn’t want to watch Hardin-Simmons vs Howard Payne.  Oh . . .
• The stadium will be filled regardless.  Not because of the acts or the team, but people will attend just to sight see.
• I think the last time I saw something planned so well was the liberation of . . . oh, nevermind.
• Come on, Keith.  Think happy thoughts . . . happy thoughts.  Go to your happy place.  Get yourself a video-watch-phone.
• It looks like Willow Creek Church in Chicago is having some “sexual impurity” issues with one of their pastors.  Article There’s one thing I did appreciate about this article, the leadership of the church stated they were going to pray for him.  I think most of the time the church just cut ties and ignores a tremendous opportunity to minister to someone who has fallen on rock bottom.
• But Saddleback Church wants their members to fill some empty grocery bags.
• Are you a theistic evolutionist?
• Faith of Britain Day is a day that focuses all of the positive energy in the country towards achieving our hopes and aspirations. For exactly two minutes on March 6th at 11.00am our consortium of psychics and healers will act as a channel for the positive thoughts of the entire country.
• “Keep obesity away from your child” is the tagline of a new campaign by Texas-based Hispanic shop LatinWorks for an organization called Active Life Movement. Instead of fat kids, the ads show fat toys: a superhero, pirates and a Barbie-like doll.  Link
• I found the new Bristol Palin interview interesting.  Being very protective of her family, I’m surprised her mother would allow her to be interviewed, but I thought it was a good thing she had her own thoughts and opinions and felt comfortable expressing them even if they are different from her high profile mother.
• But I wonder if it is hypercritical (that may be too strong of a word) to tell the media to stay away from her family, but she’s allowing her daughter to be interviewed.
• House prices on the Dubai artificial island have dropped fifty percent.
• Missing Iraq billions could be ‘greatest fraud in US history‘
• That’s some serious ear hair.
• No I will not move to the side of the road.  Pic

• I have a busy week.  There’s a project I’m working on that will require over-time and I have to prep for my Thursday night class.  Teaching four to five chapters in four hours takes a lot of prep work.  All that to say there will probably be little posting this week, maybe just a bunch of bag of randomnessesssesssesse.
• Oil prices are dropping, but gas prices are rising, here’s an explanation why.  Well, sorta.
• I always enjoy watching the live musical performances of best song for motion picture or whatever the real name for that category is during the Oscars telecast, but it appears this year all the songs will be shortened to 60 seconds in a melody.
• Rhyner and Corby came pretty darn close to leaving Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket.  Link
• My office building overlooks Love Field and from the lunchroom I saw the new Sports Illustrated cover model plane.  What was hilarious was all the men going towards the closest window pulling out their camera phones to snap a pic.
• On the way back from lunch I saw one of those duck crossing signs, but what caught my attention and boy do I wish I had a camera at the time, were ducks under the sign waiting to cross the street.  They were looking both ways as if they were human.
• Interesting death in the paper yesterday, someone died after crashing into a church sign.  Article
• I had a friend tell me that as a child growing up on a U.S. military base in Germany during the 70’s they use to throw rocks at the German kids and yell, “We won the war . . . . we won the war.”  It’s something now as an adult she regrets.
• I’ve discovered that a common typo for me in my inter-office emails is typing “think” when I meant to type “thing.”
• I still haven’t lost any weight but I did have to tighten my belt one more notch.
• My friend Barry posted one heck of a vehicle prank.  Pic
• Beliefnet has a bunch of interesting Lincoln quotes, this one stood out, “I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.”
• Religion answers the ‘Why?’ while science answers the ‘How?’ OpEd Henry G. Brinton is pastor of Fairfax Presbyterian Church in Virginia and author of Balancing Acts: Obligation, Liberation, and Contemporary Christian Conflicts.
• Theistic evolution
• The McNuggetini: A McDonald’s chocolate milkshake with vanilla vodka, rimmed with BBQ sauce and garnished with a chicken McNugget.
• Channel 5 is getting a new weather girl.  EdBark
• Gatorade sure does have an interesting ad campaign.  First they come out with those impressive G commercials , and they have taken those commercials to the next level by having ordinary people on the radio talk with that music in the background.  Now they have commercials that are the total opposite with some kind of fairy tale.
• A polar bears sticks his head in.
• I’m pretty impressed with this new transparent display from Samsung.
• Darth Vader kills George Lucus tattoo.  Link
• Speaking of Lucus . . . here’s an interesting Trilogy Meter of movie trilogies.
• Have you seen Mel Gibson’s new facial hair?
• A New Jersey library starts to lend out kindles.  Article

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