Dallas hardware store invites Bush to be greeter

DALLAS — A Dallas hardware store wants the “W” to stand for “Welcome.”

Elliott’s Hardware published an open letter to former President George W. Bush on Thursday, inviting him to apply for a store greeter position now that he’s becoming a Dallas resident again.

The tongue-in-cheek letter to Bush from Kyle R. Walters, president and chief executive of Elliott’s, appeared in The Dallas Morning News and its commuter-oriented sister publication, Quick. The ad showcasing the letter was accompanied with a replica store name tag with “W” already filled in.

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And the letter if you are interested.

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Bag of Randomness

  • I had time to digest the latest episode of Lost and those thoughts are in blue, so if you don’t want to read any thing about Lost just skip to the black.
  • So Jin isn’t dead afterall . . . which means he was within close enough proximity of The Island to be time warped with it . . . which leads me to believe other ship members could have possibly been within that radius as well.
  • Possible spoiler alert so you may want to skip this bullet, but I read in EW that the show is casting a role that sounds a lot like a pre-island Ben. The 10-year-old child prodigy is an extraordinarily gifted science student and musician who “is deeply depressed and simply wants to make his parents proud and get their love.”
  • Somehow an older Walt is going to get involved, the one that Locke saw after Ben shot him last season.  Perhaps he traveled back to the island, and that was how Locke saw him, kinda like Sawyer saw Kate helping Claire give birth.
  • I noticed that Charolette started to get better the moment Locke mentioned that they needed to get to the Orchid so he could travel like Ben did, which seemed to correct the time line and the reason why Charolette started to feel better.  But I can’t explain Juliet and Miles’ nosebleeds.
  • Locke is going to turn that donkey wheel or time warp engine thinging to a setting where it stops skipping at some point.
  • Sun’s target is Ben because she want to aveng the death of her husband, I think.  But Ben will talk her out of it by proving Jin is still alive.  But where is Sun’s baby, and will the baby be left behind when she goes back to the island.  I predict we learn something awful, that her child is dead.
  • When I hear “when are we?” I always have to do a double take.
  • The Ajira Airlines bottle was interesting.  I predict it was found in the future, and that plane carried back the Oceanic 6 plus Ben and a dead Locke.  I also have a feeling the people that were firing at Sawyer, Juliet, and the others were the Oceanic 6 thinking they were someone else.
  • We haven’t seen Smokey in a while, I predict he/she/it makes a return within the next two shows.
  • Daniel somewhat suggested that Miles has been on The Island before.  I bet Miles is the son of Pierre Chang.
  • Hurley looked like The Great Pumpkin.
  • Whoa, so he only had one foot down.
  • I was a bit surprised there wasn’t a comment on that recent t-shirt post.
  • Most people don’t know how dogs walk.  Article
  • The traditional newspaper is having a hard time surviving these days, especially with so many readers going online.  I bet sometime in the future online content will not be free, you’ll buy a subscription that will allow you access to a collection of online newspapers.
  • There’s a YouTube video making the blogosphere rounds of a kid coming off anesthesia after a visit to the dentist.  It’s funny, but I think this remix is funnier, but you have to see the first one first.
  • A two and a half pound kidney stone.  Article
  • I think I just saw a commerical for the Grammys stating that U2 will perform.
  • It sounds like Ticket Master and Live Nation are going to merge, and I think that’s a bad thing for the public.
  • I have a Regina Spektor song stuck in my head.  YouTube
  • The future of books?  Link
  • A good article about Google’s business model.  Link
  • I read Obama’s remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, and this part stood out to me as I feel like I can somewhat relate:
    I was not raised in a particularly religious household. I had a father who was born a Muslim but became an atheist, grandparents who were non-practicing Methodists and Baptists, and a mother who was skeptical of organized religion, even as she was the kindest, most spiritual person I’ve ever known. She was the one who taught me as a child to love, and to understand, and to do unto others as I would want done.

    I didn’t become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck – no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God’s spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose – His purpose.

  • But it turns out the guy doesn’t like cats.  Link
  • The board game Candyland will become a movie.  Article
  • Have a custom robot made in your likeness.  Link
  • I found a ninja grappling hook on Amazon.com.  Link It’s only $21, and you never know when you might need one.
  • The acutal cost of building a Death Star.  Link
  • Grace
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How I Met Your Mother – Ted’s 2-Minute Date

This episode just aired today, and was the first episode that I have ever saw of the sitcom and I was instantly hooked.

Basically, Ted keeps asking Stella out for a date, and she always says no because she doesn’t have time.  It’s a little sappy, but it made me smile and say ahhhhh. It reminds me of stuff I use to do for WifeGeeding, actually I still do those things, but not as often.

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Baylor Prof Writes a U2 Book

My good friend Andy (whom I believe is also a Recovering Baptist even if he won’t admit it) sent me the following message:

Hey Keith. One of my English profs at Baylor was Greg Garrett, an excellent writer of fiction, nonfiction, and a blog. He recently wrote a book on U2 that should come out later this year. Last month he posted a blog entry about U2 that I thought you might enjoy:  http://theotherjesus.com/?p=120

I found that post to be very enjoyable as Garrett talked about his experience as a young magazine reporter interviewing Adam and Bono after an Oklahoma City gig in front of 300 people, and then goes into U2’s spiritual journey from Shalom (a charismatic Christian community in Dublin) to today.

The link is posted above, but here’s a snippet:

At last, the religious members of U2 reached the conclusion that they could—and should—be a Christian rock band on their own terms, that their music and their faith could have a symbiotic relationship in which each fed the other—and both fed their audience. They left Shalom and organized religion behind. Still, the tensions between the Christian and secular worlds did not go away. Perhaps in a world that always tries to label things in order to understand them, they could not go away. Although U2 contains band members who are deeply religious, Bono, The Edge, and Larry turned away from organized religion because of their experiences with Shalom, and because of the continuing religious clashes between Protestants and Catholics in their homeland. (As Larry noted, “The IRA would say ‘God is with me. I went to Mass every Sunday.’ And the Unionists said virtually the same thing. And then they would go out and murder each other.”)

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