WifeGeeding showed me a Facebook advertisement in her timeline about a local boot camp. Front and center in the picture was a church friend who died of a heart attack about three years ago. She joined the boot camp in an effort to get healthier and made a lot of progress, but the autopsy revealed she had an enlarged heart which. Her family and the church then stressed that anyone starting a workout program who hasn’t worked out in a while should first consult a doctor, something many folks simply overlook.
Last night’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ was the one in which Sam had a bed wetting problem.
I don’t care what anyone says about it, but I really enjoyed seeing Romo be a part of the Mavericks yesterday and love how the sports community can have a little fun with it all. I also love how Rick Carlisle has softened over the years. He’s attended a fans funeral, plays table tennis with one of the TICKET guys, and goes along with this harmless end of season bit.
I thought I said something out of place and facturally wrong yesterday in front of a lot of folks and frustrated myself, but then I saw Sean Spicer had bit more of a rougher day than I did and now I don’t feel so bad.
@darrenrovell – The Mariners sold 310 orders (4 oz cup for $4) of toasted grasshoppers at yesterday’s home opener
I wonder what month are chicken egg sales are the highest? I looked for about two minutes and couldn’t find anything. Would it be around Easter because of Easter eggs or would it be during a month in which a lot of baking is done?
I’m setting myself up to get slaughtered and display biblical and theological ignorance, but this is an attempt to be sincere and open about something I’m confused about. For some people, this is a none issue, but it lingered with me for a while and I’m sure I’m not going to be able to adequately express myself, but here it goes:
I dropped the kids off at school and Passover was mentioned on the radio. As you will recall from the Exodus story, the Israelites, slaves of Egypt, were instructed to mark the doorposts of their homes with the blood of a slaughtered lamb and, upon seeing this, the spirit of the Lord knew to pass over the first-born males in these homes. If there was no blood on the door, the oldest male child would die. That night the oldest male child of each Egyptian family died, Even the king’s oldest son died.
The moment I heard Passover on the radio, I was at a stoplight behind a minivan with a bumper sticker which stated “God Is Pro-Life” with an image of a baby next to the slogan.
I know the Bible is used to further political arguments of all political parties, but for the first time, I felt I could no longer totally agree with that slogan. Please know this isn’t a way to justify abortion, it’s an attempt to understand how God views life. I’ve been taught that God does not change, there is no Old Testament God and a separate New Testament God, there is no Old Covenant versus New Covenant God, there is no God of Moses versus God of Jesus.
But as I thought about that bumper sticker and the story of how God killed innocent babies and children whose only fault was being born of Egyptian parents, I was saddened. Those children had nothing to do with the slavery and atrocities committed by the Egyptian rulers. There are arguments that Christians are obliged to praise and worship God, regardless of whether or not we understand his actions, and that, as God he is free to act in any way he chooses. But I’m hard-headed, I guess, and that just doesn’t settle with me. Either do the arguments that the firstborn bore the sins of their parents, God is a jealous but loving god, Pharoh was warned with the previous nine plagues, it was the only way for the Israelites to become free, it was a just punishment or a way to be in awe of the power of God, or it’s some act of grace showcased upon his people. It’s hard for me to understand how a loving God kills innocent children and it can be justified, even in his context.
I know it was just a bumper sticker pushing a political agenda, but God isn’t as pro-life as many would like to believe. Remember what happened after the walls of Jericho fell?
They devoted the city to the Lord and destroyed with the sword every living thing in it—men and women, young and old, cattle, sheep and donkeys.
As I stated, some will argue there is an Old Testament God and a New Testament God, but I was taught there is only one God and he does not change. I understand how the work of Christ and the gift of the Spirit greatly changed how we relate to God. But he’s the one and the same God who gave us a clearer and deeper revelation of God, not a different one. The God Jesus spoke with and spoke for, is the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. It’s all a terribly complicated manner, and I think it shouldn’t be.
I know I’m not the first to think of this, nor will I be the last, and it’s been answered a variety of ways. Hopefully, it means something to seek to understand than accept things with blind faith. And with all that, I open myself to slaughter and judgment.
Although few universities still offer COBOL courses, the language remains crucial to businesses and institutions around the world. And here lies the problem: if something goes wrong, few people know how to fix it.The industry’s aggressive push into digital banking makes it even more important to solve the COBOL dilemma. Mobile apps and other new tools are written in modern languages that need to work seamlessly with old underlying systems.
While driving home from the doctor’s office yesterday I took the long route, the one in which I always get stuck at traffic lights, so I could listen to the whole segment. This time, I made every single light and arrived home in record time.
The new season of ‘Better Call Saul’ premiered last night. I’m not going to spoil anything, but I noticed two actors were involved in two long timelapse scenes and I’m curious to know just how long each was filmed.
The new season of ‘Angie Tribeca’ also premiered last night. If you are the type that enjoyed the comedy of Airplane!, The Naked Gun, or the Hot Shots! movies, then I highly recommend you set your DVR to record a few episodes to sample. There’s so much comedy in the background you have to abandon your phone or you’ll miss some good humor.
I watched some of the first episode of ‘American Experiences’ special on the first World War. I thought they did a great job at the beginning of setting what the U.S. was like . . . In the summer of 1914:
Babe Ruth began playing for the Boston Red Sox and Charlie Chaplin was king of the movies.
A loaf of bread was six cents.
The nation’s population was about 100 million. It’s now over 322,700,000 million.
A third of the nation were immigrants.
One out of three Americans lived on farms.
Women could vote, but in only 12 of the 48 states in the union.
The U.S. Army ranked 17th in the world.
It took a week to sail to Europe.
The British Pound was the world’s reserve currency.
I didn’t care much for the new Thor movie trailer until I saw the ending and now I’m totally in, all because of a little humor.
Last night’s ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ was the one where Arnold thinks about practicing the Jewish faith and Milton Berle plays a rabbi. Sadly, when I now think of Milton Berle, I think about that weird exchange he had withRuPaul at the MTV Video Music Awards back in 1993.
I’m surprised “BaD Radio” and others are such fuddy duds about Romo being part of the Mavs lineup and gets to participate in warmups and ride the bench. I’m all for it. It’s unique, a tad absurd, a cool way for a fellow sports franchise to honor another, and it meant in good fun since it’s the last game of the season and has no impact on things whatsoever. But I do like the jokes about him possibly getting hurt in lineups or enough Mavs trying to foul out or get ejected just to get Romo in the game. And to be honest, I’ve always fantasized what it would be like for athletes in one sport to try another. For instance, where would Shaq play, tight end, defensive end? What kind of receiver would Jordan or Lebron be? Would Gary Payton be a good cornerback? What NFL QB would be a decent pitcher? Seriously, anyone who grew up in the early 90’s and saw all those “Bo Knows” commercial and saw Deion Sanders score a touchdown and hit a homerun in the same week must have thought about this. Romo saved us from a QB drought for over a decade. He sucked in the playoffs and never sniffed a Super Bowl, let the guy have a little fun.
I’ve written how I wonder President Trump will react as “Comforter in Chief” after a national tragedy, so I was checking his Twitter accounts often yesterday. But to my surprise and disappointment, he hasn’t tweeted a single thing about the elementary school shooting in California but did tweet several times about congratulating Justice Neil Gorsuch.
I’ve resigned to the fact and become somewhat accepting that politicians will default on campaign promises. But my one exception is when they campaign as a champion of family values and the Christian faith and then get caught in a sex scandal. The latest example is the now former Governor of Alabama.
Random presidential fact – Richard Nixon became only sitting president to travel on a regularly scheduled commercial airline flight in 1973.
If the president’s family members are aboard, but not the president himself, the flight can, at the discretion of the White House staff or Secret Service, use the callsign Executive One Foxtrot. ‘Foxtrot’ is the phonetic alphabet designation for the letter ‘F’, with that being the first letter of ‘family’.
Mr. Nixon took a commercial plane instead of his own jet to save fuel in the energy crisis. By one calculation, Mr. Nixon, by his decision, saved at least 60,000 gallons of jet fuel, which is similar to home heating fuel. Normally, a Presidential trip to California would entail a transcontinental flight not only by his own plane but also by a back‐up plane, a press plane, three helicopters and a steady stream of White House courier aircraft.
I would have like to interview that pilot years after the event and see if he felt any added pressure because the acting President of the United States was on board or if he just felt it was simply another flight and he treated the responsibility of all lives and each flight the same.
I’m sure if you were asked which state produces the most coal, the majority of you would say West Virginia or maybe Kentucky. But the correct answer and with an impressive lead is Wyoming. And to be honest, I didn’t know Texas produced any coal. Here’s the top six: Wyoming 40.2%, West Virginia 11.13%, Pennsylvania 6.24%, Illinois 6.15% Kentucky 5.97%, Texas 5.47%
And it was all done in one take, shot in less than three hours with a skeleton crew and an unsuspecting cast of extras, some seated at slot machines, others just passing by. Nothing was rehearsed; every interaction was spontaneous.
“And I thought, ‘OK, well let’s shoot the most sincere song they’ve ever written in the least sincere city they’ve ever played.’ There was an ironic counterpoint to the song, in a way, by shooting it in Vegas.”
The sound system was pushed around in a shopping cart borrowed from a homeless man.
The company says its new Ford Police Responder Hybrid Sedan could save police departments $3,900 per year in fuel use because cop cars spend so much of their time on, but idle.
It also has a “maximum performance” mode that uses the full power of the hybrid system to help the car accelerate faster when the accelerator is held at 100 percent for five seconds.
After watching video of that man being dragged off that United Airlines plane with his belly fully exposed, I really want to a decent set of abs….just in case something like this happens to me.
What Would Jesus Disrupt? – Entrepreneurs from Cincinnati’s Crossroads Church try to scale their startups without selling their souls
For years I’ve wanted to add a poll at the bottom of each Bag of Randomness and have readers rank how good or poor it was for that day. Like a one to five scale, with one being it stunk and five being great.
