Archive for November, 2004
Monday, November 29th, 2004
Cute
Bloopers from Sunday School Students The Fifth Commandment is humor thy mother and father. A Christian should have only one wife. This is called monotony. The epistles were the wives of the apostles. When Mary heard that she was the Mother of Jesus, she sang the Magna Carta.
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
Why I Do What I Do
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. -Emily Dickinson
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Monday, November 29th, 2004
Bitter? Who’s Bitter?
In My Next Life By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN In my next life, I want to be Tom DeLay, the House majority leader. Yes, I want to get almost the entire Republican side of the House of Representatives to bend its ethics rules just for me. I want to be able to twist the arms of […]
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Sunday, November 28th, 2004
Lots of New Noah Pictures
starting at: http://www.hanscomfamily.com/gallery/noahaveryhanscom?page=4
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
The Presiding Bishop’s Christmas Message - 2004
Wednesday, November 24, 2004 [Note: The Presiding Bishop’s Christmas message will be available in French at www.episcopalchurch.org/ens next week.] The Presiding Bishop’s Christmas Message - 2004 The sober joy of Christmas Though we are now exchanging our “Merry Christmas” greetings, and carols fill the air telling us “tis the season to be jolly,” Christmas provides […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
This Made Me Laugh
November 23, 2004 BUSH KILLS TURKEY, PARDONS TOM DELAY Departure From Thanksgiving Tradition President George W. Bush broke with White House tradition today, killing the ceremonial White House turkey and pardoning House Majority Leader Tom DeLay instead. The reporters and busloads of school children who had gathered on the White House lawn to see the […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
9000 And Counting
U.S. Troops Wounded In Iraq Tops 9,000 Associated Press November 24, 2004 WASHINGTON - The number of U.S. troops wounded throughout Iraq since the Fallujah offensive began Nov. 7 has surpassed 850, and the wounded total for the entire war has topped 9,000, the Pentagon said Tuesday. In its weekly report on casualties the Pentagon […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
It’s About Time Someone Beside Me Said This
November 24, 2004 OP-ED COLUMNIST Apocalypse (Almost) Now By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF If America’s secular liberals think they have it rough now, just wait till the Second Coming. The “Left Behind” series, the best-selling novels for adults in the U.S., enthusiastically depict Jesus returning to slaughter everyone who is not a born-again Christian. The world’s […]
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Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
White House Thanksgiving Turkey Detained Without Counsel
This, from “The Onion,” made me laugh: WASHINGTON, DC—Cousin Wattle, the official National Thanksgiving Turkey who was to have been pardoned by President Bush in an annual White House ceremony that dates back to the Truman administration, is currently being held without formal charges or access to legal counsel, White House press secretary Scott McClellan […]
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
Will This Get Any More Weird???
Bidding Ends at $28K for Cheese Sandwich Tue Nov 23,11:51 AM ET HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for $28,000 on eBay. GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the […]