Thursday, July 9, 2009
The Price of Being Nice
I don't really care for commercials. I normally fast forward through them if I'm watching on TIVO. But there is one set of commercials I will watch. Ever see the ads for Liberty Mutual where one person does a good deed, and is seen by someone else? Who then does something nice for someone else,...
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Saturday, July 4, 2009
Don't Let the Jones' Get You Down
Jesus said “It is easier for a camel to pass through an eye of a needle, than a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.” Why is this? Is it because God dislikes rich people? No. The reason it is so difficult for a rich person to enter into Heaven is because, since they have all of their physical...
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Friday, July 3, 2009
Condensing Infinity
Man's view of God really hasn't changed much in the last 4,000 years. Even today, most people's conception of God resembles Michelangelo's famous depiction on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City. There is God, often depicted as a gray-haired, bearded old man, and there is Man,...
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Tolerance
When our founding fathers started our great country, it was based on the tenet that all men are equal, regardless of their religion or creed. This is something we all outwardly want; nobody wants someone else to tell them what to believe. The problem is that there are way too many of us who have no...
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Monday, June 29, 2009
Hot Flashes
Back in the fall of 1973, I was a young freshman at the University of Miami. I was given a room at the older dorm, Mahoney Hall. There was no air conditioning in our room so the September nights were often pillow-soaked experiences. Late in that month, they installed a room air conditioner. My...
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Saturday, June 27, 2009
Celebrity Hurricane Death Pool
This post was originally published back in August of 2008 in an alternative universe. It is re-published for your enjoyment. Here we go again. After narrowly skirting the last two hurricanes, we now have three more knocking on our door step. Hurricane Hannah, is expected to slide past us here in...
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Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Janis Has Returned (And She Brought a Guitar With Her)
Well, I just got home from my vacation. I spent much of the week checking out new acts at The Rochester Jazz Fest. I had a real good time, and it was very enlightening. I saw a lot of great acts, and learned about some new rising stars. This post is to tell you about one of them. When I was a young...
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Monday, June 22, 2009
It Takes One To Know One
When I was a young boy, whenever I got into a spat with one of my brothers, we'd start calling each other names. My mother would break us up by saying, "Don't call people names; it takes one to know one." It didn't mean much to me back then, but the older I get, the more I realize that she was...
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Thursday, June 11, 2009
Just a Song Before I Go
When I was a kid, I really got into MAD Magazine. Never got into Cracked or the others of that genre, but I really got into MAD. One of my favorite parts of that mag was when they wrote parody songs to popular songs of that time. You would sing their funny lyrics to the tune of that well known song....
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Love Thy Self
Jesus said," Love God with all your heart, and soul, and love thy neighbor, as thy self." With our world in such sad shape, it is obvious, that we all are feeling pretty crappy about ourselves. Think about it, it should be natural to love yourself, you fight to stay alive everyday; but how many of...
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