Today is the day Christians celebrate The Last Supper. Jesus modeled how to be a servant to others by washing the feet of his disciples. In an era of dusty roads and no automobiles, washing the feet of a guest was a thoughtful way of making someone feel welcome. This action, usually performed by servants, meant that the one washing had to kneel at the feet of the one being washed. Peter, not wanting to be see Jesus in such a demeaning position, argued with Jesus about the situation:
John 13: 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he had come from God and was returning to God, 4 and he got up from table, removed his outer garments and, taking a towel, wrapped it round his waist; 5 he then poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel he was wearing. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ 7 Jesus answered, ‘At the moment you do not know what I am doing, but later you will understand.’ 8 ‘Never!’ said Peter. ‘You shall never wash my feet.’
Peter had been chosen to lead the Church to come, to “feed the flock,” and here he was arguing with Jesus about something so small as washing the dust off someone’s feet! I’m sure Jesus was more than a little exasperated. His time was drawing short, and he had so much to tell them, so much to share, and here was Peter being, well, Peter.
[In my class, one of the first things we do is study personality types. The descriptions we use are from a book called Personality Plus by Florence Littauer. (A great read, by the way.) She uses an ancient Greek method, assigning body fluids to the types. Briefly, the types are:
Choleric: You call on cholerics when you want something done. They are self motivated and often charismatic. They can be bossy. They focus on the bottom line. The extreme is "my way or the highway" followed by a quick kick in the rump.
Sanguine: Emotional highs and lows rule the sanguine. Popular, outgoing, and fun, they can - and often are - the life of the party. If a sanguine is upset, just wait ten minutes for the emotional roller coaster to move to the next hill. People are naturally drawn to sanguines. The extreme sanguine can never find the car keys. Imagine a ditzy blonde at a party.
Melancholy: These types are methodical, careful, and detail oriented. They like everything in its place, and have a strong sense of how the world should be. Deep, long lows are a characteristic of melancholies. They carry grudges well. Artists and engineers are usually melancholy types.
Phlegmatic: These people tend to float through life. They are even tempered and make great peacemakers. They dislike conflict. In case of fire, find a phlegmatic. He'll lead you out of the building without panic. The extreme phlegmatic is lazy and unambitious. Like a certain relative to remain unnamed.
Now we all have some combination of all four types, but usually one or two are dominant. Natural born leaders are choleric/sanguine combinations. ]
Back to our story – Jesus wants to make an important point by washing feet. Peter cannot imagine Jesus humbling himself like this! Jesus washed other feet before arriving at Peter, and I can imagine Peter standing there, dumfounded, mouth hanging open, until he is faced with Jesus on the floor in front of him, reaching for a foot. He begins to resist Jesus’ efforts, and argues with him. Peter has already declared Jesus “Lord,” yet here he is, arguing with Him!
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, are you going to wash my feet?’ 7 Jesus answered, ‘At the moment you do not know what I am doing, but later you will understand.’ 8 ‘Never!’ said Peter. ‘You shall never wash my feet.’
Now, if I were Jesus, I’d give the whippersnapper a hard backhand to the mouth and shut him up. I guess it’s a good thing I’m not God; I wouldn’t have the patience. But then, if I were God, I guess I would. (That’s a philosophical discussion to have later.) Anyway, here’s Jesus, trying to teach something important, and there’s Peter, totally not getting it and slowing Jesus down and wasting his precious time. I’m sure Jesus heaved a sigh, trying to restrain himself a bit. How does he respond to Peter? Peter has a lot of sanguine, after all, and sometimes they aren’t very rational. But that same personality trait would be very helpful when His Church was started. So, with great patience, as with a child, Jesus tries to explain how important this small act is. Peter reacts like a typical sanguine. He’s already jumped rather impetuously out of a boat, after all. He knows about getting wet:
Jesus replied, ‘If I do not wash you, you can have no share with me.’ Simon Peter said, 9 ‘Well then, Lord, not only my feet, but my hands and my head as well!’
I’m sure there were a few chuckles. James thinks “There goes Peter again! Never does anything by half!” There are a few quick glances between the apostles. Peter can be so fun, and so funny! A few wonder if Jesus will dump the bowl of now-dirty water over Peter’s head. Jesus replies:
10 Jesus said, ‘No one who has had a bath needs washing, such a person is clean all over. You too are clean, though not all of you are.’
In other words, “Oh, for Pete’s sake!” Jesus continues with to finish his task, while the apostles watch, then he explains himself:
12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments again he went back to the table. ‘Do you understand’, he said, ‘what I have done to you? 13 You call me Master and Lord, and rightly; so I am. 14 If I, then, the Lord and Master, have washed your feet, you must wash each other’s feet.15 I have given you an example so that you may copy what I have done to you.16 ‘In all truth I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, no messenger is greater than the one who sent him. 17 ‘Now that you know this, blessed are you if you behave accordingly.
Jesus did other vastly important work that night, but by the simple act of washing someone’s feet, he gave us a great example of the beauty of service. A proud man would not humble himself so, and proud men do not share in His inheritance.
Thursday night, he was at the feet of the disciples.
Friday afternoon, he was on the cross, and his disciples were at His feet.
Both were acts of holiness. Both were acts of a loving servant.
First, but only due to a rare case of insomnia. Decided to get up and get cracking. So: Good morning, Hamsterville.
Late last night I put a blank CD in the stereo.
I cranked it up all the way.
The mime next door went nuts.
bob42
Mornin’ “Iron Mary” bob42
Apparently, hers isn’t the only one.
Clearly.
Yup
Meet Thomas Buch-Andersen of the Danish Broadcasting Corporation. In this clip from the Detektor television show, he explores the question of whether Barack Obama says what he means or means what he says. Yikes.
The smartest, most articulate president in the history of everything – just like Frank J. Fleming said.
He doesn’t do smug very well either:
Even when they’re complaining among themselves, they go over the top.
#6 You do realize of course that the site is called “Hamous” so that every single comment mentioning the B word on the site will show up in a google search for “hamous” and “breitbart”, regardless of who wrote it, right?
Hey, don’t get me wrong, if you’re gonna practice hero-worshiping, dead heroes are the way to go. They never disappoint.
Me? I wanna stay in the land of the living.
If you know someone who needs a hearing aid, but can’t afford the confiscatory pricing of the hearing aid cartels, tell them to go to these guys:
Capitalism and economic liberty working to improve the lives of the oppressed masses.
TT:
The personality trait of Peter that was so endearing to HIM IMHO, is the reality that Peter never did anything half way; he was always hot or cold never luke warm. Full blast or not at all, that is the way we are supposed to approach our faith lifeand the way we approach THE THRONE. Remember, HE said “I would that you were either hot or cold, as it is you are luke warm, therefore I will vomit you out of MY mouth.
October Baby is a hit. Much to the chagrin of NYT.
Why don’t they say things like “Dumb and Dumber, with the support of sophomoric morons across the country, opened as a great hit”?
#11 Hamous
I can tell you one thing Andrew Breitbart didn’t do and that was to go around picking petty, meaningless fights with bloggers who were on his side of the ideological divide. The man had a vision that didn’t allow him to waste his time and diminish his reputation with such silly nonsense. His goal was to make as many individuals as possible understand the power they have now with new technologies, not to dissipate the movement with hazy idol worship.
#12 texpat
Why won’t the government do something?
#16 Wagonburner
Give ‘em time.
In light of the Holy Week message, I bring you a story of redemption:
#12 TP: I think most of us know that loud noises damage hearing. Loud noises like firearm muzzle blast, jack hammers, lawn equipment and loud music. With all the “gangstahs” out there blasting their car stereos so loudly that it drowns out the music in your car, even though your windows are up, I can’t help but think that there will be even more competition in the hearing aid market because the demand will go up. For the last decade or so, I refuse to go into a movie theater without ear plugs because the sound is turned up so loud it becomes painful, ditto that with any event in a sports arena, and in many churches (particularly the evangelicals) during the worship portion of the services. As far as the latter goes, I have to wonder how the “sound guys” are going to respond when they are standing before THE THRONE and are asked “why did you damage the hearing of MY sheep?”
This is a study of prime number time signatures that I wrote long ago. It is performed by my daughter, who learned it by ear, having heard it all of her life. Hearing her play it makes me feel immortal.
We do another version where she plays it, slightly modified, on the Baldwin, and I do fills, riffs, and harmonies on the Rhodes. We don’t have a high quality recording of it, yet.
Sarge, this could give your hammock buddies a new avenue of intellectual pursuit.
Thankfully the noise is now getting below the pain level. Shelby Steele does a good job of explaining.
G’Maunday Thursday All
Sarge, here’s where you need to put your hammock
#12 Texpat
That would be me.
#12 – Entrepreneurism & Capitalism to the rescue! GREAT post!
#16 – kerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrSCHMACK (no smiley!)
22 Hammie
Good post!
Redneck word of the day: Obama
I got me a case of beer and drank it Obama self.
let’s review a bit, shall we? JugEars actively assisted the overthrow of Mubarek by the mooslime brotherhood. He said that it would bring democracy to the Middle East and help ensure the stability of the region. We, here on the couch, all thought it would be chaos and now we have this incident:
Let’s not forget that the FIRST PASSOVER was when Israel was freed from bondage in Egypt, so this attack is particularly offensive at this time. Why would the Egyptian policemen be hindering the Israelis (the only reason they would have been in the line of fire) unless they were active participants in the terrorist activity in the first place. Did anyone really believe that Egypt would not turn against Israel as a deflection of their own domestic deficiencies?
When you click on the linkie, there is a map showing where the town of Eilat is located. This action by Egypt could prompt another war with Israel and will cause the Sinai to be recaptured by Israel and this time they will not give it back.
I whole heartedly agree.
BC
When my father moved to Austin some 20 years ago, he finally conceded he needed hearing aids. He looked around and finally was referred by his doctor to what turned out to be the best and most sought after hearing specialist in Austin.
The guy had a huge clientele, half elderly people and the other 50% were musicians (many in their 20s and 30s), studio engineers, roadies, radio DJs, etc. His music industry patients came not just from Austin, but also Nashville and LA. Dad said his client roster looked like a music hall of fame.
World’s best sidecar
16 & 17 TT and WB
I am sure once Obamacare gets rolling with all its price control schemes, rationing and taxes on medical devices, the $3,000 to $6,000 hearing aids will run somewhere around $10-12K.
#24 oletimerlin
There was no breakdown on the stats reflecting how many of those 27 million were men who didn’t really want to buy hearing aids because they found it convenient in filtering out ambient nagging by the women in their lives.
#22 Couchmaster: From your linkie:
The above is incredibly well stated by Mr. Steele, but almost never spoken of by the LSM.
And then we have this:
Why is that the case, did whitey force those poor unsuspecting blacks to commit the crimes or did their wissed up culture fail to instill the proper values in them to allow them to choose a different path?
‘Tis a grand spot indeed.
but its not the only place you can put one.
Who are you gonna believe, Obama or your lying ears?
Not much remarked upon has been exactly what Professor Obama taught in his Constitutional Law course at the University of Chicago. He focused on the 14th Amendment.
Not quite what one would expect of such a sharp legal mind. Here’s an example of an exam question. You can get a real feel for what was taught.
Here’s the text of the 14th Amendment:
A history of Maundy Thursday
Just a little reminder that our president prolly will not be celebrating Easter this year either.
Mickey Mouse is here.
#36 Pyro:
I think the case could be made that JugEars is actively engaged in insurrection and rebellion against the Constitution of the United States and that he is in active and repeated violation of the oath he took to uphold same.
#36 wagonburner
The Department of Justice now has less than 2 hours to comply with Fifth Circuit Justice Smith’s request for a letter of explanation on the authority of the federal courts to strike down laws deemed unconstitutional.
12:00 Noon CDT, Thursday, April 05, 2012 in New Orleans
Tick tock.
#40 Texpat
I wonder what the punishment will be for not complying?
TBO’s administration is very good at ignoring things that they believe are beneath them. This includes any and all criticism or questioning of their authority.
I think that all they can do is take a hard line on cases that come before them. Which they should do anyway. Then TBO / Holder can claim that they are being ruled against because they didn’t cowtow to the justices.
I’d love it if there WAS a punishment for ignoring the justices’ request. Public flogging, for example.
#40 TP: According to Judge Napolitano on Fox this am, the assignment was given specifically to Eric the commie Holder; failure to comply will likely have Holder held in contempt of court. It will be interesting to see what will happen next ifn Holder is held in contempt. JugEars is pushing us as hard as he can towards a Constitutional Crisis as our Constitution is something he desperately wants to overthrow.
#41 TT: We are in uncharted territory when it comes to the behavior of the current “usurpation.” If the judge holds Holder in contempt, could he order him jailed immediately? If there is no penalty for contempt of court, the decree of same from a judge is meaningless.
I think I know what Eric Holder is doing.
Matt Ridley is one of the most provocative and innovative thinkers alive today. He has been a scientific editor for the Economist, a zoologist, economist, venture capitalist, businessman and author selling over 900,000 books. Ridley writes for the WSJ and a host of other publications while blogging at the Rational Optimist.
Here are a couple of the other 16 reasons why everyone should be grateful for our present bounty and cheerful looking towards the future.
Matt Ridley never saw teh moobie.
#46 Hamous
Shpppft !
Good lord. Al Jazeera is looking better all the time. So much for “conservative FoxNews.
Angry Birds are here.
BTW, Hamous, Dieter was Shannon’s favorite character on SNL. I think they were big buddies back in Munich.
#48 That’s not his love child daughter, is it?
It’s an implicit statement before a Federal Court that one of the litigants believes it is an improper venue at the very least. In other words, one of the litigants thinks that any verdict does not apply to them and as such, assuming the judge believes it is a proper venue, then he would be compelled to rule against that party by default.
Life imitates art.
49
Wrong. So wrong.
DEFINED
/ moderately NSFW
Goofy is here.
Here’s an INtrade Chart on the odds of Obamacare being overturned at SCOTUS.
I’ve never been to a judge’s official website that had autoplay background music. But Houston’s own federal District Judge Lynn Hughes does, the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
In a ruling this week, Judge Hughes deservingly humiliates the U.S. Department of Homeland Security in a scorching ruling from the bench.
Via attorney/blogger Scott Johnson at Powerline:
and,
Someone finally tells Obama to “back off”.
Good on him.
At least he seems to understand the separation of powers a little better than TBO.
#56 texpat
/applause
#18 Tedtam, I recall Mr. Greene’s actions, and the response from the local community from when it was happening. I was critical of both, for different reasons. For Mr. Greene (and the FRFF) I think it’s more effective to request a secular display also be supported by government and see what happens. For those in the local area that spent a beautiful Saturday afternoon at a loud and angry protest rally, I’m inclined to ask, “If your government had exclusively supported a Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Pagan, or Jainist (etc,) display, would you still be protesting in favor them doing so?”
Out of respect for your Holy Week, I’ll not go into details, but I don’t think it was appropriate for the government to add “In God We Trust” to coins in the mid 1800′s, and to currency in the mid 1950′s. To the extent that I tolerate making kids that are too young to understand what they are saying, pledge allegiance to a piece of cloth, I liked the pledge in it’s original 1892 form much better than after it was altered by congress in 1954. But I’m certainly not going to file a lawsuit over any of that. It’s a waste of my time.
A Facebook friend of mine that was formerly a more vocal agnostic-atheist than I’ve ever been converted to Islam last month. Like Mr. Greene, she had her reasons for doing so. I’m still pleased to call her a friend. Like Mr. Greene, or any one else, as long personal beliefs and faith traditions do you good without causing harm to others, especially via government intrusion, we’ll get along just fine.
As a wise man once said,
“If they were bigger, they’d eat you.”
#57 – *Standing O!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*
#59 Bob42
Who says Christian displays exclusively are being allowed? I don’t have a problem with other religions displaying their faith, and I don’t think that it is an issue here, either. Nowhere did I see where other displays were being suppressed. For some reason, a nativity scene inspires rabid, mouth frothing displays of hatred. Those who don’t agree are free to walk on by, no genuflecting required or even requested.
This sort of thing is happening in Dearbornistan, Michigan. If we allow this type to gain any power whatsoever, wholesale bloodshed will be the result.
Hey bobby,
As a Christian I’m inclined to view every government building as a monument on the grave of American religious freedom.
Stripping any references to GOD from the pubic lexicon violates the religious freedoms of America. Atheism is just as much of a religion as Darwinism, Scientology, Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Adherents of the Flying Spaghetti Monster, etc. I refuse to allow the Atheists any power over me or mine.
Limbaugh just commented on the fact that NBC purposely doctored the 911 tapes in the Zimmerman case. He said that first amendment not withstanding, what they did was criminal behavior. I submit that even with the first amendment, what NBC did was criminal, and absolutely opened them to civil liability as what they did was with malice and forethought. Zimmerman should walk away from his civil suit with NBC, et al, with the means to never need to work again.
More next week, folks. I enjoy a friendly intellectual discussion with willing participants. Suffice it for me to re-iterate that at the time he did it, as well as today, I was vocally critical of Mr. Greene for launching what I view as frivolous, trollish, PC litigation just to stir up trouble. I think that we can agree on that much.
Happy Easter week.
I’m no former constitutional lawyer or community organizer
but I think someone is mixing up criminal and civil law.
#68: If any harm comes to Z as a result of the inflammatory and false rhetoric coming from NBC, they could be charged as an accessory or charged with gross negligence. If Z has had any damage to his reputation, and I don’t think that is even questionable at this point, NBC is liable for civil penalties because of their false and defamatory handling/manipulation of the story.
What NBC did is no different than yelling fire in a crowded theater, maybe even worse.
#69 Bonecrusher
I think it’s worse. It was intentional with malice of forethought. It had to be, to be edited in that fashion. The fact that he has been chased from his home and is in hiding, in fear for his life, I believe is grounds for a lawsuit not only against NBC and possibly ABC, but also against the Black Panthers and the other poverty pimps and “community organizers” for the bounty being put on his head.
I also think that the Republican party for those districts ought to play up the mis-statements by the idiots who are portraying this as clearly racial. There’s more than enough material for a devastating ad campaign.
When this is all over, we may have a new “Joe the Plumber”. After his beloved Democrat party members jumped at the chance to accuse him of being racist, and a murderer, Zimmerman may become a new poster boy for the Republican party, especially if he is acquitted.
Good afternoon Hamsters. Late to the party today, all brought about by trying to muddle through computer troubles this morning that apparently began several days ago. Spouse’s diagnosis was that the brain box is in a death spiral, and maybe that could be forestalled by opening the box and dusting the insides. That worked once before. Seems it had been overheating some and parts were working overtime that should not be constantly on. It was fond of freezing the mouse about a minute after being rebooted. Most frustrating for me.
So far the open side and front are helping it behave reasonably normally. It rather looks like a mini HAL9000 with some blinking internal lights, but it has no voice and no red eye, thankfully. It’s about 7 years old, which I understand makes it ancient, and runs Windows XP, also ancient. Spouse had to upgrade it to Internet Explorer 8 from 6, as 6 is apparently ancient as well and no longer can work with many web sites.
Upshot is we hope it will limp along for a couple of weeks until its replacement arrives. So my posting here might be intermittent, all depending on how it feels at the moment. The new one is less expensive than this one and has much more memory. It will come with Windows 7 inside. Vista was on the poop list from the day it was born I understand, and several friends and spouse have painfully testified that it is indeed poop. Maybe it isn’t offered any more. Could it possibly be considered an Edsel? Ummm, like the Volt?
Now is probably the best time to learn about a new computer and how to make it obey, as I will never learn any younger.
One might think the POTUS (supposedly a very busy person *GAG*) would have better things to do than pestering a Golf Club……………….but NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
White House weighs in on Augusta National’s membership policy
beam me UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gingrich should have hired Freddy’s campaign consultant.
#72 Katfish
You misunderstand. It’s not about women golfing at a particular location.
It’s about Obama, and how HE feels about the situation. It’s all about him: what he thinks, how he feels, and how important his opinion is.
If that’s what’s important to him, then he has all the time in the world to involve himself in local affairs.
The only good rap video I have ever seen.
Hat Tip: American Digest
You guys just don’t know the depth of our Prince’s wisdom.
Why you people be hatin’?
I so agree.
Nobody speaks for me. I hate when a politician uses the phrase “the American people want to know” when they are parrying for a political point. Most of the time, I don’t care to know. And when these libs start protesting for paid birth control and free abortions – don’t say that they are speaking for me. They are speaking despite me. They are speaking against me. Don’t put words in my mouth. That’s one of my pet peeves.
They are just wissing me off in general.
#75
Too good! ROFL!
I’ve been getting phone call after phone call today for our vacancy down on the river. I’m about to head out to meet with at least one prospective tenant. I’m leaving the Couch again. I’m sure you ALL know what the usual behavior expectations are while I’m gone?
/mother glare
And someone PLEASE wash the dishes while I’m out!
#72 Whiskerfish: Ifn I were the Prez of Augusta National, I would address the letter of response thusly:
Eric Holder’s letter in response to the Fifth Circuit.
It’s all predictable, except for the closing sentence. LOL.
HEADS UP westbounders on I-10 folks!
KHOU 11 LIVE showing medium speed chase westbound on I-10
tough to say which exit – but driver is still next to the small fiberglass posts that separate the HOV from the main lanes
just passing hwy 6 outbound
all I can do to resist jumpin out there to play – coming up on Greenhouse now
late model white Suburban
100 mph estimated speed – approaching Katy Mills Mall area now
next stop Brookshire ah reckon – Ft Bend County should be takin over shortly
DPS fixxin to jump in (so to speak)
past the Igloo plant now – DPS joins the chase
Waller County now – coming up on Brookshire (where 10 narrows down to 2 lanes)
comin up on the Brazos bottoms on the way to Sealy
GOTTIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
this circus started near TC Jester & 34th
Another first at Hamous’ joint.
The only website to live-blog a re-enactment of OJ Simpson’s wild ride down an LA freeway.
I’m not sure about a federal judge ordering anybody outside his courtroom doing anything. Seems as much an over reach as the health care grab.
Katfish
82 thru 93
Whoohoo now THAT is what bloggin should be all about. i turned off the newsies and read your account of whut wuz happnin. Dos Thumbps elevated.
Woody Woodpecker is here.
I believe a Federal judge can appropriately order the Attorney General / Justice Department to do just about anything, within reason.
I wonder if Breitbart was with him.
Too bad he didn’t make across the river….we could have introduced him to
Austin County-style justice.
I don’t know if we can afford to prosecute any more big cases around here. We’ve still got three or four more doctor-killers to go and one mass murderer.
The doctor-killer prosecutions are very expensive. Spanish-English translators required, among other high costs. It’s a real burden on the taxpayers of a still ag-based, non-wealthy county.
#95 gto
It was not outside his courtroom. Attorneys for the Department of Justice, of the executive branch, were arguing their side of a case filed by hospital owners challenging the Obamacare legislation.
Justice Jerry Smith had every right to demand whether the executive branch of the US government recognized the constitutionally enumerated authority of his Appeals Court to rule in that very case.
#97, 102, and the two that will likely follow. Outside of my knowledge, just asking. Thanks.
The Justice Department has replied and it is snarky, as one would expect. The AG explains to the judges how jurisprudence works, the Constitution and the history of judicial review. These are some pretty dumb mo’fo’s.
The best part are the Supreme Court cases explaining that this power may only be exercised in certain disputes.
“If a dispute is not a proper case or controversy, the courts have no business deciding it, or expounding the law in the course of doing so.” In considering such challenges, Acts of Congress are “presumptively constitutional”.
And then it goes on to cite one liberal case after another in support of the argument. To top it off, Holder signed it instead of the attorney directed to provide it. There’s also some double spaced paragraphs despite the judge’s explicit directions that it be single-spaced.
This may rise to an impeachable crime.
The letter is here, I’m surprised that no one has posted it; folks must be waiting for someone over at Fox News to read it, look up the big words and conduct a seance with Bartbreit to find a heavily edited video.
I posted it at 04:08 PM, if only you had bothered to look.
And no, it’s not snarky, it is predictably petty and sophomoric as I noted. Nothing more or less than the Fifth expected, I’m sure.
Bob #59;
And:
Like Tedtam I’ve no problem with people displaying their faith and as for the coins and pledge, how much of Islam, Buddhism, hinduism, Paganism, and Jainism did the American people place faith in at the founding of this country? How many of said religion’s principles were imlemented to create and sustain this country? How many of their principles are currently sought in order to establish law? It seems to me “In God we trust” is a perfectly accurate reflection ofthe people and don’t forget that “God” is a title so you therefore may interpret that title as your conscience dictates. There’s no reason a Christian, Pagan, Buddust, Jainist, or Hindu may interpret “God” according to their own understanding and faith. There is no oppression on others or surpression of faith, nor is Congress establishing a religion by coining “In God we trust” or by “one nation under God”.
#105 texas patrician
I looked, and missed it. I was mesmerized by the chase. Sorry.
We’ll have to disagree whether citing Ayotte v. Planned Parenthood of Northern New England or quoting the Supreme Court and Congress support of the administration’s position are tweaks.
In the mean time Bartbreit has provided me with a heavily edited video of Judge Smith’s last case.
Around 50 according to the Supreme Court, here and here.
Difficult to say whether there is something actually to this or just a case of sensationalism. 500K computers aren’t many
#109 shamaal
Don’t tell Squawkbart.
Who said all that practice didn’t pay off?
I’m sure there is no relationship between this and the higher incidence in the United States of Metacarpal Hypertrichosis among the myopic population.
He prolly would have gotten away with it if the dummy hadn’t been wearing a hoodie.
Yup they were right, letting all folks get married has honked up the sanctity of marriage.
One statistic they neglected to cite: For every divorce, there is at least one prior marriage.
#112 shamaal
That reminds me of the story from back in the late eighties or early nineties when they busted more than one guy from the CIA doing a similar thing.
The difference was the covert ops dept of CIA had these briefcases you could place on the passenger seat after you had dropped some person off discreetly and in order to fool those watching you, the briefcase blew up a human profile dummy in the passenger seat as if he were still in the car.
Very James Bondish.
It didn’t fool the local cops though. Some new directive had to issued by the DCI I’m sure.
ShamTexmaalpat
#109 #110
It was a Java exploit that opened the backdoor into Macs. Since I do not have Java installed on my Mac it was non-sequitur as it were. Also I do not operate at the root level like most PC people thus lessening my chances of infections/trojans/interlopers etc.
Good grief
If Bill Gates Were Black is here
Shamaal is here
/So that is what it means
#114 texpat
That would be a jib.
Shabbat Shalom, Y’all. We begin the Passover Celebration and the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
Hag Sameach Pesach
#116 squawk
Shoot, now I’m going to have to move. Specifically shamaals are north winds.
Just another sign of the decline.
Men, do not look here for the feminine solution.
No really, don’t look.
shamaal
#119
So that would explain the dry humor.
Re #120
I warned you not to look.
No more “cheese eating surrender monkeys”
Favorite quote
Just when I thought the abortion folks could not get any sicker…. ladies and gentlemen may I present After Birth Abortion.
I will not add my comments to this story because Hammie’s Grand Mammy would not only have me banned but wash my mouth out with soap.
The President signed the GOP jobs bill today with a number of Republicans present to bask in his reflected light. The bill permits small businesses to raise money on the internet without pesky government regulations.
#106 Darren, over the years my interest in epistemology has compelled me to observe your and Bonecrusher’s interactions on such matters, usually silently. I find it fascinating and educational, and I would enjoy an in-depth discussion with both of you. But probably not here, and definitely not this week.
#124 Squawk
Disgusting. I wonder how they’d feel if they were one of those babies with “an acceptable” life prognosis but the family would have been inconvenienced.
My mother-in-law’s first baby was retarded. By the time they realized exactly what was wrong, she was pregnant with baby #2. Before they could be sure that son #2 was “normal,” she was pregnant with my husband. She told me that if she’d had the choice, Hubby would have been aborted. He is now the one she depends on for almost everything.
Son #2 has been pretty much a loss as far as being responsible and helpful.
I don’t know what her life would be like, if she’d been able to conveniently dispose of her third son.
And then all progressives joined in to recite the Obumma worship prayer.
Our Obumma who art in DC
Hallowed be thy press coverage
Thy presidency come
Thy presidency be done
As it is has been predestined in Shameless Streamed Media heaven
Give us progressives our daily dose of Obumma
And forgive the right wing peons their need of a Barf Bag
And lead Obumma worshippers not into free thinking
But deliver them from all independent thought
For Obumma is the progressives Kingdom, Power and Glory,
For ever and ever
Right on Man!!
#124/127 I understand from Hamous that there be Monsters Among Us.
Boy, that Ann Reinking has long gams.
Well, I ended up not going to Sweeny today, probably tomorrow. I ended up in the garden. I moved a cartful of compost into a couple of my veggie beds, did some very necessary weeding, put in some transplants, and put up some string frames for my beans which are coming up. I also put out my tomato decoys, since I have a couple of green tomatoes already. I found some Easter eggs and spray painted them with red paint, then hung them with some green pipe cleaners on my ‘maters. I added some compost to my potted rosemary plant and watered some seedlings on the back porch. I also moved some dirt before coming inside.
I hope the decoys work. I lost almost of my ‘maters to the dang birds last year.
I came inside, showered, fixed my dinner, washed the dishes (since my menfolk seem to not realize that I work, too), scooped kitty’s litter box, took out the trash, and now need to do some bookkeeping before I go to bed.
Bob;
God is what truly makes this land free. “In God we trust” is so appropriate that it stands alone as the purest acknowledgment of freedom both individually and as a nation. The reason people like Shannon can *asa Christian* appropriately view government buildings as a monument to freedom ofd religion is because more than any other group of people in the world, Christians understand from where it comes and how one should live to ejoy freedoms deep blessings.
I’ll be happy to talk knowledge and it’s happy bride sophia anytime with you. Here’s a god one to start with:
(2 Nephi 9)
Durn it! I know there was something we were supposed to do
Squaw #124;
T oadd to the disgust, is that our sitting president seems 100% schooled in that bastardization of “defending” human life and 100% accepting of it.
And as we all know, any country that Trusts In God, cannot do anything wrong.
Shamaal;
The trust is only the beginning. It’s the foundation to build upon to do good works in the world, for society, family, and individually. Take away that foundation and people cannot be as good as they could be.
Last! Night all.
And as we all know, any country that Trusts In God stands a much better chance of doing things right.
Arby’s resorts to blocking conservatives on Twitter
Dang. I really like Arby’s food.
Labeled under “oops” at Hot Air. This does it for me. Holder has no idea how to run a justice department.